Note to Editors: Members of the press are welcome to attend the conference without charge. To arrange, call Todd Blair at (303) 735-5633 or e-mail todd.blair@colorado.edu.
Experts in telecommunications regulation and water law will meet at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law Sept. 7 to examine wireless use and access law reform at the Wolf Law Building.
"Wireless Revolutions: How Telecommunications Regulation Should Adapt to New Technologies and Learn from Water Law" is the first of three conferences sponsored by the law school's Silicon Flatiron's Telecommunication Program during the fall semester.
Participants will include Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs, an expert in water, environment and land-use law, and Kathleen Abernathy, former commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission. Abernathy will deliver the keynote address at 6:20 p.m.
"The explosion of wireless technologies and services is a critical and often under-appreciated part of our telecommunications industry," said Phil Weiser, executive director of the law school's Silicon Flatirons Program. "At present, however, the regulatory reform effort -- which aims to promote technological development and a better use of the wireless spectrum -- appears to be stalled."
Bringing together leading experts in wireless technology and regulation, as well as experts in water law, should provide new insights and suggestions for ways to reform the traditional system of regulating the use of and access to the wireless spectrum, Weiser said.
The conference will meet from noon to 7 p.m. Seating is limited and various fees apply. Participants are asked to register in advance at silicon-flatirons.org/conferences/20060907wireless.asp.
On Oct. 10, the Silicon Flatirons Program will present "Confronting Cable's Technological Frontier," at the Cable Center in Denver located at 2000 Buchtel Blvd. The conference will examine the opportunities and challenges facing the cable industry over the next five to 10 years and will feature a number of top cable executives.
On Nov. 6, the last of the three conferences, "Network Convergence," will take place at the Wolf Law Building. Panelists representing a number of information technology companies, including Qwest, Comcast, T-Mobile and Carrier Access, will talk about the challenges companies will face with the emergence of technologies to help people communicate and access information across wireless, broadband and satellite networks in a seamless manner.
Both conferences will be held from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Continuing legal education credits are available for each event.
For more information about the conferences, schedules, registration fees and online registration, visit the Silicon Flatiron's conference Web site at or call (303) 735-2733.
CU-Boulder students, faculty and staff will be admitted to all three conferences at no charge but are encouraged to register.