Calit2 Facility, UCSD campus
San Diego, CA
March 22-23, 2006
The conference was webcast in real time by Calit2, and most of the presentations are now available for on-demand viewing below. [Real player and broadband connection required]. Many thanks to Calit2 for taping the presentations and providing the video links.
March 22, 2006
| 9:00 am | Registration and coffee |
| 10:00 am | Welcome Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US |
10:30 am |
Keynote
Address World-renowned researcher Larry Smarr will clue us into what is cooking in the world of big broadband. He is the founding director of Calit2 and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School 's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Smarr has driven major contributions to the development of the national information infrastructure: the Internet, the Web, the emerging Grid, collaboratories, and scientific visualization. His views have been quoted in Science, Nature, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, and Business Week. |
11:00 am |
CANARIE – The
Challenges of the First Mile CANARIE has been in the fiber business for a long time and Bill will share lessons learned about the most complicated bit – the first mile. (via video) |
11:15 am  |
Transit
Exchanges – A Simple, Economic Development Plan for Big
Broadband Transit exchanges are a novel new way for enabling the first mile. They may be the strategy we've been seeking in the US to enable smaller communities to move forward with fiber and wireless in a sensible, market-building way. We’ll learn from Mike how transit exchanges are growing in British Columbia and what’s working and what’s not. |
| 11:45 am | Lunch |
12:45 pm |
Educational Use of Broadband in the US National LambdaRail (NLR) is the ‘it’ optical network for research and education in the US . We’ll learn how NLR and associated education-oriented regional optical networks are working together to expand broadband connectivity throughout the US . We need to think about how we can leverage these capabilities to help create broadband demand in our communities. |
1:15 pm |
Panel and Attendee Discussion [video] Length: 10:33 Mashing – the next frontier. How do we take these grand first mile strategies and make them work for communities in the U.S. ? Open Q&A and discussion via audio and chatroom |
| 2:00 pm | Break |
2:30 pm
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Medical Demonstrations [video
- part 1] Length: 32:04 E-medicine creating a fundamental change from today’s disease treatments to tomorrow’s predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory medicine. These presenters will introduce us to some visions of our medical future with big broadband. Roundtable Discussion of the Americas: Carmen Carpio, World Bank, Moderator [video] Length: 22:48 Open discussion amongst conference attendees and remote videoconferencing sites in Los Angeles , Washington DC, Oregon , Indiana , Maryland , Peru, Venezuela, Mexico City , Santiago Chile, and Buenos Aires Argentina . |
4:15 pm  |
Making it Happen: FirstMile.US and You Big broadband – is it a pipe dream held hostage by industry or a vision that each one of us can help deliver? What rules need to be broken? How do we get more grassroots involvement? How do we get there from here? |
| 5:00 pm | Reception Join us onsite for drinks and light snacks to continue the discussions of the day. |
March 23, 2006
| 9:00 am | Welcome Remarks Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US |
9:15 am |
Open Mike Time and Three Minute Madness [video] Length: 42:53 Have something to share? Inspired by what you’ve heard so far and what to tell us your ideas? Have ideas on how FirstMile.US can help your community? Do you have unanswered questions? This is a time for attendees both on and offsite to share. |
| 10:00 am | Break |
10:30 am  |
Broadband and Babyboomers [video] Length: 52:27 How high speed networks will impact life for those over 50 in healthcare, communication, work, and civic engagement. |
11:15 am |
HANA Alliance The High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance is the first cross-industry collaboration to address the end-to-end needs of connected, high-definition, home entertainment products and services. Dave will give us an overview and discussion. |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
1:00 pm |
CineGrid Demo CineGrid is an international research initiative with its US presence headquartered in California that is stimulating the exploratory use of "smart" infrastructure that can help maintain California as one of the world's most technically advanced, artistically creative and culturally vibrant regions in the world. CineGrid provides global research, education, science and art communities who work with ultra-high-performance digital media with networked testbeds on which to conduct cinema-centric experiments. CineGrid also organizes inter-disciplinary workshops and demonstrations to share results, identify new avenues of research, and perform outreach to next-generation digital media professionals. CineGrid research enables new kinds of distributed media production, remote mentoring, remote-controlled scientific research, networked collaboration and international cultural exchange. Areas of investigation range from visual special effects for theatrical-quality digital cinema production to the real-time manipulation of large-scale scientific imagery for electron microscopy. |
2:00 pm |
Award Presentation and Keynote Address Join us in presenting Mayor Newsom with a FirstMile.US Big Broadband Honor and hear his major policy address on big plans for San Francisco . |
| 3:00 pm | Wrapup Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US |
| 3:15 pm | Adjourn |