A critical source of technical and business insights, SCTE^® Cable-Tec Expo^® 2021 will serve as the platform to create new opportunities across industries, showcase cutting-edge new technologies and services, and gather invaluable business knowledge and policy expertise. I am honored to lead the outstanding team that is creating engaging content and bringing together professionals from within and beyond the industry for four days of learning, networking and decision-making in Atlanta and online.

This year’s SCTE^® Cable-Tec Expo^® is taking place at a pivotal moment for our industry. The latest technologies will be front and center, and the best minds in our business will be back together focused on the innovation, execution, and how the work happening today will enable us to deliver the future of connectivity to our customers.

The SCTE^®, and in particular Cable-Tec Expo^®, plays a vital role in ensuring our workforce has the knowledge, training and resources necessary to continue connecting customers to the vital services and experiences our networks enable. As an industry, we have learned much during the past year, and see continued changes ahead. I look forward to us reconvening in person to share learnings that will help drive our future success.

As an industry, our people and our networks have proven themselves time and again, and the future will be no different, as we expand the capabilities and extend the reach of our high-capacity networks to deliver unmatched connectivity. SCTE^® Cable-Tec Expo^® continues to serve as the meeting place where engineering and operational expertise is shared, and we showcase the new technologies and next generation thinking that will power our continued growth.

SCTE^® and CableLabs^® have been a foundation for our industry. They have allowed individual, independent, companies in the Cable-Telecommunications space to interact, co-create, and deploy standards in a way that few other industries experience. The best example of this interaction and ‘community’ can be seen in the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo^®.

As the world and our industry are navigating our “new normal” I am thrilled that SCTE and CableLabs have created an event that gives members the option to participate in-person and virtually. The new Live-Hybrid Cable-Tec Expo event will combine everything we love about Expo including presentations by leading industry experts, opportunities to be inspired by new ideas and technology, and networking opportunities. I am truly excited about this hybrid format, as it will allow members who are not able to attend due to travel or other concerns to attend virtually, while still bringing all the benefits of the show floor. See you at Expo 2021!

This year’s SCTE^® Cable-Tec Expo^® in Atlanta will connect innovators across our industry and drive the important conversations that will be critical for our connectivity future. While the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the importance of the Internet in all aspects of our daily lives, this year’s agenda promises to provide leaders, innovators, and decision makers valuable opportunities to chart the path beyond the pandemic. The hybrid in-person/virtual format, itself, is a reflection of our new post-pandemic reality, ensuring everyone can participate safely and in compliance with regional travel restrictions. Whether in-person or virtually, my colleagues and I will be excited to see our industry colleagues and partners and discuss the issues that are most important to our industry and to our communities.

It is so exciting to see the SCTE^® Cable-Tec Expo^®, Fast Forward 2021, will be back this year as a live event. The SCTE Cable-Tec Expo is the premier event of our industry and it is appropriate for this to be the first major event to bring us all back together live and in-person!

The SCTE^® Cable-Tec Expo^® is ‘THE’ industry event and I’m excited to see its return after a brief hiatus. Midco is pleased to support SCTE^®, the Expo, vendors and presenters as together we are the glue that binds our industry, advances knowledge, and places innovation into practice.

Few other industries come together like the Cable industry, and I look forward to the next chapter in a setting of old friends, new faces and a renewed and enthusiastic commitment to future-focused, ever-improving broadband service.

Interacting with the people I work with has always been a highlight of my career in cable. From the earliest days, I have valued the camaraderie of this industry. So I’m really looking forward to reconnecting with old colleagues and meeting new ones at SCTE^® Cable-Tec Expo^®. I love this industry, and I love where it’s heading. I know there will be great opportunities for networking and learning more about how to build the network of the future.