Session 9: Thursday, 12 January 2023, 1:30-3:00 PM MT
Colorado Convention Center - Mile High Ballroom 2B/3B
This Presidential Session will feature experts from across the sectors to discuss whether and how we can move from conflict to innovation in a way that continues the weather enterprise's need for the best data to support life-saving forecasts. Reliance on radio frequency spectrum for life saving environmental technologies is not new to the AMS community. But as technologies have advanced across many sectors and around the world, especially with the deployment of 5G, the demand for that spectrum is increasing. There has been growing policy and regulatory conflict as the risk and reality of interference has increased, which was particularly intense in 2019 when the Federal Communications Commission auctioned spectrum near an important data input for weather models. As the National Science Foundation has begun to invest in spectrum innovation research, the weather enterprise can provide its science insights into the future of spectrum allocation.
Keynote Speaker: Umair Javed, Chief Counsel to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington D.C.
Moderators: Renee Leduc, Founder and Principal, Narayan Strategy, Arlington, VA, [email protected]; Jordan Gerth, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD [email protected]; Susan Avery, President Emerita, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Boulder, CO [email protected]
Panelists: Jennifer Warren, VP, Civil and Regulatory?Affairs, Lockheed Martin, Arlington, VA [email protected]; Tony McNally, Head, Earth System Assimilation, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK - [email protected]: John Chapin, Special Advisor for Spectrum, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA [email protected] ; Michael Farrar, Director of NCEP
Session Co-Chairs: Renee Leduc ([email protected]), Jordan Gerth ([email protected]), and Susan Avery ([email protected]).