| 7:15 am |
Registration Open, sponsored by Wesco
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| 7:15 - 8:00 am |
Networking Breakfast with Exhibitors, sponsored by Google Fiber
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| 8:00 - 8:07 am |
Welcome & Introduction
Gary Bolton, President & CEO, Fiber Broadband Association
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| 8:07 - 8:10 am |
Platinum Sponsor Welcome & Introductions
Ashley Brown, Senior Director, Field Marketing, Adtran
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| 8:10 - 8:50 am |
Session #1 - Workforce Development: Building Tomorrow's Fiber Teams Today
Moderator: John George, Senior Director, Solutions Engineering and Professional Services. OFS, FBA Technology Committee Chair
Panelists:
- Jordana Barton-Garcia, Senior Fellow, Connect Humanity
- Melissa Beaudry, Project Manager, Cobb, Fendley & Associates
- William Graves, Fiber Optic Networks Manager, Mid-South Synergy
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| 8:50 - 9:30 am |
Session #2 - How Will the States Develop Maps to Award Funding: What Should Texas be Thinking About?
Moderator: Heather Burnett Gold, Vice President, External Affairs, Mears Group Inc. Broadband Division
Panelists:
- Carol Mattey, Founder Mattey Consulting
- A.J. Brown, Chief Legal Officer, Lumos Fiber
- Claude Aiken, Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Legal Officer, Nextlink Internet
- Christine Scott, Vice President of Marketing, Ezee Fiber
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| 9:30 - 9:32 am |
Breakfast Sponsor Remarks – Google Fiber
Sasha Petrovic, General Manager - Southwest Region, Google Fiber
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| 9:32 - 10:00 am |
Networking Break with Exhibitors, sponsored by Mears Group
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| 10:00 - 10:45 am |
Session #3 - The Community Connection: How Fiber Impacts Economics and Opportunity
Moderator: Evann Freeman, Director of Government Relations, EPB
Panelists:
- Bob Knight, President & CEO, Harrison Edwards, ECD Commissioner. Town of Ridgefield, CT
- John E. Greene Jr., CEO, New Lisbon Holdings
- Eddie Andrews, Principal and Co-Founder, DxTEL
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| 10:45 - 11:30 am |
Session #4 - Deployment Challenges and Opportunities: Taking Fiber Further
Moderator: Brendan O'Boyle, National Sales Manager - Communications Markets, Preformed Line Products, FBA Deployment Specialists Committee Chair
Panelists:
- John George, Senior Director, Solutions Engineering and Professional Services, OFS, FBA Technology Committee Chair
- Bo Gresham, Vice President, Ervin Cable Construction LLC
- Ryan McCowan, CTO Americas and AVP, Adtran
- Sachin Gupta, Director of Government Business & Economic Development, Centranet
- Jason Bone, Head of Metro Tech Ops - Southwest, Google Fiber
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| 11:30 - 12:00 pm |
Fireside Chat - How Pharr Fiber Can Take You
Guillermo Aguilar, Brownstone Consultants and Jose Pena, IT Director, City of Pharr, Texas with Scott Jackson, National Market Manager, Graybar, FBA Board Member
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| 12:00 - 12:02 pm |
Lunch Sponsor Remarks - Scott Jackson, National Market Manager, Graybar, FBA Board Member |
| 12:02 - 12:45 pm |
Networking Lunch, sponsored by Ciena/Graybar
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| 12:45 - 1:15 pm |
Networking Dessert with Exhibitors
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| 1:15 - 1:45 pm |
Fireside Chat: Texas Broadband Strategy and Plans
Greg Conte, Director, Texas Broadband Development Office with Marissa Mitrovich, FBA VP of Public Policy
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| 1:45 - 2:30 pm |
Session #5 - Post Deployment - What Comes Next? Building More than a Bigger Pipe
Moderator: Katie Espeseth, VP New Products, EPB, FBA Board Member
Panelists:
- Joe Baeumel, Vice President, Cloud Partners, KGPCo
- Sanjay Bhatia, VP, Product Marketing, DZS
- Amanda Hofer, Assistant General Manager, Central Texas Telephone Cooperative
- Mark Prather, President of Fiber & Technology, Centranet
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| 2:30 - 2:32 pm |
Networking Break Sponsor Remarks - Heather Burnett Gold, Vice President - External Affairs, Mears Group, Inc. | Broadband Division
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| 2:32 - 3:00 pm |
Networking Break with Exhibitors sponsored by Mears Group
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| 3:00 - 3:30 pm |
Fireside Chat: NTIA BEAD Funding Update
Jennifer Harris, FPO Texas, NTIA with Evann Freeman, Director of Government Relations, EPB
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| 3:30 - 3:35 pm |
Networking Reception Sponsor Remarks - Greg Wilson, Territory Account Manager, Panduit
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| 3:35 - 4:15 pm |
Session #6 - Building and Sustaining Customer Experience: Measurements that Matter
Moderator: Kimberly McKinley, CMO, Utopia Fiber, FBA Board Member
Panelists:
- Roger Lewis, Product Manager - Internet, Security and Product Strategy, GVTC
- Jeff Brown, Senior Director, Segment Marketing, Calix
- Joseph "JJ" Jones, President, OnTrac, FBA Chairman
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| 4:13 - 4:15 pm |
Networking Reception Sponsor Remarks - Panduit
Greg Wilson, Territory Account Manager, Panduit
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| 4:15 - 4:25 pm |
Closing Remarks
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| 4:25 - 5:45 pm |
Networking Reception sponsored by Panduit |
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