CHARLES BREWER —
A Creator Of Communities, Both Virtual And Real
A founder of Green Street Properties in Atlanta, Charles Brewer is also a famed Internet pioneer who launched the ISP MindSpring and merged it with EarthLink, becoming chairman of the combined company. As a developer in the New Urbanist mold, his firm is overseeing the creation of Atlanta’s Glenwood Park www.glenwoodpark.com, a 28-acre mini-town of homes, shops and offices opening in November.

THOMAS REIMAN —
Making Technology Part of the Planning Process
As founder of The Broadband Group, www.broadbandgroup.com Tom Reiman represents leading developers, homebuilders, and municipalities as well as many of America's largest Master Planned Communities. He has been instrumental in creating broadband communities across the nation, including Brambleton, the industry-leading Fiber-to-the-Home project in Virginia. Tom’s clients represent over 700,000 homes and 100 million square feet of office and commercial space. As a spokesman, visionary, and representative of his clients’ interests, he has won the respect and cooperation of Regional Bell Operating Companies, Cable TV Multiple System Operators, Internet Service Providers, and other network partners.

DANIEL K. SLONE —
Innovative Homeowner Association Agreements
A law partner at McGuireWoods, LLP, www.mcguirewoods.com Daniel Slone serves as a consultant and legal counsel to developers around the world. He is an expert on overcoming legal impediments to innovative development. He has leading-edge experience in connectivity and in contracts for licensing and installation of new technologies. He is highly knowledgeable regarding the legalities of the delivery of voice, video, and data services to new communities and multi-family projects and has assisted developers with licensing and service/product bundling.

GLEN D. LANG —
What Developers Want: Straight Talk About Money
The CEO of the highly successful ISP Capitol Broadband, www.capband.com Glen Lang attracted wide attention as the colorful mayor of Cary, N.C. As a mayor, Lang was a smart-growth proponent who faced down developers. As the remarkably successful CEO of a technology company, Lang has helped developers zero in on sources of revenue. In this briefing, Lang demystifies technology for the profit-centric developer. Attendees will learn: How easements work and the best ways to monetize them. What HOAs can and cannot legally do regarding technology. Where does the headend go, and how do you get the infrastructure in the ground. Perhaps it should be subtitled: What every developer ought to know to maximize profits.

Doris Sussman Goldstein —
Representing New Urbanist Developers
Doris Goldstein is an attorney www.newtownlaw.com primarily representing developers of traditional neighborhood developments and other new urbanist communities, beginning in 1986 with Seaside. Ms. Goldstein writes a legal column for the publication, New Urban News. She has lectured at seminars presented by the American Bar Association, the Congress for the New Urbanism, Urban Land Institute, the Seaside Institute, Florida Bar Continuing Legal Education, and the University of Miami School of Law Continuing Legal Education. As a volunteer, Ms. Goldstein assisted in the drafting of a Traditional Neighborhood Development ordinance for her own community of Jacksonville, Florida. She is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Florida Bar's Committee on Condominiums and Planned Developments.

Max R. Kipfer —
A Pioneer In Creating Wired Communities
Recognized as one of America’s pioneers in Fiber-to-the-Premises networks, Max Kipfer recently founded FOCUS, which stands for Fiber Optic Communities Of The U.S. www.communitiesinfocus.org The organization’s mission is to build awareness of fiber communities and give consumers a valuable resource for learning more about their fiber network and its capabilities.  Max was Executive Vice President and General Manager of OpenBand of Virginia from 2000—2003, where he directed the start up that built and operated fiber networks in a number of planned communities in Northern Virginia, including Lansdowne on the Potomac and Southern.Walk at Broadlands.  OpenBand was one of the nation’s first broadband communications providers (BCP) to joint venture with greenfield developers to build FTTP telecommunication networks offering commercial and residential customers a converged integrated platform of voice, digital video, high-speed data, security monitoring and automation products. Kipfer is the founder of Maxco, LLC, a full service management and telecommunications consulting firm whose clients include BCPs, home owner associations and greenfield property developers.  Maxco’s emphasis is in the rapidly growing “wired community” and FTTP marketplace. Kipfer has been a regular speaker at telecommunication industry conferences and has briefed federal policymakers in Washington, DC on the benefits and capabilities of FTTP networks.