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  Conference Program Day 2
Thursday, September 27, 2007
8:00 Conference Power Breakfast
Getting Your WiMAX ROI Today: With SR Telecom’s WiMAX SymmetryMX SuiteSerge Legris, VP Marketing, SR Telecom
8:50 Introduction to Day 2Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
9:00 Clearwire's Vision for WiMAX Mobile Broadband Scott Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer, Clearwire
9:45 Building the Mobile WiMAX Ecosystem for Today's Operators Peter MacKinnon, General Manager of WiMAX and Chairman, LG-Nortel Joint Venture
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Innovation and Broadband in the Public Sector Todd Ramsey, GM, Global Government and Education, IBM
11:00 Expo Hall Opens 11:00
WiMAX Solutions Theater
11:30 Mobile WiMAX for the Diverse Needs of the Global Market Mo Shakouri, VP Corp Strategy Alvarion, WiMAX Forum Board Member/VP Marketing, WiMAX Forum
12:00 Luncheon
1:30 WiMAX World Service Provider Executive RoundtableModerator: Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
Scott Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer, Clearwire
Kelley Dunne, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalBridge Communications
Bruce Rodin, Director, Wireless Technology Strategy, Bell Canada
Francisco Madrazo, CTO, MVS
Adolfo Masini, Vice President, Product Management and Business Development Wireless Broadband Group, Networks, Motorola
  Mobile WiMAX Business Models WiMAX Technology Ecosystem WiMAX Global Deployments Digital Cities & Community Broadband Summit Mobile Broadband Applications
Track Leader Berge Ayvazian
Yankee Group
Phil Marshall
Yankee Group
Adlane Fellah
Maravedis
Roberta Wiggins
Yankee Group;
James Farstad
rClient, Yankee Group
Zeus Kerravala
Yankee Group
2:30 The Business Case for Open WiMAXModerator: Rudy Leser, Alvarion; Panelists: Cashew Chen, AWB; Jay Iyer, Cisco; Tom Lasiter, Intel Corp; Gil Riddall, Bridgewater Systems; Steve Tranter, NDS WiMAX Access Points: The Need for Femtocells if WiMAX is to Deliver on its PotentialGuillaume d'Eyssautier, picoChip WiMAX In Latin America Moderator: Adlane Fellah, Maravedis, Inc.
Panelists: Kevin Suitor, Redline; Marcelo Prudentio, Personal Telecom Paraguay; Juan Pablo Alfaro, MetroVia; Luis Santiago Galli, Ertach; Maurício Coutinho, Neovia
Digital Communities as a WiMAX Application Test BedMichael Dillon, Firetide Inc.; Rizwan Khaliq, IBM Monetizing Mobile Broadband Networks and Driving Consumer AdoptionNavin Mehta, Motorola
3:15 Network Planning: The Key Issues for Mobile WiMAXSudeep Gupta, Alcatel-Lucent; Dr. Junn-Kuen Liang, ZyXEL Corporation WiMAX CPE and Device EvolutionModerator: John Jackson, Yankee Group
Panelists: Paul Senior, Airspan; Tom Jasny, Samsung Telecommunications; Sai Subramanian, Navini; John Wissing, Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices GmbH & Co. KG
WiMAX in India and the Middle East Moderator: Adlane Fellah, Maravedis
Panelists: Atul Bindal, Bharti Airtel; Shahid Miah, Wateen Telecom; Alok Sharma, Telsima Corporation; Neeraj Sonker, Tata VSNL; S.M.Saeed Masajedian, EITC
Showcasing Community Broadband in the Mid-West US Moderator: James Farstad, rClient, Yankee Group
Panelists: Tony Hylton, Cook County, Illinois; Lynn Willenbring, City of Minneapolis; Mark Ansboury, One Community - Cleveland
Hosted Voice and IMS for WiMAX/WiFi Networks Moderator: Zeus Kerravala, Yankee Group
Panelists:Frank Salm, Sylantro; Chris Brazdziunas, Verso Technologies; Charlie Martin, Huawei Technologies; Francisco Madrazo, MVS
4:15 Mobile TV, Quad Play, and Broadband Embedded Consumer Electronics Moderator: Phil Solis, ABI Research
Panelists: Raghu Rau, Motorola; Rakesh Kumar, Deloitte; Praduman Jain,Xohm, A Sprint Nextel Business Unit
Underlying WiMAX Ecosystem Technologies Moderator: Phil Marshall, Yankee Group
Panelists: Krishna Ramadas, Venturi Wireless; Bruce Duysen, Arraycomm; David Sumi, TeleCIS and WiMAX Forum; Preston Gilmer, Sigma Systems
WiMAX in Europe Moderator: Caroline Gabriel, Rethink Research Associates
Panelists: Ivano Costa, Telecom Italia SpA; Henrik Dam, Danske Telecom A/S - Clearwire Denmark; Gerard MacNamee, UK Broadband; Peter Ziegelwanger, WiMAX Telecom GmbH
Role of WiMAX in Municipal System Architectures Moderator: Roberta Wiggins, Yankee Group
Panelists: Kurt Lange, US Internet; Chuck Powers, Motorola; Mohan Natarajan, Firetide
When Worlds Collide WiMAX and IMS Moderator: Peter Jarich, Current Analysis
Panelists: Karim El Naggar, Alcatel-Lucent; Marc Price, Openet; Rohit Gupta, Hughes Systique Corporation; Michael Khalilian, IMS Forum
5:00 Conference & Expo Concludes