23rd Annual IP3 Awards

Public Knowledge announced the awardees for the 2026 IP3 Awards. They are:

• Internet Protocol Award- Adrianne Furniss: Adrianne Furniss is the Chair of the Board of Directors and Trustee of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. During her decade-long tenure as Executive Director, Furniss focused the organization on advancing broadband policies to ensure that robust, affordable broadband service delivers new opportunities and equity to communities across the nation.
• Intellectual Property Award- Alan Inouye: Alan S. Inouye is an acclaimed writer and adviser on public policy and advocacy through his consulting firm, The Policy Connection. Until 2025, Alan served as the head of public policy and advocacy for the American Library Association.
• Information Policy Award- Sayash Kapoor: Sayash Kapoor is a computer science Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University and an incoming assistant professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. He is a co-author of AI Snake Oil—named one of Nature’s 10 best books of 2024—and was named to TIME’s inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
• Information Policy Award- Professor Arvind Narayanan: Professor Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. A co-author of AI Snake Oil, his groundbreaking research was among the first to show how machine learning reflects cultural stereotypes. Like Kapoor, he was named to TIME’s inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in AI and is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
• President’s Award- Commissioner Anna Gomez: Public Knowledge is proud to present the President’s Award to Federal Communications Commissioner Anna M. Gomez for her steadfast commitment to ensuring the law honors and serves the public. Bringing over 30 years of public and private sector experience in communications law, Commissioner Gomez has held pivotal roles—including Deputy Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where she oversaw the successful transition to digital television and spearheaded broadband networks for first responders, as well as serving as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.