| 12 Noon |
Conference and exhibitor set-up at Arrowwood-Alexandria |
| 1-4 p.m. |
Leadership Training: Project Coordinators w/ Blandin Leadership Trainers (special pre-conference event for Get Broadband communities)
Workshop Title: Attracting and Sustaining Volunteers
Purpose – This workshop is designed to help participants build a strong base of volunteers whose skills and interests match the activities they’ve asked to engage in. |
| 5 p.m. |
Conference Registration opens |
| 6 p.m. |
Exhibits, Demonstrations & Welcome reception, Power Users Lab
Featuring exhibitors; “power user” coaches, and the Best Buy Geek Squad helping you try out state-of-the-art and “bleeding edge” technologies such as podcast, slingbox, and more.
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| 7:15 p.m. |
Conference Welcome & Continued Networking Opportunities, with exhibitors and conference attendees |
| 8 a.m. |
Registration and continental breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome by Mayor Dan Ness of Alexandria |
| 8:40 a.m. |
Opening Remarks, Jim Hoolihan, Blandin Foundation President
Jim will present rationale for Foundation to address need to build capacity of rural communities to make productive use of telecom and Internet technologies for 21st Century economic development – and encourage intentional policy for planning for, and engagement of Broadband Generation to ensure relevance and sustainability of market for ongoing/future technology investments. |
| 9 a.m. |
Presentation of E-Democracy.org E-Debates
Steve Clift will summarize highlights of the gubernatorial e-debate hosted on the Internet by e-democracy.org as a lead-up to the conference. |
| 9:30 a.m |
Panel Spotlighting Broadband Generation Champions/Power Users: Facilitator: Mike O'Conner, technology entrepreneur and member of the St. Paul Broadband Advisory Board
Broadband visionaries will speak about cutting edge technologies needed to help ensure a continued quality of life and economically competitive future for Minnesota. Learn about technologies such as Slingbox – which allows you to broadcast television, cable, satellite, etc from your computer to others in remote places; telemetry applications for such high tech organizations as NASA and video-on-demand applications in higher education.
Panelists: UM Crookston Students |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Exhibits and Networking |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Community Showcases
Facilitator: Bill Coleman, Get Broadband Community Coach
Fifteen Get Broadband communities will showcase their projects through video clips.
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| 12 noon |
Lunch
“Generation Next on Broadband”
Generation Next (A.KA. Generation Y) is that age group born in the 1980’s and 90’s. They are experiencing the Internet in new and innovative ways. Broadband initiatives are allowing this to happen. In this talk we look at the impact Broadband is having on this generation’s social networking, entertainment, and education.
Keynote Speakers: David DeMuth, UM Crookston, Associate Professor Physics for the Math, Science & Technology Department;
Martin Lundell, UM Crookston, Assistant Professor of Information Technology Management |
| 1:30 pm |
Candidate Forum: Technology Talk Back
Facilitator: Milda Hedblom, Dir, TISP Forum, HHH Institute (confirmed)
An interactive session-live and via video conference – with gubernatorial candidates who will present their policy platforms and respond to audience questions on their view of role of broadband and broadband-based technology in Minnesota’s future.
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| 2:45 p.m. |
Exhibits and Networking |
| 3:15 p.m. |
Achieving the Vision for the Broadband Generation:
Facilitator: Danna Asche, Director of Information Services, Cook County & Blandin Broadband Strategy Board member
Health care and education, two of the "killer applications" for broadband will be highlighted in this final discussion of the conference.
Education: The future of online schools integrated with brick & mortar schools is here for rural and urban communities alike. Kim Ross, superintendent of the Houston, MN, schools, will discuss the MN Center for Online Learning and Minnesota Virtual Academy, a community-wide investment that helped sustain the school district and community and opened Houston to communities and people statewide and nationwide.
Health Care: State officials Mark Schoenbaum or Karen Welle) from the MN Office of Rural Health & Primary Care will preview work underway in Minnesota to build partnerships in e-health, telehealth, and telemedicine that will benefit communities and citizens (and they will help explain the differences in each of those terms, too!).
Panelists: Kim Ross, superintendent of Houston, MN schools (confirmed)
Mark Schoenbaum or Karen Welle, MN Office of Rural Health & Primary Care (to be confirmed).
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| 4:30 p.m. |
Closing Comments by Bernadine Joselyn
Passport Prize Drawing
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