2014 NYSTA Annual Conference
June 1-4, 2014
Agenda
June 1st - Sunday
8:00 - 10:00 pm - Associate Member Welcome Reception at the Sand Bar - Inn on the Lake, Canandaigua, NY
June 2nd - Monday
8:30-11:30 am - NYSTA Board of Directors Meeting
12:00-5:00 pm - Golf at Clifton Springs Country Club http://www.cliftonspringscountryclub.com/ Sponsored By: DFT Communications (Lunch Included)
Fishing Outing, Sponsored By: ACM (Lunch Included - meet at the Sand Bar)
6:30 - 7:30 pm - Awards Dinner Reception, Sponsored By: Finger Lakes Technologies Group
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Awards Dinner, Sponsored By: Sprint New York Relay
June 3rd - Tuesday
(Dress for the Meeting is Business Casual)
7:30 AM - Breakfast - Sponsored by Woods & Aitken, LLP
8:30 AM - General Business Session
NYSTA Chairman’s Report, Jim Becker, Middleburgh Telephone Company
NYSTA President’s Report, Robert Puckett, NYSTA
NYSTA Treasurer’s Report, Shana Macey, Crown Point Telephone Corp.
Inspectors of Election Report
NYSTA ONYX Awards ITPA Scholarship Awards, Leslie Irwin, Newport Telephone
9:30 am- The View From Washington, Jeff Dupree, Vice President-Government Relations, NECA
10:15 am - Break - Sponsored by: Mid-America Computer Corp., Vantage Point Communications, Bush & Germain
10:45 am - Broadband In New York - Status, Opportunities, Grants, David Salway, Director NYS Broadband Program Office Empire State Development
11:30 am - Smart Office Parks - Wave of the Future? Susan Noble, Executive Director of the Ag & Tech Park
12:15-1:15 - Lunch -
Sponsored by Woods & Aitken, LLP, Metaswitch, Genband, Moss Adams
1:15 pm - Sergeant Rick Yarosh, US Army Retired Iraqi Veteran Sponsored By: INOC
2:15 pm - Visit Table Top displays
3:15 pm - Associate Member team building event
6:00pm - Annual Banquet Reception, Sponsored by: John Staurulakis, Inc.
7:00pm - Annual Banquet, Sponsored By: DFT Communications
ITPA Live Auction
Chairman's Reception, Sponsored by: Latitude Telcom Consultants, LLC
(Dress for the Annual Banquet is Semi-Formal)
June 4th - Wednesday
7:30 AM Breakfast - Sponsored By: Woods & Aitken, LLP
8:30 – 10:00AM - The Annual Regulatory Roundtable, A Panel of Regulatory Experts, including:
Jeff Dupree –Vice President-Government Relations-NECA
Michael Romano-Senior Vice President-Policy-NTCA
Derrick Owens-Vice President-Government Affairs-WTA
Robert Debroux-Director-Federal Affairs & Public Policy-TDS Telecom
John Kuykendall - Vice President - John Staurulakis, Inc.
Moderated by Bob Puckett
Sponsored By: Verizon
10:00-10:15 Break -
Sponsored by: Mid-America Computer Corp., Vantage Point Communications, Bush & Germain
10:15-11:45 - Broadband Roundtable - What's Working?
Panelists:
Andrew Phelps, founder and director of the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC), Rochester Institute of Technology
Ronald G. Fulle, Associate/Assistant Professor - - Telecommunications Engineering Technology (TET) College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST)
@ Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Roger Nishi of WCVT
11:45 Adjournment
