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Texas Wireless Summit — Austin November 5, 2009

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Texas Wireless Summit

Texas Wireless Summit

[If you decide to attend this event, please send me a note and we'll be sure to put you on the VIP list for an invitation-only reception -- rich at lessnetworks dot com]

The Austin Wireless Alliance and UT’s Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) invite you to attend the seventh annual Texas Wireless Summit (www.twsummit.com) on November 5th at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, TX.  The Summit is the premiere wireless event in the central US and routinely attracts C-level participants and speakers from many of the industries leading companies.  This year’s theme is “Data Everywhere: Wireless throughout industry, government and society.”  There is a relentless expansion of wireless data networks which is allowing new industries to adopt wireless technologies.  These industries will deploy new data-driven solutions in smart grid, healthcare, telematics, consumer electronics, and software applications, resulting in unforeseen innovations.  There will be deep dives into understanding which wireless technologies are appropriate for which applications, security, and infrastructure and application deployment and management.

SPEAKERS

*********We are announcing the addition of John Stupka, President STS; Chief of Staff for the President and CEO of AT&T Mobility as the Infrastructure Keynote*********

The keynote speakers include

  • Security                        Thomas Cellucci, Chief Commercialization Officer, Department of Homeland Security
  • Infrastructure                 John Stupka, President STS; Chief of Staff for President and CEO of AT&T Mobility, Ralph de la Vega
  • Data Economics            Frank Bernhard, Managing Principal, Telecommunications Practice, Omni Group

Panel speakers from AT&T, Motion Computing, Austin Energy, Austin Heart Hospital, Dell, Motive, Movera, VMWare and many other leading industry players will provide a deeper dive into the implications for security, infrastructure and application deployment and management, and which wireless technologies are best for which applications.

REGISTRATION

Early bird registration will end October 31st.  To register, go to http://www.twsummit.com/index.php/registration.

SPONSORS

AT&T, Qualcomm, The Austin Chamber of Commerce, The City of Austin, UK Trade & Investment, ATI Wireless, C Faulkner Engineering, Tengo Networks

MEDIA PARTNERS

Portner Novelli, RCR Wireless, MobileMonday, Wi-Fi Alliance, CommNexus, WCA

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Bart Bohn, Texas Wireless Summit Chair at bbohn@ati.utexas.edu.  For media inquiries, please contact Laura Benold at lbenold@ati.utexas.edu.

Thank you,

Bart Bohn

Austin Technology Incubator

Director, Wireless and IT Incubators

The University of Texas at Austin

www.ati.utexas.edu

Austin Wireless Alliance

Executive Director

www.austinwirelessalliance.org

Office – 512 305 0046

Mobile – 832 524 3908

bbohn@ati.utexas.edu

@bartbohn

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LBS Apps for 2010 & Beyond

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

WCA LogoThis month I attended my second WCA event, “On Deck–LBS Apps for 2010 & Beyond,” presented by the LBS SIG (Location Based Services Special Interest Group). For a biz dev guy, this event rated way higher than the first one I attended, Mobile SIG’s “Mobile Display Technology,” which was apparently a sweet event for the über techies of the mobile handset world.

LBS Apps for 2010 showcased some very cool apps for LBS enabled devices. Among the presenters were TourSpot, UrbanMapping, MotionMaps, DialPlus, Gokivo Navigator, zhiing, Aha, B4UGo, myGeoDiary, MADMaps, Google Latitude and geomob. NAVTEQ‘s Laura Diaz moderated the event from the famed PARC auditorium, which is apparently one big concrete bunker. I got bupkis for a signal on my Blackberry, while inside the auditorium. Nifty way to keep the phones quite during a presentation.

Interesting side note concerning PARC–I learned that in 2002, PARC was established as an independent company. After decades of giving away the coolest of technologies, PARC now seeks strategic partners to commercially monetize its innovations.

But PARC was by far the minor attraction. The presenters wowed the audience with impressive LBS smartphone gadgetry. Aha and B4UGO actually showed their products for the first time ever to the public. I found UrbanMapping, arguably one of the least sexy apps, to be among the most fascinating. What did I find so fascinating? The app can show parking data, including useful parking info for 3500 US and Canadian parking facilities–data collection at it’s finest. MotionMaps was much more the technical marvel, showing 3D maps that you can pan across and zoom in on with a mere twist of your wrist, using your device camera as a motion sensor. I should also give props to DialPlus, which brings contextually relevant caller data to your handset.

An interesting thing I’m reminded of, as I peruse the presenter websites, is that not everyone has ignored the Blackberry. In fact, I’ve seen far fewer than expected iPhones in the hands of developers at these WCA events. Perhaps the iPhone is as much (or more) an accessory as it is a truly good phone, from an LBS developer’s perspective.

This event enlightened me to the latest in LBS apps, while my last WCA event educated me to the struggles of maintaining acceptable battery life with ever increasing demands on mobile handset displays. As for WCA sponsored events, I’m looking forward to continued exploration and attendance. Obviously, LBS is highly relevant to Less Networks since we’re all about mashing up WiFi hotspots with social and LBS apps.

~roberto

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