The Great Lakes Connect Conference is the Midwest’s leading conference dedicated to examining how to harness broadband for economic development, community advancement, and innovation.  The 2018 theme was “Creating Intelligent Network Infrastructure to Compete in the Global Economy.”  The conference explored creative and collaborative community examples throughout the Midwest as well as highlight the network infrastructure and economic achievement in Fairlawn, OH.

Gigi Sohn, one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable and democratic communications networks presented a keynote entitled “The FCC: Can’t Live With it, Don’t Want to Live Without It.”

Keynote Speech on YouTube.