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Nancy Victory
Partner
Wiley Rein
Ms. Victory has extensive experience in communications policy. She advises a broad cross-section of the industry on the business implications of regulatory policy and represents these entities before the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and the Administration. |
Professional Experience
• Chair, FCC Independent Panel Reviewing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Networks (January-June 2006). Named by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to head the panel reviewing the impact of the hurricane on telecommunications and media infrastructure and make recommendations to the Commission regarding ways to improve disaster preparedness, network reliability and communication among first responders.
• Chair, FCC Advisory Committee for the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (2003-Present). Named by FCC Chairman Michael Powell to head efforts to assemble U.S. industry positions on spectrum use issues in preparation for the conference.
• Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (2001-2003). Appointed by President Bush to serve as his advisor on domestic and international communications policy and manager of the federal government´s use of spectrum. Managed 250-person agency comprised of policy staff,grant administrators, spectrum engineers and lab facilities.
Achievements included:
- Launch of comprehensive spectrum management reform effort, including Presidential memorandum calling for recommendations to improve spectrum management and historic memorandum with the FCC for closer coordination and use of spectrum.
- Addressed spectrum needs of new technologies by devising plans to make 90 MHz available for advanced (3G) wireless services and 255 MHz available for unlicensed wireless use.
- Contracted with private sector companies for management of .us and .edu top-level domains and assisted with legislation signed by the President creating a safe space for children on the Internet (.kids.us).
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Wednesday 3 December 2008
ENTNET 2008: Enterprise Solutions for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
ENTNET 2008: Enterprise Solutions for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning |
10:00 – 10: 10 |
EntNet Opening:
Daniel Minoli, ENTNET TPC & Latif Ladid, ENTNET Keynotes Chair |
10:10 – 11:10 |
Keynote 1 : Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning: Lessons From Katrina, Dr. Nancy Victory, Chair FCC Katrina Report
Q&A: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning: Lessons From Katrina |
11:10 – 12:00 |
Panel 1: Emerging Communication Services for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (DR) Planning, Bhumip Khasnabish, Verizon Network and Technology, Waltham, MA, USA
Amador Lucero, “QWEST Approach to DR”, VP of Network Operations, QWEST
Chi-Ming, Chen, “AT&T approaches to DR.” AT&T Labs.
Expectation from the DR Service User Community, Speaker to be announced |
12:00 -13:30 |
Lunch |
13:30 -14:15 |
Keynote 2: TBD |
14:15-15:30 |
Panel 2: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications for Network Services, Daniel Minoli, SES Engineering
Walter Falk, “SOA Directions in the Networking World”, IBM Global Services
Josephine Micallef, Francesco Caruso, “SOA for Service and Network Management”, Telcordia. |
15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00 – 17:45 |
Panel 3: Communication Advances for the Oil, Gas, and Energy Industries, David Yates, Bentley College
Dr. Magdy A. Bayoumi, Director of The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana
Loy Evans, Cisco Systems
Kim Jovanovich, President, Omni Technologies Inc.
Dr. Rajgopal Kannan, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University
Dr. Raife F. Smith II, Professor, Southern University |
17:45 – 18:00 |
EntNet Closing, Daniel Minoli, ENTNET TPC & Latif Ladid, ENTNET Keynotes Chair |
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