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  Pre-Conference Seminars & Workshops
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
  Mobile Broadband Executive Summit
Led By Yankee Group
8:00 Summit Power Breakfast
Sponsored by Executives from Xohm, A Sprint Nextel Business Unit
9:00 Mobile and Personal Broadband Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
Philip Marshall, VP Enabling Technologies, Yankee Group
9:30 Executive Roundtable: Service Provider Strategies for Wireless and Mobile Broadband Moderator: Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
David Robinson, Vice President Business Development, Rogers Communications
Jeff Thompson, Founder, CEO, President, Towerstream
Atish Gude, Senior Vice President, Mobile Broadband Operations, Xohm, A Sprint Nextel Business Unit
Larry Lang, VP & GM, Mobile Wireless Group, Cisco Systems
10:30 Enabling 4G BroadbandRichard Lowe, President, Carrier Networks, Nortel
11:15 New 700 MHz. Spectrum for Mobile BroadbandModerator: Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
Stagg Newman, CTO, Frontline Wireless
Keith Kaczmarek, Co-founder and President, Cyren Call Communications
Bill Andrle, Vice President, Wireless Alliances and Spectrum Strategy, Northrop Grumman Information Technology
11:45 The Great Debate: WiMAX and 3G HSPA/LTE
Moderator: Phil Marshall, Vice President, Enabling Technologies, Yankee Group
Ivano Costa, Domestic Mobile Services, Telecom Italia SpA
Jerold Givens, General Manager, Wireless Infrastructure Group, Communications Infrastructure and Voice, Texas Instruments
Martin Ljungberg, Director, Government & Industry Relations, Business Unit Networks, Ericsson
Samir Khazaka, Senior Director, Technical Marketing, QUALCOMM
Mo Shakouri, VP Corp Strategy Alvarion, WiMAX Forum Board Member/VP Marketing, WiMAX Forum
12:30 Luncheon
  Mobile Broadband Executive Summit
After lunch the Summit splits into two tracks		 The Emerging WiMAX Ecosystem Workshop
Moderator: Monica Paolini, Senza Fili Consulting		 WiMAX Deployments and Consumer Electronics Opportunities
Moderator: Adlane Fellah, Maravedis		 Operationalizing WiMAX Networks
Hosted by Accenture
  Track 1 Track 2      
1:30 The Roads to Mobile Broadband Clint McClellan, QUALCOMM Enabling Mobile Broadband Technology's: MIMO, Beamforming & Smart Antennas Moderator: Phil Marshall, Yankee Group
Panelists: Kevin Suitor, Redline; Sai Subramanian, Navini; Rick Cuthill, Reverb Network 		Introduction Monica Paolini, Senza Fili Consulting Introduction
Adlane Fellah, Maravedis		 Opening Remarks and Introduction
Mark Fleming, Accenture
Update on the WiMAX Ecosystem
Mo Shakouri, WiMAX Forum 		WiMAX Operator Services and Key Metrics Analysis
Adlane Fellah, Maravedis		 The Business of WiMAX
Asheesh Saksena, Accenture
2:30 Demystifying the WiMAX Core Network and Business Case Moderator: Berge Ayvazian, Yankee Group
Panelists: Haig Sarkissian, WiMAX 20/20; Robert Sellinger, Sun Microsystems; Michael Young, Southam Chile		 Making Wireless 2.0 a Reality Mark Kelley, NextWave Broadband Panel: Requirements in the WiMAX Ecosystem
Jose Luiz Frauendorf, Neotec; Bin Shen,Xohm, A Sprint Nextel Business Unit; Jeff Thompson, Towerstream		 Comparing 3G & WiMAX Spectrum In 100 Nations
Cintia Garza, Maravedis Research 		The Business Case for New Wireless Broadband Operators
Moderator: Shahid Ahmed, Accenture; Panelists: Scott Coleman, Morgan Stanley; Keith Kaczmarek, Cyren Call Communications; John Leibovitz, Frontline Wireless; John Muleta, M2Z Networks, Inc.
3:15 Coffee Break
3:30 Anywhere Consumer:
Mobile Content and Device Strategies Moderator: Andy Castanguay, Yankee Group
Panelists: Jaime Borras, Motorola's WiMAX and iDEN Mobile Devices; Kay Johansson, MobiTV; DeWayne Nelon, Ortiva Wireless; John Wissing, Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices GmbH & Co. KG 		Anywhere Enterprise:
Mobile Broadband Applications Infrastructure Moderator: Zeus Kerravala, Yankee Group
Panelists: Greg A. Candelaria, IBM Global Technology Services; Brian Pawlus, Oracle Corporation; Madan Jagernauth, Nortel; Makoto Awaga, Fujitsu Limited Electronic Devices Group 		Panel: Vendor Strategies in Building the WiMAX Ecosystem Sean Cai, ZTE USA; Danny Locklear, Nortel; Tracy Trent, Proximetry; Kevin Shatzkamer, Cisco Systems; Torbjorn Ward, Aptilo Networks Opportunities and Risks for Embedding WiMAX into Consumer Electronics
Robert Syputa, Maravedis; Praduman Jain,Xohm, A Sprint Nextel Business Unit		 Operationalizing WiMAX
Miguel Myhrer, Accenture; Vaibhav Parmar, Accenture
4:15 Discussion Forum: How Can Operators and Vendors Work Together to Develop a Robust Ecosystem?Bin Shen,Xohm, A Sprint Nextel Business Unit; Jeff Thompson, Towerstream; Kevin Shatzkamer, Cisco Systems; Jose Luiz Frauendorf, Neotec; Sean Cai, ZTE USA, Inc.; Danny Locklear, Nortel's Carrier Networks; Tracy Trent, Proximetry; Torbjorn Ward, Aptilo Networks Impact of Intellectual Property Rights into Suppliers & Operators Bottom Line
Robert Syputa, Maravedis; Gary Koerper, Motorola, Inc.; Paul Zeineddin, Samsung Electronics
4:30 Mobile TV, Video and Advertising: Un-tethering Your Entertainment World
Moderator: Linda Barrabee, Yankee Group
Panelists: Kelly Anderson, Telemanagement Forum; Alan Moskowitz, MobiTV; Tom Ellsworth, GoTV Networks		 Wireless Broadband Network Infrastructure
Moderator: Berge Ayvazian, Yankee Group
Panelists: Manish Chandra, Firetide; Paul Obert, Ceragon Networks, Inc; Bob Beran, Nextlink Wireless
 Operationalizing 4G – Different Perspectives across the Industry
Moderator: Norman Fekrat, Accenture; Panelists: Mark Slater, Nokia Siemens Networks; Steve Roatch, Clearwire/IntraSP; Don Stroberg,Xohm, A Sprint Nextel Business Unit; Kenneth Young, LCC International
5:00 WiMAX Ecosystem Summary and Conclusions
Monica Paolini, Senza Fili Consulting		 PTP Radio Market Trends
Earl Lum, EJL Wireless Research
5:30 Pre-Conference Seminars & Workshops Conclude
6:00 Yankee Group 2007 Anywhere Tour event and cocktail reception
 
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