| Conference Programme | ||
| Day 1: Tuesday 24th April | ||
| 08.30: | Registration, coffee, informal discussion. | |
| 09.00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| Chairman: Alan Gatherer | ||
| 09.15 | A
New Operator Landscape with Fixed/Mobile
Convergence Warren Buckley, Director Portfolio Convergence - BT |
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| 09.45 | LTE
- Scratching Beneath the Surface Joe Barrett, Director Marketing - Qualcomm |
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| 10.15 | The
'Size Zero' Service Provider - a Diet for Operator Success David Tansley, Partner - Deloitte MCS Ltd, Deloitte |
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Coffee & Tea
Break |
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| 11.30 | Wireless
Infrastructure: Technology Shifts and Strategic Shifts Rupert Baines, VP Marketing - picoChip |
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| 12.00 | Wireless
Evolution: From GSM to LTE Keith Edwards, Director, 4G Standards and Strategy - Nortel |
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Lunch |
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| Chairman: Peter Kenington | ||
| 13.45 | The
Practical Migration Path from 3G to LTE |
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| 14.15 | Short-Term
Revolution before Long-Term Evolution - the Analyst Prophecy Richard Kramer - Managing Director, Arete |
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| 14.45 | Optimization
and Effective Management of Network Elements for lower OPEX/CAPEX Bill Vassilakis, Vice President, Corporate Research - Powerwave |
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Coffee & Tea Break |
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| 15.45 | Meeting the Basestation RF Design Challenges
for Broadband Wireless Data Services Clinton Chan, Manager Customer Solutions - Telasic |
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| 16.15 | Panel
Session: Who needs LTE and how LaTE will it be? Moderator: David Tansley |
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| 19.15 |  Wine
Tasting kindly sponsored by Andrew Corporation |
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| 20.15 |  Gala
Dinner kindly sponsored by Semtech |
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| Day 2: Wednesday 25th April |
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| 08.30 | Registration, coffee, informal discussion | |
| Chairman: Mike Roberts | ||
| 09:00 | Meeting
the Network Challenges for Rich Multimedia Content Delivery [TBC] Ed Candy, Technology Director - Hutchinson Whampoa Europe |
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| 09.30 | Mesh
Networks - The Route to Low Maintenance Wireless Coverage Steve Plunkett, Principal Solutions Architect - Motorola |
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| 10.00 | All-IP
Radio Networks and their Impact on Operator's Competitiveness |
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Coffee & Tea Break |
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| 11.15 | Next
Generation Network Synchronization - Performance and OPEX impact Patrick Diamond, Director Systems Engineering - Semtech |
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| 11.45 | Supporting
Mobile TV demand with Cellular Networks Andrew Dunkin - Vodafone Global Networks |
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| 12.15 | Baseband Platform Re-use in a Hyper-Competitive Wireless World: Alan Gatherer, CTO Communications Infrastructure Group - Texas Instruments |  |
Lunch - kindly sponsorsed
by Texas Instruments |
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| Chairman: Peter Kenington | ||
| 13.45 | What
is the Business Case for Femto Cells? |
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| 14.15 | Enabling the Femtocell
Roadmap - 2G, 3G and LTE Mathieu Tallegas, Senior Director - RadioFrame Networks |
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| 14.45 | Femtocells
- What to do While You Are Waiting for IMS Nick Johnson, CTO - IP Access |
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Coffee & Tea Break |
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| 15.45 | Femto
Base Stations - Finding the Optimum System Level Cost-Performance Trade-off Martin Streckfuss, Technical Business Manager - Analog Devices |
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| 16.15 | Panel Session: With the success of Home Cells and VoIP over WiFi who needs Femtocells? Moderator - Stuart Carlaw, ABI Research | |
| 19.00 |  Drinks Reception - Hosted by Chairman of Bath City Council kindly sponsored by Powerwave |
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| 20.15 | Conference
Banquet kindly sponsored by picoChip |
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| Day 3: Thursday 26th April |
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| 08.30 | Registration, coffee, informal discussion | |
| Chairman: Colin Alexander - Wintegra | ||
| 09:00 | Mobile
VoIP – Customer Demand vs Network Capability Carlos Leira, Director of Technology - Orange |
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| 09.30 | Cost
Efficient Deployment of Unlimited Mobile TV for the Mass Market Herbert Mittermayr, VP Marketing - Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Broadcast |
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| 10.00 | Mobile
Multimedia Bonanza - Which Services Can Make Money for the Networks |
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Coffee & Tea Break |
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| 11.15 | Location
Based Services-Practical Implementation and Revenue Generation
Potential Anthony Sheehan, Director, Business Development - Qualcomm |
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| 11.45 | Remote
Radio Heads, Roadmap, Vision and Reality Colin Bryce - Andrew Corporation |
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| 12.15 | Reducing
CAPEX and Maximising Coverage for Mobile WiMAX deployments with
Multi-Antenna Signal Processing Sunil Sanghavi,
Senior VP - Arraycomm |
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Lunch - kindly sponsorsed
by Arraycomm |
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| Chairman: Alan Gatherer | ||
| 13.45 | Challenges
and Approaches
to Achieving Software and Network Reliability Georges de Brito, Deputy Director Radio Standardisation - Orange/FT |
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| 14.15 | Radio
Basestation
Technology: The Next Generation Peter Olanders, Research Manager - Ericsson |
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| 14.45 | Meeting
Future Challenges - Economic and Technical Requirements for LTE
Evolution Mark Quartermain, Wireless Marketing Manager - Xilinx |
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Coffee & Tea
Break |
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| 15.45 | HiperMAX:
A Software Defined Radio for 802.16d, 802.16e and beyond Paul Trubridge, Senior Director Product Management - Airspan |
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| 16.15 | 3 in 1 Standards Update -
OBSAI, 3GPP, WiMAX Peter Kenington - OBSAI Technical Chair, Howard Thomas - 3GPP, Paul Senior - WiMAX Forum, Georges De Brito - ETSI |
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| 18.30 | Pimms
Reception -
Informal Networking |
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| Day 4: Friday 27th April |
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| 08.30 | Registration, coffee, informal discussion | |
| Chairman: Patrick Diamond | ||
| 09:00 | Basestation
Evolution: Reducing Environmental, CAPEX and OPEX Impacts. Tony Conlan, Manager Radio Engineering, 02 |
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| 09.30 | Multiple
Antennas = Multimegabit/s Data Rates: Myth or Reality Hans-Otto Scheck, Principal Engineer - Nokia Networks |
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| 10.00 | Fixed-mobile
convergence and VoIP: The battle for in-building voice |
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Coffee & Tea Break |
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| 11.15 | 4G
and beyond - A snapshot of the future technologies today Walter Tuttlebee, Executive Director - Mobile VCE |
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| 11.45 | Remote
Radio Head Application and Deployment in the Vodafone UMTS Networks Torsten Kraff, Senior Network Engineer - Vodafone |
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| 12.15 | Design
for Manufacture - A Key Factor in Cost Reduction for Wireless Infrastructure Mr Arno Kolk, Senior Manager, Business Development - Elcoteq |
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| Lunch |
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13.45 - 15.45 |
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