Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition to Meet in Washington This Week
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2014 – Efforts to construct Gigabit Networks will be featured prominently at the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition meeting this week in Washington, the fourth annual event for this community of broadband users. The even will run from Wednesday, May 7 through Friday
WASHINGTON, May 6, 2014 – Efforts to construct Gigabit Networks will be featured prominently at the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition meeting this week in Washington, the fourth annual event for this community of broadband users. The even will run from Wednesday, May 7 through Friday, May 9.
Registration and the agenda for the event demonstrate a strong interest in the federal eRate fund to connect schools and libraries to high-speed broadband, the Federal Communications Commission’s Health Care Connect fund created in 2012, and ConnectED, the ultra-high speed initiative unveiled by the White House in June 2013.
John Windhausen, executive director of the SHLB Coalition, said that this year’s conference will demonstrate how community broadband groups are going “beyond BTOP,” the acronym from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, and which concluded last year. BTOP was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed just as President Obama was beginning his first term in office.
Among the more than 260 people registered to attend include officials from the California Telehealth Network, Connect Arkansas, C Spire, the Fiber Utilities Group, Gigabit Libraries Network, Google, ICF International, Internet2, the Kansas Fiber Network, Mobile Pulse, MOREnet, Time Warner Cable Business Class, and the Zayo Group.
The scheduled program is displayed below:
| SHLB Coalition 2014 Annual Conference“The Premier Conference on Anchor Institution Broadband Policy.”May 7-9, 2014 Agenda Click on the Titles of the Sessions for Descriptions and Bios of the Speakers Speakers listed below are confirmed (M) = Moderator |
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| Wed. May 7th |
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| Workshop #1 FCC’s Healthcare Connect Fund Consortia 2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Featuring: Matthew Quinn, FCC Christi Barnhart, FCC |
Workshop #2Building a Gigabit Nation1:00 – 5:30
Featuring: Craig Settles
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Workshop #3Regulatory ComplianceNoon – 2 p.m.
Featuring: Jim Baller, Baller Herbst Law Firm
NTIA: Sustainability of PCC/SBA projects 2:30 – 6 p.m. Featuring: Gwenn Weaver, NTIA |
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| 6:00-7:30 p.m. | Opening Night ReceptionMarriott Marquis Hotel Mezzanine Foyer |
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| Thurs. May 8th | |||
| 8:30-8:45 a.m. |
Plenary #1:Opening CommentsJohn Windhausen, SHLB Executive Director
Don Means, SHLB Chairman |
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| 8:45-9:30 a.m. |
Plenary #2:Louis Fox, CEO of CENIC | ||
| 9:30-10:00 a.m. | BREAK | ||
| 10:00-11:00 a.m. |
E-Rate #1:The $2 Billion Question: Funding for E-rateJon Bernstein, Bernstein Strategy Group (M)Jon Wilkins,FCC
Bob Bocher, ALA Jeff Campbell, Cisco |
Wireless Broadband #1:White Spaces and CAIsMichael Calabrese, New America Foundation (M) Michael Daum, MicrosoftDon Means, Gigabit Libraries NetworkToby Bradley, Pascagoula MS School District |
Health/E-rate: Building a Broadband Network (Part 1)Denise Atkinson-Shorey, e-Luminosity (M) Duke Horan, Henkels & McCoy Randy Lowe, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP John Honker, Magellan Advisors Scot Eberle, Fiber Utilities Group |
| 11:00-11:15 a.m. |
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| 11:15-12:15 p.m. |
E-Rate #2:E-rate Capital InvestmentJen Leasure, The Quilt (M) Emily Almond, Georgia Public Library ServiceAlan Katz, SunesysJamie Huber, COPESD
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Rural Broadband #1:Sustainable LocalismSean McLaughlin, Access Humboldt (M) Frank Odasz, Lone Eagle Consulting Pam Lloyd, GCI Edyael Casaperalta, Rural Broadband Policy Group |
Health/E-rate:Building a Broadband Network (Part 2)Denise Atkinson-Shorey, e-Luminosity (M) Duke Horan, Henkels & McCoy (M) Randy Lowe, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP John Honker, Magellan Advisors Scot Eberle, Fiber Utilities Group |
| 12:30-1:00 p.m. 1:00-2:00 p.m. |
LunchPlenary #3: ConnectED Tom Power, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Richard Culatta, U.S. Dept. of Education |
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| 2:15-3:15 p.m. |
Broadband Planning #1:Wireless Broadband Innovators: Anchors & Home Bob Collie, ENA (M)James Ratleff, Applied Research Designs Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini, UNH Broadband Center for Excellence
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ConnectED #1Private Sector Commitments to ConnectED Karen Perry, Clarion Collaborative (M) Charles McKee, Sprint Andrew Ko, Microsoft Reg Leichty, Counsel to CoSN
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Digital Inclusion #1:CAIs and the Digital Divide (Part 1) Laura Breeden, NTIA (M) Jon Gant, Center for Digital Inclusion Karen Mossberger, Arizona State University Helen Milner, Tinder Foundation
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| 3:15-3:30 p.m. |
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| 3:30-4:30 p.m. | Broadband Planning #2:Community Broadband Planning Phil Lindley, ConnectME Authority (M) Joshua Broder, Tilson Chris Tamarin, Oregon BB Outreach Tim Scott, Axia |
Broadband Mapping: The Key to New Knowledge Creation for CAIs Marijke Visser, ALA (M)Ken Wall, Geodata Services Stacey Aldrich, PA State Library Jarrid Keller, CA State Library |
Digital Inclusion #2:CAIs and the Digital Divide (Part 2) Francine Alkisswani, NTIA (M) Samantha Becker, U. of Washington Rodney Hopson, George Mason University |
| 5:00-5:30 p.m.
5:30-5:45 p.m. |
Plenary #4Network Nebraska- Education; Success through Collaboration Tom Rolfes, Education I.T. Manager, State of NebraskaZach Leverenz, CEO, EveryoneOn
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| 6:00-7:30 p.m. |
Reception | ||
| Friday. May 9th | |||
| 8:30-9:30 a.m. |
Plenary #5Dr. Dallas Dance, Superintendent of Schools, Baltimore County Public Schools | ||
| 9:45-10:45 a.m. |
E-Rate #3:E-rate Benchmarks and Data
Larra Clark, ALA (M) Mark Walker, FCC John Harrington, Funds for Learning Jake Cowan, ULC
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Wireless Broadband #2:It Takes a Mobile Village to raise a Mobile Child:Developing Mobile Learning across the Community
Sarah Morris, New America Foundation (M) Kevin Capp, Mobile Pulse Sheryl Abshire, Calcasieu Parish Schools Lindsey Harmon, Connect Nevada
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Digital Inclusion #3:Kansas City, Google, Digital DivideAngela Siefer, Center for Digital Inclusion (M) Erica Swanson, Google Fiber Cheptoo Kositany-Buckner, KC Public Library Crosby Kemper, KC Public Library Michael Liimatta, Connecting for Good
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| 10:45-11:15 a.m. |
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| 11:15-12:15 p.m. |
Gigabit Cities #1:Beyond BTOP: Partnerships for Gigabit Brian Proffit, Zayo Bandwidth (M) Jim Stewart, Utah Education Network Laura Spining Dodson,NTIA Mark Johnson, MCNC
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Rural Broadband #2:Rural Broadband Experiments and the CAF Heather Gold, Fiber to the Home Council (M) Jonathan Chambers, FCC John Gillispie, MOREnet Alyssa Clemsen, Utilities Telecommunications Council
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Digital Inclusion #4: Sustaining Digital Inclusion
Kami Griffiths, CTN (M) Allison Walsh, Broadband Rhode Island Dionne Baux, Smart Communities Chicago Stu Johnson, ConnectOhio |
| 12:30-1:00 p.m. 1:00-2:00 p.m. |
LunchPlenary #6 Tony Wilhelm, Chief of Staff, NTIA Blair Levin, Executive Director, Gig.U |
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