The Technology Policy Institute and the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy are hosting a half-day event on March 23rd on the FCC’s newly announced National Broadband Plan. Experts from industry, academia and government will share their reaction to the Plan in two panel discussions focusing on the effects of the Plan on both investment and broadband penetration. The event will feature a keynote from Blair Levin, Executive Director of the FCC’s Omnibus Broadband Initiative.

Questions should be directed to Ashley Creel at [email protected]. Members of the press should contact Amy Smorodin at [email protected].

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Robert Crandall, Brookings Institution
James Cicconi, AT&T
Blair Levin, Executive Director, Omnibus Broadband Initiative, Federal Communications Commission
Thomas Lenard, Technology Policy Institute
John Mayo, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
Walter McCormick, USTelecom
Kyle McSlarrow, National Cable and Telecommunications Association
Peter Pitsch, Intel
Lee Rainie, Pew Internet and America Life Project
Gregory Rosston, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Robert Shapiro, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
Thomas Tauke, Verizon
Joseph Waz, Comcast