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Next-Generation Communications

Guiding Prompts:

What are the economic and national security implications of the 5G competition? How should the U.S. government roll-out innovative, affordable, and secure 5G domestically? How might the U.S. government incentivize U.S. firms to disrupt the radio access network (RAN) market? What should the U.S. government do to ensure a level playing field for U.S. firms at home and abroad?

Mentors

Gilman Louie

Gilman Louie is a Partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a technology venture capital fund. He is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies. Previously Gilman built a career as a pioneer in the interactive entertainment industry, with accomplishments that include the design and development of the Falcon F-16 flight simulator as well as being the person who licensed Tetris, the world’s most popular computer game, from its developers in the Soviet Union. In 2006, Gilman was presented with the Directors Award by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for his service in creating In-Q-Tel and providing service to the intelligence community. In 2002, he was listed as one of fifty scientific visionaries by Scientific American.  He is currently a commission on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence for the United States, Chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, serves on the board of Niantic, the publishers of Pokemon Go and a life-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Gilman Louie

Milo Medin

Milo Medin has been part of the Internet development community for more than 25 years. He is currently the vice president of wireless services at Google. Prior to joining Google in 2010, he was founder and CTO of M2Z Networks, a company that sought to deploy a national broadband wireless network system, and before then he was cofounder and the Chief Technology Officer of Excite@Home, where he led the development of the company's national infrastructure, and helped deliver the first large scale residential broadband access service in partnership with major cable operators, including the development of the DOCSIS cable modem standard. Earlier, Milo worked at NASA's Ames Research Center, where he developed the first peering point between backbone networks, and managed primary west coast interconnect for the Internet, and architected and managed the global NASA Science Internet, including the deployment of the first Internet connections to a number of countries around the world. Milo majored in computer science at UC Berkeley. He has participated in a number of public policy forums, including two National Academy of Sciences panels, given testimony in Congress and before the Federal Communications Commission on Broadband technology policy, and served on the PCAST working group on Spectrum Sharing. He holds several patents in the field of network access technology, and sits on the FCC’s Technical Advisory Committee. He has been married to his wife Catherine for 14 years, and has 4 children, and lives in Redwood City, CA.

Milo Medin