As the number of wireless technologies such as RFID, WiFi, WiMAX, WiBro, 3G, Zigbee, Bluetooth and Ultra Wideband continue to grow, their integration into the enterprise is becoming an increasingly greater challenge.  So as to be able to enjoy productivity, business and financial gains, these advanced wireless technologies need to be melded seamlessly with the business processes of the enterprise.

Therefore, technology developers and standards organizations need to focus their attention on the interface between the technology and the enterprise.  Wireless service providers, systems integrators and technology companies need to create a cohesive interface with enterprise I.T. and enterprise technology infrastructure. While the convergence between different wireless technologies has been an ongoing phenomenon over the past several years, the melding of wireless infrastructure with the enterprise business infrastructure forms the next generation of Convergence or Convergence+.  The Mobile Enterprise and Carrier Forum brings together wireless carriers together with enterprises to discuss how best to create the wirelessly connected, mobile enterprise of tomorrow and in the process, defining and refining the notion of Convergence+

Current Speakers

Phil Edholm	CTO/VP Net Architecture, Enterprise	Nortel Networks
Ray Gilbert	AVP-IT Enterprise Collaboration	Lucent Technologies
Ramneek Gupta	Principal	ITU Ventures
Lawrence Harris	Vice President	Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
Gordon Kass	VP of Engineering	LimeLife
Dean Knuth	National Manager, Wireless for the Commercial, State and Local Group	Northrop Grumman IT
Minh Le	System Engineering Sr. Staff	Lockheed Martin
Dorothy Pavloff	Managing Director	California Technology Ventures
Salil Pradhan	CTO, HP RFID program	Hewlett Packard
Gavenraj Sodhi	Director of Product Management	CA
Morley Winograd	executive Director	Marshall School, USC

Select Speakers from Previous WINMEC Forums

Yogesh Gupta CTO Computer Associates	Fred Kitson Director, Mobile & Media Sys. Lab HP	Arunas Slekys VP - Corporate Marketing Hughes Network Systems	Thomas Werner SVP Mobile Enterprise Siemens
Eric Anderson VP Sales, North America Ericsson Inc.	Jean-Marc Frangos Sr. VP, Tech and Innovation BT Group	Adam Gould VP, Tech Mgmt and Planning Nokia Mobile Phones	Steve Strassmann Principal Architect Orange
Ray Gilbert Director-CIO-IT Lucent Technologies	Ken Venner VP and CIO Broadcom Corporation	Vaho Rebassoo CTO, IT Services Boeing	Sam Arditi VP Intel Corp.
Cyrus Staniec Director - Technology Resources, Northrop Grumman IT	Phil Bowman VP Integrated Solutions Sprint

Speaker Nominations are open - Nominate a Speaker

Registration Information

See our previous forum on the theme of Convergence:
- Mobile Enterprise Forum 2005
- Wireless Carrier Forum 2005

For more information email enterprise@winmec.ucla.edu

UCLA-WINMEC will demonstrate its Mobile RFID Platform, WinRFID

Sponsors WINMEC, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UC Discovery Grant BEI Technologies, Computer Associates, Ericsson, HP, Hughes Network Systems, Intel, ISMB, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Magee Group, Mobio Networks, QUALCOMM, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, Raytheon, Satyam, SIEMENS, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, TCS America, Tata Infotech, Verizon Wireless WINMEC - Wireless Internet for the Mobile Enterprise Consortium Copyright WINMEC Design 2005 UCLA - WINMEC 44-116S Engineering IV, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA. 90095