Philadelphia '06

Presented by NetLogix
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. NetLogix, a leading data networking consultancy, will provide trainees with hands-on community and solution profiling exercises to jumpstart the planning and deployment of a broadband-wireless infrastructure.

• Registration & Continental Breakfast at 8:00 am
• Seminar begins at 9:00 am
• Luncheon from 12:00 - 1:00 pm
• Seminar continues until 4:00 pm

Hosted by rClient, Yankee Group and W2i
By Invitation Only
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. The Service Provider Executive Roundtable will also provide a forum for service providers to discuss business and market strategies and examine the potential for cooperation among emerging broadband-wireless service providers and existing cable, telco, cellular, and Internet service providers.

• Moderator: James Farstad, President, rClient and Consultant to the City of Minneapolis
• Roberta Wiggins, Research Fellow, Yankee Group

By Invitation Only
Digital inclusion is a major motivation for the deployment of broadband infrastructure in urban and rural areas. 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.

• Moderator: Anne-Rivers Forcke, IBM WW Human Ability & Accessibility Center

• Roundtable Results, Preconference Session, ISP Executives and Government CIOs
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• Registration begins at 3:30 pm

Keynote Address: "How to Rationalize Public-Access Models through Government Applications"

• Daniel Aghion, Executive Director, W2i
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• Mike Dillon, Director, Industry Solutions, Safety, Security, & Community Broadband, IBM

In an interactive town-hall-styled session, the audience of local-government attendees is invited to ask questions of half a dozen city and county CIOs — project champions — about their broadband-wireless plans and goals, from concept and organizational structure to RFP preparation and early-stage service delivery. Emphasis is on community needs analysis, building consensus, and creating sustainable business models.

• Chair: Marty Hahnfeld, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, SkyPilot Networks
• Rodney Akers, Deputy CIO, City of Pittsburgh
• Bill Beck, Deputy CIO, City of Minneapolis
• David Behen, CIO, Washtenaw County, Michigan
• Hardik Bhatt, CIO, City of Chicago
• Varinia Robinson, Program Director, Future Network Technologies, City of Philadelphia

This panel gathers together field practitioners to present their experiences implementing a range of applications enabled by broadband-wireless infrastructure to spur social, economic and educational development, improve city management, and increase citizen satisfaction.

• Chair: Yancey Johnson, Sales Manager, Firetide Networks
• Tomas Bennich, Project Manager, Kista Science City
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• Don Green, Director of Technology and Information, North Forest Independent School District
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• Judith Miller, President, NinthWave Media
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• Anthony Tull, Information Technology Director, Granbury TX
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• Richard Y. Yin, Chairman, Information Technology Total Services
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In a comparative context, this panel explores overlapping networks and their strengths and weaknesses. How do municipal Wi-Fi networks match up against 2.5G and 3G solutions? What is the role of unlicensed versus licensed spectrum? What is the WiMAX opportunity for cities and counties? Two case-study presentations (one U.S. and one overseas) round out this session with an exploration of field-based experiences.

• Chair: James Hueser, Sales Executive, Wireless Broadband Americas Group, IBM
• Phil Belanger, Principal, Novarum
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• Kenneth Carter, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, FCC
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• Frank Ohrtman, President, WMX Systems
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• Beth Thomas, Information Technology Coordinator, Allegany County, Maryland
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• Glenn Strachan, Project Director, Macedonia Connects
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• James Freeze, Senior Vice President, BelAir Networks
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This general-session panel of broadband-wireless project consultants and network-provider executives explores the range of approaches to public-private partnership models, with an emphasis on leveraging local assets to meet local-government needs and improve citizen satisfaction. The panel kicks off with a moderators' report on the Service Provider Executives and Local-Government CIOs Roundtable on Day 1.

• Chair: John Rivers, Sales Business Development Manager, Cisco Systems
• James Farstad, President, rClient
• Tony Hylton, Chairman, Technology and Infrastructure Subcommittee, Broadband Technology Associates LLC
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• Kurt Lange, President, US Internet
• Bill Tolpegin, Vice President, Development & Planning, EarthLink Municipal Networks
• Roberta Wiggins, Research Fellow, Yankee Group

From Philadelphia to the San Francisco Bay Area, nonprofit organizations are playing a direct role in focusing broadband-wireless plans and projects on digital inclusion and economic development. These organizations work hand in hand with local authorities to transform neighborhoods by providing wireless Internet access to improve the lives of citizens and the community. The panel kicks off with a moderator's report on the findings from the Digital Inclusion Roundtable on Day 1.

• Chair: Lou Waters, CEO, Simdesk Technologies
• Mark Ansboury, COO, OneCommunity
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• Anne-Rivers Forcke, WW Human Ability & Accessibility Center, IBM
• Harold Galicer, Principal, Seakay
• Lynda Goff, Executive Director, WinstonNet
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• Greg Goldman, CEO, Wireless Philadelphia
• Joe Mefford, Statewide Broadband Director, ConnectKentucky
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