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SCHEDULE – January 21-22, 2016
Pre-Conference Reception – Sponsored by CostQuest – Wed, January 20, 6:45 – 7:15 pm
CONFERENCE DAY 1: Thursday, January 21, 2015, 8:30 am – 5:45 pm
1—TFI Research: News and Overview [Slides] [video]
Lawrence Vanston, TFI
INTERNET OF THINGS AND BIG DATA
– Host: Carrie Vanston, VP, Communications, Technology Futures, Inc.
2—9:00 am The Communications/Data Transformation that will Change ALL
Our Ideas about HealthCare
– David Smith, President, SocialCare [slides] [video]
9:40 am Break
3—9:50 am KEYNOTE: “Big Picture Enablers Fueling the IoT Explosion”
– Sujata Neidig, Americas Marketing Manager,
NXP Semiconductors (Freescale recently merged with NXP) [video]
4—10:30 am Smart Cities and the IoT — Austin Looks Forward [video]
– Stephen Elkins, CIO, City of Austin [slides]
– Bert Haskell, CTO, Pecan Street, Inc. [slides]
– Ruben Miranda, Director, Duff & Phelps (Moderator)
11:20 am Break
5—11:30 am (this session was moved to later in the day)
Precision Agriculture and Petroleum: Opportunities for Rural and
Urban Communications Providers [slides] [video]
– Sam Harlan, P.E., VP Engineering Consulting, CHR Solutions
6—12:05 pm Big Fast Data, Cognitive Computing, the Cloud, IoT, and Software
Defined Networks [slides] [video]
– Lawrence Vanston, President, TFI
12:40 pm Lunch Break
WIRELESS
7—1:30 pm KEYNOTE: Millimeter Wave for 5G Cellular: Finding a New
Spectrum Mother Load [slides] [Video]
– Robert Heath, Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
2:30 pm Break
8—2:40 pm Cars Communicating? Automotive Applications of 5G and
Millimeter Wave [slides] [video]
– Robert Heath, Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
9—3:10 pm Wireless Industry Panel [video]
– Gary Wiggins, Executive Director – Property Tax, AT&T [slides]
– Stephen Yergeau, Director, Property Taxes, T-Mobile [slides}
– Mike Mupo, Retired Director, Verizon [slides]
– Ray Hodges, Senior Consultant, TFI (Sprint) [slides]
10—3:55 pm TFI Wireless Forecast Update [slides] [video]
– Ray Hodges, Senior Consultant, TFI
4:05 pm Break
VALUATION ISSUES
11—4:15 pm Technology-Driven Valuation Issues for Data Centers and
Communications Networks [slides] [video]
– Mike Mupo, Retired Director, Verizon
12—4:40 pm (this session was moved to Friday) Measuring OTT Operations [slides] [video]
– Ruben Miranda, Director, Duff & Phelps
13—5:00 pm Cruisin’ for Confusion: Reproduction vs. Replacement Cost [slides] [video]
– Charles Burkhart, Senior Consultant, CostQuest (Moderator)
– Carl Hoemke, Managing Director, Correlation Advisors
– Jim Stegeman, President, CostQuest
– Jerome Weinert, Principal & Director, AUS Consultants
5:45 pm Day Ends
5:45-7:15 pm Reception
CONFERENCE DAY 2
Friday, January 22, 2016, 8:30 am-12:30 pm + Box Lunch
BROADBAND & VIDEO
– Host: August Grant, Professor, School of Journalism and
Mass Communications, University of South Carolina
14—8:30 am Communications Technology Update 2016 [slides] [video]
– August Grant, Professor, School of Journalism and
Mass Communications, University of South Carolina
15—9:00 am Video and Broadband Forecasts in the Gigabit Era [slides] [video]
– Lawrence Vanston, President, TFI
16—9:25 am The Broadband Desktop circa 2018: The Big Screen Comes Back [slides] [video]– Dub Dublin, Dublinvention
9:50 am Break
17—10:00 am Keynote: What’s Down the Valley for Broadband and Video [slides] [video]
– Sarah Lacy, Founder, Editor-in-Chief and CEO, PandoMedia
18—10:50 am Transforming the Local Exchange and HFC Networks [slides] [video]
– Lawrence Vanston, President, TFI
11:15 am Break
19—11:25 am Impacts of Video and Broadband Developments on Landline
Networks –– Panel [video]
– Jeff Binkley, Director, Deloitte (Moderator)
– James Dombrowski, Manager – Property Taxes, Verizon
– Carl Hoemke, Managing Director, Correlation Advisors
– Steven Ingram, Property Manager, CenturyLink
– Robert Strong, Tax Director, AT&T
12:25 pm Closing Remarks
12:30 pm Conference Ends
12:30 pm Box Lunch and Discussion