Broadband is evolving. Understand what’s changing—and how to respond. CostQuest’s Fabric Forward Conference is a focused, small-group event designed to help ISPs, investors, and State Broadband Offices navigate industry changes and prepare for broadband’s next chapter.
The conference connects data and mapping methodologies with strategic, economic, regulatory, and financial insights to support teams in making effective network deployment, investment, and growth decisions. Sessions explore competition, consolidation, and convergence trends, alongside advanced Fabric methods, repeatable workflows, and practical guidance on funding programs and regulatory compliance.
Collaborate with CostQuest’s broadband experts and Fabric creators, work through your Fabric and mapping challenges in personalized 1:1 office hours, and exchange perspectives with industry and government leaders. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of critical market shifts and practical approaches to help you adapt and respond. Register today—limited spots available.
Where: The Edgewater Hotel in Seattle, WA | When: October 26-29, 2026
Hotel registration closes on September 29th | Email: [email protected]
Adjust, operate, and execute with the speed of broadband change
Broadband competition, convergence, and provider consolidation are reshaping the market as BEAD guidance evolves and build costs rise. Responding effectively requires updated approaches and closer alignment across data, regulatory, operations, strategy, and business development teams.
Fabric Forward is thoughtfully designed to bring together the data, tools, technical workflows, and expert interpretation that help teams navigate major market shifts and prepare for what’s next in BEAD, and the broader broadband policy and regulatory landscape. Get proven expert approaches that help wise investments strengthen competitive positioning, support customer acquisition, meet compliance requirements, and guide network deployment.
What you’ll gain
Regulatory Clarity & Compliance Guidance
As BEAD, policy, and regulatory environments continue to shift, Fabric Forward translates these changes into clear, actionable investment, build, and compliance strategies. Attendees will leave with proven methods to navigate new BEAD phases, guide investment decisions, prioritize builds, demonstrate performance, navigate permitting realities, and protect reimbursement workflows by reducing rework, delays, audit exposure and clawbacks. All guidance is grounded in Fabric fundamentals: an authoritative location reference, Location IDs as the evidentiary backbone, and consistency across Fabric versions and challenge review cycles.
Strategy & Investment Optimization
Understand how major market shifts – convergence, overbuild pressure, and consolidation – are affecting ISP organizations and how to respond. Translate market dynamics into clearer build/defend decisions, sharper market prioritization, and geo-targeted sales and marketing approaches. Learn to leverage Fabric location, BDC filings, subscriber, and other market intelligence data to anticipate competitor moves, evaluate investment scenarios with greater precision than broad geographies allow, and align build phasing, take-rate projections, compliance reporting, and financial planning.
Expert Data & Technical Practices
Build a comprehensive understanding of the Location Fabric: how it’s built, how it evolves, and how to operationalize it for compliance, planning, and competitive analysis while keeping BEAD, BDC, and other government reporting aligned. Learn practical, repeatable workflows using GIS, SQL, and Power BI, alongside API-enabled approaches to change management and data matching. Keep internal databases, billing systems, maps, and reporting submissions consistent across data refreshes while reducing mismatches and rework
What sets us apart
EXPERT & PEER PERSPECTIVES
Insights from the people who build & use the tools—and help shape policy
Hear directly from the experts who build the Fabric—plus leaders and peers across broadband organizations, government, and state broadband offices—as they share practical tips, lessons learned, and best practices for tackling real-world data, mapping, and program requirements.
Explore the agenda for more information about the experts speaking at Fabric Forward.
HANDS-ON
Working sessions & Office hours
Each session is designed to provide clear direction and actionable takeaways you can implement right away. CostQuest experts will also offer appointment-based office hours to answer specific questions, troubleshoot challenges, and provide guidance.
COMPREHENSIVE
Regulatory + Strategy + Technical insights all in one event
Because your biggest challenges and risks live at the intersection of all three.
UNIQUE FORMAT
Unlike any other broadband conference
In a small-group, education-focused setting, you’ll gain insights you won’t find anywhere else. The event goes beyond surface-level overviews to share practical data and technical practices you can apply immediately—so you leave with clear takeaways designed for execution.
Thank you to our sponsors & partners
OFFSITE EVENT
Set sail on Elliott Bay
Experience one of the most iconic views in the Pacific Northwest.
As part of Fabric Forward 2026 registration, attendees who RSVP are invited to join a cruise excursion around Seattle’s Elliott Bay on Tuesday evening, October 27. Attendees will board a private Argosy Cruise and enjoy sweeping views of the city skyline, the Olympic Mountains, and the working port that helps define this world-class city.
To reserve your spot, please select “Yes” in the RSVP section of the registration form.
