The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information

Many countries are undertaking massive communications and information technology build out to produce the Smart Grid. The term smart grid refers to the layering of a communications and ICT system on top of the existing power grid. This layering, through the use of broadband networks, sensors, smart meters and software would lead to a two-way flow of electricity and information to create an automated, widely distributed energy delivered network. The aim of this new intelligent network will be to optimally route energy, lower bills, and reduce greenhouse emissions.

8:30 — 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am — Welcome
 Eli Noam, Director of CITI, Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School

9:15am — Keynote
 Matthias Kurth, President of the German Federal Network Agency

9:45am — Session A: Broadband Networks and Smart Grids: perspectives on technology, policy, and eco-sustainability
 Stefano Nocentini, Senior Vice President Technology, Telecom Italia
 Graham Vickery, Former Head of the Information Economy Group, OECD
 Miriam Horn, Director of Smart Grid Initiative, Environmental Defense Fund

10:45am — Coffee break

11:00am — Session B: Linkages and comparison between national broadband plans and national smart grid investment strategies
 Nick Sinai, Energy & Environment Director FCC
 Scott Hempling, Executive Director National Regulatory Research Institute
 Beatrice Covassi, Digital Agenda Counselor at the EU Delegation in Washington DC
 Philip Mayrhofer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
 Bill St. Arnaud, Green-IT consultant St. Arnaud-Walker and Associates Inc.

12:30 pm — Lunch
How to finance the Smart Grid?, Reed Hundt, Former Chairman of the FCC

2:00pm — Session C: Interactions between broadband and smart grids: technologies, business models, and impacts on the demand and supply side

Supply Side
 Lawrence Plumb, Executive Director — Emerging Issues & Technology Policy Verizon
 Bruce Lincoln, Columbia University
Demand Side
 Johann Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
 Jim St. Pierre, Deputy Director, National Information Technology Laboratory (NIST)

3:15pm — Coffee Break

3:30pm — Session D: Policy and Regulation
 Jeffrey H. Dygert, AT&T Executive Director, Public Policy
 Michael Moynihan, NDN Green Project Director & Princeton University
 Lillie Coney, Associate Director, EPIC
 Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
 Lorenzo Pupillo, Executive Director Public Affairs, Telecom Italia
 Bill Lehr, Industry Consultant and Research Associate at MIT
 Michael Gerrard, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School

5:30pm — Reception