The Tech Policy Summit 2008 was held March 26-28 in Hollywood. I wasn’t there but I thought I’d virtually lurk by checking out the Summit site, blogs and news articles on the event – but then I found the Tech Policy Central site that has done the job for me.
Here are quickie highlights taken from there or from resources cited there:

1. The theme this year was Markets in Transition: Collaborating to Drive Technology Innovation and Adoption.
   Tech Talent Drain One Of The ‘Scariest’ Trends In US, Says Qualcomm Chief – I thought this was interesting as I just listened to a radio program in Ireland about incentives they are creating to encourage more students to study math. The point here was a little different and focused on students from abroad who are educated in the US and then can’t (or don’t) get work here. But building a homegrown interest in math wouldn’t hurt. (Here’s another related article – Congress is holding H-1B boost ‘hostage,’ says Oracle lobbyist.)

   It makes about as much sense as Minnesota feeding and training the farm team for the Yankees.

1. Comcast & BitTorrent are friends. I reported on this earlier – but the timing of the announcement coincided with the conference; c|net posted a nice Q&A with Comcast on the new partnership. (Here’s FCC Commissioner McDowell’s take on it.)
2. I’ve seen the most coverage on a panel session that included Ambassador Richard Russell, the associate director of the White House’s Office on Science and Technology Policy who thinks the US rocks for broadband and Yale Law School’s Susan Crawford doesn’t agree. My favorite reading of the session comes from Slashdot – and as is often the case, it’s the comments that I most enjoy.