Broadband Stimulus National Town Hall Meeting
National League of Cities TV, TV Mainstream and BroadbandCensus.com
Thursday, June 4, 2009
2:00 - 4:30 EDT
http://www.nlctv.org/events/broadbandstimulus_thm/090604/
With special introductory remarks by
Jim Kohlenberger, Chief of Staff, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
AGENDA
Hosts:
- Drew Clark, Executive Director, BroadbandCensus.com
- Marty Stern, Partner, K&L Gates
The Latest from NTIA
Mark Seifert, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary, NTIA*
The Latest from RUS
David Villano, Assistant Administrator, Telecommunications Program*
The Broadband Stimulus and Tribal Initiatives
- Deswood Tome, Executive Director, Navajo Nation Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
Scoring Grants - The latest thinking on how projects will be evaluated. What we know and what we've learned from other grant programs that can be applied to the Broadband Stimulus:
- Lisa Scalpone, Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs, WildBlue
- Rich Wonders, VP Strategic Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
- Scott Wallstein, Vice President, Research, Technology Policy Institute
- Joanne Hovis, Columbia Telecommunications Corporation
Show me the Money - What sources of private financing are available to help capitalize broadband stimulus projects
- John Badal, CEO, Sacred Wind Communications
- Richard S. Lukaj, Senior Managing Director, Bank Street Group
- Tim Nulty, Chairman, ECFiberNet, the East Central Vermont Community Fiber-Optic Network
Public Private Partnerships - What are they expected to look like and how important will they be to a successful grant application (invited panelists):
- Jim Baller, Baller Law Group
- Francis Butler, President NARUC*
- John Goodman, President and CEO, A-Vu Media
- Jonathan Banks, Senior Vice President, Law and Policy, US Telecom