2017 Spring Managers Conference
Preliminary Agenda
Wednesday, June 14
| 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. |
Wesley B. Roberts Memorial Golf Tournament
(Breakfast and lunch included in registration)
South Padre Island Golf Club
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| 3:30 p.m. |
Texas Lone Star Network (TLSN) Annual Membership Meeting |
| 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Registration |
| 5:30 - 7 p.m. |
Welcome Reception |
Thursday, June 15
| 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. |
Full Breakfast Buffet
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| 8:30 - 8:45 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rusty Moore, TSTCI Board President
Weldon R. Gray, TSTCI CEO
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| 8:45 - 9:45 a.m. |
Opening General Session
Contented Cows Give Better Milk: Your People, Your Profit
Keynote Speaker: Richard Hadden
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| 9:45 - 10 a.m. |
Break
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| 10 - 10:40 a.m. |
Culture of Change
Speakers: James Mardis, Plus One Strategic Communications
Lauren Sanders, Big Bend Telephone Company |
| 10:40 - 11:20 a.m. |
Data Centers, Data Warehousing and The Cloud
Speaker: Charlie Cano, Etex Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Brandon Gunter, Moss Adams |
| 11:20 a.m. - Noon |
Update from Washington — The FCC, The Congress, and Politics as Unusual
Scott Lively, NTCA — The Rural Broadband Association
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| Noon - 1:30 p.m. |
PAC Lunch with ticket or lunch on your own |
| 1:35 p.m. |
Back from Lunch |
| 1:35 - 2:15 p.m. |
Managed Services — Home Networks, Managed WiFi and more
Speakers: Steven Steele, Peoples Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Toni Rivas, VTX1 CompaniesJoey Anderson, Nortex Communications |
| 2:15 - 2:45 p.m. |
Update on Ethernet Transport Services E-Rate Option
Barbara Vrahnos, NECA
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| 2:45 - 3:00 p.m. |
Break
Door Prize Drawing
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| 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. |
TV — Get in? Stay in? Get out?
Speakers: Wade Maner, South Plains Telephone Cooperative Inc.Scott Warunek, VTX1 Companies
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| 3:45 p.m. |
Grand Prize Drawing
Sponsored by: Texas Communications Expo, Inc.
PAC Raffle Prize Drawing
Sponsored by: TBD
Ice Cream Social
Hosted by: Texas Lone Star Network
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Friday, June 16
| 7:30 - 8:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast (open to all attendees)
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| 8 - 9:30 a.m. |
CLOSED MEMBER MEETING
Legislative Debriefing
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| 9:30 a.m. |
Membership Stands Adjourned
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