Schedule-at-a-Glance

Attend a BICSI Instructor-led Course Prior to the Conference.

Begins Tuesday, 4 February through Saturday, 8 February 

Get the most out of your trip to the 2020 Winter Conference & Exhibition in Tampa, Florida, by signing up for additional training. All classes will be held at the Tampa Marriott Water Street —not at the same venue hosting all conference activities.

Tampa Marriott Water Street
700 South Florida Avenue
Tampa, FL 33602

Winter Pre-Conference Seminars

Begins Sunday, 9 February through Monday, 10 February

Available Sunday and Monday, Pre-Conference Seminars are exclusive learning opportunities and a great way to earn Continuing Education Credits (CECs), in addition to CECs earned from conference attendance. Seminars are available for an additional fee when you register for the conference.

Winter Conference Sessions

Begins Tuesday, 11 February through Thursday, 13 February

Exciting presentations continue Tuesday through Thursday, with an opportunity to design your own conference experience by choosing which Concurrent Sessions to attend on Wednesday.  

Presentation Topics include: 

• Power over Ethernet (PoE) – This conference track will cover the latest design, installation, best practices, trends surrounding remote powering applications that utilize low-voltage ICT systems to deliver power to end devices, such as Power over Ethernet. 
• Intelligent Buildings / Smart Cities / Internet of Things – This conference track covers design, installation, best practices, trends involving deployments, systems and applications for intelligent buildings, smart cities and the Internet of Things (IoT), such as converged infrastructures, building system integration, LED lighting, building automation systems (BAS), security, sustainability/efficiency and more. 
• Audiovisual – In this track, ICT professionals will encounter what they need to know to design and deploy audiovisual systems and applications such as HDBaseT, high-resolution video, digital signage, classroom learning, video conferencing and more. 
• Wireless and Distributed Antenna Systems – This conference track will help the ICT professional understand what they need to know to deploy wireless systems and applications, including distributed antennae systems (DAS), small cell, 802.11 Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular. 
• Data Centers – In this track, the ICT professional will learn about site selection, space and capacity planning, disaster recovery, availability, efficiency, operations and management for the data center space, including cloud/colocation facilities, hyperscale, edge computing and more. You will learn how to design and deploy various data center systems such as infrastructure, power, cooling and storage in a way that optimizes performance, scalability and reliability. 
• Optical Fiber & Passive Optical Networks (PON) – This track covers design, installation, best practices and trends in optical fiber deployments, systems and applications, including passive optical LANs, gigabit passive optical networks (GPON), multimode and singlemode applications, wave division multiplexing, high-speed and high-density fiber cabling, testing and inspections, outside plant fiber and more. 
• New & Emerging Applications – This conference track will examine new, emerging, thought-provoking and future technologies and trends that have the potential to impact the ICT professional and the ICT community. 
• ICT Professional Development – This track provides useful information and practical advice for the ICT professional to improve their knowledge, skills and expertise within their chosen career, or to advance their business and career with new opportunities. It will cover tips for working in various markets and environments, such as industrial, outside plant and government, as well as tips and best practices surrounding a variety of job skills, tools and solutions, such as building information modeling (BIM), estimating, project management and more.