Programs

PIT-UN: Summer Fellowship – 2020 Orientation Workshop Agenda

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

12 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.: Introductions; Logistics; Confidentiality

12:45 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch & Chat

1:30 p.m. –  2:15 pm.: Legal Overview: Regulation/Enforcement/Policy

2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Break

2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.: Intro to Economics 

3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Break

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.: Ed Felten, Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton CITP; former White House Deputy CTO & Federal Trade Commission CTO.

4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Break

4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.: Nathan Good, principal of Good Research and faculty in the Information School in UC Berkeley; technical adviser to California Attorney General

5:15 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Open time for team activities

Thursday, June 18, 2020

12 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.: Intro to FTC (Bilal Sayyed, director of Office of Policy Planning)

12:45 p.m. – 130 p.m.: Lunch & Chat

1:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.: Case Study 1 (Net Neutrality)

2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Intro to CFPB (John Pitts, policy lead for Plaid; former deputy assistant director for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.)

2:30 p.m. – 3 pm.: Johanna Skrzypczyk, assistant attorney general, Bureau of Internet & Technology, New York Attorney General’s Office.

3 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Break

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.: Neal Parikh, NYC CTO director of AI.

4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Break

4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.: Jim Tierney, lecturer-in-law at Harvard Law School; former Maine attorney general.

5:15 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Open time for team activities

Friday, June 19, 2020

12 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.: Writing seminar

12:45 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch & Chat

1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.: Case Study 2 (Platform Regulation)

2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Break

2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.: Kathleen McGee, counsel, Lowenstein Sandler;  former bureau chief, New York Attorney General’s Bureau of Internet & Technology.

3:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.: Break

3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.: Scott Jordan, professor of computer science, University of California Irvine & former chief technology officer, Federal Communication Commission. 

4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Break

4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.: Ronald Lee, partner Arnold & Porter; former general counsel of the U.S. National Security Agency 1994-1998 and  associate deputy attorney general of the US Department of Justice 1998-2000.