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NEW    –    International Wireless Packaging Consortium
Interactive Technical Workshop

 

Limited to 100 seats
First Registered, First Served

 

Emerging In-Building
& Short Range Wireless Equipment

WLANs, WPANs

802.11x, 802.11x - like,
Bluetooth (tm), Bluetooth (tm)-like

 

Co-Hosted by:

 

Hotel Nikko San Francisco
222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA   USA
Phone: 415-394-1111
Fax: 415-394-1106

 

January 15-16, 2003

 

Preliminary Agenda
Subject to Changes

 

 

Organized by the International Wireless Packaging Consortium

 

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Moderated by
Don Brown, Director, IWPC
and
Rene Douville, Technical Director, IWPC
 

Workshop Goal:

In-Building & Short Range Radio Applications for the enterprise and consumer represent one of the few "bright spots" in these difficult wireless industry market conditions and show promise of truly offering ubiquitous and unobtrusive communications for a world of applications.

 

However, there is a paradigm shift in the "air" with the availability of low cost, high data rate wireless systems.

 

With potentially billions of units being needed for voice and data applications such as 3G network replacements, cellular/PCS phones, laptop computers, cable replacements, cameras, toys, etc. planned in the very near future, servicing every imaginable personal and business need -- what will be required of the wireless equipment industry to support this seemingly insatiable demand?

 

The GOAL of this workshop is to carefully evaluate real world markets and applications for these technologies and what design and manufacturing technologies, materials and services will be needed throughout the entire supply chain to support these emerging wireless devices and systems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emerging In-Building
& Short Range Wireless Equipment

WLANs, WPANs

802.11x, 802.11x - like,
Bluetooth (tm), Bluetooth (tm)-like

 

Co-Hosted by:

 

Hotel Nikko San Francisco
222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA   USA
Phone: 415-394-1111
Fax: 415-394-1106

 

January 15-16, 2003

 

Preliminary Agenda
 Subject to Changes

Preceding IWPC Workshop 
(the day before)

 

Wall Street
Meets
Wireless Industry Supply Chain
When will the Wireless Industry Recover?

 

Tuesday, January 14, 2003

 

Hosted by:  Merrill Lynch

 

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Tuesday January 14, 2003

7:00 PM

 

REGISTRATION  

 

RECEPTION DINNER

 

This is the same dinner as the "Wall Street Meets Wireless Industry Supply Chain" Workshop attendees will be enjoying.


Wednesday January 15, 2003

 

7:00 AM

 

REGISTRATION
&
BREAKFAST

 

 

8:00 AM

OPENING REMARKS

Don Brown
Director, IWPC

8:15 AM

SELF INTRODUCTIONS

Each person will be asked to introduce him/herself and share how they can contribute to this process.

8:45 AM 

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

  • Marketplace opportunities for voice and/or data Wireless WANs, LANs and PANs

    • Enterprise Applications 

      • In-building

      • On-campus

    • Carrier Applications

      • Consumer broadband services

    • Hot-Spot Applications

      • Airports

      • Hotels

      • Restaurants

    • Personal Applications

      • Handheld devices

      • Computers

      • Everything else

        • automotive

        • games

        • cameras

        • toys

        • others...

  • What will it take to get WLAN applications to the 100 M units level?

  • Timetable for pre then full production for various applications

  • What are the economics of unlicensed band radio devices based on projected volumes and projected costs?

 

 

 

WLAN Applications vs Technologies

Keith Washington
General Manager, Wireless Networks
EMS Technologies, Inc.

 

WLAN: Enabling New Applications

Brent Mosbrook
Product Manager
Intersil

 

9:45 AM 

BREAK 

 

10:00 AM

APPLICATIONS DEVELOPERS

AND 

INTEGRATORS VIEWS

 

  • Looking forward, what are the consumer, enterprise, hot-spot and carrier applications for "short range radios"?

    • Hot spot applications

      • Hotels

      • Coffee Shops

      • Airports

    • Carrier grade consumer broadband access

    • Enterprise (In-Building)

      • Retail space

      • Healthcare

      • Office buildings

      • Warehouses

      • Education

    • Bluetooth (tm) and 
      Bluetooth (tm)-Like Short Range Radio Applications

      • Portable wireless devices, including mobile phones and PDAs

      • Laptops

      • Automotive applications

      • Appliances

      • Cameras

      • Toys

      • Many others...

  • Security Issues -- What will impact these application deployments?

  • Licensed vs Unlicensed Band Radio Spectrum -- issues and opportunities

  • Impact of the alphabet soup of 802.11x standards -- what is needed by the application developers to consolidate the industry and offer lower cost systems and services?

 

 

Carrier Priorities for WLAN Technologies

Lee Tjio
Director Advanced Technology Strategy
Verizon Wireless

 

Title TBA

Jon Russo
VP Marketing
iPass

 

The Wireless Neutral Host

Ted Abrams
VP Technology
Spectrasite Communications

 

In-Building Applications, Issues and Opportunities

John Rice
Systems Engineering Manager
EMS Wireless

 

Delivering on the Promise of Short Range Radio Network Applications -- Here's the Beef!

Mike Sullivan
Bluesoft, Inc.

 

Wireless IP Telephony: Available NOW

Pat Boyle
Product Manager
TeleSym

 

Non Radio Enabling Technologies

Nancy Goguen
Exec. Dir.Strategic Mktg.

Texas Instruments

 

Wireless in 2003 - CES shows Consumers the Way

Wayne Caswell
Chief Visionary
CaziTech

 

 

 

NOON

LUNCH

1:00 PM

APPLICATIONS DEVELOPERS

AND 

INTEGRATORS VIEWS

(continued)

 

2:00 PM

PANEL SESSION

2:30 PM

BREAK

2:45 PM

RADIO EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEM MAKER'S VIEWS

 

  • Voice and/or Data equipment

    • WLAN Radio and System Makers

    • Bluetooth (tm) Radio and Application Equipment Makers

    • SAW and other short range radio makers

 

 

 

Unwiring Broadband: Solutions for Delivering Non-Line-of-Sight, Zero-Install Wireless Broadband

Mark Beaton
Sr. Product Manager
Navini Networks

 

In-Building Coverage Through Smart Antennas

Mike Roper
V.P., Product Development
SpotWave

 

Title TBA

Dr. JungSang Kim
Technical Manager, Wireless Technologies
Lucent Technologies

 

Advancing Mobility with the Convergence of Computing and Communications

Mac Agan
Director WLAN Industry Marketing
Intel

 

Software I/O Enables Faster Time-to-Market for 802.11g

David Fotland
CTO
Ubicom, Inc.

5:00 PM

PANEL SESSION

5:45 PM

END OF DAY

7:00 PM

Dinner and Entertainment

San Francisco Style

 Transportation provided to/from hotel/restaurant.

 

 

Thursday January 16, 2003

 

7:00 AM

BREAKFAST

8:00 AM

 

UNLICENSED BAND RADIO CHIP SET AND MODULES SUPPLIERS

 

  • Single chip vs multi-chip radio modules

  • Single vs multi-radio integration

  • What "Multi-radio module combinations make sense?

    • 802.11a, b, g, other?

    • Bluetooth (tm)

    • HiperLAN

    • HomeRF

    • SAW based radio transceivers for short range, low data rate radios

      • RF ID tags

      • keyless entry systems

      • others...

  • Device technology mixes, now and in the future

    • different operating voltages vs various applications

    • Goals and tradeoffs - cost vs power

    • Standardization - interface between base band and IF?

    • What are the best overall architectures for lowest overall costs for various applications?

    • Security issues

 

Overview - Wireless Connectivity Products & Related Technologies

Pieter Lok
Innovations Manager
Philips Semiconductors

 

Bluetooth and 802.11 Applications in 2003: A Comparison

David Hytha
VP
Silicon Wave

 

802.11X Power Amp Technologies: Optimum Solutions for Milli-Watt to Multi-Watt Front Ends

Brad Nelson
Amplifier Product Manager
Sirenza Microdevices Inc.

 

The In-Building Story--Short Range Device Applications

Frank Perkins, Jr.
VP
RF Monolithics, Inc.

 

SiP Solutions for WLAN/Bluetooth

Doug Matthews
Amkor

 

BREAK

ENABLING MATERIALS AND PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES

 

  • Antennas – embedded or discrete?

  • Assembly

  • Assembly equipment

  • Batteries

  • Materials

  • Shielding

  • Testing

  • Design Tools

 

 

Topics to be discussed...

  • What is needed to get component count down and costs lower for radio modules?

  • New and emerging WLAN RF module standards - status and future plans.

    • MINI PCIA Express

    • Others...

  • Antenna technologies -- in package or external?

    • Antenna integration options and tradeoffs for various applications

  • Module material choices and tradeoffs

    • Integration of R's, L's and C's

    • laminates

    • ceramics

  • Testing in HIGH volume -- issues, tradeoffs & costs

 

 

Cost/Performance PCB and Component Design Considerations for Wireless Radio Systems

Gregg Wildes, Ph. D.
Global Product Manager
Gore Electronic Materials

 

Title TBA

David Dewire & John Roman, CTO
RJR Polymers

 

Antenna Performance Issues for In-Building Environments

Adam M. Alevy
VP Engineering
Cushcraft Corp.

 

Title TBA

Jack Anderson
CTO
L3 Comm.-Celerity System

 

NOON

LUNCH

SET UP BREAKOUT SESSIONS WORKING GROUPS

 

 

The group will interactively discuss and identify opportunities for future fruitful development.

 

We will break into small working groups and allow members to interact with like and no-so-like minded professionals.

 

The goal of this process is to clarify the needs and identify new opportunities for development.

 

Each working group will identify a leader and at the end, the leader will make a short presentation on the findings and conclusions of their group.

 

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

 

 

Questions to be answered:

1.  What are the gaps in:

Technology ?

Communication ?

 

2.  What is needed from the supply chain to address these gaps ?

 

3.  What can IWPC do  to assist ?

 

REPORTS - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Each Working Group Leader will make a 10 minute presentation to summarize the Wish List Items and Conclusions of his/her working group. 

 

Group will come together and have an interactive discussion to exchange and challenge ideas presented by working group leaders.

 

This process dramatically expands the thinking of the attendees.

 

TAKE AWAYS

Each person will be asked to share what they have learned in the last 2 days.

WRAP UP
&
WHAT'S NEXT

 

  • Recommendations for future workshop and teleconference topics.

 

  • Closing remarks.

 
ADJOURN

 

DINNER -- DUTCH

For those who desire to join us, we get together to enjoy good friends, good food, good wine and [really] bad jokes.

 

 

 

ATTENDANCE

IWPC Interactive Technical Workshops, available to IWPC members only (2 persons per IWPC Member Company), unlike traditional conferences and workshops, are highly interactive and are attended by senior technology and business leaders who make a commitment to cooperate to forward advanced packaging technology.

 

DEADLINE FOR HANDOUT MATERIALS

Deadline for electronic version of handout materials:  January 8, 2003.

 

COSTS

ALL attendees AND pre-approved guests will be asked to cover out of pocket workshop costs such as food, entertainment, booklet copying, audio/visual costs, etc. 
We estimate that these costs will be approximately $395. (US) per person.
(final cost to be determined as we get closer to the actual workshop date)

 

Attendees AND pre-approved guests 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.

 

HOTEL

We have blocked 30 rooms at the 

 

Hotel Nikko San Francisco
222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA   USA
Phone: 415-394-1111
Fax: 415-394-1106

 

  at a Conference Room Rate of $159.00 single/double occupancy.

 

Please call the hotel before January 6, 2003  to make your reservations at this rate.  

 

After January 6, 2003 the hotel will release the un-reserved rooms and you may be charged full hotel rates.

 

AUDIO VISUAL

All projector formats will be available for the speakers.  

·         Computer projector  

·         Overhead projector  

In addition, we plan to audiotape all presentations and the interactive discussions. This tape will be transcribed and made available to all IWPC members.

 

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.

 

DRESS

Business casual suggested.    No ties, please !!

 

   

PRESENTATIONS

 

We have limited time slots available, but want to extend invitations to those people who wish to make a presentations.

 

PLEASE MAKE CONTACT WITH  DON BROWN ASAP TO DISCUSS THE DETAILS OF YOUR PRESENTATION AND TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT THERE WILL BE TIME AVAILABLE FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

 

HANDOUT MATERIALS

 

It is our intention to prepare a handout booklet. We propose its contents be as follows:

For ALL IWPC members:  

 

All IWPC members are invited to submit a maximum of 4 pages of materials to include in this handout booklet. These pages should NOT BE SALES MATERIALS. Rather, we suggest it contain technical information about your technology as it relates to the workshop topics.

For all companies who will be making a presentation at the Workshop:  

 

You are invited to submit an advance copy of your presentation, complete with graphics and illustrations.

This booklet will be copied and handed out at the workshop and included in the IWPC Web site.  

Please submit these materials either by email, as a Word for Windows file or Power Point files.  

Please send materials to:

[email protected]
or

[email protected]

 

or by snail mail to:

IWPC

610 Louis Drive, Suite 301

Warminster, PA  18974      USA

If your file is larger than 3 MB, please use  
http://www.zixit.com

 

Call or email Don Brown for instructions on how to use
zixit.com

 

 

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