Agenda

7:30am — Registration & Refreshments

8:30am — Welcome and Fireside Chat with Special Guest FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty 
This interactive conversation will cover "a spectrum" of key telecom priorities, ranging from infrastructure deployment and regulatory reform to universal service, national security, and the future of spectrum, 6G, and AI.

9:15am — Panel One: A.I. (Awesome Internet) — The Intersection of Policy & Technology
How does AI impact telecom? How are growing pressures on the supply chain impacting ISPs, technology companies, and our public sector partners?  

Morning Stretch & Refresh

10:20am — Panel Two: Multi-State is Still Great: State & Federal Grant Programs are Vital to Close the Digital Divide
While millions of American families and locations will be covered through BEAD, many more were not captured on BSL maps and there are new neighborhoods being built every day. what is the role of other federal and state grant programs to close the gap? 

Break

11:30am — Panel Three: Spectrum: Sharing is Caring!
CBRS "The Innovation Band" launched just six years ago and has been an incredible success...but not everyone agrees. What has CBRS accomplished? What can be strengthened? Are increased "power levels" needed, or is it "power politics?"

12:10pm — Lunch

1:10pm — Panel Four: To BEad, or Not to BEad — Implementation is the Question
From supply chains, labor constraints, and new maps revealing more BSLs, how are states and ISPs "meeting the moment" to deliver on BEAD? What else needs to be done?

Break

2:10pm - 3:00pm — Closing Keynote with Tarana CEO Basil Alwan: Making the Impossible, Possible — Tarana Technology: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow