More than 180 Industry Experts Share Their Insight into “Accelerating Our Fiber Future” in Pre-Conference Workshops and Breakout Sessions at Fiber Broadband Association’s Fiber Connect 2024
15 Julio 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
The world’s largest fiber broadband event
delivers workshops and sessions to uncover solutions and
opportunities for expanding broadband universally
The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) today announced the
Pre-Conference Workshops and Breakout Sessions scheduled for Fiber
Connect 2024. Fiber Connect is the largest fiber broadband event in
the world and will be held July 28-31 at the Gaylord Opryland
Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn.
“Our 2024 conference theme is ‘Accelerating Our Fiber Future,’
proving that with fiber, there are no limits on what communities,
municipalities, economies, and people can achieve,” said Evann
Freeman, EPB Vice President, Government & Community Relations
and Fiber Broadband Association Conference Committee Chair. “Our
pre-conference workshops and breakout sessions will explore best
practices for deployments, financials, how to navigate public
policy, middle mile opportunities, network operations, and more.
These standing-room-only sessions dig deep into the challenges,
solutions, and opportunities that our members and the broader
industry face every day.”
FBA’s Pre-Conference Workshops provide insights for operators
just starting to investigate and plan their fiber expansion, as
well as tackle the issues and challenges community broadband
operators have ahead of them as municipalities, utilities, and
cooperatives look to advance their fiber plans. Pre-Conference
Workshops take place on Sunday afternoon, July 28. This year’s
workshops include:
- FTTx and Wireless Projects – Cost Effective Project
Management and Supply Chain Solutions is sponsored by Wesco.
This hour-long session will discuss how deploying a broadband
network is not one size fits all. Attendees will learn how wireline
and wireless deployments professionally planned can help navigate
many delay challenges and deliver reliable, high-speed connectivity
to your community on time and on budget.
- Integrating Innovation: Pioneering Fiber Broadband
Solutions, presented by Adtran, includes a mix of case studies,
interactive panel discussions, and demonstration stations that
showcase cutting-edge developments and collaborative strategies in
fiber broadband. Five sessions will explore network efficiencies,
speed to market strategies, partnerships, technology trends,
value-add revenue opportunities, and more.
- Community Broadband: Muni, Cooperative, Utility Broadband
Flex Their Reach features five fifty-minute sessions designed
to address the opportunities, challenges, and stakes for municipal
and utility broadband operators as each looks to address unmet
needs in specific markets, leverage fiber broadband to extend
traditional services and impact communities.
- FBA Fiber Broadband Starter Toolkit features five
fifty-minute sessions designed for those thinking about deploying a
fiber broadband network and for those who have just started
building. Attendees can expect to get a 360-degree view of what it
takes to deploy fiber. This workshop provides answers from some of
the best in the industry, and attendees will walk away feeling more
ready than ever to deploy connectivity in their communities.
- Leading a Top-performing Team with AI-powered Coaching,
presented by Siro, is an hour-long session tailored for team
managers who want to use cutting-edge technology, HR and Training
professionals who develop onboarding programs, and sales reps who
are interested in personal development.
- Navigating Trident, presented by Trident Products, is an
hour-long session about design principles of locating, grounding,
and identification of broadband networks to optimize locating
accuracy and damage prevention.
Breakout sessions include seven topical tracks on Monday and/or
Tuesday afternoons. More than 138 industry experts are coming
together to discuss:
- In The Dirt: Deployment Opportunities and Challenges
will feature sessions on permitting and locates, innovative
construction and deployment techniques, rights of way/access,
outside plant, urban and rural challenges, workforce development,
and optimization.
- Network Operations: The What, When, and How of Expanding
Fiber Footprints will feature sessions on in-home experience,
homes passed-to-homes connected best practices, first-time
broadband customer acquisition, and technology options for 1G+
fiber services.
- Middle Mile: Keeping It All Connected will feature
industry trends, challenges, innovative technology approaches,
federal funding mechanisms, permitting and other local deployment
challenges, and public/private partnerships.
- Public Policy: Balancing Federal and State Funding
Options sessions are designed to explore the various federal
and state funding programs and how each can be leveraged by
operators to help close the digital divide.
- Service Provider Ecosystem: Delivering Excellence at Every
Point sessions will focus on system integrator/engineering
firm/construction, BSS/OSS, mapping and outage management, service
provider and vendor relationship best practices,
project/process/data management, implementation best practices, and
digital customer engagement.
- Fiber Financials: The Economics of Fiber Broadband
sessions will focus on federal and state grant applications,
public/private partnerships, federal funding mechanisms, and
compliance.
To learn more about Fiber Connect, visit the conference website
here or subscribe to FBA’s Fiber Forward Weekly newsletter here to
stay updated on conference news and more.
About the Fiber Broadband Association
The Fiber Broadband Association is the largest and only trade
association that represents the complete fiber ecosystem of service
providers, manufacturers, industry experts, and deployment
specialists dedicated to the advancement of fiber broadband
deployment and the pursuit of a world where communications are
limitless, advancing quality of life and digital equity anywhere
and everywhere. The Fiber Broadband Association helps providers,
communities, and policy makers make informed decisions about how,
where, and why to build better fiber broadband networks. Since
2001, these companies, organizations, and members have worked with
communities and consumers in mind to build the critical
infrastructure that provides the economic and societal benefits
that only fiber can deliver. The Fiber Broadband Association is
part of the Fibre Council Global Alliance, which is a platform of
six global FTTH Councils in North America, LATAM, Europe, MEA,
APAC, and South Africa. Learn more at fiberbroadband.org.
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