Washington, DC – MMTC will convene its Eighth Annual Access to Capital and Telecom Policy Conference at Washington’s Renaissance Dupont Circle Hotel.
Approximately 350 registrants will attend — legislators, regulators, bankers, venture capitalists, brokers, communications attorneys, entrepreneurs, trade association CEOs, and C-level executives at major media, telecom and broadband companies.
The future of broadband: content, distribution, deployment, distribution platforms, and how we’ll close the digital divide
How to raise capital - with a special focus on media-broadband synergies and new entrant opportunities
How to access procurement opportunities in media, telecom and broadband, including those flowing from the broadband stimulus.
Confirmed speakers include all five FCC commissioners (evidently the first time in several years that they’ve all appeared at the same event) as well as:
Senator Robert Menendez
Congressman Bobby Rush
Jeff Valdez – Co-Chairman, Maya Entertainment
USDA RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein
NTIA Chief of Staff Tom Power
Former FCC Broadband Initiative Director Blair Levin
Women in Municipal Government President Daisy Lynum
InterMedia Partners Chair Leo Hindery
RLJ Equity Partners, LLC Vice President Jerry L. Johnson
TechNet President Rey Ramsey
USTelecom President Walter McCormick
NAB President Gordon Smith
NCTA President Kyle McSlarrow
Information Technology Information Council President Dean Garfield
The conference will feature a three-hour Financial, Transactional and Procurement Forum, where entrepreneurs will meet one-on-one with bankers, investors, brokers, lawyers and procurement officers.
To obtain a press badge, please e-mail MMTC Conference Planner Nicole DeSane Davis at nictyme@aol.com.
