TORONTO – Canadian Spectrum Policy Research is hosting a special one-day summit that will bring Canadian and international experts together to discuss the Canadian 700 MHz auction and the future of spectrum management.
The Canadian Spectrum Summit will be held May 2, 2013 at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, 55 Dundas St. West in Toronto. The one-day event, structured around three panel discussions with time following each for audience engagement, intends to explore what organizers call a “critical moment” in the development of Canada’s digital infrastructure.
Some of the issues to be discussed include: what criteria should be used to judge whether the upcoming 700 MHz auction is a success or failure; as well as a look at how relaxed foreign ownership rules might possibly affect competition in Canada's wireless sector.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Wolter Lemstra, senior research fellow economics of infrastructures at the Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, Delft Universityof Technology, the Netherlands
- Bernard Lord, president and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association
- Michael Marcus, Virginia Tech, former chair of the IEEE-USA Committee on Communication Policy, 2012.
- Phillipa Marks, spectrum policy advisor, Ofcom
- William Melody, Center for Information and Communication Technologies, Technical University of Denmark
Space is limited. Program and registration information are available at www.canadianspectrumsummit.eventbrite.ca.
