Caesars Forum
10-14 September 2023

Sunday, September 10, 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Attendee & Exhibitor Registration & Information

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Sunday, September 10, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Registration & Credentials Supervision Committee Meeting

Room: Academy Ballroom 416 & 417

Sunday, September 10, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Exhibitor Move-in

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Sunday, September 10, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Never-Off Power: A Hands-On Look at Protection, Distribution & Management Strategies in the Data Center and Beyond

Room: Academy Ballroom 409 - Caesars Forum

Sunday, September 10, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Fundamentals of Passive Optical LAN

Room: Academy Ballroom 412 - Caesars Forum

Sunday, September 10, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

BICSI Community

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Sunday, September 10, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Standards: Healthcare Workgroup Meeting

Room: Academy Ballroom 418 & 419

Sunday, September 10, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Finance & Audit Committee Meeting

Room: Unity Boardroom

Sunday, September 10, 1:00 PM

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Data Center Electrical Code Issues for the Low-Voltage Designer

Room: Academy Ballroom 409 - Caesars Forum

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Help Close the Digital Divide - FTTx Outside Plant Design

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

Pre-Conference Masterclass: PoE Lighting and Automation Bootcamp

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

Sunday, September 10, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Standards: Data Center Operations Workgroup Meeting

Room: Academy Ballroom 418 & 419

Sunday, September 10, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Standards: Data Center Design Workgroup Meeting

Room: Academy Ballroom 418 & 419

Monday, September 11, 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Standards: Codes Workgroup Meeting

Room: Academy Ballroom 418 & 419

Monday, September 11, 7:30 AM

Attendee & Exhibitor Registration & Information

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

BICSI Community

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Monday, September 11, 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Exhibitor Move-in

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Monday, September 11, 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Board of Directors Meeting

Room: Unity Boardroom

Monday, September 11, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Credential Holders Lounge

Room: Summit Ballroom 223 - Caesars Forum

Monday, September 11, 8:30 AM

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Enterprise Wireless Technician – 802.11 Technology Fundamentals

Room: Academy Ballroom 409 - Caesars Forum

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Fundamentals of Passive Optical LAN

Room: Academy Ballroom 412 - Caesars Forum

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Sustainable Technology Innovations and Solutions for Smart Buildings

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

Monday, September 11, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Designing for PoE Lighting and Automation

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

Monday, September 11, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Standards: Wireless Systems Workgroup Meeting

Room: Academy Ballroom 418 & 419

Monday, September 11, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Standards: Intelligent Building Workgroup Meeting

Room: Academy Ballroom 418 & 419

Monday, September 11, 1:00 PM

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Designing Audiovisual Systems using the ANSI/BICSI 007 Standard for Intelligent Buildings

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

Pre-Conference Masterclass: Field Testing of Installed Fiber: Standards, Specifications and Process

Room: Academy Ballroom 412 - Caesars Forum

Monday, September 11, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Exhibit Hall Visitor Registration

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Monday, September 11, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

First-Time Attendee Orientation

Room: Summit Ballroom 226 - Caesars Forum

Monday, September 11, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Standards Committee Meeting

Room: Academy Ballroom 418 & 419

Monday, September 11, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Exhibition & Reception

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Monday, September 11, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

What's New, What's It Do?

Room: BICSI Theater - Summit Ballroom 216

Tuesday, September 12, 7:30 AM

Attendee & Exhibitor Registration & Information

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

BICSI Community

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Credential Holders Lounge

Room: Summit Ballroom 223 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Conference Call to Order and Opening Remarks

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Guest Hospitality Lounge

Room: Summit Ballroom 208 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM

Opening Keynote Speaker: "Autonomous Everything: AI, the Future, and What We Can Do About It" - Greg Lindsay

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

ICT Field of Vision Presentation - Sponsored by CommScope; "The Battle for New Talent - Developing the Next Generation Workforce"

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

ICT Field of Vision Presentation - Sponsored by CommScope; "All Roads Lead to the Edge: Why Building Edge Infrastructure Will Dominate by 2030"

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Break

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 11:00 AM

Data Center Designs for New Applications in AI, Meshed Networks and Network Security

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Providing Input On, and Influencing, the NEC and Other NFPA Standards

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 12:00 PM

Bonus - RE+ Exhibit Hall Visit

Room: Forum Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Lunch on Your Own

Room Number TBD

Tuesday, September 12, 1:00 PM

Leveling Up Your ITS Design by Leveraging Software Design Tools to Your Advantage

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

Sustainable Networking: Plastic Reduction with Ultra-High Density Cabling with Thinner Coating and VSFF Connector in Data Centers

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

The Smartest Street in America: The Complexities of Planning and Implementing a Smart Corridor in an Underserved Community in Silicon Valley

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Visitor Registration

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Break

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Open

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 2:30 PM

Bridging the ICT Gap Between Owner and Installer

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

Single-Pair Ethernet: Data and Power for the Wired World

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Structured Cabling Sustainability in the Data Center

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Break

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 4:00 PM

OOPS! This Happened on My Project - WHAT'S NEXT?

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

Powering Hyperconnected Networks

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Transforming Data Centers with Bespoke Intelligence & Security for the Physical Layer Infrastructure

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

The Information Energy Nexus - A BICSI/EMerge Alliance Collaborative

Room: BICSI Theater - Summit Ballroom 216

Tuesday, September 12, 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Exhibition & Reception

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Tuesday, September 12, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

What's New, What's It Do?

Room: BICSI Theater - Summit Ballroom 216

Tuesday, September 12, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

BICSI Emerging Professionals and Students Networking Event - Sponsored by Sumitomo Electric Lightwave

Room: Summit Ballroom 209 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 8:00 AM

Attendee & Exhibitor Registration & Information

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

BICSI Community

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Credential Holders Lounge

Room: Summit Ballroom 223 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Midweek Keynote Speaker: "The Power of the Pivot"

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Exhibit Hall Visitor Registration

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Guest Hospitality Lounge

Room: Summit Ballroom 208 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

ICT Field of Vision Presentation: "Controlling Electronic Waste: There Is No 'Away' When You Throw It Away"

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Exhibit Hall Open

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 10:30 AM

Esports in Education: Next Level AV Infrastructure Designs

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

SDN & NFV: Moving PON Into the Cloud

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

The Vegas Strong Mass Shooting Began a New Chapter in Public Safety Communication

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Women in BICSI Networking Event

Room: BICSI Theater - Summit Ballroom 216

Wednesday, September 13, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch in the Exhibit Hall

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 1:00 PM

How Rural Broadband and Emerging Outside Plant Fiber Applications and Trends Are Creating Opportunity

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Show Me the Data - Wireless Local Area Network Spectrum and Protocol Analysis

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

Value of Micro Cabling Systems vs. Traditional Fiber Optic Cabling Systems for Broadband Access

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 1:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Exhibitor Move-out

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Break

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 2:30 PM

Go the Distance - Taking Network Connectivity to the Edge

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

Infrastructure in Distributed Data Centers, Distributed Antenna Systems, and Mobile Wireless Service Provision Including LiFi Deployments

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

The Power of Options: A Closer Look at Choosing New Disruptive Class 4 Fault-Managed Power

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Break

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Wednesday, September 13, 4:00 PM

5 Ways to Make Access Control Simple

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Passive Optical LAN in the Aged-Care Sector

Room: Academy Ballroom 411 - Caesars Forum

The Rise of Hybrid Fiber+Power DAS: Optimizing In-Building Connectivity for Next-Generation Wireless Networks

Room: Academy Ballroom 410 - Caesars Forum

Thursday, September 14, 8:30 AM

Credential Holders Lounge

Room: Summit Ballroom 223 - Caesars Forum

Guest Hospitality Lounge

Room: Summit Ballroom 208 - Caesars Forum

Thursday, September 14, 8:30 AM

Attendee Registration & Information

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

BICSI Community (BICSI Cares will close at 9:30 a.m.)

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Thursday, September 14, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

ICT Field of Vision Presentation: "Who is Going to Do the Work? Finding Designers, Installers and Other ICT Talent in the Age of Fewer Workers"

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Thursday, September 14, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

Room: Summit Ballroom 216 - Caesars Forum

Thursday, September 14, 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

BICSI Cares Presentation and Door Prize Drawing

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Thursday, September 14, 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Closing Keynote Speaker: "3 Levels of Exceptional Leadership: Practical Development For Leading Yourself and Others"

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Thursday, September 14, 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Conference Wrap-up, Closing Highlights Video and Door Prize Drawing

Room: Alliance Ballroom - Caesars Forum

Thursday, September 14, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Bonus - RE+ Exhibit Hall Visit

Room: Forum Ballroom - Caesars Forum & Venetian