As the first anniversary of the Federal Communication Commission’s National Broadband Plan approaches, 33 percent of Americans still do not have broadband access. While broadband is an indispensable component of President Obama’s innovation agenda, individuals who have not adopted broadband will be left out.  In his State of the Union Address, President Obama set his expectation for ensuring that 98 percent of Americans would have access to wireless broadband. The National Broadband Plan is the U.S. government’s first genuine articulation of broadband deployment best practices that will extend economic development and greater opportunities for democratic participation in every community.  One year later, we ask whether these goals are being accomplished.  Please join us as National Broadband Plan architect, Blair Levin, shares the progress of these efforts.

Keynote Remarks
Blair Levin, Esq.
Communications and Society Fellow
Aspen Institute

Edward Lazarus, Esq.
Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
Federal Communications Commission

Welcome:
Ralph B. Everett, Esq., President and CEO, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Opening Remarks:
Joseph S. Miller, Esq., Deputy Director and Senior Policy Director, Media and Technology Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Panel:
Nicol Turner-Lee, Ph.D., Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (moderator)
Paul de Sa, Chief, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, Federal Communications Commission
Dean Garfield, Esq., President and CEO, Information Technology Industry Council
Christopher Guttman-McCabe, Esq., Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, CTIA-The Wireless Association
Walter B. McCormick, Jr., CEO and President, USTelecom Association
Kimberly Marcus, Executive Director, Public Policy and Telecommunications Institute, Rainbow PUSH
Scott Wallsten, Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
Brent Wilkes, President and CEO, LULAC
George C. Wu, Executive Director, OCA