RCR Wireless News is set to visit Bellevue the week of August 1 as part of our Mobile Broadband Tour and Conference series.
Bellevue, which lies across Lake Washington from Seattle, is a rapidly changing city. It is currently the second largest city center in Washington State – with a population of 122,363 – and, based on per capita income, is rated as the 6th wealthiest of 522 communities in the state of Washington. Dubbed “Boomberg” by the press, Bellevue has even topped CNNMoney’s list of the best places to live and launch a business, and has also been ranked as the 4th best place to live in America.
The RCR Wireless News Mobile Broadband Bellevue tour – In partnership with the NW Wireless Association – will include a couple of days meeting with local telecommunication leaders and associations in the Washington area as well as a one-day conference on August 2.
(To set up a meeting Bellevue with RCR Wireless News please contact Sylvie Barak at sbarak@rcrwireless.com)
The conference -hosted and broadcasted live from the Hyatt Regency Bellevue – will focus on current mobile broadband trends and how mobile broadband is driving investment, innovation and economic growth. Onsite attendees have access to Q&A sessions with industry executives, networking sessions and product showcases in the dedicated exhibitor area.
As part of the conference, RCR will be talking to recognized industry thought-leader Chetan Sharma about trends in global mobile data services and managing the evolving landscape for growth and profits.
We’ll also be chatting to 4G Americas President Chris Pearson, getting his view on the industry wide capacity crunch, trends in innovation and spectrum considerations as a slew of new data hogging devices hit the market.
SOLiD Technologies’ President Seth Buechley will be at hand to discuss trends in hospitality, specifically addressing how hotels balance the shift away from single-carrier owned DAS, while the Magnolia Broadband CEO will guide us through how software on a device chip can increase network capacity.
Those wishing to register to attend in person or online through the live, interactive broadcast may do so here. Cost to attend in person is $95 and includes lunch. Attendees may qualify for free admission if employed by a mobile operator/service provider or large enterprise or vertical market institution. Students may attend free with a valid student ID and there is no cost to attend the interactive broadcast online.
The event will begin at 9:00 am with our pre-conference program that will include a live webinar and the RCR Wireless News Weekly News Roundup.
The conference itself is set to begin at 11:00 a.m. with a registration and networking event followed at 11:10 am with opening remarks from RCR Wireless News Editor Sylvie Barak.
At 11.30 am Chetan Sharma will take the floor to talk about mobile evolution and the gradual increase in awareness of mobile data services around the world.
At 12pm we will break for lunch and resume at 1pm with Chris Pearson from 4G Americas, discussing what the boom in M2M and connected devices means for the Americas mobile market.
At 1.25pm, product manager Nick Cannon from Anritsu will talk participants through being able to recognize and troubleshoot PIM in Wireless Networks.
Our afternoon general session will be Beyond Concierge Service – Hospitality DAS Trends, run by Seth Buechley, president of SOLiD Technologies, discussing why single wireless service provider and carrier-owned DAS models no longer works within the hospitality industry. That session will be followed by an Outdoor DAS Design session hosted by Mark Reudink, a director at Crown Castle.
At 2.40pm RCR will be running a networking & exhibitor showcase, followed by another general session at 3.10pm on Next Generation Multi-Layer Networks.
At 3.25, Sylvie Barak will be moderating a panel on Field Force Automation, a real time discussion on how to reduce LTE network deployment timelines and cost while accelerating cash flow.
At 3.50pm, CEO of Magnolia Broadband Osmo Hautanen, will be taking a closer look at how software on a device chip can increase network capacity in a panel entitled Built for Speed- Solving the Wireless Carriers’ Data Dilemma.
At 4:00pm, Sylvie Barak will be giving participants an update of where are we on the path to 50 billion connection, including a review of enterprise, devices and M2M mobile broadband trends.
At 4.30pm, we’ll be discussing Next generation carrier & enterprise networks in a general session surrounding why ecosystem is making for interesting bedfellows for carriers, app developers, OEMs, device companies and chip companies as each group stakes out a sustainable business model.
5.00pm will be the last general session of the day, moderated by Chetan Sharma on Monetizing Mobile Broadband Networks.
This will be followed by a reception at 5.45 pm.
(Up to the minute event details can be found at <a href="http://rcrlocal.com/bellevue/events/")
