| Plenary Panel | Wednesday, June 4 · 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm |
Wireless: Data and Video on the Move
In this plenary panel, communications network leaders address and support their vision for the next steps in the rapidly growing area of mobile broadband wireless service opportunities, applications, drivers, architectures, and technologies. Don't miss the insightful perspectives from key providers on the competitive directions, strategies, and challenges.
CHAIRPERSON:
Scott K. Erickson
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Mobility Segment
Lucent Technologies
Mr. Erickson leads the core market support teams for Lucent Technologies' worldwide mobility sales and directly supports the sales efforts in the Asia-Pacific and South American regions. He has overall marketing and business-development responsibility and messaging strategy for both internal and external communication for this segment worldwide. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Ericsson was located in Hong Kong, where he led the mobility segment efforts in the Asia-Pacific and China markets.
PANELISTS:
Jeffrey K. Belk
Senior Vice President, Marketing
QUALCOMM
Mr. Belk oversees QUALCOMM's marketing and corporate communications efforts worldwide. He joined QUALCOMM in 1994 and worked in business-development roles prior to being assigned to lead QUALCOMM Consumer Products' (QCP) marketing team in the summer of 1995. Under his guidance, Eudora, QUALCOMM's award-winning e-mail client, had three major product releases and transitioned from a "box software" business to an Internet/electronic distribution product.
William E. Clift
Chief Technology Officer
Cingular Wireless
Mr. Clift directs strategic network-planning initiatives, oversees involvement in standards bodies, and coordinates technical development of new products and services. Mr. Clift came to Cingular Wireless from BellSouth Wireless, where he most recently served as president of American Cellular Communications Corporation and BellSouth Mobility DCS.
James Grams
Senior Vice President, Multimedia Network and Systems
AT&T Wireless
Mr. Grams oversees the technology development of wireless voice and data capabilities for a new generation of services that capitalize on emerging wireless technologies and devices, such as GPRS, EDGE, and WCDMA. He holds an M.S. in computer and information sciences from The Ohio State University and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Vermont. He has worked in telecommunications software and systems development as well as operations and engineering management for more than 20 years.
Kevin C. Kahn
Fellow, Corporate Technology Group and Director, Communications and Interconnect Technology
Intel
Dr. Kahn is an Intel fellow in the Corporate Technology Group, director of Communications and Interconnect Technology, and part of the R&D network at Intel. The Communications and Interconnect Technology Lab develops physical-layer technologies for communications systems and system interconnects using RF, copper, and optical media. Dr. Kahn also coordinates Intel's participation in various relevant standards bodies and consortia.
Hong Liang Lu
President and Chief Executive Officer
UTStarcom
Mr. Lu has been UTStarcom's president, chief executive officer, and a director since June 1991. Prior to founding Unitech Telecom, Inc. (which would later merge with Starcom Networks, Inc. to form UTStarcom), Mr. Lu was president and chief executive officer of Kyocera Unison, a majority-owned subsidiary of Kyocera International, Inc. From 1983 until its merger with Kyocera in 1986, he was president and chief executive officer of Unison World, Inc., a software-development company.
