2017 NYSTA Annual Conference
June 5-7, 2017
Agenda
June 5th - Monday
8:30-10:15 am - NYSTA Board of Directors Meeting
10:45 Buses leave to take Golfers to Clifton Springs Country Club
11:15 - Lunch for Golfers at Clifton Springs Country Club
12:00 - Shotgun Start - Golf at Clifton Springs Country Club http://cliftonspringscc.com Sponsored By: Latitude Telcom Consultants (Lunch Included)
12:00 - Fishing Outing, Sponsored By: ACM (Meet in the hotel lobby - lunch Included)
11:45 - Wine Tour & Craft Beer Tour (Meet in Hotel Lobby - Lunch Included), Sponsored By: Finger Lakes Technologies Group
6:30 - 7:30 pm - Awards Dinner Reception Sponsored By: Calix
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Awards Dinner, Sponsored By: Sprint, New York Relay
June 6th - Tuesday
(Dress for the Meeting is Business Casual)
7:30 AM - Breakfast
8:30 AM - General Business Session NYSTA Chairman’s Report, Paul Griswold, Ontario & Trumansburg Tel Cos. and FLTG; NYSTA President’s Report, Robert Puckett, NYSTA; NYSTA Treasurer’s Report, Tammie Krisher, Pattersonville Telephone Company; Inspectors of Election Report, Rhonda Vanderbrook, FLTG and Wade Weatherlow, DFT Communications; ITPA Scholarship Awards, Leslie Irwin, Newport Telephone
9:15 am- Washington Update - Jeff Dupree, Vice President of Government Relations, NECA
9:45 am Broadband Grants Roundtable - Sponsored By: Vantage Point Solutions
Moderator: Kevin Kloehn, Vantage Point Solutions
Panelists: Jim Becker, Middleburgh Telephone/INOC
Glen Faulkner, Margaretville Telephone Co.
Shawn Beqaj, Armstrong Telephone (Invited)
10:30 am - Break with the Associate Members -View Tabletop Displays
11:00 am - How to Leverage Targeted Digital Marketing to Create Measurable Results For Your Business - Jeff Knauss, Digital Hyve
11:45 - Lunch - Sponsored By: Toly Digital, Bush & Germain and Metaswitch
12:45 pm - Multi-generational Workforce, FMLA, Company Handbooks - What do you need to know??
Dawn J. Lanouette, Partner, Hinman, Howard & Kattell
Judy H. Katafiaz, SPHR; SHRM-SCP, Director, Human Resources & Communications, Finger Lakes Technologies Group
1:30 pm - Marketing Panel
Moderator: Joe Calzone
Panelists: Leslie Irwin, Newport Telephone
Ashley Gustafson, Ontario & Trumansburg Tel. Cos.
Diedre Forcier, Chazy & Westport Tel.
2:15 Visit Table Top displays
3:00 pm - Associate Member team building event -
6:00pm - Annual Banquet Reception Sponsored by: UDP
7:00pm - Annual Banquet Sponsored By: Woods & Aitken
ITPA Event
(Dress for the Annual Banquet is Semi-Formal)
June 7th - Wednesday
7:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00AM - Regulatory Roundtable Panel Discussion -Sponosred By: Sprint
Moderator: Bob Puckett, NYSTA
Panelists:
Jeff Dupree, Vice President, Government Relations - NECA
Tom Moorman, Partner, Woods & Aitken
Brian Ford, Senior Regulatory Counsel, NTCA
10:00-10:15 Break -
10:15-11:45 - Telecom Business Roundtable Discussion -
Sponsored By: Harbor Capital Advisory Services
Moderator: Paul Griswold, Ontario & Trumansburg Tel. Cos./FLTG
Panelists: TBD
Noon: Adjournment
