3:30-4:00 pm

Austin Wireless Alliance Business Forum Kickoff:

Mr. Steve Largent, CEO of CTIA, Driskill Hotel Main Ballroom

4:00-5:30 pm

Austin Wireless Alliance Panel:

"Wireless Disaster Relief"

Moderator: Chris Guttman-McCabe, Vice President Regulatory Affairs, CTIA - the Wireless Association

• Lee Maschmann, Executive Director, Texas, Verizon Wireless
• Juan Valencia, Vice President, Solutions Management, Ericsson
• Jim Bugel, Vice President Federal Government & National Security Policy, Cingular Wireless
• Greg Jurrens, Public Service Director, Armadillo Intertie, Inc.
• Pete Collins, CIO, City of Austin

5:00-6:30 pm

Tour of the Driskill Hotel, Historic Austin Landmark

6:30-9:00 pm

Welcome Reception, Driskill Mezzanine (reception) & Main Ballroom (panel)

Opening Remarks and Panel Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey Andrews, Symposium Chairman

Wireless Visionaries, “100 Mbps anytime, anywhere?"

• Dr. Bob Scholtz, Professor and Director of UltRa Lab, USC
• Dr. Reinaldo Valenzuela, Director of Wireless Research, Bell Labs
• Mr. Gerry Salemme, Executive Vice President, Clearwire
• Mr. Paul Ballentine, Director of Broadband Wireless Access Strategy, Freescale

Thursday, October 27

8:00-8:30 am

Coffee

8:30-8:45 am

Opening Remarks, Dr. Theodore Rappaport, Director, WNCG

8:45-9:30 am

Keynote: Mr. David Perkins, VP & General Manager, Freescale

9:30-9:50 am

Coffee Break

9:50-11:00 am

Panel 1: Titans of Wireless Infrastructure: Building Beyond 3G networks ]

Moderator: Tim Dehne, Vice President of Research and Development, National Instruments

• Dr. Alan Gatherer, CTO of Communications Infrastructure, Texas Instruments
• Mr. Frank McGhee, Vice President of Business Development, Ericsson
• Mr. David Deas, Vice President of Network Services, SBC Labs
• Mr. Madan Jagernauth, Director, Product Management, Wireless Mesh Networks and WiMAX Access, Nortel

11:00-11:30 am

Dr. Bob Scholtz, Professor and Director of UltRa Lab, USC, “Ultrawideband Radio – Realities and Promises”

11:30-12:00 pm

Dr. Tomas Novosad, Network Planning Expert, Nokia Networks

12:00-1:15 pm

Lunch at Driskill

1:15-2:15 pm

Panel 2: Funding Wireless Innovations: Startups and New Opportunities

• Mr. Carlos Kokron, Partner, Intel Capital
• Mr. Brian Smith, Managing Director, S3 Ventures
• Dr. Preston Marshall, Program Manager, DARPA
• Mr. David Altounian, CTO, Motion Computing
• Krishna Srinivasan, Principal, Venture Capital, Austin Ventures

2:15-5:15 pm

• Dr. Mark Reed, Australia National University
• Dr. Reinaldo Valenzuela, Director of Wireless Communications Research, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
• Dr. Victor Bahl, Director of Networking Research, Microsoft Research
• Dr. Matthew Shoemake, CEO of WiQuest
• Mr. Mark Vandenbrink, Chief Architect, Mobile Devices Software, Motorola

5:15-7:00 pm

Austin Wireless Alliance-hosted happy hour and mixer - Hard Rock Café

Friday, October 28

8:00-8:30 am

Coffee

8:30-8:45 am

Opening Remarks, Dr. Ben Streetman, Dean, College of Engineering, University of Texas

8:45-9:30 am

Keynote: Paul Struhsaker, Vice President Engineering Platforms, Mobile Devices Technology, Motorola

9:30-9:50 am

Coffee

AWA Business Forum Kickoff: Mr Edward A. Salas, Vice President, Network Planning, Verizon Wireless

Introduction by Ben Scott, Venture Partner at Austin Ventures and Former CEO of PrimeCo Personal Communications

10:50-12:30 pm

AWA Business Forum:

"Metropolitan Broadband Networks"

Technical Track

"Applications and Implementations"

12:30-2:00 pm

Lunch at Driskill

AWA Business Forum:

"Application and Multimedia Convergence"

and

"Fixed/Mobile Convergence"

WNCG

Student Track