


While the job itself isn't much different than it would be at a home station, Sergeant Stone, a Portsmouth, Va., native, said the CFP here is busier than most others.

We do our best to troubleshoot first and then whatever we can't fix, we dispatch to the back shops and they take care of the rest." "We also do any basic, low-level trouble shooting that we can do from our desks. "We field all the trouble calls that come in for communications here, anything to do with phones, computers, television, anything to do with communications at all," said Staff Sgt. The help desk, which people more commonly associate with the CFP, is the first place client system administrators go when they have an issue they can't fix themselves. The focal point is broken up into two sections - the help desk and the maintenance operations center. "We are also responsible for reporting the status of communications systems to leadership so they can make decisions based upon what network resources they have." Casey Stone, CFP NCO in charge, who is deployed from Langley Air Force Base, Va. "The communications focal point is responsible for the status of the base's communications capability as far as providing network, e-mail and file storage services," said Tech. While most offices on base have an information system administrator nearby for simple problems, all of the more complicated issues go to one place - the 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron communications focal point, or CFP. Good communication is key to mission success, which is apparent in how quickly many people's jobs grind to a halt when they lose access to a communications system they use on a daily basis. 379th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs.Therefore, we believe conferences should still be considered an important and integral part of your company’s overall branding and external communications strategy.Īs we continue to move out of the pandemic we will see a significant increase in the number of hybrid or virtual and in-person events-as the appetite to gather, network and raise viability also rises. The events that matter most-that inform via quality programming, feature sought-after speakers and provide opportunities to connect are here to stay. Luminaries, F500 CEOs and celebrities are embracing the virtual conference platform to lionize their profiles and speak out on critical issues including: CEOs of Cisco, Box Microsoft and Snap and celebrities such as Robert Downey Jr. Collision Conference registered over 30,000 attendees and 1,000 media/influencers viewing over 100 hours of content and TieCon had over 4,000 viewers for early morning keynotes. Some early day stats include: The WSJ Future of Everything Festival had over 4,000 registered from 180 different countries. We have already seen an increase in attendees as organizers are not held to room capacities and attendees don’t have travel restrictions or need to choose between overlapping sessions or tracks. Key media brands such as Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and major industry forums including Web Summit, Milken Global and London Tech Week are embracing this trend with staffing and budgets. An Interactive Advertising Bureau report showed more than 67% of consumers globally stream live video content and nearly half say they have increased their live streaming from the previous year. Prior to the pandemic, live streamed events were already seeing an increase in engagement. We believe this trend is similar to the way WebEx replaced many in-person meetings and how print media and advertising transitioned to online and digital. Virtual conferences are showing remarkable momentum in terms of audience size, speaker acquisition and social bounce. Virtual Conferences Through the Pandemic and Beyond
