The inaugural “North Carolina Hearts Gigabit: An Interactive Idea Exchange” conference featured inspiring community broadband network deployment success stories from around the state. Attendees benefited from hearing a playbook of actionable steps they could take back to advance their own local broadband and economic development agendas. NC Hearts Gigabit (North Carolina “loves” Gigabit) is a technology-neutral and vendor-agnostic advocacy platform, working to attract and support universally available, affordable, reliable, high-capacity Internet to network resilient local economies across North Carolina.