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INSIGHTS for Next-Generation ILECs: A Telephony LIVE Summit

 

 

 

 

 

  

Price:  $395.  Summit attendees are entitled to a $100 discount off a NXTcomm08 Single Day Conference Pass or a $200 discount off a NXTcomm08 Full Conference Pass. 

Telephony & The Independent’s one-day summit: INSIGHTS for Next-Generation ILECs is designed for Independent telephone companies looking for new revenue and service opportunities and greater insight into their own industry and marketplace. This event will explore what’s next for the Independents in delivering converged services, business services, video services and wireless services. It will explore the impact of consolidation on individual companies and the industry in general.  Experts both from within the Independent telephone industry and from the broader telecom marketplace will share success stories and lessons learned in pioneering new technologies and services.

Agenda:

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

Opening Address:  Jaxon Lang, Vice President of Global Connectivity Solutions-Americas, ADC

9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Opening Keynote: Dennis Huber, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Development, Embarq Logistics

Embarq, formerly the local line business of Sprint, doesn’t own wireless spectrum, isn’t launching IPTV and like most local companies is losing access lines regularly. But through innovation using both new technology and partnerships with wireless and video players, Embarq is offering a distinctive array of new services for its customers and seeing its data revenues and average revenue per user climb as a result. Dennis Huber will discuss the company’s strategy for keeping a local wireline business not only viable but able to thrive.

9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

General Session Panel: Is the Quad Play Your Future? This panel will examine whether telcos must deliver on voice, data, video and wireless to succeed and survive going forward, or whether there are other strategic choices to be made first.

Among the issues to be examined are: •    The risks and rewards of building a local video infrastructure •    The potential of video partnerships •    Going beyond just adding video to integrating services •    The advantages and challenges of bundling wireless services

Panelists: •    Moderator: Bernie Arnason, Pivot Media LLC •    Diane Smith, President, Avail Media •    Dennis Huber, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development, Embarq Logistics •    Shannon Aylesworth, Sales Director-Major Accounts, Redback Networks •    Jaxon Lang, Vice President of Global Connectivity Solutions-Americas, ADC •    Russ Sharer, Vice President of Marketing, Occam Networks

10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Live Demonstration with ADC

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Networking Break

11:00 a.m.- 12:15 p.m.

General Session Panel: Ethernet on Main Street Ethernet is taking over the metro market, but will it capture Main Street as well? This panel will cover the pros, cons and complexities of business services in rural areas.

Among the issues to be examined are: •    Advantages of Ethernet over other data offerings •    Competition in the Ethernet market •    Technology choices for delivering Ethernet •    Challenges of offering and supporting Ethernet as a service

Panelists: •    Moderator: Ed Gubbins, Executive News Editor, Telephony •    Glenn Moore, Dir. of Marketing and Sales Operations, Cavalier Telephone •    Kevin Sheehan, CEO, Hatteras Networks •    David Wright, General Manager, Cross Telephone •    Johnny Hill, Vice President of Product Development and Management, Clearfield Inc.

12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

VIP Lunch with Allen Oppenheimer - only open to first 40 that register! Learn how to value your business and how to increase its future value. Discover tools for packaging your business to make it more attractive to a buyer, for increasing sales through marketing and market research and for organizational planning. Also, learn about the practical factors involved in the Sale-of-Business Process. Allen Oppenheimer, CPA, the Founder and President of A. M. Oppenheimer, Inc., has performed Business Brokerage and Business Evaluation Services for middle-market companies. His firm specializes in the areas of business valuation, exit planning and sale-of-business for middle-market companies.

1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Live Demonstration with Clearfield Inc.

1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

General Session Panel: Wireless to the Rescue? As WiMAX comes to market commercially, what does it have to offer to smaller towns and rural areas? Does WiFi have a fit? How does the 700 MHz auction impact your community? This panel will address the role wireless will play as an access technology going forward.

Among the issues to be examined are: •    Wireless choices for rural network operators •    The cost and risk of owning your own spectrum •    The potential for increased competition based on wireless •    How to fit wireless into a rural carrier business plan and operation

Panelists: •    Moderator: Kevin Fitchard, Senior Editor, Telephony •    Scott Meier, WiMAX product manager, TDS Telecom •    John Celantano, President, Skyline Marketing •    Brian McCalley, Strategy and Planning, Global Engineering, IBM

2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Networking Break

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Afternoon Keynote – Mike DeVito, BT Wholesale BT will spend $18 billion by 2011 to complete its 21st Century initiative, which will transform its local network to an all IP infrastructure with a dynamic set of new services. In his keynote, Mike DeVito will share the benefits of this approach and explore how rural telcos can generate new services and revenues through outsourcing.

3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Live Demonstration

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

General Session Panel: Ownership in Flux? Consolidation might be coming to a town near you. Analysts, industry executives and associations weigh in on the shifting landscape of telco ownership, including consolidation, wireline spinoffs and the challenge of going it alone.

Among the issues to be examined are: •    What drives rural telcos to expand •    When doing it all makes sense – and when it doesn’t •    How consolidation will affect rural telcos •    The impact of current economic conditions on expansion

Panelists: •    Moderator: Joan Engebretson, Supplements Editor, Telephony •    Vince Vittore, Program Manager, Enabling Technologies Service Provider Group, Yankee Group •    Bill King, President and Managing Principal, JSI Capital Advisors, LLC •    Kevin McGuire, Vice President, NTCA •    Francis X. Gallagher, Jr., Managing Director, Stifel Nicolaus Co., Inc.

4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Networking Reception

Special Thanks to our Sponsors:

Signature Sponsor: ADC
Platinum Sponsor: Clearfield Inc.
Gold Sponsors: Occam Networks, Redback Networks