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Date and time: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:30 pm
Date: 8/27/09
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: Room TW-C305 (Commission Meeting Room)
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554
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Coordinator: James Miller
Phone: (202) 418-7351
Eastern Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
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Program: Broadband
Duration: 2 hours
Description: Topics (Preliminary)
The following are some of the preliminary topics that will be covered at this workshop. If you would like to discuss any other topics, please send us your suggestions.
1) Trends
What are innovative ways consumers are using broadband today?
How are the ways consumers use broadband changing?
How are evolutions in devices facilitating what consumers can do with broadband?
How will applications evolve in the next 5, 10, and 15 years?
2) Needs
What advancements in broadband infrastructure could make possible applications currently limited by the available pipe?
What are the challenges to developing broadband applications for fixed and mobile broadband?
What changes in broadband devices and development platforms could realize new growth in applications?
How may changes in applications drive changes to networks?
What regulatory or legal barriers constrain the growth of broadband applications and devices?
In what ways do applications and devices leverage legal, social, and technical features of cybersecurity?
Agenda
| 1:30 pm | Panel Session 1: CURRENT EXPERIENCES AND TRENDS IN APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES (90 minutes: 5 minutes from each panelist followed by questions from the FCC moderating panel and audience) Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President for Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Tim Napoleon, Chief Strategist, Digital Media, Akamai Technologies Robb Topolski, Chief Technologist, Open Technology Initiative, New America Foundation, Public Knowledge, Free Press Evan Young, Senior Director, Product Marketing, TiVo Inc. Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:10 pm |
Panel Session 2: EMERGING APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THEM Sunil Daluvoy, Senior Manager, New Business Development, Google |
| 4:40 pm | Closing Statements/Adjournment
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