Get to Fast Faster 2026

6-8 October, 2026
Dallas, Texas

Speakers

Guest speakers

Nick Alexander

Senior Policy Advisor
Quadra Partners

Paul Arola

Senior Design Specialist
TELUS

Tim Ayers

Managing Director
GravityPath Partners

Joshua Bailey

Principal Economist, North America and Global
The Economist

Stephanie Becken

Broadband Manager
City of Superior/ConnectSuperior

Zachary Chiz

Chief Operating Officer
Foothills Broadband

James Denman

Solutions Architect – Telecommunications
Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA)

Jaime Espinosa

Director Market Strategy and Partnerships
Underline

Cameron Kilton

Chief Technology Officer
Nextlink

Robert Kuse

Senior Director Network Engineering
Cox Communications

John McLauchlin

President of Infrastructure
Automation Exchange Infrastructure (AEX)

Lee Rutherford

Network Operations Manager
South Central Power

Nokia speakers

Lori Adams

Vice President Broadband Policy and Funding Strategy
Nokia

Jenny Benavides

Business Development for Optical LAN
Nokia

Andrew Bender

CTO, Fixed Networks
Nokia

Doug Blue

Residential Broadband Business Development Leader
Nokia

Ruben Catteeuw

Senior Product Line Manager
Nokia

Volodymy Chornodolsky

Business Development Partner
Nokia

Justin Doucette

Head of Nokia WiFi
Nokia

David Eckard

Head of Strategy, Fixed Networks
Nokia

Bassam El-Zakhem

Deputy President, Fixed Networks
Nokia

Bill Faulkner

Business Development Leader
Nokia

Andreas Flack

Technology Lead, Business Development Fiber
Nokia

Suresh Kumar Harikrishnan

Business Development Leader
Nokia

Mark Klimek

Vice President, Fixed Networks Business Center
Nokia

Sireesha Kora

Head of R&D for Access Controller Applications and AI in Fixed Broadband Networks
Nokia

Charles Marsh

VP, US Majors Sales
Nokia

Lloyd Miller

Customer Engineering Director
Nokia

Sunil Mishra

System Support Specialist
Nokia

Pradeep Paraman

Customer Engineer
Nokia

Michael Quade

Home Networking Lead
Nokia

Mari Robertson

Services Business Development Manager
Nokia

Keith Russell

Portfolio Marketing Director
Nokia

Nathan Scarlett

Customer Engineer
Nokia

Jacob Thomas

Product Line Manager, ONT and WiFi Products
Nokia

Stefaan Vanhastel

Vice President Marketing and Innovation
Nokia

Dirk Verhaegen

Vice President & General Manager, Broadband Devices
Nokia

David Zhang

Director of UX & Business Development
Nokia