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"Share your likes before your concerns." "Life is not a dress rehearsal."   Episode summary | In this engaging conversation, Nomi Bergman shares her journey from a challenging childhood in athletics to becoming a successful leader in the technology sector. She emphasizes the importance of kindness, generosity, and positive intent in leadership, drawing from her experiences at Bright House Networks. Nomi discusses the significance of creating a supportive work culture, the value of timely feedback, and the power of personal growth through action. She also reflects on her family background, the lessons learned from mistakes, and the impact of mentorship. Throughout the conversation, Nomi inspires listeners to embrace their authentic selves and to lead with kindness.   R.O.G. Takeaway Tips | Generosity in leadership fosters a positive work culture and builds trust. Sharing likes before concerns enhances team collaboration and morale. Kindness is a powerful leadership trait that can lead to greater success. Assuming positive intent can help navigate workplace challenges. Learning from mistakes and taking corrective action is crucial for personal growth. Creating a culture where employees can say 'yes' leads to better customer service. Timely feedback is essential for effective communication and improvement. Everyone has a unique story to share that can inspire others. Life is not a dress rehearsal; take action and live authentically.   Chapters |  00:00 Introduction to Nomi Bergman 02:04 Nomi's Early Life and Background 04:25 Overcoming Challenges in Athletics 06:56 The Importance of Generosity in Leadership 12:11 Creating a Positive Work Culture 14:17 The Hello Friend Campaign at Bright House 16:44 Assuming Positive Intent in Leadership 17:41 Learning from Mistakes and Taking Corrective Action 20:56 The Benefits of Kindness and Collaboration 22:19 The Shift from Right Answers to Teamwork 23:07 Reinventing Leadership Style through Kindness 25:07 The Strength of Kindness in Leadership 26:52 Delivering Feedback with Kindness and Clarity 29:31 The Power of Humility in Leadership 32:34 Finding Your Voice and Sharing Your Story 34:36 The Importance of Action and Kindness 41:53 Life Lessons: No Dress Rehearsal 42:20 The Lasting Impact of Kindness   Guest Bio | Nomi Bergman is the President of Advance/Newhouse Investment Partnership, where she brings visionary leadership to a portfolio of innovative companies in the technology and media sectors. She previously served as President of Bright House Networks, where she led over 8,500 employees and helped grow the company into the sixth-largest cable operator in the U.S. before its merger with Charter and Time Warner Cable. With more than 25 years of experience, Nomi is a seasoned operator, technologist, investor, and advisor known for developing strategies that elevate product delivery and customer experience. She began her career in Management Information Consulting at Arthur Andersen, building a foundation in analytical thinking and systems optimization. Nomi has been recognized with the CableFAX Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into The Cable Center's Hall of Fame in 2018. She is deeply committed to inclusive leadership and mentorship, serving on various boards and supporting initiatives that advance equity and opportunity. A passionate advocate for human-centered innovation, Nomi brings both heart and strategy to every endeavor. She is also a proud wife and mother of three daughters, balancing executive leadership with family values at the core of her life and work.   Bridge Between Resources: 5 Degree Change Course Free N.D.I. Network Diversity Index  Free Generosity Quiz    Credits: Nomi Bergman, Host Shannon Cassidy, Bridge Between, Inc. Coming Next: Please join us next week, Episode 231, Special Guest, Jason Henkel.

“...anytime one of those honorees, awardees stands up to accept an award, the first things they do is to thank their mentors…what that means is better entertainment for all of us, better product for all of us, better customer service and customer care…There is no better return on the generosity of mentoring than the success that people ultimately have in the business world.” Rob Stoddard is a former corporate communications executive who served in the industry for more than 35 years with an impressive array of professional societies, associations, and organizations. He worked in senior positions in corporate communications, public relations, and public affairs serving the cable telecommunications industry. Stoddard's professional career commenced as a news assistant at the Washington, DC, bureau of ABC Radio, followed by stints as a news director and correspondent for radio stations in Keene, NH and Springfield, MA. He went on to work as a desk editor and regional executive for United Press International in Boston, before joining the staff of U.S. Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-KS) as Press Secretary in Washington, DC. Stoddard represented NCTA as a member of the industry Customer Care Committee (C5) for nearly 20 years, from its inception at NCTA through the stewardship of the Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) and finally its permanent home at The Cable Center. He is a member of the Cable Television Pioneers as well as the Virginia Cable Hall of Fame. Stoddard has been recognized with major diversity awards from the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) and the Washington, DC / Baltimore Chapter of The WICT Network. Stoddard's career was capped by a 20-year run with the then-National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) as Senior Vice President for Communications & Public Affairs. After the association changed its name to NCTA - The Internet & Television Association, Stoddard became Senior Vice President for Industry & Association Affairs. He retired from NCTA in January 2022. R.O.G. Takeaway Tips: Play to your strengths. Be generous with information. Respect and appreciate our history. (i.e., analog to digital)  Seek mentoring. Mentor someone. It matters. Acknowledge and appreciate the ways you witness generosity at work. Behave with civility. Resources: NCTA - The Internet & Television Association  Cable Center Customer Centric Consortium (C5)  National Press Club Journalism Institute  Civility at Work by Christine Porath  Where to find R.O.G. Podcast: R.O.G on YouTube R.O.G on Apple Podcasts R.O.G on Spotify How diverse is your network?  N.D.I. Network Diversity Index What is your Generosity Style?  Generosity Quiz Credits: Natalie Nixon, Sheep Jam Productions, Host Shannon Cassidy, Bridge Between, Inc. Coming Next: Please join us next week, Episode 182, with Shannon Cassidy for a Generous Leadership Coaching Tip.

The Cable Center and its new operational brand, the Syndeo Institute, recently released its second annual Intrapreneurship & Innovation Report.This edition features contributions and insights from almost two dozen execs and innovators spanning several industry segments, including network operators, entertainment/media and technology. Examples of individual contributors include: Teresa Elder, CEO, WideOpenWest; Frannie Matthews, president and CEO, Colorado Technology Association; Mark Greatrex, president, Cox Communications; Yvette Kanouff, partner, JC2 Ventures; Christopher Winfrey, CEO, Charter Communications; Patricia Jo Boyers, president and CEO of Boycom; and Mike Fries, CEO and vice chairman, Liberty Global.The unedited audio transcript is available in the media player of this episode page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DENVER – CABLE NEXT GEN 2023 – Light Reading caught up with Diane Christman, the president and CEO of The Cable Center, here this week to discuss the launch of the Syndeo Institute, a new "operational brand" that's being billed as a "modern hub for discovery, education and collaboration" spanning the connectivity, media, entertainment and technology industries.The unedited audio transcript is available in the media player of this episode page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, I speak with Shawn Tylka about Atlanta to get an insider view of the city. Shawn has lived in Atlanta since 1994 making her practically a native by Atlanta standards. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her rescued Alaskan Malamutes, Hercules and Beethoven, and is the proud mother of a grown daughter, Mackenzie. Shawn Tylka serves on the Americas Field Marketing Team for Ciena focusing on the MSO Practice and the Lumen team. With more than 25 years in telecommunications, she has been honored as a Cable Pioneer by The Cable Center for her 20+ years of work with the cable industry. An avid volunteer, Shawn is the logistics leader for Women Orthopaedist Global Organization, WOGO, an Operation Walk team which serves under-served communities around the world. WOGO undertakes yearly trips to developing countries where orthopedic reconstructive procedures are not readily available. Shawn manages all of the non-medical logistics for the team, moving 65 people around different developing nations. She also spends time volunteering for Atlanta-based charities. Shawn has a Bachelor of Science from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her rescued Alaskan Malamutes, Hercules and Beethoven and is the proud mother of a grown daughter, Mackenzie. Links for Experiences: Atlanta City Pass - https://www.citypass.com/atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts - https://puppet.org College Football Hall of Fame - https://www.cfbhall.com World of Coca-Cola - https://www.worldofcoca-cola.com Georgia Aquarium – www.georgiaaquarium.org Atlanta Botanical Gardens - https://atlantabg.org Atlanta History Center - https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com The Margaret Mitchell House - http://museu.ms/museum/details/501/margaret-mitchell-house Fernbank Museum - https://www.fernbankmuseum.org Martin Luther King Historical Site - https://www.nps.gov/malu/index.htm The Fabulous Fox Theater - https://www.foxtheatre.org Zoo Atlanta – www.zooatlanta.org High Museum of Art – www.high.org Various Movie Tours (MCU, Walking Dead, Stranger Things and more) https://www.viator.com/Atlanta-tourism/d784-r26993027291-s384239531 Links for Dining: Le Bilbouqet Buckhead - https://www.lebilboquetatlanta.com/ Atlas - https://atlasrestaurant.com Gunshow - https://gunshowatl.com Lazy Betty -

Robyn Bolton is the Founder and Chief Navigator of MileZero, a consultancy that helps companies fuel innovation in their culture and products. As an expert in product strategy and innovation, she has worked with Nike, Nestlé, The Cable Center, Medtronic, Ariadne Labs, and Alexion, among many other leading names. Robyn's prior experience includes nearly a decade at Innosight, as Brand Manager at Proctor & Gamble, and as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Additionally, she has written for Forbes and Harvard Business Review and has been featured in The New York Times and NPR Marketplace. In this episode… Companies want their operations to be efficient, but they also want to be innovative industry leaders. Combining both these ideals can be challenging. Frequently innovation takes a back seat to the status quo of smooth operations. So how can leaders foster creative ideas within their organizations to stay ahead of the industry curve? This process is far easier said than done, with many converging reasons that keep innovation at bay. Great ideas are rarely given the proper consideration or the support they need to become something extraordinary. Robyn Bolton is an experienced consultant who has worked with countless leading brands, pointing them along the path toward innovation. According to Robyn, a lack of innovative ideas in your organization is due to a problem within the company's leadership. Leaders don't always realize that a culture that accepts new ideas doesn't exist within the company. In this episode of Next Wave Leadership, Robyn Bolton, the Founder and Chief Navigator at MileZero, returns to talk with Dov Pollack to break down innovation within the company structure and how it's a team sport. They touch on key leadership concepts and how they affect innovation, creating a culture that's conducive to fresh ideas, and why it's important to give accurate feedback early on in the process. Robyn also discusses essential questions that can create a positive impact throughout your company.

In this podcast, Diane Christman, new CEO of The Cable Center, digs into the genesis, purpose and takeaways of the organization's first annual Intrapreneurship & Innovation Report, and offers a look ahead to this year's Cable Hall of Fame event in New York. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Pioneers Dick Kirsche and Chris LammersRichard (Dick) KirscheDick is a retired Electrical Engineer after more than 60 years in the profession.  That career provided him with opportunities to work with several emerging technologies.Dick graduated from Lehigh University in 1960 with a degree in electrical engineering.  He began his career at ITT Laboratories working on radar systems and satellite earth station terminals that provided the ground communication link for the early communication satellites.  (Telstar, Relay, Syncom, etc.)Dick transitioned to a position at RCA Astro-electronics after an IT&T reduction in force.  Astro was designing and building several early satellite systems.  Dick's concentration was the design and qualification for launch of the command receivers that supported ground control commands.  He continued in the aerospace industry until the mid-1960's when he joined a startup company designing custom power supplies and a UHF television exciter for a startup transmitter manufacturer. (Townsend Associates)  Dick joined Townsend to head up their transmitter design and production engineering.  Townsend was acquired by Ampex Corporation which expanded their presence in the Broadcast Industry.  When Ampex suffered some financial setbacks related to their music recording business.  The Broadcast transmitter division was shuttered to improve their bottom line.  In 1972 Dick was part of a group from the closing Ampex transmitter operation that started Spectrum Cable, a company that was seeking cable system franchises in the Western Massachusetts area.  Spectrum was awarded franchises in 3 communities in the suburbs of Springfield, MA.  At that time Cable television was, essentially, a reception service which made operation in city TV markets like Springfield challenging.  Spectrum's offering to that market was superior reception in addition to 2 channels from the Boston, MA market that provided coverage of major hockey and basketball teams.  Spectrum employed a unique network of cylindrical steel towers, with headend electronics at the top and distant signals shared by microwave.  Shortly after Spectrum began operation Home Box Office was added via regional microwave.   Spectrum was acquired by Colony Communications in 1975.  Spectrum's cable systems were combined with 4 cable franchises in the same region operated by Colony.  Dick was hired to head up engineering for that group of cable franchises.  Over time, Dick's responsibilities expanded to head of engineering for all of Colony's cable and MDS microwave systems.  Cable system technology was advancing rapidly during that period.  Channels, received from satellites became common.  Dick worked with the Colony engineering team to install the 2nd 10-meter dia. earth station in the Northeast.  Expansion of cable service channels, from satellite, sparked a rapid growth in public interest in cable TV service.  Colony aggressively supported that expansion of service offerings on their cable systems.  Dick also supported the franchise acquisition team seeking additional cable television communities for Colony.  Dick left Colony at the end of 1981, joining Greater Media Cable at the start of 1982 as Vice President of Engineering.  Greater Media had a strong presence in New England which was expanded through franchising and acquisitions.  That expansion also included one-fourth of the City of Philadelphia and a complex of systems located in the suburbs of Detroit, MI.  Cable television technology was advancing rapidly during that period as operators continued to improve their service offerings and reliability.   During his employment with Greater Media, that operator became a founding member of CableLabs, deployed a 60 channel AML microwave system for the large Worcester complex of towns, began offering DOCSIS data over cable service, began using fiber optic cable for video distribution, and expanded their local video origination service to a full-time live news service.  Dick was active on SCTE, CableLabs, and NCTA Industry committees for Greater Media.  The Greater Media cable operations were sold in 1999.  In 2000 Dick joined RCN, a system operator that competed in the Cable space by building their own facilities in parallel with the incumbent cable television provider, as Director of Video technology.  RCN deployed Video on Demand technology and developed a unique set-top box technology designed to give RCN a competitive advantage in the Chicago cable market.   Dick joined Comcast Cable as a Director in 2005.  Initially, he was part of the team creating a specification for a set-top box design unique to Comcast.  His work continued as part of a small engineering team testing and certifying set-top boxes for deployment to subscribers by Comcast.  His duties also expanded to supporting Comcast's work to improve the energy efficiency of Comcast devices in subscriber's homes.  This included active participation in the DOE's Energy Star program and Cable industry initiatives to address government energy efficiency requirements.  Mr. Kirsche left Comcast in 2010 and opened Kirsche Consulting LLC.  Kirsche Consulting supported Cable Operators' set-top and energy efficiency reporting efforts.  That work included considerable recordkeeping and analysis work for Comcast which led to significant energy savings for Comcast subscribers.Dick officially retired in 2018 but continues to support SCTE standards work as a volunteer.   Christopher J Lammers, COO Emeritus and Senior Executive Advisor, CableLabs® Chris is currently coo emeritus and senior executive advisor for CableLabs leading special projects and initiatives, including the integration of SCTE as a key part of CableLabs, together with supporting relationships across industry associations including ACA Connects, The Cable Center, CCSA, the Emma Bowen Foundation, NCTA, NCTC and WICT. Prior to this, Chris served as senior vice president and chief operating officer at CableLabs directing accounting and finance, IT, facilities and membership development. He remains committed to relationships with mid-sized and smaller MSOs, as well as with international cable operators in Asia, Europe and Latin America, key communities he built at CableLabs. Chris currently serves as a member of the board of directors of The Cable Center and the Emma Bowen Foundation and is actively involved in committees and/or support for several national and international industry trade associations.  He is a member of the Cable TV Pioneers (Class of 2021). Prior to joining CableLabs in 1997, Chris was president and CEO of Western Communications, a mid-sized multiple system operator with cable systems located in the Western United States. Before that, Chris was a partner with the San Francisco law firm of Cooper, White & Cooper. Chris received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from Stanford University.AcknowledgmentsA special thank you to Benjamin Monlezun for the use of his original song, Downpoor.The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the podcast host and guests and do not necessarily represent the position, strategy, or opinions of CableLabs.

What a joy it was to meet with Lindsay and Sowon, on this episode of the podcast.  I'd have to say that what connected them both was their sense of fun and creativity in their lives: Lindsay as a steam train builder for kids (in his spare time) and Sowon as the kids tv program creator Warner Media.They brought us a masterclass on communication and relationships in a fun, warm and engaging way.Here's a snapshot of what we discussed:8:39 - creating vulnerable connections13:00 - the situation dictates how open we will be19:45 - asking the right kinds of questions24:13 - the impact technology has made on conversations31:15 - personal touch trumps everything36:00 - the art of truly listeningPlus much more…Enjoy!Lindsay AdamsCEO & Founder, 24x7 AssessmentsLindsay Adams is relationship marketing specialist, relationships underpin everything that we do in business.  As business professionals, we must have solid relationships in order to be successful.  Lindsay can show you how to enhance your skills to build relationships quicker, harness the power of your connections, and achieve higher sales.Lindsay is an Australian Hall of Fame speaker and has served Professional Speakers Australia as State and National President.  He has also served as the 2009-2010 International President of the Global Speakers Federation.In 2020 Lindsay was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia for his services to the professional speaking industryContact:https://www.facebook.com/lindsay.adams.505https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsayadams/Sowon SawyerVP Program Planning, Warner Media (Previously AMC)As Director of Scheduling for SundanceTV at AMC Networks, Sowon Sawyer is responsible for promoting audience growth and retention for SundanceTV's critically acclaimed Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning content.  She joined the company in this role in 2015. Sawyer previously served as a founding Co-Chair of AMC Networks' Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committee, an internal group dedicated to creating programs to foster a more diverse and inclusive workplace.  Through the committee, Sawyer spearheaded the development of nine Employee Resource Groups, served as a key advisor on corporate diversity initiatives, and developed mentorship and professional development programs. Sawyer has participated in various leadership programs including the The Cable Center's Intrapreneurship Academy, the WICT Rising Leaders program and the NAMIC Leadership Seminar.  She serves on the board of the Future Now Media Foundation, a non-profit that create inroads for future media/entertainment professionals.  She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in German Language and Literature from Wellesley College. Her greatest joy is to entertain (and be entertained by) her two children.Contact:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sowonsawyer/The purpose of the 6 Star Business is to bring awareness, connection and ingenuity to businesses aiming to shine today and into the future through more than 5 star reviews.  We are here to lift businesses to create a better future. If you'd like to get in touch please contact us at contact@6star.businessYour hosts,Aveline & Pete

Christopher J Lammers, COO Emeritus and Senior Executive Advisor, CableLabs® Chris is currently coo emeritus and senior executive advisor for CableLabs leading special projects and initiatives, including the integration of SCTE as a key part of CableLabs, together with supporting relationships across industry associations including ACA Connects, The Cable Center, CCSA, the Emma Bowen Foundation, NCTA, NCTC and WICT. Prior to this, Chris served as senior vice president and chief operating officer at CableLabs directing accounting and finance, IT, facilities and membership development. He remains committed to relationships with mid-sized and smaller MSOs, as well as with international cable operators in Asia, Europe and Latin America, key communities he built at CableLabs. Chris currently serves as a member of the board of directors of The Cable Center and the Emma Bowen Foundation and is actively involved in committees and/or support for several national and international industry trade associations.  He is a member of the Cable TV Pioneers (Class of 2021). Prior to joining CableLabs in 1997, Chris was president and CEO of Western Communications, a mid-sized multiple system operator with cable systems located in the Western United States. Before that, Chris was a partner with the San Francisco law firm of Cooper, White & Cooper. Chris received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from Stanford University.AcknowledgmentsA special thank you to Benjamin Monlezun for the use of his original song, Downpoor.The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the podcast host and guests and do not necessarily represent the position, strategy, or opinions of CableLabs.

Robyn Bolton, the Founder and Chief Navigator of MileZero, helps executives use innovation to unlock the potential of their organizations, get real results, and create a map for future success. Robyn began her career at Procter & Gamble, where she gained hands-on experience in corporate innovation by leading the North American launch of Swiffer and Swiffer WetJet. At MileZero, Robyn has worked with Medtronic, Ariadne Labs, Teachers Pay Teachers, and more to transform customer insights into viable businesses. She has also assisted organizations including Alexion, Sanofi, and The Cable Center in building their innovation capabilities and cultures. Before this, Robyn was a Partner at Innosight, the innovation and growth strategy consulting firm founded by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. In this episode… How can you use innovation to unlock your business' potential and get real results? Building the skills and filling the gaps for business innovation can be difficult. But, according to Robyn Bolton, applying new ideas and having passion are the first steps. With years of experience in the world of innovation, Robyn knows how to unlock the potential that already exists within a business in order to produce real results. As she says, there is no innovation without people and their passions. Robyn helps companies decide with their hearts and justify with their heads — and use these emotions as the seeds to success. So, are you ready to travel the road to success? In this episode of Level Up, Nick Araco talks with Robyn Bolton, the Founder and Chief Navigator of MileZero, about how to use corporate innovation to create a roadmap for future success. Robyn discusses the importance of slowing down to find the right solution, navigating the waters of innovation to reach milestones, and staying focused on the problem you're solving. Stay tuned to learn how to achieve greater success today!

WICT Wisdom's Stephanie Cobian interviews Jana Henthorn, President and Chief Executive of The Cable Center.  Stephanie and Jana discuss how the Cable Hall of Fame has been affected by Covid-19. Jana also shares with Stephanie her passion about innovation and explains how it is a team effort and why. Find out from Jana how women play a huge role in technology and innovation and how she is helping shape the perception of women and their impact in technology.  WICT’s mission is to develop women leaders who transform our industry. We educate, empower and advocate on behalf of all women in media. https://socalwict.org/

In this new ACA Connects podcast episode, ACA Connects President and CEO Matthew M. Polka has a chat with Diane Christman, who is Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer at the Cable Center in Denver. Among other things, Diane oversees the center’s Hauser Oral History Project, which includes more than 400 interviews with cable industry insiders spanning the decades. Would you believe the longest interview on file runs more than 11 hours! “There are so many stories. But I think the common thread is grit and determination and a willingness to kind of think outside the box. They are superfun to listen to,” Diane says. Diane also explains the center’s “Intrepreneurship Academy.” That’s right, “Intrepreneurship,” not “Entrepreneurship.” The IA program is designed to empower younger workers to be more creative and innovative in the workplace in an effort to expand their decisionmaking authority within their firms. So far, the program has 92 graduates. The podcast was recorded in late July at the ACA Connects booth on the exhibit floor at The Independent Show in Chicago.

Veteran cable publisher, editor and journalist Paul S. Maxwell joins ACA’s CableTalk for a wide-ranging discussion on the foundations of the cable industry and its many entrepreneurial personalities that have transformed it into the “connections” industry, connecting customers and communities to a broadband world. In a 50-plus year career writing and reporting on media, Paul started and/or ran some 45+ publications. He has also served as an advisor to major media companies and media start-ups alike. Paul is widely well known and respected in the industry, and is not only a Cable TV Pioneer, but also a member of the Cable Center’s Hall of Fame. Paul has been a great friend of ACA and its members, encouraging their continued entrepreneurial spirit both in our industry and in their advocacy in Washington, D.C.

Jana Henthorn is CEO of The Cable Center, an organization which describes its mission as "tell[ing] the story of the cable industry, highlighting for the global community the significant contribution made to technology, society and culture." In this recorded interview with ITVT Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Henthorn discusses this mission and how it will evolve going forward; describes the work of The Cable Center's "Intrapreneurship Academy" and the organization's C5 (Cable Center Customer Centric Consortium) initiative; describes the challenges she believes the cable industry will face over the coming years and outlines how she expects the industry will address those challenges; and much more. (Note: We have just announced that our next TV of Tomorrow Show event, TVOT SF 2019, will take place June 12th-13th. Click here to purchase Super Early-Bird tickets, providing you with a 40% savings on the regular price.)

Veterans Passport to Hope, or “VP2H,” is an organization that provides grants to worthy non-profit organizations which help veterans.   Non-profits are first investigated by VP2H to determine that donations are managed well and with integrity.  Then worthy organizations providing a variety of “help up” products and services for veterans become eligible for VP2H grants.  Joe Lovett from Veterans Passport to Hope talks about the grant program and some of the non-profits with which VP2H cooperates.  A fund-raiser is taking place February 22 at the Cable Center to fund the grants.  For more information, go online to vp2h.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DOCSIS celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015. To commemorate this industry milestone, Larry Satkowiak, former President and CEO of The Cable Center, gathered CableLabs veterans Robert Cruickshank III, Thomas Moore, and Brian Reilly to chronicle their work together on the DOCSIS development process in the early 1990s, leading up to the deployment of cable modems and two-way broadband communications at speeds nobody had seen before. Cruickshank also discusses the lessons learned from the telephone companies' development of ISDN and the importance of standardized equipment specifications and interoperability.

For Show Notes with links that work: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/3/11/podcast-6-313-show-notes Two Feature Interviews and... what's a SNOWFROC? This Thursday Denver OWASP's annual conference (SnowFROC - Front Range OWASP Conference) hits the Cable Center, come see Robb deliver the opening keynote presentation. Registration for RMISC is open now... early bird pricing available until 4/15.  Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates, and our listener survey - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or comments to info@colorado-security.com Feature interview: We've got a 2-fer this week. Two feature interviews for the price of one. First, Alex sat down with Rock Lambros, Chairman for the Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference. They discussed what's coming in this year's conference, along with much of the planning that goes on behind the scenes. Additional this week, Robb sat down with Colleen Murphy, president of ISSA Colorado Springs. The C.Springs is doing a lot of great stuff, including Security+ and CISSP training, that may be worth the drive even if you're up in Denver.  Local security news: Radio Shack Going Bankrupt (again) and closing more stores -  likely including the one on 16th St Mall DDoS preparedness article written by Sam Masiello and Robb Reck Veracode acquired by CA SendGrid acquires SF marketing company Bizzy Ping Identity, LogRhythm, ProtectWise and WebRoot all named to CRN 100 Dale Drew named to the top 100 CISOs for 2017 College Hackers Converge in Denver RMISC Registration is up! Job Openings: Denver Health - CISO Molson Coors - VP Global Internal Audit Ping Identity - Director Infrastructure Operations Wells Fargo - IT Senior Lead Auditor FireEye - Industrial Control Systems Security Consultant Webroot - Advanced Malware Analyst, Research Allegiance Consulting - IoT Security Analyst 1st Bank - Associate Analyst - Information Security Alchemy Security - Cyber Security Jr Analyst Intern 17 jobs @ Ping Identity 7 jobs @ Red Canary 6 jobs @ Protectwise 17 jobs @ Webroot 14 jobs @ LogRhythm Upcoming Events: This Week's Events: CSA - March Chapter Meeting - CASB Overview and Board Election 3/14 OWASP - Free Training - AppSec for Developers 3/15 OWASP - SNOWFROC3/16 CTA's C-Level at Mile High 3/16 ISACA March Meeting 3/16 March Madness Networking Event (CloudPassage & Trace3) 3/16 SecureSet - CyberSecurity Talk with Devin T. Byrd, Sr. Malware Reverse Engineer, Cylance 3/16 Notable Upcoming Events: ISSA Colorado Spring's Security+ Training 4/1 & 4/18 ISSA Denver's Women In Security Kick-Off 4/19 Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference (RMISC) 5/9-11 Denver BSides 5/12-13 7th Annual Cyber Security Training & Technology Forum 8/30-31 View our events page for a full list If you have any questions or comments, or any organizations or events we should highlight, contact Alex and Robb at info@colorado-security.com * Thanks to CJ Adams for our intro and exit! If you need any voiceover work, you can contact him here at carrrladams@gmail.com. Check out his other voice work here. * Intro and exit song: "The Language of Blame" by The Agrarians is licensed under CC BY 2.0