I’m not sure what we had in mind when we first talked about moving the annual broadband conference online. It was April or March. We had no idea what would happen in the world between now and then – pandemic, civil unrest, snow in mid-October. But we knew as broadband proponents, we were in a unique position to practice what we preach – to level the playing field with technology. I hope, and I think, we did it.
Thanks to Bernadine Joselyn for her annual astute recap of the event at hand:
Here are links to each session, in reverse chronological order:
Oct 29
- Broadband 2020; 2020 MN County Broadband Reports: Measured Progress, Accelerated Need, by Ann Treacy
- Broadband 2020: How I Think About the Importance of Communities in the 21st Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Oct 28
- Broadband 2020: Closing Reception
- Broadband 2020: Digital Ready Communities Report Back
- Broadband 2020: Open Space meeting: 10 broadband conversations at once!
Oct 27
- Broadband 2020: Deb Socia on Essential Services and Idea Generation for Open Space
- Broadband 2020: Open Space Ideation – queues up a cool session for tomorrow (Oct 28)
Oct 19-23
- Broadband 2020: Broadband 101: Federal Broadband Funding Overview by Jessica Zufolo, Magellan
- Broadband 2020: Office Hours: CTEP AmeriCorps program, Joel Krogstad
- Broadband 2020: Book Club: Thank You for Being Late by Tom Friedman
- Broadband 2020: Broadband 101: Creative Partnerships in Cooperative Broadband
- Broadband 2020: Digital Office Hours: Partnership for a ConnectedMN
- Broadband 2020: Broadband 101: Conducting Feasibility Studies by Mark Mrla, Finley Engineering
- Broadband 2020: Digital Office Hours: Telehealth: The Pandemic Shift
- Broadband 2020: Broadband 101: Rights of Way Management for Efficient Fiber Deployment by Ken Demlow, HR Green
- Broadband 2020: Digital Office Hours: Office of Broadband Development Overview of Interactive Map of Broadband Deployment with Diane Wells, Minnesota Office of Broadband
- Broadband 2020: What You Should Expect From Your Broadband Provider by Kristi Westbrock, CTC
- Broadband 2020: Digital Office Hours: Creative Connections via Interactive Zoom Programming with Maria Genné, Parker Genné, and Lynnea Doublette, Kairos Alive!
Oct 12-16
- Broadband 2020: Engaging with ISPs and Utility Companies, Establishing Public- Private Partnerships by Diane Kruse
- Broadband 2020: Digital Office Hours: Intelligent Communities in Minnesota
- Broadband 2020: Bill Coleman’s Happy Hour
- Broadband 2020: Building Critical Connections: Partnership with Minnesota’s Small Business and Cooperative Broadband Providers by Molly O’Leary, Director of Government Affairs, NTCA
- MN Broadband 2020: Broadband 101: Let’s talk 5G Technology, Use Cases, Market Overview by Brian Pickering, Nokia
- Broadband 2020: Digital Office Hours: Novel Coronavirus: Libraries Responding Beyond Books
- MN Broadband 2020: Broadband 101: Drive Adoption and Engagement of Your Mobile App
- Broadband 2020: Digital Office Hours: Digital Engagement for Refugees and Immigrants with Fatima Said, Project FINE
- MN Broadband 2020: Broadband 101: The Ever-Widening Broadband Gap
- Broadband 2020: Digital Office Hours: Pandemic Publishing with Children
- MN Broadband 2020: Broadband 101 What Should the Network of the Future Do For a Community? by Andrew Cohill, Design Nine
- MN Broadband 2020: Digital Office Hours: A Citizens’ Broadband Map: Speed Testing Initiatives in Washington and Minnesota
Oct 8
- Broadband 2020: Oct 8: Bringing Broadband to Rural America: Opportunities and Challenges Post-Pandemic & Mentor Sessions
- Oct 7
Broadband 2020: Oct 7: Breakout Sessions with Task Force Subcommittees - Broadband 2020: Oct 7: Digital Infrastructure to Transformation: Leveraging Broadband for Community Economic Development
- Broadband 2020: Oct 7: Border-to-Border Broadband Project Presentations for the MN Task Force
Oct 6