The summit itself drew approximately 120 participants from academia, industry, NGO’s and
government agencies around the United States. There were three main sessions, each of which
began with two keynote speakers. The keynotes were followed by four to five short “rapid fire”
talks. Each session ended with a prolonged group panel discussion session. In this manner, the
summit presented a wide range of material to participants, and also encouraged debate and
discussion of some key issues in the field. The sessions aligned with the broad areas that the
project team and experts had decided were most important for GCI to investigate. The three
sessions were: