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[applause] >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you for the wonderful production and it is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce our key notes feature speaker. federal communications commission woman jessica rosenworcel believes the future belongs to the connected. she works to grow greater opportunity, accessibility and affordability in our om communication services and in order to ensure all americans get a fair shot at 21st century success she believes strong communications target can foster economic growth and security, enhanced digital age opportunity and enrich our civic life. from fighting to protect net neutrality to ensuring access to the internet students caught the homework cap, jessica has been a consistent champion for connecting all. she's leader in spectrum policy developing new ways to support wireless services from wi-fi to video and the internet. she is responsible for developing policies to help expand the reach of broadband to schools, libraries, hospitals and households across the country. named as one of politico 50s to watch and profiled by in style magazine in a series celebrating women who show up, speak up and get things done, jessica brings over two decades of communications, policy experience in public service. prior to joining the agency, she served as senior communications council for the united states senate committee on transportation under the leadership of senator john d rockefeller and senator daniel. before entering public service, jessica proctor's communications law in washington d.c. she's a nativewa of hartford, connecticut and a graduate of wesleyan university in new york university schools. she lives in washington d.c. with her husband and two children. invite the chairwoman to join me on stage for fireside chat, ... having led the agency with the genders at the forefront of what you have done. including things such as proposing for the agency, creating new opportunities for competition and the delivering of broadband satelliteer servic. near and dear to the people here in the audience. also modernizing spectrum policy to acceleration space age we ofselves in with a lot representatives here smaller space companies. and of course taking action to advance space safety and responsibility. so today it would like to your t perspective on these topics too. and perhaps a couple of others in the context what it looks like. and how we get there. what the role of space is in that evolution. first i like to start on a personal note if i may. let's look around as a leader to where you started become the chair? >> all right. thank you so much for having me here today. it is a treat to be in washington and celebrate policy with all of you. i did not rupture maybe the head of the federation commission. [laughter] i am good. all right. i did come to washington and spent some time working on policies and then in the trenches at the federal communications commission. then i took a job up onn capitl pill repurpose sing our ways for first responders. was offered the opportunity by presidentn obama to join spent time during the obama administration and the trump administration in the minority. then president biden elevated mh to become the first permanent chairwoman of the scc. only took 87 years for woman to run the agency. which make up for lost time box are we on? okay, good to go. an odd but still be a long time but who's counting. things are changing for us. we have workforce here in the u.s. which we are very proud of a little bit of an outline. it's an industry and that demographics a lot of you for improvement. things keep improving. some might be bias and communication technology is the most exciting sector of our economy paid by some measures it is as much as one sixth of an economy. i think it's for all the energy is. his were so much is happening. ultimately i want to see those who were employed in the sector reflect the full diversity of our country. i think that is important and why i am in the starbright now. dythat he after study shows and with more diversity at the table, more diversity in companies more diversity in organizations we produce better and stronger results. >> is a great pivot to talk a little bit about the future. and what is on the horizon. but really does offer the opportunity to reset thinking about spectrum regulations to include sunlight spectrum regulations. digital equity and ubiquitous and affordable productivity. with that in mind and a positive note. imagine for us if you will, 2030 but these spectrum use look-alikes' 2030 opening be self driving cars. mabel still be watching marvel movies in 2030, now working at a little wild condition so here we go. i think our spectrum policy to date has always been really by an eric. we had terrestrial networks on the one hand, satellite networks on the other. we talk about unlicensed spectrum on one hand you have access as long as we abide by rules. while access to somee airway. my hope is that by 2030 we could break down the binary structure. to start out ways we can better combine licensed and unlicensed services as well as satellite and terrestrial networks. because our airwaves are finite resource. if we get more creative about how we combine them or existing terrestrial networks and our existing policies are not going to cut it. we've got to look forward to that future by the time it to 6g it's start incorporating satellite services into the protocols associated with it. one of different elements. quickly separate content long cultural effects. that's truth in advertising. extend texting thing keeps ththings lively. different elements i heard and that answer, some relating to pathology some relating to policy, some regulatory. you have spoken a lot about needing to think creatively and striving for a system that serves u.s. industry better. so, in terms of then achieving that vision there are things, the tools, all of the things that are at your disposal to accomplish that and maybe things are on the horizon. there currently use specifically are collaborating and you speak a little bit about that strategy and specifically how it relates to industry and satellites? >> first of all i want to build off of what you said earlier about being creative. i think we have a wonderful tradition in the united states and being creative it. if you look over history whatwh you will find is the scc and the community cares about how we use our airwaves has been more creative in the work forward leaning anywhere else in the world. we were the first to auction off airwaves. and to raise revenue in the process and distribute them efficiently for terrestrial network. we were the first to take some scraps on the 900 megahertz band at two gigahertz band and decide we could create opportunities we came can we every purposed i think going forward and trust jones' with a new framework that is designed to assist commercial actors and innovators with developing opportunities for direct space to phone technologies. anyway, i want that to be the background if any long term spectrum planning that we are involved in. i think that creativity is help the united states really lead the world. and that, as we look to developing a long-term spectrum plan, a few things come to mind. first, that creativity and when i first took over in this job i reached out to my colleague at the department of commerce appearance a national telecommunication administration. we have to coordinate more going forward. we set up a e coordination initiative and we update our memorandum of understanding dealing with one another. we agreed to submit technical terms, regular meeting and we worked together on a long-term spectrum plan. that work is getting underway right now. and like i said before i want that real creative spirit to be a part of it. but i also do not want us ignoring in the short to medium-term all of the things we should beig doing. the set for commercial space launch commercial activity is gone things are only going to grow from here but let's make sure we have airwaves in a span that are directed for theseo purposes. we are also trying to identify opportunities in the gigahertz band. we've got outstanding work i'd like to dove with them on the 70, 80, 90 gigahertz to come up with high band airwaves. oh my gosh we've got really technical really fast. my my point is let's make sure long-term plans are creative but let's not miss the opportunities to make progress in the short term two. to think this audience can handle technical. >> i think so. we spoke a lot about creativity. i think you have been quoted as saying when the going gets tough the united states gets creative. so clearly to affect the vision of 2030 there's going to be a lot ofe creativity involved in the short-term aspects and the longer-term aspects. i want to maybe follow up on a couple that you mention here. one, you talk about combining terrestrial. that's a big initiative i am aware of other countries trying things similar approaches. like japan a few years ago doing this in the context of disaster response and emergency relief. for that use. i believe if i got that right. >> yes. on thursday of this week i'm asking my colleagues to vote on a big framework for what we are cleanly single network future. look around everyone in this audience knows there are small startups, big operators handset providers and software companies. all interested in figuring out how to take a signalie from spae and delivered directly to our devices. there is so much power in us developing a framework for that technology. so much more connectivity that is going to be possible. so much more safety for all of us who keep those phones and are pockets and purses at all times. it strikes me like the united states as a terrific opportunity to lead by setting up a regulatory framework that. i want to see it going. i spent last month is at world mobile congress in barcelona and really announced to the international community there that i think this is an area where the united states should lead too. i want us to have a framework that gets as many innovations e in, fully as possible while respecting concerns about harmful interference. i feel like there's a way forward and we should figure single network future we're designed just to do that. >> it's very exciting future for. >> it is very exciting. just think about it we all travel through our day today. we are familiar with mobile dead zones, rural locations. were signals just don't reach. and if you think about it we combine what we have with terrestrial networks to have a signal from space we are all going to bewe safer. and i think that safety protocol associated with this is something we should really aspire to do as a nation. it will have tremendous benefits for all of us. from that limited texting function will get from space initially it will growth and bigger. >> that is the initial abuse case if you will pay. >> it's a case we can all understand from see the technology just over the horizon is been developed for right now. but i feel like there's a lot of places to go from there. let's get this started. >> the connectivity access if you will pay. >> to think about connectivity in the future i think it's very important for us to realize it may not be a centric activity. like if we do our connected future our phones are going to be the least interesting part of it. we are going to connect not just people to people or people to things but things did things. start collecting information about all sorts of scarce resources in the world around us. and all that data is going to produce patterns that will make us more efficient with all kinds of scarce resources. i see huge changes in the energy sector, and the transportational sector, and healthcare as we come about from this connectivity. to make it viable satellite has departed it. >> kind of like the internet of things at scale. looks like it only imagine the debate use cases versus that come into the market as a result. they can probably not even imagine today. just enhancing safety perhaps create new businesses. >> absolutely. it's really exciting. >> there is a lot of challenges along the way. >> enthusiasm helps. but you gotta start that is some energy. what are some of the issues that we are currently butting up against in the u.s. more specifically, it challenges the scc has. first you mentioned earlier thinking creatively what are the challenges that reallyge need to create and tackle to the future state? >> no shortage of challenges. last week something cap and for the first time in 30 years which is the scc authority to auction off terrestrial airwaves expired. and that is not a goodotoo thin. or three decades scc has that authority. we've run more than 100 options. the course of those auctions we've raised more than $233 billion. and i think we have delivered extraordinary value for the american people. those auctions have menaced a world leader in the wireless and internet economy. it is absolute essential we continue to have that authority. this is a big part of digital age economic security. though, getting congress toe continue to provide us with that authority is as big challenge r the future rates when we have to succeed at. i don't others in the road to take over our leadership position in wireless and auction authorities a big part of making sure that we stay at the head of the pack. >> any big challenges, our airwaves are finite. like i suggested at the beginning we have to be careful how we repurpose them but with the challenges we face is a law called commercial spectrum enhancement act. and that is a law repurposed airways used by federal actors for new commercial purposes we have to auction them off and raise 110% of the relocation costs of the federal users. i worry that in the future that will put real constraints o on r ability to creative about how we repurpose airwaves. it will have a bias towards terrestrial services. i will have a bias towards traditional auction. and we might miss some opportunities for satellite unlicensed in the process which you don't raise revenue in the same ways. a lot of new space activities that is one area in space by different names, the growing markets in space. a framework for those we still try to build the public eckert on these issues lester restarted feel like it needs a better na name. >> that is such an amazing set of technologies. like imagine up inup our skies refueling and repairing satellites. manufacturing holding elements. to meet this is out of science fiction and deserves a much better name. anyway, but they record what will the future look like? and as a part of that what communications is necessary in this context? how do we make sure existing authorizations might accommodate these new technologies, help support them and fly. they can work on a by our loan simpered were going to eat a lot of other colleagues work out novel that component is very important. ahead of a company that works in this area for. >> are going to have to cope the new name. [laughter] like technocratic this stuff is exciting. i can see that over there. so, reason that market for naval and large part due to a number of large constellations that are going up which are going to continue to provide information and data resources back down to earth. that ultimately that enhances our quality of live here on earth. too that is good news for the downside is of course once these satellites become defunct and lose their orbit but something else near and dear. from a sustainability perspective with the environment. but also business sustainability. the numbers of defunct objects satellites and rocket bodies become such an issue poses a risk. the continuity of operations. so there are certain rules and i was there when you announce this of the space counsel in houston the changing roles for. >> it was in the audience there. we drove the change from 25 years to bring down satellites it's great to see progress being made in that respect and that regulatory framework. i think most people would agree there are other components to it as well. the timing issues is one. there are other questions around how we measure probabilities arr how we measure success. it is a dynamic problem a multifaceted problem was a multifaceted solution but what acare your thoughts and what soe of the other parts of the solution might be? i'm interested to hear how the scc is working with other stakeholders in the federal government to help drive towards a comprehensive solution. >> this is huge it's as big as space itself. we cannot junk up our skies. we will never accommodate our grandest ambitions if we don't come up with clear policies for sustainability. that is not just the united states problem that is a global problem. a lot of time, energy, effort from everyone in this room going forward. in one of the first things we did at the scc when i got there it was we were studying what we have before us with communication satellites. radical increase the number of applications. and then it got fairly old policies that were designed for an age when sending something up into our skype was strictly the problem of government. it's really expensive, we didn't read it very occasionally because they were so few of these satellites we could just let them sit up there. rollaround, it is big. those days are over. we took it as an opportunity to realize that for a long time we've beenoc processing these applications as long as they abided by a 25 your rule that have been established by nasa ago.imees what that meant was after useful life is over you can hang out for 25 years before we expect you to disappear from space. twenty-five years is an awfully long time. and we could all collectively agreed that sustainability depends on us doing better than that. and so with my colleagues on bipartisan basis we change our licensing practice going forward so that will be a five year role. i think that's just the start prevent the broadcast that to the rest of the world. to suggest their success in space is thinking about space sustainability and develop culpable policy. as were going to work on going forward. >> work with like-minded nations come together in addition to all the things going on here. ask the good news is a satellite policy community has been doing that for a longs time. we are just multiplying exponentially what we are putting into space. we also have to multiply allal those policy efforts that happen between different countries around the globe. >> great. i think it's clear from this conversation discovered a lot of different topics. there are many facets to it, a lot of different players as well you got commercial, government, terrestrial, et cetera. we have different pieces of thee potential solutions here. i know especially to create that brighter spectrum future if you will have the exciting future we spoke to a little earlier. there are a lot of moving parts. there are a lot of pieces to this. could you give some final thoughts? it's kind of an open ended question how it all comes together, the problems and challenges you talked about. what collaboration is needed? he spoke a little bit about collaboration when a very small slice that many project to tackle. so how did the pieces come together? what is really needed collaboration wise? >> well, we are going to have an opportunity to test all of that at the world radio communication conference later this year. broadcast right colleagues the policies for the future. this is not actually a new thing.th it's more than 60 years ago. sometime around the time john f. kennedy was given a speech about putting a man onnn the moon that the scc helped with the launch of the first commercial communications satellite which is known as telstar one. and newton meadow president john f. kennedy's chairman of the scc. by the way still going strong at 97, bodes well. he told the president that there was all this attention in putting a man on the moon. in going there not because it was easy, but it was hard. that communication satellite might be more important because they have ideas in space. and ideas less longer than men. and my addendum would be and women. i think he was absolutely right spirit and setting that history because until the scc helps supports the first space age. and so now is loose to the home of the agency with update ourur policies to help. except next generation of great ideas they put into space. >> is all started rightis now. loom to make sure our policies are up to speed, up to date and will serve as a model for the world. two lunar space and beyond? >> this is such an exciting time in the dark spacecraft was a smashing success. took a planet killing rock off course. the record let set by the crew of apollo 13 the trajectory across the moon. i think we'll look back at and see the space-age is an unbelievable fount of information. in regulatory bodies like mine are up for it. update the policies make sure supportive. >> then really an enabler. he would industry does, thank you very much for your leadership. to host you for this dialect for i think we have gained pretty good perspective on that many different things really appreciate to help with that vision. the stake out there think we are about out of time. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [inaudible] >> thank you very much chairwoman. mr. lopez for such a fantastic conversation, it was really great. we know the real reason you did this and agreed to do that as you wanted one of our mugs. [laughter] >> i drink a lot of coffee so thiss is actually going to come in handy. more than you know, even this afternoon. >> thank you very much. lexi spent as your unfiltered view of government. funded by the cell vision companies and more including media comment. >> @media, we believe whether you live