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San Francisco '05

  • Dates: October 10-12, 2005
  • Location: San Francisco, California,United States



Day 1: Monday, October, 10, 2005
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM Citywide Mesh Network Tour: Cupertino (CA)
Convention attendees are invited to tour an operational multi-service broadband-wireless network.
    05:00 PM - 07:00 PM Registration/Technology Showcase
      07:00 PM - 09:00 PM Reception
        Day 2: Tuesday, October, 11, 2005
        08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Registration/Technology Showcase
          09:00 AM - 09:30 AM Opening Statements

          • Co-Chair: Chris Vein, Senior Advisor for Technology to Mayor Gavin Newsom, City of San Francisco
          • Co-Chair: Daniel Aghion, Executive Director, Wireless Internet Institute
            09:30 AM - 10:00 AM Opening Keynote
            • Paul Butcher, Marketing Manager, State & Local Government, Intel
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            10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Plenary: Case Studies Panel
            Chaired by a leading systems integrator or analyst, this panel will feature 5-6 key innovative case studies focusing on user groups and key applications (workforce productivity, public safety, social services, citizen services etc). Government practitioners will present their experience in planning, deploying and operating broadband wireless infrastructure in their communities. Emphasis will be put on motivations for their local-government broadband-wireless effort, challenges encountered in building the business case, process of community outreach and building consensus, determining the application priorities based on clearly defined metrics, choosing the underlying technologies, and funding their efforts. Presenters will provide an impact analysis of their initiatives.
            • Chair: Enrique Barkey, Worldwide Director, Civilian Agency Solutions, HP
            • Richard Bull, Police Chief, Ripon (CA)
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            • Michael Lawrence, CISSP, Chief Information and Security Officer, City of Lenexa (KS)
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            • Steve Schooley, City Traffic Manager, Lenexa (KS)
            • Pu-Tsung King, Deputy Mayor, City of Taipei, Taiwan
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            • Ran-Fun Chiu, Distinguished Technologist, HP Labs
            • Mark Ansboury, Chief Operating Officer, OneCleveland, Cleveland (OH)
            12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Technology Showcase/Box Luncheon
              01:30 PM - 02:15 PM Keynote
              • Richard Rotondo, Vice President of Marketing, Motorola
              02:15 PM - 03:15 PM Plenary: Technology Roadmap Panel
              Chaired by an academic or leading analyst, this plenary session panel will gather global industry leaders, standards organizations representatives and will provide a detailed overview of the technology state of affairs and the roadmap ahead. It will provide the primary audience of local-government elected officials and agency executives with a "technology primer", with an emphasis on applications and user authentication, aimed at providing government officials with the tools to overcome technology implementation challenges.
              • Chair: Rizwan Khaliq, Wireless Global Solutions Executive, IBM
              • Greg Richardson, President & CEO, Civitium
              • Scott Akrie, President & Managing Partner, NetLogix
              • John Foresto, Managing Partner, Stratum Broadband
              • Carl Peede, President & CEO, Camvera Networks
              03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Plenary: Regulatory Framework Panel
              This plenary session panel features government, private sector and independent regulatory affairs experts in the field of wireless communications. The panel will provide an updated view of the regulatory landscape, examining federal, stateside and foreign regulatory practices as it affects local-government broadband-wireless plans and projects. Emphasis will be on local governments opportunities to establish local competitive rules of engagement
              • Chair: Lauren Gelman, Assistant Director, Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School
              • Allen Hammond, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
              • Abe Kani, Chief Information Officer, City of Atlanta (GA)
              • Jack Leutza, Director, Telecommunications Division, California Public Utilities Commission
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              • Alan Scrime, Chief, Policy and Rules Division, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC
              04:30 PM - 05:30 PM Plenary: Public-Private Partnerships Panel
              This plenary session panel made up of local government officials, incumbent and emerging service provider executives will explore the opportunities for innovative public/private partnerships, with an emphasis on demand aggregation models, and leveraging local governments as anchor tenants to improve mobile workforce productivity and share excess capacity for broadband digital inclusion
              • Chair: Kenneth S. Fellman, Mayor, Arvada (CO), Chair, Information & Technology Committee, National League of Cities
              • Dianah Neff, Chief Information Officer, City of Philadelphia (PA)
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              • Dave Heck, Deputy Chief Information Officer, City of Tempe (AZ)
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              • Martin Levetin, Vice President, Eastern Region, WAZMetro
              • Chuck Haas, Founder & CEO, MetroFi
              • Anthony Abel, CEO, Last Mile Communications
              • Nitin Shah, CEO, Feeva
              05:30 PM - 07:30 PM Cocktail Address sponsored by HP: Technology Showcase
                07:30 PM - 09:30 PM W2i Wireless Communities Best Practices Awards Ceremony & Dinner

                Dinner sponsored by IBM

                W2i Wireless Communities Best Practices Awards Presentation

                Dinner Keynote

                • Bronwyn Guthrie, Vice President, IT Services Public Sector, IBM Global Services
                Day 3: Wednesday, October, 12, 2005
                09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Workshop #1A: Funding

                • What are the costs of deploying a local community broadband wireless infrastructure?

                • What are the project financing options?

                • What are sustainable pricing models?

                • What role does local government play in the process?

                • What role does local government play in the process?

                • Tom Lockard, Managing Director, Stone & Youngberg
                • Nick Ellis, Analyst, Stone & Youngberg
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                09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Workshop #2A: Partnerships
                • Stephen Rayment, CTO & Co-founder, BelAir Networks
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                09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Workshop #3A: Consensus Building

                • How to educate the community to develop its support and devise an optimal deployment strategy?

                • What are the various media communications strategies to overcome regulatory and legislative hurdles?
                • Richard Rotondo, Vice President of Marketing, Motorola
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                09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Workshop #4A: Metrics

                • Which local government agencies can most benefit?

                • What roadmap to local government mobile workforce productivity

                • What metrics for which agency/function?
                • Nigel Ballard, Manager, Digital Inclusion, Intel Americas, State & Local Government
                09:00 AM - 10:30 AM Workshop #5A: Multi-Service Offerings

                • What applications, for whom over shared network infrastructure?

                • Access privilege management requirements

                • What security for optimized  infrastructure sharing
                • Michael J. Kleeman, Senior Technical Advisor, WAZMetro
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                10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Workshop #1B: Emergency First Responders and Broadband Wireless

                • Paul Butcher, Marketing Manager, State & Local Government, Intel
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                10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Workshop #2B: Partnerships

                • What are the different public private partnership models to maximize private sector participation? 

                • How to build partnerships with the private sector

                • How to build alliance with other local government

                • What assets can local government contribute to the partnership?
                • Patrick J. Leary, Chief Evangelist, Alvarion
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                10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Workshop #3B: A Baywide Area Cloud
                • Denis Gilhooly, Principal Advisor, United Nations ICT Task Force
                • Chuck Haas, Founder & CEO, MetroFi
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                10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Workshop #4B: Metrics
                • Bert Williams, Vice President of Marketing, Tropos Networks
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                10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Workshop #5B: Multi-Service Offerings

                • What applications, for whom over shared network infrastructure?

                • Access privilege management requirements

                • What security for optimized  infrastructure sharing
                • Lee Tsao, Worldwide Solutions Director, Pronto Networks
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                12:15 PM - 01:30 PM Buffet Luncheon/Technology Showcase
                  01:30 PM - 03:00 PM Mayors Panel: Developing a Broadband Wireless Infrastructure: Elected Officials Leadership Role
                  • Chair: Lori Panzino, President, National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
                  • Richard Barr, Mayor, City of Adel (GA)
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                  • Joe Chow, Mayor, City
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                  • Pu-Tsung King, Deputy Mayor, City of Taipei, Taiwan
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                  • Gavin Newsom, Mayor, City of San Francisco (CA)
                  • Ibrahim Turaki, Governor, Jigawa State (Nigeria)
                  03:15 PM - 04:45 PM Workshop Reporting
                  Chaired by Chris Vein, Senior Advisor to Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, this panel will allow the Workshop Chairs to present the conclusions to the primary audience of local-government elected officials and agency executives from large, medium, & small constituencies to develop an optimal business model to address their community’s unique needs
                    04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Closing Statements
                      Thursday, October, 13, 2005
                      07:30 AM - 05:00 PM Community Wireless Networks Practical Training Session