Municipal Wireless Networks & Technologies Training Seminar

Professional Development for Local-Government Officials

Consistently Among Our Highest Rated Sessions!

Presented by Netlogix and W2i

Date: Monday, December 10, 2007
Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Washington Marriott Hotel

This is a day-long session on just about everything you need to know about municipal wireless models, city strategies, technologies, system capabilities, and the applications these networks empower. NetLogix, the leading consulting, engineering and training-services firm, provides attendees with hands-on community and solution exercises designed to jumpstart the planning and deployment of a broadband-wireless infrastructure. The volume of invaluable, anecdotal real-world experiences provided in this seminar consistently produces our highest session ratings by past attendees.

Training-Session Objectives

Trainees will gain an extensive knowledge in:

The municipal wireless business — an overview of leading players, perspectives, and strategies;
Identifying and prioritizing local-government mobile workforce, business, citizen and community needs and applications;
Selecting the appropriate technologies and solutions to service those needs.
Understanding the assets and advantages that local government may leverage to optimize the success of a broadband-wireless deployment and mitigate risk;
Developing the optimum business and partnership models to increase ROI;
Crafting an effective RFP; and
Understanding what is required to build and operate a productive wireless network infrastructure.

Who Should Attend?

Local-government (state, county, city) executives and IT/communications professionals responsible for e-government applications servicing citizens.
Local government (state, county, city) executives and IT/communications professionals responsible for mobile workforces including the following Local-Government Mobile Occupations: Urban and regional planners, social workers, social and human service assistants, emergency medical technicians and paramedics, first-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers, fire fighters, fire inspectors, bailiffs and correctional officers, detectives and criminal investigators, police and sheriff's patrol officers, detectives and criminal investigators, recreation workers, highway maintenance workers, maintenance and repair workers, general water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators, bus drivers, transit and intercity transportation.

Agenda

Wireless Networks & Technologies Overview
Leveraging City & Municipal Assets
Achieving Economies of Scale
Building & Operating Wireless Broadband Networks
Defining Your Model
Crafting an Effective RFP

Questions?

Contact: Eric DaVersa Vice-President, Business Development, NetLogix
Office: (858) 764-1998
Cell: (858) 245-6702
Fax: (858) 764-1982
E-mail: edaversa@netlogix.com

Or call the Wireless Internet Institute at (617) 439-5400.

Program Committee

$Vivek Kundra was nominated by Mayor Fenty to serve as the Chief Technology Officer for Washington, DC. Most recently Kundra served as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Trade for the Commonwealth of Virginia; he was appointed by Governor Tim Kaine. Prior to joining Governor Kaine’s cabinet, he was the CEO of Creostar, a company focused on cyber security and information warfare. Kundra served as the vice president of marketing for Evincible Software, a technology startup that enabled trusted transactions for the government and the financial sector, which was sold to Exostar. Prior to that, he was the IT director for Arlington, VA, where he was responsible for the government’s strategic technology initiatives. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, teaching classes on emerging and disruptive technologies. Before joining Arlington he was with SAIC, providing consulting services at the Health and Human Services (HHS). His work focused on growing SAIC\\\'s $1billion business at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Kundra has worked on the World Cities Alliance initiative to advance business and economic development in Arlington, Zurich, Paris, Berlin, and Wales. Within the private sector, he worked with multiple clients to build operations in the United States, Canada, and India. He received his master’s in information technology and his bachelor’s in psychology and biology from the University of Maryland.$ Vivek Kundra
Chief Technology Officer, Washington, D.C.