Public Policy Conference on
Disruptive Technologies and Over-the-Top Services
April 27, 2015
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20045
Monday, April 27th
9:00 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast (The First Amendment Lounge)
10:00
Introduction on Disruptive Technologies
Matthew L. Spitzer, Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic
Growth and Howard and Elizabeth Chapman Professor, Northwestern University
School of Law
10:15
Session One— OTT in VOIP (Holeman Lounge)
Moderator: Simon Wilkie, Professor of Economics, Communication and Law, USC
Gould School of Law, and Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Corporation
Steven Tas, Chairman, Executive Board, ETNO (European Telecommunications
Network Operators' Association)
Patrick Rey, Professor of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics and Ecole
Polytechnique (Paris)
Robert W. Quinn, Jr., Senior Vice President‐Federal Regulatory and Chief Privacy
Officer, AT&T Services, Inc.
Glenn S. Richards, Partner and Chair, Communications Practice Section, Pillsbury
Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
12:00 p.m.
Lunch (The First Amendment Lounge)
Keynote Address
Tim Wu, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
1:30
Session Two—OTT in Video Entertainment (Holeman Lounge)
Moderator: James B. Speta, Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law, Northwestern
University School of Law
Hon. Stephen Conroy, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Parliament of
Australia
Barbara Motzney, Chief Consumer Officer and Executive Director, Consumer Affairs
and Strategic Policy Sector, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC)
Corie Wright, Director of Global Public Policy, Netflix Inc.
Jonathan B. Baker, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
2:45
Adjourn
6:30
Participant Dinner (dinner invitation required)
Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab (South Beach Room)
750 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005
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Jonathan B. Baker, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Hon. Stephen Conroy, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Parliament of Australia
Barbara Motzney, Chief Consumer Officer and Executive Director, Consumer Affairs and Strategic
Policy Sector, Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
4. Robert W. Quinn, Jr., Senior Vice President‐Federal Regulatory and Chief Privacy Officer, AT&T
Services, Inc.
5. Patrick Rey, Professor of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics and Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)
6. Glenn S. Richards, Partner and Chair, Communications Practice Section, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman LLP
7. James B. Speta, Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
and International Initiatives, Northwestern University School of Law
8. Matthew L. Spitzer, Howard and Elizabeth Chapman Professor of Law, Director, Searle Center on Law,
Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
9. Steven Tas, Chairman, Executive Board, ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators'
Association)
10. Simon Wilkie, Microsoft Corporation
11. Corie Wright, Director of Global Public Policy, Netflix Inc.
12. Tim Wu, Columbia Law School
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Amy Abramowitz, Assistant Director, Center for Economics, U.S. Government Accountability Office
(U.S. GAO)
Carola Balbuena, Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy, Telefonica Internacional USA Inc.
John Bergmayer, Senior Staff Attorney, Public Knowledge
Paula Boyd, Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Hillary Burchuk, Trial Attorney, Federal Communications Commission
Joseph Calascione, Regulatory Counsel, Deutsche Telekom
Octavian Carare, Economist, Wireline Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications
Commission
Julie Carlson, Staff Economist, Federal Trade Commission
Carlos Cocina, Head of Brussels Office, Telefonica
Soumitra Das, Telecommunications Analyst, Wireline Competition Bureau, Federal Communications
Commission
Seth Davidson, Member, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
Robert P. Davis, Counsel, Venable LLP
Kelly A. DeMarchis, Counsel, Privacy and Data Security, Venable LLP
William Dever, Federal Communications Commission
Ronald Drennan, Chief, Competition Policy Section, U.S. Department of Justice
Jack Erb, Senior Economist, Federal Communications Commission
Evan Gee, Economic Analysis Group, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division
Shubha Ghosh, Vilas Research Fellow & George Young Bascom Professor of Business Law, University
of Wisconsin Law School
Andrew Gillen, Program Officer, University Investments, Charles Koch Foundation
Shane Greenstein, Kellogg Chair in Information Technology, Management and Strategy, Kellogg School
of Management, Northwestern University
Alessandro Gropelli, Head of Communications & Media, ETNO (European Telecommunications Network
Operators' Association)
Steven Harroun, Director General, Strategic Policy, Consumer Affairs and Strategic Policy Sector,
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
Vianney Hennes, Head of Brussels Office, Orange
Scott Jordan, Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission
Gene Kimmelman, President and CEO, Public Knowledge
Paul LaFontaine, Economist, Federal Communications Commission
Jim Lamoureux, Senior Attorney, LCA-Regulatory Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Marina Lao, Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission
Pierre Larouche, Professor, Tilburg Law School
Gerald B. Leverich, III, Attorney, Office General Counsel, U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S.
GAO)
Jonathan Levy, Deputy Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission
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32. Katherine (Kat) LoPiccalo, Economist, Federal Communications Commission, Office of Strategic
Planning
33. Sue Majewski, Economist, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice
34. Karol Mattila, European Affairs Manager, TeliaSonera
35. John W. Mayo, Professor, Center for Business and Public Policy, Georgetown Business School
36. Virginia Meehan, Director of Federal Relations, Northwestern University
37. Salil Mehra, Professor of Law, Temple University, Beasley School of Law
38. Mark Monroe, Regulatory Specialist, Delaware Health and Social Services
39. Kent Mottice, Research Analyst, Academic Investments, Charles Koch Foundation
40. Omar Nayeem, Industry Economist, Federal Communications Commission, Office of Strategic Planning
41. Carolyn Nguyen, Director, Technology Policy, Microsoft Corporation
42. Eric Ralph, Chief Economist, Wireline Competition Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
43. Oliver M. Richard, Director, Center for Economics, U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
44. Hap Rigby, Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
45. William Rogerson, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Northwestern University and
Research Director on Competition, Antitrust, and Regulation, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and
Economic Growth
46. Nancy Rose, Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Justice
47. Josef Ruthig, Chair for Public, European and Comparative Law, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
48. Jonathan Sallet, General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission
49. Michael Sandfort, Economist, U.S. Department of Justice
50. Paroma Sanyal, Chief Economist, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications
Commission
51. Jay Schwarz, Economist, Wireline Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
52. Susan Singer, Chief Economist/Associate Bureau Chief, Media Bureau, Federal Communications
Commission
53. Ardith A. Spence, Senior Economist, U.S. Government Accountability Office
54. Tom Struble, Legal Fellow, Tech Freedom
55. Jamie Susskind, Counsel (FCC Detailee), Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
56. Evan Swarztrauber, Communications Coordinator, Tech Freedom
57. Berin Szoka, Tech Freedom
58. Hua Wang, Associate, K&L Gates
59. David Waterman, Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission
60. Stephanie Weiner, Associate General Counsel and Special Advisor to the Chairman on Internet Law and
Policy, Federal Communications Commission
61. Lauren M. Wilson, Policy Counsel, Free Press
62. Nathan Wilson, Economist, Federal Trade Commission
63. Joe Witmer, Counsel to Commissioner Gladys M. Brown, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
64. Aleks Yankelevich, Economist, Federal Communications Commission, Wireless Telecommunications
Bureau, Spectrum & Competition Policy Division
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