Less than 8 weeks to go until 4G World 2010
By Eliot Weinman
By Eliot Weinman - Conference Chair & Founder, 4G World & President, Events & Media Division of Yankee Group It’s hard to believe, but 4G World is less than 8 weeks away, October 18 - 21, at McCormick Place in Chicago. I am very pleased to report that we have already registered a significant number of attendees, well on the way to our expected attendance of over 10,000, and just last week we mailed our conference brochure. If you wish to download a copy, please use the following link: http://4gworld.com/4g-world-brochure-download/ 4G World 2010 has been greatly expanded from our inaugural event last year in a number of ways:
- We’ve expanded our keynote program, and now have more than 17 keynotes from industry leaders around the globe. Keynote info can be found at http://4gworld.com/speakers/keynote-speakers/
- We’ve expanded our operator program, with more than two dozen operators from around the globe deploying 4G today, including AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, MetroPCS, T-Mobile USA, Clearwire, Telstra, KDDI Corp, China Mobile, KT, Rocky Mountain Broadband, Movistar Peru, NTT Docomo and more!
- We’ve expanded our pre-conference day with special programs from WCAI, Light Reading, IEEE and the TM Forum
- Our global association endorsements now include dozens of key 4G ecosystem associations and tens of thousands of their members
- Our total sponsors and exhibitors now exceed 250 4G companies, associations, media channels and industry analysts
- The 4G World Expo will be the largest of its kind ever produced in the world. This year we expanded the Expo to run over 3 days. The 4G World Expo has more than 150,000 sf of exhibit space, 140+ exhibitors, dozens of special 4G Solutions Theater presentations, and a number of other special expo events.
- We have added a special China Pavilion on the Expo Floor with the support and participation of the Chinese government.
- We’ve expanded our Special Events Programs, including three Power Breakfasts sponsored by Alvarion, FierceMarkets and AT&T
- Finally, we’ve expanded the conference program development and other special events, with collaboration from a number of industry leaders:
- Backhaul and IP Core Summit - hosted by Light Reading
- Femtocell Market Assessment - hosted by Femto Forum
- 16th Annual WCAI International Symposium (including a special WCAI operator breakfast)
- 4G Technology Track - Hosted by 3G Americas
- 4G Operational Transformation Strategies and Tactics Track - Hosted by TM Forum
- 4G World / RCR Ecosystem Awards - Presented by RCR Wireless News
- LTE and 3G: The Next Leap Forward program - Hosted by Qualcomm
- RCR Wireless Buzz Zone - Live on the Expo Floor
- Innovative Enterprise Applications - Hosted by Forbes
- 4G Professional Development Training Programs from Award Solutions, IEEE and TM Forum
- These and other special events can be found at: http://4gworld.com/home/special-events/
If you haven’t already registered for 4G World 2010, now is the time. Visit http://4gworld.com/register/ to register on-line now See you in Chicago!
Webinar - Wider Economy Services: Exploring New Vertical Market Opportunities for Telcos
By Angeline
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October 20th, 11:00amET
Yankee Group Speakers:
Brian Partridge, Vice President Research, Yankee Group
Benoît Felten, Principal Analyst-Anywhere Network Research, Yankee Group
IBM Speakers:
Seeta Hariharan:, Director, Marketing and Communications, Global Communications Sector, IBM
David Mangini, Global Solution Owner - Service Delivery Platform, Telecommunications Sector, IBM
Target Audience:
Network Service Providers One of the key strategic imperatives for Telecom Service Providers across the globe is to innovate on and adopt new retail and wholesale business models. This imperative serves two main purposes: a) drives new revenue opportunities in adjacent markets and b) improve and enhance customer experience. The adjacent markets include smart grids, healthcare, education, public safety, transportation, financial services, insurance and more. We are calling these adjacent market opportunities wider- economy services.
To address these markets successfully, the Telecom Service Providers realize that they need to migrate away, to a certain extent, from their traditional business models and network architectures. It places emphasis on the ability to collaborate with key stakeholders in these adjacent markets – be it utility companies, regulators and policy makers in the case of smarter metering or technology providers, healthcare service providers, or HIPAA in the case of smarter healthcare. It also requires us to re-think how the Telco assets will be deployed, packaged and exposed to partners.
This webinar, presented by Yankee Group and IBM will outline the potential market services, value chains and stakeholders that Service Providers must consider to successfully address these adjacent spaces.
Attendees will learn:
- Evolution of the Service Providers market including new challenges and opportunities
- Key adjacent markets in growth and mature economies for Service Providers including specific service examples
- Strategies that the Service Providers must employ to effectively address these markets
- And, finally, how these new markets will help in driving economic growth
CFN Services
By Angeline
CFN Services is a telecom infrastructure company specializing in mobile backhaul network transport optimization, planning, implementation, and management, enabling wireless operators to multiply capacity for 3G and 4G deployments while reducing transport costs by 20% to 50%. CFN built and maintains FiberSource®, a proprietary network transport planning, design, and optimization platform that delivers the intersection of 220,000 wireless sites and the fiber networks of more than 200 US carriers operating 450,000 route miles of fiber and 650 metro networks across 120 markets.
Caroline Gabriel Biography
By Kate Walsh
Caroline Gabriel
Contributing Editor
Caroline Gabriel co-founded Rethink Research Associates in 2002. Rethink is a London, UK-based market research and consulting company specialized in technologies and business models for service providers and vendors, in the broadband wireless, 3G, fixed/mobile convergence and wireline broadband markets. It provides published market reports, customized research projects and business model consulting, and holds one of the world’s most comprehensive research databases of operators and vendors in broadband wireless, particularly WiMAX. Gabriel has also been responsible for creating the thought leading Wireless Watch and WiMAX Watch analyst services for Rethink. This provides weekly analysis and in-depth market reports on many aspects of wireless and mobile technology, with particular expertise in broadband wireless.
Eliot Weinman Biography
By Kate Walsh
Eliot Weinman
Editorial Director
President and Founder, Trendsmedia - Yankee Group Events & Publishing Division
For over 17 years, Mr. Weinman has been an influential thought leader in high tech. He has founded and sold four highly successful integrated media companies focused on emerging technologies. Trendsmedia, his fourth start-up, was acquired by Yankee Group Research, Inc. in September 2006. In less than 3 years, Trendsmedia has become one of the leading media firms in the mobile and wireless broadband marketplace.
In 2003, Mr. Weinman co-founded Robotics Trends, Inc. the world’s leading integrated marketing firm focused on the emerging personal and service robotics markets. The company was acquired in April 2006. In the process he steered the firm to develop the largest robotics conferences and tradeshows ever held in North America, RoboBusiness and RoboNexus. In 1998 he founded Intermedia Group, and in three years, built the company into a leading integrated media and tradeshow company focused on emerging IT markets. In March 2001 he sold Intermedia Group to Jupitermedia Corp. (Nasdaq: JUPM). In 1989, Mr. Weinman founded Software Productivity Group (SPG), which became the leading integrated publishing, event and analyst services firm focused on the enterprise software development market. In March 1996, Mr. Weinman sold SPG.
Mr. Weinman has created over 150 tradeshows, dozens of trade publications and has consulted to many of the world’s leading technology companies. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Information Week, and other business and trade journals. He founded WiMAX World Conference & Expo, which is the world’s largest wireless and mobile broadband event series focused on WiMAX technology. He created numerous online and print publishing products, and co-authored several landmark software research studies. Prior to his entrepreneurial days, he lead advanced software groups at MIT’s Draper Labs and at a top insurance provider, and was a CPA at several large CPA firms. He earned his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University where he was awarded a Research Fellowship in AI. He has a B.S. in Accounting from the State University at NY Albany.
Andrew Mitchell Biography
By Kate Walsh
Andrew Mitchell
Editor
Andrew Mitchell is an Engineering Technologist and has been involved in telecommunications and wireless technologies. He is currently responsible for 4G World’s program development and for editorial content for 4G Trends. His experiences include quality and systems engineering tenures in defense electronics and telco environments. Andrew has also provided consulting services and the development, design and delivery of VoIP, wireless, mobile computing and RFID-based technology solutions for enterprise.
Berge Ayvazian Biography
By Kate Walsh
Berge Ayvazian
Contributing Editor
As chief strategy officer, Berge Ayvazian oversees Yankee Group’s new growth mission, providing thought leadership for the firm’s research, consulting and events in the mobile, telecom, IT, applications, media and entertainment industries worldwide. Working with the company’s diverse research groups, Ayvazian ensures Yankee Group is aligned with clients to help them visualize, navigate and generate value from current and future business opportunities. As a senior industry analyst and consultant, Ayvazian directs a wide range of research and consulting projects across a broad group of topics, including communications industry structure, broadband service provider strategy, mobile network infrastructure, enterprise networking strategy, information technology and applications.
Ayvazian has directed more than 100 consulting projects forecasting product and service markets, assessing strategies and analyzing investment opportunities in the telecommunications, wireless, computer, internet, cable and broadcast TV industries. He is currently leading several new research, consulting and product initiatives on the convergence of broadband and mobile network technologies, and the emerging business strategies of mobile broadband service providers. He recently led the launch of Yankee Group’s new research and consulting practice, Municipal Broadband Technologies & Services. He also plans to launch a Yankee Fellows program and form a company advisory board later this year.
Ayvazian is Yankee Group’s principal public spokesperson and has served as conference chairman and keynote speaker for the company’s Telecom Industry Forums and Enterprise Network Decision Summits. He is currently the co-chairman of Trendsmedia’s WiMAX World Conference, keynote speaker at W2i Digital Cities Convention and a featured moderator of a CIO panel on wireless and broadband at Telefonica’s fourth annual Leadership Conference of the Americas.
During his nearly 20-year career at Yankee Group, he served as strategy director for the Reuters Research and Advisory unit and was a consultant and researcher with Kalba Bowen Associates. In addition, Ayvazian was the company chief executive officer from 1999 through 2001