4G World

As President of Netfinanzas, responsible of various operations among them, acquisition and divestment of Chevere.com and Omnivision, a company pioneer in Venezuela of subscription TV with nationwide coverage, implementing  its 2.5 GHz Mobile Wimax system with Samsung, as part a of a turnaround business model. Also President & CEO of Omnivision and Winet Telecomunicaciones.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 5:00pm
4G Investment in Latin America

In his role as President and Chief Executive Officer of SkyFiber, Inc. Mr. Achim leverages over twenty-five years of proven sales, marketing and operational expertise in providing leadership and guidance throughout all aspects of the corporation. Before joining SKYFIBER™ in October of 2008, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer for ROME Corporation, a Houston-based company providing Enterprise Credit Risk Management software to the Energy and Financial Services business sectors. During his tenure with ROME Corporation, Mr. Achim and his team doubled company revenues every year from 2005 to 2007, resulting in ROME’s recognition in 2007 by Inc. magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing companies in North America.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 3:30pm
4G Packet Backhaul Strategies

Shubh Agarwal brings more than 16 years of wireless telecommunications experience leading projects for business development and product management for new innovations at global technology organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Business Development Manager of Broadband Wireless Applications for Siemens Communications, now Nokia Siemens Networks. There he was responsible for strategy and business development for the company’s operator customers, with wins across several accounts. Prior to his role at Siemens, Agarwal spent 10 years at Nortel and worked in four countries, serving customers and developing new market entrance strategies. Leading various customer engagements at Nortel, he defined and introduced new access, core network and packet data network solutions for wireless service providers; established product strategy to meet market demand for 3G networks; and worked with R&D to define system architecture and manage trials.

Agarwal was educated at Rutgers University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering with High Honors. Currently, he is finalizing his Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School, Emory University.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October, 19, 3:00pm
Challenges and Options for Delivering Voice Over 4G Networks

Carlos André Albuquerque, 46, holds a degree in Physics from the University of Brasília – UnB, a degree in Mathematics from Centro Unificado de Brasília – CEUB and a MBA at Getulio Vargas Foundation, in Brazil. In 1990, he  founded TV Filme, one of the first “wireless cable” operation in Brazil were he acted as Administrative, Financial and Commercial Director until 1994, when the holding ITSA was created.

As COO of ITSA, the group obtained 11 additional licenses in several Brazilian states and became the first private company to make an IPO in the United States, in 1996.

He participated in the development of the subscription-tv and broadband sector in Brazil, preparing several studies and projects in the financial, commercial and administrative areas.

Additionally, Carlos was responsible for developing the Company’s own operating model, which won the award the “Best Contribution of the Year” to the industry, for two years (Annual Prize offered by ABTA – Brazilian Association of Telecommunications and ABRAFORTE – Brazilian Association of Service Providers).

Currently, Carlos is a Consultant in the telecom sector and the Executive Director of NEOTEC, the Brazilian Association for MMDS Operators, which represents more than 80% of all MMDS operators in Brazil.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00pm
4G Market Opportunities in Latin America

Jim Allison has been with the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA) since October 2000 for the Intercity Passenger Rail service operating in Northern California. In that capacity, Mr. Allison is the Manager of Planning for new capital/service projects and planning studies along the Capitol Corridor’s Northern California Intercity route. In addition to traditional railway project planning, Mr. Allison leads CCJPA’s technology projects including the wireless/wired network that will provide the basis for many of the CCJPA’s future operational applications. He has been on the forefront of evaluating technologies and business models for wireless networks for passenger train service since 2004 and works in partnership with Amtrak to take advantage of these and other communication, network, and application improvements. He has spoken at several international conferences about these topics and maintains close contact with rail operators worldwide who are implementing wireless networks. Prior to joining the CCJPA, for ten years Mr. Allison worked for the Bi-State Tahoe Regional Planning Agency in current planning, and later in transportation and air quality. Mr. Allison graduated from the University of California Davis with B.S. Degree in Environmental Planning and Management.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30pm
Transportation

Before joining Ericsson, Antoun was senior vice president of World Wide Sales & Operations at Redback (which Ericsson acquired in January 2007). After the acquisition, he was promoted to CEO of the Redback entity. Prior to this, Antoun spent five years at Cisco Systems where he served as vice president of worldwide systems engineering and field marketing, vice president of worldwide optical operations, and also served as vice president of carrier sales. Antoun was instrumental in the successful strategy behind Cisco's entry into the service provider and optical markets. He acted as the main liaison between the customer, sales and engineering to prioritize products and features. He has also held senior management positions at Newbridge Networks and Nynex (now Verizon Communications), where he was part of their Science and Technology Division. Antoun holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and a Masters degree in Information Systems Engineering from New York Polytechnic University.

Keynote:
Monday, October 18, 2010
Beyond Flat Rate: Beyond Coverage and Capacity

As senior director of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) SP organization in Europe, Simon Aspinall leads a team that is responsible for driving, identifying, and developing new business opportunities with telecoms, broadcast and media operators—linking the service provider, mobile, broadcast, business and consumer sectors.

Since its inception, the IBSG team has built relationships with 80 percent of the leading operators in Europe. The team has assisted these operators in entering and developing new markets, making operational improvements, and applying Internet business solutions. Aspinall is a frequent speaker at industry events and a commentator on the IT, telecoms, and networking sectors. 

Aspinall has held a number of senior management roles at Cisco, leading IBSG’s worldwide mobile practice, and leading the European field operations team with responsibility for SP marketing, new business solutions, Cisco Powered Networks marketing, service consulting, business consulting, and market intelligence for the European telecommunications business.

Before Cisco, Aspinall spent eight years at Mercer Management Consulting, a firm providing management, financial, and marketing consultancy to the worldwide telecommunications sector. Aspinall was also the founder and non-executive director of an Internet incubator with operations in five countries. He holds an MBA (Insead) and a master’s degree in Engineering & Computer Science (Oxford University).

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:45pm
Cloud Computing Services: Operator threat or Opportunity

Pankaj Asundi, Vice President of Multimedia Sales, is responsible for developing and managing new business and multimedia solutions towards operators, and new players in the market including device manufacturers, content and media companies. He joined Ericsson in 2000 and has more than 20 years of business development, product marketing and and technology experience in the telecommunications industry.

Previously, Asundi was part of Ericsson’s Strategy and Network group and was responsible for developing Ericsson’s North America and Global multimedia strategy. He has also served as CTO for Ericsson’s North America Enterprise Business and was responsible for Product Marketing. Before joining Ericsson, Asundi was a Software Development Manager for First Consulting Group.

Asundi holds a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 3:00pm
Streamlining Operations to Enable Competitiveness

Berge Ayvazian joined Heavy Reading as a Senior Consultant, following more than twenty years as a senior telecom industry analyst and strategy consultant with Yankee Group. Berge served as Yankee Group's Chief Executive Officer from 1999 through 2001, and later served as strategy director for the Reuters Research and Advisory Unit. Berge is now leading a new integrated research and consulting practice on 4G Network and Mobile Internet Evolution.

Presenter:
Monday, October 18, 10:00am
Welcome and Introductions: 4G All-IP Mobile Network Architecture

Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 1:30pm
Executive Roundtable: 4G Network Topology

Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 2:30pm
Mobile Packet Core & Backhaul Convergence

Track Leader & Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20,2:30pm
4G Regional Operator Deployment Strategies

Bob Azzi is Senior Vice President of Sprint’s Network.  Bob leads a team of nineteen hundred employees composed of executives, managers, and engineers nationwide and internationally who provide network development and deployment, access management and service assurance for Sprint consumer and business customers. He directs the ownership and operations of the CDMA, iDEN and global IP networks operated by Sprint.  Azzi is the Sprint executive officer in charge of the organization that ensures the success of the partnership between the Ericsson Corporation and Sprint Nextel Corporation.

During Mr. Azzi’s 20 plus years of tenure at Sprint, he has held senior leadership positions in network engineering, software development, network planning, network operations and customer service in Minneapolis, Virginia and   Kansas City.  His industry expertise was honed from work in local, long-distance, international and wireless telecommunications networks.  Prior to joining Sprint he held various management positions in operations, engineering, and access verification with AT&T Long Lines in Chicago and New Jersey during an eight-year career with AT&T.

Azzi holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and an MBA from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri.   He and his family reside in Olathe Kansas.

Keynote:
Wednesday, October 20, 10:30 am
The Exciting Future of Mobile Broadband

Rupert Baines is Vice President of Marketing at picoChip Designs.  He has eighteen years' experience in technology marketing, working on commercializing many leading-edge technologies.  He spent six years with Analog Devices in Boston, working on semiconductors for GSM and wireless infrastructure before managing the company's broadband product line and holding responsibility for the industry-standard ADSL chipset.  He has also worked for operators, most recently as Director of Product Development and Strategy for Atlantic Telecom, where he ran a large pan-European DSL rollout and trialed wireless broadband deployments.  He is responsible for picoChip's femtocell product line, as well as the 4G programs (both WiMAX and LTE).  Mr. Baines is on the Board of Directors of the Femto Forum, and Chairs the Marketing Working Group.  He has a BSEE in Electronic Engineering from Hull University and an MBA from IESE.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00pm
Femtocell Deployment Options

Banerjee focuses on service provider IT, including all aspects of telecom software research. Banerjee examines the breadth of software used by communications service providers in customer, business, service, and infrastructure management. His area of focus includes all aspects of BSS, OSS, SDP, digital commerce, revenue assurance, service assurance, and elements that span both the infrastructure and network software markets, such as data warehousing, analytics, and business intelligence. Prior to joining Heavy Reading, Banerjee was the VP of Next Generation Software Systems at Yankee Group, leading and overseeing all aspects of their telecom software research. He also worked for the billing and customer care division at Lucent Technologies, and subsequently the global software and services group at CSG Systems. He has worked for utility companies in Asia and Europe in a number of business development and technology functions. Banerjee speaks regularly at leading communications industry events. He holds a B.E. in electronics and communications from Manipal Institute of Technology in India and an M.S. in computer information systems from Bentley College. He also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Glasgow Business School.

Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 3:30pm
Policy and Real-time Transactions for 4G Monetization

Brian Beutler is the CEO of Alianza, the leading provider of cloud-based voice solutions for 4G broadband providers. Alianza’s award-winning platform enables service providers to quickly deploy value-added voice services to their customers; with no capital expenditure. Alianza has helped over 50 of the industry's leading operators launch the highest quality, most advanced voice solutions available. Brian also oversees the Accelerate VoIP Ecosystem, which is the wireless broadband industry’s foremost organization dedicated exclusively to enhancing operators’ success delivering VoIP applications to their end-users.

Prior to Alianza, Brian was CEO at GetFon, a provider of business VoIP services and applications that he built and sold to AT&T. Brian has received recognition for business, leadership and entrepreneurship including the Utah Technology Council's "2005 Emerging CXO of the Year", v100-Top 100 Utah Venture Entrepreneurs each of the last 4 years.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19 at 3:00pm
Challenges and Options for Delivering Voice Over 4G Networks

Luis is the President and founder of CognosEdge. CognosEdge is a leading provider of contracting and training services focus on Telecom multimedia applications and solutions running on top of the core and access networks. Luis has over 24 years of Telecom experience working in Canada, USA, and Spain. 

Prior to founding CognosEdge, Luis worked 12 years at Ericsson Canada. During the last four years Luis was the Director of Business Development for Multimedia systems integrations and solution in Canada. Other management positions held at Ericsson were Director of Product Management, Business Management, Strategy and Regulations of multimedia solutions. At Ericsson Luis was fully dedicated to the Canadian Telecom market.

Before joining Ericsson, Luis was a Manager, Product Line Management, of international switching at Nortel Networks. Prior to that, with Nortel too, Luis held diverse positions such as Senior Technical Training Instructor, Product Marketing Manager and Test Engineer. With Nortel Luis worked seven years in Brampton, Canada and in Miami, USA.

Prior to Nortel, Luis was employed five years in successive telecom engineering roles with Telefonica Spain in Madrid. Luis worked as a dimensioning engineer of Alcatel digital Switches and Network Designer Engineer of Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN).

Luis holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electronics and M.Sc. in Telecommunications both from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

In addition to managing the company at CognosEdge, Luis develops and delivers courses for Canadian companies providing services in the Telecom Industry.

Luis has more than 10 years of teaching and courseware developing experience including over 4 years as Senior Technical Training Instructor with Nortel, over 4 years at Humber College and with the University of Toronto as an Instructor for the Telecom Management Certificate.    

Luis volunteered for 5 years with the role of President of the Spanish School for Children in Toronto and managed all the aspect of running the school. The school provided all year around teaching of Spanish language with five teachers, an average of 80 students per year and eight member of the governing committee that Luis presided.

Instructor:
Wednesday, October 20
IEEE Practical Wireless Communications Engineering

Bruce Brda is senior vice president and general manager of the Networks segment within Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Networks business. In this role, Brda has overall responsibility for Motorola’s global Networks segment which develops wireless broadband systems and devices that seamlessly enable uninterrupted access to information, entertainment and communication services and is a world leader in providing cellular infrastructure and emerging wireless broadband technologies. Bruce leads teams responsible for product management and development as well as Strategy, Go-To-Market, Services and Quality.

Bruce returns to Motorola Networks where he spent 13 years before serving seven years in positions of increasing responsibility in Motorola’s Mobile Devices business.

While with Mobile Devices, Bruce gained extensive international sales and marketing experience while serving in Go-To-Market roles and by leading the Mobile Devices Marketing function. He directly managed the Go-To-Market function for the Greater China, Latin America and North America regions and led the Global Sales organization.

Prior to joining the Mobile Devices business, Bruce was vice president of sales and operations for Motorola’s infrastructure business, where he managed all aspects of Motorola’s relationship with Nextel, one of Motorola’s largest customers globally at that time. Bruce also managed Motorola’s network business with Sprint.

Bruce has 25 years of high-tech sales, engineering and business development experience, including leadership roles in the telecommunications and electronics industries. Prior to joining Motorola in 1989, Bruce worked as director of engineering for Dukane Corporation and as a design engineer for Northrop Corporation.

Bruce holds a bachelor of science degree from Southern Illinois University and a master of science degree from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Keynote:
Tuesday, October 19, 10:30 am
Sneak Preview: The Future of Broadband

Matt Bross joined Huawei as Chief Technology Officer and Vice Chairman of Huawei USA in October 2009. In his new role, Mr. Matt Bross will focus on identifying global telecommunications industry and network architecture trends that will guide Huawei's continuous customer-centric innovation of products and solutions. He will also support Huawei's efforts in delivering the latest products and solutions for North American customers.

Mr. Bross has had a long and distinguished career in the telecommunications industry. Before joining Huawei, Matt Bross served as a commissioner of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) and Regional Director for Europe since December 2005. In 2008, he was appointed Vice Chairman for a two-year term. The GIIC is a confederation of CxO level executives engaged in the development, deployment, operation, financing, and use of ICT services and products. From 2002 to 2009, Matt served as CEO BT Innovate and Chief Technology Officer at BT Group plc where he was responsible for setting the vision and direction of innovation to drive and optimize BT's innovation ecosystem. He was also responsible for BT's research and venturing efforts globally and was the leading force behind BT's multi-billion pound, 21st Century Network transformation.

Matt has served on the boards of many companies providing strategic, technology and business leadership. Matt serves on the board of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), a United States based body focusing on the development and promotion of technical and operations standards for the communications and related information technology industry globally. ATIS is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Matt was appointed Secretary in 2008.

Matt is widely regarded as a visionary speaker on technology and innovation. In 2007 he was awarded a Stevie International Business award for "Best MIS & IT Executive" and a William Pitt Fellowship by Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. In 2008, Matt was listed in the Global Telecoms Business top 100 most influential people in the telecoms industry.

Keynote:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:00pm
4G’s Impact to the Evolution of Generations X, Y and Z: The Global Cyberfication of our Society and the Digital Economy

Howard Buskirk is associate managing editor of Communications Daily, as well as the former editor of Gas Daily, managing editor of Natural Gas Week and executive editor of Energy Business Watch. Buskirk has also been a reporter for The Energy Daily and The Atlanta Journal Constitution and an investigative reporter for The Greenville News in Greenville, S.C. He has won more than a dozen journalism awards.

Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 2:30pm
Regulatory Status and Potential Changes

René Adrian Bustillo is a Senior Telecommunications expert with broad experience in the fields of Project Management, Strategic Planning of Public Sector Reform, Telecom Operations, ICT, and Internet & Network Services. Mr. Bustillo has 27 years of professional experience, split between the U.S. and Bolivia. Throughout his career, he held different positions in both the public and private sectors, ranging from Systems Engineer, Software Development Chief, Data Networks Manager, Operations Director, and top Regulatory Authority.

Mr. Bustillo has worked as external consultant for several projects in the areas of telecom regulation and ICTs, including Project Director for the Strategic Planning and Sector reform for INDOTEL (the telecom regulator in the Dominican Republic) acting as the leader of a team of consultants, the change from Ministry of Communications to Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies in Colombia, regulatory advisor for CTE-Telecom in El Salvador, regulatory/legal counselor for the Russian operator Multinet Group, and regulatory expert for various projects at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). In Bolivia, Mr. Bustillo worked for the largest telecom operator in Bolivia, Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ENTEL) and held several positions, including Data Networks Division Chief. In January 2003, he was appointed Superintendent of Telecommunications of SITTEL (rank equivalent to Minister) by the President of Bolivia to carry forward the telecom sector reforms implanted since 1995. Mr. Bustillo held several posts at SITTEL before become Superintendent. His present activities are related to advising companies and governments in regulatory and legal affairs.

He is both an Engineer and a registered Attorney, having graduated as Electrical Engineer Cum Laude from Utah State University (U.S.), with a Masters Degree in Computer Systems Design from the University of Houston-Clear Lake (U.S.), and holds a Degree in Civil Law from “Franz Tamayo” University (Bolivia). Mr. Bustillo is also a university professor for ninth and tenth semester courses for Data Communication and Project Assessment/Counseling, at the Electrical Engineering School of the Universidad Mayor de San Andres (UMSA) in Bolivia. He is frequently invited to speak in forums and workshops in fields related to sector regulation and infrastructure, telecommunications, and ICT development. Mr. Bustillo is a dual citizen (U.S. and Bolivian), and speaks Spanish (Native Proficiency), English (Advanced Professional Proficiency), and German (General Proficiency).

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 3:00pm
Developing Strategies for Harmonized Regulations in Latin America

Fred Campbell has been President and CEO of the Wireless Communications Association International since August 2008. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law where he teaches spectrum law and policy.

Mr. Campbell previously served as Wireless Bureau Chief at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2006-2008. Prior to heading the Wireless Bureau, Mr. Campbell spent two years as Wireless Legal Advisor to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.

Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 1:30pm
Approaches to Operating in the “Unrestricted” Band

J. Andrew (Andy) Capener is director of service provider marketing for mobility at Cisco, joining from the Starent Networks acquisition in December 2009. At Starent, Andy served as a vice president in marketing and was responsible for the go-to-market positioning and communications of Starent Networks and its solutions.

In his past leadership roles, Andy oversaw the solutions marketing team for 3Com Corporation’s Carrier Systems Group. In addition to team management, he drove communications activities surrounding the wireless data solutions. During this time, the 3Com wireless product became the leading data solution in the CDMA wireless market.

Prior to 3Com, Andy was responsible for Asia Pacific marketing at U. S. Robotics and helped to extend its reach into international markets. He also held senior marketing positions with Megahertz Corporation, the market leader in PC Card modem technology.

Andy has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from the University of Utah.

Presenter:
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Operator Transformation to Profit

Peter Carson is Senior Director, Product Management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, responsible for leading the semiconductor (QCT) divsion’s modem technology roadmap. Dating back to the launch of the mobile industry, Mr. Carson has more than 20 years of mobile wireless experience, spanning both the carrier and technology sides of the industry. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Mr. Carson was a member of the initial executive management team at Flarion Technologies, which he helped launch prior to its acquisition by Qualcomm. Before Flarion, Mr. Carson was vice president marketing and business development at ArrayComm, a pioneer in multiple antenna processing technologies. Earlier, Mr. Carson served as director of marketing and product management for ADC Telecommunications, where he helped launch the company’s wireless systems business. Previously, over the span of eight years, Mr. Carson held several key domestic and overseas management positions at NYNEX Mobile (now Verizon Wireless).

Presenter:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30pm
Building the Device Ecosystem: Chipsets and Devices

Mark brings a successful track record of over 20 years in the communications industry. He has held positions in sales, marketing, finance, business development, and general management for several leading incumbent and competitive communications providers including AT&T, Bell Atlantic, MCI, and e.spire Communications. Since 2001 Mark has led CFN Services in helping wireless operators reduce transport costs while multiplying capacity to support broadband wireless data deployments. His current focus is specific to wireless backhaul and supporting 3G and 4G operators with the design and deployment of fiber and hybrid fiber-microwave backhaul networks that multiply capacity 10 fold while reducing lifecycle backhaul transport costs.

He holds a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from American University.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 4:30pm
Packet Optical Transport for 4G Networks

Andy Castonguay is a director for Yankee Group's Anywhere Network research group with expertise in mobility and digital services. Castonguay currently focuses on access devices, researching the devices and trends that are transforming how people access and interact with the Anywhere Network. He is also well versed in mobile transactions, marketing strategy, end-user research, market dynamics analysis, quantitative modeling, business plan development/evaluation and market forecasting.

Before joining the Anywhere Consumer team at Yankee Group, Castonguay was the director of consulting and research for Telefinance, a boutique financial and management consulting firm in Brazil. There, Castonguay managed a number of strategic consulting projects, including the marketing and operational portions of the pre-acquisition due diligence of BellSouth's largest Latin American property in 2003. In 2001 and 2002, Castonguay served as program manager of the Yankee Group Wireless/Mobile Latin America Planning Service. Castonguay also served as a senior analyst and Brazil operations director for Pyramid Research, and as operations coordinator for the global democracy development programs at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, D.C. from 1996 to 1998.

Castonguay holds a dual B.A. degree in history and Portuguese and Brazilian studies from Brown University. He is fluent in English and Portuguese.

Chair:
Wednesday, October 20
Future of the Mobile Web

Ed Chao joined MetroPCS in 2008 as senior vice president, engineering and network operations. Prior to joining MetroPCS, Chao served in a variety of roles at Alcatel-Lucent, including vice president of product management in the CDMA networks business division and held roles within business development and strategic planning. Prior to that, Chao worked with Nortel/BNR where he was primarily involved in defining front-end requirements in support of the company’s entry into CDMA. Chao graduated with a master's degree in business administration from Columbia University, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Rutgers University.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
4G Deployment Strategies in the Americas

With over 30 years in the telecommunications industry, Rob brings an impressive track record in sales, marketing, and technical areas in both wireline and wireless companies as well as strategic consulting management to several leading international telecommunications firms.   Rob is responsible for managing inCode’s Technology thought leadership and Business Development for professional services throughout North America.  Rob is also actively involved in providing consultative services to wireless and telecom clients. In addition, as part of Rob’s role he is responsible for managing and advancing inCode’s Technology knowledge capital including creating inCode’s annual top ten predictions, interviews with the media, and creation of various white papers.

Rob has a particular emphasis on next generation wireless technology and services.  In the last two years, Rob has provided guidance to numerous clients on technology evolution strategy including specifically migration to LTE and WiMax architectures and services.

Before joining inCode, Rob spent over seven years as VP of Technology Development at Nextel.  In this role, Rob oversaw the dramatic changes in Nextel technology from niche carrier to one of the top carriers in the US.  Rob was also responsible at Nextel for structuring and implementing a formal Product Development process, and he was significantly involved in all product and service development at the company for both infrastructure and devices.  Prior to Nextel, Rob spent a total of 12 years in management positions at MCI and AT&T.

Rob holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from University of Cincinnati as well as a MBA from Saint Mary’s College. Rob has taught MBA courses on Strategic Management of Technology and Product Development Theory and Practice.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 5:15pm
Super Session- Preparing for the Transformation– Network Readiness for 4G Migrations

Jim founded ALTIUS Communications in 2005.  He subsequently founded ALTIUS Broadband, an ISP utilizing wireless technology.  ALTIUS has deployed tower sites over northern Maryland and recently expanded into rural Kentucky through an acquisition and is actively pursuing expansion utilizing the 3.65 GHz band as well as the other un-licensed frequencies. He serves on the board of directors of the Rural Broadband Task Force, a committee within the WCA trade association.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 3:45pm
International Harmonization and Roaming Panelist

Stephen Coran is an attorney with the Washington, DC firm of Rini Coran, PC.  His practice focuses on representing fixed and mobile wireless clients, serving their transactional, policy, licensing and operating needs.  Mr. Coran has participated in numerous FCC rulemaking proceedings to advocate for improved spectrum allocation and operating rules.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 2:30pm
Regulatory Status and Potential Changes

Ashraf Dahod is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Mobile Internet Technology Group, the newly formed group as a result of the Starent acquisition. In his previous role, Dahod served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Starent Networks Corporation, a company he co-founded based on his vision of enhancing mobile wireless networks and their services. Dahod has an exceptionally strong record of building successful technology companies, capitalizing on his ability to recognize market opportunities and combining it with a keen understanding of technology.

Prior to Starent, Dahod co-founded NetCore Systems, Inc., in 1996, a producer of innovative large-scale, high-performance switching products targeting major ISP’s and multi-service telecommunications carriers. In August 1999, Tellabs acquired NetCore.

In 1988, Dahod co-founded Sigma Network Systems, Inc. an industry leader in multi-layer, multi-protocol switching systems. Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMC) acquired Sigma in 1992, where Dahod continued to lead the team and develop further innovations. SMC sold the Sigma business to Cabletron in 1996.

In 1981, he founded Applitek Corporation, another technology pioneering company. It developed the first cable modem. Applitek was later renamed LANCity and was acquired by Bay Networks. It is now part of Arris Interactive.

Dahod received his MBA from Harvard in 1981. He has engineering degrees from Stanford (MSEE), Northeastern (MSEM) and Michigan (BSEE) and a BS degree in Physics from the University of Bombay. He holds several networking technology patents.

Keynote:
Tuesday, October 19, 9:45am
The Future IP Network for Mobile Communication: Engine for Profitability

President, Alvarion, Inc. Greg joined Alvarion, Inc., Alvarion’s North American subsidiary, in January 2006 and was named President in August 2006. Prior to joining Alvarion, Greg served as President and CEO of Pedestal Networks and worked for ten years at ADC Telecommunications.

Philipp Deibert is Executive Programm Manager for the NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks) Alliance, an initiative of world-leading mobile operators and telecom manufacturers. In this role his responsibilities include Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Board Matters, Office Operations and Partner Management. 

Before joining NGMN, Philipp was a Senior Associate with Booz & Co in the Communication & Technology Practice leading multiple key assignments for major international telecom operators and vendors. His main consulting focus was in the area of Portfolio- and Growth- Strategies, Transformation Programs and Technology Strategy. Prior to that, Philipp held various positions at Motorola and German Television ZDF.

Presenter:
Tuesday, October 19, 5:00 pm
Standards, Trials, and Certification

Ken Denman is the CEO for Openwave Systems where he is focused on executing Openwave's corporate strategy and growing the company's global market share with innovative software infrastructure products and services for mobile and broadband operators.

Ken's career spans more than 20 years in the global telecommunications and IT industries. Before Openwave, Ken served as chairman and CEO of iPass, a world leader in platform-based enterprise mobility services, and also headed up MediaOne's International Wireless Group.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:00pm
Mobile Media Applications Market

Donegan has more than 15 years' experience as a telecom market journalist, analyst, and strategist. His in-depth knowledge of wireless technology issues is critical to Heavy Reading's expanding coverage in this area. Donegan joined Heavy Reading after five years at Nortel Networks, where he was a senior manager of strategic planning for the company's wireless business – spanning GSM, CDMA, UMTS, WiMax, and other wireless technologies. Prior to Nortel, he spent two years in business research for Motorola's Corporate Strategy Office in EMEA and two years as a wireless analyst for the Yankee Group. As a journalist, Donegan was deputy editor of Public Network Europe from 1990-1995 and editor of Mobile Communications International from 1995-1997.

Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 2:30pm
Packet Backhaul Technology

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 3:30pm
4G Packet Backhaul Strategies

Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 4:30pm
Packet Optical Transport for 4G Networks

Prior to his role as vice president of marketing, Draer served as vice president and product line manager for MRV International Carrier Ethernet Division. In this position, he was responsible for leading and promoting MRV’s flagship Carrier Ethernet product lines in the Metro Ethernet access market. Draer is a member of the Metro Ethernet Forum and is active in making technology outlook presentations at industry seminars, conferences and tradeshows. Draer has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to MRV, he worked for a subsidiary of Elbit, a leading military telecommunications systems integrator and cellular application startup company.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 2:30pm
Packet Backhaul Technology

Dow Draper recently joined Clearwire as Vice President of Product Development and Innovation where he is responsible for strategy and development of WiMAX-based devices and services, and for product marketing of new customer solutions.  Dow spent the past four years at Alltel Corporation where he held both marketing and finance roles:  Most recently as Senior Vice President of Voice and Data Solutions and prior to that as Senior Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis where he played a key role in several acquisitions and in Alltel’s sale to Goldman Sachs and TPG.  Prior to joining Alltel, Dow spent several years in the Seattle area, first as a consultant with McKinsey and Company working in the aerospace, automotive and wireless telecommunications industries, and second working for Western Wireless (prior to its acquisition by Alltel)  as Executive Director of Financial Planning and Analysis.  Dow has an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
Mobile OS & Platforms

Kelley Dunne was previously Executive Vice President of Operations for Verizon Avenue, the Verizon subsidiary focused on providing bundled communications services to concentrated communities nationwide.  Mr. Dunne’s responsibilities included leadership of Network Operations, Program Management, Customer Care, and Field Operations for Verizon’s MDU and concentrated community markets.

He led Verizon into four new markets during his time there: Native American reservations, military housing, affordable housing, and rural broadband, for which he was also responsible for designing and leading Verizon’s nationwide trials.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
Smart Power Grid
Speaker:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
4G Deployment Strategies in the Americas

Craig has over 20 years of experience in the information technology and telecommunications industries with such notable companies as Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Extreme Networks, and Actelis Networks. Craig has experience designing and launching telecommunications equipment and element management solutions for access, aggregation and core transport networks designed to meet the needs of both enterprise and service provider markets. This broad range of experience provides him with unique insight into the requirements for successfully building networking equipment that is deployed in a variety of networks and applications. Through his participation with the Metro Ethernet Forum and IEEE 802 standards organizations he is recognized as one of the pioneers of the Carrier Ethernet industry.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 2:30pm
Packet Backhaul Technology

Thomas Enraght-Moony joins Clearwire as senior vice president of marketing and general manager of CLEAR online, where he serves as head of marketing overseeing the company’s advertising and marketing activities, as well as its online sales and customer service. Enraght-Moony comes to Clearwire from Match.com, where served as senior vice president, COO, and most recently CEO. His tenure at Match.com delivered profitability and numerous innovations, helping to reinvigorate the North American business. Prior to Match.com, Enraght-Moony held leadership positions at numerous companies, including director then vice president of eCommerce at AT&T Wireless. Earlier work includes product, marketing and development positions at E*TRADE, and software development at Accenture. Enraght-Moony holds a M.A. (Hons) in Economics and History from Glasgow University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD. He reports to chief commercial officer Mike Sievert.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 3:30pm
Winning Consumer Loyalty in Mobile

Mr. Eriksson was appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager, Group Function Technology, and Chief Technology Officer on January 1, 2003.

Mr. Eriksson was appointed Vice President and General Manager for Research and Development at Ericsson on April 14, 2003, and was responsible for development activities carried out in Ericsson’s Core Network Development, Radio Network Development and Service Network and Applications, as well as for Ericsson Research. Prior to this, Mr. Eriksson served for five years as head of Ericsson Research.

Mr. Eriksson joined Ericsson in 1986, representing the company as a technical expert in GSM standardization work and he has held a number of senior positions in the Research and Development field for Ericsson in Sweden and internationally.

Håkan Eriksson was born in Mjölby, Sweden, in 1961. He graduated with a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, and in 2005 was awarded an Honorary Ph D, both from Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 1985.

Keynote:
Tuesday, October 19, 11:30am
The Path to 50 Billion

Mr. Fellah, founder of Maravedis Inc., is a leader in the Broadband Wireless world and authored various landmark reports on LTE, 4G, WiMAX, Broadband Wireless and Voice over IP (VoIP). He is regularly asked to speak at leading wireless events and to contribute to various influential portals and magazines such as Telephony Magazine, 4G & WiMAX Trends, Fierce Wireless, WiMAX.com, to name a few.

Fellah is a member of the Program Advisory Board for the 4G World conference since 2004 and an active member of the World Communications Association International (WCAI) and the European Broadband Wireless Association. Prior to founding Maravedis, Fellah held various positions at Harris Corporation in charge of market intelligence and business development.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
New Broadband Spectrum

Moderator:
Thursday, October 21, 2:00pm
The State of WiMAX- A Global Update

Moderator:
Thursday, October 21, 2:45pm
WiMAX Operator Deployments

Moderator:
Thursday, October 21, 3:30pm
Roadmap to Long Term WiMAX - 802.16m

Russell is a member of the Washington office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, practicing in the firm’s nationally recognized Communications Section. With over 25 years in the wireless telecommunications industry, Russell is among the most experienced wireless communications attorneys in the country and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Prior to joining the firm, Russell was a partner and head of the telecommunications department in the Washington office of a major Chicago-based law firm where he represented users and providers of telecommunications services and equipment.

Previous to that, he held the title of Executive Director and President at the American SMR Network Association, Inc., where he established offices of a national trade association representing a segment of the wireless telecommunications industry.

Russell has extensive experience evaluating wireless telecommunications opportunities, structuring transactions involving the purchase, financing or sale of wireless telecommunications systems, handling regulatory and legislative matters before Federal and State authorities, and dealing with licensing matters before the Federal Communications Commission. Russell has assisted clients that have successfully participated in spectrum auctions conducted by the Federal Communications Commission and has secured regulatory approvals necessary for clients to offer new telecommunications services and products.

He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Russell was awarded his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Rochester (1978), and earned his J.D. from Duke University School of Law (1981). He is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association and a Fellow of the Radio Club of America.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30pm
Impact of Network Neutrality on Wireless Business Models

Rafael Francis has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. As the AVP of Technology and Marketing for the Americas, he is responsible for the marketing of all ECI products and solutions in the region. Prior to this role, Rafael was the AVP of Product Management for the Carrier Ethernet Switching and Routing line of business at ECI Telecom. Mr. Francis has extensive experience guiding product development based on various networking technologies. His expertise in next-generation networking and its business applications has been recognized through numerous conference speaking engagements and article publications. He was previously with Marconi/FORE Systems, where he shaped their IP/MPLS implementation strategy. He has a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 3:30pm
4G Packet Backhaul Strategies

Randy Fuller has more than 18 years of marketing, sales and business development experience with software, networking and consulting firms, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 organizations.  He comes to Tekelec from the company’s acquisition of policy control leader Camiant, where he was vice president of business development.  A skilled market-assessment leader, Fuller has managed product and industry marketing efforts spanning competitive analysis, press/analyst relations, lead development, sales training and account management functions.  He began his career as a senior consultant with Andersen Consulting before moving to AT&T's Business Markets Division, where he led a Global Services team that managed 32 accounts in long-distance voice and data services. He went on to serve as industry marketing manager for Kenan Systems Corp., a provider of telecommunications customer service software; and as vice president of marketing for Emperative Inc., a provisioning systems software maker backed by the venture capital firm Greylock Pequot and others.  Fuller earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 3:00pm
The Challenges and Options for Delivering Voice Over 4G Networks

Caroline Gabriel co-founded Rethink Research Associates in 2002. Rethink is a London, UK-based market research and consulting company specialized in technologies and business models for service providers and vendors, in the broadband wireless, 3G, fixed/mobile convergence and wireline broadband markets. Gabriel has also been responsible for creating the thought leading Wireless Watch and WiMAX Watch analyst services for Rethink.

Chair and Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
4G Technology Roadmap

Liam Galin joined Flash Networks as CEO in 2005, bringing with him over 15 years of experience in the communications field. As CEO, Mr. Galin has successfully expanded and improved Flash Networks’ market position, dramatically increasing worldwide sales and making it a leader in the mobile Internet services gateway market. Previously, Mr. Galin worked at RiT (NASDAQ: RITT) for seven years, five of which as CEO.

In his position at RiT, Mr. Galin was responsible for expanding the company’s reach into new markets, personally leading several multi-million dollar deals with the world’s largest carriers. Prior to his joining RiT, Mr. Galin served in an elite technology unit of the Israel Defense Forces for nine years, holding several technical and managerial positions.

He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, both from Tel Aviv University.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:00pm
Mobile Media Applications Market

Cintia Garza is the team leader of 4GCounts, the LTE and WiMAX Operator and Deployment Tracking Service, which covers the top 4G players of the industry. Her background experience includes interviews with Telecom Regulators around the world to populate Maravedis’ ClearSpectrum Licensing and Regulatory Database, and also continuous dialogues and interviews with 4G operators in the industry. She has developed a broad understanding on the analysis of broadband wireless technologies, operator trends, and spectrum regulation globally. She has authored various landmark reports on LTE, 4G, WiMAX, Broadband Wireless and 4GCounts Quarterly Reports. Garza is regularly asked to speak at leading wireless events including 4GWorld, WCAI, WiMAX Forum Latin American Congress, etc. She speaks fluently English, Spanish and French.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00pm
4G Market Opportunities in Latin America

Bob Gessel has 26 years of experience in the Telecom, Communications and Software Development industries. He has been with Ericsson for 15 years and currently leads the company’s Technology and Network Strategy Development team driving vision, strategy, planning and technology evolution for Ericsson in the North American market. His other roles at Ericsson included Senior Director of Business Development in Multimedia and Systems Integration, Principal Solutions Consultant / Architect in Multimedia and IMS systems and 11 years in R&D as Business Innovation Manager, Operations Manager and Principal Engineer.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:45pm
Cloud Computing Services: Operator threat or Opportunity

Morgan Gillis joined the LiMo Foundation in August 2007 as executive director. He has overall responsibility for leading the Foundation and all operational affairs including marketing, membership development, commercial and legal.

Prior to joining LiMo Foundation, Gillis served for six years as the operational board member for Symbian Limited, with global responsibility for sales and professional services. He established licensing agreements with all major handset makers, negotiated global agreements with several Tier One operators and oversaw the support of numerous customer implementation projects, which helped establish the smartphone as a new industry category.

Before entering the mobile industry, Gillis held CEO and managing director positions with two leading European IT services businesses. He holds a Master's degree in mathematics and computer science. In 2009, Gillis was amongst Telecoms.com’s list of “Top 40 people to watch in mobile.”

Eran was appointed Alvarion’s President and Chief Executive Officer in December 2009. He joined us from NICE, where he first served as President and CEO of NICE Systems Inc., the company’s operation in the Americas, and later as Chief Business Officer, responsible for driving the company’s global business.

Prior to NICE, Eran worked for Amdocs, where he was President of the North America Major Clients Division responsible for the company’s business with some of North America's leading communication service providers and media companies, and Corporate Vice President and Head of Worldwide Sales, responsible for leading global sales and business development activities.

Eran holds an L.LB degree from Tel-Aviv University and a joint MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and the Recanati School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv University.

Keynote:
Wednesday, October 19, 11:05am
4G Operator Deployment Considerations for Broadband Services

Evan R. Grayer is the Senior Vice President of Broadband at DIRECTV.  He recently managed the launch of DIRECTV’s WiMax-based service in Argentina and DIRECTV’s wireless broadband activities throughout Latin America.  Previously, he managed DIRECTV’s broadband initiatives in the United States, which included bundling relationships with DSL, wireless, satellite, and broadband-over-powerline operators.  Prior to DIRECTV, Evan held positions at Time Warner Cable and America Online, where he was responsible for launching various voice and data services.  He was also a communications attorney in Washington, D.C.  He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Law School.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 3:45pm
International Harmonization and Roaming

Mr. Hardin is a recognized leader in the wireless broadband communications industry, providing engineering, market planning and strategic consulting services to the broadband wireless industry.  He has been intimately involved in the wireless ad wireline industries since 1984 with both GE and Hardin & Associates.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 1:30 pm
Approaches to Operating in the “Unrestricted” Band

Chris Hardy is the Chief Executive at Comsearch and Comsearch Government Solutions LLC.   Chris has been involved in many aspects of the commercial and federal government spectrum management arena since 1981 when he first joined the company.   He is a past President of the National Spectrum Managers Association (NSMA) and currently holds the honorary title of Fellow.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 11:15am
Operator Coordination Strategies in the “Restricted” Band

Rasmus Hellberg is part of Qualcomm’s technical marketing team where he focuses on the wireless evolution. He previously spent 10 years in the wireless infrastructure industry and held several product management positions in Sweden and San Diego covering CDMA2000, 1xEV-DO, WCDMA and PDC, mainly focusing on the Radio Access network product. Rasmus started his telecom career in product management working on the Japanese PDC system and later on the first commercial WCDMA product.

Dr. Hellberg holds a Ph.D. in Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden. He also received a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Speaker:
Monday, October 19, 11:15am
LTE and 3G: The Next Leap Forward- Session 1

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 20, 3:00pm
The Role of Femtocells in Next Generation Networks

Since the middle of 2009, Andreas Hessler has been responsible for Ericsson's 50 billion connections program. Hessler strongly believes that the key to attaining the 50 billion connections vision is through innovation and understanding consumer behavior. Prior to joining Ericsson, Hessler was an associate at LEK Consulting in the UK with a focus on Management Consulting at the executive level. He has a Masters of Engineering from The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and a Masters of Business & Economics from the prestigious Stockholm School of Economics.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
M2M

Nick Holland is a senior analyst with Yankee Group's Anywhere Network team. His research examines the development of technologies enabling mobile transactions in both the digital and physical domains.

Before joining Yankee Group, Holland was a senior analyst at Aite Group, specializing in card security and fraud, mobile banking, and payments and alternative payments. Prior to Aite Group, Holland was a senior analyst with Pyramid Research, specializing in next-generation mobile content technologies and their business applications. Before that, he was the Director of Emerging Technologies Research at Mercator Advisory Group, focusing on emerging payment technologies and security.

Holland has spoken at and has chaired a variety of conferences and events, including RSA Conference 2009, the IFSA Annual Global Payments Symposium, CardTech SecurTech, Card Forum and 3GSM. He has been quoted in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, BusinessWeek, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and American Banker, among others. He holds an M.Sc Degree with Distinction in Information Systems Management from the University of Stirling, Scotland, and a B.A. (Honours) degree in Art and Design History from De Montfort University in England.

Chair:
Thursday, October 21
Evolution of M-Commerce

Dr. Harri Holma joined Nokia Research Center in 1994 and received his M.Sc. and his Phd from Helsinki University of Technology. He joined Nokia Networks in 1998. and is currently working as NSN Fellow with Nokia Siemens Networks with special interest on radio system performance. . Dr. Holma has co-edited the books "WCDMA for UMTS", "HSDPA/HSUPA for UMTS" and "LTE for UMTS" and contributed to a number of other books in the radio communication area.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
4G Deployments in EMEA – Europe/Middle East/Africa

Carl Howe is a director for Yankee Group's Anywhere Consumer research group. In this role, Howe examines how the Anywhere Network transforms consumer work, life and play. Howe's contributions to Yankee Group's Anywhere vision include reports such as "Best of the Anywhere Web 2009," "Forecasting the Mobile App Gold Rush," and "The Anywhere Economy."

Howe's current research agenda includes research on digital applications and media, mobile Web sites and their evolution, and digital advertising.

Before joining Yankee Group, Howe and Joe Butt co-founded Blackfriars Communications to advise companies in complex industries on how to distill, communicate and deliver their value. Blackfriars developed syndicated marketing research about marketing budgets, attitudes and spending as well the Blackfriars Marketing Index, a publicly recognized gauge of marketing spending. While at Blackfriars, Howe also wrote the widely read blog Blackfriars Marketing and published financial research reports on Apple, Inc.

Prior to Blackfriars, Howe directed Forrester's research in networking, computing and infrastructure, and was also a principal analyst. Howe's research predicted the next wave of Internet innovation in "The X Internet," forecasted the impact of open source software in "Open Source Cracks the Code," and predicted the recession in the PC industry in 2000 in his 1998 report "PC Industry Roller Coaster." Prior to Forrester, Howe spent 18 years at BBN Corporation, where he helped develop operating systems for some of the largest parallel processors in the world and researched wearable computers, desktop videoconferencing and distributed systems. In addition, Howe helped firms like MasterCard, Wang and National Westminster Bank deploy early internets.

Howe has commented on technology in television venues ranging from Bloomberg Television to "The Today Show" to "The CBS Evening News," and he speaks frequently at events in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has also commented on trends in technology for The New York Times, All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Technology Review as well as numerous other international and national publications. Howe was also named one of the top 20 most influential U.S. industry analysts in 2002 by Technology Marketing magazine.

Chair:
Thursday, October 21
Future of the Mobile Web

Dr. Ching-Tarng Hsieh has more than 20 years experience in information and communications technologies including WiMAX, WLAN, 5ESS, 4ESS, IS-95, cdma_2000, and UMTS systems.  He has worked in systems engineering, architecture, software development, and project management with extensive experience in switching system and protocol software development.

Dr. Ching-Tarng Hsieh received his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin.  He worked at Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies for 15 years before joining the Industrial Technology Research Institute.  He is an Engineering Director at Industrial Technology Research Institute responsible for technology development and promotion of wireless industry.

Dr. Hsieh works with WiMAX Forum and the WiMAX community extensively to promote WiMAX globally and is now Director of WiMAX Forum Taiwan Office. He is also an adjunct associate professor at National Chiao Tung University and chair of International Collaboration Group of the Networked Communications Program Office in Taiwan responsible for promoting international collaboration and standards participation.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:45 pm
WiMAX Operator Deployments

Hank joined AT&T (then SBC) in 2004.  He represents AT&T at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on a number of issues including broadband and Internet policy, video and media policy, intercarrier compensation, and universal service. He is a member of the Board of Directors and the of the Wireless Communications Association (WCA) and serves on the North American Numbering Council (NANC). Prior to joining AT&T, he was with MCI for eight years. Hank is a graduate of the George Mason University School of Law and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He resides in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two children.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30pm
Impact of Network Neutrality on Wireless Business Models

Madan Jagernauth serves currently as Vice President of Wireless Marketing and Product Management at Huawei Technologies USA, with responsibility for the North American market.

Madan has seventeen years experience in the wireless industry in various roles of increasing responsibility as a mobile broadband pioneer managing wireless access products from GSM/GPRS to WiMAX and LTE. Madan’s previous experience has also included roles in Technology and Business Development and Operations.

Prior to joining Huawei, Madan was with Nortel Networks for 21 years and Honeywell for 9 years.

Madan holds a BSc and MSc Engineering degrees from Arizona State University and MBA in Telecommunications Management from University of Dallas.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30pm
4G Deployment Strategies in Asia Pacific

Rehan Jalil is senior vice president, mobile Internet, at Tellabs. In this role, he is responsible for mobile Internet products and business at Tellabs.

Jalil joined Tellabs through the company’s acquisition of WiChorus in December 2009, where he was the founder and chief executive officer.  He led WiChorus through inception, venture funding, product delivery, partner alliances, brand creation, major customer wins and support. Previously, he was chief architect at Aperto Networks, where he led development of broadband wireless silicon and carrier-grade equipment.  Jalil also worked for Sun Microsystems, where he contributed in development of one of the industry’s earliest advanced multi-core multithreaded processor for throughput computing and graphics applications.  At Siemens, he managed large-scale projects related to system-level design and implementation.

Jalil has more than 15 years of technical management and sales experience in telecommunications, networking and multi-core processors. He contributes to social entrepreneurship projects and is a charter member of OPEN Silicon Valley.  He holds a Bachelor of electrical engineering from NED University and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and has 25 patents pending.

As Senior Director of Technical Marketing at QUALCOMM, Samir Khazaka leads the company’s corporate technology messaging efforts. Khazaka joined QUALCOMM’s engineering team in 1997 and has also held positions in product management and technical marketing. As an inventor, he holds ten patents, and has several patents in pending status covering a range of telecommunications related designs. Prior to joining QUALCOMM, he held various engineering positions at Schlumberger and ABB.

Speaker:
Monday, October 19, 11:15am
LTE and 3G: The Next Leap Forward- Session 1

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 20, 3:00pm
The Role of Femtocells in Next Generation Networks

Woonsub Kim is Executive Vice President and General Manager of Samsung’s Telecommunication Systems Business providing wireless infrastructure, enterprise communication equipments and home networking devices including set-top box. Based on long experience in the field of Telecommunication, his strong insight for technology and market trends and strategic management ability has been instrumental to the rapid growth of Samsung Electronics.

In September 2007, Kim was appointed General Manager of Telecommunication Systems Division. Under his leadership, the division achieved remarkably improved financial performance in three consecutive fiscal years, and Samsung has secured a strong global presence in wireless access business including Mobile WiMAX and Set-Top Box.

Prior to his current role, he was Executive Vice President of Business Management Office of Samsung’s Telecommunication Network Business. He has always been at the forefront of the success of Samsung mobile handset business and the world’s best CDMA and Mobile WiMAX systems business.

Before joining Samsung Electronics in 1979, he obtained a master’s degree as well as a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Kyungpook National University, and completed executive courses in management at Seoul National University and International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland. He was awarded a Bronze Tower, the Order of Industrial Service Merit in April 2003, from the Korean government in recognition of his contribution to the growth of Telecommunication Network Business including mobile phone and wireless network business areas at Samsung.

Keynote:
Tuesday, October 19, 2:oopm
The Era of Mobile Broadband: Market Trends and Prospects

YJ Kim is Senior Director/Head of Embedded Processor Group in Networking & Communications Division, at Cavium Networks. He is responsible for running entire OCTEON Processor Business and OCTEON Processor Product Line Management which accounts about 60% of company revenue. He has been with the company since June 2006.  YJ has 22 years of experience in microprocessors.  Prior to joining Cavium Networks, he held position as the Core Team Lead/GM of Tolapai (IA SOC – EP80579), Product Marketing Manager of Westport/IXP2350 at Intel Corp, co-founder/Director of API Networks, a company with $230M revenue in 2000 based on Alpha CPU, Marketing Director at Samsung Semiconductor and various marketing managers at Intel x86 Microprocessor and Flash groups.  YJ holds B.S.E.E. and Master of Engineering in E.E. from Cornell University, and has attended Wharton Executive Program at University of Pennsylvania.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 3:00 pm
The Femtocell Business Case

Sheryl is the director of Yankee Group's Enterprise Research group, with expertise in customer-centric strategies. Kingstone's research helps businesses improve sales effectiveness, customer loyalty and acquisition. Specifically, she helps enterprise clients make decisions regarding the use of technology, business processes and information to boost sales and optimize top-line business performance. She also assists vendors with custom research projects, messaging and positioning, as well as product road map evaluations. Kingstone researches and writes on the top trends in marketing and sales effectiveness and customer-centric processes, and evaluates all CRM application and delivery strategies.

Kingstone is a well-known industry analyst in the CRM market, with more than 18 years in the high-technology market. She has extensive speaking experience at conferences and seminars, is quoted in many business and industry journals and provides notable consulting experience with Fortune 1000 companies. Before joining Yankee Group, she consulted with a number of enterprise software companies in the areas of B2B e-commerce, CRM, e-services and Internet infrastructure on company and product positioning, acquisitions and IPO strategies for Blanc & Otus. Prior to this, she worked at DataMirror and Praxis International, launching new products in the enterprise data replication, transformation and database software market.

As a recognized thought leader in the CRM space, Kingstone was awarded the 2006 CRM Influential Leaders Award and was also the first female to be inducted in the CRM Hall of Fame. She is also an advisor to a variety of organizations and a judge for many annual awards.

Kingstone holds a B.S. degree from University of Massachusetts and a M.B.A. degree from Simmons College.

Moderator:
Thursday, October 21, 2:45pm
Cloud Computing Services: Operator threat or Opportunity

Moderator:
Thursday, October 21, 3:30pm
Winning Consumer Loyalty in Mobile

Paul Kirby is a senior editor at Telecommunications Reports and TR Daily.  He has covered wireless regulatory, legislative and legal issues at the publications since March 2000.  Previously, he worked for six years at the Reuters news service.  Before that, he covered Congress and the executive branch for newspapers in Florida and Louisiana as a reporter at a Washington-based regional wire service.  Previously, he covered business and local government at newspapers in Florida and Virginia.  He grew up in Silver Spring, Md., and is an alumnus of the University of Maryland at College Park.

Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30pm
Impact of Network Neutrality on Wireless Business Models

Jeff Kohler is a founder of JAB Wireless, Inc., one of the largest fixed wireless service providers in the United States.  He is responsible for mergers and acquisitions and all other corporate development activity for JAB.  Previously, Mr. Kohler served as Director of Corporate Finance and M&A with Bathgate Capital Partners LLC.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 10:00am
The 3.65 GHz Band Business Case

Richard Kolsby is the founder and Managing Director of Rocky Mountain Broadband, LLC and Auburn Broadband, LLC, operating wireless broadband companies currently constructing WiMax networks in Aspen, Colorado and Auburn, Alabama. Kolsby is a successful serial entrepreneur who has previously founded four successful fiber optic network and CLEC wireline companies. These companies include Intermedia Communications of Florida, the Atlanta network of MFS Communications, the Texas networks of Brooks Fiber Properties and the Florida properties of Windstream. Kolsby has always been at the leading edge of technology deployments and believes that 4G wireless is a disruptive technology.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:45 pm
WiMAX Operator Deployments

Mike Lanman is president – Enterprise and Government Markets for Verizon Wireless, the premier wireless provider with the largest, most reliable wireless voice and 3G broadband data network. In this role, he is responsible for all sales and service to multi-national corporations and federal government accounts.

Prior to assuming his current position in October 2009, he was vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless, responsible for the company's market strategy and segmentation, pricing, product management, wireless device procurement, brand management and marketing communications.

Lanman joined PrimeCo Personal Communications, a predecessor company of Verizon Wireless, in July 1995 as the director of sales and marketing for the Richmond market. He moved to PrimeCo's corporate office in July 1997 and served as director of sales operations until January 1999 when he was promoted to vice president of sales operations. Later that year he was named vice president and general manager for the South Florida region.

In 2000, with the creation of Verizon Wireless, Lanman was appointed region president for the state of Florida.

Lanman was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor's degree in Marketing.

Keynote:
Thursday, October 21, 9:10am
Tame the Data Tsunami with LTE and Expand Your Business with New Models and Channels

As a co-founder of the Company, Jason has served first as Director of Corporate Development and then Vice President of Corporate Development and General Counsel.  Mr. Lazar has been responsible for the identification, structuring and negotiation for each of KeyOn’s acquisitions as well as business strategy.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 10:00 am
The 3.65 GHz Band Business Case

Mitchell Lazarus, a partner with the law firm Fletcher Heald & Hildreth, represents clients in the regulation of new technologies, recently including airport body scanners, surveillance robots, public safety radar, and ultra-wideband.  Among other legal accomplishments, he authored the warning label on alcohol beverage packaging.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 2:30 pm
Regulatory Status and Potential Changes

Roger D. Linquist co-founded MetroPCS Communications and has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors since its inception, and its President from inception through June 2007, and Secretary from inception through October 2004. In 1989, Mr. Linquist founded PageMart Wireless (now USA Mobility), a U.S. paging company. He served as PageMart's Chief Executive Officer from 1989 to 1993, and as Chairman from 1989 through March 1994, when he resigned to form MetroPCS Communications. Mr. Linquist served as a director of PageMart Wireless from June 1989 to September 1997, and was a founding director of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.

Keynote:
Wednesday, October 20, 11:45am
Going 4G Our Own Way: MetroPCS’ Unique Path to Deliver No Contract Mobile Broadband

Kevin Linehan is vice president and chief technology officer for Base Station Antenna Systems at Andrew Solutions, a CommScope company.  He is responsible for the evaluation of emerging technologies and defining their impact on current and potential antenna product development, and to develop and maintain collaborations with key technical partners.  Prior to assuming a strategic role, Kevin's responsibilities included management and design positions for base station antennas, terrestrial microwave antennas, and earth station antennas. He received a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he was a research assistant in the Electromagnetics Research Lab.  Kevin holds six US patents for antenna design.

Presenter:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30 pm
Advancements in LTE: Smart Antennas and SON

Zach Lovell is Product Planner for protocol analysis and network diagnostics solutions focusing on evolving 3G and LTE in Agilent Technologies’ Next Generation Wireless business. He graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1998.

During his 11 year working career Zach has worked with network equipment manufacturers and wireless service providers focusing on active and passive testing of CDMA, GSM, GPRS, UMTS & NGN networks. Zach has been engaged in all aspects of protocol test, including consultative assistance in troubleshooting live network problems & providing training in leading wireless technologies.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 5:15pm
Super Session- Preparing for the Transformation– Network Readiness for 4G Migrations

Mark Lowenstein is a prominent wireless industry executive, consultant, analyst, and commentator. As Managing Director of Mobile Ecosystem, Lowenstein advises C-level executives on corporate, product, market, and industry strategy across the value chain of the wireless, communications, and digital media industries. Clients include wireless operators, equipment suppliers, device manufacturers, application and content developers, marketing and advertising firms, corporate end-users, and key members of the investment and venture capital communities.

Moderator:
Thursday, October 21, 10:30am
Executive Operator Roundtable

Glenn Lurie is President of Emerging Devices, National Resale and Partnerships for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. Lurie leads AT&T’s strategic initiative to drive innovation in bringing wireless connectivity to a host of new devices and applications — including personal computers, eBooks/eReaders, in-car entertainment and portable navigation devices, digital cameras, and machine-to-machine communications solutions.

Lurie also has responsibilities for AT&T’s ongoing operations and relationship with Apple Inc., having led negotiations to bring the iPhone to AT&T. In addition, Lurie has responsibility for AT&T’s National Resale business and operations.

Glenn’s previous role was President of National Distribution for AT&T’s wireless operations, where he was responsible for business operations for the National Retail Channel, National Dealer Channel, Direct Mail/Direct Response team, National Resale Operations, att.com - AT&T’s web business – as well as AT&T’s Prepaid business and sales through all distribution channels.

Glenn joined the former AT&T Wireless in 1990, and held several sales, marketing and operation positions throughout his tenure. As Senior Vice President of AT&T’s West Region, he was responsible for the market operations in 10 western states, representing more than 40 percent of the company's overall business.

Prior to leading the company’s West Region operations, Lurie held senior executive positions including Regional Vice President for the California/Hawaii region and Vice President and General Manager for the Los Angeles/Southern California market after advancing from a similar position for Arizona.

Prior to entering the wireless industry, Lurie was a professional soccer player for teams representing Cleveland, Atlanta, Milwaukee and Portland.

Lurie was awarded the Atlanta Telecom Professional of the Year Award in 2009 from the Atlanta Telecoms Professionals Association. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business/Marketing from Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, WA.

Keynote:
Tuesday, October 19, 9:10am
New Generation Devices for New Generation Networks

Kevin Martin is a former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and co-chair of Patton Boggs’ technology and communications practice. Mr. Martin has nearly two decades experience as a lawyer and policymaker in the telecommunications field, including his tenure as FCC Chairman from March 2005 to January 2009 when the industry was undergoing a period of unprecedented growth and innovation. Using his vast knowledge of the telecommunications industry, Mr. Martin helps clients take advantage of wireless and broadband opportunities, counseling businesses on their strategic business initiatives and the nuances of FCC regulations and communications policies.

While Mr. Martin was FCC Chairman, the Commission created a regulatory environment that encouraged infrastructure investment and broadband competition, leading to greater coverage and decreased prices for Americans. The number of broadband lines in the country doubled to more than 100 million. Under Mr. Martin’s leadership, the FCC conducted the two most successful and profitable spectrum auctions in U.S. history, raising almost $20 billion in 2008 alone. Mr. Martin also spearheaded the FCC’s initiative to dedicate more than $400 million to the construction of broadband networks for state-wide and regional health care networks reaching more than 6,000 health care facilities.

As FCC Chairman, Mr. Martin also represented the U.S. in dozens of bilateral negotiations and addressed numerous international conferences as a global leader on telecommunications and technology policy.

Before joining the FCC as a Commissioner in 2001, Mr. Martin was a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and served on the staff of the National Economic Council, focusing on commerce and technology policy issues. He served as the official U.S. government representative to the G-8’s Digital Opportunity Task Force. Mr. Martin was Deputy General Counsel on the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential campaign and also previously served as a counsel to a Commissioner at the FCC.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
Implementing the National Broadband Plan

Michael brings with him nearly 30 years of experience in the technology industry, and a strong background in telecommunications, software, technology and innovation, having held senior positions at hardware and software companies and in both start-up and multinational companies. He is known as a passionate leader with a proven record in developing great teams and helping transform companies.

Michael is Head of Strategy and Business Development at Nokia Siemens Networks. In this role, he is responsible for bringing clarity to the role that Nokia Siemens Networks will play in the market as it continues to evolve. He also directs the company’s strategic planning and investments; M&A program; and strategic alliances and partnerships. As a member of Nokia Siemens Networks’ Global Executive Management Team, Michael reports directly to the company’s CEO, Rajeev Suri.
Michael was previously Chief Marketing Officer at Amdocs Inc, the leading provider of software and services for many of the world’s largest communications service providers. During his 5 years at Amdocs, he played a key role in leading the transformation of the company, addressing new markets, expanding the product line, and evolving the channel to address the rapidly changing needs of the telecom industry.

Between 1999 and 2002, he was the Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, and an integral part of the start-up team at Groove Networks, a U.S. based software firm offering an enterprise collaboration platform, and one of the most successful start-ups of its time. Prior to this, he served in leadership positions across technology companies such as Platinum Technology, Sterling Software, and Digital Equipment Corporation in the United States and Australia.

Michael has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Keynote:
Wednesday, October 20, 10:00am
Friend or Foe in the 4G Value Chain?

Mr. Mayagoitia is an electronics and communications engineer graduated in 1978 from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores of Monterrey, Mexico (ITESM) with additional studies in psychology, philosophy and advanced administration.  Alejandro began his career as a Mathematics professor, acquired experience in project management and computer systems analysis. Later on, he started up his first company; VIDEORBIT, during the C Band satellite boom.

In 1992, founded  TELINOR a MMDS operation, later acquired by  MVS Multivision, where Alejandro is a shareholder.  In 1993 co-founded AXTEL, the first FWA network providing local telephony in Mexico. In November of 2009 appointed president of the Mexican association of MMDS operators (ANSITEL) Currently is working in the trilateral group for harmonizing the use of the 2.5 to 2.7 GHz frequencies in the borders of EU-Canada –Mexico, also involved with his Latin American colleagues to reorganize LaNet, the association of operators of 4G networks in the 2.5 band.

A very active member within the wireless industry and WCAI.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00pm
4G Market Opportunities in Latin America

As product business unit leader for wireless broadband & networking at TESSCO Technologies, Scott A. McClure is responsible for developing innovative broadband solutions and introducing them to the wireless marketplace.  McClure has more than ten years of experience in the wireless industry.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 10:00am
The 3.65 GHz Band Business Case

Tajit Mehta has worked for several International Telecommunications Carriers during the last 17 years, in areas such as International Cable functionality, Value Added Enhanced dialing products, Automated Multilingual services, and Spectrum Acquisition for Wireless mobility.  Mr. Mehta also Co-chairs the Global Development Committee (GDC) of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) and negotiates Spectrum rights for Clearwire.

Moderator:
Tuesday, October 19, 3:00pm
Developing Strategies for Harmonized Regulations in Latin America

Dan Meyer is currently an editor at RCR Wireless News where he oversees the editorial direction of the magazine, reports on news from the wireless industry and provides opinion stories on topics of concern to the market. Meyer started at RCR Wireless News in 1999 as an editorial assistant and was promoted to reporter in 2000 covering wireless carriers and wireless technologies. Meyer was promoted to managing editor in 2005 and served in that position until the magazine was closed in 2009. Meyer was brought back to RCR Wireless News in mid-2009 by its new owners Austin, Texas-based Arden Media Co. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Meyer worked for Center Ice Magazine covering the Colorado Avalanche National Hockey League team and was an intern in the sports department at the Boulder Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo.

 Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 3:45pm
International Harmonization and Roaming

Craig Miller is responsible for driving Sequans¹ marketing strategy and business development activities. During his twenty-plus year career in the chip industry, he has successfully championed numerous silicon, system and software products targeting the wireless, computing, consumer electronics and networking market segments.

Prior to joining Sequans, Miller was vice president of product management and marketing at NextWave Wireless, where he was responsible for strategic and product marketing for a portfolio of WiMAX and LTE chipsets. Prior to NextWave, he held numerous positions in product marketing, strategy, business development and product engineering at Intel Corporation and was director of marketing for the Wireless Networking Group, where he championed the first of several generations of wireless LAN silicon and modules at the core of Intel¹s Centrino mobile technology platform.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:00pm
The State of WiMAX- A Global Update

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 5:15pm
Super Session- Preparing for the Transformation– Network Readiness for 4G Migrations

Andrew Mitchell, Content Director, Events & Media Division, Yankee Group Andrew Mitchell is an Engineering Technologist and has been involved in telecommunications and wireless technologies. He is currently responsible for 4G World's program development and for editorial content for 4G Trends. His experiences include quality and systems engineering tenures in defense electronics and telco environments. Andrew has also provided consulting services and the development, design and delivery of VoIP, wireless, mobile computing and RFID-based technology solutions for enterprise.

Kevin leads wireless solution marketing at Acme Packet, focusing on wireless access, interconnect and core session routing applications of Acme Packet’s Net-Net product family. In addition to developing marketing and event strategy, Kevin serves as the chief spokesperson for Acme Packet's solutions for femtocells, fixed mobile convergence, RCS, 4G voice, VoIP peering and core session routing. Kevin joined Acme Packet in 2005 after 8 years with Infonetics Research where he was most recently a Principal Analyst, serving as an overall company director and product manager and lead analyst responsible for consulting, analysis, product development and overall strategic direction of multiple technology coverage areas. In that role, he authored numerous in-depth reports, articles and presented research and analysis at industry conferences. He obtained his bachelor degree in marketing and philosophy from Boston College.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 20, 3:00pm
Challenges and Options for Delivering Voice Over 4G Networks

Tim is the West coast consulting director for Aricent’s Business and Technology Consulting (BTC) Practice.  Aricent is a KKR funded technology services firm focused on the communications industry.  Aricent’s BTC practice integrates the firm’s industry leading communications engineering services with the product innovation and design capabilities of its subsidiary, frog design (www.frogdesign.com). The BTC Practice works with leading service providers, device manufacturers, ISV and OEM vendors to develop actionable product, market and business strategies.  The team assists clients in developing successful strategies to transform their product and service offerings in the dynamic and competitive global communications market. BTC engagements typically bring together product innovation, design, communication engineering and business strategy. The team provides a business underpinning to ensure the successful commercialization of products that are relevant and unique for their target customers.

Speaker:
Thursday, October 21, 3:30pm
Winning Consumer Loyalty in Mobile

Jason Morgan is responsible for ADTRAN’s Carrier Ethernet, optical, and management solutions including Ethernet access, SONET products, and the company’s element management system. Since 1996, he has served in engineering management and design roles with development responsibility for many of ADTRAN’s digital business transport and Ethernet access solutions. Prior to joining ADTRAN, Morgan served in engineering design and management roles for Motorola’s Transmission Products Division. Morgan has more than 17 years of industry experience and holds 9 patents. Morgan has Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 3:30pm
4G Packet Backhaul Strategies

Bill Morrow is a seasoned telecom industry executive with a diversified background leading wireline and wireless communications companies in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

Prior to joining Clearwire on March 9, 2009, he served as President and CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E, where he oversaw a business with over $13 billion in annual revenue and more than 20,000 employees. During his tenure, he oversaw operations and successfully directed an overhaul aimed at improving the company’s efficiency, supply chain and customer focus, generating operational efficiencies and improved customer satisfaction.

Before joining PG&E, Morrow held several leadership positions at Vodafone, the number two wireless provider in the world with more than 133 million subscribers. At Vodafone, he served as CEO for Europe overseeing global marketing, global technology and the largest operating businesses in the company portfolio. Before being named CEO, he held market level responsibility as president of Vodafone K.K. in Tokyo, CEO of Vodafone Ltd in the UK, and was President of Japan Telecom, the third largest telecom company in Japan. Earlier in his career, he held several strategy and operations positions with Vodafone in the U.S. and Europe, and several international leadership positions with AirTouch.

He began his career at Pacific Bell, where he held several technology and engineering positions, including responsibility for company-wide operations of packet data products.

Keynote Speaker:
Wednesday, October 20, 9:10 am
Keynote: The Mobile Data Tidal Wave: How Clearwire’s 4G Network is Meeting Today’s Pent Up Demand for Mobile Broadband

Rick Mostaert is Director of LTE Product Management at Motorola’s Networks business.  In this role, he is responsible for Motorola’s LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) solution and technology roadmap. One of his current areas of focus is how real-time, multimedia applications are driving changes to today’s networks and how to cost effectively provide mobile broadband services to the mass market migrating to LTE.  Prior to this role, Rick held a variety of engineering and product management positions in Motorola, covering CDMA EV-DO, base stations, base station controllers, and the introduction of IP infrastructure and backhaul into Motorola’s CDMA 1X RAN. Rick has over 15 years of experience in the wireless industry and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa.

Presenter:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30 pm
Building the Device Ecosystem: Chipsets and Devices

As the Group Product Manager for the Mobile Security Group at Symantec, Khoi Nguyen is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the team, defining the business strategy, setting the product roadmap, and managing the product management team.   Nguyen earned his master’s in business administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and MS in computer science from UCLA.  During that time, Nguyen researched and designed new Internet protocols for “self-configuring and adaptive” Web Cache servers that were designed to reduce both network bandwidth and user response time on the Web.  Nguyen is the co-author of “Adaptive Web Caching” in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems.

With more than 10 years of experience in the software industry, Nguyen has tremendous experience and skills in product management, marketing, and business development.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
Mobile OS & Platforms

Christopher Nicoll, distinguished research fellow at Yankee Group, is a member of the company’s Research Council, chartered with the responsibility of providing thought leadership to the research organization. His expertise involves working with customers to establish competitive positioning in their markets and to gain and maintain a leadership position.

Before joining Yankee Group, he was principal analyst at Nicoll Consulting, where he developed marketing strategy and positioning for leading telecom equipment vendors.

Chair:
Event Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010
4G Operator Deployment

Speaker:
Wednesday, October 20, 9:00am
Recap

Dr. Hideo Okinaka is Vice President and General Manager of Emerging Technologies and Spectrum Division at KDDI Corporation and responsible for industry and government relations on technology matters including investigation into emerging technologies, standards strategy, bridging the valley between standardisation and implementation, and spectrum affairs.  Prior to assuming the current role in April 2006, he was responsible for the corporate level technology strategy as Vice President and General Manager of Strategic Technology Management Division.  Until March 2004, he had been working on the cellular telephone business since 1991, including business development strategy for the KDDI’s “au” business unit as Vice President, the Japanese TDMA and IMT-2000 system development, and licence bidding in offshore markets.  Prior to this, he spent 14 years for R&D primarily on the satellite communication system engineering with particular emphasis on mobile satellite systems at KDD and Inmarsat.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of WiMAX Forum.  He was the Chair of 3GPP2 Steering Committee in 2003-2004 term and also served as the Chair of 3GPP2 TSG-S, Services and Systems Aspects working group, from its foundation in 1999 till January 2001.  He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) during the entire period of its life.

Dr. Okinaka received Morita Prize and Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers of Japan for his contribution to the development of digital mobile satellite communication systems.  He was also praised by Recognition Award from the ITU Association of Japan for his contribution to the 3G mobile system standardisation.  He earned a B.S. degree in applied physics, a M.S. degree in physics and a Dr. Engineering degree in communication science from Waseda University.

Keynote:
Tuesday, October 19, 11:00 am
Accomodating the Growing Demand for Mobile Broadband: Opportunities and Challenges

Mitch Oliver is vice president of solutions and marketing for Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS). Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS) enables mobile retailing solutions and Internet services that accelerate consumer adoption and usage of mobile data worldwide.

Previous to his current role, Oliver was senior director of business systems and operations within QIS. In this role Oliver directed the development of QIS' CRM solution and the billing system and virtual marketplace required for the BREW solution. Oliver was responsible for architecting and operating a highly available content delivery computing infrastructure to support multiple wireless service providers.

Prior to the formation of QIS, Oliver was director of information technology for Qualcomm Corporate Information Technology (IT). In this role Oliver was responsible for all IT infrastructure research and development activities, including deployment of a company-wide LDAP directory service and management of the Year 2000 program. Oliver joined Qualcomm in 1994 as a member of the corporate engineering organization and worked on deploying a company-wide document management solution that is now a Qualcomm standard.

Before joining Qualcomm, Oliver spent nine years at General Dynamics where he was responsible for various system engineering activities; including integration of Russian technology into U.S. commercial launch systems. He holds a Masters of Science degree in operations research from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor or Science degree in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 3:30pm
Winning Consumer Loyalty in Mobile

Ken is currently Director of Product Marketing for the Service Provider Market Group at Dialogic. He has spent 17 years in the telecommunications industry in senior marketing and product management positions at several companies in the Boston area supplying products and services to Service Providers including Boston Technology and IPeria. Most recently he was at Pactolus where he initially helped to secure venture capital funding and took the company to market. A frequent VoIP industry spokesperson and editorial board advisor and writer, Ken has teamed with executives across the industry to educate the market on SIP-based service delivery software components and applications. He holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Franklin.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:00pm
Mobile Media Applications Market

Keynote: Monday, October 18, 10:00am Optimize & Monetize the All-IP 4G Mobile Network Panelist: Monday, October 18, 1:30pm Executive Roundtable: 4G Network Topology

Senza Fili Consulting (www.senzafiliconsulting.com) provides advisory support on wireless data technologies and services financial modeling, market research, business plan support, business development, RFPs, due diligence, and white paper preparation. Independent advice, a strong quantitative approach, and an international perspective are the hallmarks of Monica Paolini's work at Senza Fili Consulting.

Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 10:00am
The 3.65 GHz Band Business Case

Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
4G Vertical Industry Apps: State of the Market

Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30
Smart Power Grid

Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30pm
Transportation

Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
M2M

Brian Partridge is vice president of Yankee Group's Anywhere Network research group with expertise in carrier network infrastructure and service delivery solutions. Partridge focuses on the challenges that network operators face as multimedia services migrate to packet-based networks. Specifically, he examines market drivers, vendor/operator strategies and new business models driving investment in next-generation service delivery architectures, including NGN, IMS and SDP.

Prior to joining Yankee Group, Partridge served as senior director of marketing and business development at ReefEdge Networks, a leading vendor of wireless security and management systems. Before ReefEdge, Partridge was the worldwide director of industry analyst relations at 3Com Corp.  Before 3Com, Partridge held a number of sales support and product marketing roles at Enterasys Networks, a Tier 1 enterprise networking vendor.

Partridge holds a B.S. degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire and an M.B.A. degree from Plymouth State University.

Chair:
Thursday, October 21
Mobile Internet Innovations

Steve Pazol is president, nPhase, a Verizon Wireless / Qualcomm joint venture, where he directs all aspects of the company's operations, strategic development and execution. nPhase provides machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communications and smart services offerings across a wide variety of market segments, including healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, distribution and consumer products. Previously Pazol was vice president and general manager for the Global Smart Services group for Qualcomm Enterprise Services, the group that provided the basis for the newly formed joint venture.

Pazol is a seasoned entrepreneur and CEO with a 20+ year track record of successful startups in high technology and emerging markets, including M2M (machine to machine), enterprise software and wireless technologies. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Pazol was the founder and CEO of the original nPhase which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2006.

A recognized thought leader and industry expert, Pazol has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Chicago Innovation Award, was named one of the original 10 M2M Pioneers by M2M Magazine, and served as moderator of the first M2M web log—M2Mblog. He has written numerous articles in technology journals, is on the Advisory Board of M2M Magazine, was the technical editor of the Unicenter Advisor magazine for more than 7 years as well as guest editor of Internet Security Advisor. He is also the technical editor and co-author of Unicenter TNG for Dummies. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Pazol has also been a featured speaker and panel member at multiple Wharton School of Business, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Northwestern Business School entrepreneurial classes.

Prior to founding nPhase, Pazol spent 15 years providing consulting and systems implementation services in the information technology field as President of Professional Consulting Services, Inc. and co-founder of Mehta & Pazol Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. in Pune, India. In 2005 and 2006, Steve was also acting CEO of Skychain, a joint venture between nPhase, LLC and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Pazol has been active with a number of civic organizations and is currently on the board of SuperSibs!, a non-profit supporting the siblings of children with pediatric cancer. Pazol has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Keynote:
Thursday, October 21, 11:30 am
M2M and 4G Networks:  The Present and the Future

Chris Pearson is the President of 3G Americas, LLC.  In his role as the spokesperson and senior operating officer of the corporation, he is responsible for the strategic planning of the organization and providing executive management for the integration of strategy and operations in the areas of technology, marketing, public relations, finance as well as public and regulatory affairs.  As President of 3G Americas, Mr. Pearson represents 3G Americas’ Market Representation interests within the 3GPP organization.

Mr. Pearson came to 3G Americas from the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) where he served as Executive Vice President in charge of the strategic management of the technology consortium.  Prior to joining the UWCC, Mr. Pearson held the position of Strategic Alliance Manager for the Advanced Network Services Provider Program (ANSPP) at AT&T Wireless Services in Kirkland, Washington.

Additionally, prior to AT&T Wireless, Mr. Pearson held several senior account management and technical marketing positions at GTE Telephone Operations. Throughout his 23-year career in telecommunications, Mr. Pearson has provided lectures, technical marketing training and speeches for technology audiences throughout the world.

Presenter:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
4G Network Evolution: LTE to LTE – Advanced

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 11:15am
Operator Coordination Strategies in the “Restricted” Band

Jennifer Pigg is a vice president in Yankee Group's Anywhere Network research group. Her area of expertise is Anywhere Network Infrastructure, technology and management, including carrier convergence infrastructure, carrier Ethernet services and transport, mobile backhaul, packet optical transport, active and passive optical networking, core and edge routers, and multi-service aggregation devices. She also examines the technology challenges facing service providers as they address shifts in the Anywhere Network, such as peer-to-peer content delivery, the approach of IPv6 and cloud computing. On the infrastructure management side, she writes on network OSs, Domain Name System (DNS) and policy management.

Prior to joining Yankee Group, Pigg was manager of network planning and strategy for Wang Laboratories' corporate data network. She began her career at Wang with responsibility for the domestic and international rollout of Wang's packet network, connecting more than 250 locations in 14 countries. Before joining Wang, she was a member of the IT research and development division of Commercial Union Insurance Companies.

Pigg is a highly regarded speaker at industry seminars and conferences, and is frequently cited by the commercial and trade press. She is a member of the IEEE and holds a B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College.

Moderator:
Thursday, October 21, 2:00pm
Overview of the First LTE Deployment in Japan

As AT&T’s Senior Vice President-Federal Regulatory, Robert W. Quinn, Jr. is responsible for regulatory matters affecting AT&T and its affiliates pending before the Federal Communications Commission as well as the coordination and support of regulatory and external affairs activities throughout AT&T’s regional operations.

Prior to being appointed to his current position, Mr. Quinn served as Vice President, Federal Regulatory Affairs for AT&T Corp. in Washington, DC where he represented AT&T before the FCC and the United States Department of Justice.  From 1993–1997, Mr. Quinn served as senior regional attorney for AT&T in Chicago, Illinois representing AT&T before various state public utilities commissions in the Midwest.  Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Quinn spent five years as a trial attorney with the Chicago firm Mayer, Brown & Platt (now Mayer Brown LLP).

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30 pm
WCAI Broadband and Wireless Policy Summit: Implementing the National Broadband Plan

Neville Ray has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years with specific experience in the design, deployment and operational management of GSM and WCDMA wireless networks in the USA and worldwide. His experience includes all aspects of wireless network design and deployment.

Mr. Ray is the Chief Network Officer with national responsibility for the management and development of the T-Mobile USA wireless network. This network supports both GSM & HSDPA services (2G/3G), encompasses more than 43,000 cell sites, and serves more than 33 million customers.

Mr. Ray currently serves as the Chairperson of 3G Americas - an organization with a mission to promote and facilitate the seamless deployment throughout the Americas of the GSM family of technologies, including HSPA, HSPA+ and LTE.

Mr. Ray is also a member of the NTIA’s Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) and a former member of the FCC’s Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC).

Prior to assuming the national role at T-Mobile, he held the position of Vice President Network Engineering & Operations for the Northeast region. Mr. Ray led the company through the 9/11 terrorist attacks, receiving significant recognition from the New York Police Department, NY state agencies and the FCC.

Mr. Ray came to the US in 1995 when he held the position of Vice President of Network Operations at Pacific Bell Mobile Services. His prior experience included the design and deployment of cellular, microwave and broadcast telecommunications systems in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Far East.

Mr. Ray is an honors graduate of City University, London, UK and a member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (MIEEE) and the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE).

Presenter:
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00pm
4G Network Evolution: HSPA+

Stephen is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of BelAir Networks. He brings more than 25 years of product and technology experience in the telecommunications industry -- most of that focused on wireless -- and has worked extensively with service providers deploying new wireless technologies. Previously, he led the development of broadband wireless products, the launch of broadband multimedia satcom equipment and the design of the industry's first wireless PBX at Nortel and BNR. Stephen is an accomplished speaker, is active in industry standardization serving as an officer of the IEEE 802.11s ESS Networking Task Group and is author of more than ten patents. Stephen holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University, a Diploma in Administration from the University of Ottawa, is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School's Management of Technology program and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Speaker:
Tuesday, October 19 at 5:00pm
Handling the Data Explosion - Femtocells and Alternative Approaches

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30pm
Transportation

Prior to joining Intel Capital, Ron was Vice President of Business Development at Brightpoint Inc, a $2 billion logistics provider to cellular network operators worldwide.  From 1994 to 1997, Ron was a Senior Associate in the Communications, Media, and Technology practice at Booz Allen and Hamilton where he led a variety of strategic and operational consulting engagements.  Since joining Intel Capital, he has led or co-led investments totaling in excess of $200 million in wireless companies.

Currently, Ron manages a team that is responsible for investments in the US and internationally in support of Intel’s activities in the mobility sectors.    He is active on several boards of portfolio companies, and has managed exits including Clearwire, Interpacket Networks, and Japan Telecomunications.

Ron completed an MBA at the Wharton School, where he was recognized for academic distinction.  He has a BS with high honors from the School of Engineering at University of California at Berkeley.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 5:00pm
4G Investment in Latin America

Patrik Ringqvist has 30 years experience in the telecommunications infrastructure industry. He is responsible for Ericsson’s North American direction for expanding and evolving mobile networks. In this role, Ringqvist manages Ericsson’s solutions for mobile broadband networks in North America.

Prior to his current role, Ringqvist has also held positions in sales and product development in the United States and Sweden. He has extensive experience in working with wireless networks, from first-generation analog systems through fourth-generation broadband systems.

Ringqvist holds a Master of Science in Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00 pm
4G Network Evolution: HSPA+

Keynote:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
4G Network Evolution: LTE to LTE – Advanced

Kris Rinne is responsible for wireless industry standards development, long range technology planning, and the network and device planning for new products and services for wireless at AT&T. She also has broader network architecture responsibility for the corporation as a whole.

Prior to this position, Rinne served as Cingular’s chief technology officer with similar responsibilities. She earlier served as vice president—Technology and Product Realization, responsible for new product development from a technology standpoint, handset certification, and infrastructure vendor coordination.

Prior to joining Cingular, she was vice president—Technology Strategy for SBC Wireless, responsible for new product development and network operations support. She has worked for Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems as managing director—Operations.

Presenter:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
4G Network Evolution: LTE to LTE – Advanced

Erasmo Rojas is the Director of Latin America and the Caribbean for 3G Americas and is responsible for providing information to mobile operators, vendors, regulators, telecommunications organizations and the media and analysts regarding the GSM family of technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean and its evolution to 3G including LTE.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00pm
4G Market Opportunities in Latin America

Todd Rowley, vice president of 4G, has responsibilities for leading Sprint’s strategic relationships and partnering efforts with 4G.  He has helped lead the 4G business unit - developing, implementing and driving execution of Sprint’s go-to-market plans with 4G, in conjunction with the Sprint/Clearwire venture. 

Todd has over 20 years in the wireless and cable industries and has been with Sprint for the past ten years.  Prior to his current position, he was vice president of corporate development and has held various other positions at Sprint, including responsibility for Corporate Development, Strategy, Roaming, Spectrum Management and Fixed Wireless Broadband operations. Todd played an instrumental role in developing Sprint's 4G business plan and in the formation of Clearwire.  Prior to Sprint, Todd worked in various positions for wireless start-ups and cable companies, including senior vice president of development for People’s Choice TV (prior to Sprint’s acquisition of the company in 1999). 

In addition, he has served on several industry boards, including the Wireless Communications Association and the National ITFS Association, the WCA's executive committee and chairman of the WCA's government relations committee.  Rowley received his Bachelor's in Business Administration in finance and marketing from the University of Iowa.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
4G Deployments Strategies in Americas

Jimena Saavedra was born in La Paz Bolivia. She Graduated in July 1987 from Marrymount  University and obtained a Bachelors of Arts degree. In December 2000 she obtained a Master's degree in Business Administration (M.B.A) in Maestrias Para el Desarrollo  Harvard Institute of Development.

From 1992 to 1995 she was the Regional Manager of  MULTIVISION S.R.L a cable system in La Paz. She was the team leader involved in the change of the company to a corporation and in the selling process of the company to foreign investors.

From 1996 until 2000 General Manager of MULTIVISION S.A. a Cable Operation with five systems in Bolivia. She was involved in the acquisition of three systems and integrating the new acquisitions into a single company. Team Leader of restructuring the company in terms of organizational structure, policies and procedures and systems.

From 2001 until now CEO of MULTIVISION S.A. in charge of Developing strategic and operating plans. Responsible to deploy the high speed Internet service and development of bundled services with other telecom companies in Bolivia. In charge of the research, testing and implementation of the digital technology in the systems.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 3:00pm
Developing Strategies for Harmonized Regulations in Latin America

Mr. Sandri has served as Senior Vice President, Government & Regulatory, for FiberTower Corp. and its predecessor, First Avenue Networks, since May 2005.  Previously Mr. Sandri worked for 10 years in the Winstar-IDT Companies, where his last position was President for IDT Spectrum, Inc, a fixed wireless carriers’ carrier.  From 1992-1995 he served in private practice as a telecommunications attorney for Keller & Heckman, LLP, a firm specializing in wireless and wireline networks for utilities, equipment manufacturers and the oil & gas industry.  He earlier interned with the FCC, and prior to law school served as Sports Anchor for WRBL, a CBS Television affiliate.  He has testified in the Senate on network diversity and fixed wireless matters; served on the U.S. National Spectrum Committee; and participated in various ITU and World Radio Conferences.  He serves on the boards of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) and the National Spectrum Managers Association (NSMA).

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
New Broadband Spectrum

Professor Saunders is one of the world’s leading authorities on femtocells and is Chairman of the Femto Forum.  As chairman Simon works to drive the uptake of femtocell technologies through open standards, market education and ecosystem development. Simon has consulted for companies including O2, Ofcom, NTL, BT, Motorola, BBC and many others. He is the author of books and articles and is a regular speaker at industry conferences. In May 2007 Simon was appointed to Ofcom's Spectrum Advisory Board.

Moderator:
Tuesday, October 19, 3:00pm
The Role of Femtocells in Next Generation Networks

Adrian Scrase played a central role in creation of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and is responsible for the operations of the 3GPP Project Co-ordination Group. He also Heads 3GPPs’ Mobile Competence Centre (MCC) which is an International team of 20 experts who provide comprehensive support to the Project.

Adrian has more than 25 years experience in the telecommunications field, which includes 20 years of experience in standardization. He is Vice President within ETSI with responsibility for International Partnership Projects.

Presenter:
Tuesday, October 19, 5:00 pm
Standards, Trials and Certification

Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20, 5:15pm
Super Session- Preparing for the Transformation– Network Readiness for 4G Migrations

Paul Senior joined Airspan in January of 1998 and has served as Head of Airspan’s Radio Planning Team, Director of Customer Services, Senior Director of Operations and Sales, Asia Pacific, as Vice President, Marketing and Product Management and since May 2007 as Airspan’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Senior is an  industry veteran, with over 22 years experience in the radio telecommunication industry.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 1:30 pm
Approaches to Operating in the "Unrestricted" Band

James P. Seymour was born on May 12, 1967, in Chicago, IL and received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph. D. degrees from Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN in 1989, 1991 and 1994 respectively where his research focused on improved phase synchronization techniques for mobile communication systems.  In July of 1994, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Whippany, NJ as a member of the technical staff for the network wireless Radio Performance and Analysis Group where his work focused on improved equalization schemes for TDMA PCS systems.  In 1999 he became Technical Manager of the Wireless Algorithms Development Group in the Advanced Technologies organization at Lucent Technologies where his work focused on design and development of state of the art algorithms and performance for 3G system.  In 2006 he received the Bell Labs Fellowship award for his outstanding and seminal contributions to wireless technology and standards spanning 2G, 3G and 4G systems and significant impacts on Alcatel-Lucent’s business through outstanding technical support of Alcatel-Lucent’s customers.  He is currently working for Alcatel-Lucent in Naperville, IL as Director of RAN Strategy in the Wireless CTO organization focused on technology strategy for Alcatel-Lucent’s broadband wireless solutions.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
4G Network Evolution: LTE to LTE - Advanced

An industry visionary and well-known expert in the field, Mo serves on Alvarion’s executive management team as Corporate Vice President for Innovation and Marketing. In addition, he serves in several prominent roles in the industry, such as Vice President of the WiMAX Forum and a member of the WiMAX Forum Board of Directors. Instrumental in growing WiMAX into a multi-billion dollar industry and having expanded the WiMAX Forum’s global reach, Mo is considered to be the leading voice for the WiMAX industry. In addition to his industry leadership position with the WiMAX Forum, Mo also serves on the advisory board for the Wireless Communication Alliance and is an IEEE MTT-SVC 2004 chairman.

Prior to joining Alvarion, Mo was responsible for developing and managing network solutions in European and South American broadband wireless markets for Lucent Technologies. Before Lucent, he spent fourteen years in technical and management positions with Hewlett Packard, developing microwave and fiber optic communication components and systems. He co-founded the wireless systems division, where he was responsible for the engineering team developing low-cost residential digital wireless systems for U.S. and Asian markets.

Mo earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University on Subpicosecond GaAs Wafer Probe Systems.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 11:15am
Operator Coordination Strategies in the “Restricted” Band

Steven Shalita has more than 20 years of market and technology experience across the service provider and enterprise markets with strong background in enterprise networking, IP/MPLS, and IP transformation projects. He has wide range of experience stretching from service management and assurance to service delivery architecture including datacenter, LAN/WAN, core, edge and metro technologies and has led initiatives targeting convergence, mobility, triple-play and business services carrier environments. Mr. Shalita has held senior marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, HP and Cisco. He returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing from 1997 through 1999.

Speaker:
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00pm
The Reality of Driving Revenues with New Services and New Value Chains

As VP of Corporate Market Development for Alvarion Ltd., Mr. Sharma manages analyst and press relations and serves as the company spokesperson. Mr. Sharma is active within the WiMAX industry and plays a prominent role within the WiMAX Forum Marketing Working Group. Prior to Alvarion, he served as a Director of Business Development for Ericsson for several years and helped grow Ericsson’s business in several key regions.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30
Smart Power Grid

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:00pm
The State of WiMAX- A Global Update

As Director of Global Marketing for LiMo Foundation, Andrew Shikiar is responsible for helping develop and articulate LiMo's vision and market strategy.  Shikiar possesses significant strategic marketing and business development expertise in cutting-edge technologies and market-shifting industry initiatives. He served as Membership Director for industry consortia the Liberty Alliance Project and Blade.org. At Sun Microsystems he helped drive the company's Java and Liberty Alliance launch initiatives. In addition, he was a founding executive at Radical Communication, where he helped raise nearly $20 million in venture financing and drove market adoption of interactive video and email marketing technology solutions.

Moderator:
Thursday, October 21, 3:30pm
Architecting a Successful Software Platform Convergence Strategy

As chief commercial officer, Mike Sievert directs the company’s customer-facing organizations, managing both the Clear-branded “retail” and wholesale businesses. Sievert’s functional responsibilities include product development, marketing, sales, distribution, customer care, and technical support, including the Wholesale and strategic partnerships groups. He most recently served as CEO and co-founder of Switchbox Labs, Inc., a development company sold to Lenovo Group in 2009. Previously, Mr. Sievert was corporate vice president of the worldwide Windows business group, at Microsoft Corporation. Prior to Microsoft, he served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer at AT&T Wireless, and chief sales and marketing officer at E*TRADE Financial. He began his career with management positions at Procter & Gamble and IBM. Sievert joined Clearwire in May, 2009 and reports to CEO Bill Morrow.

Speaker:
Thursday, October 21, 10:30 am
Executive Operator Roundtable

Eugene Signorini is a vice president of Yankee Group's Anywhere Enterprise research group with an expertise in applications and mobile solutions. Signorini helps clients navigate the emerging enterprise mobility landscape by examining both supply- and demand-side issues, and focusing on applications, target industries and solution providers. Signorini's areas of focus include mobile applications such as wireless e-mail, mobile SFA, field force mobility and mobile asset management; wireless carriers' B2B offerings and strategies; mobile middleware and application software; and enterprise fixed/wireless voice and data integration.

Signorini has spent 13 years in the wireless industry, joining Yankee Group from MCI WorldCom's wireless resale organization, which was previously Nationwide Cellular Service. During his tenure at MCI WorldCom, Signorini held key roles in operations, project management and business development. He was instrumental in launching Nationwide Cellular Service's New England fraud management group in 1995 in the midst of the industry-wide cellular clone fraud crisis. Upon MCI's acquisition of Nationwide, Signorini became the lead project manager for all large enterprise wireless implementations in the eastern U.S. After WorldCom acquired MCI, Signorini became New England manager for wireless indirect sales and distribution.

Signorini holds a B.A. degree in economics and English from Boston College and an M.B.A. degree from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30 pm
Innovative Enterprise Applications

Jeffrey Silva is Senior Director, Telecommunications, Media and Technology at Medley Global Advisors LLC.  Silva joined MGA in July 2009 after a 26-year career as a telecom-high tech policy journalist and commentator, serving most of that time as Washington Bureau Chief of RCR Wireless News  where he tracked policy matters pending before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, the administration, courts, state governments and state regulatory agencies. He previously had stints at The Washington Post, The Washington Star and the Voice of America. Silva holds a B.S. cum laude in communications from the University of Tennessee.


Moderator:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30pm
New Broadband Spectrum

Paul Sinderbrand is a partner in the Washington, DC-based law firm of Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, one of the largest law firms in the nation specializing exclusively in the representation of the communications industry.  Paul has over thirty years of experience in the practice of communications law, specializing in issues involving emerging spectrum-based technologies.

Moderator:
Monday, October 18, 11:15am
Operator Coordination Strategies in the “Restricted” Band

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 2:30pm
Regulatory Status and Potential Changes

Manish Singh was named Continuous Computing's vice president of product line management in January 2008. Previously he served as Continuous Computing’s vice president of field engineering and formerly as vice president of engineering. Mr. Singh is an experienced leader who brings over 15 years of experience in telecommunications product design and development. Prior to Continuous Computing, Mr. Singh held various engineering management and architect positions at Intel Corporation, Trillium Digital Systems, and C-DOT (Center for Development of Telematics).

Mr. Singh holds the patent as a sole inventor of “Configurable Cache” memory system (patent number: 7133997). Apart from broad telecom domain knowledge, Mr. Singh brings specialized expertise in the wireless and VoIP telecom technology areas. In 1998, he successfully led the development of 2G MSC at C-DOT and since has led various VoIP and 3G/IMS wireless product development.

Mr. Singh has an M.S. degree in computer science from India Institute of Science, Bangalore and a B.S. degree in electronics and telecommunication from Shri G.S. Institute of Technology & Science, Indore.

Speaker:
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00 pm
Indoor Femtocell Coverage for Business

Dr. Alan Solheim holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo. With more than 25 years of industry experience in Telecommunications, Alan heads up Business Development and Strategic Marketing for DragonWave with a strong emphasis upon the development of overall value proposition to our different customers and partners. Previously Alan was VP of Product Management where he was responsible for the introduction of DragonWave's award winning Horizon packet microwave product line.

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 2:30pm
Packet Backhaul Technology

Jonathan Spalter, chairman of Mobile Future, has been founding CEO of leading technology, media, and research companies, including Public Insight, Snocap, and Atmedica Worldwide. He served as an advisor to and spokesperson for Vice President Al Gore during the Clinton administration.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
Implementing the National Broadband Plan

Iyad Tarazi, Vice President of Network Development & Engineering, is responsible for the development and integration of new products and technologies within Sprint’s wireless and wire line networks and for the engineering of the RF and core networks.  He is also responsible for managing Sprint Nextel’s technology Integration labs. Iyad oversees an operating budget of $500M and a capital budget of approximately $1.5B.  Iyad has been with Sprint Nextel since 1998.

Prior to the Sprint Nextel merger, Iyad provided leadership to Nextel’s Network Engineering department.  His responsibilities included network planning, integration, performance engineering, testing and deployment for Nextel’s core network consisting of forty-seven Metropolitan Switch Offices. Iyad was also responsible for Nextel’s inter-MSO transport network, the data network and service layer network applications. Network Engineering activities include design, planning, engineering, integration and vendor management.

Prior to Nextel, Iyad held progressive management and senior management positions with MCI where he was responsible for planning and implementing MCI’s switching, signaling and optical network architecture for both local and long distance networks.

Since assuming, from its inception, the role of Nextel’s Vice President of Network Engineering in 1999, he has been the chief engineer of building and evolving the organization, the core Nextel network, and its support infrastructure.  Iyad has a broad background in financial and capital management and all aspects of engineering, planning, and design for both wire line and wireless networks.

Iyad received his BSEE from the University of Maryland and holds a Master’s of Science in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University.

Iyad has become an avid runner and in 2007 and 2008 he ran and finished the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC in addition to many other races.  While he appreciates golf and strives to get better, his golf game is best described as a work in progress.

Keynote:
Monday, October 18, 11:15am
Mobile Operator Keynote: Optimize & Monetize the All-IP 4G Mobile Network

Panelist:
Monday, October 18, 1:30pm
Executive Roundtable: 4G Network Topology

In December 1999, Mr. Thompson co-founded Towerstream, a leading wireless provider utilizing 4G technology for businesses. Mr. Thompson has served as a director since inception and as chief operating officer from inception until November 2005 when Mr. Thompson became president and chief executive officer. Mr. Thompson oversaw Towerstream's growth and extension into 11 markets, including Chicago, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, and Dallas/Fort Worth. In 1995, Mr. Thompson co-founded and was vice president of operations of EdgeNet Inc., a privately held Internet service provider (which was sold to Citadel Broadcasting Corporation in 1997 and became eFortress ("eFortress")) through 1999. Mr. Thompson holds a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts.

Speaker:
Thursday, October 21, 2010, 2:45pm
WiMAX Operator Deployments

Jim Thornton's work focuses on exploring new opportunities to advance communications technology and improve security and manageability of networked systems. As part of this effort, he manages PARC's Content-centric Networking project, which aims to transform current networking approaches.

Throughout his diverse career at PARC, Jim has worked on automated collaborative defense of Windows systems; voice and media-based group communication services; communicating electronic guidebooks for museums; email-centered activity management; document management systems and services; and high-speed network printing. He is experienced with delivering complex system software from research to product, and with supporting further product development when delivered to clients.

Jim holds a BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia.

Speaker:
Thursday, October 21, 3:30pm
Content Centric Networking (CCN)

Dr. Andy Tiller is , responsible for market strategy and communications.  He is a Board member of the Femto Forum, and vice-chairman of Working Group 1 (marketing and promotions).  Previously, Andy was CTO and VP Product Marketing for ShoZu Ltd., a GSM Award-winning mobile service for sharing videos, photos and other user generated content between mobile phones and dozens of community websites and blogs (including YouTube, Flickr and Blogger).  Before ShoZu, Andy was VP of Product Marketing with Geneva Technology, a provider of telecoms billing software, where he helped to create a successful strategy for the company's entry into the mobile billing market.  Andy holds a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Queens' College, Cambridge.

Moderator:
Tuesday, October 19, 5:00pm
Handling the Data Explosion - Femtocells and Alternative Approaches

Vikash Varma brings 18 years of multi disciplined experience to Stoke. Vikash has a successful track record of building businesses from the early stages to market leadership. Vikash was most recently the President - Worldwide Sales, Marketing & Field Operations at CloudShield Technologies. Vikash helped establish CloudShield as a leader in the multi-function service control and security market, operating in over 35 countries. Before CloudShield, Vikash was the President - Worldwide Sales and Field Operations at P-Cube Inc. with overall responsibility for Sales, Channels, Partners, Professional Services, and Support. At P-Cube, he successfully grew the business with top tier carriers around the world and established P-Cube as the market leader in IP Service Control solutions. P-Cube was acquired in 2004 by Cisco Systems for $200M. Prior to P-Cube, Vikash was the General Manager at Hewlett-Packard Co. for the Internet Usage Manager (IP Mediation) Software business.

Panelist:
Thursday, October 21, 2:00 pm
Overview of the First LTE Deployment in Japan

Rafael del Villar Hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (1988) and he hold different academic positions. As Minister for Economic Affairs in Paris he participated in the works of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) where he collaborated in the design of the Competition and Consumer protection laws of Mexico. Back in Mexico he became Director General for Economic Studies of the newly formed Competition Commission and two years later Director General for Telecommunications Policy and International Negotiations at the Ministry of Communications and Transport from where he promoted the Federal Telecommunications Law that came into effect in June of 1995. From the middle of 1996 to 2006 Rafael del Villar was part of the Economics Research team at the Central Bank. Since December of 2006 to September of 2008, was Under Secretary of Communications of the Secretariat of Communications and Transports. Currently, Rafael del Villar is Commissioner of Federal Telecommunications Commission.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 3:00pm
Developing Strategies for Harmonized Regulations in Latin America

Wayne Ward is Vice President of Emerging Solutions for Sprint Nextel. Ward was named to lead the company’s newly formed Emerging Solutions unit in October 2009, with responsibility for developing M2M (machine-to-machine) and mobile computing solutions. The Emerging Solutions unit combines the network, systems and open-device expertise of Sprint Nextel and its strategic partners to deliver innovative integrated product applications to the business and consumer markets. As part of Sprint’s Integrated Solutions Group, Ward’s organization plays a lead role in the creation of a broad range of solutions for B2B and B2C customers and partners, including “infotainment “ (such as e-readers and netbooks), asset tracking, fleet management, telematics, smart grid and telemedicine initiatives, to name a few.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 4:30 pm
M2M

Eliot Weinman is the president of Yankee Group's events and media division. Weinman is charged with producing groundbreaking global industry events and publications that investigate the challenges and opportunities of the global connectivity revolution. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Yankee Group and is the author of the book Harnessing the Mobile Internet, an executive guide to the world of mobile communications.

Weinman has created more than 150 trade shows and dozens of trade publications and has consulted for many of the world's leading technology companies. Before Yankee Group, he founded and sold four successful integrated media companies, the most recent of which is Trendsmedia, the events and publishing division of Yankee Group.

Speaker:
Tuesday, October 19, 9:00am
Welcome

Don Wilkins, Vice President of Technical Operations, brings more than 30 years of global experience in telecommunications and technology to Interop’s leadership team. He is responsible for technical support, network operations, and information technology. Most recently, Don served as Vice President of Technology Services at Syniverse Technologies Inc., where he was responsible for more than 400 technical personnel charged with software design, development, and technical support for the company’s suite of telecommunications products. He also has held positions with AT&T Network Services (later Lucent Technologies), American Airlines SABRE Group, and Consolidated Rail Corp. (CONRAIL).

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 3:00 pm
Streamlining Operations to Enable Competiveness

Ken Wirth leads Alcatel-Lucent’s 4G/LTE Wireless Networks organization.  He is responsible for the end to end LTE solution which includes systems engineering, architecture, product management, technology and development, program delivery, partnerships and customer and sales support. 

Prior to this appointment, Ken was the Customer Unit leader for a major U.S. Carrier. He was responsible for managing this newly created business globally for all products, solutions, applications and services from Alcatel-Lucent to the Wireless and Wireline businesses.

Previously, Ken was President of the Lucent’s Multimedia Network Solutions organization since January 2005, where he had responsibility for the financial and business performance, strategy, product marketing, product management, technology and development across the access, data and optical networking segments.  Prior to that, he was President of Lucent’s Optical Networking Group.  Ken has held various management, marketing and sales assignments at AT&T and Lucent, including an assignment as Chief Financial Officer for AT&T Network Systems’ Access Products Group.

Ken joined AT&T in 1987 after launching his career with ITT Communication Services Group, where he was responsible for sales of telecom services to corporate accounts in the northeastern and southern regions of the United States.

Keynote:
Thursday, October 21, 9:10am
Tame the Data Tsunami with LTE and Expand Your Business with New Models and Channels

Duval Yeager serves in the Management team of Redline Communications as Senior Director of Marketing and is responsible for all Marketing activities in Redline Communications.  In addition to this, Duval chairs the WiMAX Forum’s Regulatory Working Group in Latin America and the Caribbean.  In this role he assists Spectrum Regulators in understanding the WiMAX technologies and how they can be deployed efficiently.  He is gifted with the ability to bring technical radio and networking concepts into the realm of basic understanding.  Duval began his career with RF engineering positions in NEC Americas and then Alvarion, where he went on to become Director of Sales for Latin America and the Caribbean. Duval studied engineering in Sao Paulo Brazil, and went on to graduate from The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and later received his MBA from the University of Miami. 

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm
Smart Power Grid panel

Mike is President of New Media Investments Group, as owner, operator, and investor, in US and international telecommunications businesses.

Prior to this Mike was one of cable’s senior programming executives, having held positions at HBO, Warner and Comcast and started his career at two of New York’s top Advertising Agencies, Benton and Bowles and Grey Advertising.

Panelist:
Tuesday, October 19, 5:00pm
4G Investment in Latin America

Dr. Dawei Zhang is the Director of Wireless, China Mobile USA Research Center, where he is responsible for China Mobile’s next generation wireless technologies and TD LTE product strategies and requirements. On behalf of China Mobile, he is the Chairman of the NGMN Trial Workgroup, where he is responsible for global operators’ LTE trial requirements and evaluations.

Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Physics from UCLA. He was a Post-doctoral fellow with MIT, and spent over 15 years in Silicon Valley working on various wireless technologies and systems. Prior to joining China Mobile, Dr. Zhang was the General Manager of Wireless Broadband Group R&D, and Director of Base Stations at UTStarcom Inc., where he was responsible for wireless base station R&D on mobile WiMAX, TD CDMA, WCDMA RRU, and advanced PHS base stations.

Dr. Zhang holds 7 US and international patents, and over 60 refereed journal and conference publications on wireless and related technology areas.

Panelist:
Wednesday, October 20, 3:30pm
4G Deployment Strategies in Asia Pacific