Conference Power Breakfast: Harnessing the Power of WiMAX

Fred Wright Senior Vice President, Cellular Networks and WiMAX, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility

Fred Wright, Senior Vice President, is responsible for Motorola's wireless broadband business. He also is head of Motorola's North America carrier market, a position he has held since late 1988, and Motorola's global iDEN worldwide infrastructure business. In addition, Fred oversees CDMA, Core and iDEN product management. Fred manages sales, marketing support, iDEN infrastructure development engineering, system planning and engineering, system integration, and system/call center and outage restoration support for iDEN and CDMA technologies. Fred has more than 37 years wireline and wireless telecommunications engineering, planning, operations and general management experience. He holds a bachelor's of science degree in math from the University of Nevada and a master's degree from the University of Chicago. He also has attended Harvard University's Advanced Management Program.

WiMAX has captured a strong foothold in evolving operator networks for the next decade. Leveraging our unique perspectives working with a vast group of diverse operators in diverse markets, Motorola will share our learnings on how WiMAX can best fit into an operator’s portfolio – identifying opportunities and pitfalls to help operators navigate toward optimized investments and optimized returns.

Welcome and Mobile WiMAX Global Market Assessment

Berge Ayvazian Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group

WiMAX Forum State of Industry

Ron Resnick President and Chairman, WiMAX Forum

The New Clearwire

Benjamin G. Wolff Chief Executive Officer and Director, Clearwire

Ben Wolff is chief executive officer of Clearwire Corporation, a leading provider of wireless high-speed Internet services. Wolff's vision is to build and operate personal broadband networks that enable people to enjoy all that the Internet has to offer anytime and anywhere - essentially doing for the Internet what the cellular industry did for voice communications more than 20 years ago. Wolff has worked with Craig McCaw for more than a decade, serving in leadership and operational roles with various McCaw organizations. Under Wolff's leadership, Clearwire has become the largest operator of wireless broadband networks that offer true broadband performance, with more than 250,000 global subscribers and a mobile WiMAX spectrum portfolio covering more than 400 million people. Wolff also serves as president of Eagle River Holdings LLC, Craig McCaw's investment company; and as a director of ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited and ICO North America Inc. Previously, Wolff was a partner with the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and strategic alliance transactions.

Enabling Media Mobility through 4G

Dan Moloney President, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility

Dan Moloney is executive vice president of Motorola, Inc. and president of the Company's Home & Networks Mobility business. Motorola's Home & Networks Mobility business develops wired and wireless broadband systems and devices that seamlessly enable uninterrupted access to information, entertainment and communication services. The business is a world leader in providing digital video set-tops and infrastructure, cable modems and consumer gateways, cellular infrastructure, and emerging wireless broadband technologies. Prior to his current position, Moloney was President of the Company's Connected Home Solutions business, which develops technologies, applications and services that create rich information, communication, and entertainment experiences in and around the home. Moloney joined Motorola, then General Instrument Corporation, in 1983 as a member of the corporate financial and planning staff. A 20-year veteran, he has served in various leadership positions for the Company in marketing, product management, finance and strategy. Moloney is also an honorary board member of Cable Positive.

WiMAX -- The Technology Roadmap for Mobile Internet

Siavash M. Alamouti Intel Fellow, Mobility Group; Chief Technology Officer, Mobility Wireless Group, Intel Corporation

Siavash M. Alamouti is an Intel Fellow in the Mobility Group and chief technology officer of the Mobile Wireless Group, responsible for all wireless standards with a product roadmap at Intel. This includes the WiMAX Forum, IEEE 802.16, 3GPP, OMA, WiFi Alliance and IEEE 802.11. He is also known as the technical champion of WiMAX technology at Intel. Prior to joining Intel in 2004, Alamouti worked for Vivato Inc., Cadence Design Systems, AT&T Wireless Services and MPR Teltech Ltd. in various engineering roles. Alamouti completed his graduate studies in electrical engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is recognized by the IEEE Communications Society as the author of one of the best 57 papers in the past 50 years of the Society's history. He is most well known for the invention of "the Alamouti code" which is included in a number of wireless standards.

Revolutionizing Wireless Broadband

Scott Wickware General Manager, WiMAX, Nortel

As Vice-President, Marketing and Strategy for Nortel’s Carrier Networks business, Scott is responsible for charting the overall business and Go To Market strategy for Nortel’s largest business. Additionally, he is responsible for all aspects of commercial, product and strategic marketing. Scott has offices in both Châteaufort (Paris), France and Richardson (Dallas), Texas, USA. Scott joined Nortel Networks from IBM in 1992. Prior to his current appointment, he held various technical, management and executive positions within Nortel in functions including engineering, technical sales, product management, sales and marketing. Scott is a Canadian citizen and has lived and managed organizations in Canada, France, the UK, Singapore and Australia. He was most recently responsible for business operations of the EMEA sales region for Nortel’s entire portfolio.

WiMAX to Drive Broadband Growth in India

Shankar Prasad President, TATA Communications Internet Services Limited

Mr. Shankar M Prasad, President, is a mechanical engineer from UVCE, Bangalore ('85) and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur ('88). He started his career as an Engineer Trainee with Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd. in 1985. Post his MBA from XLRI, he worked with Blow Plast Ltd. as Area Sales Executive in the Leo Toys Division for 2 years. In 1990 he moved to Wiltech India, where he worked for over a year and left them as Sr. Area Sales Manager in Bangalore. Mr. Prasad moved as Group Leader, Toyota Division of Suhail and Saud Bahwan in 1991, based out of Muscat, Sultanate of Oman where he spent a little over 4 years. In 1996 he moved back to Bangalore with Pagepoint Services where he held several marketing / customer service and operations portfolios in his 4 year stint. He next moved as AGM -Marketing with BPL Mobile in Mumbai where he spent a year. Since August 2001, Mr. Prasad was with Bharti Airtel Ltd., starting as GM - Sales for Karnataka till March 2003.

Operator Roundtable

Moderator
	Berge Ayvazian Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
Panelists
	Kelley Dunne CEO, DigitalBridge Communications		Scott Richardson CSO, Clearwire
	Shankar Prasad President of Broadband, Tata Communications		Peter Ziegelwanger CTO, WiMAX Telecom

This executive roundtable will examine many of the key issues facing the WiMAX network operators and service providers in 2008 and beyond, including financing large network deployments, addressing pent up demand for wireless broadband in emerging markets, stimulating demand with value added services and applications in developed markets, and building channel partnerships with cable broadband and consumer electronics companies.

WiMAX – Build it and They Will Come

Hwan Chung Senior Vice President, Samsung Telecommunications America

Hwan Chung is Senior Vice President of Samsung Telecommunications America, where he is responsible for new business development, marketing engineering and global marketing for Mobile WiMAX end-to-end solution worldwide. Having led initiatives in so many markets, Mr Chung established close working ties with a number of major North & South America carriers. He has since accomplished a lot of dramatic business development such as Sprint, Mci, Covad etc. Prior to joining Samsung, he worked for SK Telecom over 9 years in Systems Engineering, global operation and new business development areas. He also worked for Nexian and AirLynx for development of portable devices for cellular systems.

The Business of Delivering WiMAX

Atish Gude SVP Mobile Broadband Operations for Sprint Nextel’s XOHM Business Unit

Atish Gude serves as the senior vice president of Mobile Broadband Operations in the XOHM business unit at Sprint Nextel. Sprint selected mobile WiMAX as the technology platform for building its next-generation mobile broadband business. Atish was appointed the head of operations to build and run operations. In this role, he is responsible for building the network and operations, including sales, marketing, product and service delivery, network and customer management. Prior to this role, Atish was the senior vice president of Corporate Strategy for Sprint Nextel. Atish's team has driven the company's three-year strategic plan. This includes the company's SmartGrowth coverage strategy for managing growth and profitability, managing Sprint's Balanced Scorecard and performance metrics, and developing Sprint's broadband strategy, including managing two market trials.

First Commercial Rollout of Mobile Internet Service in the US

	Tzvika Friedman CEO, Alvarion	Mr. Tzvika Friedman was appointed Alvarion’s Chief Executive Officer in October 2005. Beginning in 2000 with Floware and continuing in Alvarion as President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Friedman has been responsible for a myriad of facets in the company's daily management, including R&D, operations, sales, marketing and customer service. He has been the driving force behind augmenting these activities in a company undergoing transition of consolidation from two companies, and subsequent acquisitions and incorporations of product lines of Innowave and Interwave. In the previous years, he filled roles as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Next Generation Telephony and DCME division of ECI Telecom and as Vice President of Marketing and Sales of ECI Telecom's SDH division. Mr. Friedman earned a bachelors and masters of science in electrical engineering summa cum laude from Tel Aviv University and also graduated with distinction with a masters in science from the Sloan Program of Management from the London Business School.
	Kelley Dunne CEO, DigitalBridge Communications	P. Kelley Dunne was formerly Executive Vice President, Operations for Verizon Avenue, the Verizon subsidiary focused on providing bundled communications services to concentrated communities nationwide. Mr. Dunne's responsibilities included leadership of Network Operations, Program Management, Customer Care, and Field Operations for Verizon's multi-dwelling unit and concentrated community markets. He was also responsible for initiating and leading Verizon's rural broadband trials nationwide. Previously, Mr. Dunne held positions as Vice President of HR, Vice President of Provisioning and Customer Care, and Director of Carrier Services at OnePoint Communications prior to Verizon's acquisition of OnePoint in 2000. Mr. Dunne has over 15 years experience in the field of telecommunications, including 7 years with AT&T and Bell Labs, where he held management positions in Network Operations, Data Network Planning, and Network Security. In addition, Mr. Dunne served as an enlisted serviceman and later as an Army Officer in the US Army's Signal Corps.

Reinventing the Connected World

Sue Spradley President, North America, Nokia Siemens Networks

Sue Spradley leads the North American region and its Customer and Market Operations for Nokia Siemens Networks. She joined the company in July 2007. Sue has more than 20 years of experience in services, operations, sales, customer service and global product line management in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Nokia Siemens Networks, Sue was president of Nortel Global Services and Operations responsible for technical engineering, manufacturing and supply chain management. Other roles at Nortel since she joined them in 1997 included president of Global Product Line Management and North America Sales and vice president of Customer Service and Operations.

WiMAX Ecosystem Roundtable

Moderator
	Philip Marshall VP Enabling Technologies, Yankee Group
Panelists
	Hwan Chung Senior Vice President, Samsung Telecommunications America		Majed Sifri CEO, Redline Communications
	Karim El Naggar Vice President, WiMAX Product Group, Alcatel-Lucent		Sue Spradley President, North America, Nokia Siemens Networks
	Atish Gude SVP Mobile Broadband Operations for Sprint Nextel’s XOHM Business Unit

This executive roundtable will examine many of the key issues facing the WiMAX ecosystem in 2008, including Wave 2 Product Certification, the Open WiMAX movement and the recent formation of Open Patent Alliance (OPA) with competitive and open intellectual property rights model designed to accelerate the widespread adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology and products.