Wireless Convergence is making a comeback!

Convergence fully realized will provide customers the features, functionality and freedom they crave. When transparency is achieved by providers, customers will benefit from a seamless experience enjoying video, voice, data and mobility.

Today, the combination of seamless mobility & transparency across various media is the Holy Grail of the telecom industry.  Wireline providers are direly trying to recapture subscribers though bundling.  Wireless service providers now see a potential way to reduce capex & opex moreover creating economies of scale.  Moreover, the success of mobile wireless and the penetration of broadband access technologies such as DSL and Cable Modem have stoked demand for bundled services.  What's more, the maturity of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and the emergence of broadband wireless technologies, such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Mobile-FI, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) have finally provided the disruptive technologies required to bring about full fixed mobile convergence. 

How did we get to this point?  What forces are bringing about this change?  Learn not merely what emerging technologies will make convergence a long-awaited reality (beyond the alphabet soup of tech acronyms), but what adoption & start-up business opportunities, challenges for the enterprise, application development, third-party alliances and partnerships will emerge as a result.  The answer to these priceless questions and many more will be deliberated by our expert “wireless convergence” panel – don’t miss it!

MODERATOR:

DELOITTE CONSULTING | Shelly Mortimer | Manager TI/Architecture & Network Services
Ms. Mortimer is a Manager at Deloitte in their Technology Integration / Architecture and Infrastructure practice.  She is part of Deloitte’s National Core Networking Team and has over 15 years of IT experience.  Ms. Mortimer has designed and built large complex technology solutions with a particular focus in networking.  Since joining Deloitte, she has worked with high tech, public sector and bank card industry clients.  She designed and built the network infrastructure for a new credit card authorization system for a large bank card client and spent a year living in the UK implementing the new network infrastructure.   Prior to joining Deloitte, she worked as a National Network Engineer for several Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) over a six year period and also worked for MasterCard International as a Network Engineer for five years.  Ms. Mortimer has her Bachelor of Science MIS degree from St. Louis University, lives in Northern California and is an avid runner recently completing her first two half marathons.

EXPERT PANELISTS:

QUALCOMM | Ryan Gorostiza | Director of Strategic Marketing
Mr. Gorostiza’s responsibilities include briefing industry analysts, operators, and others within the wireless community on developments regarding QUALCOMM products, business initiatives and wireless communication technologies. Mr. Gorostixa is also on the strategic marketing team responsible for 3Gtoday.com, an industry resource highlighting commercially available 3rd Generation products & services worldwide. Prior to joining the strategic marketing team, he managed the competitive intelligence team within QUALCOMM’s former Subscriber Products division and performed market research for QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions (formerly OmniTRACS). Mr. Gorostiza has his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from San Diego State University.

NOVATEL WIRELESS | Brad Weinert | Chief Operating Officer
Brad Weinert has served as Novatel Wireless’ Chief Operating Officer since April 4, 2006 and as Vice President of Business Development when he returned to Novatel Wireless in April 2003. From January 2002 to February 2003, he worked as Chief Operating Officer for Okbridge, Inc., an internet gaming and software company. From February 1998 to November 2001, Mr. Weinert worked for Novatel Wireless as Vice President, product management and also as Vice President of Corporate Strategy. Before that, he served as Vice President of Product Management at iVasion/RouterWare, Inc., where he oversaw the design, development and delivery of all commercial and OEM networking products. Mr. Weinert also held senior management positions with NetManage, Inc., Age Logic, Inc., and Pathway Systems, where his responsibilities included engineering, sales and marketing of software and hardware products for local and wide area networking. He received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from San Diego State University.

PARTECH INTERNATIONAL | Tim Wilson | Partner
Tim joined Partech International in 2001 and focuses on communications and components investments. Between 1997 and 2001, Tim was the Chief Marketing Officer for Digital Island, a Partech portfolio company. The company was acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2001 for $350M. Prior to Digital Island, Tim was a General Manager at Lucent Technology where led the international voice communications product management team (now Avaya) with P&L for product lines generating over $2B in annual sales and coauthored a VOIP related patent. Before Lucent, Tim held a variety of senior management positions within AT&T (North America and Australia) and AT&T Bell Labs from 1983-1995. Tim's current portfolio companies include ARIO Data Networks, Discera, Invensense, Spudnik and Teknovus where he holds a board seat with each company. He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Bowdoin College receiving his undergraduate degree in Physics. He received his MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business where he was named a Fuqua Scholar. 

DAVEMOCK.COM | Dave Mock | Wireless Industry Consultant, Author & Freelance Writer
Dave Mock is a respected author, consultant and freelance writer specializing in mobile technology and markets. A leading mind in many fast-developing wireless segments, Mr. Mock is frequently quoted in industry and mainstream media such as RCR Wireless, Investors Business Daily, CNET and MSNBC. He has also written for many online publications such as Unstrung, The Feature, CNET and The Motley Fool. In 2002, Mr. Mock co-authored Tapping Into Wireless. Mr. Mock's latest book, The Qualcomm Equation, reveals one of the most amazing corporate growth stories in the history of communications. Mr. Mock consults in the area of intellectual property, business strategy and training and serves on the advisory board of REGARD Solutions.  Mr. Mock earned his BSEE degree from California State University Fullerton and has over 15 years systems engineering experience.