Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo, San Jose, CA

Agenda*
Thursday, December 4, 2003
Exhibit Hall Hours: 10:00am-5:00pm

Track A: The Roaming Landscape Track B: Business Perspectives
Track C: Deploying WLANs 2 Track D: Securing the Network

7:30am - 5:00pm

Registration

8:00am - 8:45am

Power Breakfast Sponsored by

9:00am - 9:50am

Morning Keynote
Speaker:
Scott Stainken, General Manager, Global Wireless Business, IBM Corporation

TRACK A
THE ROAMING LANDSCAPE

10:00am - 11:00am

Wi-Fi Strategies for Telcos
Industry leaders have long speculated about the policies that cellular carriers would adopt with respect to wireless LANs. Now, with the announcements this summer from Verizon, SBC and others, we know. Or do we? That carriers mean to be players in this market is clear, but to what extent and for what purpose? How will their Wi-Fi offerings jibe with their cellular data services? Come to this session for a deeper look into the future of Wi-Fi, Telco style.
Moderator:
Joseph Laszlo, Senior Analyst, JupiterResearch
Speakers:
Douglas Busk, Product Development, WLAN Services, Verizon Wireless
Colby Goff, Vice President Network Strategy, Boingo Wireless
Kevin Jackson, Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing, Tatara Systems
Pete Thompson, Director of Marketing, T-Mobile

11:00am - 11:30am

Morning Break

11:30am - 12:30pm

Building Vendor-Neutral Roaming Organizations
The concept of roaming grew up in the cellular phone industry – tortuously, over a period of ten years. It was adopted and adapted successfully for the dialup Internet access industry in the 1990s. Despite lots of talk about it in the Wi-Fi world, however, true roaming—based on a confederation of independent providers employing a registry, a common OSS, and a settlement system—has only very recently begun to appear. Participants discuss the process and the prospects for Wi-Fi roaming worldwide.
Anchor:
Monica Paolini, Principal, Senza Fili Consulting
Speakers:
Dan Dahle, Sr. Strategic Architect, Intel Corp.
Jan Eldenmalm, CEO, Amazingports AB
Pankaj Patel, Director, Mediation, Roaming, and Settlement Development, Convergys Corp.
Marco Vis, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, PicoPoint

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Afternoon Keynote
Speaker:
Kevin Duffy, Senior Vice President of Product Management and R&D, Proxim

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Evolution of Standards, Protocols, and OSS
Roaming is ultimately about working together, and nothing facilitates working together like standards. While some technological pieces of the roaming puzzle are in place, others are still taking shape. This session will pinpoint where we are on the road to ubiquitous roaming, and explore emerging efforts to thrash out new building blocks of a functional roaming infrastructure.
Moderator:
Pankaj Patel, Director, Mediation, Roaming, and Settlement Development, Convergys Corp.
Speakers:
Dan Dahle, Sr. Strategic Architect, Intel Corp.
Joel Short, CTO & Sr. Vice President, Nomadix
Lumin Yen, Director, Product Management: Wireless and Broadband, GRIC Communications

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Rationalizing Roaming Relationships
If you're in the hotspot business, you need to build a flexible service that supports as many types of roaming relationships as possible. But there are several categories of roaming partnerships, each with its own business model and supporting technical infrastructure. This session will describe the current types of roaming relationships and the trends in back-end systems, client interfaces and access control technology that will shape the future of Wi-Fi roaming.
Speakers:
Cody W. Catalena, Executive Vice President, NetNearU
Steve Harmsen, Vice President, Business Development, STSN
Pierre Trudeau, Founder and CTO, Colubris Networks

TRACK B
BUSINESS PERSPECTIVES

10:00am - 11:00am

Wi-Fi for Profit
Seventy percent of online consumers surveyed by Jupiter Research are aware of public hotspots, but only six percent have used one and only one percent has paid. Moreover, one third claimed that they would never use a public hotspot while one third stated that they would never pay for such a service. Service providers ranging from more traditional cellular and DSL providers to pure WISP's are building out infrastructure with plans to profit. This session will explore a number of business models for public Wi-Fi access as well as tactics being used to drive profitability.
Moderator:
Julie Ask, Research Director and Senior Analyst, Jupiterresearch
Speakers:
Jeff Damir, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Sales, Cometa Networks
Mark Jamison, Entrepreneur-In-Residence, McDonald's Strategy & Business Development Group
Sean O'Mahony, CEO, Fatport
Jon Russo, Vice President of Marketing, iPass Inc.

11:00am - 11:30am

Morning Break

11:30am - 12:30pm

WLAN in Industry: Putting RFID to Work
RFID technology deploys inexpensive "tags" that respond to RF queries, making it easy to keep track of the whereabouts of objects large and small. Such "asset management" applications abound in areas as diverse as warehousing, health care, manufacturing, and retail. Come to this session to hear about what's being deployed now and how it's being used today. This is RFID at work, and it's also Wi-Fi at work.
Moderator:
Alex Goldman, Associate Editor, ISP-Planet.com
Speakers:
Ken Crawford, Sales Manager, Tech Center, LLC, an Intermec Partner
Sue Gordon-Lathrop, Vice President, Emerging Consumer Environments, Visa International
Carey Hidaka, Market Development Executive, Emerging Business Solutions - RFID Tagging, IBM Global Services
Jeff Hopkins, Americas RFID Leader for Manufacturing, Retail and Distribution, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Afternoon Keynote
Speaker:
Kevin Duffy, Senior Vice President of Product Management and R&D, Proxim

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Management's Role in WLAN Policy
Setting up a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is about lots more than hardware, software, and cabling. Managers need to set clear goals and guidelines for the use and management of this powerful, flexible tool. In this session, managers at companies that have deployed WLANs talk about how to set rules and goals that ensure a WLAN really helps people to work smarter and accomplish more without compromising the organization's security or integrity.
Moderator:
Francis Rabuck, President, Rabuck Associates
Speakers:
Eric Janszen, CEO, Bluesocket Inc.
Doug Luce, Founder and President, Telerama Internet

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Economics of WLAN Deployment
Part 1. As has been frequently pointed out, wireless LAN technology isn't wireless. Until recently, deploying an access point required pulling cable – both Ethernet and power – to the location, an expensive proposition. The introduction of Power over Ethernet (PoE), four years ago, began to reduce these costs. The official ratification of the IEEE standard this summer should eliminate proprietary differences among vendors' offerings and make PoE a powerful force in the industry. This session covers the state of the art.
Speaker:
Michael Petagna, Director, WLAN Business Development, PowerDsine, LTD.

Part 2. Despite many obvious benefits, not every enterprise has the resources—or wants to develop the resources—to design, deploy, and manage a wireless LAN. Until recently, that meant doing without. But Wi-Fi is now well enough established that managed WLAN services are springing up to complement the many other types of managed, outsourced networking services available. This session takes a look at what it takes to establish a profitable managed Wi-Fi business.
Speaker:
Paraham Momtahan, Vice President, Research and Development, Bridgewater Systems

TRACK C
DEPLOYING WLANS 2

10:00am - 11:00am

Integrating Wireless & Wired LANs
LAN Management is a tried and true necessity in any corporate structure, but the introduction of wireless in the early days sometime lead to a Wild West mentality with outlaw (read: rogue) access points and users at war with the IT sheriffs. Those days are gone, as the tools are more than readily available for carefully making wireless a part of any existing Ethernet infrastructure. We'll talk with the companies making these tools, from the switch vendors to the management console developers, to learn the secrets of making this seamless for users and painless for the IT staff.
Moderator:
Eric Griffith, Managing Editor, Wi-Fi Planet
Speakers:
Anthony Bartolo, Director of Product Marketing, Wireless LAN Solutions, Nortel Networks
Dr. Harry Bims, Founder & CTO, AirFlow Networks
John Borusheski, Vice President, Data Services of NEC Business Network Solutions, Inc.
Vipin Jain, Vice President, LAN Access, Extreme Networks
Matt Zanner, Mobility Solutions Manager, HP ProCurve Networking

11:00am - 11:30am

Morning Break

11:30am - 12:30pm

State-of-the Art Hand-off Technologies
True wireless roaming will only happen when clients can travel across completely disparate networks. More than just subnet roaming, to go from a Wi-Fi LAN and to a 3G WAN and continue talking or accessing data securely is what's needed: and a plethora of solutions are in the works to make this hand-off happen. Technologies like Mobile IP, which uses multiple IP addresses to keep you connected, are just the beginning as small and large companies (Intel, anyone?) take on the task. Find out what you need to make sure your users can make the leap from network to network without hassling you.
Moderator:
Jesse Frankel, Director of Systems Engineering, AirMagnet
Speakers:
Dr. Haakon Bryhni, Chief Technology Officer, Birdstep Technology
Albert Lew, Director of Product Management, Legra Systems, Inc.

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Afternoon Keynote
Speaker:
Kevin Duffy, Senior Vice President of Product Management and R&D, Proxim

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Wi-Fi Meets 3G
Cellular technologies are fast moving from looking like potential competitors to Wi-Fi to being viewed as the helpful older sibling. As the networks in the home and office continue to converge with the WAN outdoors, clever use of 3G technology and some interesting antenna tricks are making it easier for everyone to get connected no matter where they are. Take a look at some of the coolest technology in wireless today that combines the two, from cellular-as-backhaul solutions to building antenna systems that provide both GSM and Wi-Fi at the same time, and more.
Moderator:
Joseph Laszlo, Senior Analyst, JupiterResearch
Speakers:
Michael Hurlston, Director of Business Development, Broadcom Corporation
Biju Nair, Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Products Division, PCTEL
Warren Sly, Director of Marketing, RadioFrame Networks

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm - 5:00pm

RF Management Implementation Strategies
The term RF management really describes three things: the management of RF frequencies, security applications, and planning of wireless LANs. Strategies for achieving these goals are as different as the many vendors of hardware and software offerings designed to achieve them. Some offer dedicated RF management hardware, others balk at using such equipment; still others suggest RF management is a bandaid solution for a first-generation WLAN architecture. Four players in attendance will discuss different philosophies and strategies surrounding RF management implementations.
Moderator:
Max Smetannikov, Analyst, Networks and Infrastructure, the451 Group
Speakers:
Merwyn Andrade, CTO, Aruba Wireless Networks
Dr. Harry Bims, Founder & CTO, AirFlow Networks
Andris Dindzans, Senior Product Manager, Trapeze Networks
Matthew Glenn, Director of Product Management, AireSpace, Inc.

TRACK D
SECURING THE NETWORK

10:00am - 11:00am

Protecting Wireless PDAs
Wireless PDAs have invaded the workplace. Employees are bringing these mobile devices into the enterprise, creating a security nightmare for IT managers charged with supporting them. Unprotected wireless PDAs are vulnerable to data theft, malicious code attacks and unauthorized access. This session reviews the key security implications of corporate vs. employee-owned handheld devices, including legal and support liabilities and best and worst security practices. To illustrate that these risks are real, this session also presents several plausible methods for virus attacks against WLAN-enabled PDAs, identifying tools and techniques that can help end users and their companies keep mobile devices secure and virus-free.
Speakers:
Seth Fogie, Vice President, Airscanner Corp.
Tom Goodman, VP of Operations, Bluefire Security Technologies

11:00am - 11:30am

Morning Break

11:30am - 12:30pm

Securing Wireless with VPN: Challenges and Solutions
Corporate use of Wi-Fi is starting to take off as an integrated extension to enterprise LANs and as a convenient method of remote access from hotspots. However, despite recent advances like Wi-Fi Protected Access and 802.1X, security concerns continue to impede Wi-Fi adoption. To address these concerns, many organizations are using Virtual Private Network clients to secure corporate traffic sent over wireless. In this session, panelists will discuss opportunities and challenges associated with applying various VPN solutions to meet WLAN security needs. Topics to be addressed include methods of wireless user authorization, integration of strong authentication technologies like smart cards, and best practices for secure wireless hotspot usage.
Moderator:
Lisa Phifer, Vice President, Core Competence Inc.
Speakers:
Tobias Englund, VP of Technology, Columbitech AB
Jan Forslöw, CTO, ipUnplugged
Eric White, VP of Engineering, Rocksteady Networks, Inc.

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30pm - 2:20pm

Afternoon Keynote
Speaker:
Kevin Duffy, Senior Vice President of Product Management and R&D, Proxim

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Techniques for Deploying Secure WLANs
WLAN encryption and MAC address lists are common security measures, familiar to most WLAN administrators. But what about more advanced techniques that push the envelope, addressing the needs of larger, more complex, more sophisticated WLANs? This session will examine two less well-understood techniques that can play a role in secure WLAN deployment: methods for implementing WLANs in conjunction with VLANs, and implementation strategies for 802.1X access control.
Speakers:
Mike Banic, Director of Product Marketing, Trapeze Networks
Pete Behrens, Vice President, Engineering, Roving Planet

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm - 5:00pm

FIPS Certification and the Evolution of WLAN Security
To address security concerns, the U.S. Military purchases WLAN products that comply with a NIST standard known as FIPS 140-2. In this session, panelists will provide an overview of FIPS 140-2, what WLAN products must do in order to become FIPS certified, and why consumers should care. Panelists will discuss how and why FIPS certification raises the security bar, and why FIPS is relevant to other security-sensitive vertical markets that must comply with privacy legislation like HIPAA and GLBA.
Moderator:
Brian Mansfield, Chief Security Consultant, The Mansfield Group LLC
Speakers:
Pat Calhoun, CTO, Airespace, Inc.
Ken Evans, VP of Product Management, Fortress Technologies
Dr. Jim Pilgrim, Senior Director, 3e Technologies International

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