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Cyber Security Under Trump: Stopping the Hacks & Surveillance Reform: What’s Next for Government Powers?

The incoming Trump Administration and the 115th Congress must grapple with two of the thorniest of Internet policy issues: Cybersecurity and Surveillance. We’re pleased to announced that we’ve assembled two expert panels on those respective topics at State of the Net on Monday. There is still time to register.

Leading the conversations on Cyber Security and on Government Surveillance will be:

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CYBERSECURITY UNDER TRUMP: STOPPING THE HACKS
From the recently announced Yahoo data breaches, the DDoS botnet attack on Dyn, the devastating Sony Picture hack in 2014 and the seemingly daily revelations of confidential Clinton Campaign staff emails, the danger and influence posed by cyber attacks has never been more disconcerting. As President Trump takes office how will his Administration, together with a Republican-controlled Congress, address the seemingly rampant hacking and intrusions that happen with unsettling regularity?

SURVEILLANCE REFORM: WHAT’S NEXT FOR GOVERNMENT POWERS?
We will look into how the new Trump Administration will work with Congress to address America’s government surveillance apparatus and its impact on security, privacy and commerce nationally and internationally. Did the Obama Administration do too much or too little in this area? How will Congress and President Trump’s Justice Department deal with the renewal or retirement of key provisions of surveillance section 702? What will happen to ECPA including cross-border data warrants for law enforcement? Should the new Congress explore establishing more comprehensive surveillance and law enforcement access framework in the years to come?

We invite you join our panels of experts at the 13th Annual State of the Net Internet Policy Conference on January 23, 2017 at our panels for a closer look at these crucial issues.

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Strategies For Encouraging Ethical Digital Citizenship: Can It Be Taught?

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.

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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.

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Comms Policy @SOTN | Sens Thune & Schatz & Mark Jamison & Gigi Sohn To Speak

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
Senators Thune and Schatz
Gigi Sohn, Markham Erickson, Larry Downes, Mark Jamison

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

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.

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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.

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Countering Online Radicalization: New Approaches To Fighting Terror Online

President Trump has vowed to defeat ISIS on the battlefield, but defeating extremist groups is a war of ideas as well as arms. The use of propaganda, misinformation, and hateful rhetoric to incite violence and extremism is a familiar facet of modern conflict, what is new is the increasingly influential role of the Internet and social media as a vehicle for this type of speech. Extremist groups are using the Internet and social media to recruit fighters, solicit funds, and radicalize individuals to act as lone wolves. However, a team of key players is emerging across government, social media companies and civil society groups to combat these threats. Join a panel of government and industry leaders for a robust discussion on emerging strategies to deal with the weaponization of the Internet.

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The Future of Work: Capturing The American Dream In An Internet-Enabled Economy

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.

Leading the conversation will be:

Josh Mendelson, Hanger, Donna Harris, 1776, Lori Sanders, R Street, Kristin Sharp, SHIFT, Rick Nale

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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.

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Announcing Panel: Securing the Future of IoT

The Internet of Things — the connection of systems, devices, and services to information networks — is evolving exponentially. From vehicles to pacemakers, ordinary objects are empowered with extraordinary potential through embedded and interconnected sensors. There is enormous economic and societal benefits to be gained from the communication of vast quantities of data and the ability to remotely control and automate systems. Recent events, however, have shown the IoT ecosystem to contain serious vulnerabilities. October’s botnet attack directed thousands of insecure IoT devices to attack parts of the nervous system of the Internet’s infrastructure. Every day, more and more, we’re integrating IoT into every nook and cranny of our physical world. What are industry and policy leaders doing to address this new reality ? Do we need a national IoT plan? Do we need a global IoT plan? Please join our panel of experts at noon, January 23rd, for a discussion on the rewards and risks of IoT and a closer look at emerging best-practices being implemented today.

Panel Participants

Nanette Byrnes, Senior Editor and Writer on Business, Innovation and Disruption, MIT Technology Review (Moderator)

Dr. Ron Ross, Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Jason Livingood, Vice President, Technology Policy & Standards, Comcast

Daniel Caprio, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, The Providence Group

Dr. Nick Feamster, Professor of Computer Science and the Acting Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

Steve Olshansky, Trust & Identity Program Lead, The Internet Society

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Zero Rating and the App-Accessed Economy: Can It Be Squared With Principles of Net Neutrality?

Join the discussion at the 12th Annual State of the Net Conference on January 25, 2016

Zero-rating plans and offerings continue to emerge across the world as a way to provide certain Internet content and applications to citizens at free or special costs. These services often are referred to as “toll-free data.” Sometimes this zero-rated Internet content is provided at reduced rates (sometimes even free) or at attractive terms (the content does not count against a mobile data cap, for instance). Many different zero-rating services have emerged in the U.S. and around the world. Some plans provide free services and content in developing communities around the globe; others are domestic and entertainment-based. There are many others and more certainly on the way. Our panel will look at the myriad zero-rating plans and will imagine what zero rating plans are on the horizon around the world and at home. They will discuss the benefits of zero-rating plans and also address criticism that some of these plans run afoul of net neutrality principles.

We invite you to join this important conversation at the 12th Annual State of the Net Internet Policy Conference on January 25, 2016 at our afternoon panel Zero Rating and the App-Accessed Internet.

Leading the conversation will be:

Zero Rating and the App-Accessed Economy: Can It Be Squared With Principles of Net Neutrality?
Marguerite Reardon, Senior Writer, CNET (Moderator)
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Roslyn Layton, Ph.D. Fellow, Aalborg University, Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies
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Kevin Martin, Vice President, Mobile and Global Access Policy, Facebook

Zero Rating and the App-Accessed Economy: Can It Be Squared With Principles of Net Neutrality?

Barbara Van Schewick, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society

Zero Rating and the App-Accessed Economy: Can It Be Squared With Principles of Net Neutrality?

Jorge Vargas, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Wikimedia Foundation

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War of the Words: Is ISIS Weaponizing the Internet?

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Join the discussion at the 12th Annual State of the Net Conference on January 25, 2016

On Friday, top U.S. officials met with leaders of major technology firms to discuss ways to assuage terror threats exhibited on social media, and announced the creation of the Countering Violent Extremism Task Force. From industry leaders to policymakers, stakeholders from all sides are attempting to tackle this new digital threat.

We invite you to join this important conversation at the 12th Annual State of the Net Internet Policy Conference on January 25, 2016 at our afternoon panel War of the Words: Is ISIS Weaponizing the Internet?

This timely breakout session will include Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, Mary B. McCord as well as experts on intermediary liability and social media platforms.

Leading the conversation will be:

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Ben FitzGerald, Director of the Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security (Moderator)

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Emma Llanso, Director – Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy & Technology

 
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Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability, Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
 
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Mary B. McCord, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
War of the Words: Is ISIS Weaponizing the Internet?
Gina Grandinetti Woodworth, Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs, Internet Association.

The panel will consider the right policy options to deal with this serious issue, how much companies should voluntarily cooperate with the government to keep violent propaganda off their platforms and identify suspicious users, and what can be done to control and combat propaganda that is spread via social media. Don’t miss out! Find more panel details here.

 

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Announcing State of the Net Bitcoin Regulation Policy Panel

The Bitcoin Policy Prescription: Will Policymakers Get It Right (Again) Or Will Fear Stifle Innovation?

The year 2015 is like 1995 all over again. Bitcoin is the Internet before the browser: a platform primed for an innovation explosion if we get the policy right. We got it right for the Internet, how do we do it again? What lessons can we learn? How do we strike the right regulatory balance?

This virtual currency panel will follow a morning keynote discussion with co-founder and president of Coinbase Fred Ehrsam and Congressional Internet Caucus co-chair Rep. Bob Goodlatte.

Follow the virtual currency discussion using #SOTNBitcoin and all conference news with the official 11th Annual State of the Net hashtag #SOTN15. The keynote and panel will be livestreamed and Bitcoin will be accepted for on-site event registration.

Panelists:

  • Jerry Brito, Executive Director, Coin Center
  • Alex Fowler, Co-Founder, Blockstream
  • Vanessa Kargenian, Supervisory Development Associate, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Tiffany Wan, GovLab Fellow and Strategy and Operations Senior Consultant, Deloitte
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