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Houston '06

  • Dates: February 28-March 02, 2006
  • Location: Houston, TX,United States



Alan Scrime
Chief, Policy and Rules Division, Office of Engineering & Technology, FCC
 Overview of wireless broadband spectrum demand and regulations
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Alejandro Ludlow
Coordinator of Digital Participation, National e-Mexico System
 Overview of e-Mexico system
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Alejandro Ludlow (presentation above)
Coordinator of Digital Participation, National e-Mexico System
 Overview of e-Mexico
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Angela Smith
Deputy Director, Department of Permits & Inspections, Washington County, MD
 Permits and inspections department: implementing wireless applications
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Anthony Tull
Information Technology Director, Granbury, TX
 Wireless Mesh in Granbury TX: a case study in public safety and public access
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Berge Ayvazian, CRO, Yankee Group
& James Farstad, President, rClient, Rountable Summary
 Summary of the roundtable
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Brandon Clark
President, RF-IP, Inc.
 Presentation not available.
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Brian Anderson
President, Next Step Consulting
 Former CIO of Philadelphia and Dallas
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Brian Anderson (presentation above)
President, Next Step Consulting
 Former CIO of Philadelphia and Dallas
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Brian Stevens
Director, Implementation, Houston Information Technology Empowerment Consortium
 Presentation included in Chair's slides.
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Chair: Charles Shomper
Senior Vice President, External Relations, Blue Lance
 All panelists' presentations included here.
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Chair: Costis Toregas
President Emeritus, Public Technology Institute
 Dr. Costis Toregas recently capped a 32 year career at Public Technology, Inc. (PTI), retiring with the title of President Emeritus and with a promise to continue and give his exceptional energy and skills to his unwavering vision: that of strengthening local governments through the harnessing and effective use of technology. Since becoming President of PTI in 1985, he steered the organization to unprecedented success by creating innovative public/private partnerships which satisfied PTI's technology development and transfer mandate and created strong rewards for both sectors.

He has inspired innovative leadership among elected and appointed local government officials, both through lectures to their national assemblies and by working with them individually to define bold new directions for their jurisdictions using technology. Issues he is currently focused on include strategies to heal the digital divide, deployment of WiFi networks and effective promotion of transformative E-Gov programs.
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Chair: James Farstad
President, rClient
 Presentation not available.
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Chair: Janis Jefferson
Deputy Director for Infrastructure, City of Houston
 Chair of the panel
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Chair: Linda Kalcic
Vice President, Corporate Marketing, SkyPilot Networks
 Presentation not available.
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Chair: Lori Panzino-Tillery
President, National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors
 Presentation not available.
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Chair: Renee Railton
Incident Response Team, Cisco Systems
 Presentation not available.
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Chair: Richard Lewis
CIO, City of Houston
 Presentation not available.
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Chair: Stephen Rayment
CTO, BelAir Networks
 Presentation not available
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Chris Albinson
Managing Director, Panorama Capital
 Presentation not available.
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Clarence Williams
Chief of Police, Riviera Beach, FL
 Presentation not available.
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Co-chair: Daniel Aghion
Executive Director, W2i
 Opening remarks.
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Co-chair: Richard Lewis
CIO, City of Houston
 Welcome to Houston: the city and government IT
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Hong Sae (w/ John von Harz, NeoReach Wireless)
Director of Information Services, Farmers Branch, TX
 "Wireless Branch" overview
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James Farstad
President, rClient
 Community portal development in Minneapolis
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Jeffrey King
Director, Utilities Business Unit, Northrup-Grumman
 Presentation not available
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John Dolmetsch
President, BIG Wireless
 Presentation not available.
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Judy Miller
President, Ninth Wave Media
 Wireless Philadelphia case study: Olney neighborhood portal
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Keynote: Paul Butcher
Marketing Manager, State & Local Government, Intel
 Perspectives on digital communities
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Liliana Rambo, Parking Director
& Janis Jefferson, Deputy Director for Infrastructure, City of Houston
 Wi-fi parking meter project
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Manson Johnson
Reverend, Holman Street Baptist Church
 Presentation included in Chair's slides.
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Mark Meier
Director, Information Technology, City of Oklahoma City
 Overview of Oklahoma City's network
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Michael Paddock
CEO, Grants Office, LLC
 What Funding for Which Applications?
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Ogilvie Gericke
CIO, Corpus Christi
 Automated meter reading system: opportunities of wireless broadband
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Robert M. Stein
Dean of Social Sciences, Rice University
 Presentation not available.
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Scott Shamp
Director, New Media Institute, University of Georgia
 Scott A. Shamp is the Director of the New Media Institute at the University of Georgia. The New Media Institute is an interdisciplinary unit created to explore the creative, critical, and commercial implications of new digital communication technology. In his new position as the Director of the New Media Institute, Dr. Shamp is helping students carve out careers in the rapidly evolving field of new media and helping companies map out strategies for success using new communication technologies.

Dr. Shamp is interested in how computers affected the ways people communicated with one another.

Dr. Shamp has provided consulting services for several companies including Turner, UPS, Coca-Cola, and First Union. During his tenure at the University of Georgia, Shamp has served as the Director of the Dowden Center for New Media Studies and the Director of Information Technology for the College of Journalism.
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Sonja Reece
Vice Chair, ICT Steering Committee, National League of Cities
 Another role for elected officials: advocate for broadband
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Survey Results: Berge Ayvazian
CRO, Yankee Group
 Local government broadband wireless deployment trends.
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Tom Gruba
Director of Marketing, Motorola Canopy
 Presentation not available.
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Will Reed
Executive Director, Technology for All
 Presentation included in Chair's slides.
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