8:45 AM

Registration

9:15 AM

Welcome

9:30 AM

Research:  Broadband Prices and Impacts

Roger Noll, Professor of Economics, Emeritus and Co-Director, Program on Regulatory Policy, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (moderator)

•  Shane Greenstein, Elinor and Wendell Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

"Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in US Broadband Services”

•  Jed Kolko, Associate Director and Research Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

"Does Broadband Boost Local Economic Development?"

10:45 AM

Break

11:00 AM

Research:  Broadband Demand and Competition

Tim Bresnahan, Landau Professor in Technology and the Economy and Director of the Center on Employment and Economic Growth, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (moderator)

•  Gregory Rosston, Senior Research Scholar and Deputy Director, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

“Household Demand for Broadband Internet Service"

•  Scott Wallsten, Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research, Technology Policy Institute

"Residential Broadband Competition in the United States"

12:15 PM

Lunch

•  Rod Beckstrom, Chief Executive Officer, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

1:30  PM

Whither Broadband Policy? The National Broadband Plan, the FCC, and the Courts

Thomas Lenard, President, Technology Policy Institute (moderator) 

•  Yale Braunstein, Professor, School of Information,  University of California, Berkeley

•  Jeff Campbell, Senior Director, Technology and Trade Policy, Cisco 

•  Bruce Owen, Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor in Public Policy, Director of the Public Policy Program, and Gordon Cain Senior Fellow at SIEPR, Stanford University

•  Joe Waz, Senior Vice President, External Affairs and Public Policy Counsel, Comcast

•  Rick Whitt, Senior Policy Director, Google 

2:45 PM

Break

3:00 PM

Broadband and Spectrum: Is there a crisis, and can the National Broadband Plan solve it?

Gregory Rosston, Senior Research Scholar and Deputy Director, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (moderator)

•  Thomas Dombrowsky, Engineering Consultant, Wiley Rein LLP

•  Dale Hatfield, Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder 

•  Carlos Kirjner, Former Senior Adviser to the Chairman on Broadband, Federal Communications Commission

•  Evan Kwerel, Senior Economic Adviser, Federal Communications Commission

•  Charla Rath, Vice President, Public Policy, Verizon

4:30 PM

Adjourn