Conferences


March 7-9, 2005. Annual WINMEC Forum, UCLA.

 


January 25, 2005. RFID Experience: Hands-On Workshop

     

October 12 , 2004. The WINMEC RFID Forum , UCLA


May 4-5th, 2004. Sixth Wireless Internet Data and Enterprise Applications Conference, UCLA.


February 18th, 2004. WINMEC CIO Forum, UCLA.
    Hamid Akhavan - CTO , T-Mobile
    Mark Askren - Assistant Vice Chancellor, Admin Computing Srvcs, University of California, Irvine
    Patty Azzarello - President & CEO, Euclid Inc.
    Johnny Barnes - VP Global IT Solutions and Standards, IBM
    Brad Boston - CIO, Cisco Systems
    Phil Bowman - Vice President Integrated Solutions (SBS Division), Sprint
    John Bruno - Vice Provost, Info and Educational Tech, University of California, Davis
    Gerhard Cerny - CIO, Siemens Bus. Svcs
    Joe Cleveland - CIO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Jim Davis - Associate Vice Chancellor - I.T., University of California, Los Angeles
    Norm Fjeldheim - CIO, Qualcomm
    Bob Foster - Professor, UCLA - Anderson Business School
    Cita Furlani - CIO, N.I.S.T.
    Rajit Gadh - Director - WINMEC; Professor, UCLA
    Mario Gerla - Professor, CS, University of California, Los Angeles
    Ray Gilbert - Director-CIO-IT, Lucent Technologies
    Keith Glennan - VP & CIO, Northrop Grumman
    Scott Griffin - VP and CIO, Boeing
    Vijay Gurbaxani - Director, CRITO Consortium, University of California, Irvine
    Elazar Harel - Asst Vice Chancellor, Admn Computing & Telecom, University of California, San Diego
    Uday Karmarkar - Research Director - CMIE, Professor, UCLA - Anderson Business School
    Leonard Kleinrock - Professor, UCLA
    Liza Lowery - CIO, City of Los Angeles ITA
    Ann Mangal - Associate Research Director, Anderson School, UCLA
    Sharad Mehrotra - Assoc Prof, Info & CS, University of California, Irvine
    Doug Parrish - Senior VP & CTO, The Walt Disney Internet Group
    Gerry Purdy - Principal Analyst, MobileTrax LLC
    Vivek Ranadive - Chairman and CEO, TIBCO
    Charles Rowley - Assoc Vice Chancellor, Computing & Comm, University of California, Riverside
    Michael Sampogna - VP of Glob Busi Continuance & Disaster Recovery, Computer Associates
    Omer Simeon - EVP, Countrywide Financial Corporation
    Alladi Venkatesh - Prof. of Management and Assoc Dir of CRITO, University of California, Irvine
    Ken Venner - VP and CIO, Broadcom Corporation
    Bruce Willison - Dean, Anderson School of Management, UCLA
October 29-30th, 2003. Fifth Wireless Internet Data and Enterprise Applications Conference, UCLA.
    Tim Allwine - Director, Product Management and Develop , VeriSign Inc.
    Ed Altman - Practice Director, Media and Entertainment , Tata Consultancy Services
    Kamal Anand - Vice President , Meru Networks Inc.
    Ashish Asthana - VP - Product Development and Strategy , Intelleflex Corporation
    John Babcock - Partner , Rustic Canyon Group
    Gunjan Bagla - Director of business development , Dynamic Logic
    Ram Balani - CEO/Founder , VenueMaitre'D, Inc.
    Debasis Bandyopadhyay - Principal Consultant , Tata Consultancy Services
    Rick Bentley - Founder , Televoke/Telcontar
    Pravin Bhagwat - CTO , Wibhu Technologies
    Bryan Biniak - Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing , Moviso
    Anurag Bist - Manager - Media Processing , intel
    Phil Bolt - President and CEO , Orthogon Systems
    Edoardo Calia - Research Labs Manager , ISMB (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella)
    Paul Callahan - Co-Founder and Vice President , Propagate Networks, Inc.
    Rio Caraeff - VP - Wireless Services , Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment
    Rajeev Chand - Senior Equity Research Analyst , Rutberg & Company, LLC
    Leigh Chinitz - Chief Technical Advisor , Proxim Corporation
    Peter Claassen - Vice President of Business Development , Nomadix
    Terence J. Clark - Partner , Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P.
    Jeffrey Cohen - Partner , Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
    Jordan Cohen - Chief Technology Officer , Voice Signal Technologies
    Mort Cohen - Chief Technical Advisor , Kalydus Asset Advisors
    Babak Daneshrad - Professor, EE , UCLA
    Jim Davis - Associate Vice Chancellor - I.T. , UCLA
    Bill DeKay - CEO , Telespree
    Randy Dence - VP of Product Management & Marketing , Interlink Networks
    Peter Ecclesine - Technology Analyst , Cisco
    Enrica Filippi - Manager - Networking Infrastructure Roadmap , ST Microelectronics
    Mike Fitz - Professor, EE , UCLA
    Bob Foster - Professor , UCLA - Anderson Business School
    Rajit Gadh - Director - WINMEC; Professor , UCLA
    Mario Gerla - Professor, CS , UCLA
    Ray Gilbert - Director-CIO-IT Enterprise Collaboration , Lucent Technologies
    Gianmarco Giorda - Marketing Manager , Invest in Turin and Piedmont
    Gilbert Goodwill - Member of Technical Staff , Wind River Systems
    Minard Hamilton - SVP, Sales and Brand Partnerships , Jamdat Mobile
    Ronny Haraldsvik - Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy , Flarion Technologies
    Greg Hayes - Director, Mobile Workplace Solutions , Infonet Services Corporation
    Lucy Hood - Senior VP, Content & Marketing , News Corp.
    John Horwath - CIO , Hot Topic, Inc
    Tom Huseby - Managing Partner , SeaPoint Ventures
    Eric Janszen - CEO , Bluesocket, Inc.
    Ky-Ming Jen - CTO , XandMail
    Fritz Jordan - Industry Analyst , MobileTrax, LLC
    Dev Kambhampati - Research Development Officer , UC Discovery Grant
    James Kamke - CEO , Ashvattha Semiconductor
    Bradford Kane - Deputy Secretary for Information Technology , CA Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency
    Alex Kelly - VP New Media , Fox Filmed Entertainment
    Rohit Khetrapal - President , Perfigo Inc
    Fred Kitson - Director of Mobile & Media Systems Lab , HP
    Dean Knuth - National Account Manager , Northrop Grumman IT
    Sanjai Kohli - GM Wireless , Insilica Inc
    Andre Kruetzfeldt - Principal Architect , Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Gaurav Kuchhal - Group Product Manager , Oracle
    Rajiv Kumar - CTO , WIDCOMM Inc.
    Hans-Arne L'orange - CEO , Birdstep Technology
    Jeff Lawrence - President & CEO , Clivia Systems
    Ross Levinsohn - SVP/GM , FOXSports Interactive Media
    Eric Lofdahl - Director, Product Development , Wireless Services Corp.
    Timothy Lorello - Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer , TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
    Emily Loughran - Director of Licensing , Office of Intellectual Property Administration, UCLA
    Songwu Lu - Assistant Professor, CS , UCLA
    Asad Madni - President and COO , BEI Technologies, INC.
    Ann Mangal - Associate Research Director , UCLA-CMIE Anderson
    John Marston - VP of Business Development , Toshiba
    Barry Miller - Partner , Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
    John Miner - President, Intel Capital , Intel Corporation
    Viroopax Mirji - Senior Manager & Director , BearingPoint
    Thomas Mitchell - Senior Consultant , Computer Associates
    Feisal Mosleh - VP of Product Management , Vernier Networks
    Doug Neal - Research Fellow , Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
    Valeriy Nenov - Professor, Division of Neurosurgery , UCLA
    Scott Painter - Chairman , Build-To-Order Incorporated
    Arturo Pizano - Head, Multimedia & Video Technology , Siemens
    B.S. Prabhu - Senior Researcher , Wireless Media Lab, UCLA
    Gerry Purdy - Principal Analyst , MobileTrax LLC
    Anuj Puri - Research Scientist , ABP and UC Berkeley
    Benjamin Quinones - Partner , Pillsbury Winthrop LLP
    Alexander Ramia - AGM , Panasonic Technologies
    Ashwin Rangan - Sr. VP and CIO BPR & IT , Conexant System
    Pieter Van Rooyen - CTO , Zyray Wireless
    Jeff Ross - Director of Marketing , QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Izhak Rubin - Professor, EE , UCLA
    Ken Rutkowski - President , KenRadio Broadcasting
    Amit Seth - Senior Director, Business Development , Visto Corporation
    Eddie Shek - Chief Technology Officer , Vizional Technologies, Inc.
    Andrew Singer - CEO , Rapport Incorporated
    Arunas Slekys - VP - Corporate Marketing , Hughes Network Systems
    Dale Smith - Vice Consul, ICT Sector Advisor , British Consulate General, San Francisco
    Scott Spreen - VP, Business Development and Product Planning , NEC America, Inc.
    V. Sridhar - Asst. VP , Satyam Computer Services
    Charles Stearns - VP of Operations , Hellosoft
    Jesse Szynal - Regional Account Manager , Texas Instruments RFid Systems
    Jack Torobin - CEO , COMsciences, Inc.
    Peter Trepp - President & CEO , 5G Wireless Communications, INC.
    Asha Vellaikal - Staff Architect , France Telecom R&D
    Michael Wehrs - Director of Technology & Standards , Microsoft Windows Mobile Division
    Ken Willner - VP - Advertising and Media , AT&T Wireless
    Justin Yaros - CIO , Sony Pictures Entertainment
    Lixia Zhang - Professor, CS , UCLA

    Venture Capitalist Panel
    Ranjeet Alexis - Director , Intel Capital
    Jeff Anderson - Managing Director , Mellon Ventures
    Sujit Banerjee - Principal , Nokia Venture Partners
    David Britts - Partner , ComVentures
    Hillel Cohn - Partner , Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
    Jon Funk - Managing Director , Allegis Capital
    Brian Garrett - Partner , Palomar Ventures
    Prashant Kantak - Senior Director - Business Development , QUALCOMM Ventures
    John Morris - Managing Director , GKM Ventures
    Bahram Nour-Omid - Senior Principal , Shelter Capital Partners
    Allen Pu - , Mellon Ventures
    Louis Rajczi - Investment partner , Siemens Venture Capital
    David Young - Co-Chair, Venture Capital and Technology Group , Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
May 19-20th, 2003. Fourth Wireless Internet Data and Enterprise Applications Conference, UCLA.
If you are interested in being placed on the mailing list for this event, please send us an email . Sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Oracle, Computer Associates, TCS-America, Brobeck, Northrop Grumman IT, Siemens, Kelley Drye, Eizel, Satyam, Vario, and Instituto Superiore - Mario Beolla. Industry sponsors are currently being sought.
    Rafiul Ahad - VP, Mobile Products & Services, Oracle Corp.
    Tom Altshuller - Executive Director of the Information Sciences Division, Rockwell Scientific Company
    Shirang Bapat - Practice Head, TCS
    Rick Bentley - Senior VP of Business Development, Telcontar
    Mahesh Bhave - Hughes Network Systems
    Bryan Biniak - Executive Vice President, Moviso
    Jim Black - VP - Strategic Architecture, Hewlett Packard
    Kurt Bauer - VP, Nomadix
    Rio Caraeff - VP, Wireless Services, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment
    Mazen Chmaytelli - Director of Product Management, Qualcomm Internet Services
    Terry Clark - Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.
    Alex Klyce - Senior Vice President, Sendia Corp
    Randy Dence - VP of Product Management, Interlink Networks
    Sumit Deshpande - Technology Strategist, Computer Associates
    Sujit Dey - Professor - Electrical and Computer Eng, UCSD
    Doug Glen - Chief Operating Officer, WebLink Wireless
    Rajit Gadh - Director, WINMEC; Professor, UCLA
    Adam Gould - CTO - CDMA, Nokia Mobile Phones
    Christopher Guardado - CEO and Principal, MoriahCom
    Yogesh Gupta - CTO, Computer Associates
    Jeff Hayes - CISSP - Director Security and Technology Partner Programs, Alcatel
    Craig Hayman - VP - Development, IBM
    Peter Hazelhurst - VP - Engineering, Eizel Technologies
    Mark Henderson - President & CEO, Ericsson Canada
    Gregory Hill - Product Marketing Manager, Ethertronics
    Lucy Hood - Senior VP, News Corp.
    Prakash Iyer - CTO, Everypath
    Aditya Jayaraman - Telecommunications Practice, TCS
    Dean Knuth - National Account Manager, Northrop Grumman IT
    Arnon Kohavi - Fellow, Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University
    Anil Kripalani - Senior VP - Global Technology Marketing, Qualcomm
    Norbert J. Kubilus - Partner, Tatum Partners
    Jeff Lawrence - President & CEO, Clivia Systems
    Timothy Lorello - SVP/Chief Marketing Officer, TCS
    Tulin Mangir - President & Principal Consultant, TMAssociates
    Dwayne Mann - Chief Technology Officer, Credant Technologies
    Doug McGowan - Board Member, expHand, Inc.
    Miten Mehta - SVP, JPMobile
    George Morgan - Director - Center for Wireless Telecommunications, Virginia Tech
    Marc Naddell - Director, Motorola
    William B. Osborne - Director - Engineering, Manufacturing & Network Systems, General Dynamics
    Samir Palnitkar - VP Business Development, Wibhu Technologies John Perkins - Managing Director, BearingPoint
    Tony Perkins - AlwaysOn Networks
    Arturo Pizano - Head - Multimedia & Video Technology, Siemens
    Jeff Popoff - VP Wireless Appl. Infrastructure, Redknee Inc.
    Satish Ramachandran - CEO, Mirapoint
    Vaho Rebassoo - CTO - Computing & Networking Operations, Boeing
    Eli Rosner CTO, Autodesk Location Services, Inc.
    Izhak Rubin Professor, EE, UCLA
    Klaus Schaaf - Research Director, Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory
    Matthew Shoemake - Director of Adv. Tech. - Wireless Networking, Texas Instruments
    Mark Smith - Department Manager, HP
    Ron Smith - Senior VP & GM, Intel - WCCG
    Kathy Sohrabi - Sr. Development Engineer, Sensoria Corporation
    Yoram Solomon - Director, Texas Instruments
    Anish Srivastava - Director, Product Development, France Telecom
    Cyrus Staniec - Director - Technology Resources, Northrup Grumman IT
    Jim Takach - Director, PRTM
    Jim Thompson - Director of Product Development, Vivato
    DP Venkatesh - Founder & CEO, mPortal
    S.R. Venkatramanan - Senior Staff Engineer Software Systems, Sun Microsystems
    Wayne Ward - VP- Enterprise Data Solutions, Nextel Communications
    Abel Weinrib - Director - Communications and Networking, Intel
    Ken Willner - VP - Advertising & Media, AT&T Wireless
    Mike Yuen - Director of BREW?Developer Relations, Qualcomm Internet Services

    Venture Capitalist Panel
    Ravin Agarwal - Lead Investment Partner, EastWest Venture Group
    Jeff Anderson - Mellon Ventures
    Ted Alexander - Founding Partner, Mission Ventures
    John Babcock - Partner, Rustic Canyon Group
    Eric Buatois - Principal, Sofinnova Ventures
    Nick Faranfontoff - Intel Capital
    Jon Funk - Managing Director, Allegis Capital
    Ken Hausman - Managing Director, Osprey Ventures
    Doug Hickey - Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
    Brad Jones - Founding Partner, Redpoint Ventures
    Fritz Jordan - Industry Analyst, MobileTrax
    Joseph Marks - Managing member, Smart Technology Ventures III
    Greg Martin - Redpoint Ventures
    Anne Myong - Ventures Investment Manager, Wireless, Agilent Ventures
    Brian Newton - Principal and Chief Financial Officer, GKM Ventures
    J. Gerry Purdy - Partner, Diamondhead Ventures
    Ron D. Reich - Director, Intel Capital
    Bart Schachter - General Partner, Blueprint Ventures
    Jonah Schnel - Managing Partner, ITU Ventures
    Rohit K. Shukla - Founder, President & CEO, Larta
    Victor Sim - Of Counsel, SSD
    Rick Smith - General Partner, Palomar Ventures
November 6-7th, 2002. Third Wireless Internet Data and Enterprise Applications Conference, UCLA.
If you are interested in being placed on the mailing list for this event, please send us an email . Sponsored by Hewlett Packard, Intel, Oracle, Computer Associates, TCS-America, Brobeck, UC-CoRe, and Instituto Superiore - Mario Beolla. Industry sponsors are currently being sought.
    Rafiul Ahad - VP, Mobile Products & Services, Oracle Corp.
    Sam Arditi - VP, Wireless Communications, Intel Corp.
    Donna Dubinsky - President & CEO Handspring, Inc.
    R. Scott Feldmann - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP
    Jean-Marc Frangos - Senior VP, BTexact Technologies
    Yogesh Gupta - CTO, Computer Associates
    Sam Leinhardt - CEO, Eizel Technologies
    Jane MacFarlane - Director, Adv. Tech Planning, General Motors - Onstar
    Doug McGowan - GM, Serv Providers & Mobile Solns, Hewlett Packard
    Miten Mehta - JP Mobile
    Daniel Nagy - VP, E-Business Global Solutions, Citicorp
    Tony Perkins - Editor, Red Herring
    Arturo Pizano - Head, Multimedia & Video Tech, Siemens
    S. Ramadorai - CEO, Tata Consultancy Services
    Vaho Rebassoo - CTO, Boeing Computing & Ntwk Ops.
    Arunas Slekys - VP, Corporate Marketing, Hughes Network Systems
    Cyrus Staniec - Director, Technology Resources, Northrop Grumman IT

    Venture Capitalist Panel
    Ted Alexander - General Partner, Mission Ventures
    Joel Balbien - Managing Member, Smart Technology Ventures
    Brian Garrett - Associate, Palomar Ventures
    Ken Hausman - Managing Director, Osprey Ventures
    Brad Jones - Founding Partner, Redpoint Ventures
    Bahram Nour-Omid - Principal, Shelter Capital Partners
    J. Gerry Purdy - Partner, Diamondhead Ventures
    Bart Schachter - General Partner, Blueprint Ventures
    Eric Ver Ploeg - Partner, Vantage Point Ventures
May 6-7th, 2002. Second Wireless Internet Data and Enterprise Applications Conference, UCLA.
The conference had over 70 very high quality speakers and 8 keynotes. While the first conference drew a significant number of technology providers, the second conference additionally attracted companies building complete applications and also deploying real-world solutions. Finally, we saw a significant proliferation of attendees and speakers who were interested in the emerging opportunities and technologies related to WLANs.

  • Sponsors: NSF, DiMI, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Hughes Network Systems, Brobeck, Western Multiplex, CenterComm, CTIA, Broadcom and Rapidigm.
  • Some of our key speakers were:
      Bill Davidson - VP, Carrier Relations, QUALCOMM Internet Services
      David Nagel - President & CEO, Palmsource
      Tony Perkins - Chairman, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Red Herring
      Arunas Slekys - VP, Corporate Marketing, Hughes Network Systems
      Rio Caraeff - VP, Wireless Services, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment
      Tom Pollard - Director, Marketing & Bus. Dev., Wireless Terminals, Texas Instruments
      Sridhar Chityala - Sr VP, JP Morgan Chase
      Henry Samueli - CTO & VP Research and Development, Broadcom Corp
      Sam Arditi - VP, Wireless Communications, Intel Corp.
      Rafiul Ahad - VP, Mobile Products and Services Division, Oracle Corp.
      Doug McGowan - GM, Service Providers and Mobile Solutions, Hewlett Packard
      Mike Wehrs - Director, Technology & Standards, Microsoft Mobility Solutions
      Leonard Kleinrock - Prof. UCLA/CEO Nomadix
      Bill Gurley - General Partner, Benchmark Capital
  • November 8-9th, 2001. First Wireless Internet Data and Enterprise Applications Conference, UCLA.
    Over 80 lectures and 11 keynotes were delivered by experts in wireless technology from industry, academia and research institutions. Some of the topics were Broadband Wireless, Voice Integration on Data Networks, Location based Services, Multi-media applications, Telematics, Security and Quality of Service.

  • Sponsors: NSF, DiMI, Nortel Networks, Hewlett Packard, Silicon Valley Bank, E-tenna corporation, CTIA, Wireless Internet Daily, MobileInfo.com and Garage Technology Ventures.
  • Some of the key speakers were:
      Leonard Klienrock - Prof. UCLA/CEO Nomadix and also known as father of the Internet
      Ashwin Rangan - Sr. VP & CIO, Conexant
      Guy Kawasaki - CEO, Garage Technology Ventures
      Johan Sallros - VP- R&D, Telia Intl. Carrier, Finland
      Salla Vainio - VP-Strategy and Business Development, Sonera SmartTrust U.S, Inc
      Ken Hausman - Managing Director, Osprey Ventures
      Sam Arditi - VP of Wireless Communications at Intel
      John Stautner - VP of Technology & New Markets for Consumer Products at Compaq
      Steve Krom - VP of Data and Internet Services at Cingular
      Cameron Schmidt - Executive Director - Global Business Development & CMO of e-GM division of General Motors
      Jeremy Chone - Director - Wireless Product Management and Architecture, Oracle Corp
      Bill Day - Chief Wireless Technology Evangelist, SUN Microsystems
      John Cioffi - Professor, Electric Engg., Stanford University
      Michael Buhrman - Senior VP, Openwave
      James Balsillie - CEO, Research in Motion
      John SanGiovanni - Technical Evangelist, Mobile Computing & Wireless Technologies, Microsoft Research.
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