DSN Middle Mile Summit
3rd Annual Meeting | Hot Springs, AR
May 14 - 16, 2024  ·  Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort

Thank you for attending the 2024 Diamond State Networks Middle Mile Summit!


THINGS TO KNOW/DO BEFORE YOU ARRIVE:


  • Download the Eventleaf Guide Conference App for all event information, session check ins and more: Download for iOS HERE, download for Android HERE
  • When you attend general assemblies and breakout sessions, please use the app described above to check in for those events. This will help us produce better and better content each year if we can analyze what attendees want.
  • Dress code is business casual, emphasis on CASUAL. Come to learn, network and have fun! Look good, but be comfortable.

Agenda
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Check in DeSoto Golf Course (111 DeSoto Blvd, Hot Springs Village, AR 71909). This is closest address to the correct Hot Springs gate entrance. Once you go through the gate, the course is on the left about a mile inside the gate.
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Check in at Pre-Function before the opening night session to receive your summit badges
6:30 AM - 4:30 PM
6:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Check in at Pre-Function to receive your summit badges and SWAG bags
8:00 AM - 8:10 AM
8:00 AM - 8:10 AM
Remarks from Senator John Boozman
8:10 AM - 8:30 AM
8:10 AM - 8:30 AM
Jeremiah Sloan, Co-Chairman, DSN & CEO, Craighead Electric Cooperative
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Doug Maglothin, CEO of Diamond State Networks
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Jeff Standridge, Managing Director of Conductor
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Enjoy light appetizers and drinks in Pre-function and Event Center C
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Enjoy appetizers and drinks at First Turn along with drinks and dinner at Pop's Lounge (2 locations)
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Join us for a fun evening at Mainline Sports Bar
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Fireside chart with Doug Maglothin, CEO of DSN, and Lane Bailey, Deputy Director of The Arkansas Broadband Office
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speakers
Shown in alphabetical order

John Boozman

John Boozman is Arkansas’s senior U.S. Senator and the dean of the state’s Congressional delegation.

Rod Couch

Rod Couch is the Sr. Telecommunications Marketing Specialist at KAMO Electric Cooperative, Inc. (KAMO).

Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and CEO of The Palmer Group.

Jeff Standridge

Dr. Jeff D. Standridge helps organizations and their leaders generate sustained results in the areas of innovation, strategy, profit growth, organizational transformation and leadership.

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3rd Annual Golf Tournament
3rd Annual Golf Tournament

Join us for our 3rd annual golf tournament, sponsored by Irby Utilities.

When: Tuesday May 14th, 11am-4pm
Where: DeSoto Golf Club, Hot Springs Village, AR

Address: 111 DeSoto Blvd, Hot Springs Village, AR 71909. Note-This is closest address to the correct Hot Springs gate entrance. Once you go through the gate, the course is on the left about a mile inside the gate.

Format: 4-person team scramble, 18 holes
Registration: Sign-up steps are part of general event registration

As you make your way around the course, you'll play holes sponsored by a variety of organizations-each with games, giveaways and more. Drinks and snacks will be provided, as well as prizes. If you want to play, sign up when you register for the event. We look forward to seeing you there!


Exhibitor Info
*In order of booth assignment
Ciena is a networking systems, services, and software company.
Irby Utilities is an all-in-one solutions provider, material distributor, and lifetime partner here to help you transform your utility and maintain superior operations.
Innovative Systems provides a Billing and Subscriber Management Platform (SMP), Video, and Voice to BSP’s.
Telephone Switching offers a wide range of EF&I services, testing, and maintenance capabilities and we are dedicated to providing the highest quality products, installation and services to our customers.
Calix delivers a broadband platform and managed services that are enabling our customers to improve life one community at a time.
Founded in 1999, ProCom has continued striving to represent companies manufacturing quality products with a primary emphasis on outside plant.
Better Broadband means Better Lives. Vantage Point helps broadband providers bring that promise to life through start-to-FUTURE engineering, consulting, and OSP services tailored to the needs of each company, Co-op, and community we serve.
Calian IT & Cyber Solutions is a leading provider of comprehensive cybersecurity and IT services, offering tailored solutions to safeguard organizations against evolving threats and optimize their technological capabilities.
TriTechne is a Full-Turnkey Network Services Company with a nationwide presence, specializing in the construction, expansion, and maintenance of Network Components tailored to our clients' unique requirements.
CFC provides exceptional services that go beyond the balance sheet to meet the ever-changing needs of our member-owners in a dynamic environment.
At VETRO, we believe visualizing data unlocks hidden potential, radically simplifying the way businesses operate and digitizing the future of connectivity.
VeEX's optical test and measurement solutions are optimized for today's FTTx, xPON, DWDM, CWDM and Metro networks and are perfectly suited for demanding outside plant environments.
Wavelo offers a suite of flexible software to enable mobile and internet access, provisioning, billing, subscriptions, and more.
Harmonic, the worldwide leader and pioneer in virtualized broadband and distributed access architecture solutions, is shaping the next generation of broadband service delivery.
K-PowerNet is a wholly owned subsidiary of KAMO Power. KAMO supplies power to 17 rural electric cooperatives serving more than 344,000 consumers in Missouri and Oklahoma.
Conexon is an industry-leading broadband network design, construction and operations firm working with electric cooperatives, communities and other entities to deploy fiber to the home across rural America.
GEOGRAPH Technologies, LLC is a premium GIS software supplier that helps clients manage their fiber, copper, and HFC networks.
Juniper's AI-Native Networking Platform is built from the ground up to leverage AI to deliver the best and most secure user experiences from the edge to the data center and cloud.
We founded Momentum with a simple objective in mind: Enabling better, faster, and more efficient communication for businesses, employees, and customers.
NVTS is a Commercial Communication and Utility Services Company specializing in the deployment of DC Power and network equipment in new and existing applications.
AECI provides infrastructure material and equipment to its five-state footprint, quality safety equipment testing, and construction and right-of-way services across the United States.
Unite Private Networks (UPN) provides fiber-optic communications infrastructure services to schools, governments, carriers, data centers, hospitals, and enterprise business customers.
Ervin Cable Construction is a leading force in the telecommunications infrastructure industry, specializing in the engineering, construction and installation of fiber optic networks.
Camvio is an end-to-end subscriber management system. Founded in 2019, Camvio has become known as the great disruptor to the legacy BSS/OSS market.
Ribbon delivers communications software, IP optical network solutions to service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors.

Ciena

Ciena is a networking systems, services, and software company.

Irby Utilities

Irby Utilities is an all-in-one solutions provider, material distributor, and lifetime partner here to help you transform your utility and maintain superior operations.

Innovative Systems

Innovative Systems provides a Billing and Subscriber Management Platform (SMP), Video, and Voice to BSP’s.

ADTRAN + TSI

Telephone Switching offers a wide range of EF&I services, testing, and maintenance capabilities and we are dedicated to providing the highest quality products, installation and services to our customers.

Calix

Calix delivers a broadband platform and managed services that are enabling our customers to improve life one community at a time.

ProCom Sales

Founded in 1999, ProCom has continued striving to represent companies manufacturing quality products with a primary emphasis on outside plant.

VantagePoint

Better Broadband means Better Lives. Vantage Point helps broadband providers bring that promise to life through start-to-FUTURE engineering, consulting, and OSP services tailored to the needs of each company, Co-op, and community we serve.

Calian IT

Calian IT & Cyber Solutions is a leading provider of comprehensive cybersecurity and IT services, offering tailored solutions to safeguard organizations against evolving threats and optimize their technological capabilities.

TriTechne

TriTechne is a Full-Turnkey Network Services Company with a nationwide presence, specializing in the construction, expansion, and maintenance of Network Components tailored to our clients' unique requirements.

NRUCFC

CFC provides exceptional services that go beyond the balance sheet to meet the ever-changing needs of our member-owners in a dynamic environment.

Vetro

At VETRO, we believe visualizing data unlocks hidden potential, radically simplifying the way businesses operate and digitizing the future of connectivity.

VeEX

VeEX's optical test and measurement solutions are optimized for today's FTTx, xPON, DWDM, CWDM and Metro networks and are perfectly suited for demanding outside plant environments.

Wavelo

Wavelo offers a suite of flexible software to enable mobile and internet access, provisioning, billing, subscriptions, and more.

Harmonic

Harmonic, the worldwide leader and pioneer in virtualized broadband and distributed access architecture solutions, is shaping the next generation of broadband service delivery.

K-Powernet

K-PowerNet is a wholly owned subsidiary of KAMO Power. KAMO supplies power to 17 rural electric cooperatives serving more than 344,000 consumers in Missouri and Oklahoma.

Conexon

Conexon is an industry-leading broadband network design, construction and operations firm working with electric cooperatives, communities and other entities to deploy fiber to the home across rural America.

Geograph

GEOGRAPH Technologies, LLC is a premium GIS software supplier that helps clients manage their fiber, copper, and HFC networks.

Juniper Networks + ITSavvy

Juniper's AI-Native Networking Platform is built from the ground up to leverage AI to deliver the best and most secure user experiences from the edge to the data center and cloud.

Momentum Telecom

We founded Momentum with a simple objective in mind: Enabling better, faster, and more efficient communication for businesses, employees, and customers.

New Venture Telecom

NVTS is a Commercial Communication and Utility Services Company specializing in the deployment of DC Power and network equipment in new and existing applications.

AECI

AECI provides infrastructure material and equipment to its five-state footprint, quality safety equipment testing, and construction and right-of-way services across the United States.

Unite Private Networks

Unite Private Networks (UPN) provides fiber-optic communications infrastructure services to schools, governments, carriers, data centers, hospitals, and enterprise business customers.

Ervin Cable Construction

Ervin Cable Construction is a leading force in the telecommunications infrastructure industry, specializing in the engineering, construction and installation of fiber optic networks.

Camvio

Camvio is an end-to-end subscriber management system. Founded in 2019, Camvio has become known as the great disruptor to the legacy BSS/OSS market.

Ribbon

Ribbon delivers communications software, IP optical network solutions to service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors.

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