TT&S Annual Conference & Vendor Showcase

We look forward to you joining us for the next TT&S Annual Conference and Vendor Showcase on February 18-20, 2025 at the Bismarck Hotel!

 

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2025 KEYNOTE: 

Connecting the Future of Agriculture: The Role of Broadband in the 4th Agricultural Revolution

Dr. William Aderholt, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Grand Farm

 

Dr. William Aderholdt is the Executive Director of Grand Farm, a non-profit organization energizing and guiding an innovation ecosystem to solve challenges in agriculture. William joined Grand Farm in 2019 as it was getting started, and was the first hire of the initiative. He helped develop and establish the strategic vision and programs that he now has the opportunity to lead through the immense effort of an extremely talented team. Grand Farm, providing a fresh approach to innovation ecosystems, has been the lead, co-lead, and a consortium member on many of the economic resiliency federal programs established in response to COVID-19 – including NSF Engine Type II, EDA Good Jobs Challenge, and EDA Tech Hubs. It has a nearly 600-acre Innovation Campus in Casselton, North Dakota, where the initiative is headquartered, and teams starting in Georgia and Montana.

William is passionate about the process of innovation — how collaboration, competition, and collision work in chorus to inevitably lead to solutions to the world’s largest challenges. A process which has repeated itself countless times throughout human history, all around the world.

William, his wife Lana, and their two children call Fargo, North Dakota home. Fargo and North Dakota captivated Lana and William during the Fargo Marathon in 2016, during which the decision was made to move there from Montana. William was drawn to the community because it was large enough to make a global impact and small enough to have focus.

He earned both his PhD and Master in Education, and a B.S. in Cell Biology and Neuroscience from Montana State University. While completing his dissertation, he learned software development and data science – providing a foundation of understanding in emerging technologies he now uses every day in his work.

 

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Connecting the World:

Introduction to the Broadband Services Industry Mini-Conference for Students

 

Learn about the industry that connects the world through a multitude of devices--computers, televisions, gaming, cell phones, and more! Excellent opportunities with great pay and benefits await.

In this free mini conference concurrent with our Annual Conference and Vendor Showcase, select students from schools in our member company territories have the opportunity to learn from some of our best industry instructors in broadband technology and fiber optics training and try some hands-on work. Students will gain insight into the companies that connect their devices to the world and the work behind it in consideration of their career goals. TT&S is working to make this a fun educational opportunity for students, including the chance to visit with our employees in attendance at our annual conference and the vendors in our vendor showcase. We expect to add more to the 2025 Mini Conference!

If you are a teacher or homeschool parent with a student or are a student interested in attending, please visit our Student Mini-Conference page for details.

 

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Event Program Guide

We no longer provide a printed program for our conference.

Our Annual Conference & Vendor Showcase program guide is only accessible through this website. In that, you can customize your conference schedule, view exhibitor/sponsor and presenter profiles, register for our contests, and rate and review the conference. It's just a few easy steps!

Click here to download instructions

 

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Upcoming conference dates:

(Bismarck Hotel & Conference Center)

2025 = February 18-20

2026 = February 17-19

2027 = February 14-16

2028 = February 15-17

 

updated 10/10/2024