Agenda

Exhibition Hall Open

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Registration Open

7:00 AM
- 5:00 PM

Light Reading Breakfast: Smart AMPS, Smarter Networks

7:30 AM
- 9:00 AM
Andy Boyce
Sr. Principal DOCSIS Engineer
Comcast
Nader Foroughi
Distinguished Engineer
Comcast
Jeff Heynen
Vice President, Broadband Access & Home Networking
Dell'Oro
Hanno Narjus
Senior Fellow
Teleste Networks
Steve Pederson
Chief Product Officer
AOI
Scott Weinstein
Vice President & General Manager, Access Technologies
CommScope
Steve Williams
GVP, Access Network Engineering
Charter Communications

Headliners

8:45 AM
- 10:30 AM
Maria Popo
President & Chief Executive Officer
SCTE
Elad Nafshi
Executive Vice President, Chief Network Officer
Comcast
Tom Monaghan
Executive Vice President, Field Operations
Charter Communications
Justin Colwell
Executive Vice President, Technology Strategy & Innovation
Charter Communications
JR Walden
CTO & SVP
Mediacom Communications
Damian Poltz
Senior Vice President, Wireline Network and PMO
Rogers Communications
Mark Bridges
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
CableLabs
Brett Guthrie
Second Congressional District, Kentucky
U.S. House of Representatives
Cory Gardner
President & CEO
NCTA - The Internet and Television Association
John Jelley
Senior Vice President, Product and User Experience, Global Streaming
NBCUniversal Media Group

Launching the Industry’s Most Innovative vCMTS – How Entra vCMTS Advancements Benefit the Industry’s Transition to DOCSIS 3.1+, Unified DOCSIS, and DOCSIS 4.0

11:30 AM
- 11:50 AM
Krista Thompson
Regional VP, Tier 1 Operators
Vecima
Ken Kerwin
Group Vice President and General Manager
Vecima

TechConnect Program Graduation Luncheon

12:00 PM
- 2:00 PM

Advancing Coherent Pluggables: The Road Ahead

12:00 PM
- 12:20 PM
Tim Doiron
Vice President, Solution Marketing
Nokia
Venk Mutalik
Fellow
Comcast

Broadband Forum BASe – The Proactive Broadband Provider: Leveraging AI for Exceptional Network Performance and Customer Experiences

12:30 PM
- 1:15 PM
Josh Angotti
VP of Product
Uniti
Ladi Astrab
Head of Pre Sales
Incognito
Randy Van Buren
Senior Solutions Engineer
Motive

Managed Wi-Fi Made Simple: Unlocking Customer Satisfaction with eero and Wi-Fi 7

1:30 PM
- 1:50 PM
Brian Fallon
VP of Sales
Netceed
Karthik Iyer
Solutions Architect
eero LLC

Networking Break

1:45 PM
- 2:00 PM

Building Influence Without Authority: Guidance from Senior Leaders to Help You Lead Anywhere

2:00 PM
- 2:50 PM
Tom Monaghan
Executive Vice President, Field Operations
Charter Communications
Debbie Fitzgerald
Distinguished Technologist and Director
CableLabs
Kristell Janusz
SVP, Network Engineering
Astound Broadband

Smarter Networks: AI Powered Intelligence from Access to Core

3:00 PM
- 3:50 PM
Moderator
Dr. Rob Thompson
System Architect
Sercomm Corporation
Will Berger
Vice President of Telemetry Development
Charter Communications
Jason Levy
Senior Director of Transport, PON, Performance & EON
Rogers Communications
Dan Rice
Vice President, Access Network Engineering
Comcast

Networking Break

3:15 PM
- 3:30 PM