Unlock Funding For Your Schools: How to Leverage the E-Rate Program
Moderated by Kevin Hogan, eSchool News, Content Director
You can never be too organized when it comes to E-Rate—and it all starts by creating an effective technology roadmap to follow throughout the funding cycle. Watch this webinar to learn about important updates to the E-Rate program from the E-Rate experts at UDT and come away with clearly defined steps for accessing and leveraging E-Rate funding for your schools.
In this session, we’ll cover the following:
A brief program history
Definition of Managed Internal Broadband Services (MIBS) and how you can leverage E-Rate to tap this resource
Your options for obtaining equipment and services with E-Rate
The differences between MIBS and basic maintenance
How to navigate a possible future under the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
Meet Your Speakers
Bob Richter President, E-Rate Provider Services Speaker Bio
Bob Richter President, E-Rate Provider Services
Bob Richter has broad and deep experience with the E-Rate Program from both the applicant and service provider perspectives. From 1996-2003, he was the Executive Director for Technical Services of the Hartford Public School System in Hartford, CT, and had direct responsibility for all Universal Services Fund activity. The E-rate applications he submitted achieved over $35,000,000 in federal funding for the school district and city libraries. From 2004-2009, he was the National E-Rate Program Executive for the IBM Corporation, supporting IBM teams and clients in the K-12 education industry in the east coast of the United States, and left to open his own consulting company, E-Rate Provider Services. He served as a founding director for the E-rate Service Providers Association (ESPA), and is currently a member of the E-rate Management Professionals Association (E-MPA), having just completed a term as the Vice President and Chair of the Advocacy Committee. He lives in Hardeeville, South Carolina.
George Fernandez Vice President of Managed Solutions, UDT Speaker Bio
George Fernandez Vice President of Managed Solutions, UDT
George Fernandez is the Vice President of Managed Solutions at UDT, a leading technology enabler that helps clients in major industries evaluate, architect, secure and manage technology on premises, in mobile and in the cloud. George has accumulated over 25 years of experience leading the design, development and implementation of high-performance technology and information security and infrastructure solutions and strategies. He has a strong record of success in managing robust IT High Reliable Organizations (HRO) and a proven ability to bring the benefits of IT and IS to solve business issues.
As the Vice President of Managed Solutions, George specializes in processes, procedures, solution building, pricing, budgeting, and presentation of technology solutions. Leading the pre-sales and managed solution productization efforts and teams for the Managed IT as a Service division of UDT, his focus is on customer needs and satisfaction.
Moderator – Kevin Hogan eSchool News, Content Director Speaker Bio
Moderator – Kevin Hogan eSchool News, Content Director
Kevin is an acclaimed writer, editor, and commentator covering the intersection of society and technology, especially education technology.