Agenda
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
7:00 am Breakfast
7:00 am Registration – Hallway
8:30 am Morning Session– Larry Combs, Chair- NYSTA BANC, Oneida County Rural Tel. Presiding
8:40 am – Public/Private Partnership - The state of Broadband in New York and New England
Moderator: Mike Reed, Acting President, TANE
Panelists: Jeff Nordhaus, Executive Vice President, Innovation & Broadband at Empire State Development
Brian Lippold, President, Casco Bay Advisors, LLC
9:30 am – Cyber-Security Panel - A discussion on industry trends and challenges from carriers and security vendors point of view
Moderator: Mike Sargent, Customer Care Manager/Network Planner, Granite State Communications
Panelists: Todd Dewitt –CSO & Director of IP Networks – First Light
Jay Tumas, Sr. Sales Engineer at Arbor Networks
Diego Sanchez, Pre-Sales Security Engineer, SonicWall Inc.
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Washington Update -Mike Romano, Senior Vice President of Policy, NTCA
11:30 am The Next Big Thing
Moderator: Lee Cheney, Vice President of Network Operations, Waitsfield Champlain Tel.
Panelists: Brenden Griswold, Operations Coordinator at Ontario & Trumansburg Telephone Companies
Kurt Gruendling,Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Waitsfield Champlain Tel.
Haider Mirjat and Rita Sims, One Cloud
12:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Afternoon Session –Larry Combs, Oneida County Rural Tel. Co. Presiding
1:15 pm Poles.... Poles.... Poles.... Panel
Moderator: Jim Maruniak, Central Office Manager, Germantown Tel.
Panelists: Don Snoop, Director of Video Services, MIDTEL
Kevin Lynch - VP for Technical Operations and Chief Operating Officer, Nicholville Tel./SLIC
Sarah Davis, Senior Director Government Affairs and Wholesale Strategies, Consolidated Communications,
Jeff Austin, Director - VT Government Relations, Consolidated Communications
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm Broadband Revolving Roundtable –
Moderator: Larry Combs, Senior Network Engineer, Oneida County Rural Tel.
Part 1 - Managing the Grant Process– How did it go? Things you didn’t/couldn't know
Panelists: Jim Becker, President, Middleburgh Tel.
Sarah Davis, Senior Director Government Affairs and Wholesale Strategies, Consolidated Communications,
Jeff Austin, Director - VT Government Relations, Consolidated Communications
Part 2 - Network Management & Design
Panelists: Steve Head, President, Head Networks
Joe Gottwald, VP of Network Operations, Empire Telephone Corp
Part 3 - Managing Demand
3:45 pm FCC Mandatory Network Testing
Speakers: Michael Romano, Senior Vice President of Policy, NTCA
Robert DeBroux, Director of Regulatory Affairs, TDS
Brian Sullivan, Vice President, JSI
5:00 pm Adjourn
5:30-7:00 pm Manager's Reception - Embassy Suites Lounge
Thursday, January 31, 2019
7:00 am Breakfast - Embassy Suites Restaurant
8:30 am Morning Session–Clark Kidder, Chair, TANE RSAT Presiding
8:35 am Annual Regulatory Roundtable
Moderator: Robert Puckett, President, NYSTA
Panelists: Michael Romano, Senior Vice President of Policy, NTCA
Robert DeBroux, Director of Regulatory Affairs, TDS
Roger Nishi, Vice President of Industry Relations, Waitsfield & Champlain Tel. Co.
Brian Sullivan, Vice President, JSI
Mike Reed, President, TANE
10:10 am Break
10:25 am Annual Technical Roundtable
Moderator: Clark Kidder, Consultant
Panelists: Mike Sargent, Customer Care Manager/Network Planner, Granite State Communications
Bill Trelease, Vice President & CTO, Delhi Telephone Company
Steve Head, President, Head Networks
12:00 Adjourn
