The "wireless city" is aimed at providing variety of services to the municipality and its inhabitants through a multilayered communications network covering the entire city. The network is based on WiMAX and Wi-Fi technologies. The wireless city enables the municipality to offer better and more diverse services to improve the everyday life of its inhabitants.

Leveraging the most advanced technologies existing yet reinforcing the readiness to any future developments, the wireless city offers services such as surveillance, street and traffic-light control, educational Intranet, LBS, on-line billing, administrative communication, information kiosks, and special-needs services.

In this session, the concept will be explained and success stories and a unique business case will be presented and analyzed.

Yoel Bar-Gil Chief Technology Officer, CTO Office Leadcom

Mr. Bar-Gil has more than 30 years of experience in communications in a variety of technical and managerial positions. He developed, operated, and maintained electronic warfare systems. Mr. Bar-Gil has extensive familiarity with a variety of technologies, including high-power transmitters, receivers, control systems, surveillance systems, fix-switching systems, cable, fiber optics, and microwave transmission systems (e.g., PDH, SDH, DWDM), wire and wireless access systems, TDMA, CDMA, GSM cellular networks, surrounding platform for voice mail, SMS, prepaid, billing, OSS, data and IP networks, and power systems.

Antony Abell Chief Executive Officer and Director LastMile Communications

Mr. Abell has 20 years of experience working in both operational and entrepreneurial roles in global markets. He also has an extensive background in military communications that was commercially exploited shortly after that with Videotron in the cable communications industry. For the past decade this experience has come from his work with fast-growing start-up companies, including his own first start-up, C-Three Logistics Limited, which he founded in 1995. In his current role, Mr. Abell leads LastMile Communications in the design of a new wireless platform with a vision to bring "intelligence to the edge of the network" and to provide a new, more intelligent, more aware form of wireless Internet to the global marketplace.

Daniel Chrust Vice President, Marketing and Sales Arad Metering Technologies

Mr. Chrust has been in his current position since 2002. Previously he was vice president of marketing for Galor, a software solutions company for the travel business. Prior, he was a commercial director for Tower Air and Continental Airlines in Israel. Mr. Chrust spent seven years as secretary general of the travel and tourist agents association in Israel. He also worked for seven years in the Union Bank of Israel as an investment consultant. Mr. Chrust graduated from the school of banking in Tel Aviv in 1980 and the school of economics in 1977.

Peter Curnow-Ford CEO Viatec

Mr. Curnow-Ford is the founder of Viatec Associates, a venturing vehicle focused on cellular and wireless markets. Mr. Curnow-Ford focuses on the cellular/mobile, wireless/Wi-Fi/WiMAX and wireless sensor markets primarily in the United Kingdom, European Union, United States, and Asia. Encourages and leads new start-up companies in the telecommunications (especially cellular/mobile/wireless) sector. He has a general background comprising of management, consultancy, sales, marketing, and governance. He holds interim roles as the CEO of Eisar Ltd. and chairman of Bluenowhere Ltd. and Instruvention Ltd.

Richard Jepson Head of Sector Marketing Alcatel-Lucent