🚨 The Full Agenda — 90 speakers!
The Final Agenda is Here!
The State of the Net agenda is here and it’s huge.
There’s a reason this is the largest Internet policy conference in Washington. Almost 90 speakers across the keynotes, panels, and lightning talks — all listed below 👇
📣 Newly added sessions —Panels on New Frontiers of Speech in the Internet Age and Sovereign AI add to the agenda.
🎟️ Tickets are still available online, with on-site registration Monday. Complimentary for government staff and press.
📺 Watch the remote livestream by registering here.
Keynotes
- The Honorable Olivia Trusty, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
- The Honorable Anna M. Gomez, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
- The Honorable Arielle Roth, Administrator, National Information and Telecommunications Administration
- Senator Scott Wiener, Senator, California State Senate
- The Honorable Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary, Department of Labor
- The Honorable Cory Gardner, President & CEO, fmr. U.S. Senator and Member of Congress, NCTA – The Internet and Television Association
- The Honorable April McClain Delaney, Representative, House of Representatives
- Arpan Sura, Chief AI Officer, Federal Communications Commission
Panels
- Sovereign AI and the New Internet Order: Governing Intelligence Across Borders
- AI Liability: Who’s Responsible When Machines Act?
- Hitting Refresh on Cybersecurity to Address Emerging Technologies
- Verifying the Future: The Paxton Decision, Age Assurance, and the Next Phase of Online Safety
- The Future of AI Infrastructure: Affordably Securing Energy for Innovation
- Making BEAD a Success To Connect All Americans
- 30 for 30: 30 Years of Broadband Competition, 30 Years of What’s Next
- The New Frontiers of Speech
- Chatting with Machines: Mental Health, AI Companions, and the New Psychology of Connection
Lightning Talks
- Andrew Trask: The Missing Network Layer: Why AI Needs Its Own ARPANET Moment
- Nick Pickles: Time to prove we’re human
- Lila Bailey & Stan Adams: The State of the Open Web
- Naren Koneru: Open Sourcing Safety: Why The Internet Needs Shared Tools, Not Silos
- Courtney Radsch: Crawling the Web We Want: Policy Choices Shaping the Agentic Web
- Jeremy Epstein: From Research Labs to Policy Agendas: What Computer Scientists Are Thinking About Now that Policymakers Will Be Discussing Soon
- Revana Sharfuddin: A Proactive Response to AI-Driven Job Displacement
- Larry Irving: AI Divide/AI Inequality: It’s real, and it’s getting worse.
- Heather West: Cybersecurity for AI that Acts: Agents and vulnerability management
- Ruchika Joshi: AI Memory as a Governance Surface: Prioritizing User Privacy and Control
- Nick Garcia: Defining Technologies: Which Definition of AI Should Policymakers Use?
- Rikin Thakker: Why 7 GHz Spectrum Matters for the Future of Wi-Fi
- Michael Calabrese: What 6G Should Be: Ubiquitous and Seamless Connectivity, Not Just Another ‘G’
- Scott Babwah Brennen: The Hidden Regulators: Public Utility Commissions and AI Governance
- Lauren Culbertson Grieco: Balancing Privacy and Power: How Data Governance Will Shape AI’s Future
The New Frontiers of Speech
Corbin Barthold
Internet Policy Counsel
TechFreedom
Ashkhen Kazaryan
Senior Legal Fellow
The Future of Free Speech @ Vanderbilt University
Joel Thayer
Senior Fellow for AI and Emerging Technology Policy
America First Policy Institute
Luke Hogg
Director of Policy and Outreach
Foundation for American Innovation
Sovereign AI and the New Internet Order: Governing Intelligence Across Borders
Morgan Reed
President
ACT | The App Association
Caitlin Clarke
Senior Director of Cybersecurity Services
Venable LLC
Adrian Shahbaz
Vice President, Research and Analysis
Freedom House
Kellee Wicker
Vice President of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Space
The Meridian International Center
Nancy Scola
Independent Journalist