Next on Technogenesis^® TV: The Future of Telecom Today

HOBOKEN , N.J. – As the desire for immediate information increases, the telecom industry works hard to meet our demanding needs. With the industry moving so fast, government regulators face new challenges to keep up. Is it possible that safety and security are not keeping up with technology? Where should the balance between industry self-regulation and government regulation lie? How will the implementation or lack of regulations effect how we live, communicate and do business?

On the next edition of Technogenesis, Dr. Harold Raveche, the president of Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens), will explore these issues with representatives from the telecommunications industry, and experts in telecom regulation.

Dr. Raveche will be joined by special guests Mr. Jorge Blanco, the vice president of product and solutions marketing in Avaya’s Enterprise Communications Group; Ms. Annabelle B. Canning, the executive director of federal and state tax policy at Verizon Wireless; and Ms. Rebecca Blumenstein, technology editor at the Wall Street Journal. Each guest offers a different perspective and opinion of the future of the telecom industry and government regulation.

Technogenesis is a weekly TV program produced by Stevens, in cooperation with cn8, the Comcast Network.

The Technogenesis program, “Regulation of Innovation,” airs at 7:00 p.m., on cn8, the Comcast Network, each of the following Sundays throughout New Jersey, Westchester County, New York, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston : June 6, June 20, July 7, and July 18. The program will also appear at various times throughout the week on the local Comcast outlets in Prince William and Fairfax Counties, Va., as well as Prince George’s County, Md. Please check for local listings.

Hosted by Dr. Raveche and veteran TV journalist Steve Taylor, each program includes special guests from the areas of science, technology, government, education, business or industry.

Jorge R. Blanco is the vice president of product and solutions marketing in Avaya’s Enterprise Communications Group. Blanco is responsible for the creation and execution of the marketing plans for Converged Systems, Customer Relationship Management, and Unified Communications.

Annabelle B. Canning is the executive director of Federal and State Tax Policy at Verizon Wireless where she is responsible for the company’s federal and state legislative tax reform initiatives. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, Canning was legislative director at the Council On State Taxation (COST), where her responsibilities included general oversight of legislative matters as well as managing certain COST member coalitions, including the organization’s Telecommunications Tax Task Force.

Rebecca Blumenstein is the technology editor of the Wall Street Journal, and supervises coverage of telecom, cable and the wireless industries. She assumed her current position in Jan. 2004, after service as deputy technology editor. Blumenstein started at the Wall Street Journal in Detroit in 1995, covering General Motors, and transferred to New York in 1998 to cover AT&T and the long distance industry. Prior to the Wall Street Journal, Blumenstein worked at Newsday, Gannett Newspapers and the Tampa Tribune.

Co-produced by Stevens and Comcast, the half-hour Technogenesis programs feature government, research and industry leaders discussing some of the most challenging real-world issues facing science and technology today.

The cn8 Comcast Network is one of the nation’s largest regional cable networks reaching more than 8 million households in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Boston

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University, is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,234 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with more than 400 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.

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