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Tuesday, March 8, 2005
7:30
8:00
Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00
8:20
Opening Speech: Rajit Gadh, Professor & Director, UCLA - WINMEC
 'Mobile Convergence - What When Why Who?'
8:20
8:30
Welcome:  Vijay Dhir, Dean, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA
 
8:30
9:00
Morning Keynote 1:  Yogesh Gupta, CTO, Computer Associates
'Succeeding With Wireless'
9:00
9:30
Morning Keynote 2:  Fred Kitson, Director of Mobile & Media Systems Lab, HP
'Fun on the Road with Mobile Media'
9:30
10:40
Mobile Enterprise Forum Mobile Entertainment Media Forum
Session 1: Advanced Wireless Technologies being Deployed in the Enterprise Today 
Chair: J. Gerry Purdy, Venture Advisor, Diamondhead Ventures and, Principal Analyst, MobileTrax LLC

Opening Plenary: Asad Madni, President and COO, BEI Technologies, Inc.
'Smart Configurable Wireless Sensors for Motion Control Applications'
Dean Knuth, National Acct. Mgr., Wireless, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
'Emerging Technologies in WLAN and WLAN Security'
Bernard Perrine, GM, Mobile and Embedded Devices Marketing, Microsoft Corporation
'The State of the Mobile Enterprise'
Chris Couper, Pervasive/Wireless Chief Technology Officer, IBM
'Advanced Wireless Technologies being Deployed in the Enterprise Today'
Session 1: Mobile Multimedia - Successful Business Models and Challenges 
Chair: Eric Buatois, Managing Director, Sofinnova Ventures

Opening Plenary: Anil Kripalani, Senior VP, QUALCOMM Incorporated
'Enabling Technologies for Mobile Multimedia'
Nasser Iravani, Director, Forum Nokia Americas, Nokia
'From Content Creator to Consumer: The New Business Model for Distribution'
Anthony Stonefield, VP & Chief Strategy Officer, InfoSpace Mobile
'MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA'
Paul Schaut, CEO, Tira Wireless
'The Realities of Mobile Device Fragmentation'
10:40
10:55
Coffee Break
10:55
11:55
Session 2: Scalable Wireless Solutions 
Chair: Sumit Deshpande, VP, Office of the CTO, Computer Associates

Plenary: Arunas Slekys, VP - Corporate Marketing, Hughes Network Systems
'UNLOCKING SCALABLE BROADBAND SOLUTIONS: THE CASE FOR SATELLITE'
Arunas_Slekys.ppt Rafail Ostrovsky, Professor, CS, UCLA
Sumit Deshpande, VP, Office of the CTO, Computer Associates
'Success Criteria for a Scalable, Secure, and Manageable Wireless Enterprise'
Bahram Nour-Omid, Partner, Shelter Capital
Session 2: Mobile Gaming - will this be a killer app? 
Chair: Ben Quinones, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP

Trip Hawkins, Founder and CEO, Digital Chocolate
'Digital Chocolate'
Ross Levinsohn, SVP/GM, FOXSports Interactive Media
'Wireless Gaming'
Swaminathan Krishnan, Sr. VP, Global Marketing and Business Development, Tata Infotech Limited
'Mobile Entertainment and Gaming for Emerging Markets'
Surendra Arora, Global Manager - Mobile Service Solutions, Intel Corporation
'Convergence Accelerates Mobile Gaming'
11:55
12:55
Wireless Carrier Forum Session 3: Entertaining on the cell phone - movies, music, greetings. Creating new models for this new business  
Chair: Gordon Kass, CTO, Weathernews Americas Inc.

Joseph Busch, Executive Director, MGM Domestic Television Sales
Ivan Lopez, Director of Licencing, Sony Pictures
'Mobile Content Licensing'
Steve Canepa, VP, Global Media & Entertainment Industry, IBM
'Mobile Entertainment Landscape'
Douglass Britt, V.P. Operations & Business Development, American Greetings Corp.
Session 1: Where should the Carrier invest to fix continuously declining ARPU - distinguished content infrastructure, software, ... 
Chair: Victor Sim, Attorney, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Opening Plenary: Eric Anderson, Vice President Sales, North America, Ericsson Inc.
Edwin Lambert, Director, IT Strategy and Architecture, Lucent Technologies
Adam Gould, Vice President, Technology Management and Planning, Nokia Mobile Phones
Steve Strassmann, Principal Architect, Orange
'Convergence at Orange'
12:55
1:15
Lunch Start
1:15
1:40
Lunch Speech:  Rajit Gadh, Professor & Director, UCLA - WINMEC
'Wireless Internet Research and Industry Partnership at UCLA - WINMEC'
1:40
2:10
Lunch Keynote 1:  Thomas Werner, SVP Mobile Enterprise, Siemens
'Enterprise readiness for mobility'
2:10
3:10
Session 2: How telecom providers are using advanced technologies today 
Chair: Thomas Palamides, Business Development Officer, Canadian Consulate General

Plenary: Arturo Pizano, Head, Multimedia & Video Technology, Siemens
Eduardo Conrado, Sr. Dir. of Systems Marketing and Portfolio Magt., Motorola, Inc.
'Enabling Seamless Services Using Advanced Technologies'
Jack Grubman, Managing Partner, Magee Group, LLC
Dr. Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor, Stanford University
'Mobile WIMAX - Why is it Compelling?'
Session 4: Ubiquitous multimedia ecosystem - Is it feasible through the convergence of networks, applications, content and services 
Chair: Gunjan Bagla, Advisor, Amritt Ventures

Plenary: John Batter, VP and GM, Electronic Arts Mobile
'EA Mobile & Emerging Trends in Mobile Gaming'
Kathleen Dunleavy, Manager, Sprint
Matt Edelman, SVP of Publishing, Mforma
Rand Bleimeister, CEO, OnAir Entertainment
3:10
4:10
Session 3: Balancing Enterprise and Consumer Mobile Strategies 
Chair: Morley Winograd, Executive Director of Center of Telecom, Marshall School, USC

Plenary: K. C. Kanaan, Technical Assistant/Chief of Staff, Intel Corp
'Balancing enterprise & consumer strategies'
Edgar Auslander, General Manager, WW Strategy & Corporate Devt, Texas Instruments Wireless Business Unit
'Wireless: Enterprise & Consumers'

Jean-Marc Frangos, Senior VP, Technology and Innovation, BT Group
Lawrence Harris, Telecom Analyst, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
'Financial Implications of Successful Carrier Data Services'
Allen Marks, Senior Principal IS Technologist, Raytheon
Session 4: Advanced Technologies (Sensors, Ad-hoc, QoS, LBS, Emergency Response, Security) and Current Business Practices in the Mobile/Wireless Space  
Chair: Dorothy Pavloff, Director, California Technology Ventures

Plenary: Mario Gerla, Professor, CS, UCLA
Mani Srivastava, Professor, UCLA
'Networking the Physical World: Embedded Wireless Sensor & Actuator Networks'
Harsh Muthal, Senior VP, TIMES Business Unit,, Satyam Computer Services Ltd.,
Kurt Schmidt, Market Development Manager - Wireless Segment, SiRF Technology
'Enterprise LBS Adoption - Deploying Location Applications & Increasing ARPU'
4:10
4:25
Coffee Break
4:25
5:25
Venture Capital Discussion Panel: Is mobile convergence creating new investment opportunities for startups? 
Moderator: Mohanjit Jolly, Director, garage.com

Bart Schachter, Founding and Managing Partner, Blueprint Ventures
Martin Tobias, Venture Partner, Ignition Partners
Jim Smith, Ph.D, General Partner, Mohr, Davidow Ventures
Eric Buatois, Managing Director, Sofinnova Ventures
Naser Partovi, Managing Director, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Vamsi Sistla, Director of Residential Entertainment Technologies, ABI Research
Steve Tomlin, Partner, Avalon Ventures
5:25
6:25
Cocktail Networking
6:25 Conference Ends
Conference Program Subject to Change
 
 

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