Coordinating Expectations Among Stakeholders Statewide

Monday, June 2, 2025

1:00 PM - 1:40 PM CT

Location: Governor's Ballroom C

Moderator(s)

Jessica Koch (she/her/hers)

Senior Manager Industry Associations and External Affairs
Calix
Severance, Colorado, United States

Panelist(s)

Tamarah Holmes, PhD (she/her/hers)

Director, Office of Broadband
Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Bree Maki (she/her/hers)

Executive Director, Office of Broadband Development
Minnesota Dept. of Employment and Economic Development
St. Paul , Minnesota, United States
Eric Frederick (he/him/his)

Chief Connectivity Officer
Michigan High-Speed Internet Office
Lansing, Michigan, United States
Brian Thorn (he/him/his)

Director of Broadband Strategy
Rhode Island Commerce Corporation

As State Broadband Offices work to award grantees across their state, each much work with a wide variety of municipal, regional, business, community and residential stakeholders to understand, and help balance each’s priorities as fiber broadband network builds begin. This panel of state broadband office leaders will dive into this topic, share best practices, and discuss how they approach closing their state’s equity gap statewide, and down every street.