Don’t miss your opportunity to hear about the future of broadband when Blair Levin keynotes the “Fiber Transforms the Triangle” conference at SAS on Monday.

Levin led fast-Internet strategy at the FCC, headed up the Gig. U university gigabit Internet consortium and this week was named a fellow at the prestigious Brookings Institute.

He is delivering the keynote address at the fiber event, which is being put on by WRAL TechWire as part of its Executive Exchange series. SAS is the host with AT&T, MCNC and Sentinel Data Centers as sponsors.

Brookings recognized Levin’s contributions to development of U.S. broadband policy and helping set the stage for deployment of gigabit-to-the-Internet home networks as being pioneered now by AT&T (in the Triangle) as part of the North Carolina Next Generation Network as well as Google Fiber and companies such as RST Fiber in Shelby.

“In this rapidly evolving, information-rich era, broadband is essential to growing businesses and helping households improve their lives,” said Robert Puentes, senior fellow at Brookings. “We are ecstatic to work with Blair in this important area.”

Levin will work with cities to “apply innovative practices to expand broadband access” while at Brookings, the institute says. He has spent the past four years as the Community & Society Fellow at the Aspen Institute and oversaw the Gig U. project.

Levin directed the implementation of the 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act, which helped accelerate deployment of the Internet as we know it today. He was chief of staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt from 1993-7. After eight years as a consultant at Legg Mason and Stifel Micolaus, he returned to the FCC in 2009 and oversaw development of the National Broadband Plan.

Funding later provided by the federal government through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act helped MCNC expand the North Carolina Research and Education Network into a state-wide fiber-optic highway.

So where are we headed next with gigabit Internet available at home and work?

Come hear what Blair Levin has to say.

More details about the conference are available online.