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Vince Aragona CEO Neo Network Development Navid Ariaban Managing Director FTI Consulting Berge Ayvazian Senior Industry Analyst and Consultant Wireless 20/20 Egest Balla Analyst, Wire & Cable CRU Group MJ Barton Tribal Affairs & Strategic Growth Trans-Tel Central, LLC Eric Bathras Chief Technology Officer Maryland Department of Information Technology Angela Bennink General Manager Kitsap Public Utility District Koby Biran CEO Xtream Communications, LLC Scott Blorstad Sr. Project Manager HITT Contracting Robert Boyle CEO & Founder Planet Networks Mike Brigman CEO Bridged Broadband Butch Brock CSO Dragonfly Internet David Bronston Special Counsel Phillips Lytle Ken Budd CEO 702 Communications, Aurora Fiber Optic Networks Rick Cimerman Vice President - External & State Affairs Lead NCTA -The Internet & Television Association Justin Colwell EVP, Technology Strategy & Innovation Charter Communications Steve Coran Attorney Lerman Senter PLLC Elizabeth Coyne Editor-in-Chief Fierce Network Gene Crusie CEO Surf Internet Sarah Davis Vice President, Market Development Fidium Brandon Dinsmore Founder & Executive Director NDN Development Group Bob Faber Senior ICT Consultant Salas O'Brien Josh Forman Co-Chair, Digital Infrastructure Practice Greenberg Traurig Ken Frankel VP of Sales F-Secure Eric Frederick Chief Connectivity Officer Michigan High-Speed Internet Office Jeff Freyer Senior Vice President Grain Management Leo Garcia Director, Office of Broadband FloridaCommerce Heather Gate Executive Vice President, Digital Inclusion Connected Nation Bobbie Gilbert Chief Government Affairs Officer Ripple Fiber Diana Goovaerts Executive Editor, Cloud, Data Center and AI Fierce Network Robert Griffin Broadband Director Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Ronnie Hammond Director, Office of Statewide Broadband Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Linda Hardesty Executive Editor Fierce Network Caleb Henry Director of Research Quilty Space Brian Horton Senior Director Head of Wireless Business CCI Systems Glen Howie State Broadband Director Arkansas Economic Development Commission Veneeth Iyengar Executive Director Connect LA Alan Jones CNO C Spire Anitha Kapu Director of Engineering (Manufacturing & Quality) Crusoe Anis Khemakhem Chief Commercial Officer Clearfield Bob Knight Commissioner, Economic & Community Development Town of Ridgefield, Connecticut Jeff Kohler Co-Founder Rise Broadband Bob Kolasky SVP, Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Exiger Spencer Laney Director of Deployment TWN Communications Matt Larsen Owner and CEO Vistabeam Jaimie Lenderman Practice Leader Omdia Sam Love Chief Policy & Strategy Officer NCTA Mike Lubin Senior Advisor and VP ViaSat Bree Maki Executive Director Office of Broadband Development - Minnesota Kimberly Maki CEO Influential Voices, LLC Ravi Teja Reddy Mandala Senior Site Reliability Engineer Oracle Sue Marek editorial director ookla Carol Mattey Principal Mattey Consulting LLC Kimberly McKinley Chief of Staff TAK Broadband Allyson Mitchell General Manager Mohawk Networks, LLC Jason Mittler Manager FPUAnet Fort Pierce Utilities Authority Matt Myers Chief Operations Officer All West Fiber Melissa Newman SVP, Government Affairs TIA Sam Pavlick Sales Manager Actifai Mark Pearson Broadband Interstate Coordinator Communities Unlimited Jessica Pittard President, CEO BDI Datalynk Matthew Plaster Senior Advisor for Strategy NTIA Donald Ray Chief Development Officer BAM Broadband Phil Read Senior Director of Global Colocation Product Management Equinix Mike Regan VP, Business Performance TIA Brandy Reitter Executive Director Colorado Broadband Office Martin Renkis Executive Director, Data Center Infrastructure Johnson Controls Peter Robins-Brown Assistant to the President Louisiana AFL-CIO Stephen Rose CEO Render Networks Paroma Sanyal Principal The Brattle Group Steven Schwerbel Director of State Advocacy WISPA - The Association for Broadband Without Boundaries Carla Shearer CEO & General Manager SCTelecom Parker Slaybaugh VP LINK Public Affairs Tom Stroup President Satellite Industry Association Bill Stueber Partner Telecom Partners Group Roger Timmerman CEO UTOPIA Fiber Gino Tozzi Global Head of Data Center Infrastructure Quality Google Thomas Tyler Co-Founder C207 Partners Kevin Uyeno Vice President, Chief of Staff Pivot-Tech Development, Inc Drew Van Dopp CEO Maryland Broadband Cooperative Brian Vo Chief Investment Officer Connect Humanity David Waite Principal Fifty Elm Rob Ward SVP, Global Network Engineering Lumen Technologies Joseph Wender Executive Director SHLB Coalition Kenny Williams District 9 Staff Representative Communications Workers of America (CWA) John Windhausen Principal Telepoly Warren Woodward Director of Broadband Services XMission Internet Michelle Yirka SVP Business Development Chisholm Broadband David Zumwalt President & CEO WISPA
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