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October 2020
(50 events)
Oct
1
Brookings Institution virtual event on rating systems and responsible artificial intelligence, 2 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
1
NEW TIME: Senate Commerce Committee executive session to consider subpoenaing CEOs as hearing witnesses: Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Alphabet/Google's Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook, 9:30 a.m., 106 Dirksen — see here
Oct
1
Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting, including on Online Content Policy Modernization Act (S-4632), 10 a.m., 325 Russell — see here
Oct
2
Center for Strategic & International Studies virtual event on modernizing Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., 1 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
2
FTC-Marketing Science conference on marketing and consumer protection, Constitution Center, 400 7th St. SW — see here
Oct
5
Communications Workers of America and others virtually "examine how millions of Americans have been left without access to broadband by profit-driven corporations," 2 p.m. EDT  https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWHqaUYlTMu73_VOTlv9NA —
Oct
5–8
Now virtual: Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Xponential 2020, rescheduled from Aug. 10-12 — see here and see here
Oct
5
FCBA Pacific Northwest Chapter virtual program on 5G, 3 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
5–6
Annual Georgetown Law antitrust enforcement symposium, virtual conference — see here
Oct
6
President's National Security Telecom Advisory Committee meets virtually, 1:30 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
6
Brookings Institution virtual panel on "tech policy in the next presidential administration," 2 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
6
Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee tentative hearing on Digital Millennium Copyright Act and online privacy — see here
Oct
6–7
Telecommunications Industry Association ICT Summit 2020, virtual — see here
Oct
7–8
George Mason University Law School Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property annual fall conference, virtual — see here
Oct
7–8
FCC Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee meets, details to come — see here
Oct
8
FCC celebrates virtually anniversary of 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, 2 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
12–16
FURTHER UPDATED: Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers-International Society of Broadband Experts Cable-Tec Expo, no longer at Colorado Convention Center, now taking place virtually — see here
Oct
14–16
Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition annual conference, Hilton Crystal City, 2399 Richmond Highway, Arlington, Virginia — see here
Oct
14
FCBA Northern California Chapter and Wireline Committee webinar on California telecom and broadband legislation, 3 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
19
Mosaic Economic Project starts virtually, "to create a network of diverse women who are experts in economics and technology," 2 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
19
Center for Strategic and International Studies virtual event on cyberspace and international security, 3:30 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
19
NATOA webinar on digital inclusion, 2 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
19–23
FURTHER UPDATED: Technology Policy Institute annual conference, now virtual, previously rescheduled from Aug. 16-18 — see here
Oct
19–22
Wireless Internet Service Providers Association's Wispapalooza 2020, Caesars Forum Conference Center, 3911 Koval Lane, Las Vegas — see here
Oct
20–21
6G Symposium, all virtual and including FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and National Institute of Standards and Technology Director Walter Copan — see here
Oct
20
Center for Democracy & Technology virtual event on CDT report on algorithms and disability benefit determinations, 1 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
21
NTIA BroadbandUSA monthly webinar, 2 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
22
NTIA multistakeholder process on promoting software component transparency meets virtually, noon EDT — see here
Oct
22–23
Annual Rainbow/Push tech event, virtual — see here
Oct
22
Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting including about Online Content Policy Modernization Act (S-4632), 9 a.m., G50 Dirksen — see here
Oct
23
FCC tech supplier diversity event, virtual, 1 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
26
FCBA Privacy and Data Security Committee and American Bar Association’s Communications Law Forum annual Privacy & Data Security Symposium CLE, virtual, 1 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
26
American Enterprise Institute virtual event on House Antitrust Subcommittee antitrust/technology staff report, 1 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
26
Technology Policy Institute webinar on digital platform regulation, 2 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
27
New America and others' virtual event on U.S. and Chinese technological ties and decoupling, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., 10 a.m. EDT — see here
Oct
27
FCC commissioners’ meeting, 10:30 a.m., Commission Meeting Room — see here
Oct
27
AT&T Policy Forum virtual event on ethical algorithms, 3 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
27
Media Institute Virtual Communications Forum with Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Nicol Turner Lee, 1 p.m. EDT (password required) — see here
Oct
27
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Technology Engagement Center virtual event on technology policy, including Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., and FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips, 2 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
27–28
Future of Privacy Forum virtual workshop on data and technology amid global crisis — see here
Oct
27
Lincoln Network virtual discussion on drone policy, noon EDT — see here
Oct
28
Silicon Flatirons virtual event on digital divide and COVID-19, 11:30 a.m. MDT — see here
Oct
28
Copyright Office modernization webinar, 1 p.m. EDT — see here
Oct
28
FCC Task Force for Reviewing the Connectivity and Technology Needs of Precision Agriculture in the U.S. meets virtually, 9:30 a.m. EDT — see here
Oct
28
FCC precision agriculture task force meets, details TBA — see here
Oct
28
ROOM CHANGE: Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Communications Decency Act Section 230 with CEOs Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Google's Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey from Twitter, 10 a.m., 253 Russell — see here
Oct
28
WifiForward virtual event on "Solving America’s Connection Crisis," with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, 11 a.m. EDT — see here
Oct
29–30
FCC Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee meets virtually, 11 a.m. EDT each day — see here
Oct
29
FCBA virtual CLE on state net neutrality laws, noon EDT — see here
Oct
30
Wilson Center virtual event on global digital divide, 1 p.m. (time zone not listed) — see here