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Telecom
Policy Summit & Reception
Wednesday, October 22,
2003, 10:00 am, Marriott SW in Minnetonka,
$199*
Price Includes Lunch, Breaks,
Reception, WiFi Access and available printed and electronic materials
Should you have the power to choose
alternative phone service with the features you want? Or should
the State of Minnesota decide? Should Minnesota be punishing
broadband or encouraging broadband? The power of broadband and
its spread will be based on the features and services which
broadband can provide. Eliminating "killer apps" like voice only
slows and/or discourages broadband.
Minnesota has become an unwelcome focal
point in the juxtaposition of the telecommunications and
Internet revolution. Minnesota haw now asserted
governmental power to help squash the emerging VoIP market by
forcing companies like VONAGE -
www.vonage.com
- to comply with certain laws which were meant to apply to
copper-based local loops.
August 13 2003, Minnesota PUC staff briefing:
http://www.puc.state.mn.us/docs/briefing_papers/b03-0096.pdf.
September 11, 2003 Minnesota
PUC decision -
http://www.puc.state.mn.us/docs/orders/03-0108.pdf -
giving Vonage 30 days to comply with the PUC Order.
Wisconsin Public Service
Commission ruling -
http://rss.com.com/2100-7352_3-5076852.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news.
September 22 Vonage Petition to
the FCC:
http://www.netsuds.com/tps/petition.pdf
http://www.netsuds.com/tps/Exhibits1&2.pdf
http://www.netsuds.com/tps/Exhibits3&4.pdf.
October 7 Federal Court ruling in
favor of Vonage -
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5088158.html
October 16 Federal Court Ruling -
http://www.netsuds.com/tps/FedDistCourtRuling.pdf
An extensive number of stories in the
September
NetSuds
Monthly Report - click
here.
Pre-Registration Is
Closed. Register On Site.
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Download Credit Card/Check
payment
form and bring
it with you to the event.
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| 10:00 am |
Introduction To Telephone
Technology and Trends: ILEC POTS, Packet Voice,
Broadband Voice, E-911, Battery Back-Up, Cell. |
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Keynote |
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Dr. Andrew Odlyzko,
ADC Professor, AVP for Research, Director,
Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota,
odlyzko@umn.edu.
Prior to assuming that position in 2001,
he devoted 26 years to research and research management at Bell
Telephone Laboratories, AT&T Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs, as that
organization evolved and changed its name.
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko. |
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| 10:30 |
Legal Snapshot and PUC v. Vonage Issue: Current Minnesota Statute and the Arguments
between the Minnesota PUC and Vonage. |
Panel
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Edward Garvey |
TBA |
Hank Hultquist |
Jeff Citron |
Cheryl
O'Brien |
| Deputy Commissioner, MN
Dept. of Commerce, Energy & Telecommunications Division. |
Reserved for a PUC Commissioner |
Senior Legal Counsel, Federal Advocacy,
MCI Worldcom, Washington, D.C. |
CEO, Vonage, Edison, New Jersey.
Read about Jeff
here. |
President and
Founder of
Technology Management Corporation |
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Edward was
appointed 1/2003 Deputy Commissioner for the Energy &
Telecommunications Division of the MN Dept. of Commerce. Prior to
this, he served on the Minnesota PUC from 1997-2002. He served as
Chair of the Commission for three years. |
As of now, the PUC
has refused to participate in this Summit, citing the inappropriate
nature of commenting on matters still before the Commission.
We'll "keep a light on for them" in case circumstances or their
position changes. |
See Hank's bio in the lunch keynote
section. |
Vonage
enables anyone with broadband to make and receive phone calls -
worldwide - with a touch-tone telephone. Vonage bundles enhanced IP
communications services, an interactive communications portal with
high quality voice communications at a very cost-effective price. |
Having worked previously for the City of Minneapolis as a
telecommunications and facilities manager, O’Brien has direct
experience and a comprehensive understanding of working with the PUC,
writing tariffs, and dealing with regulatory issues. |
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| 11:30 |
Experience of Local Users of Alternate Voice Technologies:
Hear from local users of Vonage, IP-Centrex,
IP-PBX, enterprise packet voice and other non-traditional voice
technologies. |
Panel
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Mike
O'Connor |
Brent
Backhaus |
Brian
Ahlsten |
David
Shepherdson |
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Minnesota's "Mr. ISDN" and founder of
gofast.net, successful Internet entrepreneur and public policy
speaker |
Brent Backhaus, CTO, Virtual
Radiologic Consultants
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Brian is the de-facto telecom guy for
his company. ("We are an office that has grown from 4 to 65"). |
David is CEO of Phenomenal Networks |
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Mike is well-known for his wise
registration of Internet domain names back in the early 1990s. He is equally well-known for
his efforts to
unleash ISDN in the mid-90s by his
public appeals with the PUC and US West. He is a frequent
local speaker on technology issues. |
Virtual Radiologic Consultants is
experiencing dot-com type growth in the post-dot-com era. They are
based in Eden Prairie and currently have 6 Vonage accounts that are
at the core of their ability to successfully run and continue to
grow their business. |
Brian is
both a residential Vonage customer and a business customer. He
started using Vonage at home and was so satisfied that he got it for
work and is saving money while not worrying about long distance or
local charges. |
David has implemented large-scale,
enterprise-wide VoIP systems in Minnesota including a system that
served the youth participants at the recent
Schwan's USA Cup Soccer Tournament
in Blaine. |
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12:15 pm |
A National Perspective on Packet Voice:
The National Business and Technology Case for
Voice Competition in the USA. Trends, Implementations,
Investments, Regulation. |
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Lunch and Keynotes |
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Jeffrey
Citron, CEO, Chairman and co-founder, Vonage, is a technology
pioneer and visionary who transformed the financial services
industry and is aiming to redefine another industry -
telecommunications. In 1995, Mr. Citron founded The Island ECN.
Instinet Group recently acquired the Island ECN for $503 million.
Mr. Citron founded and became the Chairman and CEO of Datek Online
Holdings Corp. which was recently acquired by Ameritrade Holdings
for $1.3 billion. |
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Hank
Hultquist, Senior Legal Counsel, Federal Advocacy, MCI Worldcom.
Mr. Hultquist is a nationally recognized expert in emerging
telecommunications policy issues and a featured speaker and panelist
at various conferences. |
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| 2:00
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Legislative Perspective: Hear from various
policy-makers and stakeholders on potential changes to Minnesota
law and policy. We may also hear about federal initiatives. |
Panel
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David Fisher |
Sen.
Steve Kelley |
Brian
Lamb |
Rep.
Bob Gunther |
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Former Commissioner of the MN
Dept. of Administration and former
VP and general counsel of ADC Telecommunications |
Steve
(DFL)
is Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications and Technology
Subcommittee and Senate Majority Whip. |
Brian is the Minnesota Department of
Administration Commissioner |
Bob
(R) is a member of the Regulated Industries Committee in the State
House; covering telecommunications. |
| David is a
businessman and corporate attorney with a record of accomplishments
in diverse, challenging and complex business environments and a
background in international transactions and business development,
as well as government administration. |
Steve has been an active proponent
of telecom reform since his election to the MN House 1992.
For 2001-2002 he was the chair of the National Conference of State
Legislatures’ Communications and Information Policy Committee.
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Brian's responsibilities
include technology coordination and telecommunications service
delivery within government and administration of the state's 911
emergency telephone system (transitioning to the Department of
Public Safety). |
Bob lists "limiting government and
reducing burdensome regulations" as some of his top priorities as
well as "economic development"
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3:00 |
Break |
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3:30 |
Venture Capital:
Regulation, Innovation and the Effect on Equity Investing: Venture Capital Has Poured
Millions in to Packet Voice. Hear the effects that regulation has
on innovation and investing. |
Panel
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Timothy Kraskey |
Tom von Kuster |
Todd Ortberg |
| Managing
Director, YankeeTek Ventures |
Tom Von Kuster, Angel
Investor,
AMEX, Inc. |
Managing Director, Coral Capital
Management |
| Tim is a venture capitalist and
UofM grad who recently moved back to MN from Boston. He has over 15 years of
experience in voice and data networking. Tim was one of the founders
and VP of Sales & Marketing for Sahara Networks
Inc., a developer of scalable, high-speed broadband access
products. |
Tom
was a founding Director of Cymbet; a solid state battery firm
and FibreStream; a storage appliance company. He has served as
an early investor/advisor at NuSpeed (purchased by Cisco for
$450 million), NT International (purchased by Entegris) and
SurvivaLink (purchased by Cardiac Science). |
Todd leads
investments in communications and software companies and
represents Coral on the boards of directors of multiple
portfolio companies.
Prior to joining Coral in
2001, Todd was with ADC, where he served as general manager of
their Cable Access Systems division and as vice president of
engineering. |
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| 4:15 |
Current Packet Voice Service
Providers: Learn how various innovative service providers and
equipment vendors are
implementing packet voice technology, their architecture and business
models. |
Panel
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| Steve
Aaron |
Fritz
Hendricks |
Chad
Braafladt |
Mike
Chesla |
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Steve is Director of Business
Development and has been developing and marketing Enventis' hosted
IP-PBX and unified messaging service. |
Fritz is
COO of Onvoy and has 20+ years of
experience in telecom and datacom. Before Onvoy, Fritz was a
VP at Qwest Global Services. |
Chad
is co-founder and CEO of
CP Wholesale, CP Telecom and
CP
Internet, MN's largest privately-held dial-up
Internet and Network Service Provider. |
Mike is President of
TeleTek
and a veteran telecom executive with almost 2 decades dedicated to
crafting innovative voice and data communications solutions for his
clients. |
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Enventis Telecom
helps companies plan, deploy, implement
and operate business communications solutions using IP telephony,
Internet services, LANs/WANs, regional transport, local access,
network engineering, programming and project management. |
Onvoy is a MN Integrated Broadband Provider, a company
that has been leading the deployment of network-based IP Services
such as IP voice, IP video, Private Data Networking and Internet
access via its statewide, private IP network. |
CP is a provider of innovative and voice and data services.
Their
network extends from their Duluth
HQ to
virtually every section of southern and central Minnesota. CP
sells, installs and supports voice and data telecommunications
services. |
TeleTek
is a locally based Avaya business partner that designs systems to
meet their client's current and future communications needs.
Teletek's team delivers value before, during, and after each
installation. |
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| 5:00 |
Call To Action and Lobbying Committee
Meeting:
A Call To Action and Next Steps. A formal meeting of
stakeholders in this debate will be held. The meeting will result
in a lobbying committee to represent this issue in the 2004 legislative
session. |
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6:00 - 9:00 |
Reception
- Cash Bar |
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