Conference: Mobile Toolset Track
This track gets to the heart of enterprise mobility strategies, and explores how to define and build the right combination of mobile and wireless elements for business applications – the ideal mobile toolset.
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 Managing Mobility: Users, Devices, Networks and SecurityIt's often the case that overall operational management of mobile users, the devices they carry, and the networks they depend upon do not get the attention they deserve. And yet the ultimate success of enterprise mobility, as well as the minimization of operational expense and the maximization of return on investment, depend upon a solid management strategy for mobile operations. This session will examine these key elements of mobility management and explore the options today - as well as those on the horizon. Moderator - Nathan Dyer, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Mobility, Yankee Group
Nathan Dyer is a Senior Analyst in Yankee Group's Enterprise Research group with an expertise in enterprise mobility. Dyer covers both supply- and demand-side mobility trends affecting businesses today and gives clients support in navigating through the enterprise mobility value-chain. Dyer focuses on pain points relating to fixed-mobile convergence and integration, small & medium-sized business mobile utilization strategies, managed mobility solutions and in-building wireless technologies. Dyer also manages Yankee Group's Transatlantic Wireless Business Survey, a study of buying behaviors of more than 900 IT decision-makers. Previously, Dyer was a research associate in Yankee Group's Consumer Technologies & Services Decision Service. In that role, he completed a business development plan to re-initiate coverage of consumer web technologies such as instant messaging, online search services, and online community content. Dyer also researched consumer VoIP service trends and VoIP customer premises equipment. Prior to joining Yankee Group, Dyer was as a mechanical engineer at Foster Wheeler, where he designed equipment for use in pharmaceutical and petrochemical applications. Dyer also served in several capacities as an engineer at FCI, an electronics firm that supplies connectors to the computing and telecommunications industry. Dyer holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. Speaker - Paul Miller, Senior Director of Mobile and Wireless , Symantec
Paul Miller, Senior Director of Mobile and Wireless at Symantec Corp., leads the company's mobile client security strategy and delivery as well as the company's overall vision for mobile and wireless as it pertains to the enterprise and consumer markets. Miller's background in the mobile and security industries spans close to 15 years. Prior to joining Symantec, Miller spent five years at Gemplus leading the identity strategy using mobile infrastructure to combat identity fraud, particularly for the enterprise and financial markets. Miller also spent two years with GTE Cybertrust working on PKI-based identity and mobile commerce and five years with Rainbow Technologies handling the copy protection, license management and Digital Rights Management product lines. Miller is a contributing author of two books discussing the business modeling of combining mobile and identity services. He also holds two patents with former colleagues, one for server-based DRM and the other for the bulk issuance of crypto identity tokens. Miller often speaks on security and identity services, including consumer and enterprise adoption strategies for new technologies. He has served as a Radicchio founding board member, co-chair of Liberty Alliance's mobile business group, chair of Liberty's strong authentication effort and a board member for Global Chipcard Alliance. Miller holds a bachelor of computer science degree from University of Colorado. | |||||
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Mobile Devices: The Options NowNetworks and services may be converging, but divergence in mobile subscriber units continues to be the rule. Today's mobile handsets feature a broad range of form factors, operating environments, expansion options, and user interfaces, challenging enterprise IT managers, network planners, operations staff, and users to carefully define requirements and ask the right questions before a purchasing decision is made. This session will look at the key new mobile and wireless products aimed at business users, and will feature demos of products you'll want to see. Moderator - Keith Shaw, Program Director, Network World
Keith Shaw is Programming Director at Network World, responsible for multimedia strategy (videos, podcasts, chat events). In addition, he writes the Cool Tools column, which looks at personal technology, gizmos, gadgets and other fun stuff. You can reach Keith at kshaw@nww.com. Shaw also assists Network World in a variety of print and Web site projects. He has moderated several events for the Network World Events group, including Technology Tours on wireless LANs and Messaging/Spam. In 2004 he won an award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for the Sept. 15, 2003 article, Spam in the Wild. Shaw has been at Network World since December 1999. Before joining Network World, he worked at Computerworld for three years in several editing and production positions. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years, with experience at many daily newspapers. He has vast experience in writing, editing and design. He holds a bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism from Syracuse University. Thursday, September 18 | | ||||
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Mobile Applications: Thick, Thin, or Something Else?The challenges of building, deploying, and managing mobile applications mirror those of the desktop world, and lead to a fundamental question: should a mobile platform simply mirror the services of the desktop OS, or is a thin-client (or at least thinner-client) approach ultimately going to win? This session will examine these two key alternatives and provide insights as to how to best match application requirements to platforms, as well as a look into the future of mobile software environments. Moderator - Vishy Gopalakrishnan, Founder and CTO, Mobility Partners
Vishy works with enterprise customers to envision and deploy wireless mobility solutions. He is a co-author of Work Goes Mobile: Nokia's Lessons from the Leading Edge (John Wiley & Sons), which traces Nokia's experience leveraging mobility technologies to transform itself into a truly mobile enterprise. Prior to co-founding Mobility Partners, Vishy was part of Nokia's Enterprise Solutions group, where he worked with Global 1000 customers to create mobility strategies, deploy line-of-business mobility applications, and develop effective methods to address the impacts of wireless mobility on IT operations and security. He also drove original thought-leadership activities in collaboration with institutions such as Stanford University. Prior to Nokia, he worked at Capgemini (formerly Ernst & Young Consulting) and Motorola. He maintains a blog at vishygopalakrishnan.blogspot.com. Speaker - David Cohen, Area Vice President, Signature Client Group, AT&T
David leads the northeast and southeast team of Mobility Applications Consultants which have responsibility for wireless data solution sales to the Signature, Global and Wholesale client groups at AT&T. His team works with Line of Business and IT executives to define, deliver and deploy business solutions that help corporations wirelessly enable their business applications; including wireless email and messaging, laptop mobility, field service, sales force automation, and other vertically specific business processes and applications. These solutions are created and delivered through a combination of assets from AT&T and a select set of best-in-class ecosystem partners. Prior to AT&T Mobility, David was with Arch Wireless (formerly Bellsouth Mobilecomm) where he served in many sales roles including Director of Sales for the Southeast Region, where he led a team of National Account Managers in the sales of wireless messaging & paging solutions to the fortune 1000 customer segment. Prior to Arch, David held various sales and marketing roles in the medical/dental digital imaging industry, assisting physicians with the software and systems needed to transition from analog film based imaging to the use of digital imaging. David holds a B.A. in Telecommunications and Electronic Media from The Ohio State University. Speaker - Oren Levine, Senior Marketing Manager, Nokia
Oren Levine leads a technology marketing team in Nokia's S60 organization, responsible for promoting innovation and creative software and service development on the S60 platform. Oren joined Nokia in 2001, and held a variety of positions in product management, software development, and standardization. Before joining Nokia, Oren worked for more than 10 years as a software engineer and architect, gaining experience in wide range of areas including 3D graphics, machine translation, Web application development and database design. Oren earned an M.S. degree in software engineering from Northeastern University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT. He contributes regularly to the See Into S60 blog: http://blogs.s60.com/seeintos60/ | |||||
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Software Platforms for Mobile and Wireless ComputingA debate is brewing - what is the best software environment for mobile devices? Is a robust operating system required, along with support for third-party applications, or will a more contained and manageable smartphone platform ultimately be preferred? How can software for mobile devices be economically and reliably developed? What are the security and management requirements for mobile devices? How will information be managed and distributed in a highly-mobile world? This session has the answers. Moderator - Michael Miller, SVP, Technology Strategy, Ziff Brothers Investments
Michael J. Miller is senior vice president for technology strategy at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment firm. Until late 2006, Miller was the Chief Content Officer for Ziff Davis Media, responsible for overseeing the editorial positions of Ziff Davis's magazines, websites, and events. As Editorial Director for Ziff Davis Publishing since 1997, Miller took an active role in helping to identify new editorial needs in the marketplace and in shaping the editorial positioning of every Ziff Davis title. From 1991 to 2005, Miller was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine, responsible for the editorial direction, quality and presentation of the world's largest computer publication. Under Miller's supervision, PC Magazine grew to have the largest Readership of any technology publication in the world. PC Magazine has grown and evolved its pioneering online work as well, evolving from its successful PCMagNet service on CompuServe to become one of the earliest and most successful Web sites. | |||||
