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5G is a transformative technology, offering tremendous advances from predecessor mobile technologies, especially in speed and low latency optimizing existing services and enabling new innovations. Yet 5G’s decentralized character exacerbates current concerns, especially security concerns. At the same time, 5G is increasingly bound up with geopolitics. Given legacy systems, geopolitics begins with choices about potential suppliers. The dominant suppliers will, in turn, become central to what standards are developed. And 5G is caught up in the increasing competition between the United States and China over technological supremacy. It is within this context that Europe navigates its way.
Featuring:
Tom Wheeler is a visiting fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Wheeler is a businessman, author, and was Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017.
For over four decades, Wheeler has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services. At the FCC he led the efforts that resulted in the adoption of Net Neutrality, privacy protections for consumers, and increased cybersecurity, among other policies.
Host and Moderator
Pari Esfandiari is president and co-founder at the Global TechnoPolitics Forum. She was a member of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) – EURALO at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
She serves at the APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council and is a member of the Action Council at the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center. Previously, she was a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Esfandiari is a serial entrepreneur, internet pioneer, and sustainable development executive.
Gregory Treverton is Chairman and co-founder at the Global TechnoPolitics Forum. He served as the chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council from 2014-2017.
He is a senior adviser with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He has taught public policy and foreign policy at Harvard, Columbia, the RAND Graduate School, and, most recently, at the University of Southern California.
Agenda:
tttt Introduction – Pari Esafdniari: 8 minutes-
ttttPanel discussion – Moderated by Gregory Treverton: 20 minutes
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ttttQ/A– Open floor: 10 Minutes
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ttttClosing remarkes: 2 minutes
