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WiMAX World 2008 Conference and Expo
Thursday, October 2, 2008 |
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| 8:50AM |
Day I Review and Day II Kickoff |
| 9:00 |
WiMAX – Build it and They Will Come
Hwan Chung, Senior Vice President, Samsung Telecommunications America
Dennis Sverdlov, Chief Executive Officer, Scartel LLC |
| 9:30 |
The Business of Delivering WiMAX
Atish Gude, SVP Mobile Broadband Operations for Sprint Nextel’s XOHM Business Unit |
| 10:00 |
Networking Break |
| 10:15 |
First Commercial Rollout of Mobile Internet Service in the US
Tzvika Friedman, CEO, Alvarion
Kelley Dunne, CEO, DigitalBridge Communications |
| 10:45 |
Reinventing the Connected World
Sue Spradley, President, North America, Nokia Siemens Networks |


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11:15 |
WiMAX Ecosystem Roundtable
Moderator:Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group; Conference Co-Chair
Panelists: Hwan Chung, Senior Vice President, Samsung Telecommunications America
Karim El Naggar, Vice President, WiMAX Product Group, Alcatel-Lucent
Atish Gude, SVP Mobile Broadband Operations for Sprint Nextel’s XOHM Business Unit
Majed Sifri, CEO, Redline Communications
Sue Spradley, President, North America, Nokia Siemens Networks |
12:00PM
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2:00 |
Lunch on the Expo Floor |
Track
Name &
Leaders |
Business of WiMAX
Haig Sarkissian
WiMAX 20/20 |
Technology of WiMAX
Ashvin Vellody
Yankee Group |
WiMAX Applications and Services
Roberta Wiggins
Yankee Group |
WiMAX Live
Berge Ayvazian
Yankee Group |
Global Deployment Strategies and Spectrum Policy
Wally Swain
Yankee Group |
| 2:00 |
Strategies for Low-Cost CPE and Mobile Devices
Moderator: Randall Schwartz, Principal Consultant, WiMAX 20/20
Panelists: Makoto "Mac" Awaga, GM, Mobile Solution Division, Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited
Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP Marketing and Business Development, Altair Semiconductor Ltd.
Lars Johnsson, VP Business Development, Beceem Communications
Alex Sum, VP of Business Development & Marketing, GCT Semiconductor, Inc. |
Enabling the WiMAX Intelligent Network
Leonid Burakovsky, Director Mobility and Convergence, Juniper Networks |
Anywhere Applications for Mobile Broadband
Moderator: Roberta Wiggins, Research Fellow, Yankee Group
Panelists: Sean Cai, Deputy General Manager, ZTE WiMAX Product Line
Daniel B. Locklear, Leader, Carrier Networks Marketing, Nortel
Susan Schramm, Head of Marketing, North America, Nokia Siemens Networks
Kevin Suitor, VP of Marketing and Business Development, Redline Communications
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Real Stories & Live Showcases of Mobile WiMAX
Olivia MJ Lee, Marketing Strategy Manager, POSDATA |
WiMAX in Central America, Caribbean & Mexico
Moderator: Wally Swain, Yankee Group
Panelists:
Juan Pablo Alfaro, CEO, MetroVia, Guatemala
Magnus Johansson, Director Broadband, Digicel |
| 3:00 |
WiMAX in the Americas: Licensed and License-Exempt Deployments
Manish Gupta, Vice President of Marketing & Alliances, Aperto Networks |
Mobilizing Mobile TV Over WiMAX
Mark Kelley, CTO, NextWave Wireless |
Broadband Wireless Networks and the Connected Life
Sai Subramanian, Director, Marketing for Broadband Wireless Business, Cisco
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WiMAX Live – Low Power CPE Chipset Shootout
Moderators: Haig Sarkissian, Principal Consultant, WiMAX 20/20
Randall Schwartz, Principal Consultant, WiMAX 20/20
Participants:
Altair
Sequans |
WiMAX in South America
Moderator: Cintia Garza, Market Analyst, Maravedis
Panelists: Dick Abanto, President & CEO, MovilMax; President, OmniVision
Carlos Barroso, Co-Founder and CTO/COO, Neovia
Marcelo Prudencio, CEO, Personal Paraguay |
| 4:00 |
Scartel Business Case for Mobile WiMAX Network in Russian
Dennis Sverdlov, Chief Executive Officer, Scartel LLC |
The WiMAX 4G Roadmap: WiMAX2 (802.16m)/ WiMagic
Bernard Aboussouan, VP Marketing and Business Development, Sequans |
Public Safety and Government Applications
Moderator: Roberta Wiggins Research Fellow, Yankee Group
Panelists: William J. Andrle, Jr., Wireless Alliances and Spectrum Strategy Vice President, Northrop Grumman Information Technology
Brigadier Hassan Khoadairy, Egyptian Ministry of the Interior
Girish Rishi, Vice President & General Manager, Government & Public Safety, Motorola, Inc.
Don Stroberg, Vice President, Sales and Distribution, Sprint Nextel’s XOHM business unit |
WiMAX and 4G Experts Panel
Moderator: Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
Panelists: Thomas R. Elliott, Vice President, Strategy Analytics, Inc.
Emmy Johnson,
Founder & Principal Analyst, Sky Light Research
Daryl Schoolar, Senior Analyst, Networking Group, In-Stat |
Best Practices in Emerging Markets
Moderator: Wally Swain, Yankee Group
Panelists: Özgür Aytar, Research Manager, Communications, Media and Technology, Pyramid Research
Michael Lai, CEO, PacketOne Networks
Tariq J. Qureshi (TQ), Senior Vice President, A-Infiniti |
Please note: exact schedule and speaker lineup is subject to change.
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