Technology Policy Institute

Two Think Minimum

Podcast of the Technology Policy Institute of Washington, D.C. The Technology Policy Institute is a think tank that focuses on the economics of innovation, technological change, and related regulation in the United States and around the world. Our mission is to advance knowledge and inform policymakers by producing independent, rigorous research and by sponsoring educational programs and conferences on major issues affecting information technology and communications policy.

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May 12, 2026

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Episodes

BT Director of Regulatory Affairs Cathryn Ross on the Economics of Regulation 28.10.2019

Cathryn Ross is director of regulatory affairs at BT. Before that, she was head of Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority.) She joins TPI Senior Fellow Bob Hahn on this wide-ranging discussion of the economics of regulation.

BigID CEO Dimitri Sirota Brings Fresh Ideas to Privacy Debate 09.10.2019

Dimitri Sirota is CEO and cofounder of BigID. Sirota is the CEO of one of the first enterprise privacy management platforms called BigID and a privacy and identity expert. He is an established serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor and strategist and previously founded two enterprise software companies focused on security and API management, Layer Seven technologies which was sold to CA Technologie...

Former FTC Chair Timothy Muris and Jonathan Nuechterlein Discuss Antitrust in the Internet Era 07.10.2019

Tim Muris is a former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and currently a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, at Scalia Law School and Senior Counsel at the law firm Sidley-Austin. He has substantial experience in every aspect of antitrust enforcement as well as in key consumer protection issues, including advertising, consumer finance and privacy regulation. During hi...

Former FTC Chairman William Kovacic on the Future of the FTC and Antitrust 17.09.2019

Professor William Kovacic is the Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, Professor of Law, and Director of the Competition Law Center at George Washington University Law School. Bill has many years of experience as an antitrust scholar and practitioner, serving at the Federal Trade Commission as Chairman (2008-2009), Commissioner (2006-2011), and General Counsel (2001-2004).

eSports with Brian Sullivan and Laura Martin 04.09.2019

Brian Sullivan of CNBC and Laura Martin of Needham & Company sit down with Scott Wallsten in this episode recorded in Aspen, Colorado at the Technology Policy Institute's annual Aspen Forum on August 18-20, 2019. Brian, Laura, and Scott discuss a wide range of topics from eSports, gaming, Fortnite, and the future of media. Brian and Laura discuss their perspectives on the growing influence of Wash...

Big Tech and Antitrust: A Discussion With Randal Picker 18.07.2019

Randal Picker is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory, and affiliate faculty with the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics. Professor Picker currently teaches classes at the Law School in Secured Transactions and Antitrust and...

What’s the Answer to the C-Band Conundrum? 05.06.2019

Panel event recorded on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, at TPI Conference Center, 409 12th Street, SW, Second Floor, Washington, DC 20024. To maximize spectrum’s value, it must be able to transition to new uses as technologies emerge. The C-Band includes 500 MHz of particularly desirable spectrum between 3.7 and 4.2 GHz that is currently allocated for satellite use. Given fast-growin...

The Costs and Benefits of Banning Huawei 20.05.2019

TPI hosted a panel of experts on April 9, 2019 in Washington, D.C. to discuss technical concerns and the costs and benefits of banning Huawei from U.S. telecommunications markets. Experts from the National Defense University, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, Virginia Tech, the New America Foundation and Politico participated in the discussion.

Tyler Cowen and Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero 06.05.2019

Tyler Cowen is the New York Times bestselling author of the Great Stagnation and writer of a daily blog called Marginal Revolution. He holds the Holbert L. Harris Chair in Economics at George Mason University, writes as a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, and hosts a popular discussion series called Conversations with Tyler where he interviews leading thinkers of our time. Today we're excited to talk w...

Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Privacy, Regulatory Certainty, and Innovation 20.03.2019

Blockchain and cryptocurrency experts discussed their 2019 policy priorities at a recent luncheon on Capitol Hill on March 15, 2019 hosted by the Technology Policy Institute in conjunction with the Blockchain Caucus. The conversation focused on stablecoins, privacy, and regulatory uncertainty. Blockchain 201: Policy Questions for 2019, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Capitol Visitors Center, First Street, NE, CV...

Privacy Legislation in 2019? Maureen Ohlhausen and Alan Raul 01.03.2019

Maureen Ohlhausen is currently Practice Group Chair and Partner of Antitrust and Competition Law at Baker Botts in Washington, D.C. Alan Raul is founder and lead partner of Sidley Austin's Privacy and Cybersecurity practice in Washington, D.C. We last saw you on a privacy panel we hosted at the National Press Club on January 16th, earlier this year. It's now late February 2019 and this week Congre...

Music Licensing after the Music Modernization Act with Mitch Glazier and David Israelite 05.11.2018

Hi, and welcome to TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. Today is Tuesday, October 30th, 2018, and I'm Scott Wallsten, president and senior fellow of the Technology Policy Institute, here with Tom Lenard, senior fellow and president emeritus of TPI. We'll be chatting with Mitch Glazier, who is president of the Recording Industry Association of America, and David Israelite, President and CEO of the Nat...

How Russian Twitter Trolls Influence Society and Elections with Patrick Warren 02.11.2018

Welcome back to TPI’s Podcast Two Think Minimum. It's Monday, October 29th, 2018. We're excited to talk with Patrick Warren, who has a Ph. D. in economics from MIT and is now an Associate Professor of Economics at Clemson University. Patrick has become a leading authority on the impact of Internet trolls on elections, which is obviously of huge importance as we head into the midterms. His work is...

Victoria Graham on Antitrust and Corporate Crime Journalism 01.10.2018

Today we're excited to talk with Victoria Graham. She is an antitrust and corporate crime reporter for Bloomberg Law in Washington, covering news and trends with the Justice Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission. Victoria’s antitrust coverage also extends into private litigation matters including antitrust suits against the NCAA and employee class actions...

Laura Martin on Netflix, Content Creation, and Creative Talent 27.07.2018

We sat down with Wall Street analyst, and TPI board member, Laura Martin, to talk about the changing media landscape. As it turned out, we had only about 15 minutes, which we used talking about Netflix. Still, given that Netflix had announced its earnings only the day previously, the conversation was interesting and illuminating. So enjoy this relatively short episode of Two Think Minimum and the...

Ina Fried, Axios, and Tech Journalism Today 19.07.2018

Today we're excited to talk with Ina Fried of Axios, a tech journalist who covers telecom policy. Ina writes the daily newsletter for Axios that many of our listeners may read each morning. According to her twitter account, she is Chief Technology Correspondent for Axios and former Senior Editor at Recode.

The FCC and the New Telecom and Media Landscape: A Conversation with Jonathan Make and David Kaut 18.06.2018

Hi and welcome back to TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. It's Thursday, June 7th, 2018, and I'm TPI Research Fellow, Sarah Oh. Today we're excited to talk with two of the most knowledgeable journalists covering telecom policy, Jonathan Make and David Kaut, from Communications Daily. Jonathan is the editor of Communications Daily and in his spare time is president of the Society of Professional Jou...

Tech News in Washington, D.C. with Rob Pegoraro 18.04.2018

Today we have with us Rob Pegoraro, who is a tech journalist of long standing in the DC area and has been covering technology and the intersection of technology and politics, for close to about 20 years now, if not longer. We're happy to have him with us, given that he's one of Washingtonian’s Tech Titans from 2015 to 2017. He would be the perfect guest to have in to talk about the evolution of te...

The Political Spectrum: The Hazletts and the Haz Nots? with Thomas Hazlett 30.03.2018

Today we continue our conversation with special guest, Professor Thomas Hazlett. Professor Hazlett is the H.H. Macauley Endowed Professor of Economics at Clemson University. He will talk about his book, The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone, published by Yale University Press.

Do Algorithms Rule the World? Data Privacy and the GDPR with Maja Brkan 08.03.2018

Hello, and welcome to another episode of TPI’s podcast Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn TPI’s Director of Communications. This week, we're fortunate to be talking with Maja Brkan, who is an Assistant Professor in European Law on the faculty of law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Maja also has the distinction of being part of our AI conference which was held earlier this week. We wi...

Using AI to Predict Changes in Labor Markets with Emilio Colombo 02.03.2018

Hello, and welcome to another episode of TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn, TPI’s Director of Communications. Today, we're speaking with Emilio Colombo who is Professor of Economics at the Catholic University in Milan who will talk about Applying Machine Learning Tools on Web Vacancies for Labour Markets and Skill Analysis.

Incentive Auctions and Spectrum Thoughts 16.02.2018

Hello, and welcome to another episode of TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn, TPI’s Director of Communications. Today, we will continue to tackle the meta issues in tech policy and tech politics with a conversation on the Incentive Auctions.

Universal Service and Rural Broadband 12.02.2018

Hello, and welcome back to TPI's new podcast. I'm Chris McGurn, TPI's Director of Communications. Each week on this podcast, we facilitate a conversation between TPI fellows and eventually special guests on some of the most pressing and important issues in tech policy and tech politics. This week's episode features a very important conversation on the Universal Service Fund and rural broadband. Wh...

Infrastructure Week? 03.02.2018

Welcome back to TPI’s podcast Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn, TPI’s Director of Communications. This week’s episode features a very important conversation on infrastructure. Each week on this podcast we facilitate a conversation between TPI fellows and special guests on some of the most pressing and important issues in tech policy and tech politics. To talk about this more, here is our Sarah...

What is Broadband? 26.01.2018

Welcome to the maiden voyage of TPI’s new podcast – Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn, TPI’s Director of Communications. Each week on this podcast, we’ll facilitate a conversation between TPI fellows and special guests on some of the most pressing and important issues in tech policy and tech politics. This week’s episode features a very important conversation on a topic that couldn’t be more rel...

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