If you’re on the engineering and technology side of this industry, last year’s announcement about the shuttering of the annual INTX show had to make you wonder where all those great ideas for the technical papers published around that conference would go. And given the long-term status of SCTE/ISBE’s Cable-Tec Expo as the engineering show of choice, a guess that they would flow that way was a good one for the post-INTX world.
On Thursday, SCTE/ISBE and NCTA – The Internet & Television Association announced a collaboration to integrate the NCTA Technical Papers into SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo, which is slated for Oct. 17-20 in Denver. The associations report they are working together to combine the best elements of both the Cable-Tec Expo papers and the NCTA Technical Papers within the SCTE/ISBE-NCTA Fall Technical Forum, continuing the collaborative relationship that existed during the Spring Technical Forum housed at NCTA’s INTX in recent years.
The SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2017 Program Committee, co-chaired by Jim Blackley, EVP, engineering and information technology at Charter Communications, and Terry Cordova, EVP and CTO at Altice USA, will review abstracts. The due date for submission is next Wednesday, March 1. Details of the call for papers for the Fall Technical Forum is here.
“SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo historically has driven learning and development across every level of the cable workforce,” William Check, SVP and CTO at NCTA, comments. “The integration of the NCTA and SCTE/ISBE papers will bring to Expo an added dimension by harnessing the focus on new thinking that was a mainstay of our highly regarded Spring Technical Forum partnership.”
More information about SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2017 is available here.
