network solutions account manager,Pervasive Connectivity: Open Airwaves, Open Networks Event.

Sascha Meinrath has pointed out that a cool and free (now there is a good mixture) event will be taking place on the 21st October at the Googleplex.

The event has the title "Pervasive Connectivity: Open Airwaves, Open Networks". Sascha will be speaking at eComm 2009 as well Michael Calabrese.

Note you must RSVP by the 17th, so act quick! Details sent in are below.

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Pervasive Connectivity: Open Airwaves, Open Networks
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
10:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch will be provided.

Google, Building 43, Tunis Room
1600 Amphitheater Parkway
Mountain View, CA
(Directions: www.newamerica.net/files/google_driving_directions.pdf)

RSVP online at: www.newamerica.net/events/2008/pervasive_connectivity

As Internet access moves increasingly to mobile platforms,
control over access to the public airwaves will determine
whether wireless broadband networks are closed, costly and
channelized - or open, affordable and innovative. The
conventional wisdom in Washington is that spectrum is scarce and
must be auctioned as exclusive licenses. The reality is emerging
technologies and business models that allow shared,
opportunistic and unlicensed access to an abundance of bandwidth
for all.

This forum will review the technologies and policy debates at
the center of this battle over the airwaves. The FCC will decide
this fall whether to open the vacant TV channels in each market
for shared, unlicensed use. But there is far more unused "white
space" across the spectrum that can be unlocked with 'smart'
radios and smarter policies. Among the benefits of open
spectrum is more open networks - as well as facilitating a
movement toward community networking that can greatly narrow
digital divides in rural and disadvantaged areas.

AGENDA

9:30 am - Registration

10:00 am - Welcome

10:15 am - Open Airwaves: Technologies & Policies for Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing

Michael Calabrese
Director, Wireless Future Program, New America Foundation

Paul Kolodzy
Kolodzy Consulting, Former Chair, FCC Spectrum Policy Task Force

Mark McHenry
CEO and Founder, Shared Spectrum Co.

11:00 am - Open Networks: Technologies & Policies for Consumer Choice and Innovation

Tim Wu
Professor, Columbia Law School & Chairman, Free Press

Larry Alder
Product Manager, Google

Sascha Meinrath
Research Director, Wireless Future Program, New America Foundation

11:45 am - Community Networking: Digital Inclusion, Unwired

Rey Ramsey
CEO & Co-Founder, One Economy Corp

Mark Ansboury
SVP & Chief Technology Officer, OneCommunity

Sascha Meinrath
Research Director, Wireless Future Program, New America Foundation

12:30 pm - Implications for 2009 Policy Agenda

Andrew Jay Schwartzman
President & CEO, Media Access Project

12:45 pm - Lunch & Tech Demo in No Name Café

This policy forum is co-sponsored by Google and the New America
Foundation/Wireless Future Program.

All RSVPs for this must be received by October 17:
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2008/pervasive_connectivity

For questions, contact Liz Wu at (202) 986-2700 x 315 or
wu@newamerica.net