Houston '06 

• Dates: February 28 – March 2, 2006
• Location: Houston Marriott North at Greenspoint

The objective of this convention is to provide local-government officials the tools for their professional development, presenting a complete update of broadband wireless technologies and applications and how they can be deployed in communities to foster social and economic development.

Professional Development Seminar for Local-Government Officials
This day-long Practical Training Session expands on the thought-leadership agenda of the W2i Digital Cities Convention with a set of actionable tools for local-government professionals, field practitioners and service operators. Hosted by NetLogix.

Professional Development Seminar for VARs and Systems Integrators
This day-long practical training session expands on the thought-leadership agenda of the W2i Digital Cities Convention with a set of actionable tools for professional services firms, VARs and systems integrators to best tackle the opportunities and challenges associated with servicing local government in deploying ubiquitous metropolitan-area broadband-wireless networks. Hosted by Civitium.

Service Provider Executive Roundtable
This special seminar and roundtable will draw on the Yankee Group’s extensive research on service-provider strategies for municipal and metropolitan broadband-wireless networks and will provide a forum for discussing business and market strategies and examining the potential for cooperation among emerging and existing cable, telco, cellular, and Internet service providers. Hosted by Yankee Group, rClient and W2i.

Technology Showcase
A showcase exhibit featuring select emerging technology vendors, systems integrators and service providers to discuss their work with local-government professionals. Vendors exhibiting include BelAir Networks, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Cisco, SkyPilot Networks, and Tropos Networks.