Mobile & Wireless in Transformation

Monday Sessions

4G Smackdown: The Future of WiMax & LTE - 10 - 11:15 a.m.
Under a new CEO, Clearwire is facing financing hurdles and buildout delays in its quest to create a nationwide WiMAX network. The rival standard LTE, meanwhile, has the backing of major carriers but little prospect of widespread adoption before 2011. This session will answer the questions: Which standard will win out? Can they co-exist? And where should service providers line up?
Moderator: Robert Machin, Principal Analyst, Strategic Marketing, Comptel Corp.
Panelists: Fred Kemmerer, CTO, GENBAND
Martin Suter, Vice President Business Development, BelAir Networks
David LeClaire, Regional Vice President of Sales, Taqua

What's In a Number? The Future of Dialing and Identifiers in the Mobile Universe - 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Enum, Skype names, Google's GrandCentral, Facebook pages - the plain old phone number has become a poor proxy for the myriad ways in which people connect and identify today. This session will describe the efforts to unify our various points of contact into a single telephone number that would be a universal identifier, used across many different devices and applications from smartphones to social media.
Moderator: Michael Oeth, Chief Executive Officer, Junction Networks
Panelists: Joel Fisher, Vice President of Marketing, Interconnection Solutions, Telcordia
Rodrigue Ullens, CEO, Voxbone
John Curran, President & CEO, ARIN

After the Deluge: White Space, 700 MHz, & The Future of Wireless Spectrum - 12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
With the transition to digital TV finally completed in June, attention once again shifts to who's using the highly coveted (and pricey) 700MHz wireless spectrum and how. This session will examine how the carriers and their upstart rivals are putting the airwaves to use (or not) - and what will happen with the "white space" in between.
Moderator: Stefan Bewley, Principal, Altman Vilandrie
Panelists: Stephen J. Zitnik, Senior Vice President for Technology and New Ventures, Interop Technologies
Bryan Taylor, CEO, Anderson Taylor       
Arthur Giftakis, Vice President of Engineering & Operations, Towerstream

Tuesday Sessions

Coming Soon to a SIP Phone Near You: The Dawn of the Ubiquitous Video Era - 8 - 8:50 a.m.
2009 has seen the debut of much faster mobile networks and a rapidly-expanding category of ultra-mobile devices, netbooks and video-enabled connected devices—all of which makes the experience more compelling than it ever has been. This session will cover the trends, the players, the challenges and the successes in the exploding world of mobile video. And it will answer the $64,000 question: How do you make money at this stuff?
Moderator: Henry Dewing, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Speaker: Pete Ianace, President, ComCam International
Todd Narwid, Vice President, New Media, NDS
Bryan Taylor, CEO, Anderson Taylor
Lew Roth, Vice President, Business Development, Partners 1993

Keeping it Real: What's Actually Working in Mobile VoIP - 9 - 9:50 a.m.
Consulting firm ON World has predicted 100 million users of mobile VoIP services by 2011, generating revenues of $33.7 billion. The success of Truphone, Skype Lite and other mobile VoIP clients has raised the profile of such services. But it's not clear how much future there is for voice calls over Wi-Fi networks. This session will examine the realities and practicalities of mobile VoIP services - and how service providers and their customers are benefiting.
Moderator: Diane Myers, Directing Analyst Service Provider VoIP & IMS, INFONETICS RESEARCH, INC.
Panelists: Tom Carter, President, North and South American Operations, Truphone
Mike Hollier, CTO, Psytechnics
Bob Kersey, Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Business Development, GENBAND

Wednesday Sessions

Smartphones on Steroids: Netbooks and the Next Device Wave - 10 - 10:50 a.m.
As mobile phones get smarter -- with multicore processors, larger screens and improved graphics -- laptops are getting thinner, becoming hyper-connected "netbooks." This convergence is shifting the way people compute and connect - and the way service providers relate to their customers and generate revenue. This session will explore the effects of the smartphone/netbook convergence on service providers’ business models, network planning and marketing.
Moderator: Philippe Winthrop, Director – Enterprise Mobility Requirements, StrategyAnalytics
Panelists:Tom Russo, Product Manager, Wireless Networking Group, Alcatel-Lucent
Christian Gilby, Product Marketing Director, Agito Networks
Jake Martin, Senior Director of Marketing, iSkoot
Kirt Bailey, CEO, Celio Corporation

Beyond Guys in Trucks: Mobilizing Enterprise Applications - 11 - 11:50 a.m.
From "smart metering" on the electrical grid to Salesforce.com on your smartphone, the universe of fully mobilized enterprise applications has remained limited - until now. With the advent of Android, the iPhone apps store and open-API moves from the big-carriers, productivity applications are bursting the desktop bounds. This session will focus on the latest enterprise applications and how service providers are mobilizing them - and profiting from them.
Moderator: Jon Arnold, Principal, J Arnold & Associates
Panelists: R.J. Auburn, CTO, Voxeo
Vivek Khuller, CEO, DiVitas Networks
Thomas Monopoli, Director, Systems Engineering, MetaSwitch

Dialing for Dollars: New Revenue Opportunities in the FMC World - 12 - 12:50 p.m.
2.5 billion, baby. That’s the number of 3G subscribers worldwide forecast by 2013, according to Parks Associates. And, that’s the incentive for service providers to take a look at converged fixed-mobile services. This session will discuss how service providers can monetize their IP-based infrastructure by deliver anytime, anywhere access to video, audio and collaboration via mobile devices.
Moderator: Mike W. Welch, President, Welch Global Consulting
Panelist: David LeClaire, Regional Vice President of Sales, Taqua
Randal E. Waters, Vice President Market Development, Comverse Americas
Christian Gilby, Product Marketing Director, Agito Networks