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Digital Equity and Workforce Development

Building Tomorrow's Workforce Today

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
1:00 PM - 1:40 PM CT
Location: Canal C
Deployment Executive

    Moderator(s)

  • Heather Moyer (she/her/hers)

    President and CEO
    HNM Systems
    Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States

    • Panelist(s)

  • EH

    Emily Hale

    Broadband Grants and Program Manager
    Tennessee Economic & Community Development

  • James Illicete

    Telecommunications and Broadband Project Manager
    Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), Virginia, United States

  • Trudy Swain

    Partnership Coordinator
    Sno-Isle TECH Skills Center
    Everett, Washington, United States

The broadband industry is faced with an unprecedented amount of funding for infrastructure expansion while concurrently experiencing a wave of retirements and technical college student attrition into other industries. Learn how to build a workforce for now and the future through proven strategies for finding, upskilling, retaining and scaling transformation for your business and the communities you serve.