Matt Larsen is one of the innovators in the wireless broadband industry, a founding board member and past President of WISPA, the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association and a member of BITAG the Broadband Infrastructure Technology Advisory Group. Matt has also been a speaker at WISPCON, ISPCON, EC-Expo, NARUC, FCC Wireless Broadband Access Task Force and Mountain Connect; received the 1999 Visionary Rising Star Award from the Scottsbluff/Gering Chamber of Commerce; received the WISP Consultant of the Year Award at the Spring 2004 WISPCON, received the WISPA Operator of the Year Award for 2010, Vistabeam was named Provider of the Year at the 2018 Mountain Connect Conference and was awarded a Cornerstone Award at the 2023 Broadband Communities Summit.