NWBDC Founder Don Sidlowski spent the last two days at the 2013 Governor’s Northwoods Economic Development Summit held in Pembine, WI at the Four Seasons Resort. During the course of the two days, Sidlowski met and/or spoke with Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (and her policy advisor Robert Schlaeger), DNR Deputy Secretary Matt Moroney, DOT Secretary Mark Gottleib, Revenue Secretary Rick Chandler, DOT Deputy Secretary Mike Berg, Public Service Commissioner Ellen Nowak, WEDC Secretary and CEO Reed Hall, Representative Jeff Mursau (R – 36th Assembly District), Representative John Nygren (R – 89th Assembly District), WHEDA Executive Director Wyman Winston among others, on a wide range of topics involving broadband expansion and adoption as the means to economic development. NWBDC had the privilege of serving as a Premier Level Sponsor for the Summit, at which Sidlowski was himself a speaker on Day 2, joining members of the Public Service Commission and the UW-Extension Office of Broadband Sustainability on the topic of “Broadband in Wisconsin”.