The Second Annual Colorado Broadband Summit

November 14, 2008
@ Level 3 Communications, Broomfield, CO

Post-Event Coverage

Post-event coverage is available at The Rocky Mountain News.

Program

Organized by: The Governor's Innovation Council, the Governor's Office of Information Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Center

Co-sponsored by: Action 22, Club 20, Colorado Counties, Inc., Colorado Municipal League, Colorado Rural Development Council, and Progressive 15

In The Colorado Promise, candidate Bill Ritter set forth his commitment that the State of Colorado should play an active role in promoting broadband deployment and adoption as a critical strategy for delivering public services more effectively (such as education and health care) as well as for spurring economic development. After his election, Governor Ritter established the State's first Innovation Council and chartered it to, among other things, develop and oversee the State's broadband policy. Last spring, he encouraged the Colorado Legislature to enact Senate Bill 215, which charged the State's Chief Information Officer, in conjunction with the Innovation Council, with the mapping of where broadband connections are available throughout the State. This effort, which will be completed by the spring of 2009, will encourage broadband providers to serve parts of the State where broadband is not currently available and will enable the State to evaluate future broadband initiatives.

As part of the mapping initiative, the State's Chief Information Officer and Innovation Council are conducting a statewide outreach campaign that will culminate in the 2008 Colorado Broadband Summit. The Summit will be the second of two related events, the first of which was held in the fall of 2007 and focused on assessing the "State of the State" of broadband in Colorado. This 2008 Summit will bring together leaders in government, academia, and industry to evaluate the importance of broadband to our State and how broadband intensive applications can make a difference in areas ranging from education to health care to energy conservation. In addition to the array of experts and stakeholders who will participate in this event, Governor Ritter will deliver a lunchtime address and Level 3 CEO Jim Crowe will give a keynote address.

Event Moderator: John Conley, Deputy State Chief Information Officer

Welcome
 9:00am - 9:15am
  • Cathy Fogler
    Co-Chair
    Broadband Taskforce of the Innovation Council
    President
    Thousand Hills Ventures Media & Telecommunications
  • Michael Locatis
    Chief Information Officer
    State of Colorado
Opening Remarks
 9:15am - 10:00am
  • Bill Ritter
    Governor
    State of Colorado
Broadband and Energy Conservation
 10:00am - 11:00am
Moderator
  • Raymond Gifford
    Senior Adjunct Fellow
    Silicon Flatirons Center
    Partner
    Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
    Former Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
Panelists
  • Skip Arnold
    Executive Director
    Energy Outreach Colorado
  • Scott Binder
    Regional Senior Vice President
    Comcast
  • Ron Binz
    Chairman
    Colorado Public Utilities Commission
  • Adrian Tuck
    Chief Executive Officer
    Tendril
Break
 11:00am - 11:15am
Broadband and Healthcare Delivery
 11:15am - 12:15pm
Moderator
  • Sandy Rothe
    Co-Chair of the SB196 Health IT Advisory Committee
    Managing Partner
    Deloitte & Touche LLP
Panelists
  • Suzanne Brennan
    Senior Program Officer
    The Colorado Health Foundation
  • Jason Greer
    Health Information Technology Director
    Colorado Associated Community Health Information Exchange (Colorado Community Health Centers & CACHIE Program)
  • Randall Moore
    Chairman, President & CEO
    American Telecare, Inc.
  • Dick Thompson
    Executive Director
    Quality Health Network
  • Steve Ward
    Vice President for Rural Health and Hospitals
    Colorado Hospital Association
Keynote Address (Lunch)
 12:15pm - 1:15pm
The Colorado Broadband Initiative
 1:15pm - 2:15pm
Moderator
  • Cathy Fogler
    Co-Chair
    Broadband Taskforce of the Innovation Council
    President
    Thousand Hills Ventures Media & Telecommunications
Panelists
  • John Conley
    Deputy Chief Information Officer
    State of Colorado
  • Ken Fellman
    Former Mayor
    Arvada, Colorado
    Vice President
    Kissinger & Fellman, P.C.
  • Dara Hessee
    Legislative Liaison
    Office of Information Technology
Distance Learning Opportunities
 2:15pm - 3:15pm
Moderator
  • Edward VanderTook
    Executive Director
    Mountain BOCES
Panelists
  • Julie Carnahan
    Chief Academic Officer
    Colorado Department of Higher Education
  • Ed Freeman
    CIO and CTO
    Denver Public Schools
  • Pamela Hoppe Ice
    Director of Online Learning
    Colorado Department of Education
  • Kendrick McLish
    Vice President, Product & Marketing
    eCollege
  • Sharon Montgomery
    Vice President, Government and Education Solutions
    Qwest Communications
Break
 3:15pm - 3:30pm
State and Local Government Perspectives
 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Moderator
  • Cathy Fogler
    Co-Chair
    Broadband Taskforce of the Innovation Council
    President
    Thousand Hills Ventures Media & Telecommunications
Panelists
  • Jim Considine
    IT Director
    City of Aspen and Pitkin County
  • Don Elliman
    Executive Director
    Charles C. Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology
  • Susan Kirkpatrick
    Executive Director
    Department of Local Affairs
  • Michael Locatis
    Chief Information Officer
    State of Colorado
  • Gail Schwartz
    Colorado State Senator
Next Steps
 4:30pm - 5:00pm
  • John Conley
    Deputy Chief Information Officer
    State of Colorado

Invitation

Please click here to download the official Summit invitation (PDF).