2018 NYSTA Annual Conference
June 6-8, 2018
Agenda
June 6th - Wednesday
8:30-10:15 am - NYSTA Board of Directors Meeting
11:30 - Lunch for Golfers at the Lake Placid Club Golf Course
12:15 - Shotgun Start - Golf at Lake Placid Club http://www.lakeplacidcp.com/golf.html
Sponsored By: (Lunch Included)
12:00 - Fishing Outing, Sponsored By: ACM (Meet in the hotel lobby - lunch Included)
11:45 - Lunch at the Hotel & Lake Placid Boat Ride
6:30 - 7:30 pm - Awards Dinner Reception, Sponsored By: Calix
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Awards Dinner,
June 7th - Thursday
(Dress for the Meeting is Business Casual)
7:00 AM - Breakfast & Registration Available
8:30 AM - General Business Session NYSTA Chairman’s Report, Paul Griswold, Ontario & Trumansburg Tel Cos. and FirstLight; NYSTA President’s Report, Robert Puckett, NYSTA; NYSTA Treasurer’s Report, Scott Brooks, TDS Telecom; Inspectors of Election Report, Ashley Gustafson of Ontario and Trumansburg Telephone Companies and Tim Muldoon of State Telephone Company; ITPA Scholarship Awards, Leslie Irwin, Newport Telephone
9:15 am- Washington Update - Shirley Bloomfield, Chief Executive Officer, NTCA
10:15 am Break with the Associate Members -View Tabletop Displays
10:45 am - The Future of the Internet of Things & Robocalling and Caller-ID spoofing, Bob Gnapp, Director – Member Training & Network Analysis, NECA
12:15 - Lunch
1:15 pm - Caleb Smith, Skeleton Coach for Great Britian, Sponsored By: Chazy & Westport Telephone Company and INOC Datacenters
2:15 pm Afternoon Break with Associate Members -
3:00 pm - Telecom Trivia
6:00 pm - Annual Banquet Reception, Sponsored By: Vantage Point Solutions
7:00 pm - Annual Banquet
8:30 pm - Incoming Chair Dessert Reception with DJ
(Dress for the Annual Banquet is Semi-Formal)
June 8th - Friday
7:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 – Regulatory Roundtable
Moderator: Bob Puckett, NYSTA
Panelists:
10:15 Break -
10:15- Consumer Broadband Roundtable Discussion -
Moderator: Jim Becker, President Middleburgh Telephone Company
Panelists: Randy Lewis, President and Founder, Global Natural Foods
Shannon Hayes, Owner & Radical Homemaker, Sap Bush Hollow Farm
Doug Haney, Founder, GreatRange
Noon: Adjournment
