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Join Gigi Sohn on Monday, July 17, at 2:00pm ET for our latest episode the Ready or Not? Podcast LIVE! 

As a live show, we encourage the audience to participate in the chat function of our livestream. However, for this session, we will not be accepting question in the chat.We expect this to be a well attended event and we will almost certainly be able to get through everyone's questions, so if you have a question you would like to ask Gigi, please email them ahead of time to our show's producer, <a href="https://www.broadband.io/u/cd20b121?show_back_link=true">Benjamin Kahn</a> at <a href="mailto:ben@ready.net">ben@ready.net</a>, with the subject line "Question for Gigi."

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<h2 style="margin-left:0px;">About our guest</h2>Gigi has worn many, many hats over the course of her career. Among her credits, she is a senior fellow at the Benton Institute for Broadband &amp; Society, a Board Member at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and as of May of this year, the first the Executive Director of the American Association for Public Broadband. She also served as the co-founder of Public Knowledge.&nbsp;Gigi holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree from Boston University. &nbsp;

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Scott Woods, Vice President of Community Engagement at Ready, and former Director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives at the NTIA, joins the Light Reading Podcasts to discuss the NTIA's notices of funding opportunity for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) and Digital Equity Act programs. He explains what the agency got right and where its rules "missed the mark." We also discuss his current role at Ready and how the software company is helping ISPs and other broadband stakeholders prepare for funding opportunities.

Scott Woods, Vice President of Community Engagement at Ready, and former Director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives at the NTIA, joins the Light Reading Podcasts to discuss the NTIA's notices of funding opportunity for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) and Digital Equity Act programs. He explains what the agency got right and where its rules "missed the mark." We also discuss his current role at Ready and how the software company is helping ISPs and other broadband stakeholders prepare for funding opportunities.

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Ready.net's new VP joins the Beer and Broadband broadcast during the Mountain Connect Conference to discuss closing the digital divide through partnerships.

<figure class="image"><img src="https://api.broadband.money/uploads/6_12_2022_Scott_Woods_pmcdougall17_25_1_25_ccc14cd62c.jpg"><figcaption>Scott D. Woods Vice President - Community Engagement &amp; Strategic Partnerships at Ready.net</figcaption></figure>In this podcast event, &nbsp;Ready.net's new VP Scott Woods joins the Beer and Broadband broadcast during the Mountain Connect Conference to discuss closing the digital divide through partnerships. Beer and Broadband brings notable broadband names together to discuss the bringing of broadband to communities and how Community members are more than just statistics.This talk's participants include:&nbsp;<ul><li>Megan Beresford - CMP Director of Broadband Programs at Learn Design Apply, Inc.</li><li>Scott D. Woods Vice President - Community Engagement &amp; Strategic Partnerships at Ready.net</li><li>Justin Roller - Executive Vice President of Strategy and Technology at Bonfire</li><li>Nick Dinsmoor - Host of Beer and Broadband Podcast</li></ul>

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