ANNOUNCING THE URTA ANNUAL MEETING
March 18-20, 2013 | Hilton Garden Inn, St. George, Utah
Call-In Reservation: Call 1-800-STAY-HGI or 1-435-634-4100 and ask the reservation agent for the Rural Telecom Rate.
Or make online reservations using the Group Code:
- Go to www.stgeorge.hgi.com
- On the home page enter the dates you are wanting to book and hit the 'Go' button
- On the next page you can make any specifications that you wish (i.e. non smoking King) and double check you are looking for the dates you want.
- Under the Special Accounts section, enter your designated Group Code URTA in the box for Group/Convention Code and hit 'continue'.
The rooms and rates will pull up on the next page and you can make your selection. If the name of your group is not at the top of the rates listed and your rate is not there, it is an indication that your group block is sold out or the type of room you requested is not available. You can contact Shandi Bo Wilson (435-634-4100) if you feel it is an error.
REGISTRATION FORM
{Click here to register online now or download form and send payment}
Schedule
| Sunday March 17 |
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| 5:30 to 7:00 pm |
Registration-Lobby |
| Monday March 18 |
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| 7:30 am to 1:00 pm |
Golf Tournament — Coral Canyon Golf Course/Lunch Served |
| 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
Registration |
| 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
Vendors Trade Show (table top displays) Setup |
| 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
URTA Board Meeting — President Bruce H. Todd, Strata Netowrks - Board Room |
| 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm |
Vendors Table Top Displays - Outside Indigo Room |
| 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm |
Registration |
| 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm |
Welcome Reception (Dinner on your own) |
| Tuesday March 19 |
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| 7:00 am to 8:15 am |
Breakfast Buffet, Table Top Displays & Registration - Indigo Room |
| 8:15 am to 8:30 am |
Welcome - President Bruce H. Todd, Strata Networks |
| 8:30 am to 9:00 am |
Key Note Speaker - Lt. Gov. Greg Bell, State of Utah |
| 900 am to 9:30 am |
Speaker - Lowry Snow, Utah State Representative |
| 9:30 am to 10:15 am |
Les Prall – Governor’s Office of Economic Development, The Role of Telecom Services in Rural Economic Development |
| 10:15 am to 10:30 am |
BREAK |
| 10:30 am to 11:30 am |
Consultant Panel - Topic TBA
Moderator: JSI, Inc - Douglas Meredith
TCA, Inc. - Curt Hutsell
Moss Adams - RJ DelMese
GVNW Consulting, Inc. – Ray Hendershot |
| 11:30 pm to 1:15 pm |
Lunch & Trade Show. Golf Awards presented in Trade Show Area |
| 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm |
Break Out Session #1
- Employment Law Update - Kira M. Slawson, Blackburn & Stoll, LC
- Developing Broadband Strategies - Investment, Deployment and Marketing
Dan Stoll – Vice President of Business Development, Integra
Jon Gale – CentraCom
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| 2:15 pm to 3:00 pm |
Break Out Session #2
- Association Panel (Topic TBA)
Moderator: Stan Stoll, URTA
- WTA - Derrick Owens
- NTCA - Tom Wacker
- Vendor Presentations – Broadband Financing from the Lender’s Perspective
- Construction – Ryan Marriott - Americom
- Outside Plant – Travis Pyne - Codale Electric;
- Outside Plant – Keith Van Wemmer - Codale Electric
- Networking – Mark Copenhaver – DataLink
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| 3:00 am to 3:15 pm |
BREAK |
| 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
Break Out Session #3
- Lender Panel - Broadband Funding
Moderator: Michael East, South Central
- Victor Padilla - CoBank
- Ellen Classen - RTFC
- Kim Jacobs - RUS
- Technical Panel - Cloud Computing
Moderator: Scott Wickel - Strata Networks
- Brad Welch - CentraCom
- Anthony Marcello - Metaswitch
- Joel Pogar - Cisco
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| 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm |
Hospitality Hour (Dinner on your own) |
| Wednesday March 20 |
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| 7:30 am to 8:15 am |
Breakfast Buffet |
| 8:15 am to 8:20 am |
Welcome - President Bruce H. Todd, President of URTA |
| 8:20 am to 8:55 am |
Tara Thue - Governor's Office of Economic Development, Utah Broadband Project |
| 8:55 am to 9:25 am |
Lynn Yocom – Utah Department of Transportation |
| 9:25 am to 9:35 am |
Utah Legislative Report – David Leavitt, URTA Legislative Lobbyist |
| 9:35 am to 9:45 am |
BREAK |
| 9:45 am to 10:15 am |
Eric Isom, CenturyLink |
| 10:15 am to 10:45 am |
Ray Timothy – Utah Education Network |
| 10:45 am to 11:45 am |
NECA - Sue Barrett |
| 11:45 am to 12:00 pm |
Utah Division of Public Utilities – Chris Parker, Director |
| 12:00 pm |
Adjourn |
Following adjournment of the URTA Annual Meeting, the Utah Broadband Advisory Council will hold its March meeting beginning at 12:30 p.m. Lunch will be served.
We give sincere thanks to our many sponsors whose generosity makes it possible to keep the costs of registration down for all participants and makes our events possible. Our Associate Members and Sponsors are invaluable
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Tri-State Telecommunications
Conference
2013 Annual Meeting & Trade Show
July 30 - August 1, 2013
Sun Valley, Idaho
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