Elizabeth Bowles Moderates Keynote Panel at ISP America 2026
As an expert on the challenges to broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas, she offers innovative and balanced ideas for bringing broadband where it is needed most. Elizabeth is also a legal expert on cyber security, internet law, and privacy.
About the Panel:
Energy-Positive Sites: Turning Power Into A Strategic Asset
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Power is one of the largest and least predictable operating expenses for network infrastructure. This session explores how ISPs are designing energy-positive sites that combine renewable generation, energy storage, and intelligent power management to reduce operating costs and improve resilience. The discussion focuses on practical approaches that work for huts, towers, data centers, and remote facilities.
Panelists will share real-world considerations including site selection, incentives, interconnection challenges, and when selling surplus energy back to the grid makes financial sense. Attendees will leave with ideas to build more resilient infrastructure, grow margins through lower energy costs, and compete with a sustainability story that resonates with communities, regulators, and customers alike.
About the Event
Each year in the spring, ISPAMERICA attracts over than 1,000 ISP operators, vendors and industry leaders to learn, see the latest technology and meet with their ecosystem brethren to take stock of where the ISP industry is and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. Featuring dozens of expert breakout sessions and over 100 exhibitors, ISPAMERICA provides attendees a one-stop shop to garner the industry’s latest operational, technological and regulatory trends.
About Elizabeth Bowles
A passionate advocate for the expansion of affordable broadband services in rural and underserved areas, Elizabeth has testified before Congress and the FCC and is currently serving as Chair of the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, which is an independent advisory body tasked with making policy recommendations for eliminating the digital divide. A past President of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), Elizabeth currently serves on WISPA’s Policy Committee and is its Arkansas State Coordinator.
Elizabeth is licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C. and Arkansas, as well as before the Supreme Court of the United States and a number of U.S. Courts of Appeals. Prior to joining Aristotle’s leadership team in 2000, Elizabeth was an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter, where she practiced in the fields of intellectual property and commercial litigation with an emphasis on international and technology law.
Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a B.A. in International Studies and obtained her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1993, where she graduated first in her class, Order of the Coif, and was awarded the Founder’s Medal. Elizabeth also received the top score on the 1993 bar exam.
Elizabeth has served on numerous boards and committees, including the Arkansas State Bank Board, Better Business Bureau of Arkansas (past President), Rotary Club 99 (Communications Chair), Central Arkansas Executives Association, City Year Little Rock/North Little Rock (Founding Board Member), YPO Chapter Chair and Regional Education Chair, Arkansas’ Quality Digital Learning Study Committee, the Arkansas Broadband Council, and Arkansas’ FASTER committee.
