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Financing Future Bandwidth
Joel Mulder, senior director for business development at G4S
Technology (formerly Adesta), leads an all-star panel to discuss
Public-Private Partnerships, new fnancing techniques and
more. The panel includes
• John Honker, president of Magellan Advisors
• Bill Maguire, partner at Reluminati and former chief of staf to
the BTOP program
• Cynthia Schultz, president of The Schultz Group and former
director of compliance and audits for the BTOP program.
Education – From Chalkboards to Personal Digital Tablets
Jane Patterson will moderate this panel on state responsibilities for supporting digital learners, rural and
urban. Hear about the collaboration among teachers, administrators and technicians that is necessary
to support the connected classroom, massive online courses (MOOCs), charter schools and more, from
those who have done it – including Myra Best, executive
director of DigiLEARN, and a representative of the
Foundation for Excellence in Education, founded by
former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Broadband for Economic Development
in a Gigabit World
Eric Ogle, research associate at the University of
Tennessee's Baker Center for Public Policy, will
moderate a high-level panel that brings together
experts to cover the topic from all sides:
• Mark DeFalco, telecommunications manager at the
Appalachian Regional Commission, will describe
hands-on issues.
• Sharon Strover, director of the University of
Texas Telecommunications and Information
Policy Institute, will present a range of issues and
solutions informed by her latest data on broadband
and economic growth.
• Frank Odasz, president, Lone Eagle Consulting,
shows how training people to use abundant
broadband improves a network's economic impact
and increases revenue for system operators.
APRIL 7: PRE-CONFERENCE
EDUCATION CONNECTIVITY
(CONNECT ED) WORKSHOP
Arrive on Monday and enjoy a free
pre-conference workshop about
the educational and administrative
benefts of connecting schools to
high-speed broadband. Hear from
Jane Patterson and others who made
North Carolina the frst state to create
a digital educational network for its
schools, community colleges, colleges
and universities and give them access
to statewide administrative and
educational management systems.
Truly a $1,500 value included FREE
with the cost of admission to the 2014
Summit. More details on that and on
other FREE workshops, page 28.
Money matters.
This is the
place to fnd
some for your
community.
Register Now
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