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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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Managing LTE, 3G & WiMAX Networks using
Self Organizing / Self
Optimizing Technologies
What is Needed to Reduce
Network OPEX?
June 1-4, 2010, London, UK
Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel
Hayes, Middlesex UB3 5AW, UK |
Click HERE to Register
Moderated
by:
Don Brown, Director, IWPC
Mike Alferman, IWPC
Workshop Background:
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Workshop Goals:
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010 |
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7:00 PM |
Social and Networking
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At Hotel |
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 |
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7:00 AM |
Breakfast & Registration |
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8:00 AM |
Opening Remarks |
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8:25 AM |
Self Introductions |
Each person will be asked to introduce him/herself and share how they can contribute to this process |
9:00 AM |
Operator Keynote presentation
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SON - What do Operators Want? Group Research & Development Radio Technologies Vodafone
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10:00 AM |
Networking Break |
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10:40 AM |
Operator Requirements and Use Cases
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An Operator's Perspective on SON Senior Radio Expert TeliaSonera
AT&T's SON Challenges: In a Multi-Technology Environment Principal Technical Architect AT&T
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12:10 PM |
Networking Lunch |
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1:10 PM |
OEM Equipment – RAN and Backhaul
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Extending SON into the Core for E2E Optimization Director/New Wireless Technology Evaluation Alcatel-Lucent
Impact of SON in Real World LTE Deployments Lead Architect Motorola
SON Suite for Multi-Technology Networks Business and Solutions Operations Manager Nokia-Siemens Networks
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3:10 PM |
Networking Break |
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3:50 PM |
OEM Equipment – RAN and Backhaul
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Confirmed Speaker - Title TBA Director, Wireless Networks Samsung
SON + Smart Simplicity - Ericsson View on LTE O&M Director, Technical Solutions, O&M Ericsson
Capacity Management Using WiFi in SON Director Ruckus Wireless
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5:50 PM |
Adjourn for Day |
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6:45 PM |
Bus leaves for:
Dinner |
Bus Transportation provided to and from hotel. |
Thursday, June 3, 2010 |
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7:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:00 AM |
Panel Session Operators and OEMs
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Confirmed:
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9:00 AM |
Active Infrastructure and Mobile Antennas Performance
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Wireless Communication Systems Using Phased Array Antennas President Electromagnetic Technologies
Confirmed Speaker - Title TBA VP/Product Mgmnt. & Mktg. ReVerb Networks
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10:00 AM |
Networking Break |
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10:40 AM |
Active Infrastructure and Mobile Antennas Performance
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Sensory and Activation Elements of SON Director Business Development Andrew Solutions
SON Aspects of Active Antenna Arrays Senior Systems Engineer Ubidyne
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11:40 AM |
Network Testing and Validation
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Drive Test Solutions - How to Adapt Them for SON? Technology Manager/Wireless Rohde & Schwarz |
12:10 PM |
Lunch |
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1:10 PM |
Traffic Detection,
Inspection,
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Handset SON Requirements - More Questions than Answers Senior System Designer Research in Motion (RIM)
Cost Benefits of Automated RF Configurations with SON Managing Director Symena Software
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2:10 PM |
Enabling SON Infrastructure Technologies
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Taking SON right up to the Antenna Product Line Director Nujira Ltd.
Embedding Programmability in Systems for Network Optimization Senior Manager/Wireless Systems Xilinx
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3:10 PM |
Networking Break |
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3:50 PM |
CLOSING PANEL Session Operators
The Operators will be asked to recap the extent to which the workshop has addressed their wish lists.
What are the next steps?
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Operators
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4:35 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, June 4, 2010 |
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8:00 AM |
Tour http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
Tour one of the most important technology sites of the 20th century !
Bletchley Park is where the famous secret code breaking took place - cited as helping win WWII for the West. This is a very important and interesting historical site. |
Bus Transportation provided from and to hotel. |
DEADLINE FOR HANDOUT MATERIALS: Deadline for electronic version of handout materials: Friday, May 21, 2010
We only permit "first hand knowledge experts" in business and technology issues, prepared to contribute to the discussion.
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 797 Pounds Sterling 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.
Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel
Hayes, Middlesex UB3 5AW, UK
Please contact the hotel directly at 44-208-8170761 and quote block code 06011WP for reservations. Mention the IWPC room block rate of £110.00 single occupancy.
Cut-off date for reservations is May 25th. After that date rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.
TRAVEL OPTIONS FROM AIRPORT TO HOTEL: http://www.radisson.com/hotels/gbedwair/locations
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 use this FREE FTP site to send electronic materials (any size file):
http://www.iwpc.org/cal/sitedrop.asp
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