foundation policy conference. former federal communications commission chair michael powell joined industry leaders for combinational broadband access. this is an hour and 20 minutes. okay. for those that came later i am randy may, president of the freestate foundation and welcome back. look around. so many haven t seen so many of your friends in a long long time, right? some of you that are with us each year and there are a lot of you in that category know that almost every year, i can t believe it is the eighth or the 10th or the 14th, freestate foundation annual conference in stanton, nodding her head, she has heard me say that but this year coming out of the pandemic, so good to have you with us. we are going to start in a moment. i want to check out as you know we are going to serve one of our sumptuous buffet lunches. i said lori could be with us but she had part in arranging the buffet lunch and it will happen around 12:15 by the time the panel which will be removed
And journalist matt life from 3 00 a. M. Eastern on sunday. Next, a look at the future of the internet and sec regulations. A policy cant conference in washington dc. This is an hour and a half. Ok, we are going to get started now. One minute. If everyone will take their seats, please. You become so quiet when i say that that i should not even wait the full minute. That is fantastic. We are going to get started now. I think that was a terrific session to get the conference started, talking about regulation more generally, although i knew there would be. I think throughout the day we are going to hear about that neutrality, or restoring internet freedom. Internet proceeding. Did hear a little bit during the previous session. Call this the allstars panel. I am not sure i came up with another name. We do have a group of allstars here. Inare going to the digging to Certain Communications issues. I want to do brief introductions. Everyone here has the brochure where we have got the full bio
Probably muchs better than i am at getting everyones attention so we can do that again if need be. Thank all of you again for coming. It is a terrific turnout. You know, earlier i welcomed our cspan audience. I want to welcome them again. We are grateful cspan is here. Aim sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here. We are glad all of you are here. The chairman knows i do this because he has been here before. Illustriousn photography i could go on and on and on about it. We have it in the brochure. For those of you that are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website. Fcc chairmans bio in it. Just stayed what chairmanhere knows, pie served as a commissioner. How soon after the inauguration, was that two days later . A monday, january 23. Three days after. He was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. This, withouty is going to the offices you can read about. I think it is important. He has served in all three branches of government, spent a lot of ti
The Free State Foundations annual telecommunications conference. This is an hour and a half. Ok, we are going to get started now. One minute. If everyone will take their seats, please. You become so quiet when i say that that i should not even wait the full minute. That is fantastic. We are going to get started now. I think that was a terrific session to get the conference started, talking about regulation more generally, although i knew there would be. I think throughout the day we are going to hear about that neutrality, or restoring internet freedom. The open internet proceeding. We did hear a little bit during the previous session. I will call this the allstars panel. I am not sure i came up with another name. We do have a group of allstars here. We are going to the digging in to Certain Communications issues. I want to do brief introductions. Everyone here has the brochure where we have got the full bios there. The brochure is also on the website, for those of you in our cspan aud
Cspan audience, and i want to welcome them again. We are grateful that cspan is here. Im sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here, chairman pai, but we are glad all of you are here. So in keeping, chairman pai knows that i do this because hes been here before. Hes got an illustrious biography. I could go on and on and on about it, but weve got it in the brochure. And for those of you that are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website, on the homepage of the website. Its got sec chairman ajit pai bio in it. So i commend that to you but i would just say, state what everyone here knows that chairman pai serve as a commissioner prior to assuming the chairmanship of the sec. How soon after the inauguration, was that two days later . It was on a monday, january 233. So about three days after. Three days he was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. What i will say about chairman pai is this, without going over each of the particular offices which you c