Upcoming Events
Consensus FCC Reforms and the Communications Agenda
for the Next Administration
Mini Conference • Tuesday, September 16, 8:30 a.m.
The National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC
8:30 a.m.: Welcome & Panel I: Improving Procedures at the FCC
Peter Pitsch, chief of staff to Dennis Patrick, FCC Chairman, 1987-1989
Robert Pepper*, former chief, Office of Plans and Policy, FCC, 1989-2005
Ken Robinson, senior legal advisor to Al Sikes, FCC Chairman, 1989-1993
Blair Levin, chief of staff to Reed Hundt, FCC Chairman, 1993-1997
Kathy Brown, chief of staff to William Kennard, FCC Chairman, 1998-2001
9:45 a.m. Panel II: A Cross-Partisan Agenda for Telecommunications Policy Reforms
William Kennard, Chairman, FCC, 1997-2001
Michael Powell, Chairman, FCC, 2001-2005
11 a.m.: Adjourn
*Invited
THE GORE COMMISSION, 10 Years Later:
The Public Interest Obligations of Digital TV Broadcasters in Perfect Hindsight
Mini Conference • Friday, October 3, 2008, 8:30 a.m.
The National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC
8:30: Welcome
THOMAS HAZLETT
Professor of Law and Economics, George Mason University School of Law
Director, Information Economy Project
8:45: Morning Keynote:
GIGI SOHN
President, Public Knowledge
Member of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters ("Gore Commission”)
9:30: Remarks on the Public Interest Obligations of Broadcasters
NORMAN ORNSTEIN *, Co-Chair, Gore Commission
10:15: Closing Keynote
HENRY GELLER
Retired General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, 1964-1970
Assistant to FCC Chairman Dean Burch, 1970-1974
Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 1979-1981
11 a.m.: Adjourn
*Invited
"Big Ideas about Information" Lecture Series:
Spectrum Reform: The Theory, Practice, Politics and Problems
Wednesday, November 12, 4 p.m.
George Mason University School of Law
3301 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Va.
WILLIAM WEBB
Head of Research and Development and Senior Technologist, OFCOM, the telecommunications regulatory agency for the United Kingdom.