Rainbow PUSH Coalition Media and Telecommunications Symposium

November 18, 2011
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Capital Hilton Hotel

Getting to Universal Adoption
The National Broadband Plan Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Moderator

Navarrow Wright (Chief Technology Officer) Interactive One

Speakers

• Blair Levin (Senior Fellow) The Aspen Institute
• Former Congresswoman Eva M. Clayton
• Dean C. Garfield (President & CEO) Information Technology Industry Council
• John Breyault (VP, Public Policy, Telecommunications, and Fraud) National Consumer League
• Josh Gottheimer (Senior Counselor) Chairman’s Office, Federal Communications Commission

Broadband and Jobs
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Moderator

Tyrone Brown

Opening Remarks

• Commissioner Mignon Clyburn (Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission)

Speakers

• Anna Gomez (Deputy Administrator) National Telecommunications and Information Association
• Thomas Reed, Esq. (Director, OCBO) Federal Communications Commission
• Timothy Robinson (Senior Policy Counsel and Legislative Director) Office of Congressman Bobby Rush

Spectrum Policy
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Telecommunications Luncheon

Moderator

Nicol Turner-Lee, Ph.D. (Vice President and Director of Media and Technology Institute) Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Speakers

• Aneesh Chopra (United States Chief Technology Officer)
• James L. Winston, Esq. (Executive Director & General Counsel) National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters
• Jane E. Mago, Esq. (Senior Vice President and General Counsel) National Association of Broadcasters
• Charla Rath (Executive Director, Spectrum and Public Policy) Verizon Wireless
• Henry “Hank” Hultquist (Vice President for Federal Regulatory Affairs) AT&T