OEM
Panel
Carrier- 08.00
Registration and Refreshments
- 08.50
- A chance to get to know your peers before the start of the conference and help set a relaxed and informal atmosphere! Jeffrey Belk, Principal, ICT168 Capital
Chairman’s Welcome and Speed Networking
- Topic
Day One Opening Keynotes - Challenges Facing the US Handsets Market
- 09.00
- Should subsidies last forever? Options for phasing out discounts while retaining customers and revenues
- What will a mobile WiMAX handset look like? How soon will cellular devices incorporate WiMAX?
Effective Carrier Business Models for Getting the Device in the Hands of your Customers
Anthony Lewis, Vice President, Open Development, Verizon- 09.25
- Why operating systems matter: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
- The hard, hard laws of fragmentation and integration
- Opportunities and challenges with open source operating systems
- Royalty-free operating systems and free lunches
- Predicting the mobile OS landscape of 2018
Moving Away From Handset Subsidies And Evealuationg New Market Models: Do Subsidies Make Any Sense For WiMAX?
Jared Peterson , Director, WiMAX Product Marketing, Sprint- 09.50
- Why operating systems matter: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
- The hard, hard laws of fragmentation and integration
- Opportunities and challenges with open source operating systems
- Royalty-free operating systems and free lunches
- Predicting the mobile OS landscape of 2018
The Future of Mobile Operating Systems
David Wood ,Executive Vice President, Research, Symbian- 10.15
Intel Presentation
Pankaj Kedia , Director Global Ecosystems Ultra Mobility Group, Intel Corporation- 10.40
Networking Coffee Break
- 11.20
- OEM perspective on the changing role in future ecosystems
- Future handset requirements as we move from Moore’s Law and Metcalf’s Law to Reed’s law of social externality
- The need for rich user experience
- Innovation trends in hardware, platform, applications, ecosystem, and industry structure/dynamics
Beyond Voice – The New Value Chain
Sam Ramdenbourg, Director of Product Planning, Research, Samsung- 11.45
- Fulfilling consumer expectations on software flexibility and compatibility
- Ensuring adaptation post manufacture
- Why is software flexibility particularly important to mass market phones?
- Industry Benefits: Reducing Time to Market
- Developer Benefits: The importance of tool familiarization
Why is Software Flexibility so Vital to the Development of Forthcoming Handset Devices?
Asokan Thiyagarajan, Technology Evangelist, Motorola- Topic
Web 2.0 and the New Handset
- 12.10
- How important is it for handsets to come with deeper integration to key web services?
- Expectations of consumers
- Which handset features should feature stronger ties to online services?
- What are the typical business models in such scenarios?
- What Web2.0 will mean for Operators & Manufacturers
Handsets and Web 2.0: Should Handsets Be More Directly Integrated To Web Services?
Asha Vellaikal , Director, Orange- 12.35
- Why is it so hard to make money developing mobile applications?
- What is mobile 2.0?
- Web 2.0 as a cross-platform runtime environment
- Next steps in mobile 2.0
Mobile 2.0. A Better Way to Make Mobile Applications
Quentin Miller , Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation- 13.00
Networking Lunch
- 14.00
- Tim Haysom , Chief Marketing Officer, Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP)
- Risks of fragmentation in the mobile web 2.0
- Importance of mobile capabilities in providing great services
- Protecting the customer from malicious web services
- The OMTP BONDI initiative – latest developments
Bringing a Consistent Web 2.0 Experience to Mobile
- 14.25
- Arun Bhikshesvaran, Vice President Strategy & CTO North America,, Ericsson Inc
- What are the key building blocks to enable compelling services for people and enterprises?
- What role will LTE play in North America in delivering such services?
- What do OEMs need to participate in the LTE ecosystem?
What Can LTE Add to the User Experience in North America?
- 14.50
- Erick Eidus ,Chief Executive Officer, Mobileidus,
- Dr. Jinsung Choi, Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Technology Research Lab, LG Electronics
- Jack Powalka, Head of Retention and Customer Loyalty,, Meteor Mobile Communications LTD
- Scott Weiss, Executive Director, Human Factors Europe LTD
- Asha Vellaikal, Research Manager,Orange
- Oliver Gunasekara, Vice President, Mobile Business,, W&W Communications
- Ensuring your multi-apps can co-exist
- What applications work best with each other
- Understanding what is truly important to the handset
- Working with an open platform to allow effective synchronization with third party applications
Panel Discussion
Finding the Balance Between Using Several Innovative, Ground-Breaking Applications and Avoiding User Confusion
- 15.30
Networking Afternoon Tea
- 16.00
- Ola Larsen , Vice President, Marketing, The Astonishing Tribe
- Effectively differentiating between what just looks nice and what is useful
- How will 3D improve the user experience
- Examining current handset evolution and the benefits they will bring
Purposeful Handset Evolution: What Do We Need Rather Than Want?
- 16.25
- Ted Dean , President and Managing Director, BDA
- Key trends in China’s handset market
- Comparisons between the US and China
- A global marketplace: China’s impact, lessons learnt and why it matters for both the US market and US focused companies
China’s Handset Market and What it Means for the US
- 16.50
- Marc Davis ,Chief Scientist, Yahoo!
- Philippe Silberzahn , Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Digital Airways
- Fabrizio Capobianco , Chief Executive Officer, Funambol
- Asokan Thiyagarajan , Technology Evangelist, Motorola
- How important is Open Source to the modern day handsets industry?
- What are the consequences of the rise of Android and LiMo to the industry as a whole?
- Can Open and Proprietary work together?
- Should the consumer care if it’s open or closed?
Ban Open Source! What About Everyone Else?
- 17.30
