Announcement Key Questions Agenda and Topics Invited Guests

THE KMB REPORT ON THE NATIONAL BROADBAND
TELECOM PLAN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.
The implications for America:

 

Will the FCC National Broadband Plan to Congress Strengthen America’s Economy and Create Jobs?

 

What can the Telecom Industry, Congress, State and Federal Regulators contribute?

 

What needs to be done, and when?

 

KMB 45th Conference Agenda and Topics

 

The KMB Video Journal has been convening leading decision makers and opinion-leaders to discuss important national telecommunications and information policies for more tan a quarter century. Virtually hundreds of business, Federal and state government, academic and public service leaders have participated in dozens of KMB’s invitational conferences. This Latest Conference, The 45th, is held at the Dolphin Beach Conference Center in St. Petersburg, Florida. The focus of this Conference is: A KMB REPORT on THE NATIONAL BROADBAND TELECOM PLAN FOR THE 21st CENTURY. Implications for America. Will the FCC National Broadband Plan to Congress Strengthen America’s Economy and Create Jobs? What can the telecom Industry, Congress, State, Federal Regulators contribute? How can the FCC sell this program? The KMB Video Report features Five Segments; regarding what the Plan should be. Segment 1 – “How and why are government and industry broadband plans conceived and administered, both here and across the world?” Segment 2 – “What exactly is the National Broadband Plan; who is it aimed at? And how is it to be perceived? Segment 3 - “How can a broadband plan impact the economy and create jobs?” Segment 4 - “How would such a plan affect the current telecom infrastructure?” Segment 5 - “What is the appropriate role of different branches of government? What can Congress, State and Federal regulators do to contribute? How can the FCC sell the program? ‘engineer consent’ ” In conjunction with the forthcoming 45th KMB Video Journal Conference, we have added to the KMB website, www.kmbvideojournal.com selected KMB videos on Policy Perspectives by some of the world’s telecommunications leaders, past and present. Perspectives From Other Leaders: Eli Noam, Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School and Director of the Columbia Institute of Tele-Information. Dick Wiley, Partner. Wiley and Rein LLP, Heads the Firm’s 80 Attorney Communications Practice, the largest in the nation. Ralph De La Vega, AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets President & CEO

 

 

KMB Video Journal
45th Conference
Guest Participants

 

Dr. Dave Farber Distinguished Career Professor Of Computer Science and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University	Michele C. Farquhar Partner, Hogan & Hartson Director of the Firm's Communications Group
Robert C. Atkinson Director of Research Policy CITI Columbia University	K. Dane Snowden Vice President for External & State Affairs CTIA - The Wireless Association
Larry Landis Commissioner Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission	Rick Cimerman Vice President State Government Affairs National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Hank Hultquist Vice President - Public Policy AT&T	Brent Legg, Director Stakeholder Relations & Development Connected Nation
Ken Robinson Washington Attorney Former Senior Legal Advisor to Al Sikes, Chairman, FCC	Mike Beilis President KMB Video Journal and Program Moderator

 

Invited KMB guests will be part of a TV production of this report and it can be seen and heard all over the world.