| Press Release |
Source: pulvermedia |
pulvermedia and
Isen.com Announce Additional Noted Speakers for F2C: Freedom to Connect
Conference
Tuesday February 21, 11:00 am ET
WASHINGTON, and
MELVILLE, N.Y., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- pulvermedia and Isen.com the
co-producers of F2C: Freedom to Connect, the Internet Freedom
Conference, to be held in Washington DC on April 3 & 4 2006 today
announced two new speakers at the forefront of the debate on the future
of the Internet.
Chris Sacca, Business
Development Principal for Google, and point man for Google's wireless
efforts in San Francisco and Mountain View, California, will discuss
Google's networking initiatives, and Google's business development
process.
Bruce Kushnik, founder of
TeleTruth, a think tank for telephone customers, will present his new
book, $200 Billion Broadband Scandal about telephone company regulatory
initiatives over the last 20 years.
These new speakers will
join:
Reed Hundt, former head
of the FCC, who will deliver the Conference Keynote: The Internet,
Fundamental Infrastructure of Freedom and Economic Growth.
Congressman Rick Boucher
who will speak on the prospects for Network Neutrality in the current
telecom bill moving through the House Commerce Committee.
Other speakers at F2C: Freedom to Connect include:
* Gary Arlen, Commentator, Arlen Communications Inc.
* Jonathan Askin, General Counsel, pulver.com
* Jim Baller, Senior Principal, Baller Herbst Law Group
* Drew Clark, Senior Writer, National Journal
* Mark Cooper, Research Director, Consumer Federation of America
* Cynthia De Lorenzi, CEO, Patriot.net
* Ed Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton
* Martin Geddes, founder, Telepocalypse.net
* Dewayne Hendricks, CEO, Dandin Group
* Dave Hughes, Owner, Old Colorado Communications
* David Isenberg, Principal, Isen.com
* Jeff Jarvis, Creative Director, Advance.net
* Jim Kohlenberger, Executive Director, The VON Coalition
* Bruce Kushnick, Chairman, Teletruth
* Blair Levin, Managing Director, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc
* Om Malik, Editor, GIGAOM.com
* Rick Ringel, Dir. of Engineering, Inter-Tel
* Doc Searls, Senior Editor, Linux Journal
* Ron Sege, CEO, Tropos Communications
* Gigi Sohn, President, Public Knowledge
* Esme Vos, Founder, Muniwireless.com
* David Weinberger, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
* Frannie Wellings, spokesperson, Free Press
* Tim Wu, Professor, Columbia Law School
"We are pleased to
attract authoritative speakers who know and understand the importance
of keeping the public Internet just that -- a public Internet," noted
David Isenberg, founder of isen.com, author of the "Rise of the Stupid
Network" and co-host of Freedom-to-Connect.
Freedom-to-Connect will
bring together the three constituencies that can defend against the
imminent attack on the open Internet: (1) the large companies that owe
their very existence to the internet; (2) the smaller upstarts with new
opportunities and new ways of doing business that are Internet-centric,
and whose very survival depends on the existence of an unfettered, open
Internet; and (3) citizens, NGOs, politically-active groups that rely
on the Internet as a critical infrastructure of Democracy.
"I have never before seen
such a diverse community of thought leaders assembled in one place to
discuss Internet freedom," stated Jonathan Askin, long-time
communications policy veteran and General Counsel to pulver.com. "I
suspect that with all these great minds sharing views for two days, we
will be able to hammer out the issues and help to drive policy that
will best ensure the promise of the open Internet."
The goal of
Freedom-to-Connect is to bring together the three constituencies that
can defend against this attack: (1) the large companies that owe their
very existence to the internet; (2) the smaller upstarts with new
opportunities and new ways of doing business that are Internet-centric,
and whose very survival depends on the existence of an unfettered, open
Internet; and (3) citizens, NGOs, politically-active groups that rely
on the Internet as a critical infrastructure of Democracy.
To register, click here.
