459_ CTP Celebrates
Executive
of the Year
w3w3 Photos on LifePics

Communications Technology Professionals (CTP) celebrated Executive of the Year, Greg Maffei, CEO, Liberty Media. It was a very interesting evening. People came from everywhere - I spoke to one man based in Texas. He'd spent the past three days in Taiwan and came to the 'Brown' straight from his return flight into DIA. It was apparent that the respect and appreciation was at a very high level. Mayor Hickenlooper's wife reminded him, he said, this wasn't a roast. But in his typical fashion, he had fun introducing Greg Maffei. As for "the man" himself, he was all about enjoying and sharing the honor, surrounded by his lovely wife and four children. Graciously thanking everyone, he pointed out that with all the blessings and perks there were also stresses and strains that fell on the shoulders of his wife and children. Kind of makes one proud. Ethics in American business and family looked pretty healthy. Photos and Greg Maffei in his own words...    - SEE Photo Ablum 3/24/08
Related Links: Liberty Media || CTP Home || CTP Communications Executive of the Year Award || CTP Channel   Keywords: Gregory B. Maffei, Liberty Media, John Malone, Bill Gates, Communications Technology Professionals, CTP, Sue Wyman, Larry Polman > Bytes: 29939568

What does it take to make a career shift from accounting to senior management? Words like focus, passion and wanting to do something bad enough were drivers for Scott Binder, Senior Vice President for the Colorado Market at Comcast. Scott had to pack up and move to many states in his experience and learning process which included Wisconsin, Kentucky, New Mexico and California before returning to Colorado. He shares insights, with Sue Wyman, Chairman of the revitalized Communication Technology Professionals, CTP formerly DTP. Scott got some great team training in high school and his favorite inspirational book is over 100 years old. You'll get some great how-to pointers.Related Links:
CTP Channel || Denver Tele Pros || Jivaro Group || Podcast Directory || Channels: CTP >> Key Words: Scott Binder, Comcast, Communication Technology Professionals, CTP, Sue Wyman, Leadership > Bytes 3422566 > LISTEN 5.7.07

277_ Communications Executive of the Year - Scott Binder
Yes, Scott Binder, Senior Vice President of Comcast Colorado has accomplished a great deal. "Scott has brought vision and innovation to Comcast and to the people of Colorado. We're delighted to have him as our 2006 Communications Executive of the Year", said Sue Wyman, chairman of the Communications Technology Professionals (formerly Denver Telecom Professionals).
          But, the story doesn't end there. Scott and his family made five major moves that challenged the family. Those challenges made them all stronger and determined to do the best at all times. Scott's mother at 83 years young went skydiving and Scott's wife won a battle with cancer. His three children are winners too. Tom Clark, Executive Vice President of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, introduces Scott from a very personal side. This is truly an inspirational story. Related Links: Communications Technology Professionals || Metro Denver EDC  || Find IT || Event Photos || Channel: CTP, || Keywords: Scott Binder, Comcast, Communications Executive of the Year 2006, Communications Technology Professionals, Denver Metro EDC, Tom Clark - 3/12/07 LISTEN Bytes: 8896995
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330_ Integration of Technology Impacting TV User Experience
What would you like to ask a top-level executive in a large and growing company? Sue Wyman, Chairman of the Communication Technologies Professionals (CTP) and Larry Nelson went to John Suranyi's office to ask some very pointed questions about his development and where he is heading. John is the President of Sales and Services for Direct TV. Sue asked John to rewind a little and talk about the past and what he went through in his development, the challenges he faced, the turning point in his career as well as a number of other topic areas.   Related Links: CTP Channel || Communication Technology Professionals Home || Jivaro Group || Find It || Keywords: John Suranyi, Direct TV, Sue Wyman, Communication Technologies Professionals, CTP  > Bytes: 5910259 LISTEN 6/181/07

309_ Communication Technology Professionals -
Heads Up about What is Coming Up
It is so easy to fall behind when you are not paying attention or you are too busy with today's activities or/and not taking the time to make yourself aware of impending events. Sue Wyman, Chairman of the Communications Technology Professionals (CTP) and Phil Weiser founder of the Silicon Flatirons Program and professor at CU discuss some very important issues and events...they include...
9/05/07 Taking Stock of the Antitrust Modernization Commission Report
10/10/07 The Future of User Generated Content
11/09/07 The Regulation of Software
11/28/07 Public Safety, New Technologies, & Future of Emergency Response.

Related Links: CTP Channel || SFP || Denver Tele Pros || Jivaro Group || Podcast Directory || Keywords: Phil Weiser, SFTP, CTP, Telecommunications, Leadership, Sue Wyman >> Channels: CTP > Bytes: 4008754 LISTEN 5/7/07

267_ Consumers May Win in the Communications Battle
What do telecom, cable, wireless and satellite have in common? Businesses & consumers could benefit from the duopoly transition to unlimited choices.
     
2006 was a year that delivered mega-mergers and acquisitions of industry giants and neophytes. The promise of convergence was realized and triple play and quadruple play bundling options became the norm. Cable and telecommunications companies battled for the wallet of both corporations and consumers and satellite companies collaborated and searched for products to round out their offerings. User generated content exploded into the limelight with the $1.65B Google acquisition of YouTube.
Related Links: Denver Tele Pros || Jivaro Group || Trillion || SFTP || Event Photos || Channel: CTP, DTP || Keywords: Gregg Sutherland, Ernst & Young, DTP, CTP, Communications, Telecom, Cable, Wireless, Satellite, Google, You Tube - 2/26/07 LISTEN Open Bytes: 2668359
LISTEN Keynote, G Sutherland Bytes:10236136
Panel Discussion with All the Dicey Issues
LISTEN Panel, Bytes: 35135129

The 7th Annual "Future of Communications"
Keynote speaker Gregg Sutherland, Partner, Ernst & Young – Strategy of Communications along with a distinguished panel (Phil Weiser, Executive Director, Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado Law; Donna Jaegers, Senior Research Analyst, Janco Partners; Scott Binder, Senior Vice President, Comcast Colorado; Dan Yost, Executive Vice President, Product and Marketing, Qwest; Mike Rouleau, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, Time Warner Telecom) discuss and debate the disposition of the telecom and communications industries in 2007.

• What part will fiber optic networks play for telecommunications company’s delivery of on-demand entertainment. How will capacity increase for both telecos and cable companies?
• What type of systems and best practices will enable next generation services for communications service providers?
• Will and ‘should’ broadband network providers be subject to a "network neutrality” mandate?
• Voice over Internet has eviscerated long distance and is beginning to do the same to local phone service; what will Video over Internet’s impact be on cable and satellite service providers?
• WiMax...where are you?
• What part does mobile networking play in the corporate environment?
• Hosted IP Services versus premise based VoIP solutions – will a winner emerge?
• Who’s left to sell and who still has the financial ‘bandwidth’ to buy?

Opening remarks and 10-year anniversary celebration LISTEN Open Bytes: 2668359
Gregg Sutherland Keynote Address with Predictions: LISTEN Keynote, Bytes:10236136
Panel Discussion with All the Dicey Issues
LISTEN Panel, Bytes: 35135129 (This is 1 hour and 13 minutes long. You can listen to all or part and return later)

591_ James Crowe, Level 3: Fundamentally We Have a Healthy Industry
The press conference with James Crowe at the Broadband Summit on the Level 3 campus with Larry Nelson, w3w3.com and Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News was held right after Jim's keynote keynote address at the Silicon Flatirons: Colorado Broadband Summit. When asked what he would like to see happen with the new administration Jim said, "I would like to see President Elect, Barac Obama get the ‘credit crisis’ under control...I’d like to see the flood flow start back up. You know the economic body had a heart attack and government’s come in with the paddles and tried to get the heart started again, get the money flowing. Then you’ve got to survey the damage while the heart stopped. Industry after industry has suffered stress, and we’re going to have to look at getting the broader economy going again.” When asked about the challenges with the broadband industry Jim replied, "Fundamentally we have a healthy industry. That doesn’t mean that everyone within the industry is healthy. But, in tough times people tend to communicate more. They tend to stay home, entertain themselves at home; they tend to substitute telephone communications for cars and planes. Businesses tend to communicate more and for the same reasons consumers do, less travel more communications – we’re doing that. We just finished installing 30 more high definition video conference systems in all of our locations, and the usage has skyrocketed." Listen, there's more...
Related Links: Silicon Flatirons || Rocky Mountain News || CTP Channel || Com Tech Pros || Colorado Broadband Summit event photos || Keywords: James Crowe, Level 3, Silicon Flatirons, The Colorado Broadband Summit, Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News, Barac Obama, Economy - Channels: CTP Bytes: 9113080 > 12/1/08 LISTEN

491_ Profile of a Leader: Advice to Those Climbing the Ladder
"It boils down to 3 things, and I get the opportunity to do this with my consulting teams a lot," says Gregg Sutherland, Principle, Business Advisory Services Ernst & Young, Denver office. Larry Nelson and Sue Wyman, Chairman of the Communications Technology Professionals (CTP) and founder of the Jivaro Group asked Gregg to expand. Gregg said, "The first advice I'd give is to take the opportunity to really learn, to test, and to apply. I had this fellow working for me, genius smart but a little rough around the edges and he could be hard to get along with at times. He came to me and said, "I'm trying something new on this project. I've watched you do this, I've watched the client do that... I'm trying these different behaviors to see what fits me." He was intentional about learning. The second is to recognize that anywhere you work, there's going to be a flawed environment. There's also going to be someone that’s hard to get along with, there's always going to be someone not as capable as you’d like. The organization is going to make bad decisions from time to time. It's going to be frustrating and, it’s easy to get negative, and at that point the world really separates into two camps, the ones who sit around and complain and the people who say, "You know, it's not right, but here's what I can do about it.... and I can't fix the whole thing but I can fix that part." Gregg goes onto explain more...
Related Links: Ernst & Young || Communications Technology Professionals || CTP Channel || Find It || Keywords: Gregg Sutherland, Ernst & Young, Communications Technology Professionals, CTP, Profile of a Leader - Bytes: 313179989 - 5/19/08

468_ This is a Story Only James Crowe Could Tell - Level 3 Communications
Phil Weiser, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research & Executive Director of Silicon Flatirons Center, introduces James Crowe, CEO and President of Level 3 Communications (since it’s founding). Phil went on to say, “He is a unique individual in the Internet world. Before that he was also the founder and CEO of MFS Communications, one of the leaders in building fiber networks. James Crowe is really a unique part of our communications world here.” Larry Nelson and Phil ask James a number of probing questions in this 'Profile of a Leader' series for the Communications Technology Professionals (CTP) Channel. Looking at the changes we have all been through, James said,"Yes, things have changed a bit. I think it’s gone from speculative, way out thinking to an everyday part of most people’s lives. We take it for granted that we can obtain almost any kind of information we choose over our broadband connections. It certainly has changed the way we work, the way we entertain ourselves. We’re watching real time as it changes how we govern ourselves – politics is changing. Because fundamentally for 100 years we had a communication system that extended our ears, that’s the telephone system. Now we’re right along, building a communications system that’s extending our eyes. Ninety-nine percent of the information we collect comes through our eyes." Then Phil and Larry brought up values and ethics. Listen to the answers in his own words.
Related Links: Communications Technology Professionals || CTP Channel || Level 3 Communications || Silicon Flatirons || Keywords: James Crowe, Level 3 Communications, Phil Weiser, Communications Technology Professionals, CTP, Silicon Flatirons, Cable - Bytes: 24704212 - 4/7/08

471_ What do Bill Gates, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, James Crowe Have in Common?
"What do you recommend to entrepreneurs trying to build a business, to focus on, have in mind to be successful?" was one of many questions asked by Phil Weiser and Larry Nelson and directed to James Crowe, CEO and President of Level 3 Communications. James said, "Asked often, my answer is always the same. Passion! Quite a number of people want to be entrepreneurs because of the rewards. They think that Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google are who they want to be. Or Bill Gates, or fill in the blank… of people who very prominently had the success from that “great entrepreneurial idea”. One ought to undertake that kind of effort, clearly understanding that you give up a great deal. Balance in your life is gone. You have to spend an enormous amount of time working on your idea, to the exclusion of what many others think are the normal things in life. And if you do it to simply because you think you’ll get rich, you run a high probability of disappointment. If you do it because you are passionate about your belief, or idea or your effort – then the reward is separate and distinct from any monetary returns. I'd say unless you enter it with that kind of belief, you’re going to have every opportunity to be very unhappy with the outcome." They also asked him what the turning point in his life was. Listen for more...
Related Links: Communications Technology Professionals || CTP Channel || Level 3 Communications || Silicon Flatirons || BYTES: 24414984 - 4/141/08 > Keywords: James Crowe, Level 3 Communications, Phil Weiser, Profile of a Leader, Communications Technology Professionals, CTP, Silicon Flatirons, Cable

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