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NEW
International Wireless Industry
Consortium
Interactive Technical Workshop
Limited
to 100 seats
First Registered, First Served
Table of Contents
Deadline for Presentation Materials
Costs/Registration Fee for Members
Handout Material Options for Members
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Antennas for 2010 Handsets Multi-band and MIMO: Implementation and Testing Challenges with a focus on Adaptable and Tunable Antenna Technology
Hosted by:
February 27-28, 2008
W Seattle
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Click HERE to Register
Moderated
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Don Brown, Director, IWPC
Joe Madden, Technical Director, IWPC
Workshop Background:
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Workshop Goals:
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
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2:00 PM to 4:00 PM |
IWPC Handset Advisory Panel Meeting
This is your chance to have a face-to-face meeting with Senior IWPC Staff and other active IWPC Members to directly influence future IWPC Workshops and Activities in the Handset subject area.
Click HERE to reserve a seat at this limited seating round table discussion.
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At Hotel -
in "Studio 6" |
7:00 PM |
Social and Networking
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At Hotel |
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
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7:00 AM |
Breakfast & Registration |
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8:00 AM |
Opening Remarks |
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8:15 AM |
Self Introductions |
Each person will be asked to introduce him/herself and share how they can contribute to this process |
8:50 AM |
HOST Keynote REMARKS |
Operators Wish List for Mobile Phone Antenna Performance
Principal Engineer
Wish List & Performance Implications of Mobile Phone Antennas
Sr. Mgr, Product Development
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9:30 AM |
Operator Keynote presentation
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Multi-Mode/Multi-Band/MIMO Terminals: So Many Antennas, So Little Space, So Little Time
Member of Technical
Staff
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10:00 AM |
Networking Break |
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10:30 AM |
PANEL SESSION
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11:30 PM |
Networking Lunch |
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12:30 PM |
Handset OEMs -- Design Presentations
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Cellular Handsets and Mobile Computing Products: Antenna Design Challenges: Part II
Sr. Staff H/W
Engineer
Performance Evaluation of a Multi-antenna System in the Handheld Device
Senior Member, Technical
Staff
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1:30 PM |
Antenna Design
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New Trends in Antenna Design Automation Software
AMDS Program Manager
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2:00 PM |
A Perspective From Down Under
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Opportunities to Enhance Coverage and Capacity with Improved UE Antennas
Radio Network Devt Manager
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2:30 PM |
Networking Break |
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3:00 PM |
Antenna and Materials Technologies
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Intelligent Antennas for Mobile Handsets
RF
Engineer
Is 2 dB worth $2?
VP Advanced
Technology
Compact Single Antenna Solutions for MIMO Applications
Chief Technical
Officer
Multiband Techniques in Small Antennas
Leader, Antenna
Products Dept.
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5:00 PM |
Adjourn for Day |
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6:30 PM |
Bus leaves for Dinner
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Bus Transportation provided to and from hotel. |
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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7:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:00 AM |
RF Tuning Technologies
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Design Challenges for Tunable Devices
Member of Technical
Staff
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8:20 AM |
RF Tuning Technologies
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Tunable Solutions for Mobile Antennas: A Technology Update Principal Staff Engineer Paratek Microwave
Digitally Tunable and Reconfigurable Antennas
Director, Product
Planning+Bus. Devt.
Analog Tunability in the RF Front End Vice President, Engineering Agile RF
A Novel Tuning/Front end Technology
VP
Marketing+Business Development
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10:30 AM |
Networking Break |
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11:00 AM |
Implementation Panel Session
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12:00 PM |
Lunch |
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1:00 PM |
Testing Technology
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CTIA ERP Working Group
Principal Staff
Engineer
Performance Testing of MIMO/Diversity Antennas for Mobile Terminals
Principal Member of
Technical Staff
Methods for Testing Radiated Performance of Diversity and MIMO Enabled Handsets
Chief Technical
Officer
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2:30 PM |
Networking Break |
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3:00 PM |
CLOSING PANEL Panel session, OEMs and Operators
The hosts will be asked to recap the extent to which the workshop has addressed their wish lists.
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4:00 PM |
TakeAways & Closing Remarks |
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5:00 PM |
Adjourn |
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7:00 PM |
Dinner (Dutch*)
* = in this context, Dutch is a term which means that each person will be responsible for their own dinner costs. |
For those who desire to join us, we get together to enjoy good friends, good food, good wine and [really] bad jokes |
Friday, February 29, 2008
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9:00 AM to roughly 11:30 AM |
Tour of T-Mobile Network Operations Center
Note: A signed NDA is required to tour the T-Mobile NOC. Restrictions may apply--subject to T-Mobile approval.
The NDA is required by February 15, 2008.
Click HERE for a copy of the NDA form |
Bus Transportation provided from and to hotel. |
DEADLINE FOR HANDOUT MATERIALS: Deadline for electronic version of handout materials: January 25, 2008
ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to cover out of pocket workshop costs such as conference room costs, food (Social Reception plus First Day breakfast/lunch/dinner plus Second Day breakfast/lunch plus 4 Breaks), booklet copying, audio/visual costs, etc.
We estimate that these costs will be $ 791 (USD) per person. (For IWPC Members, only.)
ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to pay this fee in advance with either Visa, Mastercard, American Express, cash, personal check or business check.
Make checks payable to IWPC.
W Seattle
Please contact the hotel directly for reservations. Mention the IWPC room block rate of $209. USD single occupancy.
You can also make your reservations on-line at:
IWPC Antennas for 2010 Handsets
Cut-off date for reservations is February 12, 2007. After that date rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.
TRAVEL OPTIONS FROM AIRPORT TO HOTEL: For transportation details: Click Here
AUDIO VISUAL: A Computer Projector will be available for the speakers.
In addition, we audiotape all presentations and the interactive discussions. Post workshop, presentations are made available to IWPC Members on the IWPC WEB site, along with “movies” of all presentations and panel sessions.
BUSINESS CARDS: Business cards will be collected at the door from all attendees. We will make copies of these cards, which will be available to all who provided a business card.
Business casual suggested. No ties, please !!
IWPC prepares a handout binder with ALL presentation materials delivered to the IWPC on or before the deadline.
Please submit these materials either by email, as a Word for Windows file, Power Point files or PDF files.
Please send electronic materials (any size file) to:
or use one of these FREE FTP Sites IF your email system cannot send large files:
Click HERE to Register
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