3:30-5:00 pm

Austin Wireless Alliance Business Forum Kickoff:

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

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)

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
• Dr. Ian Opperman, Director, Product Business Operation Solutions, Nokia Networks
• Mr. Gerry Salemme, Executive Vice President, Clearwire
• Mr. Ken Hansen, Senior Technical Fellow & Director of Advanced Technology, Freescale

Thursday, October 27

8:00-8:30 am

Coffee

8:30-8:45 am

Opening Remarks, Dr. Jeffrey Andrews, Conference Chairman

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

• 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. Dave Mothersole, CTO, Networking & Computing Systems Group, Freescale

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. Ian Opperman, Director, Product Business Operation Solutions, 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

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

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. Scott Nettles and Dr. Sanjay Shakkottai, Technical Program Chairs

8:45-9:30 am

Keynote: Dick Lynch, CTO, Verizon Wireless

9:30-10:00 am

Coffee

10:00-12:00 pm

AWA Business Forum:

"Metropolitan Broadband Networks"

and

"Application and Multimedia Convergence"

Technical Track

"Ultrawideband"

12:00-1:15 pm

Lunch at Driskill

AWA Business Forum:

"Fixed/Mobile Convergence"

Technical Track

"Applications and Implementations"