Webcast: Mobilizing America: 5G and the Mobile Future
Join Mobile Future and TIA for this free webinar discussing the power and promise of 5G. The next generation of mobile technology, 5G's increased bandwidth will spur innovation and help reimagine long-established industries.
With 5G wireless networks on the horizon, the global race to lead the world in this next wireless frontier is underway. The next wireless revolution will deliver blazing fast speeds over network technology that can support billions of simultaneously connected devices, as well as provide quicker reaction times, exceptional network reliability, and the ability to switch between spectrum bands and networks without delay. Realizing 5G’s full potential will require network operators, technology suppliers and policy makers to work together to ensure that the U.S. continues its global leadership in wireless.
Presenters:
- Jim Kohlenberger, President of JK Strategies, Former White House Technology Advisor, and member of the Mobile Future Board of Advisors
- Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future
- Limor Schafman, Director of Content Development for TIA (Webcast Host)
Jim Kohlenberger, President, JK Strategies
Jim Kohlenberger is a former White House policy advisor to two U.S. Presidents and is President of JK Strategies- a public policy consulting practice. He serves as executive director of jobs4america and serves on the board of the Benton Foundation and the Advisory Board for Mobile Future. Most recently, Kohlenberger served as Chief of Staff for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) where he helped craft the President’s innovation strategy, advanced policies to help spur a mobile broadband revolution through spectrum reform, worked to secure cyberspace, helped put the U.S. space program on a bold new course for the future and sought to harness innovation to advance economic growth and opportunity for all Americans. He also served 8 years in the Clinton White House as Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President where he advanced pragmatic telecommunications, Internet and innovation policies, and helped connect every classroom to the Internet. He launched the “Voice on the Net” or VONCoalition and served as its executive director representing more than two dozen high tech companies and working to advance technologies that improve communications over the Internet.
Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future
Jonathan Spalter has a long track record building innovative technology, mobile, Internet, and research companies in the U.S, Asia/Pacific, and Europe. He founded the independent investment research company, Public Insight, and was CEO of Snocap, the digital music technology company founded by the creators of Napster. He has held senior management roles at the Paris headquarters of Vivendi Universal, the global media and telecommunications group, where he was group senior vice president in charge of the company’s public policy and external affairs teams, served as executive vice president of business development and strategy for Vivendi Universal Net, and CEO of company affiliate Atmedica Worldwide.
During the Clinton Administration, Spalter was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate for the position of associate director at the US Information Agency, where he was also appointed chief information officer. He also served in the White House as director of public affairs for the National Security Council, and chief international affairs spokesperson and speech writer for Vice President Al Gore. He also co-founded and chaired the non-profit animation studio Climate Cartoons, which produced media content about global warming. One of its productions recently won the Emmy Award for National Public Service Announcements/Broadband. Early in his career, Spalter held various productions and editorial roles in broadcast and cable – among them, foreign affairs reporter for PBS’ MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. He graduated from Harvard College and Cambridge University.