Schedule

Unleashing Innovation: Building the Backbone for the Digital Age

Keynotes featuring leaders from Capitol Hill, the Administration and key agencies, and panel discussions on: 

Breaking the Speed Barrier: Fixed Wireless as the Next Broadband Frontier
Fixed wireless is delivering gigabit speeds faster at lower cost than anyone predicted, and in many cases, connecting consumers who were previously out of reach of wired networks. Hear from fixed wireless companies about how they are scaling to meet the demands of AI-driven applications. This dynamic session features fixed wireless innovators discussing the capabilities of wireless technology, economic models and the regulatory frameworks that will determine whether fixed wireless fulfills its promise as a high-speed broadband solution, especially in unserved and underserved America.

From Copper to Cloud: Protecting Emergency Calling in the IP Transition
As America's voice networks complete their migration to IP, emergency calling faces unprecedented challenges. How do we stop the flood of robocalls and AI-generated spoofing while ensuring 911 calls always go through? This critical session brings together industry leaders to discuss enforcement mechanisms, technology solutions and the policy frameworks needed to protect America's most essential communications service in an all-IP world.

Broadband Permitting and Infrastructure Deployment: Accelerating Community Connectivity
Broadband deployment is racing against time, but permitting delays at the federal, state and local levels threaten to keep American’s disconnected, with implications for global competitiveness. Industry leaders share strategies to streamline approvals, implement rational fee structures and accelerate infrastructure projects that connect communities around the country. 

The Invisible Lifelines: Securing America's Global Connectivity
Subsea cables carry 95% of international data, including financial transactions, defense communications and internet traffic, yet remain vulnerable to geopolitical threats, natural disasters and sabotage. As data traffic continues to grow and national security challenges intensify, how can we ensure the resilience of these invisible lifelines? This session explores security protocols, redundancy strategies, investment needs and the international cooperation required to protect the physical infrastructure of the global digital economy.

The Future of Infrastructure 

Keynotes featuring leaders from Capitol Hill, the Administration and key agencies, and panel discussions on: 

Infrastructure Imperative: Scaling Broadband, Data Centers and Grid Capacity
America's infrastructure is at a critical juncture. This session addresses the urgent imperative to upgrade the core systems powering our digital lives. During this session TIA and INCOMPAS will discuss the vital role of ubiquitous broadband access, the escalating demand for high-capacity data centers as our economy's nerve centers, and the necessary – but often overlooked – challenge of fortifying the power grid to handle this massive increase in capacity. Join us for a frank discussion on the investments, innovations and quality measures required to prevent infrastructure bottlenecks.

Data Centers as Catalysts: Investment, Jobs and Grid Modernization
Data centers are among America's largest infrastructure investors, pouring billions into local economies, creating high-wage jobs and funding critical grid upgrades that benefit entire communities. Yet misconceptions persist about their local economic impact and energy footprint. This session brings together industry leaders and economic development experts to showcase how data center investments drive regional prosperity, modernize electrical infrastructure and position communities for the AI-powered economy. 

The Competitive Energy Revolution: Building Abundance Through InnovationAs AI, advanced manufacturing and reshoring drive explosive energy demand, can competitive markets deliver unprecedented energy abundance while preserving affordability and reliability for all customers? This session explores how market competition accelerates deployment of diverse energy sources – from next-generation nuclear to renewables to natural gas – and drives down costs without destabilizing the utility compact. Industry leaders will debate breakthrough technologies, investment trends, behind-the-meter generation rights, transmission access, interconnection reform and regulatory changes needed to power America’s AI economy.

Energy Permitting Reform: Unlocking America's Power Future
Energy permitting has become the critical bottleneck throttling America's infrastructure ambitions. Whether new generation facilities or transmission lines connecting to demand centers, these projects often face years-long delays that increase costs, strand investment and leave communities without the power they need. This session will examine how streamlined, predictable permitting processes can accelerate deployment of both generation and transmission infrastructure, while keeping existing reliable energy resources online as we add new technologies to our energy portfolio.