Attendance at this week’s SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in Philadelphia was up over 10,000 people, according to details released by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and its global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts.
The Society says that’s a 21 percent increase over 2015’s reported numbers, when Expo had 8,600 in New Orleans. International attendance was reported at 1,300, which is a bump of 14 percent over 2015.
Around 400 exhibitors were on the show floor, the released stats say, and 62 were new to Expo. SCTE points out that means 130 first-time exhibitors have been at the show in the past two years.
“Our experience this week underscores a primary reason for the robustness and relevance of Expo: the telecommunications community requires a crossroads that connects technology partners, operators and the cable workforce with the innovations and the educational resources that are powering the future of the industry,” Chris Bastian, SVP and CTO of SCTE/ISBE, says. “We’re grateful to Tony Werner, Zoran Stakic, Liberty Global’s Bill Warga and all of the senior executives and others who committed their time to making SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2016 our best show ever, and we look forward to building on this success in the future.”
Next year’s Expo is set for Oct. 17-20 in Denver. Terry Cordova, EVP and CTO of Altice USA, and Jim Blackley, EVP, engineering and information technology at Charter are serving as program committee co-chairs for the 2017 event.