Broadband Breakfast on September 17, 2025 – National Security and Resilient Critical Infrastructure

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Building critical resilience in today's geopolitically volatile environment requires organizations and nations to develop comprehensive preparedness strategies that address both traditional threats like natural disasters and emerging challenges including cyberwarfare, electromagnetic pulse and other infrastructure vulnerabilities. Effective resilience must integrate robust backup systems for essential services, diversified supply chains, and layered security.

This session of Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, Sept. 17 will explore how our nation can maintain a network of resilient critical infrastructure – in advance of the in-person Resilient Critical Infrastructure Summit on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. 

Panelists

• Renee Gregory, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, NextNav
• Lisa Dyer, Executive Director, GPS Innovation Alliance
• Drew Clark (moderator), CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Renee Gregory serves as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, leading NextNav’s regulatory approval process and compliance work with a major focus on securing FCC approvals essential to NextNav’s mission to provide a robust terrestrial complement and backup to GPS. In this role, she drives a comprehensive regulatory strategy in close coordination with team members across the organization and key external partners and stakeholders. Her federal experience includes serving as Senior Policy Advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and key advisory roles at both the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Federal Communications Commission. In the private sector, she held leadership positions at Google and prominent international law firms, where she advised technology and telecommunications clients. Her expertise centers on navigating the complex interplay of business strategy, technology, regulatory and policy frameworks to deliver effective solutions.

Lisa Dyer is the Executive Director of the GPS Innovation Alliance, bringing over 25 years of leadership at the nexus of public policy, national security, business, and technology. She has served in both private sector and governmental roles—including at the State Department, National Security Council, and as a technology policy strategist—where she has focused on space policy, spectrum issues, and infrastructure modernization. Under her leadership, GPSIA works to advocate for its members and promote GPS innovation globally, supporting uses from defense and national security to agriculture, fitness, and emergency response.

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.