[Governance] WEBCAST JAN 23 – Into the Next Digital Generation: Lessons from Yesterday, Predictions for Tomorrow

Thu Jan 22 14:36:12 EST 2026

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On Friday January 23, 2026, the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
<https://business.columbia.edu/citi> (CITI) will convene a full-day
conference ‘Into the Next Digital Generation: Lessons from Yesterday,
Predictions for Tomorrow. A Tribute to the 42 Years of the Columbia
Institute for Tele-Information’
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conference-into-the-next-digital-generation-tickets-1977032113271>
at
Columbia University in NYC. The event, which will be followed by a gala
dinner, serves as a celebration and tribute to the Institute, which will be
closing with the retirement of founder, Professor Eli Noam
<https://business.columbia.edu/faculty/people/eli-noam>.

CITI was the first research center dedicated to communications economics,
management, and policy established at a US management school. Over the past
42 years, CITI has published 75 books and hundreds of articles, hosted
nearly one thousand conferences, run several webinar series, and welcomed
numerous visiting scholars and interns from around the world.

The conference will be webcast via ISOC LIVE <https://isoc.live/20115>. An
attempt will be made to record the dinner speeches.
PROGRAM (All times EST = UTC-5)

9:00 Opening and Welcome
Costis Maglaras – Dean, Columbia Business School

9:15 Introduction
Eli Noam – Emeritus Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business
Responsibility, Prof. of Economics, and Director, CITI

9:30 Telecom and Internet Infrastructure: The Invisible Resource
Erik Bohlin – Professor, Ivey University (Canada) & Chalmers University of
Technology (Sweden)
Johannes Bauer – Quello Chair for Media and Information Policy, Michigan
State University
Raul Katz – Director of Business Strategy, CITI, and President, Telecom
Advisory Services
Co-Moderators and Respondents:
Robert Pepper – fmr Head of Global Policy and Planning, Meta
Alex Wolfson – Head, Mobile Content Operations, BMW Group

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Regulatory Institutions
Tom Hazlett – Macaulay Professor of Economics, Clemson University
Harold Furchtgott-Roth – fmr Commissioner, FCC and Senior Fellow, Hudson
Institute
Andrew Schwartzman – Senior Counselor, Benton Institute for Broadband and
Society
Matthias Kurth – fmr President, German Network Regulatory Agency
Co-Moderators and Respondents:
Rosa Morales – Esq.
Lorenzo Pupillo – Centre for European Policy Studies

11:45 Media Industry Structure: An Iron Law of Oligopoly?
Ben Compaine – Director of Fellows Program, CITI
Jason Adam Buckweitz – Executive Director, CITI, and Adjunct Assistant
Professor, Columbia Business School
Robert Frieden – Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications and
Law, Penn State University
Co-Moderators and Respondents:
Kenneth Carter – CEO and Founder, Ozeki
Heather Hudson – Professor and fmr. Director ISER, University of Alaska
Anchorage

12:45 Lunch
Koos Bekker – Chairman, Naspers

2:00 Content Media: 3 Generations of Past Trouble, and Into the Next
Eli Noam – CITI
Esther Dyson – Investor, Journalist, Author, Philanthropist
Howard Homonoff – Senior U.S. Media & Industry Advisor, Grant Thornton
Advisors LLC
Joost van Dreunen – Asst. Professor, NYU Stern School of Business
Stanley Pierre-Louis – President & CEO, Entertainment Software Association
Co-Moderators and Respondents:
Darcy Gerbarg – Pioneer Digital Artist
Corey Spencer – Asst. Director, CITI

3:00 Communications Finance: The Past and Future of Media and IT Investments
Doug Conn – fmr Executive Director, SMBC Nikko Securities
Tom Aust – fmr VP-Senior Analyst, State Street
Blair Levin – Policy Advisor, New Street Research
James Alleman – Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder
Co-Moderators and Respondents:
Leon Perlman – fmr head, Digital Financial Services Observatory, CITI
Harold Vogel – CEO, Vogel Capital Management
Bruce Lincoln – Sr. Fellow, CITI, and co-founder, Silicon Harlem

4:00 Coffee Break

4:15 America and the World: Digital Thought Leadership in the 21st Century
Reed Hundt – fmr Chairman, FCC
Joseph Stiglitz – University Professor, Columbia University
Lawrence Lessig – Furman Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Leonard Waverman – fmr Dean, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster
University
Martha Garcia-Murillo – Dean, College of Information Science & Technology,
University of Nebraska Omaha
Co-Moderators:
William Drake – Director of International Studies, Columbia Institute for
Tele-Information
Jonathan Liebenau – Professor of Technology Management, London School of
Economics

5:45 Closing Remarks and Thanks
Eli Noam – CITI

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 9:04 AM Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> Co-Moderators and Respondents:
>
> Rosa Morales – Esq.
> Lorenzo Pupillo – Centre for European Policy Studies
>
> 11:45 Media Industry Structure: An Iron Law of Oligopoly?
> Ben Compaine – Director of Fellows Program, CITI
> Jason Adam Buckweitz – Executive Director, CITI, and Adjunct Assistant
> Professor, Columbia Business School
> Robert Frieden – Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications and
> Law, Penn State University
> Co-Moderators and Respondents:
> Kenneth Carter – CEO and Founder, Ozeki
> Heather Hudson – Professor and fmr. Director ISER, University of Alaska
> Anchorage
>
> 12:45 Lunch
> Koos Bekker – Chairman, Naspers
>
> 2:00 Content Media: 3 Generations of Past Trouble, and Into the Next
> Eli Noam – CITI
> Esther Dyson – Investor, Journalist, Author, Philanthropist
> Howard Homonoff – Senior U.S. Media & Industry Advisor, Grant Thornton
> Advisors LLC
> Joost van Dreunen – Asst. Professor, NYU Stern School of Business
> Stanley Pierre-Louis – President & CEO, Entertainment Software Association
> Co-Moderators and Respondents:
> Darcy Gerbarg – Pioneer Digital Artist
> Corey Spencer – Asst. Director, CITI
>
> 3:00 Communications Finance: The Past and Future of Media and IT
> Investments
> Doug Conn – fmr Executive Director, SMBC Nikko Securities
> Tom Aust – fmr VP-Senior Analyst, State Street
> Blair Levin – Policy Advisor, New Street Research
> James Alleman – Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder
> Co-Moderators and Respondents:
> Leon Perlman – fmr head, Digital Financial Services Observatory, CITI
> Harold Vogel – CEO, Vogel Capital Management
> Bruce Lincoln – Sr. Fellow, CITI, and co-founder, Silicon Harlem
>
> 4:00 Coffee Break
>
> 4:15 America and the World: Digital Thought Leadership in the 21st Century
> Reed Hundt – fmr Chairman, FCC
> Joseph Stiglitz – University Professor, Columbia University
> Lawrence Lessig – Furman Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
> Leonard Waverman – fmr Dean, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster
> University
> Martha Garcia-Murillo – Dean, College of Information Science &
> Technology, University of Nebraska Omaha
> Co-Moderators:
> William Drake – Director of International Studies, Columbia Institute for
> Tele-Information
> Jonathan Liebenau – Professor of Technology Management, London School of
> Economics
>
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