we'll hear from congressman greg walton at 1:00 eastern and commissioner robert mcdowell and later this afternoon another sec commissioner, jessica rosenworsel. >> hello, welcome. everybody. welcome to the 14th annual state of the net conference. thank you all for coming. some of you have been here 14 years in a row and i appreciate a lot of you have been here for a good many number of those years and i want to thank you as well. this year has been really an interesting year. not only in, you know, national affairs, but also in internet policy. it's been a really, really, really interesting convulsive, a different year and a lot of things have changed. and we're really excited and we put together a group, a great group of speakers here to talk about a lot of t

we'll hear from congressman greg walton at 1:00 eastern and commissioner robert mcdowell and later this afternoon another sec commissioner, jessica rosenworsel. >> hello, welcome. everybody. welcome to the 14th annual state of the net conference. thank you all for coming. some of you have been here 14 years in a row and i appreciate a lot of you have been here for a good many number of those years and i want to thank you as well. this year has been really an interesting year. not only in, you know, national affairs, but also in internet policy. it's been a really, really, really interesting convulsive, a different year and a lot of things have changed. and we're really excited and we put together a group, a great group of speakers here to talk about a lot of those seismic changes that have happened to us and our policy the last year and also kind of scope out what we think this year is going to look like and that's kind of the point. state of the net in january. my name is tim lorden and i'm part of organization sponsored by jerry who founded this organization, you'll hear from at lunch