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Rural TeleCon 2011 is a two-day event that attracts several hundred people internationally and domestically to discuss what they have done in each of their states and communities to bring about the deployment and utilization of broadband services in rural areas. Below is a tentative conference agenda followed by a description of the conference tracks/roundtables. (See Tracks and Roundtables for additional information.)


Monday, October 17

 

7:00 p.m.

Meet and Greet (The Oxford, 319 Fayetteville Street)

   
8:30 p.m.
RTC Board Meeting (Pin Oak Room)
 

Tuesday, October 18

 

8:00 a.m.

Breakfast (Mezzanine)

   

8:45 a.m.

Welcome (Oak Forest Ballroom)
Galen Updike, President, RTC and Broadband Dev. Manager, ASET

   
9:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks
David Villano, Assistant Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, USDA
   

9:15 a.m.

Keynote Introduction
Jane Patterson, Conference Chair, RTC and Executive Director, e-NC Authority

   

9:45 a.m.

Keynote: Innovation and Technology
Joe DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemical Engineering, NCSU

   

10:30 a.m.

Networking Break (Mezzanine)

   

11:00 a.m.

TRACK #1, 2 or 3

   

12:00 p.m.

Keynote Panel: Broadband for All
Jim Baller, President, Baller Herbst Law Group
Hilda Legg, Former Administrator, Rural Utilities Service
Blair Levin, Communications & Society Fellow, Aspen Institute
Cynthia Marshall (Moderator), NC President, AT&T

   

1:30 p.m.

CONTINUE TRACK #1, 2 or 3

   

2:30 p.m.

CONTINUE TRACK #1, 2 or 3

   

3:30 p.m.

Networking Break (Mezzanine)

   

4:00 p.m.

Closing (Oak Forest Ballroom)

   

5:00 p.m.

Reception

 

 

Wednesday, October 19

 

8:00 a.m.

Breakfast

   

9:00 a.m.

Welcome

   

9:45 a.m.

Keynote: Shifting a Community’s Focus to Tech-based Economic Development
Mark Wells, Executive Director, Rockingham County Business & Technology Center
   

10:30 a.m.

Networking Break (Mezzanine)

   

11:00 a.m.

TRACK #1, 2 or 3

   

12:00 p.m.

Lunch Keynote: Public Safety Networks
Charles Robinson, Key Business Executive Business Support Services, City of Charlotte

   

1:30 p.m.

CONTINUE TRACK #1, 2 or 3

   

2:30 p.m.

CONTINUE TRACK #1, 2 or 3

   

3:30 p.m.

Networking Break (Mezzanine)

   

4:00 p.m.

Closing (Oak Forest Ballroom)

   

5:00 p.m.

Adjourn