[UPDATE01] Blogging from the "Pervasive Connectivity: Open Airwaves, Open Networks" Event at the Googleplex.

I'm here in sunny California for the "Pervasive Connectivity: Open Airwaves, Open Networks" event that the New America Foundation is hosting at the Googleplex. We have a packed room and are just getting warmed up. I expect lots of useful knowledge from the luminaries we have speaking here today -- here's the agenda:

Agenda

9:30 am - Registration

10:00 am - Welcome

10:15 am - Open Airwaves: Technologies & Policies for Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing

• Michael Calabrese
  Director, Wireless Future Program, New America Foundation
• Paul Kolodzy
  Kolodzy Consulting, Former Chair, FCC Spectrum Policy Task Force
• Mark McHenry
  CEO and Founder, Shared Spectrum Co.

11:00 am - Open Networks: Technologies & Policies for Consumer Choice and Innovation

• Tim Wu
  Professor, Columbia Law School & Chairman, Free Press
• Larry Alder
  Google
• Sascha Meinrath
  Research Director, Wireless Future Program, New America Foundation

11:45 am - Community Networking: Digital Inclusion, Unwired

• Rey Ramsey
  CEO & Co-Founder, One Economy Corp
• Mark Ansboury
  SVP & Chief Technology Officer, OneCommunity
• Sascha Meinrath
  Research Director, Wireless Future Program, New America Foundation

12:30 pm - Closing Remarks: Implications for 2009 Policy Agenda

12:45 pm - Lunch & Tech Demo in No Name Café

[UPDATE01]: Below are copies of the two presentations I gave today.