The briefing features experts on the Federal Communications Commission and its Notice of Proposed Rule Making on "Preserving the Open Internet", or net neutrality colloquially.

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The briefing featured experts on the relationship between the U.S. and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non-profit body that manages the Internet's domain name system, including IP address space allocation.

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Congressman Bob Goodlatte discusses Innovation and Immigration with AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California Berkeley, Keith Wolfe, Google, and Pratheepan (Deep) Gulasekaram, Santa Clara University School of Law

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White House Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra speaks at State of the Net West 2009 in Santa Clara California

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Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren discusses Antitrust in the Internet Era at State of the Net West 2009 with Cathy Sandoval, Santa Clara University School of Law, Tim Bresnahan, Stanford University, and Michael Katz, University of California, Berkeley.

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Congressman Boucher discusses Broadband and Privacy at State of the Net West 2009 with Allen Hammond, Santa Clara University School of Law, and Michael Hintze, Microsoft Corporation.

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Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Monument Policy Group, moderates this panel of experts exploring cyber security aspects related to civil liberties, critical infrastructure, private sector regulation, and security of government data and systems. The panelists are Stewart Baker, Steptoe and Johnson, Robert Holleyman, Business Software Alliance, James Lewis, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Gregory Nojeim, Center for Democracy and Technology and Marcus Sachs, Verizon.

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Blair Levin of Stifel Nicolaus moderates this panel of experts exploring the proper policy framework to further enable innovation on the mobile net at the State of the Mobile Net Conference. The panelists are Richard Bennett, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Larry Irving, Internet Innovation Alliance, Blair Levin, Stifel Nicolaus, Ben Scott, Free Press and Kevin Werbach, Wharton School of Business.

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Paul Margie, partner at Harris, Wiltshire and Grannis, moderates this panel of experts exploring whether the U.S. lacks the spectrum needed meet its mobile net marketplace needs at the State of the Mobile Net Conference. The panelists are Larry Alder, Product Manager, Google Inc, Michael Calabrese, Matthew Hussey, U.S. Senate, Office of the Honorable Olympia Snowe, Michael Katz, University of California, Berkeley (on leave), and Tom Sugrue, T-Mobile.

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Heidi Salow, partner at DLA Piper, moderates this panel of experts exploring Privacy in the mobile net marketplace at the State of the Mobile Net Conference. The panelists are Alissa Cooper, Center for Democracy and Technology, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Brian Knapp, Chief Operating Officer, Loopt, and Anne Toth, Yahoo!

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Jessica Zufolo, financial anaylyst with Medley Global Advisors, moderates this panel of experts exploring Mobile Network Infrastructure Trends at the State of the Mobile Net Conference. The panelists are Carolyn Brandon, CTIA, Gerry Salemme, Clearwire, Tom DeReggie, WISPA and Rapid DSL, Jessica Zufolo, Medley Global Advisors and Doug Wolff, Alcatel-Lucent.

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Tim Lordan of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee moderates this panel of experts exploring the emerging marketplace of the mobile net -- from applications to cloud computing at the State of the Mobile Net Conference. The panelists are Roger Entner, Nielsen IAG, Sascha Segan, PC Magazine, and Paul Bloom, IBM.

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A panel of experts answer "What is the Mobile Net?" and attempt to outline the complexities of the mobile net ecosystem at the State of the Mobile Net Conference. The panelists were John Peha, Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission, Andrew Elliott, Nokia, and John Horrigan, Pew Internet and American Life Project.

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U.S. Senator John Thune presents this keynote address as the new Co-Chair of the Congressional Internet Caucus at the State of the Mobile Net Conference.

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Susan Crawford, Special Assistant to the President and a member of the National Economic Council, presents this keynote address on mobile net technology and policy at the State of the Mobile Net Conference.

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Tim Lordan moderates this panel of experts exploring the basic technical foundations of how online advertising works with reference to privacy concerns. The panel includes Paula Bruening, Hunton and Williams, Maureen Cooney, TRUSTe, Michael Engelhardt, Adobe Systems, Jules Polonetsky, Future of Privacy, Heather West, Center for Democracy and Technology, and Mike Zaneis, Interactive Advertising Bureau.

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Joe Keeley of Arent Fox moderates this panel looking at the legislative horizon for digital copyright issues. Congressional staffers Aaron Cooper (U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee) and Neil Friedman (U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee) participated along with Alec French, NBC Universal, Daryl P. Friedman, Vice President, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc., Michael Petricone, Consumer Electronics Association, and Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge.

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David Schellhase of Salesforce.com moderates this panel looking at the policy implications of data and applications moving into the cloud. Panelists include Susie Adams, Chief Technical Advisor, Microsoft, Alan Davidson, Google, and Jim Dempsey, Center for Democracy and Technology.

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Moderator Lygeia Ricciardi, Clear Voice Consulting moderates this expert panel featuring Dr. David Lansky, Pacific Business Group on Health, Deven McGraw, Center for Democracy and Technology, George Scriban, Microsoft, and Dr. Steven Waldren, American Academy of Family Physicians. Health IT has become the biggest technology issue in Washington.

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Hosted in conjunction with George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet this panel features experts such as Garrett Graff, Washingtonian, Sam Graham-Felsen, Blue State Digital, John Henke, Internet Strategy and Communications Consultant, Cyrus Krohn, Republican National Committee, Simon Rosenberg, NDN. The panel is moderated by Julie Barko Germany, Institute for Policy Democracy and the Internet.

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Bloggers John "CZ" Czwartacki, Verizon Policy Blog, Ajit Jaokar, Open Gardens Blog & Oxford University, Mike Masnick, TechDirt, and Julian Sanchez, Ars Technica discuss policy issues in Washington. The panel is moderated by Sean Garrett of 463 Communications.

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Panelists Jeff Brueggeman, AT&T, Steve DelBianco, NetChoice, Paul Levins, ICANN, and Everton Lucero, Embassy of Brazil discuss the Future of ICANN. Roger Cochetti moderates the panel.

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Panelists Pam Dixon, World Privacy Forum, Mike Hintze, Microsoft and Anne Toth, Yahoo! describe marketplace trends to make the personal information that companies collect less identifiable. The panel is moderated by Stu Ingis of Venable.

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Congressman Bob Goodlatte, Frank Pasquale Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University, and Laura Gelman Executive Director and Lecturer at Stanford Law discuss the future of reputation, privacy, social networking and the Internet.

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Welcoming remarks by Congressman Mike Honda. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (moderator), Mike Fertik of Reputation Defender and Dan Dougherty of eBay discuss USC 230 and whether or not it can survive the onslaught of Web 2.0.

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David Shellhase of Salesforce, James X. Dempsey of Center for Democracy and Technology and Matthew Parrella of the US Department of Justice discuss cloud computing.

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As part of the National Partnership for Safe Computing launch FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour and Congresswoman Melissa Bean addressed attendees.

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The ICAC held a luncheon panel discussion featuring former Federal Trade Commission officials and Federal Commmunication Commission officials discussing how much authority, if any, those agencies have to police "Net Neutrality" problems. Featuring Rebecca Arbogast of Stifel Nicolaus (moderator), Dan Caprio of DC Strategies, Kyle Dixon of Kamlet Shepherd, Harold Furchtgott-Roth of Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises and Christine Varney of Hogan and Hartson.

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Remarks by Ambassador David Gross at the 4th Annual State of the Net Conference

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Aid to Energy Conservation or Culprit in Consumption? Roger Cochetti of CompTIA, Douglas Johnson of the Consumer Electronics Association, Eric Masanet of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator, Kurt Roth of TIAX and Bill Weihl of Google discuss.

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What's Congress' Role in the Health IT Revolution? Featuring Leslie Harris of the Center for Democracy and Technology (moderator), John Halamka of Harvard Medical School, Peter Neupert of Microsoft Corporation, Deborah Peel MD of Patient Privacy Rights, and Lygeia Ricciardi of Clear Voice Consulting LLC.

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Given the constantly evolving nature of cyber threats, the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee will host a broad educational briefing to provide a Cyber Security Threat Assessment. The threat assessment is designed to show the nature of the cyber security threat; how it has matured, how the capabilities of attackers have evolved, what our vulnerabilities are and how cyber attacks are organized. The Threat Assessment covers a broad array of sectors and breaks down the nuances in threats to each sector.

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An intimate international Internet policy dialogue with Members of the European Parliament's Internet Foundation, the EU counterpart to the Congressional Internet Caucus. The EU delegation was represented by the Honourable Piia-Noora Kauppi (Finnish MEP), the Honourable Bill Newton-Dunn (British MEP), and the Honourable Peter Skinner (British MEP). Discussion topics included issues related to Internet governance, Net neutrality, and patents.

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A critical Senate hearing explored children's access to controlled substances via unlicensed online pharmacies. The hearing, and related legislative proposals, reflects the current research exposing children's addiction problems and the myriad pharmaceutical sites operating online. The Internet community believes this issue is vital in their efforts to protect children online. This briefing featured Internet industry experts representing those parties that are on the frontlines of protecting children online, including Internet Service Providers, search engines, payment processors, pharmacy representatives, and other private sector groups.

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The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee facilitated an interesting discussion between state and local tax experts and Internet industry stakeholders. One of the key debates centered around the extension duration: A period of years or permanently? Our panel of Internet tax policy experts discussed the pros and cons of this issue.

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Just The Facts About Online Youth Victimization

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How has technology and the Internet changed the way we connect, contribute, and communicate?

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Patents: A Look Ahead to the Future

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Academic Discussion on "Net Neutrality?"

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Can Green Energy Save the Internet?

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Child Safety on Web 2.0: Who Should Protect Our Kids?

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Borders and Internet Governance: Challenges for Businesses Operating Abroad

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Human identification documents are going digital -- and many are going wireless using radio frequency technologies. From border crossing documents to federal government ID cards, the U.S. government is bringing human identification into the digital age. This RFID Roundtable discussed the various digital document identification projects underway and explored the policy balancing inherent in issuing these radio frequency-enabled credentials.

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Expected legislation in Congress would require Web sites and Internet service providers to retain the records of their customers' online activities for a period of time -- often referred to as "data retention." Law enforcement officials, including the Department of Justice and most state attorneys general, are proponents of such data warehousing to aid in law enforcement attempts to apprehend terrorists and child predators. Many privacy advocates oppose legislation because of the potential risks associated with unauthorized persons gaining easy access to logs of consumers' personal information or potential for misuse of information by the government. This panel explored the privacy and security implications of a legislative mandate to retain logs of consumers' online travels in central databases.

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Numerous Congressional hearings have probed whether chat rooms, social networking sites and chat services present a danger to children and teens. The House passed the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) that requires schools and libraries to block teens' access to such sites. Further, some policymakers have proposed requiring such sites to block access to teens outright. The panel explored whether these sites inherently present a danger to teens worthy of such measures and whether such mandates are feasible.

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Should Congress require U.S. Web sites to display a government rating label for pages that include "sexually-explicit" material? Several bills are moving through Congress that would create a government warning label for such content. Panelists debated the impact of this proposal.

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The Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, Transatlantic Policy Network, and European Internet Foundation teamed up to host A Transatlantic Dialogue on the Digital Economy

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The Internet Caucus Advisory Committee hosted a roundtable discussion focusing on RFID technology.

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The Internet Caucus Advisory Committee hosted a discussion focusing on the legislative proposals percolating in Congress on so-called "Network Neutrality." No fewer than six House and Senate bills are circulating in Congress that in some way address this amorphous policy question.

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Variations of location-based services offer consumers the convenience of mapping their daily commute from their automobile, finding nearby restaurants using their mobile phone, or locating and tracking friends from social networks.

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Breakout Session: On the Internet, Can/Should Everyone Be A Publisher?

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General Session: Trust, Privacy & Security

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Hector Ruiz, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), AMD discusses the importance of technological innovation and its impact on the U.S. competitiveness agenda and the future of the technology industry.

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Brad Smith, General Counsel, Microsoft discusses the need for federal privacy and security legiuslation to address growning consumer concern about the Internet.

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Ambassador David Gross and Commerce Assistant Secretary Michael Gallagher briefed Congressional staff on the upcoming World Summit on Information Society happening in November in Tunis. The discussion ranged from domain adminsitration to cyber security.

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The Supreme Court ruled in in June the copyright case MGM v. Grokster, addressing the issue of whether the creators of certain peer-to-peer programs could be held liable for the illegal downloading of copyrighted works using the software.

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The U.S. PATRIOT Act and E-Surveillance

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Roundtable Discussion With Councillors Kobayashi and Seko

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The Role of States and Cities in Regulating the Internet

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Blocking VoIP Calls - Foreboding Harbinger or Benign Fluke

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McCain-Feingold in Cyberspace

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RFID Panel Discussion

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