2023 Speakers

Claude Aiken is the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Legal Officer for Nextlink Internet, the premier provider of fixed-wireless and fiber Internet and phone services across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois and Iowa. He leads the company’s work on strategic market development and...

Erik works to bridge the digital divide in rural Texas in his role as the Director of Telecom Business Development at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA). Erik joined LCRA after leading sales at two software startups – WaterSmart and Remedy Interactive. With his team, Erik grew both companies ...

Josh Arensberg is the CTO, Media & Entertainment at Verizon Business Group. He has 25 years of experience running engineering organizations, providing technology strategy, architecting solutions, and leading global business development in the M&E sector. Prior to joining Verizon, Josh was...

Ray leads the Domain Advisors group at Verizon which helps Enterprise and Government clients achieve mission critical business outcomes leveraging technology. His organization advises customers in developing transformation plans based on vertical industry use cases and horizontal business...

Megan Beresford is the Director of Broadband Programs at Learn Design Apply, Inc. She joined the company mid-pandemic as the digital divide became glaringly evident. Previously, she worked in Washington, D.C., assisting state and federal officials address pressing issues, from emergency...

Jennifer Berkner joined AT&T Services, Inc. in 2021 and serves on the Market Strategy Team for FirstNet, Built with AT&T. Jenn builds and maintains key strategic relationships with educational organizations, specifically focusing on student safety. She is responsible for curating research...

Alex Besen is the Founder & CEO of The Besen Group LLC. He provides strategic advisory, business development, market research and training services in the mobile data industry.He has over 27 years of hands-on experience in the mobile industry working for operators and vendors in North America...

Serving as Vice President of Product Marketing at DZS, Sanjay Bhatia overseas the marketing of the DZS portfolio globally. Sanjay is an accomplished marketing professional with wide-ranging global experience across multiple market and technology segments. Sanjay has held a variety of senior...

Ben Blink is the managing principal at Blink Public Policy, LLC -- a full service consultancy that specializes in government affairs related to broadband connectivity, economic development, infrastructure, and emerging technology.Prior to his consulting work, Ben served as a policy advisor to...

Doug Blue has over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and business development in the almost exclusively focused on fiber-to-the-home technologies and infrastructure. Doug currently leads Business Development activities within North America for Nokia’s Fixed Networks. Prior to...

Scot Bohaychyk, Solutions Manager for Emtelle, US and Canada, has more than 40 years of experience in communications solutions. Early in his career in telecoms, he was assigned to the White House Communications Agency, where he provided communications infrastructure support for President Ronald...

Gary Bolton serves as president and CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association — the largest trade association dedicated to all-fiber-optic broadband. Prior to FBA, Gary held executive management positions at two successful venture-backed high-tech start-ups as well as at large publicly traded...

Over 30 years’ experience leading development of communications systems & protocols, Industrial Internet of Things, connectivity, and information management systems. Dan is currently the SVP of Software & Engineering at Wilder Fields a technology enabled food company. Wilder Fields is...

Emily Buckman joined American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) as Director of Government Affairs in 2021. Her portfolio includes appropriations, broadband, rural affairs, and technology.Emily joined AFBF after serving two years as the Director of National Affairs for the Kentucky Farm Bureau. She...

As the Vice President of Business Development for ZenFi Networks, Walter leverages more than 30 years of technology sales and executive management experience. Walter’s expertise, which spans the wireless, wholesale and enterprise markets, has led sales teams in the efficient delivery of network...

Vice Chair, Board of Directors, OnGo Alliance Vice President, Network Product Solutions, Ericsson North America Paul Challoner serves as Vice Chair, Board of Directors of the OnGo Alliance (previously CBRS Alliance) , Large Company representative for the Board of the Wireless Innovation Forum and...

Elizabeth Chernow serves as Executive Director, Public Policy at Comcast Corporation. In this role, she focuses on the development of the company’s positions on a range of issues including broadband, digital equity, and cybersecurity. She joined the company in 2010 and has over a decade of policy...

As Director of Government Affairs, Carver is responsible for building and leveraging relationships at local and state levels to remove barriers, accelerate deployment, and ultimately facilitate improved connectivity and network access through the expansion of Crown Castle’s communications...

Lee Davenport is the Director of Community Development for US Ignite where he leads the US Ignite Communities program and served as Project Director for Project OVERCOME. For 20 years, he has worked with national nonprofit organizations, large corporations, federal agencies, and local governments...

As an emerging technologies and innovation specialist, Joyce helps people strategically align business and or community innovation projects at scale. She is passionate about sustainable development that ultimately drives growth, economic development, improves processes, and brings others fully into ...

Andrew Dillon is a leader of Transportation Electrification services for consulting firm West Monroe Partners, with over 20 years of experience in advanced energy technologies.  Recent projects include designing Transportation Electrification strategic roadmaps, deployment of EV Total Cost of...

Joshua Edmonds is the City of Detroit’s inaugural Director of Digital Inclusion and is America’s first municipal Director of Digital Inclusion. He is responsible for the creation of Connect 313 – Detroit’s sustainable digital inclusion strategy designed to bridge the digital divide. While appointed ...

Allison M. Ellis is Senior Vice President, Regulatory & Governmental Affairs.  She recently joined Frontier’s Broadband Grants Team to support efforts to secure grant funding to bring premier Fiber-to-the-Premises connectivity to the high cost, unserved, and underserved locations in Frontier’s...

Gregory Elsborg joined Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) in 2019 as Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer.As Chief Innovation Officer, Gregory's responsibilities include driving new business partnerships, growing DART's Mobility as a Service (MaaS) offering and leveraging technology to ...

Roger advises telecom, media and technology companies on strategic and tactical business as well as public policy issues to allow them to compete better in the marketplace. Some of the challenges he helped to address are mobile market trends and business drivers and how to position themselves for...

Director, Product Marketing and Sales Enablement, KAIROS Pulse and PrivateLTEand5G.com  Jeff Epstein is the Director for Product Marketing and Sales Enablement at KAIROS Pulse, a technology marketing and sales enablement company focused on networking technologies, IoT, Edge, and Cloud...

Katie Espeseth joined EPB, Chattanooga Tennessee’s electric power distributor and fiber optics communications provider in 2004, bringing with her over 30 years of marketing and communications experience with a national telecommunications carrier. Initially, Katie worked as part of the team that...

Adam is a strategic leader with over 12 years of experience with leading technology transformations in the agribusiness space. Adam is the Chief Technology Officer for Mercer Landmark, a regional cooperative located in NW Ohio. At Mercer Landmark, Adam is focused on transforming the cooperatives...

Luis is a recognized leader in the technology sector, with over 25 years of experience in Fortune Global 500 companies and start-ups. He also served in government, as a Presidential appointee and for the former Governor of Virginia. As Vice President of China Telecom (Americas), Luis oversees...

Evann Freeman joined EPB as Director of Government Relations in December of 2019. Evann leads EPB’s government relations and economic development efforts. Evann has spent the past decade as a government relations professional, most recently for U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander. At EPB, he works...

Francisco Gallegos serves as DIA's Digital Inclusion Program Manager. Mr. Gallegos has 5 years of experience in the digital inclusion and telecommunications fields and specializes in content development, instructional design, grant writing, and geographic information systems. He is a graduate...

A tireless digital equity advocate, Paul Garnett has over 25 years of experience in domestic and international telecommunications and technology sectors. Paul is Founder and CEO of Vernonburg Group, a consulting firm based in Savannah, Georgia, USA that works with large and small...

Heather Burnett Gold is the Vice President, External Affairs for the Mears Group, Broadband Division. In this role she is responsible for raising the profile of the Broadband Division throughout the industry including to key public stakeholders. Prior to the joining the Mears Group, Gold served as ...

William Goodman is a Senior Managing Director on the Tech Investment Banking team • William helps lead the firm’s tech investment banking strategy and initiatives, with a focus on Tech-Enabled Services and Cloud Communications • With 15 years of experience, Mr. Goodman has built extensive...

Rob Griffin has over 25 years of experience in delivering connectivity based solutions that improve the end user experience. He has worked with Carriers, Tribal Nations, Fortune 500 Companies and Government Entities. He has held several positions in Sales, Marketing, Technical Solutions, and Senior ...

Melissa Griggs, Senior Grant Consultant with Learn Design Apply Inc., currently serves as the Director of Zoom’s Grant Assistance Program for the East Territory.  She has been with Learn Design Apply Inc. since 2017, helping organizations find and secure over $30M in competitive grant...

Sachin Gupta is the Director of Government Business and Economic Development at Centranet, a subsidiary of Central Rural Electric Cooperative. Over the last 18 years he has had a diverse career working in product management, business development and marketing for large government contractors. He...

Rayna Handelman is currently the President & CEO of Angstrom, a technology consulting company for solar, energy storage, electric vehicle, and various other technology companies, Angstrom Energy Solutions, provides energy audits, optimization, and implementation with a wide range of energy...

George is the Director of Sales for Tarana in North America. He previously held a number of sales leadership positions at Nokia including leading US Major Wireline accounts and VP of IP and Optical Sales into ATT. During his 17 years at Nokia, he was instrumental in helping Nokia grow into an...

Patrick Higgins is a 15 year cable veteran. He is the Director of Enterprise Risk Management and Sustainability at Breezeline, the 8th largest cable operator in the United States. Patrick helps Breezeline operationalize and achieve the company's global commitments to greenhouse gas reduction. A ...

Josh Hildebrandt serves as the Director of Broadband Initiatives at the Georgia Technology Authority, focusing directly on Georgia’s broadband deployment strategy and connectivity funding mechanisms and supporting local communities and providers in their high-speed internet expansion...

Amanda Hofer is the Assistant General Manager at Central Texas Telephone Cooperative in Goldthwaite, Texas, and has over 17 years of Telecom experience. She has a wide breadth of knowledge and experience in many aspects of the telecommunications industry, with two of her passions being sales and...

Tamarah Holmes, Ph.D, is the director for the Office of Broadband at DHCD and has been in the role since September 2019. She has spent 20 years in the public sector in the field of community and economic development in New York, New Jersey, and Chesterfield, Virginia.  Dr. Holmes has played an...

Earnie serves the State of Indiana as the Deputy Director of the Indiana Broadband Office (IBO). Prior to this he served as a community liaison for the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA). He works with communities and providers offering technical assistance for...

Tim Howard is President of Biarri Networks. Tim has spent his career working in various senior executive roles within the Telecommunications and Technology sector across Australia, the UK and the US

Glen Howie is the Director of the Arkansas State Broadband Office, where he serves as the chief broadband advisor to Gov. Sanders. He is guiding the state’s BEAD and Digital Equity planning and implementation, an effort expected to exceed $1 billion. Starting in his role last August, he came to...

Lyle Ishida serves as the Chief of the Consumer Affairs and Outreach Division (CAOD).  He has been with the FCC since 2000, holding positions in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau.  While serving in CAOD, he has also held various management and...

Ashish Jain, Co-founder, PrivateLTEand5G.com and KAIROS Pulse. Ashish Jain is the co-founder of privatelteand5g.com, a publication that acts as the information gateway innovations related to Private Cellular Networks. He is also the CEO of KAIROS Pulse, a technology marketing and sales enablement...

Marland (aka “MJ”) Jenkins, CEO and Founder of TeknoGRID, LLC,  has been working in the telecom industry for more than 20 years. He and his team possess deep expertise in telecommunications–particularly related to Smart City and Smart Building infrastructure. Prior to establishing his own firm in...

Chief Development Officer Rob Johnson's career spans more than two decades of value-focused product and platform development within the information and communications technology market. Rob’s vast industry and technical expertise has put him at the forefront of many successful leadership...

Derek Kelly is the Vice President of Market Development at Lumos and leads government affairs activities, developing and executing expansion strategy leading to FTTP footprint growth. Derek and his team engages external partners within local and state government and the community to expand exposure ...

Yasser Khan is the CEO and Board Member of MicroAI, a global Edge AI company headquartered in Dallas Texas. MicroAI has been providing its award winning Edge AI and Predictive insight platform to help solve some of the most critical challenges related to observability, availability, automation and...

Bob Knight is both a broadband industry professional and public official. He is the President & CEO of Harrison Edwards, a leading broadband marketing agency and is widely considered the nation’s leading expert in community and stakeholder engagement and take rate building for fiber-broadband...

Catherine Krantz is Area Director for Broadband at Communities Unlimited leading broadband initiatives for CU across seven states. She brings over 20 years of experience in international business, non-profit management, community, and economic development. She is a dedicated rural and community...

Victoria Lamberth co-founded ZenFi Networks in 2013 and currently serves as Chief Revenue Officer overseeing the company’s regional sales & marketing organization. Prior to ZenFi’s merger with Cross River Fiber, Lamberth served as Chief Operating Officer for the company. She has 10+ years of...

Matt Larsen started deploying wireless broadband in 1999 and is experienced in the design of data networks, NOC operations, wireless deployments, voice over IP implementation, business development and overall management of ISP operations. In 1995, Larsen was part of the volunteer group that...

David Lee is the head of new venture incubation at Cox Communications, the largest private telecommunications company in America. His team explores emerging frontiers and tries to build elegant solutions to a wide range of important problems. The teams are working to improve aspects of supply...

Steve is the Founder and Managing Director of Layer 7 Capital, a boutique investment bank based in New York. For the last two decades, Steve has worked with companies in the cloud, digital transformation, IT services and digital infrastructure sectors. Prior to forming Layer 7 Capital, Steve was a ...

Dustin Li serves as the Special Programs Director for ITDRC, and led projectConnect - a program dedicated to helping to bridge the digital divide, exacerbated by COVID-19, by installing community WiFi access points. He also drives software, security, and toolchain infrastructure development...

Andrew D. Lipman practices in most aspects of communications law and related fields, including regulatory, transactional, litigation, legislative, and land use. Andy’s clients in the private and public sectors include those in the areas of local, long distance, and international telephone common...

Dylan Lockwood is the Senior Editor, and Lead of all Thought Leadership Summit Content at Zpryme. With a passion for decarbonization, Dylan has produced original content ranging from research reports, event agendas, and virtual media content. As a senior member of the team, Dylan contributes and...

Andy is a Client Director at Biarri Networks and is responsible for relationship management for their valued partners. He spent the last year and a half with Biarri Networks after working for ten years in senior sales roles for many of the largest Service Providers in the US. Before working in the...

Philip Macres is a principal at Klein Law Group, PLLC. He has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Philip counsels companies on increasing profitability, reducing risk, and furthering their corporate objectives through effective and efficient...

Sara Mascall leads the Technology, Media & Telecom Commercial Sector at The Wall Street Journal | Barron's group. She builds strategic partnerships with key stakeholders to help drive their ability to engage their target audience and exceed their business goals. Sara has been with the Wall...

Patrick McCormick is a CIO and strategist working at the intersection of public policy, emerging technology, and innovation. Pat has over 20 years of experience working in and consulting to government organizations in the U.S. and Australia. His areas of expertise include enterprise...

Kim McKinley helps lead UTOPIA Fiber as its Deputy Director and Chief Marketing Officer. In 2010, she joined the network as a member of its turnaround team, and has helped cement today’s UTOPIA Fiber as the fastest-growing, highest-rated, and most-successful Open Access network in the United...

Brian joined VETRO with a wealth of experience helping to shape federal and state broadband programs and leading community broadband efforts in rural areas. Prior to VETRO, Brian founded Connected Nation, a nonprofit focused on enriching community broadband access. During his time at Connected...

Scott Menhart, the Chief Technology & Information Officer for Traverse City Light & Power (TCLP), has more than 25 years of experience in technology, broadband, and smart grid industries. He has been involved with multiple fiber to the premise deployments and most recently launched...

In August 2022, Lindsay Miller was named the President of Consulting for Lit Communities. In this role, Miller will continue her focus on helping governments and their stakeholders build public-private partnerships to create and expand broadband networks across the country.   Prior to joining the ...

With over 25 years of experience in the digital infrastructure sector, Ilissa Miller is a sought after advisor offering cutting-edge strategies to companies including Data Center Operators, Internet Exchanges, Interconnection Platform Enablers, Edge Computing, Global Networking and more. Through...

Tim Moore is the Southeast Sales Manager for UCL Swift North America and has been with UCL Swift for the last five years. Tim is a seasoned professional with over fifteen years of experience in the fiber optic industry. He has a proven track record of success, having established UCL Swift North...

Amol Naik is a government affairs executive and public policy lawyer with deep expertise in technology and infrastructure policy developed over 17 years at senior levels in both the private sector and government. Of note, Amol led the passage of the first two "One Touch Make Ready"...

Paul Narro has been involved in compliance and policy industries for over a decade. In his more recent roles, he has utilized his strong investigative and analytical skills to find innovative ways to support Tekwav’s mission in serving the underserved and unserved communities, becoming a subject...

Nauman leads the DZS Product Management team responsible for the company's global portfolio of OLTs, ONTs and Broadband Access Switches. Mr. Nauman has over 35 years of experience in the definition, design, development, test and support of voice and data communications products and served in...

Viet Nguyen is the Director of Public Relations and Technology of 5G Americas. He is responsible for promoting 5G and 3GPP-standard technologies with strategic communications to media and analysts, as well as planning and coordination with global wireless telecommunications organizations. ...

Leveraging a 26-year career in Regulatory Affairs for the communications industry, Esther joined Cox’s new Market Expansion team (“MET”) in late 2021. The MET is focused on Cox’s significant efforts to address the Digital Divide by expanding its reach into un-and-underserved areas of our country. ...

José F. Otero is Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean of 5G Americas. Mr. Otero has collaborated on more than 100 research projects and has authored numerous studies on the regional telecommunications industry. His experience includes working on projects related to social...

Shawn Parker is a native Texan, businessman and external affairs professional. His relationships are broad and deep across Texas and throughout the United States. Shawn’s experience spans multiple industries from his early days as an executive at Coca-Cola in New York and Los Angeles to impacting...

Matt Passalacqua, a senior enterprise and market development executive, has led nationwide direct and indirect multifamily market development teams with dedicated vertical focus on multifamily solutions since 2006. Since joining Astound in 2019, his focus has been leading teams in growing Astound’s ...

Seema Patel is Senior Counsel in Chapman’s Illinois Public Finance Department. Seema started her career at Chapman in 2008 after participating in the firm's summer associate program, and she rejoined the firm in 2013 after spending a year traveling the world.Seema serves as bond...

Bryan J. Rader is President, MDU for Pavlov Media, a leading provider of broadband services to the multifamily market.  He is a 30 year industry veteran in the broadband industry. He was the Founder/CEO of MediaWorks, a leading provider of TV and internet services to apartments in the southeast...

In June 2020, Sheryl Osiene-Riggs was named President and CEO of the Utilities Technology Council (UTC). UTC is a Washington, D.C.-based global trade association that represents electric, gas and water utilities on their mission-critical information and communications technologies. Sheryl joined...

Raimundo Rodulfo started his career in the early 1990s as an engineer in the telecommunications industry. He joined the City of Coral Gables in 2004 and currently serves as Director of Innovation & Technology and Chief Innovation Officer. He leads strategic planning, oversight and management of ...

Mr. Rottmayer has been in the telecommunications industry for 44+ years and has designed, built, and operated wireline & wireless networks globally.  He has been involved with assisting and executing several grant programs for various telecommunications companies.  Additionally, he has assisted ...

Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In...

Chris Sambar leads AT&T’s Network organization and teams responsible for designing, engineering, building, and operating AT&T’s next generation mobile and fiber networks, including America’s most reliable 5G Network.1 His responsibilities include overseeing one of the largest network...

Jennifer Sanders is Cofounder and Executive Director of the North Texas Innovation Alliance, a 501c3 public-private partnership which is the largest such initiative in the U.S., with the mission of creating the most connected, smart and resilient region in the country. In 2015, she cofounded the...

Erin Scarborough grows broadband customer relationships via acquisition, retention, go-to-market tactics, marketing and analytics, as well as our overall distribution strategy, including an end-to-end approach by state for strategic fiber investment initiatives.Prior to this position, Erin oversaw...

Anh Selissen has served as the Chief Information Officer at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) since September 2019 with a $500 plus million annual information technology portfolio. In this position, she leads the department’s efforts to transform TxDOT by implementing smart technology...

Benjamin Seo is Marketing Manager at Harrison Edwards - the broadband industry’s go-to integrated marketing & PR agency - where he develops and executes brand strategies and tactics for clients. Since joining Harrison Edwards, he has worked with dozens of broadband clients including the three...

Ivan is the Vice President of Global Sales at MicroAI, a global Edge AI company headquartered in Dallas Texas. MicroAI has been providing its award-winning Edge AI and Predictive insight platform to help solve some of the most critical challenges related to observability, availability, automation...

A creative and dynamic leader, Raj has been at the forefront of advancing network technologies and automation in the broadband industry for more than 25 years. Raj became CEO of Velankani Communications Technologies, Inc. in 2005 and technology developed by Velankani can be found can be found in...

Richard D. “Buzz” Smith is a board member and Director of Dealer Outreach with the Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance (TxETRA.org). He is known as “The EV-angelist.” He spends his time spreading the “good news” of electric vehicles, via public speaking, his YouTube channel and...

Robert Sokota is responsible for wireless operations and siting for LinkNYC kiosks. Previously, he has worked on other wireless and wired projects in New York City and surrounding areas.

John is the Director, North America at Biarri Networks, and is responsible for Biarri's engineering operations for projects across North America. He has been with the company for over eight years and has been involved in many aspects of networks deployments for rural communities across North...

Rick Talbot is the principal analyst for the intelligent transport, network access transformation and 5G RAN xHaul transport practices at ACG Research. He possesses expertise in network access, transport and switching technologies, including Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and a deep...

As President of Network Access Partnerships at SiFi Networks, George Templeman works with organizations in the Telecom sector to leverage FiberCity® Open Access Networks in order to deliver internet access and related services for the benefit of the community. George has worked in the information...

Craig’s role within the Broadband Forum is to own and drive the marketing strategy from focus to delivery. Supporting our vision, key principles and meeting the needs of our members and industry education as a whole. An accomplished public speaker he brings over 25 years’ experience of telecoms...

Karnel Thomas is a 30-year employee of the Utilities Technology Council, with 15 years of executive management responsibilities for the association. Mr. Thomas oversees strategic, tactical and fiduciary responsibilities for UTC membership and all domestic and international association events. In...

A business and technology expert in the ICT field with involvements in more than 40 ICT companies during the past 15 years covering financing, business and product development, organization development and turn-around management in positions. Before that 9 years at Nokia in different senior...

Will Townsend is a frequent Forbes contributor and advises some of the largest networking and telecommunications companies in the world. His more than thirty years of experience spans tenures spent with iconic companies such as Dell & Hewlett-Packard, serving in several senior level roles...

Thomas Tyler has experience in technology strategy, cybersecurity concerns, economic development, and public policy disciplines. Over the past 13 years, he has operated in a variety of roles supporting public and private entities. Most recently, he served as a consultant and advisor for one of the...

Rashmi has lead the way for Women in Telecommunications since 1997. Rashmi has experience in both Optical and Wireless Communications together with Embedded Software Design, Research & Development. She envisions bold and cutting-edge, innovative ideas and leads multidisciplinary product teams...

Adrienne Whaley has 30+ years of experience in the technology industry. Her expertise includes Technology Training, Service Desk Management, Change Management, and Project Management. For the last 7 years, Adrienne has been a passionate technology advocate working to bridge the digital divide by...

Through her work with nonprofits, academia, and government partnerships, Dr. Fallon S. Wilson strives to make visible the work of historic and modern-day Black crises solvers. She invests her time into strengthening the tech ecosystem nationwide, especially as it relates both to Black women...

Scott D. Woods is the former inaugural Director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives in NTIA’s Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth (OIGC). While at NTIA, he served as the principal liaison between the OIGC program office and key strategic partners and external stakeholder...

Donald Workman is the Chairman and Chief Operating Officer for Rural Telecommunications of America, Inc. (RTA), the home of the gigFAST NETWORK® serving subscribers in 22 states. He is RTA’s co-founder and spearheaded the vision to bring gigFAST INTERNET® to America’s rural communities. He leads...

Emily is a strategic leader who has worked to position cities as globally competitive by utilizing a systems approach to develop strategies, projects and programs that innovate at the intersection of sustainability, technology, and economic development.   As Chief Innovation Officer for the...

Bill Zielinski is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Dallas. In this role, he directs Information Technology (IT) operations for the 9th largest City in the United States, serving a population of more than 1.3 million people.Prior to joining the City, Mr. Zielinski worked for the...