General Sessions:
Speciality Content:
The C-Suite Forum: programming for execs & lawmakers
A closed-door forum designed to align strategy, investment, and policy as our industry works to close the Digital Opportunity Gap for all Americans. Expect candid dialogue, market insight, and senior-level networking.
Monday, May 18 | 2:30–5:30 pm
2:30 pm Welcome
2:35 pm Keynote: Leading Through Disruptive Times
3:00 pm European View and Update
3:15 pm Fireside Chat: Own the Outcome – Advancing the Quantum Ecosystem
3:40 pm Fireside Chat: Public Safety — Fighting Fire with Fiber
4:15 pm Fireside Chat: Lucky LEO and What Comes Next
4:45 pm Networking Reception
Precision Agriculture: Seeding Broadband Futures
Low-latency fiber unlocks real-time data, automation, and collaboration across modern farms. This program explores best practices for fiber to the farm and how IoT, edge computing, and data sharing drive higher yields, lower costs, and reduced carbon impact.
Monday, May 18 | 3:00–5:00 pm
3:00 pm Welcome
3:05 pm Keynote: From Connectivity to Coordination: Broadband Infrastructure for the Future of Agriculture
3:25 pm Fireside Chat: The Future of Farming in America: Precision Ag, AI, and Broadband
3:55 pm Fiber to the Last Acre – Providing Farms with a High-Capacity Edge
4:30 pm Fireside Chat: From PON to Plow – The Impact of Bandwidth on Precision Agriculture
Network Demands: Dream a Little Stream
As streaming, gaming, and immersive entertainment evolve, performance demands intensify. This session examines capacity, latency, and in-home experience challenges for multi-stream households, creators, and power users, and what networks must deliver as AR and VR become mainstream.
Monday, May 18 | 3:00–5:00 pm
3:00 pm Welcome
3:05 pm Fireside Chat: From Fast Fiber to Favorite Provider – Winning the Living Room w/ Seamless Entertainment
3:40 pm Panel: Game On! Latency, Jitter, and the Gamer Life
4:20 pm Fireside Chat: Building Bright Futures
4:55 am Closing Remarks
Up Next in Broadband: Hyperscale Data Center and the Evolving Edge
AI, cloud, and autonomous systems demand the performance only fiber can deliver. Explore architectures for in-rack connectivity, resource clustering, and interconnect that cut latency, increase capacity, and reduce power by replacing copper with glass.
Tuesday, May 19 | 10:00–11:45 am
10:00 am Welcome
10:05 am Fireside Chat: A Data Center without Connectivity is an Expensive Warehouse
10:40 am Panel: Data Center Innovations
11:20 am Keynote: The Future of Fiber Infrastructure in the AI Era
11:45 am Closing Remarks
telehealth & broadband summit: byte a day keeps the doctor away
Better health outcomes, ability to age in place, and connecting with medical experts outside your communities all become possible when homes and communities are connected with fiber broadband. This program will dive into how fiber broadband delivers the connections to let telehealth and other healthcare programs thrive.
Tuesday, May 19, 10:00 – 11:45 am
10:00 am Welcome
10:05 am Keynote
10:25 am Fireside Chat: Connecting to Better Health Outcomes in Rural America
10:50 am Fiber Diagnosis: Accessing Better Healthcare Options in America
11:20 am Fireside Chat: Deploying Medical Grade Broadband
11:45 am Closing Remarks
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Broadband Policy Upload: Sustainable, Scalable Policy
From planning through implementation, agencies and industry are aligned on connecting the unconnected. Leaders will discuss how to build durable policy frameworks that serve communities today and for the next twenty years.
Tuesday, May 19 | 10:00 am–12:00 pm
10:00 am Welcome
10:05 am Fireside Chat: Hyperscale Data Center Impact on Broadband Infrastructure Policy
10:30 am Panel: Autonomous Vehicles at the Information Super Highway
11:00 am Panel: Policy Imperatives for Telehealth, Precision Ag, and Aging
11:30 am Fireside Chat: Cybersecurity’s New Frontier as New Communities are Connected
11:55 am Closing Remarks