Broadband Breakfast Live Online on January 7, 2026 - What’s Happening at CES 2026?
What connectivity and broadband innovations are shaping the future at CES 2026?
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Join us for an insider's look at the connectivity innovations unveiled at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technology trade show. Our expert panelists will discuss breakthrough developments in broadband infrastructure, wireless technologies, and the networks powering next-generation consumer devices. From artificial intelligence-based connectivity to advanced spectrum applications, we'll explore how CES announcements shape the future of digital infrastructure and consumer experience. This session offers essential insights from the show floor's most significant tech and telecom-focused announcements.
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Panelists
- Joseph Longway, Owner, Longway Broadband Services
- Shafaq Abdullah, Founder and Managing Partner, CEO, AI Earth Fund
- Porter Wong, Founder, CleanLeap
- Jasmine Shih, Venture Capitalist and Philanthropist
- Aaron Rose, CEO, Lyman Communications (not pictured)
- Akul Saxena, Reporter, Broadband Breakfast
- Drew Clark (moderator), CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast
Joseph Longway has 25+ years of IT/Telecom consulting experience with a PMP certification. The majority of his work experience is generally within the Telecommunications Wireless & Wired (OSP) Telecom industry as a Program Director/Project Manager/Engineer/RUS Inspector/Consultant. He has also provided consulting & general expertise for AI infrastructure and data center deployments and projects across the country.
Shafaq Abdullah has been scaling climate solutions by leveraging climate debt and turning into climate credit (AI Infra x Human Innovation Index) to create sustainable business models. He has been leveraging AI and funds to solve most pressing problem of earth–climate and people–while producing market leading financial returns. Has has built, sold and scaled AI startup Insnap (mobile personalization) to $300MM in revenue, post-acquisition by direct-to-consumer household brand.
Porter Wong is the Founder of CleanLeap, the sole U.S. partner of Climate-Kic, Network VC's Partner, member of DraperX. He is the executive director of ClimateLaunchPad-U.S.A., mentor co-chair of Cleantech Open and an Advisor of Google's SFSD, Google’s Startups for Sustainable Development program. He was on the semi-final judge panel of APEC 2023 Startup Pitch Competition and is actively mentoring startups from Cleantech Open, Plug and Play, and the U.S. National Lab Entrepreneurship Academy.
Jasmine Shih is a unique venture capital investor, philanthropist, and business development professional with a rare combination of start-up scrappy attitude and Fortune 500 experiences, with a strong technical background with semiconductor, SAAS, blockchain, quantum, and venture community management.
Akul Saxena is a Reporter at Broadband Breakfast. He studied Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has experience working in the mergers and acquisitions space. He’s focused on economic mobility and tech policy, and how broadband infrastructure supports both, and has written extensively about chips and permitting.
Breakfast Media LLC CEO Drew Clark has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. An early proponent of better broadband, better lives, he initially founded the Broadband Census crowdsourcing tool to collect and verify broadband data left unpublished by the Federal Communications Commission. As CEO and Publisher, Clark presides over the leading media community advocating for higher-capacity internet everywhere through topical, timely and intelligent coverage. Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband initiative.
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