14th Meeting of the ICANN-Studienkreis

28–29 August 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria

Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan
 

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Thursday, 28 August, 2014

 

13.00 – 13.30 Registration & welcome coffee

 

13.30 – 15.00 Internet in Bulgaria – Policy, legislation and market perspectives

Welcome & moderation: Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of Aarhus
Opening: N. N. Deputy Minister of the Bulgarian government
Presentation: Hristo Hristov, e-Governance Directorate, Activities by the government: IGF, NetMundial, ICANN

 

Presentations:

George Dimitrov, Law firm Dimitrov, Petrov & Co.
Dragomir Slavov, Register.bg, The management of Bulgarian ccTLDs
Iliya Bazlyankov, CORE, The big potential of the new Cyrillic domains .САЙТ (.site) and .ОНЛАЙН (online)
Lyubomir Rusanov, Superhosting.bg on the Internet market in Bulgaria

 

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee

 

15.30 – 15.45 The Internet 2014

Annual key note speech by David W. Maher, Senior Vice President, Law & Policy, Public Interest Registry (PIR)

 

15.45 – 17.30 IGF, ITU Plenipot, WSIS 10+: Internet diplomacy after the Brazil Internet summit

Moderation: Yrjö Länsipuro, ISOC Finland
 
Input from:
Richard Hill, AGIP Geneva
Thomas Schneider, OFCOM Switzerland, GAC member
Werner Staub, CORE

 

20.00 – 23.00 Bulgarian Cultural Dinner

courtesy by UNICART Bulgaria and by invitation only

 

Friday, 29 August, 2014

 

9.00 – 10.30 IANA transition and ICANN´s accountability: How to move to the next level?

Moderation: Avri Doria; Independent Researcher
 
Input from:
Fiona Alexander, NTIA
Chris Buckridge, RIPE NCC
Pat Kane, VeriSign
Stefano Trumpy, GAC Italy

 

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee

 

11.00 – 12.30 1000 new flowers in the gTLD Garden: How to water it and what next?

Moderation: Michael Heller, SHSG
 
Input from:
Keith Drazek, VeriSign
Markus Eggensperger, United Domains
Marco Hoffmann, InterNetX

 

12.30 – 13.30 Business Lunch

 

13.30 – 14.00 Security vs. privacy

Moderation: Stephane Van Gelder
 
Input from:
Roberto Gaetano, Public Interest Registry and former ICANN Director
Lee Hibbard, Council of Europe
Erika Mann, Facebook and ICANN Director
Michele Neylon, Blacknight
 

14.30 – 15.00 Coffee

 

15.00 – 15.30 The Net Mundial Alliance: A new season in Internet governance?

Key Note Speech: Fadi Chehadé, ICANN´s CEO and President
 

15.30 – 17.00 Discussion

Moderation: Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of Aarhus
 
Input from:
Sébastien Bachollet, ICANN Director
Philipp Grabensee, Afilias
Alan Marcus, World Economic Forum, Davos (tbc)
Veni Markowski, ICANN staff
 

Status: 26. August, 2014