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March 03, 2008
Policy Discussions at Spring VON
For those of you who missed the DC policy and government affairs crew at VON, we’re coming to San Jose for Spring VON ’08. We’re returning with the VON Town Hall Meeting to kick off Spring VON and we’ve added a full-day Pre-Con on Competition Policy: Seismic Eruptions and Disruptions in an Internet-Enabled World
The goal of the VON Pre-Con is to scare us all into action. We are living through a technology, business, policy and political upheaval, the likes of which the world has never known. Technology is disrupting business is disrupting policy is disrupting politics. What are the issues that can make or break a company? an industry? a government? We’re in the midst of major consolidations within and across industry sectors. We are witnessing a race to the Patent Office and the patent tribunals by companies seeking any edge in this ferociously competitive world. We are feeling a seismic shake from government and industry players making their own jurisdictional and power grabs. These issues require informed legal talent to straddle the worlds of business and government. The Competition Policy Pre-Con at Spring VON is an effort to learn the issues and find some solutions.
As for the Town Hall Meeting, we’re bringing back a lot of the regulars, but with some new perspectives. The goal of the Town Hall is to build our community, to find common ground and common objectives, to make sure that each of us has the opportunity to play a role in shaping the ever-evolving policies that are shaping the Internet and communications industries. There is simply too much going on for us to sit by idly while the rules are set by those that might not share our vision for an Internet-enabled communications future.
We’re also hosting a talk on Emergency Services and the Internet by Jason Barbour, the President of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA)to segue the Policy Pre-Con into the Town Hall Meeting.
All in all, expect a great education on Internet communications business and technology and policy issues, and a great opportunity to meet the thought-leaders driving the industry, the technology and the policy debates.
Tags: Jonathan Askin, VON, Internet Communications
Posted by jonathan.askin at March 3, 2008 08:52 AM