We’re looking forward to an amazing lineup at #SOTN15 tomorrow. As of 6 pm Monday we plan on starting on time — but we’re watching the weather closely. Again, follow our Twitter account @SOTN for the most up to date announcements.
We are pleased to announce several new keynotes, panels, and speakers at next week’s State of the Net Conference. You can see agenda version 2.0 here. There is still time to register online and, as always, we will also have on-site registration for walk-ins. This year, Bitcoin will even be accepted for on-site registration payment.
With a massive emphasis on cybersecurity over the last three months, we’ve added Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity chief Suzanne Spaulding to the keynote lineup. We’ve also added Director of Cybersecurity for the White House National Security Council Ari Schwartz to discuss whether we are still “masters of our domain” with other security experts. Together with Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, and the State Department’s Chris Painter, State of the Net promises to take a comprehensive look at the state of our nation’s cybersecurity.
Representative Jared Polis and FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel will also deliver keynotes joining an all-star lineup of FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, U.S. CTO Megan Smith, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Coinbase co-founder and president Fred Ehrsam, and many more.
Expect tech policy to be in the spotlight tonight as President Obama addresses the nation. After a tumultuous year for cybersecurity, where “net neutrality” entered the mainstream lexicon and was the butt of late night humor, and broadband speeds and access became a top priority for the Administration, the Internet has taken center stage in Washington.
The White House has already previewed their cybersecurity policy initiatives including a new cyber information sharing legislative proposal, a national mandate that companies disclose all cyber breaches to employees and customers effected within 30 days, and policies that would give greater access to law enforcement and intelligence officials to pursue and prosecute cybercriminals as NBC News outlines here. More on the President’s cyber agenda can be found in today’s Politico Morning Cybersecurity.
At State of the Net 2015, a week from President Obama’s address, Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate Suzanne Spaulding will give a morning keynote and our afternoon panel “Cyber Security In The Homeland: Are We Masters Of Our Domain?” is sure to create lively debate on the President’s new proposals and more.
Net neutrality has become one of the most prominent and hot button tech policy issues since SOPA debate in 2012. While the President has already made his views clear on the issue and the FCC is working to distribute a new rules proposal ahead of an expected February 26 vote, don’t be surprised if the issue gets another mention tonight.
Expect a net neutrality showdown ahead of the FCC vote and Congressional legislation at State of the Net during “Ensuring An Open Internet: 2015 Promises To Be A Wild Ride.” Panelists Harold Feld, Public Knowledge, and Nilay Patel, The Verge, will clash with professors Babette Boliek, Pepperdine University, and Daniel Lyons, Boston College on the right way to preserve an Open Internet.
Online privacy initiatives, telecom issues, and a broad range of other topics may also make it into the State of the Union and are featured in the 2015 State of the Net agenda. Tweet us your take on President Obama’s tech talk with #SOTN15 and @SOTN as he lays out his Internet policy proposals for Congress and the American people tonight.
United States Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith is the newest addition to a distinguished lineup of State of the Net Conference 2015 keynote speakers featuring FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell, and Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam.
Smith is the third U.S. CTO and an accomplished engineer, entrepreneur, and advocate for women in STEM. She was appointed by President Barack Obama in September to succeed Todd Park and is the first woman to hold the position. Before joining the Executive Office of the President, Smith was Vice President of New Business Development at Google.
The first U.S. CTO, Aneesh Chopra, will also be speaking at the 11th Annual State of the Net Conference on a panel about efficient use of technology in government. Chopra has praised Smith as having “a tinkerer’s enthusiasm for finding problems and looking for ways to solve them” and called her “an inspiration for the country.”
State of the Net annually attracts over 600 policymakers, academics, and other attendees as the premier Internet policy conference. Click here for a complete list of speakers at the 11th annual conference on January 27, 2015 at the Newseum. Follow @SOTN on Twitter for State of the Net Conference news and updates.
You’re invited to attend America’s largest Internet policy conference. The 11th Annual State of the Net Conference is only a month away. Join an audience of 700 annual attendees engaged in key Internet policy issues on January 27, 2015 at the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue in the heart of Washington, DC.
Confirmed speakers for this year’s conference include FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Engine Executive Director Julie Samuels, former United States CTO Aneesh Chopra, Columbia professor Timothy Wu, and many more. See our agenda page for an updated list of all speakers.
Follow us on Twitter for conference news and updates as we finalize the conference agenda and announce our final panelists and keynote speakers. Registration is free for all government staff, press and media, and a limited number of student tickets are available. Discounted tickets are available for non-profit and academic attendees.
Please join us on Monday, May 5 in honoring the father of the mobile phone, Martin Cooper. Mr. Cooper will at speak at State of the Net Wireless at the Knight Conference Center at the Newseum during the afternoon. At the closing of the conference we will honor him with a presentation for his monumental achievement followed by a reception in his honor at The Source starting at 5 pm.
State of the Net Wireless is part of “Wireless Innovation Week,” celebrating over 40 years of the innovation that Mr. Cooper unleashed with his remarkable invention. The State of the Net Wireless conference will be followed on Tuesday by an all day exploration of “Moving Wi-Fi Forward” hosted by WiFi Foward, also at the Newseum [Details here]. Please join the Wireless Innovation Week discussion using the hashtag #wirelessinnov
1:00 to 4:40 pm
Keynotes / Panels
4:40 pm
Honoring Martin Cooper, Father of the Mobile Phone
5:00 pm to 7 PM
Celebrating 40 Years of Wireless Innovation
Reception at The Source
575 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, District of Columbia
RSVPs appreciated to [email protected]
Speakers
– Martin Cooper
– Marta Martinez, AOL, Head of Sales Strategy and Operations
– Anna Bager, Interactive Advertising Bureau
– Will Kassoy, CEO, Ad Colony
– Joe Lorenzo Hall, CDT (invited)
– Deepti Rohatgi, LookOut
– Adam Thierer, Mercatus Center
Additional speakers will be announced on a rolling basis.
This widely attended educational briefing is hosted by the Internet Education Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization. Government staff, the public, and members of the press welcome.
If you are interested in sponsoring or providing in-kind donations for this event, please call 202-407-8828 or email Tim Lordan at [email protected] for more information.
Today, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board issues its own list of recommendations to the President regarding NSA reforms (1-2pm, ET). With this latest development and State of the Net quickly approaching, we wanted to direct you to our upcoming panel, “Reforming the NSA Surveillance System: Assessing the Options.”
Description:
The NSA’s surveillance program brought to light by the controversial revelations of Edward Snowden has raised myriad debates about whether and how to reform the different programs within the NSA surveillance system. Almost everyone is calling for some type of reform. Presidential advisory panels have offered reform suggestions, former FISA panel judges have weighed in with ideas, Members of Congress have introduced bills, and every civil libertarian in the country has ideas on how to reform the system. On January 17, President Obama addressed the nation and offered his own ideas how to implement program changes. Our panel will explore many of the reform ideas volleyed thus far and assess their efficacy.
Panelists:
Nuala O’Connor, President & CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology (moderator)
Judge James G. Carr, Former Judge, FISA Court
David Medine, Chairman, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel, ACLU
Additional panelists will be announced shortly.
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The State of the Net Agenda is evolving. Don’t miss your chance to register.
If you are interested in sponsoring or providing in-kind donations for this event, please call 202-407-8828 or email Tim Lordan at [email protected] for more information.
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State of the Net 2014 will feature (cue the ominous Star Wars music) a provocative panel called “NSA Crypto Wars, Episode VII: the Internet Strikes Back?” featuring a panel of Internet engineers discussing technical responses to NSA surveillance revelations. Regardless of what the President says on Friday about the surveillance programs engineers are busy at work hardening the Internet’s architecture.
Revelations that intelligence agencies have been tapping into backbone Internet links and subverting standards processes and security technologies have spurred the Internet’s engineer community to harden core Internet protocols and reexamine standards setting processes. This panel will discuss: what is the state of Internet and web security and cryptography in the shadow of these revelations? What kinds of proposals are gaining traction in technical standard-setting forums like the IETF? What NIST is doing from within the US government to evaluate federal information processing standards? What does the current landscape look like from the perspective of an innovative secure communications start-up?
Speakers include:
Click here for the full agenda.
The State of the Net Agenda is evolving. Don’t miss your chance to register.
If you are interested in sponsoring or providing in-kind donations for this event, please call 202-407-8828 or email Tim Lordan at [email protected] for more information.
State of the Net
hosted by the Internet Education Foundation
1634 I Street NW – Suite 1100 – Washington, DC 20006
www.Stateofthe.Net
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On the day that Congress prepares to receive the President’s address on the State of the Union, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker will address the State of the Net, the Internet’s premier policy conference. We are pleased that Secretary Pritzker, who recently hosted a dynamic Twitter chat on #open4biz, will address State of the Net attendees on January 28, 2014 at the Newseum. On the day that our government gathers to assess the state of our Union, we hope that the Secretary will comment on the role the Internet plays in fueling the economy and promoting American business opportunity.
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Seats at State of the Net are still available. Register here. Sponsors can contact the event organizers for complimentary tickets.
The 2014 State of the Net will frame the issues for the next session of Congress. To get a sense of the conference check out videos and the agenda (PDF) from 2013’s State of the Net. We will post the agenda as a work in progress shortly.
If you are interested in sponsoring or providing in-kind donations for this event, please call 202-407-8828 or email Tim Lordan at [email protected] for more information.
State of the Net
hosted by the Internet Education Foundation
1634 I Street NW – Suite 1100 – Washington, DC 20006
www.Stateofthe.Net
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Former FISA Judge Jame G. Carr will speak at the State of the Net Conference in January on the controversial and systemic NSA surveillance program. Yesterday federal district judge Richard Leon dealt a substantial constitutional blow to the NSA’s phone collection program and cast doubt about the legality of many other government surveillance programs. Judge Leon noted that the program in question “infringes on ‘that degree of privacy’ that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment.” Judge Carr, who served on the FISA panel previously, is uniquely suited to discuss with other legal experts the legality of the NSA programs and what Congress should and possibly must do about them.
In fact the significance the NSA surveillance issues will likely infuse many of the debates and keynotes at State of the Net on January 28 at the Newseum. Tickets to State of the Net are still available. Register here. Sponsors can contact the event organizers for complimentary tickets.
The 2014 State of the Net will frame the issues for the next session of Congress. To get a sense of the conference check out videos and the agenda (PDF) from 2013’s State of the Net. We will post the agenda as a work in progress shortly.
If you are interested in sponsoring or providing in-kind donations for this event, please call 202-407-8828 or email Tim Lordan at [email protected] for more information.
State of the Net
hosted by the Internet Education Foundation
1634 I Street NW – Suite 1100 – Washington, DC 20006
www.Stateofthe.Net
Find us on Twitter