Public Information has the pleasure of inviting you to a multifaceted program targeted on coaching and creating the subsequent era of tech coverage specialists and public curiosity advocates that displays the variety of voices and experiences in our society.
Please be a part of us for our month-to-month Profession Breakfast Sequence. This occasion is designed particularly for college kids and up to date graduates of shade, providing insights into tech coverage and public curiosity careers, and offering a platform for people from underrepresented backgrounds. This time you’ll have the chance to have an excellent dialog with Larry Irvin.
Larry Irving is the President of the Irving Group, a consulting agency offering strategic planning and consulting providers to worldwide telecommunications, media and know-how corporations, non-profit organizations, and philanthropies. Irving can be an working associate and chief public coverage, ESG and DEI advisor to ZMC, a personal fairness agency.
Previous to founding the Irving Group in 1999, Mr. Irving served for nearly seven years as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Data (NTIA), the place he was a principal advisor to the President, Vice President and Secretary of Commerce on home and worldwide telecommunications and data know-how points. Mr. Irving additionally served on the Clinton-Gore and Obama-Biden transition groups as a senior member of their know-how coverage teams.
Mr. Irving was one of many principal architects and advocates of the Clinton Administration’s telecommunications and Web insurance policies, and was a degree particular person within the Clinton Administration’s profitable efforts to reform the US telecommunications regulation, leading to passage of probably the most sweeping change in America’s telecommunications legal guidelines in 60 years. Largely resulting from his work to advertise insurance policies and develop packages to make sure entry to superior telecommunications and data applied sciences, Mr. Irving was named one of many fifty most influential individuals within the “12 months of the Web” by Newsweek Journal. In 2019 Mr. Irving was elected to the Web Corridor of Fame for his pioneering efforts figuring out the “digital divide” and advocating for home and worldwide insurance policies to extend extra equitable entry to the Web and associated applied sciences.
Mr. Irving is the Chairman of the Board of the Public Broadcasting Service. He at the moment serves as a member of the Boards of Administrators of Training Networks of America; The Second Metropolis; The Faculties, Hospitals and Libraries Broadband Coalition; The Texas Tribune; and the North American Electrical Reliability Company. He additionally serves as a member of Northwestern College’s Board of Trustees, as president of Northwestern’s Alumni Affiliation, on the Board of Guests for the Weinberg Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Northwestern College, and on the Board of Guests for Stanford Legislation Faculty.
Be part of us on October 4th at 8.30 AM on the Gathering Spot to listen to extra.
This can be a personal occasion. Nonetheless, if you understand somebody who can be enthusiastic about attending, please electronic mail michele@publicknowledge.org
