Legend
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Special Programs |
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Keynotes/General Session Program |
Track 1 Economic Development |
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Track 2 Economic Development |
Track 3 Editor's Choice |
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Exhibit Hours |
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April 30 - May 3, 2018
Renaissance Hotel in Austin, Texas
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| 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Contractor Move-In (Rio Grande Hall) |
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| 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | Registration Open (Atrium Foyer) |
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| 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Workshop #1 (Glass Oaks) Hands-On Financial Modeling Our popular staff explanation of the latest versions of Broadband Communities' financial models – the world's most widely used. Get them all – with detailed documentation – on a FREE thumb drive and test-drive them on your laptop. We'll concentrate on MDU business cases, key leverage points and business strategies, especially for owners and managers of multiple MDU properties. Presenter: |
Free Workshops No added charge for registered Summit attendees |
Workshop #2 (Wedgewood) Monetize Your Network! You have worked hard, spent untold hours planning and constructing your FTTX network, now the fun begins. A critical part of supporting the business plan and financial model is execution of the marketing and sales plan. This fast paced, interactive and fun workshop will explore market demand, market supply, how survey and market study results drive marketing decisions, the part branding, advertising and community engagement play in a successful market launch. Go Big or Go Home? What makes for a great brand? How does interaction with installation, customer service and support affect market outcomes? How many people should be in the marketing and sales department? How to build a master schedule. Presales, what to do and not do. Business customers, how do they differ from residential customers? These and many other topics will be explored and examined… all we need now is YOU! Presenter: |
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| 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Workshop #3 (Glass Oaks) What Is The Internet of Things and What Strategy Fits Your Community? The workshop will review the types of multifamily IoT and the different smart apartment strategies being utilized by multifamily developers. Questions we will discuss will include?
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Workshop #4 (Wedgewood) Best Broadband Infrastructure for Each BuildingType A 2-hour special pre-conference workshop that will explore all standard designs for broadband networking in MDUs – highrise, midrise and cottage layouts – including security. Presenters: |
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| 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Workshop #5 (Glass Oaks) Driving Value in Multifamily Communities With High Quality Fiber Deployment It all starts with broadband. A case study on things to consider when you face modernizing or even rewiring the building. There's first cost, tenant desires, who monitors and reacts to the "things" connected to your building, and of course, who pays -- cellular and landline carriers, building owners, content providers or all of them?
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Workshop #6 (Wedgewood) Greenlight Projects: How to Find Funding & Generate Political Will Communities across the nation are realizing that high speed broadband is critical to remaining competitive. But modernizing your digital infrastructure “takes a village” – the community and its major stakeholders. With their support, a project is more apt to be greenlighted. In this interactive session, the nation’s leading specialists in broadband PR and marketing, fiber demand aggregation and broadband economic feasibility share their best advice about generating demand and political will—and finding funding sources that may be hiding in plain sight!
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| 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm |  Welcome Reception(Atrium Foyer) Sponsored by 3M |
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| Tuesday, May 1 | |||||
| 7:00 am – 6:00 pm | Registration Open (Atrium Foyer) |
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| 7:00 am – 4:00 pm | Exhibitor Move-In (Rio Grande Hall) |
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| 7:30 am – 8:30 am |  Continental Breakfast (Grand Ballroom Foyer) Sponsored by OFS |
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| 8:00 am – 4:00 pm |
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| 7:50 am – 8:00 am | Official Welcome and Introduction (Grand Ballroom A) |
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| 8:00 am – 9:00 am | General Session: (Grand Ballroom A) The Big Picture With more technological, regulatory and economic changes than ever, you can’t afford to miss out on our cutting edge information. To kick it all off, BBC's three go-to experts reveal what they think you’d better go home knowing from the 2018 Summit. Expect a lively give and take, shepherded by Steve Ross, Broadband Communities editor at large, from Jim Baller on economic development, Steve Sadler on the multifamily side and Jane Patterson, our rural broadband pro.
Sponsored by OFS Moderator: Presenters: |
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| 9:10 am – 9:30 am | Keynote Address: (Grand Ballroom A) Top Takeaways From the Country’s Foremost Hotbed of Technological Innovation Keynoter: |
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| 9:40 am – 9:55 am | Keynote Address: (Grand Ballroom A) The Journey Introduction By: Presenter: |
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| 10:00 am – 11:25 am | General Session: (Grand Ballroom A) A Conversation with the Big Carriers on Where They're Going
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| 11:35 am - 12:30 pm | General Session: (Grand Ballroom A) Great Communities
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| 12:40 pm – 1:40 pm | General Session / Working Lunch: (Grand Ballroom A) What's Going On In Washington Moderator: Presenters: |
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| 1:50 pm – 2:50 pm | General Session: (Grand Ballroom A) Austin Puts Its Gigabits to Work Media artists, educators, social activists and librarians are among those in the Austin community taking advantage of gigabit connectivity. Hear from beneficiaries of gigabit speed internet on how they're capitalizing on their newfound bandwidth.
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| MULTIFAMILY TRACK (Grand Ballroom A) |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRACK (Grand Ballroom B) |
 RURAL BROADBAND TRACK (Wedgewood Room) |
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| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | IoT:How To's and Risks – Hackable Apartments |
Blue Ribbon Panel: Kicking Off the Economic Development Program | County-Level Economic Development: A Key to Rural Broadband Progress | ||
| 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm | IoT: A Walk Through How One Community Is Doing It
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Minnesota Busts the “Broadband is Too Expensive” Myth
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What digiLEARN in School Today?
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| 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | Exhibit Hall Opens – Refreshments (Rio Grande Hall) |
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| 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm |
Sponsored by AT&T |
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Opening Night Cocktail Reception| Wednesday, May 2 | |||
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| 7:00 am – 6:00 pm | Registration Open (Atrium Foyer) |
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| 7:30 am – 8:00 am |
EDITOR'S CHOICE TRACK
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| 8:00 am – 8:50 am | MULTIFAMILY TRACK (Brazos Room) Owner / Legal Roundtable Closed forum for owners and owner lawyers only. |
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| MULTIFAMILY TRACK (Glass Oaks Room) |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRACK (Grand Ballroom B) |
RURAL BROADBAND TRACK (Wedgewood Room) |
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| 8:00 am – 8:50 am | Providers Roundtable |
Future of Work: Policies that Work |
Case Studies: How Economic Growth Is the Payoff for Driving Local Broadband Demand
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| 9:00 am – 9:50 am | Access Control
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Future of Work Continued: How to Use Your Network to Become a Hub for Remote Work
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How to Get Robust Rural Broadband
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| 10:00 am – 10:50 am | 10:00 am - 11:20 am MDU Legal Leaders (Glass Oaks Room) |
New Developments in Partnerships |
Healthcare: Broadband-Enabled Transformation |
| 10:45 am – 12:45 pm | Exhibit Hall Open / Refreshment Break (Rio Grande Hall) |
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| 12:45 pm – 2:05 pm |  Cornerstone Awards Luncheon(Grand Ballroom A) Sponsored by Verizon
Meeting the Challenge of Connecting the Unconnected |
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| MULTIFAMILY TRACK (Glass Oaks Room) |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRACK (Grand Ballroom B) |
EDITOR'S CHOICE TRACK (Wedgewood Room) |
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| 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Cutting the Cord – The MDU Role
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Creating a Tech Ecosystem
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SDN/SD-WAN: Promises and Challenges
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| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Networking Break – Refreshments (Grand Ballroom Foyer) |
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| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Owning Your Own System
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Key Legal Issues Affecting Broadband/Economic Development Projects
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Healthcare and Broadband Deployment: Powerful Partners
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| 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm |  Exhibit Hall Cocktail Reception(Rio Grande Hall) Join Us for the Full Swing Party Sponsored by Xfinity |
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| 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm | Networking Dinners - Privately Arranged | ||
| Thursday, May 3 | |||
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| 7:00 am – 2:00 pm | Registration Open (Atrium Foyer) |
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| 7:30 am – 8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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| MULTIFAMILY TRACK (Grand Ballroom A) |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRACK (Grand Ballroom B) |
RURAL BROADBAND TRACK (Wedgewood Room) |
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| 8:00 am – 9:00 am | New Amenity Space Bells and Whistles to Prepare For | A New Model for Economic Development
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Blue Ribbon Panel: Grass-Roots: Rural Megatrends in 2018 and Beyond |
| 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM | MULTIFAMILY TRACK (Brazos Room) Owner Roundtable Closed forum for owners and owner lawyers only. |
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| EDITOR'S TRACK (Grand Ballroom A) |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & RURAL BROADBAND JOINT TRACK (Grand Ballroom B) |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRACK (Wedgewood Room) |
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| 9:10 am – 10:00 am | Making an Open and Shut Case for Open Access |
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5G Next Century Cities Special Session 
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| 10:10 am – 11:00 am | Consultants Panel: Economics, Infrastructure |
Serving Our Most Vulnerable Populations | EDITOR'S CHOICE TRACK (Wedgewood Room) Vendor Panel |
| 11:10 am – 12:00 pm | Get Smarter about Smart Cities Next Century Cities Special Session |
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| 11:00 am – 2:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open (Rio Grande Hall) |
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| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Luncheon and Presentation (Rio Grande Hall) 5G Revolution Comes to Harlem Hear about Silicon Harlem and COSMOS, the new proving ground test bed for developing 5G wireless network technologies and applications funded by a $22.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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| 1:10 pm – 2:10 pm | General Session (Ballroom B) Future of Work: Becoming a Maker City
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| 2:20 pm – 3:20 pm | General Session (Ballroom B) Broadband Access and Economic Growth: What Does the Data Say?
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