Houston '06

Professional Development Seminar for Local-Government Officials
• Presented by NetLogix and W2i
 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.

Professional Development Seminar for VARs and Systems Integrators
• Presented by Civitium and W2i
 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 Yankee Group, rClient 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.

• Berge Ayvazian, CRO, Yankee Group, & James Farstad, President, rClient, Rountable Summary
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Welcome
• Co-Chair Richard Lewis, CIO, City of Houston
• Co-Chair Umesh Verma, President & CEO, Blue Lance, Inc.
• Larry Olson, CIO, State of Texas
• Terrance Fontaine, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Mayor, City of Houston

Keynote
• Mike Dillon, Director for Safety, Security and Community Broadband, IBM

Reception in Technology Showcase Area

Opening Statements & Keynote

W2i/Yankee Group Local-Government Broadband-Wireless Deployment Trends Survey Results

• Co-chair: Daniel Aghion, Executive Director, W2i
• Co-chair: Richard Lewis, CIO, City of Houston
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• Keynote: Paul Butcher, Marketing Manager, State & Local Government, Intel
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• Survey Results: Berge Ayvazian, CRO, Yankee Group
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This panel, chaired by a local-government CTO, will gather together field practitioners (city officials and VARs) to deliver field-experience-based knowledge of the opportunities and challenges in deploying broadband-wireless pervasive infrastructure.

• Chair: Janis Jefferson, Deputy Director for Infrastructure, City of Houston
• Ogilvie Gericke, CIO, Corpus Christi
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• Jeffrey King, Director, Utilities Business Unit, Northrup-Grumman
• Mark Meier, Director, Information Technology, City of Oklahoma City
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• Brandon Clark, President, RF-IP, Inc.
• John Dolmetsch, President, BIG Wireless

This plenary session panel features government and independent regulatory-affairs experts in the field of wireless communications. The panel will examine federal and state-level regulatory practices as they affect local-government broadband-wireless plans and projects. Emphasis will be on local governments’ opportunities to establish local competitive rules of engagement.

• Chair: Lori Panzino-Tillery, President, National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors
• Alan Scrime, Chief, Policy and Rules Division, Office of Engineering & Technology, FCC
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• Sonja Reece, Vice Chair, ICT Steering Committee, National League of Cities
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Chaired by Houston's Chief Information Officer, the panel gathers together a grants officials, bond underwriters, and field practitioners to provide an update on the various funding mechanisms available in the marketplace, requirements to be met, and applications eligible for such funding.

• Chair: Richard Lewis, CIO, City of Houston
• Michael Paddock, CEO, Grants Office, LLC
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• Chris Albinson, Managing Director, Panorama Capital
• Clarence Williams, Chief of Police, Riviera Beach, FL

• Tom Gruba, Director of Marketing, Motorola Canopy

Technology & Underserved Communities: Broadscale

Costis Toregas, Chair of the National Academy of Public Administration Standing Panel on Social Equity in Governance, leads a discussion on broadscale application of e-Government and citizen-oriented applications and services to spur digital inclusion.  

• Chair: Costis Toregas, President Emeritus, Public Technology Institute
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• Brian Anderson, President, Next Step Consulting
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• Alejandro Ludlow, Coordinator of Digital Participation, National e-Mexico System
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• Robert M. Stein, Dean of Social Sciences, Rice University

Neigborhood Portals: US Cities

Broadband-wireless enables low-cost community and visitor information access, education, and location-based services to spur social and economic development. Practitioners from Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Athens (GA) explain plans and projects. 

• Chair: Stephen Rayment, CTO, BelAir Networks
• James Farstad, President, rClient
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• Judy Miller, President, Ninth Wave Media
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• Scott Shamp, Director, New Media Institute, University of Georgia
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Public Safety & Emergency Response

From remote database access to online report writing, CAD, AVL, and video surveillance, public safety is a common primary driver behind metro-area broadband-wireless implementations. Three municipalities from Texas and Florida explore present and future applications and opportunities. (Session repeats.) 

• Chair: Renee Railton, Incident Response Team, Cisco Systems
• Hong Sae (w/ John von Harz, NeoReach Wireless), Director of Information Services, Farmers Branch, TX
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• Anthony Tull, Information Technology Director, Granbury, TX
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• Clarence Williams, Chief of Police, Riviera Beach, FL
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Government Process Reengineering: City & County

Field practitioners from the City of Houston and Washington County, Maryland, examine how broadband-wireless applications can expand revenue generation for local government and increase efficiency among mobile workers. (Session repeats.)

• Chair: Linda Kalcic, Vice President, Corporate Marketing, SkyPilot Networks
• Liliana Rambo, Parking Director, & Janis Jefferson, Deputy Director for Infrastructure, City of Houston
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• Angela Smith, Deputy Director, Department of Permits & Inspections, Washington County, MD
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Public Safety & Emergency Response

Repeat of Session 1, Track 2.

• Chair: Richard Rotondo, Director of Marketing, Motorola
  

Government Process Reengineering: City & County

Repeat of Session 1, Track 1.

• Chair: Steve Lowe, Vice President, Sales, Tropos Networks 

Technology & Underserved Communities: City of Houston

The CEOs of three organizations helping underserved communities in Houston will discuss how they are using, and plan to use, information technologies, including broadband and wireless technologies, to empower people.

• Chair: Charles Shomper, Senior Vice President, External Relations, Blue Lance
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• Manson Johnson, Reverend, Holman Street Baptist Church
• Will Reed, Executive Director, Technology for All
• Brian Stevens, Director, Implementation, Houston Information Technology Empowerment Consortium

Neighborhood Portals: Broadscale

e-Government applications may be extended to large, socioeconomically diverse populations at the city, state and national levels. Field practitioners from Mexico and the United States explore broadscale architectures and solutions. 

• Chair: James Farstad, President, rClient
• Brian Anderson (presentation above), President, Next Step Consulting
• Alejandro Ludlow (presentation above), Coordinator of Digital Participation, National e-Mexico System

Chaired by a local community leader, this panel is based on the Greater Houston Partnership testimonial helping the city shape its broadband-wireless efforts. The panel will explore the role and vested interests that local business organizations and corporate citizens have in actively contributing to and promoting the community’s efforts. Capacity planning, coverage issues, and the future of communications to be addressed.

• Chair: Umesh Verma, President & CEO, Blue Lance, Inc.
• Bob Edwards, Vice President, Continental Airlines
• Warren Matthews, Sr. Vice President, Wells Fargo
• Jenifer Jarriel, CIO, Baylor College of Medicine
• Will Reed, Executive Director, Technology for All
• Al Lindseth, Vice President, Plains All American

• Co-chair: Daniel Aghion, Executive Director, W2i
• Co-chair: Richard Lewis, CIO, City of Houston
• Adrian Garcia, City Council, City of Houston
  

The 2006 W2i Wireless Communities Best Practices Awards: Kickoff to Nominations

• Costis Toregas, Chair, Awards Jury