The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) yesterday opened the Call for Speakers for Fiber Connect 2024, held July 28-31, 2024, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN.
FBA claims that Fiber Connect is the world’s largest fiber broadband conference. This year’s event is expected to draw more than 4,000 attendees from across the fiber broadband ecosystem. Network operators, service providers, state broadband offices, technology innovators, and broadband industry leaders will gather to explore fiber’s ability to connect communities, municipalities, economies, and people to a brighter future and better opportunities to learn, grow, share, and contribute.
Fiber Connect 2024 will accept speaker submissions only for breakout sessions that are panel discussions intended to focus on the issues driving the fiber broadband industry forward. Individuals interested in participating in a breakout panel session should submit their qualifications via the Speaker Submission Portal before Wednesday, March 20, 2024, on the specific topics listed below:
- Deployment Opportunities and Challenges: 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
- Middle Mile: Keeping It All Connected: industry trends, challenges, innovative technology approaches, federal funding mechanisms, permitting and other local deployment challenges, public/private partnerships
- Service Provider Ecosystem: Delivering Excellence at Every Point: 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, digital customer engagement
- Fiber Financials: The Economics of Fiber Broadband: federal and state grant applications, public/private partnerships, federal funding mechanisms, compliance
All Fiber Connect 2024 speaking submissions will be reviewed by the FBA Conference Committee with the following considerations: expertise on subject matter, involvement with FBA, and relevant speaker experience. No submissions featuring or focused on specific company products or solutions will be considered.
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