Track 2: Wireless Mobility

The Wireless Mobility track offers a deep-dive look at the various mobile and nomadic technologies, such as WiFi, WiMax and 3GPP. Along with providing deep-dive focus on service infrastructure and implementation, the wide-ranging speaker roster we have assembled is sure to offer not only their unique perspective, but will also shed light on current and potential business applications of these still-nascient technologies.


Tuesday, October 30, 2007

3:15pm
4:30pm
4G Wireless Mobility: Alternative Access in a Number of Ways
 • Thierry Maupilé, Vice President of Global Marketing and Business Development, Starent Networks
 • Ali Tabassi, Vice President, Technology Development, Sprint Nextel Corp
 • Jeffrey Thompson, Founder, CEO, and President, Towerstream
 • (M) Ed Vilandrie, Director, Co-Founder, Altman Vilandrie & Company
 • Vijay Venkateswaran, Vice President, Product and Service Development, Mobile Satellite Ventures
Voice over Wi-Fi: Putting the Puzzle Together
 • Joe Epstein, Senior Director of Technology, Meru Networks
 • Robert Franzo, Director, VoIP Marketing, Broadcom
 • Ben Guderian, Vice President of Marketing, Spectralink, now a part of Polycom
 • (M) Judy Racino-Farrer, Sr. Manager of Marketing and Membership, Wi-Fi Alliance
 • Sherman Scholten, Director, Product Management and Marketing - Linksys Voice Engineering, Cisco - Linksys


Wednesday, October 31, 2007

11:15am
12:30
Telco 1-2-3
 • Michael Finn, Industry Management, Consumer Service Lead, Microsoft Corporation
 • (M) Ronald Gruia, Principal Analyst for Emerging Telecom, Frost & Sullivan
 • Martine Lapierre, Carriers Group / Executive Management Team & VP Competitive Transformation, Chief Marketing Office, Alcatel-Lucent
 • Chris Mankle, Chief Technologist, CME's CTO Office, Hewlett-Packard
 • Greg Pelling, Chief Executive Officer, CounterPath
 • Oscar Rodriguez, CEO, IP Unity Glenayre
Femtocells vs. Dual Mode Phones
 • Jaime Fink, Director of Product Marketing, 2Wire
 • Vicki Griffiths, Product Manager, Cellular Applications, picoChip Designs Ltd
 • (M) Barlow Keener, Attorney, Keener Law Group
 • Serge Pequeux, President and Chief Executive Officer, AirWalk Communications
 • Javier Romeu, ip.access
 • Gary Sarson, Vice President, Business Development, Kineto Wireless


Thursday, November 1, 2007

9:00am
10:15am
Putting IMS Interoperability to the Test
 • (M) Carl Ford, Community Developer and VP Content, pulvermedia
 • Andy Huckridge, Director, NGN Solutions , Spirent Communications
 • Lincoln Lavoie, Senior Engineer, University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab
 • Duane Sword, Vice President, Product Management, Empirix-Hammer
 • Adrian Scrase, Vice President, International Partnerships, ETSI
 • Jay Stewart, Director of IMS/FMC Solutions, JDSU Communications Test & Measurement, JDSU
Femtocells: Changing the Rules of Cellular Service
 • David Hattey, President & CEO, FirstHand Technologies
 • (M) Barlow Keener, Attorney, Keener Law Group
 • Asa Kalavade, CTO, Tatara Systems
 • Anand Parikh, Vice President, Wireless Solutions and Business Development, Sonus Networks, Inc.
10:30am
11:45am
Getting Femtocells Right: Coping with Real Issues
 • Russell Cyr, Vice President, CMO and Co-Founder, BitWave Semiconductor
 • (M) Barlow Keener, Attorney, Keener Law Group
 • Paul Polakos, Director, Wireless Networks Research, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
 • Stephen Vincent, VP Telco Sales North America, Thomson
 • Sanjeev Verma, Vice President of Business Development and Co-Founder, Airvana, Inc.
2:15pm
3:30pm
FMC in the Enterprise
 • Martin Bitzinger, CTO, Comdasys AG
 • David Hattey, President & CEO, FirstHand Technologies
 • Tom Hussey, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Azaire Networks
 • Vivek Khuller, President and CEO, DiVitas Networks
 • Pejman Roshan, Co-Founder & VP of Marketing & Product Management, Agito Networks, Inc
 • (M) Akshay Sharma, Research Director, Carrier Network Infrastructure, Converged Infrastructure, Gartner - Dataquest
 • Martin Steinmann, Vice President of Product Management, Bluesocket Inc.