IEEE GLOBECOM 2012

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INDUSTRY FORUM PROGRAM
Wednesday, 5 December 2012 – Communication Technology Investment and Next Generation Wireless Networking

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
10:00 – 12:00

IF16: Executive Forum: Data Infrastructure and Services >>

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
10:00 – 12:00

IF17: Next Generation Cellular & Satellite Networking I
Chairs: Chiraq Warty, Chief Technologist, Ahilya Technologies, USA
Jie Zhang, Professor, University of Sheffield, UK

The Wireless Forum will explore the key technological developments defining the current practices and near-term future of wireless technologies. The forum will act as a world platform that brings together industry professionals, academics, and individuals from government agencies and other institutions to exchange information and ideas on the advancement of wireless communications and networking technology. Focused on the current generation as well as evolution of future generations, the forum will enable a wireless ecosystem, from service providers seeking answers on delivering services and meeting demand, to device manufacturers and developers seeking to understand the killer applications in LTE, 3.9G/4G/5G, LTE, etc. The forum would offer Academics, Industry professionals, government agencies, public safety professionals, enterprise users, wireless service providers, IT professionals the ability to learn about industry’s perspective towards global connectivity. The driving force behind mobile telephony and wireless access is the need for anywhere, anytime communications. These demands have given rise to wireless networks that significantly rely on satellite communication to enable rural and remote wireless connectivity via satellite backhaul.

Speakers:
Rony Ohayon, CTO, LiveU, Israel
Cellular Bonding for HD Quality Live Video Transmission
Jorn Christensen, Consultant, AsiaSat, Hong Kong
Interference from Broadband Wireless Access into Satellite C-band FSS Applications
Zhi Tan, Program Director, CCSS - ECCS, NSF, USA
Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum
Walid Y. Zibideh, Qualcomm, USA
Adaptive Encryption Techniques in 3G/4G Wireless Communication Channels with Tradeoffs between Communication Reliability and Security
Khaled Elmahgoub, Trimble Navigation, USA
Near Field Communication Implementation using RFID Tags in 4G Environment


Chiraq Warty	Jie Zhang	Rony Ohayon	Jorn Christensen	Zhi Tan	Walid Y. Zibideh	Khaled Elmahgoub

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
13:30 – 15:30

IF18: Next Generation Cellular & Satellite Networking II
Chairs: Chiraq Warty, Chief Technologist, Ahilya Technologies, USA
Jie Zhang, Professor, University of Sheffield, UK

In the next decade, multiple cellular network technologies such as GSM/UMTS/HSPA/LTE/LTE-Advanced will co-exist. It is also expected that Wi-Fi and fixed networks will be used to offload 30%-50% of traffic from mobile networks, and is likely that some mobile operators will deploy both FDD and TDD technologies to meet the exponential traffic demand. Moreover, in LTE-Advanced networks, macrocells, remote radio heads (RRHs), microcells, picocells, femtocells, as well as relay stations will be used to cost-effectively provide seamless coverage and capacity in indoor and outdoor scenarios. In the near future, device-to-device communications may also become essential to improve energy efficiency and save resources at base stations. Furthermore, apart from traditional human-to-human communications, machine-to-machine communications will become more and more important to deal with smart infrastructure requirements.

Speakers:
Jie Zhang, Professor, University of Sheffield, UK
Small Cell Deployment in HetNets
Anass Benjebbour, Assistant Manager, NTT DOCOMO, Japan
Enhanced Small-Cell and Multi-Antenna Technologies for Future Radio Access
Guillaume de la Roche, Wireless System Engineer, Mindspeed, France
Metro Cells for Next Generation Cellular Networks
David Lopez-Perez, Member of Technical Staff for Technology, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Ireland
Exploit Big Data for Disaster Management
Hui Song, R&D Manager, Ranplan Wireless Network Design, UK


Chiraq Warty	Anass Benjebbour	Jie Zhang	Guillaume de la Roche	David Lopez-Perez	Hui Song

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
13:30 – 15:30

IF20: Funding Innovation & Technology Incubator Process in Telecom Italia & European Commission
Chair: Italo Milanese, Telecom Italia, Italy

Telecom Italia and partners’ activities on “Open Innovation” will be presented, focusing on Telecom Italia Working Capital Initiative, the collaboration with dPixel, a venture capital advisor, and the relationships with other efforts like Intesa San Paolo Startup Initiatives.

TI’s StartupLab Program is to scout and select interesting projects, startups and innovative companies assessing the technical soundness and “business sense” of their proposition to “craft” some of them on Telecom Italia research and innovation projects or tailor and pack for a direct offer to our market.

The Working Capital Project, started in 2009, funded 13 startup, 59 research awards and helped other 32 teams to refine their business ideas using TI testing facilities. We will illustrate major results in 2010-2011and the creation of the Working Capital Accelerator, a joint Field Project of Telecom Italia and the Society of Kauffman Fellows.

The Working Capital Accelerator is a 7.5 Euro mio corporate fund aimed to boost up high-potential start-ups in the digital sector, with a strong mentorship support from the Kauffman Network and visibility at the international level, the Fondazione, showing many results.
Intesa Sanpaolo will present its Start-Up Initiative aimed at technology start-ups looking for concrete business opportunities including Arena Meetings, where they can pitch to international investors and corporations.

Italian Venture Capital, dPixel, will describe its activities in the Working Capital project and the role of technical advisor to stimulate and manage the large amount of proposals. The methodology to evaluate the business idea and management team skills will be explained.

Finally, Dr. Jorge Pereira, representing the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society and Media Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures Directorate New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities Unit will speak about the future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) - Testbeds and Large-Scale Deployments and for the Future Internet Forum.

Speakers:
Italo Milanese, Telecom Italia, Italy
StartupLab Program
Salvo Mizzi, Head, Internet Media & Digital Comm., Telecom Italia, Italy
Working Capital Initiative
Jorge Pereira, Principal Scientific Officer, European Commission, Brussels
Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE)
Massimiliano Cattozzi, General Manager, Intesa Sanpaolo, USA
Startup Initiative


Italo Milanese	Salvo Mizzi	Massimiliano Cattozzi	Jorge Pereira

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
13:30 – 15:30

IF21: Communication Technology Investment in a Global Economy
Chair: Nathan Joyner, Managing Director, Sutter's Mill Capital, USA

Global investment in the communications sector has made changes due to the economic downturn in the West and the strong growth over the past few years in emerging markets. Changes in the market in the US have required investors to adapt not only to a new economic environment, but a new regulatory environment as well. Emerging markets will continue to see growth and investment rewards as both infrastructure and users rapidly develop, but also offer significant risks for the foreign investor.

This panel will include venture capital and corporate development professionals currently investing in the US and abroad, and will discuss the current investment trends in the broadly defined communications sector, and the overall investment trends across technology focused startups globally. The panelists represent venture capital funds in the $100M’s, with assets under management over $1B represented.

The audience will gain an understanding of how the venture capital community views the communications sector and technology based investing overall, and what trends will shape technology investing in the short to medium term. The conversation will be interesting to academics in needing capital to IP based startups and growth companies, in addition to entrepreneurs and technologists that want to understand better current thinking and activity in the venture capital community, as well as corporate managers and executives looking to better understand the status of the global innovation engine.

The format of the discussion will be a moderated panel discussion, with ample time left in the session for questions from the audience, and to meet the panelists when questions are completed.

Speakers:
Daniel Docter, Managing Director, Intel Ventures, USA
Anderee Berengian, Managing Director, RezVen Ventures, USA
Brian Sathianathan, Senior Director, Emerging Technology and Ventures, Turner Broadcasting, USA
Tarang Shah, Author, Venture Capitalists at Work, USA


Nathan Joyner	Daniel Docter	Anderee Berengian	Brian Sathianathan	Tarang Shah

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
16:00 – 18:00

IF19: Smart Data Pricing Forum
Chair: Mung Chiang, Professor, Princeton University, USA

The demand for data is doubling every year; in December 2009, the Yankee Group projected a traffic growth of 29 times by 2015. In 2012, the Cisco Visual Networking Index forecasted a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 92% for mobile data and 32% for wired network till 2015. This tremendous growth in the demand for mobile broadband data is forcing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to a variety of drastic measures, such as ending of unlimited data plans, introduction of usage caps, throttling, and pricing by traffic volume. But congestion management in mobile broadband networks can be achieved more effectively through smart pricing practices.

The key objectives of this session will be to:
• Identify the latest global trends in Pricing Innovations
• Explore how Pricing can create a Win-Win-Win across consumers, ISPs and content providers
• Address the concerns of consumers, Government, content providers and media on various pricing policy and regulatory issues

In particular, the speakers will discuss the following important questions:
(1) What are the challenges facing the mobile communication industry?
(2) What are the current business models and practices among ISPs?
(3) How will emerging technologies and research directions impact pricing innovations?
(4) What are the smart mobile pricing solutions that can help ISPs, consumers, and content providers?
(5) What are the technological advances in hardware that can enable these solutions?
(6) What are the policy and regulatory impacts of smart pricing solutions?

Speakers:
Victor Glass, Director, Demand Forecasting and Rate Development, NECA, USA
Matthew Andrews, Head, Industrial Math & Operations Research Department, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Shyam Parekh AT&T Labs, USA
Sameer Lalwani, Staff Manager, Technology Valuation in Qualcomm’s Corporate R&D Division, USA
Soumya Sen, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University EDGE Lab, USA


Mung Chiang	Victor Glass	Matthew Andrews	Shyam Parekh	Sameer Lalwani	Soumya Sen

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
16:00 – 18:00

IF22: Education Forum: Industry-University Education Collaboration: USRP Revolutionizing Lab-Based Communications Courses
Chairs: David Michelson, University of British Columbia, Canada
Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) is a family of high-speed interface devices that allows Windows, Mac and Linux-based personal computers to both generate and receive wideband RF signals. Originally developed to provide a universal peripheral for use with the GNU Radio toolkit, the USRP can also be used with other signal processing software development environments such as National Instruments’ LabVIEW or The MathWorks’ Simulink. It has been used to implement software defined radios for applications as diverse as high-definition television reception, RFID readers and GSM personal base stations. The USRP family is widely used in hobbyist, academic and commercial environments to support both wireless communications research and prototyping of real-world radio systems. With the release of the high performance USRP, a viable tool for teaching practical aspects and applications of communications theory to both undergraduate and graduate students has emerged. In this panel session, noted university educators, industry experts and USRP developers will share their experiences with this unique platform and their thoughts regarding its potential impact on communications education.

Speakers:
Matt Ettus, Founder & President, Ettus Research LLC & Lead Developer, USRP, USA
Erik Luther, Senior Manager, RF & Communications, National Instrument, USA
Robert Heath, Associate Director, Wireless Networking and Communications Group, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Leon Turner, Principal Systems Engineer, Airborne Solutions Engineering Division, Rockwell Collins, Government Systems, USA
Petri Mähönen, Head, iNETS institute for Networked Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany


David Michelson	Stefano Bregni	Matt Ettus	Erik Luther	Robert Heath	Petri Mähönen

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
16:00 – 18:00

IF30: IP Based Business Models & Tech Trends in Entrepreneurs
Chair: Nathan Joyner, Managing Director, Sutter's Mill Capital, USA

The entrepreneur is alive and well globally, but changes in the financial sector in the West in addition to the rapid growth in emerging markets has impacted the various paths for the commercialization of technology both by the entrepreneur and the corporate development officer. This panel will assemble venture capitalists, intellectual property(IP) private equity investors, and experienced entrepreneurs in the field of technology commercialization and technology corporate development to address some of the trends, changes, and challenges related to developing IP based enterprises, attracting capital, and seeking liquidity in developed assets.

The panel will relate real world experience to the macro drivers of technology adoption, and discuss some of the recent trends in managing and monetizing IP based businesses from investment professionals and executives active in the field. In addition the panel will give an overview of some of the particular challenges related to entrepreneurialism in today’s economic environment, and how the various business models address them. This panel will feature prominent speakers that focus on investing in technology and represent billions of dollars in capital, in addition to entrepreneurs who have developed companies to discuss the different paths for developing IP based companies and share their expertise in commercializing technology and monetizing IP.

The format for this session will be a moderated panel discussion followed by a question and answer period with time expected for a meet and greet period when questions are completed.

Speakers:
Greg Horowit, Managing Director, T2 Ventures, USA
Darius Sankey, Director, Portfolio Management, Intellectual Ventures, USA
Jeff Solomon, Co-Founder & Partner, Amplify LA, USA
Gordan Hyland, Management Consultant & Executive, USA


Nathan Joyner	Greg Horowit	Darius Sankey	Jeff Solomon	Gordan Hyland

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