Join a growing network of Broadband community leaders for Building Our Connected Future: Minnesota's Better With Broadband, to be held November 13-14 at Greysolon Ballroom in Duluth, Minnesota.

The Blandin Foundation and Connect Minnesota have once again joined forces to create a vibrant forum that champions Minnesota’s economic competitiveness through the adoption and use of broadband technology.

The 2012 Broadband Conference will:

• promote synergy around direct community planning and adoption projects;
• support the Governor's Broadband Task Force to achieve the state's broadband goals;
• raise awareness of existing and new tools available to close the digital divide;
• identify how Minnesota can leverage national policy to meet its broadband goals.  

By attending the 2012 Broadband Conference you will:

• have a better understanding of mission and tasks that support Governor's Broadband Task Force;
• recognize issues that will have an impact on your community, as they trickle down from the federal level and bubble up from the state level, based on what's happing with the national plan;
• be able to implement strategies around digital inclusion, which are focused on broadband application, access and adoption;
• take away tools and process to use at your community level for increasing broadband availability and adoption;
• access a wealth of new resources, tools and opportunities to use in planning and decision making;
• have an opportunity to network through open space sessions that focus on various themes.

Confirmed speakers include two prominent national and regional experts - Craig Settles, broadband business strategist and municipal broadband expert, and Tom Koutsky, Chief Policy Counsel, Connected Nation.

Save the Date! The first of four pre-conference webinars, "Blandin Community Broadband Programs" will be offered September 27 from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. Learn how your community can access new funding and technical assistance opportunities to improve broadband infrastructure, adoption and use. Understand how Blandin Foundation is continuing its broadband focus in Minnesota over the next two years. Presenters: Bernadine Joselyn, Blandin Foundation and Bill Coleman, Community Technology Advisors. Registration opens next week on the conference web page.

Join people from across the state and nation for two days of sharing, learning and building our connected future.

Registration here!