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Monday - Sept 29

City Tour: Georgetown Spy Tour

3:00 PM
- 5:00 PM

City Tour: The Spies of Embassy Row

3:00 PM
- 5:00 PM

City Tour: Dupont Circle & Embassy Row Tour

3:00 PM
- 5:00 PM

City Tour: National Mall: Monuments & Memorials Architecture Tour

3:00 PM
- 5:00 PM

Cable TV Pioneers 59th Annual Banquet

6:00 PM
- 9:00 PM

Light Reading Breakfast: Generating the Next-Gen Network

7:30 AM
- 9:00 AM
Robert Wilmoth
Senior Principal Industry Specialist
Red Hat
JR Walden
CTO & SVP
Mediacom Communications
Bill Chatwell
Sr. Vice President of Technology
Midco

Chapter Leadership Breakfast

7:30 AM
- 8:45 AM

Headliners

8:30 AM
- 10:45 AM
Maria Popo
President & Chief Executive Officer
SCTE
Phil McKinney
President & Chief Executive Officer
CableLabs
David Watson
Chief Executive Officer, Connectivity & Platforms
Comcast
Charlie Herrin
President, Technology & Product, Connectivity & Platforms
Comcast
AI & Automation

Hyper-Skilling the Workforce: AI-Powered Skill Assessment and Training for Operational Excellence

11:00 AM
- 11:20 PM
Mike O’Dell
Distinguished Engineer
Comcast

Redefining the Last Mile with Cisco Routed PON

11:30 AM
- 11:50 AM
Mike Kim
Product Sales Consultant
Cisco

From Coax to Multi-Gig Fiber: Best Practices for PON Service Turn-Up

12:00 PM
- 12:20 PM
Al Ruth
Senior Product Line Manager
VIAVI Solutions

Circle of Eagles Luncheon

12:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
AI & Automation

AI on the Job: Training for a Smarter Network

12:30 PM
- 1:10 PM
Moderator
Cory Pavicich
Head of Product, Professional Learning
SCTE
Abbie O’Dell
Senior Director of Learning Services for Field Operations
Charter Communications
Paul Broadhurst
Founder, President and Group Chief Executive Officer
Technetix
Tech Policy

Relentless Innovation: A Look at Today’s Platform of Possibility and Futuristic Vision for Tomorrow

12:45 PM
- 1:00 PM
Wireless & Convergence

Track Keynote: Building the Converged Future: Fixed + Mobile + Cloud

1:00 PM
- 1:20 PM
Madalina Suceveanu
Managing Director – Mobile and Cloud
Liberty Global
StreamTech

Live Streaming at Scale

1:00 PM
- 2:15 PM
Rebecca Sirmons
General Manager & Head of NASA+
NASA
Lee Erickson
NASA
Alex Giladi
Comcast
Wireline

Self-Healing Networks: The New Frontier of DOCSIS Operations

1:00 PM
- 2:15 PM
Moderator
Dan Rice
Vice President, Access Network Engineering
Comcast
Jason Rupe
Distinguished Technologist
CableLabs
John Downey
Sr. DOCSIS Consultant
Technetix
Mike O’Dell
Distinguished Engineer
Comcast
Robert Lund
Principal Engineer
Comcast
Brady Volpe
Chief Product Officer
Open Vault
Karthik Sundaresan
Distinguished Technologist & Director of HFC Solutions
CableLabs
Operations, Network Planning & Construction

Track Keynote: Protecting What Lies Beneath: Advancing Standards for Underground Damage Prevention

1:00 PM
- 1:20 PM
Sarah Magruder Lyle
President & CEO
Common Ground Alliance
AI & Automation

Intelligence at the Edge

1:00 PM
- 2:15 PM
Moderator
Paul Fonte
Director, Future Infrastructure Group
CableLabs
Mike Spaulding
Vice President of Network Maintenance
Comcast
Charles Cheevers
Chief Technology Officer
Vantiva
Nader Foroughi
Distinguished Engineer
Comcast
Tech Policy

The FCC Outlook: Commissioner Insights on Policy and Innovation

1:00 PM
- 1:40 PM
Operations, Network Planning & Construction

Future-Proofing Underground Infrastructure

1:20 PM
- 2:15 PM
Moderator
Andrew Bundy
Sr Manager, Enterprise Data Engineering
Comcast
Dervon Gaskins
Vice President
ITG
Matt Fragale
Vice President
Irth Solutions
Melissa Watters
Construction Manager
Charter Communications
Chuck Key
Chairman
Tennessee 811
Wireless & Convergence

Monitoring, Managing, and Maximizing Wireless Networks

1:20 PM
- 2:15 PM
Pratyusha Malladi
Director of Wireless Products
Charter Communications
Rahil Gandotra
Lead Architect, Wireless Technology
CableLabs

Revolutionizing Backup Power with Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

1:30 PM
- 1:50 PM
Jay Lee
Chief Technology Officer and General Manager, Access Networking
ATX
Tech Policy

The Future of Broadband Policy and BEAD Program Implementation

1:50 PM
- 2:30 PM
AI & Automation

Track Keynote: From Insight to Impact: Leveraging Broadband Analytics for Smarter Networks and Funding Success

2:00 PM
- 2:20 PM
Chip Strange
Chief Strategy Officer
Ookla
Martin Creaner
Director General
World Broadband Association

The Last 15 Feet: Where Network Performance Meets Customer Experience

2:00 PM
- 2:50 PM
Camilla Formica
Chief Program Officer
Syndeo Institute at The Cable Center

Networking Break

2:15 PM
- 2:30 PM
AI & Automation

Agentic AI and the Metrics That Matter

2:20 PM
- 3:45 PM
Moderator
Nameet Dutia
Sr. Solutions Architect (AI/ML)
AWS
Brock Bose
Vice President Data Science
Charter Communications
Dr. Veronica Bloom
Vice President Data Science
Charter Communications
Rohan Khatavkar
Director Data Science
Spectrum
Dr. Jennifer Andreoli-Fang
Sr. Manager Solutions Architecture
AWS
Wireless & Convergence

The Reliability Revolution in Wi-Fi

2:30 PM
- 3:45 PM
Moderator
Josh Redmore
Principal Architect
CableLabs
Loay Kreishan
Charter Communications
Carol Ansley
Senior Lead Architect
Cox Communications
Chris Ross
Manager, Systems Engineering
RUCKUS Networks
Ian Wheelock
CTO Europe
Vantiva
Colleen Szymanik
Distinguished Engineer
Comcast
Differentiated Services

Beyond Connectivity: Creating Value with Next-Gen Broadband and Edge Innovation

2:30 PM
- 4:00 PM
Moderator
John-Michael Cortez
Head of Government and Community Affairs for the South and Southwest
GFiber
Nick Saporito
Head of Product
GFiber
Bob Titus
CTO
Netcracker Technology
Dave Smith
Sr. Director, Platform, Cloud and OSS Strategy and Architecture
Rogers Communications
Brad Carpenter
COO
C Spire
StreamTech

Delivering and Boosting QoE

2:30 PM
- 3:15 PM
Operations, Network Planning & Construction

Smart Construction for a Connected Future

2:30 PM
- 3:45 PM
Moderator
Dan Levac
Senior New Business Development Manager
Preformed Line Products (PLP)
Moderator
Jennifer Smardo
SVP, Network Implementation
Comcast
Adam Kersnowski
SVP of Strategic Accounts
AirWorks
Shane Portfolio
Chief Technology Officer
Congruex
Bo Gresham
Vice President of Strategy
Dycom Industries
John Fluharty
Project Executive
Troy Construction
Ryan Mountin
Vice President
Midwest Fiber Solutions
Steve Sellenriek
CEO
Sellenriek Construction
Wireline

The Intelligent Access Network: Architectures, Automation, and the Edge

2:30 PM
- 3:45 PM
Carlos Sanchez
Ecosystem Development Manager
Intel Corporation
Mike Lafser
Technical Solutions Architect
World Wide Technology
Shlomo Ovadia
Principal Engineer III
Charter Communications
Marc Morrissette
Sr. Principal Broadband Hardware Engineer
Comcast
Robert Wilmoth
Senior Principal Industry Specialist
Red Hat
Tech Policy

Old and New Spectrum Paradigms – A View from Policymakers

2:40 PM
- 3:00 PM
Tech Policy

New Spectrum Paradigms and the Promise of Seamless Connectivity

3:00 PM
- 3:20 PM
Tech Policy

Capitol Hill Staff Panel

3:30 PM
- 4:20 PM

Networking Break

3:45 PM
- 4:00 PM
Differentiated Services

Architecting Trust and Security in Next-Gen Networks

4:00 PM
- 5:15 PM
Cesar Amaro
Sr. Program Manager IT Security & Compliance
Liberty Latin America
Rohith Kumar Punithavel
Senior Software Engineer
Charter Communications
Wireless & Convergence

Redefining the Wireless Edge

4:00 PM
- 5:15 PM
Mahmoud ElMeligui
Principal Designer
Rogers Communications
Dorin Viorel
Distinguished Technologist
CableLabs
Dr. Robert Howald
Fellow
Comcast
StreamTech

Futureproofing Your Tech Stack

4:00 PM
- 5:15 PM
Weidong Mao
Senior Fellow
Comcast
Josh Arensberg
CTO M&E
Verizon Business
Wireline

Speed, Intelligence, and the Future of Fiber: Innovations Driving Next-Gen Transmission

4:00 PM
- 5:15 PM
Moderator
Scott Ramsdell
MSO Market Development Manager
Corning
Dr. Paul Dickinson
Chairman of FOSA Advisory Council and Strategic Business Consultant for Dura-Line
Smart Infrastructure Solutions
Jordan Gross
Director of Government Affairs
Lumen Technologies
Venk Mutalik
Fellow
Comcast
Dr. Alberto Campos
Fellow
CableLabs
AI & Automation

Operationalizing LLMs in the Network Ecosystem

4:00 PM
- 5:15 PM
Shyam Sridharan
Lead Data Engineer
Cox Communications
Rohit Kuruppath
Director of Data Engineering
Cox Communications
Randy Levensalor
Distinguished Technologist
CableLabs
Lisa Pinkey Coleman
AVP, Process Intelligence and Data Effectiveness
Cox Communications
Marco Valero
Director Technology
Cox Communications
Operations, Network Planning & Construction

Automating the Future of Operations

4:00 PM
- 5:15 PM
Chantal Blake
Technical Program Manager
Comcast
Amir Leventer
Vice President Product, Cloud Services
Harmonic
Allen Maharaj
Sr Manager, HFC Network Operations
Rogers Communications
Nick Holcomb
Director, Access Network Engineering
Mediacom Communications
Ian Oliver
Technology and Project Consultant
Globema
Jensen McCoy
Sr. Staff Engineer
GCI

Expo Happy Hour

5:00 PM
- 6:00 PM

SCTE Industry Awards

5:30 PM
- 6:00 PM

Chairman’s Reception

6:15 PM
- 8:00 PM

Light Reading Breakfast: Smart ARMPS, Smarter Networks

7:30 AM
- 9:00 AM
Jeff Heyen
Vice President, Broadband Access & Home Networking
Dell'Oro
Nader Foroughi
Distinguished Engineer
Comcast
Steve Pederson
Vice President, Broadband Access
AOI

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
Tech Policy

Artificial Intelligence and Policy: Guardrails for Innovation

11:30 AM
- 12:10 PM

Reliable. Flexible. Simplified. Collaborating to Deploy the Industry’s Most Innovative vCMTS

11:30 AM
- 11:50 PM
Krista Thompson
Regional VP, Sales
Vecima
Dave Ririe
Senior Director, Wireline Access Engineering Design
Cox Communications

TechConnect Program Graduation Luncheon

12:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
AI & Automation

AI-Powered Fiber Observability

12:30 PM
- 1:45 PM
Maryam Niknamfar
Distinguished Engineer
Charter Communications
Douglas Blue
Business Development - North America
Nokia
Robert Gaydos
Comcast Fellow
Comcast
Karthik Choutagunta
Principal Architect
CableLabs
Wireline

Track Keynote

12:30 PM
- 1:00 PM
Elad Nafshi
Executive Vice President, Chief Network Officer
Comcast
Wireless & Convergence

Converging Networks, Expanding Horizons

12:30 PM
- 1:45 PM
Moderator
Chris Stengrim
VP, Technology Strategy
CableLabs
Hans Geerdes
Principal Strategist
CableLabs
Filip Liharik
VP, Wireless Strategy & Product Planning
Comcast
Simon Clement
Director, Technology Strategy
Liberty Global
Roy Williams
Integrator
Rogers Communications
Operations, Network Planning & Construction

Disaster Resilience and Power Continuity for Broadband Infrastructure

12:30 PM
- 1:45 PM
Moderator
Derek DiGiacomo
Senior Director, Energy Management Programs and Business Continuity
SCTE
Victor Davis
Chris Anderson
Principal Advisor, National Security & Emergency Preparedness
Lumen Technologies
Joe Viens
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Charter Communications
Alexander Falcon
Senior Product Manager
Comcast
Kevin Domer
National Security/ Emergency Preparedness Manager
Comcast
StreamTech

Network Management and Streaming Architectures

12:30 PM
- 1:45 PM

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
Windstream
Ladi Astrab
Head of Pre Sales
Incognito
Randy Van Buren
Senior Solutions Engineer
Motive
Wireline

The Future of FTTx: How Does PON Fit Into the Equation?

1:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
Moderator
Belal Hamzeh
Vice President, Technology and Systems Engineering
Comcast
Jason Combs
Network Engineer
Comcast
Hy Hyunh
Vice President, Fiber Products
Harmonic
Ed Boyd
VP of PON R&D
Ciena
Israel Madiedo
Innovation and Technology Director
izzi (Televisa Group)
Tech Policy

Connecting for Resilience: Broadband’s Role in Disaster Recovery and Response

1:00 PM
- 1:40 PM

Networking Break

1:45 PM
- 2:00 PM
StreamTech

Next Generation Linear Channel Assembly: Scale FAST, Stream Smarter, Earn More

2:00 PM
- 3:00 PM
AI & Automation

Operational Intelligence at Scale

2:00 PM
- 3:15 PM
Moderator
Todd Musat
Director, Critical Infrastructure
Rogers Communications
Ryan Capone
VP, Network Facilities & Energy
Comcast
Ken Nickel
Vice President
Quest Controls
Mike Glaser
Principal Architect, Critical Facilities
Cox Communications
Bill Leslie
Chief AI Acceleration Oficer
Nrby
Gavin Mitchell
VP Product Operations and Quality
Altice USA
Wireline

From Tap to CPE: Strategies to Unlock DOCSIS 4.0 Performance at Scale

2:00 PM
- 3:15 PM
Stephane Raimbault
Sr. Manager, DOCSIS Engineering Operations
Rogers Communications
Bill Wall
Principal Architect
Cox Communications
Matthew Olfert
Principal Network Architect
Rogers Communications
Wireless & Convergence

Seamless by Design: Innovative Paths to Scalable, Always-On Networks

2:00 PM
- 3:15 PM
Hans Geerdes
Principal Strategist
CableLabs
Haynes Taylor
VP, Strategy
Cox Communications
Sanjay Patel
Sr. Director Strategy
CableLabs
Operations, Network Planning & Construction

PNM Live! 2025: Proactive Maintenance Makes Reliable Networks

2:00 PM
- 3:15 PM
Moderator
Brady Volpe
Chief Product Officer
Open Vault
Jason Rupe
Distinguished Technologist
CableLabs
Larry Wolcott
Engineering Fellow
Comcast
Mike O’Dell
Distinguished Engineer
Comcast
Foad Towfiq
CEO
Promptlink

Building Influence Without Authority

2:00 PM
- 2:50 PM
Tech Policy

Cybersecurity Policy Priorities: From IoT Cyber Trust Mark to BGP Security

2:40 PM
- 3:20 PM

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
Operations, Network Planning & Construction

Mastering Proactive Network Maintenance (PNM)

3:30 PM
- 4:45 PM
Moderator
Ron Hranac
Larry Wolcott
Engineering Fellow
Comcast
Jason Rupe
Distinguished Technologist
CableLabs
Differentiated Services

The Programmable Network: Automation, Interoperability, and Intelligence

3:30 PM
- 4:45 PM
Ben Hepworth
Principal Architect
CableLabs
Dr. Sebnem Ozer
Distinguished Engineer
Charter Communications
Wireless & Convergence

Li-Fi and Spectrum Innovation: Advancing Wireless Frontiers

3:30 PM
- 4:45 PM
Moderator
Rikin Thakker
Chief Technology Officer
NCTA
Lakhbir Singh
Principal Engineer III
Charter Communications
Wireline

DOCSIS Deep Dive: Mastering the MAC Layer and Full Duplex Architecture

3:30 PM
- 4:45 PM
Dr. Richard Prodan
Fellow
Comcast
Karthik Sundaresan
Distinguished Technologist & Director of HFC Solutions
CableLabs
StreamTech

Winning Cloud Models

3:30 PM
- 4:45 PM
Thomas Edwards
AWS

Optimizing DOCSIS 4.0 Upstream: RF Path Testing Techniques

4:00 PM
- 4:20 PM
Dan Coode
Vice President of Terrestrial Networks
Calian
AI & Automation

Harnessing AI for Experience and Efficiency

4:00 PM
- 5:15 PM
Moderator
Yvette Kanouff
Partner
JC2 Ventures
Megan Collins
Senior AI/ML Engineer
CableLabs
Brandy Riherd
Director, Data Science
Cox Communications
Amrit Shaswat
Manager, Data science
Cox Communications
Dr. Jennifer Andreoli-Fang
Sr. Manager Solutions Architecture
AWS
Bhanu Krishnamurthy
SVP Software and Engineering
Comcast

Expo Happy Hour

5:00 PM
- 6:00 PM
Energy 20/20 Summit

Energy 20/20 Summit Reception

6:30 PM
- 9:30 PM

Broadband Championship Check-In & Breakfast

8:00 AM
- 9:00 AM
Energy 20/20 Summit

Energy 20/20 Summit

8:45 AM
- 1:15 PM
Moderator
Katie Flynn
Comcast
Moderator
Mike Glaser
Principal Architect, Critical Facilities
Cox Communications
Moderator
Derek DiGiacomo
Senior Director, Energy Management Programs and Business Continuity
SCTE
Moderator
Ryan Capone
VP, Network Facilities & Energy
Comcast
Ralph Brown
GridVisibility
Rodney Richter
HPE
Nader Foroughi
Distinguished Engineer
Comcast
Toby Peck
Enersys
Ruben Ruiz Madrigal
Senior Critical Facilities Engineer
Cox Communications
Zac Pepin
Director of Software Development & Engineering
Comcast
Todd Musat
Director, Critical Infrastructure
Rogers Communications
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Event-Driven Thinking: The Architecture Behind AI Breakthroughs

8:50 AM
- 9:50 AM
Bob Dietrich
Director, Solutions Engineering
Wavelo
Paul McCluskey
Head of Marketing
Wavelo

Broadband Championship

9:00 AM
- 12:45 PM
Wireline

Smarter Networks, Seamless Transitions: Automating Spectrum, Capacity, and Access

9:00 AM
- 10:15 AM
Harshita Bhatt
Engineer 3: Data & Network Evolution
Comcast
Andrew Robinson
HFC Strategist
Cox Communications
Marco Gagliostro
Senior Manager, PON Technology & Enterprise NetOps
Rogers Communications
AI & Automation

Smarter Networks by Design

9:00 AM
- 10:15 AM
Ramya Narayanaswamy
Senior Director, Machine Learning
Comcast
John Schlack
Distinguished Architect
Comcast
Jonathan Leech
Principal Engineer II
Comcast
Matthew Wichman
National Director of Network Operations
Comcast
Wireline

Workshop: SCTE 273 Generic Access Platform: The Present and Future of Deploying and Designing for a Universal Node

9:30 AM
- 10:30 AM
Colin Howlett
CTO
Vecima
Kevin Kwasny
Principal Engineer III
Charter Communications

Networking Break

10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM
Wireline

Architecting the Future Access Platform

11:30 AM
- 12:45 PM
Moderator
Matthew Schmitt
Distinguished Technologist
CableLabs
Ed Boyd
VP of PON R&D
Ciena
Maryam Niknamfar
Distinguished Engineer
Charter Communications
Hossam Salib
VP Americas Sales
IP Infusion
Christopher Burke
Principal Engineer III
Charter Communications
Colin Howlett
CTO
Vecima
AI & Automation

Masterclass: Accelerate AI Product Launches: Innovation Orchestration Framework

11:30 AM
- 12:45 PM
Asmaa ElTaher
Strategic Data and Transformation Manager
Vodafone Group
AI & Automation

Masterclass: Connecting the Dots: How to Make Graph Algorithms Work for You

11:30 AM
- 12:45 PM
Dr. Matthew Stehman
Sr. Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Comcast
Bob Lutz
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Comcast
Aleksander Hubert
Machine Learning Engineer
Comcast

Broadband Championship Awards

12:45 PM
- 1:00 PM

City Tour: National Mall: Monuments & Memorials Architecture Tour

2:00 PM
- 4:00 PM

City Tour: The Spies of Embassy Row

3:00 PM
- 5:00 PM