Agenda
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
8:30 am Welcome Remarks, Joe Gottwald Presiding
8:40 am “Send Lawyers, Guns & Money” – A report
on the Financial Status of Small Telcos.,
Rod Ballard, CPA & Chairman of Telergee
and Principal of Jackson Thornton
Rod will discuss Overall Financial and
Economic conditions, The Telergee
Benchmark Survey, and how to survive,
sustain & succeed!
9:45 am Smart Grid
Nancy Doon, New York State Smart
Grid Consortium, will talk about the
status of smart grid in New York State.
Diane Blankenhorn, Long Island Power
Authority (LIPA), will discuss in
more detail the Smart Energy Corridor
project located along Route 110 on
Long Island. This project is a
partnership comprised of LIPA,
Stony Brook University and
Farmingdale State College. The
initiative focuses on all of Long
Island’s key energy related technology
resources into advancing the development
and implementation of a Smart Grid
including better energy utilization
tools and enhanced reliability for
customers, as well as more effective
use of LIPA’s electric infrastructure
that over time will help to mitigate
the unit cost of energy delivery.
10:15 am Break
10:30 am New York Energy Highway,
Michael Razanousky
and John Love from NYSERDA
11:15 am NG-911: Opportunity or Threat to
Telecom Carriers?
Ray Paddock, VP, Emergency Services,
iNetwork - The rollout of NG9-1-1 in a state
can be viewed as added work with no value
to the carriers operating in that state. If not
handled properly, this can be the case.
However, NG9-1-1 can represent an
opportunity for carriers to reduce operating
costs, gain access to additional footprint,
and offer NG9-1-1features. This session
will cover both sides of the issue for
carriers and recommend ways for carriers
to get involved early and become active
participants in the evolution.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00 pm Afternoon Session: - Joe Gottwald Presiding
1:05 Call Completion and the Rural Telco
John McHugh, Technical Director, OPASTCO
Call Failures to the Rural Telephone
companies has become an epidemic
and is finally being heard by the
FCC. There are new updates that
John will bring as well as the
initiation of action with the
Federal Trade Commission. John
will also discuss the activities
within the FCC on the transition
of the PSTN to an all IP network.
2:00 Weather Forecast for 2013 is Mostly
Cloudy with a chance of Storms
Jon Brown, Vantage Point
Cloud Computing has been become
an industry buzzword and adoption
of these technologies are
sky-rocketing for both Business
as well as personal applications.
But the flexibility of cloud based
computing comes with some risks.
This session will detail ways
consumers are leveraging cloud
based computing services, including
some un-expected applications
and will discuss the potential
security and confidentiality issues
that need to be understood by anyone
offering or subscribing to
cloud based services.
245:-3:00 Break
3:00 pm Home Automation
More and more consumers are
looking for smart homes -
builders are building homes
that can be "connected"
Consumers want to turn the lights
on, as they drive up to their
house, or check their energy
usage, turn down the thermostat,
or turn it up, so that it is
warm when they get home.
Join our moderator, Jim DeGolyer,
ILEC Plant/Sales Engineer of the Dunkirk
& Fredonia Telephone Company while he
picks the brains of Industry Experts.
Panelist:
Craig Steen, Clear2There
Jeff McInnis, SmartRG
Tim Gregg – Netmania
3:45-5:00 Regulatory Roundtable
Moderator: Bob Puckett
Panel:
5:30-7:00 PM Reception in Lounge
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
8:30 am Welcome Remarks - Wally Short Presiding
8:35 am Integrating Video into your Broadband
Strategy
Madeline Forrer, Vice President,
Video Services - National Rural
Telecommunications Cooperative
Television has gone viral. Linear, TV
Everywhere and OTT ─ content is
available via television, internet and
mobile. How can your company
participate? Compete? This session looks
at both programmer and viewer trends
and sheds light on video's evolution and
what your Telco's options are. What are
the table stakes to play in the new frontier?
9:30 am Municipal Network Deployments
The frustration level of small rural
communities in obtaining broadband
has grown to a fever pitch. Communities
in both New York and New England are
taking matters into thier own hands,
under the tutiledge of broadband
consultants to obtain some of the
money from the broadband grant programs
and bypassing the local telco.
Andy Lukasiewicz, Director of Broadband Services - ECC Technologies
ECC – Is an engineering company
in charge of creating the
STN (Southern Teir Network)
fiber Network. ECC plans to
build a fiber network through
3 counties. The economical
development agency for the
three counties have got
together to build a fiber
network to bring in more
business to the communities.
ECC also engineered the Ontario
County Network and is working
toward an agreement with Yates
county. The plan is to connect
the Fiber rings to for each of
the projects to gain a greater
reach across NYState.
Tim Nulty, CEO – EC Fiber
ECFiber is a collection of 23 towns
in East Central Vermont that have
come together to build a Fiber
To The Home network. Tim and
Leslie Nulty will present how
this started, how the towns came
together, and the lesson’s learned
with their initial deployments.
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Technical Roundtable
Moderator: Steve Head
Panelists: John MCHugh
12:00 Adjourn
