schedule but to introduce our keynote speaker for the first part, the prelunch i want to introduce jerry berman who spoke about earlier today. jerry created all of this. it was his vision to create an organization that could generate internet policy conversation when nobody cared about jerry believe this organization to treat everybody as in a state called even if they didn't know it yet. we got along time but that was not the case that people see him becoming around thinking this is important jerry and other members of the board of directors, to recognize congressman rick white was a founder of the congressional internet caucus which is one of our major programs from the state of washington. rick, thank you for coming. .. >> is congressman goodlatte here? he's coming in. as many of you know, he's retiring this year of after a long run in virginia. he's been a leader on internet policy and worked tirelessly on encryption and we've dialoged over the years on these issues, but what was critical and he's been absolutely critical to the education foundation which runs because of bob goodlatte and t

schedule but to introduce our keynote speaker for the first part, the prelunch i want to introduce jerry berman who spoke about earlier today. jerry created all of this. it was his vision to create an organization that could generate internet policy conversation when nobody

jerry berman. [applause] mr. berman: is congressman goodlatte here? he is coming in. it is an honor for me to be here and to introduce congressman goodlatte. as many of you know, he is retiring this year after a long run in virginia. he has always been a leader on internet policy. he worked tirelessly on encryption policy, surveillance policy geared we've dialogued over the years on these issues. but what was critical and he has been absolutely critical to the success of the internet education foundation, which runs because of bob goodlatte and tim morgan, and they both deserve a hand just for that. [applause] my last word before i turn it over to bob, back when we started this, the big issue wasthe internet was a am -- spam. we were a footnote in the telecom rewrite of 1996. was as therned internet group, there were going to be multiple policy issues that confronted it. but there was going to be no global government to govern it, and what we had to do is consider ourselves part of a community with a responsibility to work together, not just for the bottom line, but f

my name is tim and i'm the executive director of the organization founded by jerry berman who was over here. you will hear from him at lunch who founded the organization and found the concept. [applause] jerry is a giant and we are happy to have him back. he will be introducing in the program so you will hear from him. normally it snows before this snow tomorrow. i am thrilled about that and the people that can organize a state of the union can deal with that. today we have good weather and we are thrilled to have a great lineup of speakers. really quickly i would like to thank our sponsors. you can see some of them on the screens around you. include comcast, universal, facebook, we have verizon, they will be rotating throughout the day so we want to thank them. we also want to thank folks at c-span that showed up to live stream this on their channel here we are thrilled to have a lot of people tuning into this. the # four today if you like to >> we did a walk through with the security team from some of and security of the last meeting a 14th annual and i said yes it started in 2006. h