Date:           Wed. Dec 9th, 2009 6:00 - 8:00PM
Location:  National Semiconductor, Building E, Conference Room, 2900 Semiconductor Dr, Santa Clara, CA 95051
Title:          U.S. Public Policy Issues Facing Telecommunications Carriers 
Speaker:  Chris Boyer, VP of AT&T
RSVP:        comsocscv@gmail.com

Abstract:
Chris Boyer from AT&T will provide an overview of some of the technology trends that are currently impacting the telecommunications industry and how those trends are driving a host of public policy issues that are currently being discussed in Washington, D.C. Mr. Boyer will provide an overview of the changes AT&T is seeing in the industry, a high level general discussion of the range of issues policymakers are encountering in Washington and offer some thoughts on AT&T's perspective. 

Biography:
Chris Boyer serves as Assistant Vice President - Public Policy at AT&T Services Inc. Mr. Boyer is responsible for developing and coordinating at the Federal and state levels AT&T's policies impacting emerging services and technology with a particular focus on IP based services such as Internet and video services.

Prior to this role Mr. Boyer was AT&T's dedicated public policy resource embedded with AT&T's business units coordinating the company's nationwide efforts to expand fiber optics into neighborhoods to deliver Internet Protocol (IP)-based television, faster high-speed Internet access and voice services under the AT&T U-verseSM brand. In this role Mr. Boyer has represented AT&T before numerous external audiences and policymakers as a subject matter expert on these initiatives.

Mr. Boyer joined AT&T in 1993 and has held various positions in AT&T's corporate public policy, network planning and engineering, product marketing and network services departments including extensive experience working on AT&T's broadband, VoIP and IPTV initiatives.

Mr. Boyer holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and an MBA from the University of Houston in Houston, TX. He and his wife Marnie have a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Sydney, and reside in San Ramon, CA.