About SFC

The Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (ITP) and the Silicon Flatirons Center (SFC) are sister programs within the University of Colorado at Boulder: ITP is a degree-granting program within the College of Engineering, and SFC is a policy-based conference series hosted by the School of Law. ITP and SFC regularly co-host conferences and coordinate on many other matters at the intersection of technology and policy.

For Colorado Lawyers

CLE Credit is available for all of these conferences by viewing the video and filing an affidavit with the Colorado Supreme Court. For details on the conference codes, please see the Colorado Supreme Court Website and download the form entitled "Accredited Seminars Listeby Date."

Silicon Flatirons Videos

ITP and SFC record every conference series and integrate them into our curriculum through TLEN 5600, "Telecommunications Seminar." On this web page we collect and post the videos, and for now, are making them freely available to friends of the two programs. Please see the Silicon Flatirons Website for additional details on the topics and panelists for each of the conferences listed below.

View 2007-2009 Conferences:

Digital Copyright and Innovation Online 
October 13, 2009

               



The Rise of Broadband Video and the Future of Digital Media 
October 12, 2009 

       

Telecommunications Regulation in Comparative Perspective 
September 09, 2009

               

Putting the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Perspective 
April 16, 2009

              

Evaluating Software Patents 
March 19, 2009
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]

The Digital Broadband Migration: Imagining the Internet's Future 
February 8-9, 2009
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7] [Part 8]

Antitrust Law for the New Administration 
January 26, 2009
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5]

The Law and Ethics of Network Monitoring 
December 05, 2008
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

The Second Annual Colorado Broadband Summit 
November 14, 2008
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7]

The Structure of the Video Programming Industry: Revolution, Regulation, or The Return of Yesterday's Battles? 
October 17, 2008
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]

Deregulation Revisited: A Tribute to Fred Kahn
September 05, 2008
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]

Intellectual Property Policy and the Presidential Election 
August 28, 2008
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]

Public Safety and Government Broadband 
August 27, 2008
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]

The Future of Cable
July 22, 2008
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]

The War on "Piracy": A Fight for Industry Survival or a Failed Approach?
April 09, 2008
videos: [video]

Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Entrepreneurship in The Information Industries
March 04, 2008
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]

Private Equity, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Today's Capital Markets: A Talk by David Bonderman
Februrary 22, 2008
videos: [video]

The Digital Broadband Migration: Information Policy for the Next Administation
Februrary 10-11, 2008
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7]

Public Safety, New Technologies, and the Future of Emergency Response
November 28, 2007
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

The Future of User Generated Content
October 10, 2007
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]

Taking Stock of the Anti Trust Modernization Commission Report
September 5, 2007
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

Law and Entrepreneurship: The Art of the Deal
April 9, 2007
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

The Web and the West: Comparing Two Frontiers
March 21, 2007
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]

Re-Examining Open Source and Community Development
March 5, 2007
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]

Digital Broadband Migration Conference
Preparing for the Next Wave of Innovation
February 11-12, 2007
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] 
*Two of the conference tapes were not included due to unrecoverable audio problems

View 2006 Conferences:

Network Convergence
Looking at the Business and Regulatory Challenges Created By Convergence
November 2, 2006
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]

Confronting Cable's Technological Frontier
Co-sponsored by The Cable Center and Denver Telecom Professionals
October 10, 2006
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

Wireless Revolutions
How Telecommunications Regulation Should Adapt to New Technologies and Learn From Water Law as well as ITP Tutorials on Wireless
September 7, 2006
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]

The Challenges of Information Management
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Secure Data Collection, Storage and Retention
March 13th, 2006
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]

The Digital Broadband Migration
Confronting the New Regulatory Frontiers
Feb 19-20, 2006
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6]

ITP Conference-The Wireless Revolution
Feb 18th, 2006
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2]
This conference will feature a discussion of wireless technologies and will feature presentations from Dale Hatfield (ITP), Kevin Kahn (Intel), Tim Brown (ITP) and David Thompson (Author, see http://www.blueprinttoabillion.com).

View 2005 Conferences:

"Telecom's Brave New World"
The 32nd Annual Austin N. Scott Jr. Memorial Lecture Presented by Professor Phil Weiser
Nov. 15, 2005 at 7:00
videos: [video]

"Commercial Opportunities at the Technological Frontier: Building A Company Around New Internet Technologies"
Building A Company Around New Internet Technologies
Nov. 7 2005 at 3:00
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]

"Re-Examining the Role of State and Local Governments in Telecom Regulation"
Oct. 26 2005 at 3:20
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

"The Rise of the Cable Industry and its Future"
Oct. 18 2005 at 3:00
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

"Searching for the Third Broadband Pipe"
Sep. 29 2005 at 3:15
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

"The End of Politics as We Knew It?"
Examining the Internet and its Impact on Political Participation
Sep. 8 2005 at 3:45
videos: [ video ]

"Open Source, Open Standards, and the Future of the Internet"
Mar. 3, 2005
videos:[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

"The Digital Broadband Migration: Rewriting The Telecom Act"
Feb. 13 - 14, 2005
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6]

"The First Annual Silicon Flatirons CIO Forum"
Jan. 24, 2005
videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5]