The topic of online behavior has seldom been more timely or more relevant. One wonders where America’s youth, who have literally grown up online, learn online social and ethics values. While there is widespread agreement over the need for robust rules of the road, the pipeline for that type of education remains elusive. How does our society guide youth to appropriate online behaviors? We’ve assembled an amazing panel of experts at State of the Net to grapple with this thorny topic on our panel “Strategies For Encouraging Ethical Digital Citizenship: Can It Be Taught?” A full description is below.
Leading the conversation will be:
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Today’s youth – tomorrow’s voters, workers, and leaders – have never known a world without consistent Internet access. The creators and creatives of today need the skills to discern and critically consider sources of information online and how their usage thereof informs their behavior.
But how does this generation learn the skills and rules of the road it needs to navigate cyberspace in a safe, responsible, and informed manner: From the digital immigrants that have come before them or from the digital natives that surround them? Are current efforts in teaching enough, or do we need to create new, comprehensive approaches to digital citizenship and media literacy?
We invite you join our panel of experts at the 13th Annual State of the Net Internet Policy Conference on January 23, 2017 at our panel, “Strategies For Encouraging Ethical Digital Citizenship: Can It Be Taught?” for a closer look at this crucial issue.
We are excited to announce that Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA), will participate in a keynote conversation with Tech:NYC’s Executive Director Julie Samuels at State of the Net on January 23 during our morning keynote session.
The keynote conversation will cover a variety challenges we currently face, both nationally and globally, in the areas of STEM education, encryption, surveillance and privacy among others.
In 2017 DelBene joined the House Ways and Means Committee, which will be at the forefront of debate on taxes, healthcare and retirement security in the new Congress.
In the House Judiciary Committee, DelBene serves on the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, which handles the administration of the U.S. courts, as well as oversight over information technology and copyright, patent and trademark law. Her second Judiciary assignment is the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, which tackles bankruptcy law, state taxation affecting interstate commerce and antitrust matters.
Through her role on the House Judiciary Committee, DelBene is at the forefront of issues relating to technology and privacy, and has become a leading voice in the House calling for greater transparency and oversight of the NSA to restore American’s privacy rights, which passed.
In addition she also serves as co-chair of the New Democrat Coalition’s 21st Century Job Skills Working Group, and co-chair of the Women’s High Tech Caucus, Internet of Things Caucus, and Trademark Caucus.
Finally, DelBene hosted the Congressional App Challenge, a competition aimed at encouraging U.S. high school students to learn how to code by creating their own applications. The Challenge is intended to highlight the value of computer science and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education and encourage students to engage in these fields. The winning app in her district (WA-1) was Code Carbon.
Expectations are that the incoming Trump Administration and Congress will work together to realign regulatory authority in the area of communications policy. After this realignment the communications policy roles for the FCC, the FTC, counties, cities, and states may be quite different from recent memory.
At State of the Net 2017 we will be closely examining what the future of communications policy in the US will be with the help of our Keynote Speakers and through our panel discussion later in the day.
Leading the conversation will be:
Keynote Speakers
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Senator John Thune (R-SD) is the Senior US Senator for South Dakota and is currently the senior most Senator and Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. For the 115th Congress, Senator Thune also serves on the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee and the Finance Committee. Thune also served in Republican leadership as Chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee from 2009 – 2011 and now serves as the Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, the number three position in Senate Republican leadership.
Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) is the Senior US Senator for Hawaii and is currently the Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet. He also serves on three additional Senate Committees: Appropriations, Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Indian Affairs. Senator Schatz is also one of just three Democrats on the Select Committee on Ethics.
PANELISTS
Larry Downes is is author of the New York Times and Business Week business blockbuster, “Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance” (Harvard Business School Press, 1998). His new book, now a best-seller, is “Big Bang Disruption.” He serves as Project Director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy’s Evolution of Regulation and Innovation project, and as Research Fellow with the Accenture Institute for High Performance.
Markham Erickson is a Partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLC, regularly representing clients in regulatory complaints, investigations, rulemakings, and proposed mergers before the Federal Communication Commission and the Department of Justice. He also represents clients before the United States Copyright Office and the Patent and Trademark Office. He has challenged and defended regulatory actions before federal courts.He has been appointed by the White House to represent the United States before the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on Internet speech and regulatory matters. He also is co-chair of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Committee and a member of its Technology Committee.
Gigi Sohn is currently the Leadership in Government Fellow at the Open Society Foundations. From 2015 to 2016 she served as Counselor to the Chairman at the FCC. Ms. Sohn served from 2001-2013 as the President and CEO of Public Knowledge and, from 2011-2013 as the Co-Chair of the board of directors of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG).
Dr. Mark Jamison is the director and Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center (PURC) at the University of Florida and also serves as its director of Telecommunications Studies. He provides international training and research on business and government policy, focusing primarily on utilities and network industries. He directs the PURC/World Bank International Training Program on Utility Regulation and Strategy.
We invite you join our Keynote Speakers and Panelists at the 13th Annual State of the Net Internet Policy Conference on January 23, 2017 for a closer look at the Future of Communications Policy.
We are excited to announce that the CEO of Cybereason, Lior Div, will participate in a keynote conversation with Chairman Bob Goodlatte of the House Judiciary Committee at State of the Net on January 23 at 9:00 AM. Cybereason is a pioneering cybersecurity company developing cutting edge software platforms that leverage big data, behavioral analytics, and machine learning, in order to monitor complex advanced threats that evade traditional defenses.
The keynote conversation with Chairman Bob Goodlatte will cover a variety of cybersecurity challenges we currently face, both nationally and globally. With the growing attention cybersecurity has attracted in the headlines, this will be a timely discussion and we encourage you to attend.
About Lior Div: Lior Div, CEO and Co-Founder of Cybereason, is an expert in the fields of hacking operations, forensics, reverse engineering, malware analysis, cryptography & evasion. Previously, Lior served in unit 8200 of the Israeli Intelligence Corps as a commander of a cyber security team, where he received a medal of honor for his excellent achievements. Prior to co-founding Cybereason, Lior founded a cyber security services company that provided services to Israeli government agencies.
About Representative Bob Goodlatte: Representative Bob Goodlatte proudly represents the Sixth Congressional District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives. In the 113th Congress, Rep. Goodlatte was elected to serve as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he continues to serve as Chairman today. For many years Rep. Goodlatte has served as one of the four co-chairs of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional Internet Caucus, one of the most prestigious and active Caucuses on Capitol Hill.
We’ve always welcomed the term “disruption” at State of the Net. But today many American workers are wondering what Internet-enabled disruption will mean for the future of their work. We’ve assembled an amazing panel of experts to explore “The Future of Work: Capturing The American Dream In An Internet-Enabled Economy.” A full description is below.
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We are racing towards a technologically-enhanced future. Internet-enabled technologies continue to disrupt markets and industries at a breathtaking clip. Corporations are increasingly seeing exponential increases in productivity from Internet-enabled automation and the Internet of Things. That disruption is pushing the American workforce to a place where it needs to be more and more technologically adroit. With artificial intelligence, autonomous cars, virtual reality, 3D/advanced manufacturing, and robotics, the skills required of the American labor market bears little resemblance to what was needed just a generation ago.
Those trends will only continue and the Internet connects everyone and everything. Jobs are literally being transformed. Fortunately, the strength of America has always been its workers and their ability to adapt to challenges and innovation. While one might meet this impending shift with trepidation, we believe it presents an amazing opportunity for America to lead the world into the economic future.
We invite you join our panel of experts at the 13th Annual State of the Net Internet Policy Conference on January 23, 2017 at our panel, “The Future of Work: Capturing The American Dream In An Internet-Enabled Economy,” for a closer look at this crucial issue.
We’re excited to announce that Senator John Thune will keynote the State of the Net Conference on January 23, 2017 at the Newseum. Senator Thune joins a growing list of speakers at State of the Net who will chart the course for Internet policy in the coming year.
Senator Thune chairs the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and has made a name for himself as a leader on Internet and technology issues. Senator Thune Co-Chairs the bipartisan Congressional Internet Caucus with Senator Leahy and Representatives Goodlatte and Eshoo.
The 13th Annual State of the Net Conference is only a few weeks away. We welcome you to join an audience of 600 attendees engaged in key Internet policy issues on January 23rd, 2017 at the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue in the heart of Washington, DC.
We’re excited to announce two State of the Net 2017keynote speakers. Representative Bob Goodlatte and Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausenare the latest additions to our distinguished lineup of speakers and panelists this year.
Representative Goodlatte serves as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and has made a name for himself as a leader on Internet and technology issues. Rep. Goodlatte Co-Chairs the bipartisan Congressional Internet Caucus with Senators Thune and Leahy and Representative Eshoo.
Sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission in 2012, Maureen Ohlhausen previously served at the Commission as Director of the Office of Policy Planning, where she led the FTC’s Internet Access Task Force.
The 13th Annual State of the Net Conference is only a month away. We welcome you to join an audience of 800 attendees engaged in key Internet policy issues on January 23rd, 2017 at the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue in the heart of Washington, DC.
An unmistakable trend is taking shape across the world as nation states begin to pull back from complex international arrangements. Experts refer this resurgence of “global nationalism” as a threat to the status quo. Everyone is reassessing what the next four years will mean for cyberspace, with public and private sector stakeholders alike having to readjust their plans and forecasts. At State of the Net leading Internet governance thinkers and government officials will come together to assess the future of digital trade agreements, the sustainability of international multi-stakeholder processes, and the legitimacy of future multilateral agreements regarding the Internet. You won’t want to miss it.
Our Internet Governance Track will feature the following discussions. Register now.
Digital Trade Under Trump: What’s The Deal for Exporting Innovation?
The 2016 election revealed a high level of discomfort among many Americans when it comes to elaborate international trade deals (negotiated by past and present American presidents). The road ahead for many international agreements is uncertain and the traditional consensus around open global trade has frayed . At the same time, America has a massive trade surplus when it comes to digital trade, America leads the world in Internet-based innovation, and manufacturing businesses. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) increasingly rely on the Internet and cross-border data flows to access foreign markets. How does America maintain its digital trade strength, in a world where international economic relations are strained and precarious and other countries are increasingly restricting digital trade? What will be the impact on America’s greatest export – innovation?
Assessing The Legitimacy Of Internet Governance Structures and Processes: An Open Forum
What is the next chapter of global Internet Governance (IG)? While the first stage of Internet Governance has been decidedly marked by multi-stakeholderism it remains to be seen whether that will continue. Indeed, there are a significant number of IG institutions that are not. There are no indications that proponents of multilateralism are admitting defeat or slowing down their actions. Within such a potentially charged environment, we assess the legitimacy and roles that institutions, stakeholders and issue areas might play in global IG.
Early bird registration is now open for the 13th Annual State of the Net Conference, the nation’s premier Internet policy conference. State of the Net will take place on Monday, January 23, 2017. Monday the 23rd will be the first business day of the new Administration. Early bird registration rates will be open until December 24, 2017. Register here.
State of the Net will explore a range of issues with which the Trump Administration and the new Congress will have to grapple. We’ll explore the Future of Work in America as well as a renewed, and pronounced, focus on cyber security issues. The agenda will devote a whole track of programming to the state of Internet governance as world alliances evolve. State of the Net will be your first look at the new players and the new issues that will take center stage. Whether it’s encryption or federal communications jurisdiction, State of the Net is the best place to get your arms around the issues.
State of the Net attracts over 600 attendees by providing unparalleled opportunities to network and engage on key policy issues. The 2017 edition of State of the Net will take place at The Newseum’s Knight Conference Center, which overlooks the U.S. Capitol Building as well as the inaugural parade route.
We are pleased to announce that 13th Annual State of the Net Internet, the nation’s premier technology policy conference will take place on Monday, January 23, 2017. Monday the 23rd will be the first day of the newly minted Administration, as we inaugurate the 45th President of the United States three days prior. At the same time a new U.S. Congress will settle in on Capitol Hill. Join us at State of the Net as we get to work on the most important Internet policy challenges of the day.
State of the Net will explore a range of issues that the new Administration and the new Congress will have to grapple with. From telecom in a Title II era to a renewed and pronounced focus on cyber security issues, State of the Net will be your first look at the new players and the new issues that will take center stage. Whether it’s encryption or surveillance reform, State of the Net is the best place to debate them all. This conference is unique. It’s been consistently lauded for its balanced blend of perspectives and its provocative thinkers.
State of the Net attracts over 600 attendees by providing unparalleled opportunities to network and engage on key policy issues. The 2017 edition of State of the Net will take place at The Newseum’s Knight Conference Center, which overlooks the inaugural parade route.
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The State of the Net Conference is hosted by the Internet Education Foundation (IEF), a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization. IEF takes no positions on legislation or regulation. Rather, it’s a neutral platform where thought leaders debate important technology issues that shape legislative and administration policy in an open forum. We vigilantly adhere to our mission to curate balanced and dynamic debates among Internet stakeholders. Our volunteer board members ensure that we dutifully execute that mission. More information on the ICAC is available at www.neted.org.
