Tempe '07

Presented by NetLogix and W2i
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.

• Registration & Continental Breakfast from 8:00 am - 9:00 am
• Seminar Begins at 9:00 am
• Luncheon from 12:00 - 1:00 pm
• Seminar Continues from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• Michael E Dillon, Director, Industry Solutions, Safety, Security & Community Broadband, IBM

This panel explores overlapping network solutions, complementarities, strengths and weaknesses. How do municipal Wi-Fi networks match up with 2.5G and 3G solutions? What is the role of unlicensed versus licensed spectrum? What is the WiMAX opportunity for cities and counties? A field practitioner rounds out this panel of industry experts with a case-study presentation of a multiple-network implementation in Macedonia.

• Frank Ohrtman, President, WMX Systems
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• Glenn Strachan, Project Director, Macedonia Connects
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• Mark Goldstein, Founder, International Research Center
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• Phil Belanger, Principal, Novarum
• Chair: Bo Larsson, CEO, Firetide

This general-session panel of CIOs and broadband-wireless project leaders explores the range of approaches to public-private partnership agreements, with an emphasis on leveraging local assets and establishing balance to meet local-government needs and increase citizen satisfaction.

• Dave Heck, Deputy CIO, City of Tempe
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• Thomas McQuillan, IT Director, City of Grand Rapids
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• Eric Norenberg, IT Services Leader, City of Mesa
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• Ron Braden, IT Director, Town of Vail
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• William Beck, Deputy CIO, City of Minneapolis
• Chair: Martin Levetin, Vice President of Carrier and Municipal Networks, Strix Systems

Nuts-and-Bolts Seminars in the Technology Showcase Theater Industry veterans explore the range of solutions available to communities in four interactive seminars. Bring your questions! Metro-Scale Broadband-Wireless for Beginners (2:15 – 2:45) • Mark Ansboury, Chief Operating Officer, OneCommunity Key Questions Behind RFP Concept and Design (2:45 – 3:15) • Dave Evertsen, Principal, Municipal Solutions Break (3:15 – 3:30) Practical Issues: Vertical Assets, Permitting, and Pole Attachments (3:30 – 4:00) • Ryan McCaigue, Senior Technical Project Manager, EarthLink Municipal Networks Funding Broadband-Wireless Networks (4:00 – 4:30) • Michael Paddock, CEO, Grants Office, LLC

Wireless-Networks User Experience Roundtable • Hosted by Novarum and W2i • By Invitation Only Virtually all users of wireless networks have something to complain about, and the discussion about improvement is ongoing. How do users get on solid? How do city officials and institutional leaders know they are getting their money’s worth from an installation? The User Experience Roundtable attracts a diverse group of existing and potential end users, from local-government authorities and IT departmental heads to institutional directors of campuses and hospitals, to emerging broadband-wireless service providers, wireless application providers and systems integrators. Findings will form the beginning criteria of a Wireless Networks Value Index. • Co-Moderators: Phil Belanger and Ken Biba, Principals, Novarum

Digital Inclusion Roundtable (For Southwest Stakeholders) • Hosted by IBM and W2i • By Invitation Only Digital inclusion is a major motivation for deploying broadband infrastructure in urban and rural areas. But communications infrastructure is only one of many things that must align in order for local government leadership to trigger the adoption of integrated strategies and plans to address the digital divide, including funding and hardware needs, education and training, applications, and community support. This Roundtable in Tempe places a special emphasis on broadband-wireless and rural digital inclusion and accessibility, including in Indian Country. • Co-Moderators: Anne-Rivers Forcke, IBM WW Human Ability & Accessibility Center, and Costis Toregas, President Emeritus, Public Technology Institute; Chair, National Academy of Public Administration Standing Panel on Social Equity in Governance

• Glenn Strachan, Project Lead, Academy for Educational Development
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• Joe Mefford, Statewide Broadband Director, ConnectKentucky
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Moderators of the afternoon's two roundtable sessions — Digital Inclusion and User Experience — report to the general audience on key findings.

• Phil Belanger, Principal, Novarum
• Ken Biba, Principal, Novarum
• Anne-Rivers Forcke, IBM WW Human Ability & Accessibility Center

Over the past couple of years, major local-government broadband-wireless implementation plans have focused on tier-one cities such as Philadelphia and Houston. Yet groups of small and medium-size cities may involve themselves in a coordinated initiative. From the Boulder region to Arizona’s CANAMEX Corridor (I-19), project directors explore multi-jurisdictional efforts. Tempe’s assistant city attorney will outline the legal landscape for municipalities considering wireless.

• Galen Updike, Telecommunications Development Manager, State of Arizona/GITA
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• Chris Puccio, Director of IT, City of Boulder
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• Michele Hovet, Director of IT, City of Arvada
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• Jenae Naumann, Assistant City Attorney, Tempe AZ, Chair, E-Commerce and Technology Section, State Bar of Arizona
• Chair: James Hueser, Sales Executive, Wireless Broadband Americas Group, IBM

Community Case Studies Field practitioners present on the range of applications enabled by broadband-wireless infrastructure — from public safety to transportation, community portals and telemedicine. Session 1 — Transportation & Neighborhood Portals (9:00 - 10:15) • Chair: Karrie Rockwell, Southwest Sales Director, SkyPilot Networks • Francisco Leyva, Traffic Engineering, City of Tucscon • Larry Piland, Datel Systems (San Diego North County Transit District) • Skip Brand, Vice President, Strategy, JiWire (WAZTempe Portal) • Judith Miller, President, NinthWave Media (PhilaVoice Portal Session 2 — Public Safety & Emergency Response / Telemedicine (10:30 - 11:45) • Chair: Mark Wittenburg, Tech Support Supervisor, City of Tempe • Robert DeSimone, Patrolman, Lakewood Police Department (NJ) • Paul Hackerson, Director of Security and Management, Housing Authority, Rockford (IL) • Ben Standifer, CIO, Tohono O'dham Nation (AZ) • Mike Holcomb, Associate Director for Network Architecture, Arizona Telemedicine Program

Wireless in Education Case studies (9:00 - 10:15) In this inaugural education track at the Digital Cities Convention, practitioners provide project updates and lay out their broadband-wireless institutional and community objectives. • Dave McKee, Director, Data Communications, Arizona State University • Lynda Goff, Executive Director, WinstonNet • Mark Ansboury, Chief Operating Officer, OneCommunity • Dr. Don Green, Director of Technology, North Forest Independent School District, Houston Wireless in Education Discovery Session (10:30 - 11:45) Participants from the 9:00 a.m. session will brainstorm on the broadband-wireless opportunities and roadblocks facing educational institutions and linkages with surrounding communities.

Service Provider Executive and Local-Government CIOs Roundtable • Hosted by Yankee Group, rClient and W2i • By Invitation Only The Service Provider Executives and Local-Government CIOs Roundtable attracts a diverse group of stakeholders, from emerging broadband-wireless service providers to existing cable, telco, cellular operators and ISPs to local-government authorities and CIOs. The inaugural roundtable, held in Houston in early 2006, examined business and market strategies, and subsequent meetings in Los Angeles and London have explored sustainable business models. The Roundtable in Tempe will build on findings from the Philadelphia session, which explored establishing balance in public-private partnerships. • Co-Moderators: Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group, and James Farstad, President, rClient (Advisor to the City of Minneapolis)

• Francisco Leyva, Traffic Engineering, City of Tuscon
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• Larry Piland, Datel Systems, San Diego North County Transit District
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• Skip Brand, Vice President, Strategy, JiWire
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• Judith Miller, President, NinthWave Media
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• Robert DeSimone, Patrolman, Lakewood Police Department
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• Paul Hackerson, Director of Security and Management, Rocford IL Housing Authority
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• Mike Holcomb, Associate Director of Network Architecture, Arizona Telemedicine Program
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• Dave McKee, Director, Data Communications, Arizona State University
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• Lynda Goff, Executive Director, WinstonNet
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• Lawrence Voyten (for Ansboury), Director, OneCommunity
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• Dr. Don Green, Director of Technology and Information, North Forest Independent School District
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• Workship Results, Discovery Session, Wireless in Education
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