Agenda
Columnist Tom Friedman to Speak at F2C! (see below).
Agenda Now Fairly Stable
The current Agenda (update 26 March) is now in final form. It is still subject to change, of course, and we’ll do our best to give timely notice if it should change.
Monday March 30, 2009
| 8:00 AM | Registration, breakfast |
| 8:30 – 10:00 AM | Session 1: Introduction, David Isenberg Municipal
Super-session, with Bill Schrier CTO, Seattle, Lev Gonick CIO, Case Western Reserve, and Dirk van der Woude, City of Amsterdam, Tim Nulty, East Central Vermont Fiber, chaired by Joanne Hovis, CTC Communications |
| 10:00 – 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30 – Noon | Session 2: Net politics and other applications Tim Karr, Free Press, Introduction Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation, Nathaniel James, Media and Democracy Coalition, Larry Keyes, Telecare for Rural Home Health, and Eva Sollberger, Stuck in Vermont Video Blog |
| Noon – 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:30 PM | Session 3: What we can learn from muni networking
failures Esme Vos, MuniWireless, Sascha Meinrath, New America Foundation, Ken Biba, Novarum, L. Aaron Kaplan, from Vienna, Austria, Dewayne Hendricks, Tetherless Access |
| 2:30 – 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 – 5:00 PM | Session 4: The Politics of Regulation Chris Savage, attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine Derek Slater, Google Jon Peha, CTO, FCC Thomas L. Friedman, author, New York Times columnist |
| 5:30 – 8:30 PM | Reception at nearby restaurant, to be announced at F2C |
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
| 8:00 AM | Registration, breakfast |
| 8:30 – 10:00 AM | Session 5: Muni Fiber Super-session II Tim Denton, Commissioner, CRTC James Salter, Atlantic Engineering Terry Huval, Lafayette LA chaired by Geoff Daily, app-rising.com |
| 10:00 – 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30 – Noon | Session 6: Networks here and there Herman Wagter, Citynet Benoît Felten, Yankee Group Kevin Werbach, Co-Leader Obama FCC Transition, in conversation with Dan Gillmor |
| Noon – 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:30 PM | Session 7: The Internet and the Planet we call
Home Billy Ray, Glasgow KY, introduced by Jim Baller Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE chaired by Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, dotEarth |
| 2:30 – 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 – 5:00 PM | Session 8: How to Get and Spend $7,200,000,000.00
and more: What the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA) of 2009 means for Netheads Sharon Gillett, Commissioner, Telecom & Cable, Massachusetts Tom Cohen, Kelley Drye & FTTH Council Jim Baller, Baller Herbst Law Group Harold Feld, Legal Director, Public Knowledge Joanne Hovis, CTC Communications |
| 5:00 PM | Adjourn |
