Broadband Power Line Winter Conference:
Everything from Smart Grid to Home Networking
February 27-March 2, 2007
Red Rock Casino - Resort - Spa
Las Vegas, NV
The UPLC Winter Conference has something for everyone.
If you are just getting started, there are pre-conference tutorials that will help get you up to speed, and the first day of the conference will focus on the business, technical and regulatory issues to lay the foundation. At the conclusion of key sessions there will be interactive open discussions where you can get your questions answered! Then, we will tackle the practical issues for rolling out BPL: managing a BPL implementation, driving internal applications, making pole attachments and working with BPL partners. But it doesn’t stop there. At the conclusion, we will develop a strategic plan to drive the industry forward -- taking all the information from the UPLC Winter Conference and applying it in practice.
Who Should Attend & Why??
- For utility CIO’s and CTO’s,
BPL can change the way utilities do business literally by enabling predictive maintenance, real-time pricing and demand response.
- For utility distribution managers, BPL offers two-way, real-time communications that can improve the reliability and efficiency of your infrastructure.
- For utility information technology specialists, BPL will mean enormous data management opportunities and challenges.
- For utility asset management departments, BPL raises new issues for joint-use and pole attachments.
- For municipal, cooperative and investor-owned utilities looking for a rural broadband solution to provide access and competition to the customers you serve, BPL is the way to go.
- For utility OEMs, BPL opens up new markets and capabilities for your products and services.
- For CLECs and ISPs, BPL is an attractive last mile alternative broadband access technology.
- For marketing and back-office support providers, the BPL industry has a real need for your services now that it is going commercial on a wide scale basis.
- For consultants and law firms, BPL is a goldmine considering all the new business and legal opportunities created by BPL.
- For landlords and property managers, BPL provides reliable, cost-effective and secure broadband, HVAC and video monitoring applications.
- For Wall Street analysts, BPL companies raised over $165 million in 2006, up from $143 million in 2005.
- For consumer electronics companies, BPL means smart appliances and streaming HDTV.
