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Next Digital Decade Symposium Agenda
12:30 – 12:45pm
Lunch buffet served
12:45 – 1:00pm
Introductory Interview: Overview of TheNext Digital Decade and TechFreedom
Declan McCullagh, CNET, @DeclanM
Berin Szoka, TechFreedom, @BerinSzoka
1:00 – 2:10pm
Panel 1: Internet Optimism, Pessimism & the Future of Online Culture
Berin Szoka, TechFreedom (Moderator)
Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, @AJKeen
Adam Thierer, Mercatus Center, @AdamThierer
Prof. Ann Bartow, South Carolina School of Law, @ProfABartow
2:15 – 3:25pm
Panel 2: Internet Exceptionalism & Intermediary Deputization
Adam Thierer, Mercatus Center (Moderator)
Prof. Eric Goldman, Santa Clara School of Law, @EricGoldman
Josh Goldfoot
Prof. H. Brian Holland, Texas Wesleyan School of Law, @Prof_Holland
Prof. Mark MacCarthy, Georgetown University, @MacCartM
Prof. Frank Pasquale, Seton Hall Law School, @BlckBx
3:25 – 3:40pm
Coffee break
3:40 – 4:50pm
Panel 3: Who Will Govern the Net in 2020?
Berin Szoka, TechFreedom (Moderator)
Prof. David Johnson, New York Law School
Prof. Milton Mueller, Syracuse University, @MiltonMueller
Shane Tews, VeriSign @ShaneTews
Chris Wolf, Hogan Lovells @PrivacyWolf
4:50 – 5:20pm
Fireside Chat with FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell & Declan McCullagh
Berin Szoka / Berin is the founder of TechFreedom. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation and Director of PFF's Center for Internet Freedom. He covers Internet and media policy issues including privacy, advertising, neutrality, cybersecurity, free speech, child safety, and various other efforts to regulate the Net.
Berin was elected in 2010 to the Steering Committee of the DC Bar Association's Computer & Telecommunications Law Section. Before joining PFF, he practiced communications, Internet and satellite law as an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham & Watkins LLP. Previously, he practiced at Lawler Metzger, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington and clerked for the late Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
A recognized expert on the legal and regulatory issues associated with space commercialization, Berin is a member of the FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). He is a Director, and former Chairman, of the Space Frontier Foundation, a citizens' advocacy group founded in 1988 and dedicated to opening the space frontier by enabling "NewSpace."
He received his Bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Submissions Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.
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