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Ligado Networks' President and CEO Doug Smith and Chief Legal Officer Valerie Green
Dec. 16, 2019

Ligado Networks' President and CEO Doug Smith and Chief Legal Officer…

Doug Smith is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ligado Networks and is responsible for directing the vision of the company and managing every aspect of its day to day operations. With more than 25 years of domestic...

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Bryan Tramont of Wilkinson Barker Knauer on C-Band and the Future of Spectrum Policy
Dec. 9, 2019

Bryan Tramont of Wilkinson Barker Knauer on C-Band and the Future of …

Bryan Tramont is Managing Partner of Wilkinson Barker Knauer, a top tier law firm according to Chambers and Legal 500 Bryan offers strategic counsel to Fortune 100 companies, trade associations, small and midsize telecommunic...

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Telecom and Spectrum in Mexico with Judith Mariscal
Nov. 25, 2019

Telecom and Spectrum in Mexico with Judith Mariscal

Judith Mariscal is a professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and Executive Director of the Cyber Policy Center for Latin America. She's a leading telecommunications scholar and easily the most kn...

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MIT Sloan Professor Catherine Tucker on Privacy, Antitrust, and the Value of Data
Nov. 12, 2019

MIT Sloan Professor Catherine Tucker on Privacy, Antitrust, and the V…

Catherine Tucker is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. She is also Chair of the MIT Sloan PhD Program. Her research interests lie in how technology allows firms to use d...

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BT Director of Regulatory Affairs Cathryn Ross on the Economics of Regulation
Oct. 28, 2019

BT Director of Regulatory Affairs Cathryn Ross on the Economics of Re…

Cathryn Ross is director of regulatory affairs at BT. Before that, she was head of Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority.) She joins TPI Senior Fellow Bob Hahn on this wide-ranging discussion of the economics of regulati...

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BigID CEO Dimitri Sirota Brings Fresh Ideas to Privacy Debate
Oct. 9, 2019

BigID CEO Dimitri Sirota Brings Fresh Ideas to Privacy Debate

Dimitri Sirota is CEO and cofounder of BigID. Sirota is the CEO of one of the first enterprise privacy management platforms called BigID and a privacy and identity expert. He is an established serial entrepreneur, investor, m...

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Former FTC Chair Timothy Muris and Jonathan Nuechterlein Discuss Antitrust in the Internet Era
Oct. 7, 2019

Former FTC Chair Timothy Muris and Jonathan Nuechterlein Discuss Anti…

Tim Muris is a former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and currently a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, at Scalia Law School and Senior Counsel at the law firm Sidley-Austin. He has substant...

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Former FTC Chairman William Kovacic on the Future of the FTC and Antitrust
Sept. 17, 2019

Former FTC Chairman William Kovacic on the Future of the FTC and Anti…

Professor William Kovacic is the Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, Professor of Law, and Director of the Competition Law Center at George Washington University Law School. Bill has many years of experience as an...

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eSports with Brian Sullivan and Laura Martin
Sept. 4, 2019

eSports with Brian Sullivan and Laura Martin

Brian Sullivan of CNBC and Laura Martin of Needham & Company sit down with Scott Wallsten in this episode recorded in Aspen, Colorado at the Technology Policy Institute's annual Aspen Forum on August 18-20, 2019. Brian, Laura...

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Big Tech and Antitrust: A Discussion With Randal Picker
July 18, 2019

Big Tech and Antitrust: A Discussion With Randal Picker

Randal Picker is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory, and a...

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What’s the Answer to the C-Band Conundrum?
June 5, 2019

What’s the Answer to the C-Band Conundrum?

Panel event recorded on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, at TPI Conference Center, 409 12th Street, SW, Second Floor, Washington, DC 20024. To maximize spectrum’s value, it must be able to transition to new uses ...

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The Costs and Benefits of Banning Huawei
May 20, 2019

The Costs and Benefits of Banning Huawei

TPI hosted a panel of experts on April 9, 2019 in Washington, D.C. to discuss technical concerns and the costs and benefits of banning Huawei from U.S. telecommunications markets. Experts from the National Defense University,...

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Tyler Cowen and Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
May 6, 2019

Tyler Cowen and Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

Tyler Cowen is the New York Times bestselling author of the Great Stagnation and writer of a daily blog called Marginal Revolution. He holds the Holbert L. Harris Chair in Economics at George Mason University, writes as a Blo...

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Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Privacy, Regulatory Certainty, and Innovation
March 20, 2019

Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Privacy, Regulatory Certainty, and …

Blockchain and cryptocurrency experts discussed their 2019 policy priorities at a recent luncheon on Capitol Hill on March 15, 2019 hosted by the Technology Policy Institute in conjunction with the Blockchain Caucus. The conv...

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Privacy Legislation in 2019? Maureen Ohlhausen and Alan Raul
March 1, 2019

Privacy Legislation in 2019? Maureen Ohlhausen and Alan Raul

Maureen Ohlhausen is currently Practice Group Chair and Partner of Antitrust and Competition Law at Baker Botts in Washington, D.C. Alan Raul is founder and lead partner of Sidley Austin's Privacy and Cybersecurity practice i...

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Music Licensing after the Music Modernization Act with Mitch Glazier and David Israelite
Nov. 5, 2018

Music Licensing after the Music Modernization Act with Mitch Glazier …

Hi, and welcome to TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. Today is Tuesday, October 30th, 2018, and I'm Scott Wallsten, president and senior fellow of the Technology Policy Institute, here with Tom Lenard, senior fellow and presid...

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How Russian Twitter Trolls Influence Society and Elections with Patrick Warren
Nov. 2, 2018

How Russian Twitter Trolls Influence Society and Elections with Patri…

Welcome back to TPI’s Podcast Two Think Minimum. It's Monday, October 29th, 2018. We're excited to talk with Patrick Warren, who has a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and is now an Associate Professor of Economics at Clemson Univ...

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Victoria Graham on Antitrust and Corporate Crime Journalism
Oct. 1, 2018

Victoria Graham on Antitrust and Corporate Crime Journalism

Today we're excited to talk with Victoria Graham. She is an antitrust and corporate crime reporter for Bloomberg Law in Washington, covering news and trends with the Justice Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, and...

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Laura Martin on Netflix, Content Creation, and Creative Talent
July 27, 2018

Laura Martin on Netflix, Content Creation, and Creative Talent

We sat down with Wall Street analyst, and TPI board member, Laura Martin, to talk about the changing media landscape. As it turned out, we had only about 15 minutes, which we used talking about Netflix. Still, given that Netf...

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Ina Fried, Axios, and Tech Journalism Today
July 19, 2018

Ina Fried, Axios, and Tech Journalism Today

Today we're excited to talk with Ina Fried of Axios, a tech journalist who covers telecom policy. Ina writes the daily newsletter for Axios that many of our listeners may read each morning. According to her twitter account, s...

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The FCC and the New Telecom and Media Landscape: A Conversation with Jonathan Make and David Kaut
June 18, 2018

The FCC and the New Telecom and Media Landscape: A Conversation with …

Hi and welcome back to TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. It's Thursday, June 7th, 2018, and I'm TPI Research Fellow, Sarah Oh. Today we're excited to talk with two of the most knowledgeable journalists covering telecom policy...

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Tech News in Washington, D.C. with Rob Pegoraro
April 18, 2018

Tech News in Washington, D.C. with Rob Pegoraro

Today we have with us Rob Pegoraro, who is a tech journalist of long standing in the DC area and has been covering technology and the intersection of technology and politics, for close to about 20 years now, if not longer. We...

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The Political Spectrum: The Hazletts and the Haz Nots? with Thomas Hazlett
March 29, 2018

The Political Spectrum: The Hazletts and the Haz Nots? with Thomas Ha…

Today we continue our conversation with special guest, Professor Thomas Hazlett. Professor Hazlett is the H.H. Macauley Endowed Professor of Economics at Clemson University. He will talk about his book, The Political Spectrum...

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Do Algorithms Rule the World? Data Privacy and the GDPR with Maja Brkan
March 8, 2018

Do Algorithms Rule the World? Data Privacy and the GDPR with Maja Brk…

Hello, and welcome to another episode of TPI’s podcast Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn TPI’s Director of Communications. This week, we're fortunate to be talking with Maja Brkan, who is an Assistant Professor in European ...

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