February Tech & Toast: Lighting the Way to the Future
Venue: Sheraton Roanoke Hotel & Conference Center, Roanoke
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013
Time: 7:15 - 9:00 AM
Event Types: Food, Speaking Engagements, Business Related
Cost:
RBTC members: $20.00 Non-members: $39.00

Registrations paid at the door are $39.00 regardless of membership status.

Description:
The Roanoke - Blacksburg Technology Council (RBTC) hosts their February Tech and Toast entitled "Lighting the Way to the Future". The talk will feature a panel of local dignitaries discussing the local infrastructure. The attendance cost also includes breakfast.

Infrastructure is part of the equation for our communities economic, educational and governmental success. This means not just roads, bridges, water systems, and the electric grid, but also broadband. Increasingly, businesses and local economic development agencies recognize how fast and reliable broadband networks are critical inputs to productivity. State and local governments understand that broadband can help them deliver services more cheaply to citizens—and often more effectively. “Broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of the early 21st century,” states’ efforts to meet that challenges will have payoffs for the entire country” (State Broadband Access).

Learn how our community has come together under private and public leadership to pursue ways to lay and light broadband to promote economic development, build strong communities, improve delivery of government services, and upgrade educational systems. The ingredients for meeting these goals are fast and ubiquitous broadband networks, a population of online users, and an economic structure that helps drive broadband innovation and investment in new broadband uses.

The panel includes:
Tim Barnes, Pulaski County
Clay Goodman, Roanoke County Administrator
Kevin Boggess, Salem City Manager
Chris Morrill, City Manager of Roanoke
Dennis Reece, Citizens Telephone Cooperative
Marc Verniel, Town Manager of Blacksburg

For more information, call: 540-443-9232 or visit: http://www.thetechnologycouncil.com/Toast

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