Confirmed Speakers include:

! Hon. Jonathan Adelstein, Former Commissioner, FCC; President, PCIA ! Hon. Joe Armstrong, Member, Tennessee House of Representatives; President, National Black Caucus of State Legislators ! Laura Breeden, Program Director for Public Computer Centers and Broadband Adoption, NTIA ! Deborah Broderson, Associate, Hogan Lovells ! Hon. Sharon Weston Broome, Member, Louisiana Senate; President Emeritus, National Organization of Black Elected

Legislative Women ! Melanie Campbell, President & CEO, Black Women’s Roundtable and National Coalition for Black Civic Participation ! Patrick S. Campbell, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP ! Keith Clinkscales, CEO, Revolt Media and TV ! Hon. James Clyburn (D-SC), Assistant Democratic Leader, U.S. House of Representatives ! Hon. Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner and former Interim Chairwoman, FCC ! Hon. Michael J. Copps, Former Commissioner and Interim Chairman, FCC; Special Advisor for Media and Democracy Reform

Initiative, Common Cause ! William Crowder, Managing Director, DreamIt Ventures ! Brigitte Daniel, Executive Vice President, Wilco Electronic Systems, Inc. ! Monica Desai, Partner, Patton Boggs LLP ! Ralph Everett, President and CEO, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies ! Ari Fitzgerald, Partner, Hogan Lovells; Secretary of the Board, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council ! Shana Glickfield, Partner, Beekeeper Group ! Emilio Gonzalez, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Verizon ! Patrick Gusman, Managing Director, Social Sector Innovations, LLC ! David Honig, President and CEO, MMTC ! Kristal High, Editor-in-Chief, Politic365 ! Fred Humphries, Vice President, U.S. Government Affairs, Microsoft Corporation ! Hon. Reed Hundt, Former Chairman, FCC ! David Johns, Executive Director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence ! Jeff Johnson, Journalist, Author and Political Commentator, Jeff’s Nation ! Julia L. Johnson, President, NetCommunications, Inc.; Chairwoman, MMTC ! Marva Johnson, Senior Vice President, Bright House Networks ! Ronald Johnson, Owner, Ronson Network Services ! Mark Kang, VP, Inspiration Network ! Hon. William E. Kennard, Former Chairman, FCC; Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union ! Hon. Karen Kornbluh, Former U.S. ambassador, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Senior Fellow for

Digital Policy, Council on Foreign Relations ! Erwin Krasnow, Partner, Garvey Schubert Barer; Co-Chair, MMTC Mentoring Committee; Vice-Chair, MMTC ! Maria Teresa Kumar, President and CEO, Voto Latino ! Fernando Laguarda, Vice President, External Affairs and Policy Counselor, Time Warner Cable ! Kevin Lewis, CEO, Lewis Education Group; Entrepreneur and Author of Crowdfundamentals: How to Raise $100K in 30 Days

through Crowdfunding ! Bruce Lincoln, Founder and Chief Design Scientist, Urban Cyberspace Company; Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Columbia

University ! Roland Martin, TV Anchor, TV One ! Michael McKenzie, Partner and Chief Strategy Officer, Grain Management, LLC ! Duane McKnight, Partner, Syncom Venture Partners ! Hon. Marc Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League ! Hon. Michael O’Rielly, Commissioner, FCC ! Hon. Ajit Pai, Commissioner, FCC ! Bret Perkins, Vice President, External and Government, Comcast ! Ruth Perot, Executive Director and CEO, Summit Health Institute for Research and Education ! Miles Peterson, Student, Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science ! Hon. Michael Powell, Former Chairman, FCC ! State Sen. Catherine Pugh (D-MD) – President Elect, National Black Caucus of State Legislators ! Matthew Quinn, Director of Healthcare Initiatives, Federal Communications Commission ! Issa Rae, Independent Producer; Creator, Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl ! Karen S. Rheuban, M.D., Medical Director, Office of Telemedicine, University of Virginia ! Hon. Cedric Richmond (D-LA), Member, U.S. House of Representatives ! Steven C. Roberts, Co-Founder, The Roberts Companies ! Mace Rosenstein, Partner, Covington and Burling, LLP ! Jim Shelton, Acting Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education ! Craig Silliman, Senior Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs, Verizon Communications ! Gigi Sohn, Special Counsel for External Affairs, FCC ! Hon. Cliff Stearns, Former Member of Congress (R-FL); Co-Chair, New Telecom and Internet Policy Taskforce ! Hon. Deborah Taylor Tate, Former Commissioner, FCC ! Hon. Ed Towns, Member of Congress Emeritus (D-NY); Co-Chair, New Telecom and Internet Policy Taskforce, MMTC ! Nicol Turner-Lee, Vice President and Chief Research and Policy Officer, MMTC ! Hon. Tom Wheeler, Chairman, FCC ! Hon. Richard E. Wiley, Former Chairman, FCC ! James L. Winston, Executive Director and General Counsel, National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters Inc. ! Navarrow Wright, President and CEO, #closethedivide