4G World

Program At A Glance

4G World 2011

Note: Specific times, descriptions and presenters are subject to change.

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Monday Oct. 24, 2011 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM Add
Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM Add
Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011 9:00 AM - 6:15 PM Add
Thursday Oct. 27, 2011 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM Add


Tuesday, October 25, 2011
8:00 AM Alvarion Power Breakfast – Capacity and Coverage Solutions in the 4G Era
Gil Shacham - Alvarion, Haig Sarkissian - LLC
9:00 AM Welcome
Gigi Wang - Yankee Group
9:20 AM Building on the Foundation of 4G for All
Tom Keys - MetroPCS
9:50 AM Delivering on the Promise of 4G Networks
Arun Bhikshesvaran - Ericsson
10:20 AM Networking Break
10:30 AM The Heart of 4G
Reiner Klement - Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, William H. Stone - Verizon Wireless
11:00 AM Ensuring a Flexible Future in an Increasingly Unpredictable World
Rick Corker - Nokia Siemens Networks
11:30 AM Embracing for the Mobile Storm
Bob Azzi - Sprint, Ken Wirth - Alcatel-Lucent
12:00 PM Lunch – Expo open noon – 5:00 pm
2:00 PM Potential of 4G Technologies and Services on the Russian Telecom Market
Dr. Valery O. Tikhvinskiy - OJSC Rostelecom
4G Deployments 4G Applied Technology Small Cells - Big Change 4G Powers Opportunity for Cloud & Mobility Service Enabling Strategies for 4G
2:40 PM 4G Dashboard – Behind the Demand
Carl Howe - Yankee Group
Unraveling the Mystery of the Next Generation Radio Access Network
Elias Aravantinos - Maravedis, Manish Singh - Radisys
Femtocells: State of Technology and Deployments
Iyad Tarazi - Sprint, Nick Johnson - ip.access, Professor Simon Saunders - FemtoForum, Steven Brightfield - Qualcomm
Cloud Services Interconnection
Andrew White - ATIS Cloud Services Forum, Brian Partridge - Yankee Group, Dr. Serge Manning - ATIS Cloud Services Forum, Gary Munson - ATIS Cloud Services Forum Vice Chair
Service Strategies for 4G – An Operator Perspective
Andrew Mitchell - Yankee Group, Ivano Costa - Telecom Italia
3:40 PM 4G Deployments – North America
Adlane Fellah - Maravedis, Dr. John Saw - Clearwire, Ed Chao - MetroPCS, Iyad Tarazi - Sprint
The Future of Mobile Access: Blending Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum Services
Chris Pearson - 4G Americas, Dave Williams - Stoke Inc., Edgar Figueroa - Wi-Fi Alliance, Jennifer Pigg - Yankee Group, Professor Simon Saunders - FemtoForum
Emerging Femtocell Services and Applications
Andy Germano - Femto Forum, David Swift - Alcatel-Lucent, Munish Chhabra - Aricent, Rob Riordan - Nsight, Tom Hussy - Ubiquisys
Mobile Cloud Applications
Craig Doeden - Intel, Manny Gonzalez - Keynote Systems, Sandra Palumbo - Yankee Group, TJ Varghese
Role of Network Services in Delivering Differentiated 4G Services
Adrien Joseph - Tellabs, Berge Ayvazian - Heavy Reading, Indranil Chatterjee - Openwave Systems, Peter Linder - Ericsson, Randy Fuller - Tekelec
4:40 PM “Rest of World” LTE Implementation – Lessons from the Field
Erasmo Rojas - 4G Americas, Luis Omar Rivera - Open Mobile, Mike Wright - Telstra, Wally Swain - Yankee Group
Timing is Everything – Synchronization Requirements for LTE Readiness
David Chen, PhD - Nokia Siemens Networks, Edward Doe - Broadcom Corporation, Manish Gupta - Symmetricom®, Robert Synnesvedt - Cisco
Role of Femtocells in Heterogeneous Networks
Khurram Sheikh - Powerwave Technologies, Prabhakar Chitrapu - Femto Forum, Rob Riordan - Nsight, Stephen Rayment - BelAir Networks, Tom Gruba - Alcatel-Lucent, Udayan Mukherjee - Intel
M2M and Cloud Converge to Create the Internet of Things
Chris Gesell - Verizon Wireless, John Keough - Yankee Group, Mariana Agache - Ciena, Nagesh Kittur - Juniper Networks, Steve Pazol - nPhase, Tom Thomassen - Symantec Corporation
Optimizing & Assuring Service Delivery in the 4G Blended Services Era
Robert Rich - TM Forum Insights Group, Ron Seager - Leap Wireless/Cricket Communications, Steven Shalita - NetScout Systems, Tanya Nasehoglu - Bell Mobility
5:40 PM Day 1 Concludes