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Two Think Minimum

by Technology Policy Institute

Podcast of the Technology Policy Institute of Washington, D.C. tpinsights.substack.com

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Episodes

  1. Brent Skorup and Eli Dourado on Airspace Auctions and Supersonic Aviation

    Brent Skorup is a lawyer and Senior Research Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research areas include telecommunications, transportation, technology regulation, and wireless policy. He serves on the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and is the Vice Chair…

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  2. Jonathan Make Discusses the Top Telecom Stories of 2019

    Executive editor of Communications Daily and telecom reporter extraordinary Jonathan Make joins Scott Wallsten and Sarah Oh in a discussion of the top telecom stories of 2019, including Julius Knapp's retirement, broadband mapping, net neutrality, federalism, and 5G. Get full access to TPInsights...

  3. Ligado Networks' President and CEO Doug Smith and Chief Legal Officer Valerie Green

    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 and international telecom and wireless industry experience, Doug has...

  4. Bryan Tramont of Wilkinson Barker Knauer on C-Band and the Future of Spectrum Policy

    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 telecommunications and media companies, on all aspects of communications, law and...

  5. 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 knowledgeable and thoughtful person on telecom in Mexico. For the last few...

  6. MIT Sloan Professor Catherine Tucker on Privacy, Antitrust, and the Value of Data

    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 digital data and machine learning to improve performance, and in the...

  7. BT Director of Regulatory Affairs Cathryn Ross on the Economics of Regulation

    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 regulation. Get full access to TPInsights at tpinsights.substack.com/subscribe

  8. 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, mentor and strategist and previously founded two enterprise software...

  9. Former FTC Chair Timothy Muris and Jonathan Nuechterlein Discuss Antitrust in the Internet Era

    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 substantial experience in every aspect of antitrust enforcement as well as in…

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  10. Former FTC Chairman William Kovacic on the Future of the FTC and Antitrust

    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 antitrust scholar and practitioner, serving at the Federal Trade...

  11. 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, and Scott discuss a wide range of topics from eSports, gaming…

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  12. 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 affiliate faculty with the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics....

  13. 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 as technologies emerge. The C-Band includes 500 MHz of particularly...

  14. 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, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, Virginia Tech, the...

  15. 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 Bloomberg Opinion columnist, and hosts a popular discussion series called...

  16. Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Privacy, Regulatory Certainty, and Innovation

    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 conversation focused on stablecoins, privacy, and regulatory uncertainty....

  17. 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 in Washington, D.C. We last saw you on a privacy panel we hosted at the...

  18. Music Licensing after the Music Modernization Act with Mitch Glazier and David Israelite

    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 president emeritus of TPI. We'll be chatting with Mitch Glazier, who is...

  19. How Russian Twitter Trolls Influence Society and Elections with Patrick Warren

    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 University. Patrick has become a leading authority on the impact of Internet...

  20. 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 the Federal Trade Commission. Victoria’s antitrust coverage also…

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  21. 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 Netflix had announced its earnings only the day previously, the conversation...

  22. 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, she is Chief Technology Correspondent for Axios and former Senior Editor…

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  23. The FCC and the New Telecom and Media Landscape: A Conversation with Jonathan Make and David Kaut

    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, Jonathan Make and David Kaut, from Communications Daily. Jonathan is…

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  24. 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're happy to have him with us, given that he's one of Washingtonian’s…

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  25. The Political Spectrum: The Hazletts and the Haz Nots? with Thomas Hazlett

    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: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover…

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  26. Do Algorithms Rule the World? Data Privacy and the GDPR with Maja Brkan

    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 Law on the faculty of law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands....

  27. Using AI to Predict Changes in Labor Markets with Emilio Colombo

    Hello, and welcome to another episode of TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn, TPI’s Director of Communications. Today, we're speaking with Emilio Colombo who is Professor of Economics at the Catholic University in Milan who will talk about Applying Machine Learning Tools on Web...

  28. Incentive Auctions and Spectrum Thoughts

    Hello, and welcome to another episode of TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn, TPI’s Director of Communications. Today, we will continue to tackle the meta issues in tech policy and tech politics with a conversation on the Incentive Auctions. Get full access to TPInsights at...

  29. Universal Service and Rural Broadband

    Hello, and welcome back to TPI's new podcast. I'm Chris McGurn, TPI's Director of Communications. Each week on this podcast, we facilitate a conversation between TPI fellows and eventually special guests on some of the most pressing and important issues in tech policy and tech politics. This…

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  30. Infrastructure Week?

    Welcome back to TPI’s podcast Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn, TPI’s Director of Communications. This week’s episode features a very important conversation on infrastructure. Each week on this podcast we facilitate a conversation between TPI fellows and special guests on some of the most...

  31. What is Broadband?

    Welcome to the maiden voyage of TPI’s new podcast – Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn, TPI’s Director of Communications. Each week on this podcast, we’ll facilitate a conversation between TPI fellows and special guests on some of the most pressing and important issues in tech policy and tech...

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