Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News
Alison Diana always dreamed of being a veterinarian – until she saw a documentary of a vet removing an alligator's eye. With a love of English but no desire to be a teacher, Alison had no idea what she would do until she earned a four-year, full-tuition journalism scholarship to the School of Visual Arts and fell in love with feature writing.

An internship at Rolling Stone encouraged Alison to mix her love of music and writing until she answered an ad in a local newspaper for a position at a B2B channel publication. And so her 25-year career covering solution and service providers; technologies from HPC and UC&C to cloud and security, and business began.

Alison spent 10 years at CRN, before launching a successful freelance career writing for publications including InformationWeek, VARBusiness, Redmond Channel Partner, numerous TechTarget sites, and Florida Today. She later rejoined UBM as part of the DeusM team before heading InformationWeek's health IT section. Alison – who lives on Florida's Space Coast with her husband, teen daughter, and two spoiled cats – became part of the Light Reading team as editor at The New IP. In late May of this year, she was named Ambassador of the New IP Agency, a not-for-profit independent initiative providing information, education, analysis, community services and testing to support and accelerate the development of a global economy based on open, advanced, virtualized IP networks.

Stephanie Burris, Solutions Marketing Access & Fiber Monitoring Products, VIAVI Solutions
Stephanie Burris is a Product Line Manager for the Access and Fiber Monitoring Product lines at VIAVI which includes xDSL, copper, fiber, and WiFi test. Stephanie is passionate about helping customers in the Access market because residential Broadband Services are so critical for users today. Stephanie has been helping customers with their communication test needs for 20 years through Product Management and Business Development roles with VIAVI, JDSU, Agilent, and HP. She holds an MBA from Thunderbird in international business and attended the University of Arizona, earning degrees in Finance and Marketing. Stephanie resides in the Boulder, Colorado area with her husband and two children.

Lincoln Lavoie, Senior Engineer & Industry Lead UNH-IOL, and Board Member of Broadband Forum
Lincoln Lavoie is a Senior Engineer for the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), servers on its executive team, and the Broadband Forum Board of Directors. Lincoln brings 18 years of experience in working with and testing broadband technologies. With a career taking him from the early days of ADSL, through VDSL2, GPON, and most recently Gfast. Within the UNH-IOL, he oversees all Broadband and WiFi testing, including the Broadband Forum's "Gfast Certified" program.