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October 19, 2007
VON is For Wireless
Pulvermedia Bolsters Mobile/Wireless Content at Fall 2007 VON Boston, October 29-November 1, 2007
New Speakers, Vendors, Conference Sessions and Tutorials Emphasize Mobile
and Wireless Technologies at Fall VON
BEVERLY, Mass., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulvermedia today announced the
addition of several new speakers, vendors, pre-conference tutorials and
breakout sessions at Fall 2007 VON that focus on mobile and wireless
content. Now in its eleventh year, VON continues to reflect the state of
the IP-communications industry -- and as such, the upcoming Fall 2007 VON
event will feature more Mobile-VoIP and wireless content than ever before.
"The war on the Internet is over, in the sense that broadband is
pervasive in the office, as well as in the home setting -- and today, the
next steps involve making us all one-in-the-same with the Mobile Internet,"
said Carl Ford, VP of Content and Community at Pulvermedia. "This is the
next major battle in our industry, and we'll be spending a lot of time
discussing this at Fall VON."
Mobile and Wireless sessions on Tuesday, October 30th include:
-- 10:00 AM - AT&T's Vice President of Product & Strategy Jeff Webber
-- 11:15 AM - Senior VP and GM of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, Anad
Chandrasekher will deliver his Industry Perspective session
-- 1:30 PM - the VoIP over 3G breakout session will feature: Disruptive
Analysis' Dean Bubley; FirstHand Technology's David Hattey; QUALCOMM's
John Hannan; Truphone's James Tagg; and Fring's Boaz Zilberman
-- 3:15 PM - the 4G Wireless Mobility session will discuss numerous
alternative access points: it will be led by Sprint Nextel Corp's Ali
Tabassi
-- 3:15 PM - the Voice over Wi-Fi Breakout session will feature Meru
Network's Joe Epstein; Broadcom's Robert Franzo; Polycom's Ben
Guderian; Cisco's Sherman Scholten; and the Wi-Fi Alliance's Judy
Racino-Farrer
-- 4:30 PM - Motorola's Corporate VP, Senior Fellow and Chief Architect
Dr. Hamid Ahmadi will discuss the drive to communications convergence
and its impact on the future of telecommunications
-- 4:45 PM - A FemtoCell breakout session will discuss the impact to end
users, and will feature Thomson's Stan Class; Samsung's Jim Parker; and
several others.
On Wednesday, October 31st, additional Mobile and wireless sessions
will include:
-- 9:00 AM - an Industry perspective by Nokia's CTO and executive vice
president Tero Ojanpera, discussing how "Mobility Makes People Matter
More."
-- 9:30 AM - Sprint Nextel's Ali Tabassi will deliver an Industry
Perspective session entitled: "Mobilizing the Internet"
-- 11:15 AM - an additional FemtoCell session will feature PicoChip's
Rupert Baines, ip.access' Richard Henderson; AirWalk Communication's
Serge Pequeux, and Keener Law Group's Barlow Keener
-- 2:00 PM - The Wireless Founders Coalition for Innovation's Amol Sarva
will deliver a session entitled," Using Wireless Open Access to Change
the World."
On Thursday November 1, the Chief Technologist of Nokia's Mobile
Solutions Unit, Timothy Jasionowski will participate in a session entitled
"Trend Spotting," at 900 AM.
New to this year's program is the Mobile Security Conference, which
runs across both expo days, discussing an array of topics including:
assessing mobile threats, data leakage, and strategies for creating a
mobile security policy. The premier sponsor for the Mobile Security
Conference is Nokia, who is also participating in several other aspects of
VON.
Lastly, a Pre-Conference "Femtocell" Tutorial is scheduled to take
place from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM on Monday, October 29th. To attend any of
these sessions, or for more information about Fall VON, please visit:
http://www.von.com/2007/boston/web/. Members of the media can obtain media
credentials by contacting ally.forbes@pulvermedia.com.
About Pulvermedia:
Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building
communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled
blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive
cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company,
Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide
variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government
regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more
information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com.
Posted by carl at October 19, 2007 02:13 PM