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  Vice President, Product Marketing
Fairpoint Communications 

General Session: Wireless Backhaul
   
  Daniel Alvarez
Legal Advisor to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
Wireline, Public Safety, and Homeland Security
FCC
CEO Breakfast
   
  Chris Ancell
CEO
XO Communications
General Session: Executive Roundtable
 
 
 
Thomas Beem
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Iowa Networks Services Inc.
Rural Broadband: Extending the Reach to Meet Demand
   
  Robert Beury
Vice President & Chief Legal Officer
Cogent Communications
General Session: Interconnection and the Over-the-Top Video Marketplace
Open Internet: What’s at Stake?
   
  Seth Bloom
President and Founder
Bloom Strategic Counsel 
General Session: Telecom Convergence and Megamergers
   
  Anand Buch
Co-Founder and CEO
NetSapiens
The Bottom Line:  Maximizing Network Revenue
   
  Sean Buckley
Senior Editor
FierceTelecom
General Session: Wireless Backhaul
   
 
Partner
Wednesday Workshop
   
  Stephen Bye
Chief Technology Officer
Sprint 
General Session: Executive Roundtable
   
  David Byrd
Chief Marketing Officer
ANPI
The Bottom Line:  Maximizing Network Revenue
 
 
Jerry Cady
Director of Sales and Marketing
LSN (Formerly LS Networks)
General Session: Wireless Backhaul
   
  James Capuano
Senior Vice President & Chief of Network Operations
FirstLight Fiber
Fiber, Fiber Everywhere: The Intersection of Industry, Government and Policy
   
  Tim Cody
Senior Director of Research and Development
Neustar
The Bottom Line:  Maximizing Network Revenue
   
  Tom Cohen
Partner
Kelley Drye
General Session: Telecom Convergence and Megamergers
   
 
Of Counsel
Wednesday Workshop
   
 
Andre Cooks
Director of Business Development
COMLINK
Rural Broadband: Extending the Reach to Meet Demand
   
  Stephen Currie
Director of Product Management
EarthLinkk
What’s the Forecast? Multiple Clouds on the Horizon
 
  Deputy Chief of Wireline Competition Bureau
Federal Communications Commission
Open Internet: What’s at Stake?
   
  Chris Drake
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President
iconectiv
General Session: Interconnection and the Over-the-Top Video Marketplace
 
  Ben Edmond
Chief Revenue Officer
Global Capacity
Transforming Enterprise Networks: An Aggregated Multi-Cloud Strategy
   
  Eric Einhorn
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
Windstream
Wednesday Workshop
 
  Michele Farquhar
Partner
Hogan Lovells

General Session: Interconnection and the Over-the-Top Video Marketplace
Wednesday Workshop
   
  Brian Fung
Reporter
The Washington Post
What’s the Forecast? Multiple Clouds on the Horizon
Wednesday Workshop
 
 
Jeff Gardner
President and CEO
Windstream
General Session: Executive Roundtable
   
  Dr. Chris Gibbons
Scholar in Residence
Connect2Health FCC Task Force
Associate Director
Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute
Rural Telehealth: A Healthy Business Opportunity
 
  Trey Hanbury
Partner
Hogan Lovells
Open Internet: What’s at Stake?
Wednesday Workshop
   
  Bruce Holdridge
CLEC/Subsidiary Manager
Gila Local Exchange, Inc. (d/b/a Alluvion Communications)
Rural Broadband: Extending the Reach to Meet Demand
   
  Joanne Hovis
President, CTC Technology and Energy
Immediate Past President/Board Member
National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA)
Fiber, Fiber Everywhere: The Intersection of Industry, Government and Policy
   
  Hank Hultquist
Vice President, Federal Regulatory
AT&T
General Session: Interconnection and the Over-the-Top Video Marketplace
   
  Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Fibertech
Fiber, Fiber Everywhere: The Intersection of Industry, Government and Policy
 
 
Kristie Ince
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Wednesday Workshop
 
  Adam Janota
Director, Global Networks
Equinix
Transforming Enterprise Networks: An Aggregated Multi-Cloud Strategy
   
  Larry Jonczak
Director of Information Services
Lakes Regional MHMR Center
Rural Telehealth: A Healthy Business Opportunity
 
  Gene Kimmelman
President and CEO
Public Knowledge
General Session: Telecom Convergence and Megamergers
Open Internet: What’s at Stake?
   
  Ron Kormos
Chief Strategy Officer
FiberLight
Fiber, Fiber Everywhere: The Intersection of Industry, Government and Policy
   
  Tim Koxlien
Founder and CEO
Rural Health Telecom, a division of TeleQuality Communications
Rural Telehealth: A Healthy Business Opportunity
   
 
Chief Advocate and General Counsel
Wednesday Workshop
 
 
Director of Technology & Systems
Transforming Enterprise Networks: An Aggregated Multi-Cloud Strategy
   
  Ryan Lehman
Director of Health
BT Americas, BT Global Services
Rural Telehealth: A Healthy Business Opportunity
   
  Randy Lowe
Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine
Rural Telehealth: A Healthy Business Opportunity
 
  Philip Macres
Principal
Klein Law Group
Rural Broadband: Extending the Reach to Meet Demand
   
 
Vice President, Access Services
General Session: Executive Roundtable
General Session: Interconnection and the Over-the-Top Video Marketplace
   
  Craig Moffet
Senior Research Analyst
MoffettNathanson 
General Session: Telecom Convergence and Megamergers
   
  Rich Morris
Senior Counsel-Federal State Government Affairs
Sprint
Wednesday Workshop
 
  Tim Naramore
CTO
Masergy
Network Function Virtualization (NFV): Hope, Hype or Honest Value?
   
  Melissa Newman
Senior Vice President - Federal Policy and Regulatory Affairs
CenturyLink
Open Internet: What’s at Stake?
 
  Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
PEG Bandwidth

General Session: Wireless Backhaul
   
  Erin Ostler
Director of Sales, Emerging & Wholesale Solutions
Sprint
Rural Broadband: Extending the Reach to Meet Demand
 
  Ray Patalano
Director, Solutions Marketing
Cyan
Network Function Virtualization (NFV): Hope, Hype or Honest Value?
   
  Prayson Pate
CTO & Senior Vice President, Research and Development
Overture
Network Function Virtualization (NFV): Hope, Hype or Honest Value?
   
  The Honorable Chip Pickering
CEO
COMPTEL
General Session: Executive Roundtable
Wednesday Workshop
   
  Matthew Polka
President and CEO
American Cable Association (ACA) 
General Session: Telecom Convergence and Megamergers
Open Internet: What’s at Stake?
   
  Duncan Puller
Vice President, Data Center and Cloud Strategy
Ciena
Transforming Enterprise Networks: An Aggregated Multi-Cloud Strategy
 
 
Robert Quinn
Senior Vice President, Federal Regulatory, and Chief Privacy Officer
AT&T
General Session: Telecom Convergence and Megamergers
 
  Peter Radizeski
Consultant
RAD-INFO, Inc.
COMPTEL PLUS HUB
   
  Jon Reeve
Senior Director, Product Marketing
CenturyLink Cloud
What’s the Forecast? Multiple Clouds on the Horizon
 
  Tom Savard
Vice President of Technology, Development and Engineering
Transition Networks
The Bottom Line:  Maximizing Network Revenue
   
  Jeff Schilling
Chief Security Officer
FireHost
Locked Down: Key Components for Airtight Security
   
  Eitan Schwartz
VP, Service Provider Line of Business, North America
RAD
Network Function Virtualization (NFV): Hope, Hype or Honest Value?
   
 
   
 
Jeff Shaffer
Digital Forensics Lab Manager/Group Leader
Dept. Of Homeland Security / U.S. Secret Service
Locked Down: Key Components for Airtight Security
   
  Fedor Smith
President
ATLANTIC-ACM
 
   
  Drew Snow
Vice President of Member Services
MTBC
Locked Down: Key Components for Airtight Security
   
 

Ryan Stafford
Director Marketing Communications, Emerging Business Markets
AT&T 

   
 

Sara Straley
Director of Product Development, Emerging Business Markets
AT&T

   
  Vaughn Suazo
Distinguished Systems Engineer
Cisco
What’s the Forecast? Multiple Clouds on the Horizon
 
 
 
  Deb Ward
CEO, TSI
Chairwoman, COMPTEL Board of Directors
Opening Session and Keynote Address
   
  Kevin Wheeler
Founder and Managing Director
InfoDefense
Locked Down: Key Components for Airtight Security
   
  Chairman Tom Wheeler
FCC
Opening Session and Keynote Address
   
  Geoffrey Why
Member
Mintz Levin
Fiber, Fiber Everywhere: The Intersection of Industry, Government and Policy
 
 
  Lisa Youngers
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Federal Affairs
XO Communications
Wednesday Workshop