Pulling down panelists throughout the year talking about what is the most important issues facing the state of the the net. I hope to speak with with as much of you as possible and sit on all of the panels as you know we have some fascinating topics some incredible speakers in the state of the net has never been more important than it is right now. With that in mind, i would like to welcome to the stage, the assistant secretary of communication and informations at the department of commerce. The administrator of the mtia david rettle. Thank you. [applause] well thanks for that introduction, and it is great to be here again at the state of the net, and special thanks to tim for invite megaand congratulations on the Exciting Program youve put together again this year. I would like to take this opportunity to talk about two items on the agenda quick that stand out for me prnlly first is excellent Cybersecurity Panel that is featuring mtia later today evelyn as well as the discussion betwe
Changes that have happened to us and our policy the last year and also kind of scope out what we think this year is going to look like and thats kind of the point. State of the net in january. My name is tim lorden and im part of organization sponsored by jerry who founded this organization, youll hear from at lunch and founded the concept much the state of the net and i want to thank jerry. [applause] jerry is a giant in the space and were happy to have him back. Hell be introducing the congressman later in the program and youll hear from him. Normally it snows before state of the net and were expecting snow tomorrow and ill thrilled about that and the people that can organize the state of the union can deal with that, but today, we have good weather and were thrilled to have a great lineup of speakers. Just really quickly, i want to thank our sponsors. You can see some of them on the screens around you. They include comcast nbc universal, we also have facebook, we have verizon and th
It is my pleasure and privilege to be up here at the foundations 14th annual state of the net conference. I am a fellow at the framework for the early career professionals that was started as the Parent Organization and i am here to ask to cspan where we will be pulling down the panelists through the day talking about the most important issues. I hope to speak with as many of you as possible. As you know we have some fascinating topics and incredible speakers and its never been more important than it is right now. With that in mind i would like to welcome to the stage the assistant secretary of Communications Information for the department of commerce and administrator. Thank you. [applause] thanks for the introduction and its great to be here again. Thanks for inviting me and congratulations on the program you put together this year. Id like to take the opportunity to talk about items on the agenda but speak out to me personally as well as a discussion between Bobby Mcdowell and my fo
For the early career professionals that was started as the Parent Organization and i am here to ask to cspan where we will be pulling down the panelists through the day talking about the most important issues. I hope to speak with as many of you as possible. As you know we have some fascinating topics and incredible speakers and its never been more important than it is right now. With that in mind i would like to welcome to the stage the assistant secretary of Communications Information for the department of commerce and administrator. Thank you. [applause] thanks for the introduction and its great to be here again. Thanks for inviting me and congratulations on the program you put together this year. Id like to take the opportunity to talk about items on the agenda but speak out to me personally as well as a discussion between Bobby Mcdowell and my former boss supposedly is looking forward to seeing later today. We are glad to be aggressive in advocating engagement across the globe and
Development issues at the Cyber Security initiative. It is my pleasure to thank you all for being here this morning. I know for any friday morning, particularly friday morning in the middle of summer, were thrilled to see this level of turnout. I think it speaks for itself, the level of interest in the topic. I also want to say a particular thank you to palo alto came with us the original idea and provided the breakfast with is critical to success for a friday morning. [laughter] here at new america we spent a lot of time talking about workforce to bowman and how to increase the pipeline of workers in the industry. Of course a critical part of that is expanding the number of people in the types of people we think of as fit in the industry. We have our humans of cyprus the project online that incorporates individuals and with passthrough and telling their stories and putting into evidence the fact that there are a range of backgrounds and ranges of experiences. We are thrilled to give y