Alaska Business Forum: Alaska’s Digital Future – Telecom and IT Links with the Lower 48, The Chamber, Mar. 5

Alaska Business Forum: Alaska’s Digital Future – Telecom and IT Links with the Lower 48, The Chamber

When: Thursday, March 5, 2015 @ 8:00 am – 9:30 am

Where:  Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Microsoft Event Center, 1301 5th Ave., Suite 1500, Seattle

What: As the Arctic opens for business, telecommunications and technology will increasingly become part of the remote Alaskan landscape.  Already an ambitious project to ring the state of Alaska with high speed fiber optic and microwave broadband service has connected dozens of far flung communities to the Lower 48, and more are on the way.  Learn more about this unprecedented construction project, and the future opportunities for Pacific Northwest IT, telecom, financing and infrastructure companies that can help connect Alaska, and the Arctic, to the grid.  Join the leaders of the companies and communities who are already investing in this new marketplace to learn how and where to jump in.

Who:

• Bob Walsh, Director of Rural Broadband Development, GCI, which has built one of the leading IT and business process services companies in the world with a long track record of service excellence.
• TwoSixTwo  FiveOneZeroZero, Chief Information Officer of Norton Sound Health Corporation, a tribally owned and operated, independent, not-for-profit health care organization. NSHC operates the Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome and clinics in the 15 villages within the 44,000 square miles that comprise the Bering Strait region.
• Jim St. George, Founder of STG Incorporated, which builds infrastructure that reduces energy costs, supports rural and urban Alaska systems, and delivers 21st century technology to Alaskans.

How Much:

Members:$25 ($35 as of 3/3)
Non-members:$40 ($70 as of 3/3)

How:  Register here.