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PANELISTS ANNOUNCED FOR JANUARY 13 WORKSHOP ON
innovation, investment, and the Open Internet

WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission will hold a staff workshop on innovation and investment as part of the Commission’s Open Internet proceeding. This workshop will examine how the Internet’s openness affects the ability of network operators, Internet content and application providers, and other Internet technology developers to innovate and to drive investment, job creation, and economic growth throughout the Internet ecosystem. These issues will be explored from the diverse perspectives of innovators and entrepreneurs, investors, network operators and equipment vendors, and experts in Internet innovation and investment.

WHAT: Innovation, Investment, and the Open Internet

WHEN: Wednesday, January 13, 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater

Cambridge, Massachusetts



ONLINE: www.openinternet.gov/workshops/



PANELISTS: Ajay Agarwal, Bain Capital Ventures

Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

David Clark, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Jeffrey Glueck, Skyfire

Shane Greenstein, Kellogg School of Management,

Northwestern University

Nabeel Hyatt, Conduit Labs

Susie Kim Riley, Camiant, Inc.

Paul Sagan, Akamai

Lynn St. Amour, Internet Society

Amy Tykeson, BendBroadband

Barbara van Schewick, Stanford Law School

Marcus Weldon, Alcatel-Lucent

Christopher S. Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Sharon Gillett, Wireline Competition Bureau (Moderator)

Paul de Sa, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis (Moderator)