Broadband Stimulus National Town Hall Meeting

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