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MONDAY, AUGUST 4th
8:00 a.m. MTA Board of Directors Meeting & Breakfast with
Palladium Sponsors
9:00 a.m.-Noon Registration Desk Open (Hotel Lobby)
10:15 a.m. MTA Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser
Golf Tournament - meet at Meadow Lark Country Club
Fly Fishing Expedition - meet in hotel lobby
4:00-6:00 p.m. Registration Desk Open (Hotel Lobby)
6:00-9:00 p.m. President's Reception: Load Bus for C.M. Russell Museum
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5th
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
7:30 a.m. Breakfast (Convention Center)
8:00 a.m. Registration Desk Open (Convention Center Area)
8:30 a.m. Welcome - Geoff Feiss, General Manager, MTA
8:45 a.m. Larry Landis, Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service,
and Indiana Utility Regulatory Commissioner
9:30 a.m. Jeremy Marcus, Acting Associate Bureau Chief, FCC's
Wireline Competition Bureau
10:15 a.m. Message from our Sponsor & Break
10:35 a.m. Jay Driscoll, Director of Government Affairs, CTIA
10:45 a.m. Joel Lubin, Vice President-Regulatory Planning &
Policy, AT&T
12:00 p.m. Message from our Sponsor
12:15 p.m. Awards Luncheon
MTA Distinguished Leadership Award
Service Awards
1:15 p.m. Eric Bozich, Vice President of National Services,
Qwest
2:00 p.m. Rhonda Weaver, Comcast (invited)
2:30 p.m. Mark Novy, Manager, Deman Assurance & Network
Analysis (DANA), NECA
3:00 p.m. Message from our Sponsor & Break
3:15 p.m. Cheryl Johns, Assistant Chief Counsel,US Small
Business Administration
3:45 p.m. Russ Sullivan, Democratic Staff Director, Senate Finance
Committee (invited)
4:15 p.m. Frank Gallagher, Managing Director, Stifel Nicolaus's
Telecommunications & Media Investment Banking Group
4:45 p.m. Message from our Sponsors
5:00 p.m. Recess for the day
6:00-10:00 p.m. Annual Banquet: Hospitality Hour ~ Poolside
Banquet & Entertainment ~ Convention Center
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6th
STATE PERSPECTIVE
7:30 a.m. Breakfast (Convention Center)
8:00 a.m. Registration Desk Open (Convention Center Area)
8:30 a.m. Erik Iverson, Chairman, Montana Republican Party
Art Noonan, Exec Director, Montana Democratic Party
9:15 a.m. Greg Jergeson, Chairman, Montana PSC
9:45 a.m. Ray Ford, Professor of Computer Science, UofM and
serves as Chief Information & Technical Officer
Dick Clark, Montana Chief Information Officer
10:30 a.m. Message from our Sponsor & Break
10:50 a.m. Stephen Maly, Executive Director of HCTV & Manager
TVMT
11:10 a.m. Brian Gion, CEO, MCDC
11:30 a.m. Chuck Johnson, Dean of Montana Capitol Resources &
State Bureau Chief for the Lee Newspapers
Noon Scholarship Raffle Drawings & Adjournment
(must be present to win)
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