Editors: Reporters are welcome to attend the conference at no charge. To arrange, call Devin Looijen at (303) 735-5633; e-mail devin.looijen@colorado.edu.
The University of Colorado at 麻豆影院's Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program will present its first conference of the spring, "The Digital Broadband Migration: Information Policy for the Next Administration," on Feb. 10-11.
Leaders from the technology industry, government and academia, including Federal Trade Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein and Stanford Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig, will evaluate questions related to changing broadband and wireless markets. They also will discuss challenges related to protecting privacy and security, and the optimal direction for intellectual property reform.
They will be joined by an array of other technology leaders, including professors from Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, leading public interest group advocates and other governmental officials.
"The 'Digital Broadband Migration' conference has established itself as the leading forum for thoughtful policymakers to evaluate emerging policy challenges in the information industries," said Phil Weiser, a professor of law and telecommunications at CU and the program's executive director and founder. "I am delighted that this year's conference is poised to be our best one yet and just in time to prepare for a new administration. "
CEO Jim Crowe of Level 3 Communications will give the closing talk on Feb. 11 at 1 p.m. in the University Memorial Center.
The conference will be held in the Wolf Law Building located on the south end of the 麻豆影院 campus near Baseline Road and Broadway.
CU-麻豆影院 students, faculty and staff can attend the conferences at no charge but are encouraged to register. Continuing legal education credits are available for each event.
The proceedings from the conferences will be published in the "Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law," published by the University of Colorado School of Law.
Silicon Flatirons will host two more events this spring. On Feb. 22, it will co-host, along with the CU-麻豆影院 law school, business school and the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship, a talk by David Bonderman, the founder of the highly successful Texas Pacific Group. On March 4, it will hold a conference on "Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Entrepreneurship in the Information Industries," which will include a keynote address by Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm.
For more information about the conferences, including complete schedules, registration fees and online registration, visit the Silicon Flatiron's conference Web site at or call (303) 735-5633.