The 2019 INCOMPAS Show, Louisville Kentucky

« 2 0 » THE INCOMPAS SHOW I NOVEMBER 4 - 6, 2019 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Registration Open Commonwealth Ballroom Lobby Sponsored by: 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Deal Center, Expo Hall and Meeting Spaces Open Expo Hall, Commonwealth Ballroom 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast & Coffee Bar in the Expo Hall Expo Hall, Commonwealth Ballroom Breakfast sponsored by 8:30 a.m. – 8:40 a.m. Opening Remarks Chip Pickering, CEO, INCOMPAS Olmsted Ballroom 8:40 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. Competition for Government Contracts Olmsted Ballroom Moderator: Chip Pickering, CEO, INCOMPAS Speakers: Michael B. Galvin, General Counsel, Granite Telecommunications, LLC Pamela Sherwood Hollick, Assistant General Counsel, CenturyLink General Services Administration’s (GSA) new Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) is the federal government’s new $50 billion buying contract for the next 15 years for next generations voice and data services. GSA has approved nine companies to bid on and supply those services, and those companies will be looking to partner with competitive companies of many types to furnish the services that governmental agencies will utilize over this extended period. Competitors should be interested in the pace and scope of EIS’s rollout. The rollout has been delayed multiple times already and further delays are not off the table. GSA’s rules are designed to promote competitive bids, but others are pushing back against a more competitive system for selecting service providers. The discussion will focus on these and other issues of interest to the competitive community. 9:10 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Mapping a Better Broadband Future Olmsted Ballroom Moderators: Angie Kronenberg, Chief Advocate and General Counsel, INCOMPAS Chip Pickering, CEO, INCOMPAS Part 1 - Finding the Gap Speakers: Paula Boyd, Senior Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, Microsoft Corporation Preston Wise, Rural Broadband Advisor, Office of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Federal Communications Commission The FCC estimates that approximately 21.3 million Americans live in areas without broadband access. However, Microsoft’s usage data shows that 162 million Americans are not using the internet at broadband speeds (currently defined at 25 Mbps download/3 Mbps upload by the FCC). That’s a huge discrepancy, and a huge problem. Hear from panelists about how to accurately define this gap. Part 2 - Serving the Gap Speakers: Ben Edmond, Founder and CEO, Connected2Fiber Phillip Deneef, Chief Strategy Officer, GeoLinks Brian Worthen, CEO, Mammoth Networks Logan Campbell, Vice President, Sales, Multapplied Networks Inc. While many challenges exist to reaching underserved and rural communities, several companies are bridging the gap with wireline and wireless broadband. Learn more about their strategies for successfully deploying these networks. Part 3 - Funding the Gap Speaker: Carol Mattey, Principal, Mattey Consulting LLC The cost of delivering ubiquitous broadband can prohibitive and is a primary reason why so many households remain without. Hear from Carol Mattey, an expert on this topic, regarding the ways to help alleviate the cost burden, including upcoming opportunities to seek funding from the FCC’s $20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund and other government programs.