Alan Breznick has tracked the media, telecommunications, broadband, and consumer electronics industries for more than 20 years. Before switching over to Heavy Reading in 2007, he was the original editor of Light Reading Cable Website and founding author of Heavy Reading's Cable Industry Insider. At Heavy Reading, he primarily focuses on cable/MSO services, technologies, and networks, as well as IPTV infrastructure. Alan was formerly a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence. He previously reported for Communications Daily, Cable World, Multichannel News, Broadband Daily, Crain's New York Business, and Genuine Article Press, among other publications.

Asaf Matatyaou is Vice President of Solutions and Product Management for the Cable Access Business at Harmonic. In this role, Asaf is responsible for product management, strategy and solution architectures, including Harmonic’s virtual cable access solution, CableOS. Asaf has over 20 years of experience as an engineer and executive in the cable industry, including roles where he led development of CMTS products and helped drive industry specifications. Asaf earned his BS degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, Davis.

Mike Whitley is Vice President of Access Network Products at ATX Networks. He leads the company’s outside plant actives operations, driving product development and product introduction efforts. Mike was a co-author of the SCTE 1.8GHz Actives Working Group. A 30-year-veteran of the cable industry, Mike was Senior System Engineering Manager at Cisco, focused on HFC, Next-Gen Cable Access and Distributed Access Architectures (DAA), prior to joining ATX in January 2021. He also held leadership roles at Antec, ARRIS and Scientific-Atlanta. Mike currently lives in Atlanta. He earned a BSEE degree from Colorado State University.

Chris Bastian joined SCTE•ISBE in 2015 following three decades of leadership in advanced cable and network security technologies. Chris is responsible for all areas of technology and engineering to ensure that SCTE and ISBE maintain a leadership role in standardizing and operationalizing advanced technology, including the SCTE•ISBE Standards Program and the SCTE•ISBE Engineering Committee – as well as groundbreaking efforts such as SCTE•ISBE’s Energy 2020 program.

Prior to joining SCTE•ISBE, Chris spent 10 years with Comcast, where he served as senior director of converged regional area network engineering for the Comcast Network Engineering Group, executive director of network architecture for the Comcast Technology and Product Group and ultimately as executive director of Comcast’s Xfinity WiFi network. Previously, he had held network operations and engineering positions with RCN and Comcast Cellular Communications, and had spent 10 years in engineering and leadership capacities with the National Security Agency.

Chris holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and an M.S. in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins University.

Steve Condra has more than 30 years of experience in the Telecommunication industry. He spent 16 years with AT&T, Bell Labs, and Lucent Technologies primarily in outside plant design, manufacture, and installation. In addition, he has spent 18 years in the Cable TV industry with Scientific Atlanta, Cisco, and currently he works with Teleste Intercept primarily in HFC infrastructure including R&D and Product Management.

Steve earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri.

Colin Howlett is responsible for defining the overall technology strategy at Vecima and leads a group of product architects who work directly with customers to define the next generation of Vecima products. Colin has been an active participant in industry standards development at CableLabs and SCTE in the areas of DOCSIS and Distributed Access Architectures. Colin holds multiple patents in cable broadband access, a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Saskatchewan.