Aspen Summit 2008: Welcome Remarks
Ken Ferree, President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
Meredith Attwell Baker, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Keynote Address: John Horrigan
John Horrigan, Associate Director, Research, Pew Internet & American Life Project

Progress and Freedom Foundation Aspen Summit 2008 Keynote
Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse LLC and Advisor, Warner Music Group

Should We Deputize the Middleman? New Debates about Intermediary Liability
Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Digital Media Freedom, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy, Facebook, Inc.
Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Kent Walker, Vice President and General Counsel, Google Inc.

Copyright Enforcement Online – Can We Do Better?
Tom Sydnor, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
Jonathan Band, Owner, policybandwidth.com
James Burger, Member, Dow Lohnes PLLC
Michael O’Leary, Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel for Federal Affairs and Policy, Motion Picture Association of America
Shira Perlmutter, Executive Vice President, Global Legal Policy, IFPI
Jule Sigall, Senior Policy Counsel, Copyrights and Trademarks, Microsoft

Online Advertising, Behavioral Marketing & Privacy
Berin Szoka, Visiting Fellow, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator) William Blumenthal, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission Dan Jaffe, Executive Vice President, Government Relations, Association of National Advertisers Alan Raul, Partner, Sidley Austin Greg Sivinski, Senior Attorney, Antitrust, Microsoft Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Inc. Mike Zaneis, Vice President, Public Policy, Interactive Advertising Bureau

Plenary Address: Richard W. Fisher
Richard W. Fisher, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

The Innovation Imperative – Engage or Retreat?
Bret Swanson, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Innovation, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
Katherine McGuire, Vice President of Government Relations, BSA
Peter Pitsch, Director, Communications Policy, Intel
Steve Stewart, Director, Public Affairs, IBM Governmental Programs
Timothy Stratford, Assistant US Trade Representative for China

Keynote Address: Patrick J. Esser
Patrick J. Esser, President, Cox Communications Inc.

Keynote Address: Richard Lynch
Richard Lynch, Chief Technology Officer, Verizon

Next Generation Network Policy – Here and Abroad
Barbara Esbin, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Communications and Competition Policy, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)
Kathleen Abernathy, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP and Director, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
David Eveleigh, Vice President and General Counsel, BT Americas at BT
Brett Glass, Owner and Founder, Lariat Networks, Laramie, WY
The Honorable Robert McDowell, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Joe Waz, Senior Vice President, External Affairs and Public Policy Counsel, Comcast Corporation

Luncheon Discussion
Ambassador David A. Gross, United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State (moderator)
Matthias Kurth, President, BNetzA, Germany
Eiji Makiguchi, Director, International Economic Affairs Division, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan
The Honorable Francisco Ros Perán, Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society of Spain
Dr. Rafael del Villar Alrich, Under Secretary of Communications of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, Mexico

Chairman's Dinner & Address
Maggie Wilderotter, Chairman and CEO, Frontier Communications Corporation

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