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March 10, 2008
Spring VON Pre-Con – Competition Policy
I’m looking forward to my return to the VON Community after a one year hiatus. Most academics take a sabbatical from academia into industry. I took a sabbatical from industry into academia. But, then, I often get things backwards.
In any event, the Spring VON Competition Policy Pre-Con, “Seismic Eruptions and Disruptions in an Internet-Enabled World”, has really shaped up quickly and promises a pretty great day to learn and debate the great policy issues confronting the Internet communications industry.
The current line-up includes discussions on the broad range of complex policy competition policy issues including mergers, antitrust, patents, jurisdictional, social and economic issues with thought-leaders from across all industry players including:
Ed Black, Chief Executive Officer, Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), Christian Dippon, Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting
Kevin Minsky, Policy Counsel, U.S. Legal/Corporate Affairs, Microsoft
Michael Pelcovits, Principal, Microeconomic Consulting & Research Associates, Inc. (MiCRA)
Lawrence Spiwak, President, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies
Marty Stern, Partner, K&L Gates
Jeffrey Blumenfeld, Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP
Mark Ostrau, Partner,Fenwick & West LLP
Alfred Pfeiffer, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Harvey Saferstein, Member ,Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC
David Turetsky, Partner, Dewey & LaBouef LLP Moderator:
Glenn Manishin, Partner, Duane Morris LLP
Ross Buntrock, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
Bill Lake, Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Jason Wakefield, Vice President, Governmental and External Affairs, Covad Communications Company
Glenn Richards, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Daniel Berninger, Independent Technology Analyst, Tier1 Research
Rob Bertin, Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP
Fred Grasso, Counsel, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Ron Del Sesto, Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP
Rick Cimerman, VP, State Government Affairs, National Cable & Telecommmunications Association
Staci Pies, Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, Skype N.A.
David Young, VP, Federal Regulatory, Verizon
Jim Kohlenberger, Executive Director, The Voice on the Net (VON) Coalition
We’ll also host a presentation on Emergency Services and the Internet by Jason Barbour, President, NENA
The pulvermedia crew are also returning with the VON Town Hall Meeting to kick off Spring VON. The Community Leaders for the Town Hall Meeting include:
Lowell Feldman, Chief Executive Officer, Feature Group IP
Link Hoewing, Assistant Vice President, Internet and Technology, Verizon
Larry Irving, Co-Chairman, Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA)
Rick Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel, Google
and yours truly, Jonathan Askin, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School and returning VON alum.
Tags: Jonathan Askin, VON, Internet Communications
Posted by jonathan.askin at March 10, 2008 11:10 PM
Comments
I'm really bummed that I'm missing VON in San Jose this year.
Have a great conference!
Best, Chris
Posted by: Chris Parandian at March 12, 2008 09:46 PM