​New Mexico Broadband Day
​at the Roundhouse
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Broadband Day at the Roundhouse 2025
​Check out information tables, listen to educational presentations, learn about broadband programs and initiatives, and connect with broadband leaders, advocates and lawmakers from across the state. Explore how broadband affects all aspects of our life in New Mexico and learn more about statewide efforts to "Connect New Mexico," including OBAE funding opportunities such as Connect New Mexico Pilot, Disaster Relief, Student Connect, GWEP, Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) and the PINON grant programs to expand digital access and opportunities for all New Mexicans.

Location: The New Mexico State Capitol
490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501

9am-2pm
​Information Tables in the East and West Wings
​

Logistics for the Day:
7:30am-8am - tables, chairs, and tablecloths delivered
8am-9am - Stakeholders SET UP information tables
                      in the East and West Wings    
9am-2pm - information tables open to the public
10am-12:30pm - 50 4th-grade students on site    
(Note stakeholders may want to consider providing promotional items for all 50 students AND students many ask stakeholders to do an brief onsite interview at your table)  
12noon-1pm - Press Conference and Presentations in the Rotunda

• Welcome & updates (pending availability)
  • Drew Lovelace, OBAE Acting Director
  • Senator Michael Padilla
  • Representative Tara Lujan​
• Student Presentations and Awards
• Highlights & Special Recognition​

List of Tables (Tentative)

1. Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (OBAE)
2. Statewide Education Network (SEN)
3. Digital Equity Working Group
4. Tribal Working Group
5. New Mexico Public Education Department (PED), 
   Digital Citizenship, and Digital Response-ability
6. NM Aging and Long Term Services Department (ALTSD​)
7. New Mexico Office of Cybersecurity
8. Navajo Alliance for Broadband
9. Mescalero Apache Telecom Inc. (MATI)
10. New Mexico Telehealth Association and partners
11. Digitunity and Computer/ Device donation program
12. Accessible New Mexico and Accessibility regulations
13. AARP, OATS, and Senior Planet
14. Santa Fe Community College Fiber Optic Training, OSHA Certification, and Broadband Pre-Apprenticeship Pilot
15. New Mexico Exchange Carrier Group
16. New Mexico Fiber Network
17. Rural Electric Coops and Kit Carson​
18. Mamacitas and Comcast
19. Wireless Internet Service Provider Association (WISPA) 
20. National Telecommunications & Information Administration
21. Traxyl Fiber Construction Technology & Sustainability Partners
22. Student Connect and GWEP
23. Office of Senator Ben Ray Lujan

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Broadband 
​Is Everybody's
​Business!

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