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

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

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

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

12:15 PM

Luncheon Keynote

•  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

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