The Communicators

GCI General Counsel Tina Pidgeon and Christopher Dietrich, of the Alaska Collaborative for Telemedicine & Telehealth, talk about how telecommunications and medical services are provided in a large state like Alaska.

App Association President Morgan Reed talks about privacy, cybersecurity, app developers' ability to create apps, European privacy rules, and an upcoming Supreme Court case on whether Apple has a monopoly on app sales.

Jeremy Bailenson, a Stanford University professor who runs Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, talks about virtual reality and its potential impact on society. He's author of [Experience on Demand].

[Politico]'s National Security and Europe Deputy Editor Cory Bennett and National Security Correspondent Bryan Bender discuss their investigative reporting on how China is gaining access to U.S. technology and what the U.S. is doing to protect it.

FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly (R) talks about how the internet will operate now that net neutrality rules have ended, children's programming rules, and the impact of a federal court's approval of the proposed AT&T and Time Warner merger.

Two antitrust analysts examine a June 12 AT&T-Time Warner federal court ruling that allows AT&T to merge with Time Warner. Diana Moss and Joshua Wright, who run antitrust institutes, think the ruling was narrow & will not affect other merger efforts.

Former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler (D), discusses the end of net neutrality, his signature achievement, on June 11. The current GOP-led FCC voted to replace open internet regulation with FTC regulation under Title 1. Privacy and mergers are also discussed.

American Cable Association CEO Matthew Polka and TDS Telecom Senior Vice President Andrew Petersen talk about the future of the cable and internet industries and issues facing small and medium-sized and rural cable and video providers.

Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr discusses changes to internet regulations slated for this summer, including the push for moving to 5G, and the current climate of media mergers.

Congressional staffers and outside groups go to a "hackathon" to discuss how Congress can improve its work through technology. They pitch ideas about apps they've created and how Congress can be made more open and accessible.

Gigi Sohn and former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell talk about the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint and what it means for the two companies, consumers, and the wider cellular and communications world.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), along with staffers and others at a congressional "Hackathon" talk about how they are trying to make Congress more effective through use of technology.

Telecom analyst Craig Moffett discusses the impact of telecommunications developments on TV, video, and the internet industry. Some of the developments include merger efforts, 5G, and net neutrality.

Zeynep Tufekci, associate professor of information and library science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discusses social media companies' use of personal user data against the backdrop of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony.

Attorney Lee Goodman and Nuala O'Connor, Center for Democracy and Technology CEO, talk about hearings with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the privacy issues raised by Cambridge Analytica's use of personal data of 87 million Facebook users.