Agenda

The times and speakers listed are subject to change right up to the last minute. Every effort will be made to post changes as we become aware of them.

Tuesday, April 20th

3:00 PM -- Registration, Networking, Refreshments

4:00 PM -- Introduction to FiberFête

• Welcome to Lafayette (Mayor Joey Durel, University of Louisiana VP Steve Landry, LED Secretary Moret, Geoff Daily Moderator)
• The Lafayette Story (Terry Huval, Joey Durel, Jim Baller, David Isenberg Moderator)
• Lafayette, the World, and the Need for Fiber-Grade Services (Benoit Felten)
• Introduction to LITE (Henry Florsheim)
  

6:00 PM Tour of LITE/Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise

6:30 PM Reception

7:00 PM Festive Cajun Dinner

Wednesday, April 21st

7:30 AM Breakfast

8:30 AM Session 1

• A Few Introductions (David Isenberg, isen.com, LLC)
• The Public in Public Media means You! (Joaquin Alvarado, American Public Media)
• TeleHealth and Aging (Lawrence Keyes, CEO, Microdesign)
• The Gigabit Society: Broadband As A Utility (Herman Wagter, Citynet Amsterdam)
  
• David Isenberg, Moderator

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM Session 2

• Driving Fiber Powered Innovation (Geoff Daily, App-Rising)
  
• Lafayette Commons (John St. Julien, Lafayette Pro-Fiber Blog)
• Making the Internet Accessible to All (Je'Nelle Chargois, The Heritage School of the Arts & Technology)
• FiberKids! (Kit Becnel, Academy of Information Technology, Lafayette Parish School System)
• Google Fiber for Communities (Minnie Ingersoll, Product Manager, Google Gigabit Project)
• Geoff Daily, Moderator
  

11:45 AM -- Busses Leave for CajunDome

12:00 PM -- The Independent Lunch at The CajunDome

The Independent Luncheon will feature Bill Schrier, CTO of Seattle and Chris Vein, CIO of San Francisco, discussing their cities' broadband activities and aspirations. Joanne Hovis, CEO of Columbia Telecommunications Corp. (CTC), will introduce the speakers. The luncheon is part of a regular series of business lunches sponsored by The Independent, Lafayette's independent weekly newspaper. Cherry Fisher May, publisher of The Independent Weekly, will moderate this session. FiberFête participants will have an opportunity to mingle with several hundred of Lafayette's business leaders and prominent citizens.

1:45 PM -- Busses Return to LITE

2:15 PM Session 3

• LED Enabling Louisiana's Digital Economy, Elliott Adams, LED
• Connected Urban Development (Bas Boorsma, Director, Cisco)
• University-Community Collaborations at Gigabit Speeds (Lev Gonick, CIO, Case Western Reserve University, founder One Cleveland)
• Innovation, Universities and Access to Technology (Eliza Evans, CEO INCENTER, Inc.)
• Using the Internet to Spread Cajun Culture (David Greely, Musician)
• David Isenberg, Moderator
  

3:45 PM Break

4:15 PM Session 4

• Healthcare and the Internet (John Ragsdale, CIO, Louisiana Dept of Health & Hospitals)
• Fiber as a Testbed (Dirk van der Woude, City of Amsterdam)
• New Roles for Service Providers (Ernie Bray, founder & CTO, USMetroNets Open Service Provider Network)
• The Ubiquity Assumption: What Happens When Fiber is Universal (David Weinberger, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University)
  
• David Isenberg, Moderator
  

5:45 PM Reception

7:00 PM Festive Cajun Dinner

Thursday, April 22nd

7:30 AM Breakfast

8:30 AM Opening Plenary

• Panel: Driving Lafayette's Digital Economy with Elliott Adams (Louisiana Economic Development), Gregg Gothreaux (Lafayette Economic Development Authority), Tom Cox (Lafayette Economic Development Authority & golfballs.com) and Geoff Daily.
  

9:00 AM Breakouts Groups (concurrent)

• The Future of Community Planning - Bice Wilson, Norm Jacknis, Max Knobbe; Joey Durel
• The Future of Economic Development - Marc Canter; Tom Cox
• The Future of Libraries - Don Means; John St. Julien
• The Future of Universities - Eliza Evans; Dr. Savoie, Dr. Baymoumi
• The Future of Education - Joaquin Alvarado; Kit Becnel
• The Future of Healthcare - Larry Keyes; David Callecod
• The Future of Energy - Robin Chase; Dave Kennedy
• The Future of Fiber Innovation - Chris Schultz; Clay Allen
• Building Fiber Networks - John Brown; Mona Simon
• The Future of Government - Bill Schrier; Keith Thibodeaux
  
• Additional panels TBA

11:00 AM Closing Plenary

• Reports from Breakout Sessions
• Building Blocks for Digital Development (Aymeril Hoang, Embassy of France, Washington DC)
  
• A Vision for the Future of Lafayette (Clay Allen, Allen & Gooch)
• TBD
  

12:00 Noon Lunch

1:00 PM Breakouts, Birds-of-a-Feather Groups continue as inspiration dictates

6:00 PM Lafayette Economic Development Authority Hospitality Suite is open at Festival International, FiberFête participants welcome.

Friday-Sunday, April 23rd-25th