Speakers who already have
confirmed for
WTS 2005 include the
following:
Dr. Paul Mankiewich
Chief Technical Officer, Mobility Solutions, Lucent Technologies
Senior Vice President, Networking Research, Lucent Technologies – Bell Laboratories
Dr. Al Javed
Vice-President, Wireless Networks Technology
Nortel Networks
Dr. Preston Marshall
Program Manager, Next Generation Communications and Connectionless Networking
Advanced Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
U.S. Department of Defense
Masaaki Maeda
Senior Vice President
Service and Technology Division
NTT DoCoMo USA
Dr. Stephen Huffman
Vice President
The MITRE Corporation
Egil Gronstad
Vice-President, Product Line Management
Ericsson Mobile Systems CDMA
Panel
Discussion: Future
Directions in Wireless
Communications Research
Dr. George Rittenhouse
Vice President - Wireless Research
Lucent Technologies - Bell Laboratories
"Immersive Communications"
David Wolter
Executive Director – Wireless Networks
SBC Communications Laboratories Inc.
"Enabling Communications Convergence"
Ilkka Niva
Director, Standards and Industry Relations
Nokia
"Mobile Wireless Trends and Vision"
Dr. Jeyhan Karaoguz
Technical Director, Office of the CTO
Broadcom Corporation
"Cellular and Wireless LAN Integration, A Quest for Unified Architecture"
Vera Kripilani
Senior Director, Global Technology Marketing
QUALCOMM
Lalit Kotecha
Advanced Technology Strategy
Verizon Wireless
"802.16e - Mobile Broadband Benefits and Challenges"
Panel Discussion: Wireless Security – Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Robert J. Brown, CISA, CISSP
Senior Consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Mullaguru Naidu
Senior Manager, Global Technology Marketing
QUALCOMM Inc.
"Mobile Wireless Security: Best Practices and Lessons Learned"
Wayne Beckham
Security Systems Administrator, Information Security Office
Riverside County, California
"Wireless Security in the Real World"
Panel Discussion: Mobile Wireless Services and Business: Current Issues
Dr. J.P. Shim
Professor of MIS and Director of the International Business Strategy Program
Mississippi State University
"Current Status of Cellular and DMB Services in Korea and Japan"
Michael J. Finley
Area Vice President, Southern California
Nextel Communications
"Focus 2005 - Nextel Executive and Technology Update"
Anna Maria Hall
Director of Sales, Corporate Markets Group
Cingular Wireless
"Cingular Wireless – Helping Business Run Better"
Dr. Sasha Dekleva
Associate Professor, College of Commerce
DePaul University
"Mobile Wireless Industry Consolidation"
John Campbell
Regional Director - Southern California / Nevada
Major General Business Channel
T-Mobile USA
Receptions and Luncheons
Andrew Seybold
Consultant and Author
"The Vision is Clear BUT the road is long!"
Dr. Stephen B. Weinstein
IEEE Communications Society Lecturer
"Communications Diversity and Convergence"
 Dr.
Paul Mankiewich
is currently Chief
Technical Officer for
Lucent, Mobility
Solutions and Senior
Vice President of
Networking Research,
Lucent, Bell Labs. He
is responsible for
all aspects of new
technology
implementation for
the business from
radio through the
network. Dr.
Mankiewich was
previously, Director
of the Wireless
Technology Research
Department in Bell
Labs. He was also
Wireless Research
Hardware and
Architecture Director
for Mobility
Solutions.
Dr. Mankiewich
received his Ph.D.
from Boston
University in Applied
Physics. He began
working in cellular
wireless in 1988.
Since then he has
been involved in and
responsible for all
aspects of wireless
system design for
both CDMA and TDMA
systems GSM, EDGE,
UMTS, IS-95, IS-136,
CDMA2000 (3G-1X,
1XEV-DO, 1XEV-DV) as
well as numerous
proprietary systems.
 Dr. Al Javed is Vice-President, Wireless Networks Technology, at Nortel Networks. Dr. Javed joined Nortel in 1977 as a member of the scientific staff in the system engineering division. Before joining Nortel, he served on the faculties of the University of Alberta, and the University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan. Since joining Nortel in 1977, Dr. Javed has held a number of management positions in the areas of system design, systems planning, technology development, and product development. Since 1988, he has been leading wireless R&D activities in Nortel Networks. From 1988-95, he was responsible for wireless access systems development. From 1995-99, he oversaw the development of wireless technologies for advanced wireless systems and product development for the wireless access business.
Dr. Javed is also the technical prime for the external research program for Wireless Networks. He has received numerous Nortel awards, including the Chairman's Award of Excellence in Innovation, and the CALA President's Award of Excellence in Innovation. In 1999, the Ottawa Centre of Research and Innovation (OCRI) recognized him for his leadership in innovation. Dr. Javed is on the board of directors for the Canadian Institute of Telecommunication Research (CITR), Advisory Committee of Electronic and Information Engineering for Hong Kong Polytechnic and Cambridge Positioning Systems in U.K.
Dr. Javed has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada.
 Dr. Preston F. Marshall has an almost 30 year background in communications, software and hardware development and system development. Currently he is with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Technology Office (ATO), and serves a Program Manager for several of the DARPA Networking programs, including Connectionless Networking, investigating low energy protocols in low duty cycle ad-hoc networks; neXt Generation (XG) Communications, developing networks that provide adaptive spectrum usage; WOLFPACK, developing a distributed network of forward positioned, Coke-can sized electronic and network warfare devices; Disruption Tolerant Networking, Developing Delay Tolerant Networking and extending existing technology to address episodic connectivity, distributed name and routing spaces, and non-IP system transport; and a program to develop very small radioisotope power sources.
 Dr. George Rittenhouse is Vice President of Wireless Research, Bell Laboratories. Dr. Rittenhouse heads several projects, including MIMO system development, network optimization, wireless IP networks, and fourth generation wireless. In 2001 he received the Bell Labs Fellow award. Dr. Rittenhouse is active on several national policy and standards boards, working with FCC and Homeland Security subgroups on the scientific side of wireless in the post 9/11 era. He has numerous publications and patents in the areas of wireless systems and circuits.
 Ilkka Niva is a Research and Industry Relations Director at Nokia (San Diego), where he is heading CDMA Standards, 3G and beyond Research, and various programs for next generation wireless Mobility. He is responsible for university relations and is a member of the Board for the UCSD Center for Wireless Communications. In addition, he is coordinating the funding of a multi-million dollar research project. He joined Nokia Mobile Phones in 1988 (Finland) and has experience on the very first GSM, TDMA, IS-95 and WCDMA technologies and related life cycles, 3G roadmapping and strategic technology planning.
Dr. Jeyhan Karaoguz is a Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Broadcom Corporation. Dr. Karaoguz has been with Broadcom Corporation since 2000, where he has been leading the research and development efforts in the areas of wireless communications, broadband networks, and convergence thereof. Dr. Karaoguz has 13 years of experience in the fields of digital communications theory, systems engineering, and digital signal processing. Since 1993, he has made more than 30 key technical contributions to the IEEE 802.3 Fast Ethernet, 802.14 Cable Data Network, 802.11 Wireless LAN, and 802.15 Wireless PAN Standards Task Groups, where his contributions were adopted in the 802.14 and 802.15.3 standards. He had also served as the editor for the PHY layer section of both the IEEE 802.14 and IEEE 802.15.3 standards.
Vera Kripalant, Senior Director, Technology Marketing has been involved in the wireless industry for the past 18 years. Before joining QUALCOMM Incorporated, Mrs. Kripalani worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey on the development & testing of Lucent's AMPS, TDMA & GSM systems. As project manager at Bell Labs she was responsible for deploying the first US digital base station and testing the air interface standards for US TDMA. Mrs. Kripalani also led the application software development program for Lucent's flagship product, the Series II base station.
Mrs. Kripalani established the system test organization and test facilities for QUALCOMM's CDMA infrastructure product and later created the Technical Marketing group for the infrastructure division. She led QUALCOMM's effort to successfully establish CDMA-450 as a digital standard in the NMT band for Europe and also created the Accessibility Planning group that was responsible for ensuring QUALCOMM's compliance with Section 255 of the FCC's Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Mrs. Kripalani has represented QUALCOMM in several industry forums and was the Tutorial Chair for IEEE's International Conference on Universal Personal Communications for 4 years.
Mrs. Kripalani holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Master of Science in computer science from Rutgers University, NJ.
 Masaaki Maeda is currently Senior Vice President of the Service and Technology Division at NTT DoCoMo USA's New York headquarters and is responsible for developing new mobile multimedia services and forming alliances with American companies. NTT DoCoMo USA is a wholly owned subsidiary established in November 1999 of Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. In November 2004, Mr. Maeda launched DoCoMo USA's first service in North America, called "namikiteru," which is a Public Wireless LAN Access service for Japanese-speaking residents of the USA.
Mr. Maeda began his career in the Japanese telecommunications industry in May 1983 at NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) in the Technical Development Department. In March 1994, Mr. Maeda moved to NTT DoCoMo Inc., the mobile arm of NTT which was spun off from its parent company in 1992. He held a variety of managerial positions in Corporate Planning, Personnel, General Affairs, and Mobile Multimedia Planning during his career with NTT DoCoMo in Japan. Mr. Maeda joined the New York Office of NTT DoCoMo USA in July 2002.
Mr. Maeda holds both a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In addition, he completed an MBA at MIT's Sloan School of Management in June 2002.
Robert J. Brown is a Senior Consultant in PriceWaterhouseCooper's Security and Privacy practice. His ten years of focused security experience translate to an in-depth understanding of both the technical and business requirements of information protection. He is well versed in all aspects of information security, including high-level design of organizational information security policies, risk and vulnerability assessment, attack and penetration testing, IT auditing, network design, incident response, and forensic analysis.
Prior to his role with PwC, Mr. Brown was the co-founder and Vice President of an INC 500 security services firm. He also previously acted as a senior member of the engineering and consulting team at Trusted Information Systems, the original manufacturer of one of the first commercial network security products, the Gauntlet firewall.
Mr. Brown has been invited to speak at information security conferences and events for organizations such as SANS and ISSA as well as industry-specific groups including the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals, and others. He is a member of the InfraGard group and the Usenix Association and is an active volunteer and member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association and Information Systems Security Association in Los Angeles.
Mullaguru S. Naidu is a Senior Manager with Qualcomm Inc. San Diego, USA for their Global Technology Marketing division. His main job functionality is to promote CDMA technologies among service providers around the globe and also to provide technical support to the Business Development personnel and the Engineering Services group of Qualcomm. His current areas of focus are: Mobile wireless related Interference studies and Spectrum Management; 2G and 3G CDMA Technologies, along with current developments; IEEE 802 Standards: specifically 802.20, 802.22 activities; Voice over IP for Wireless Networks; 2G and 3G wireless network Security provisions; and Mobile wireless Market Trends and analysis
Mr. Naidu has a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Telecommunications from S.V.U. College of Engineering, Tirupati, India and Master of Technology in Satellite Communications from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Wayne Beckham is Security Systems Administrator, Information Security Office, County of Riverside, California. Mr. Beckham is an experienced LAN Administrator with almost 20 years experience in the industry; the last five years, he has concentrated on information security (including wireless technology applications), data recovery and computer forensics. His assignments involve the use of EnCase, Airmagnet, and other forensic tools to analyze security anomalies and events to protect the County from attack. These tasks include: Use appropriate investigative procedures to allow for the identification and prosecution of violators of County policies and/or state, local and federal statutes. Assure the integrity of all evidence. Use appropriate forensic tools to analyze security anomalies and events to protect the County from similar attacks. Coordinate the investigative/forensic effort for the Information Security Office. Coordinate all phases of the incident handling process: preparation; detection and analysis; containment, eradication and recovery; and post-incident activity. Classify the incident and take appropriate action. Investigate incident to uncover vulnerability leveraged. Provide written analysis of incident and impact on the County. Also, he works in conjunction with legal counsel and law enforcement agencies where appropriate.
Mr. Beckham received his degree in Information Systems Engineering from California Baptist University, Riverside CA. Wayne has taken additional coursework at University of California Riverside Extension and attained his MCSE Certification. He is a veteran of US Air Force.
John Campbell is Regional Business Sales Director, T-Mobile USA. Campbell was recruited by T-Mobile USA in January 2002 to establish the Business and Government teams for California and Nevada. He led the Markets from 0 to 2,000,000 subscribers in less than two years. Prior to this assignment, Campbell had a fifteen-year career in senior-level sales management in telecommunications for national and international accounts. He was the Vice President of Sales for CentreCom where he had global responsibility for VoIP business - including business development, products, marketing and sales. He spent 8 years at AT&T Wireless where he was the Regional Sales Director. He is experienced in establishing divisions and integrating corporate acquisitions. Campbell graduated from Cal Poly, Pomona, with a B.S. He earned his Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.
 Dave Wolter is the Executive Director of the Wireless Networks group at SBC Laboratories, the applied R&D subsidiary of SBC Communications, Inc. He directs a team responsible for identification, assessment and enhancement of leading edge radio technologies. The scope of his responsibilities includes current and future generations of cellular and PCS systems, satellite technologies, wireless LANs and fixed wireless access systems.
Prior to this position Dave lead SBC's fixed wireless access investigations for both domestic and international applications, and conducted equipment trials and deployment support. He has conducted strategic analysis and performance investigations in cellular and PCS technologies, and led SBC's analysis of wideband and software-defined radio technology.
Dave began his career with SBC in 1991. Prior to joining SBC, he was a Unit Chief in the Electronics Technology division of the McDonnell Aircraft Company where he led a team of engineers in the analysis and specification of advanced tactical aircraft communication systems.
Dave received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in 1979 and 1981, respectively.
 Dr. Stephen D. Huffman is Vice President of MITRE’s Washington C3 Center. He also directs special studies for a variety of Government customers. In addition, Dr. Huffman recently served as the Acting Technical Director of MITRE’s Center for Innovative Computing and Informatics where he was responsible for programs in high-performance networking, distributed information systems, modeling and simulation, intelligent systems, human-computer interaction, and advanced command and control. Dr. Huffman joined MITRE in 1988 and was the Associate Technical Director of the Navy Systems and Technology Division and Director of the Signal Processing Technical Center. In that position, he was responsible for management and technical direction of technology programs in Mathematics, Neural Networks, Acoustics Signal Processing, Communications Technology, Speech Recognition, Advanced Computer Architectures, Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuit design, Signals Intelligence, and Electro-Optical Signal Processing.
Before joining MITRE in 1988, Dr. Huffman was Director of Research and Development at M/A-COM Linkabit, Vienna, VA where he developed anti-jam and low-probability of intercept communications systems, error-correction coders, speech store-and-forward systems, satellite communications, and signals intelligence systems.
From 1978 to 1983 Dr. Huffman was Supervisor of the Signal Processing Section of the Center for Systems Engineering at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI). At RTI, he developed and evaluated algorithms for underwater acoustic signal processing, radar signal processing, radio navigation, atmospheric monitoring, and spread spectrum communications.
Dr. Huffman has also served an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Duke University, teaching communications theory and digital signal processing. He is an instructor for the Armed Forces Communications Engineering Association (AFCEA) course on Military Satellite Communications.
Dr. Huffman received the BSE, MS, and Ph.D. degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from Duke University in 1974, 1976, and 1978. He is a member of the IEEE and serves as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems. He has published numerous papers and has organized and chaired sessions on tactical communications at the 1989 and 1998 IEEE Military Communications Conferences. He was the Technical Program Chairman for the 2001 IEEE Military Communications Conference.
 Egil Gronstad, Vice-President, Product Line Management, Ericsson Mobile Systems CDMA, has been with Ericsson for 11 years. He is experienced in CDMA, GSM, and TDMA, having served in key positions in product development and product management for each technology over the course of his career at Ericsson.
Gronstad came to San Diego in September 1999 to be part of the team for Ericsson CDMA Systems. He heads the product line management efforts overseeing the CMS 11 system, Ericsson's total CDMA solution based on industry standard open interfaces and leading compact technology design. Gronstad oversees the product development for cdmaOne and CDMA2000 solutions in his role.
Gronstad has a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
 Dr. Stephen B. Weinstein is currently a consultant and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Dr. Weinstein has a forty-year career in telecommunications including employment at Philips Research Labs, Bell Labs, American Express, Bellcore (Telcordia), and NEC USA. He has made basic contributions to OFDM, modem technologies, and broadband communication. Dr. Weinstein is an IEEE Fellow, a past President of the IEEE Communications Society (1996-97) and past Member of the IEEE Board of Directors (2002-2003).
 Mr. Andrew Seybold is one of the pioneers of mobile computing and wireless data. He was wireless when most people were still dreaming about it. His vision and keen sense has made him one of the most sought after consultants in the industry. When you ask people in wireless, you will get a variety of responses: He's a wireless Guru; he's a visionary; he's an opinionated pain the neck; he's a troublemaker. whatever the response, he will always tell it like it is, and that has made him a respected "presence" in the industry.
Mr. Seybold currently heads the Andrew Seybold Group, LLC, a highly regarded consulting firm specializing in the connected mobility space where mobile computing and advanced communications technology meet. Mr. Seybold's clients are all among the top leading--edge companies in wireless. He is also president of Andrew Seybold's Outlook 4Mobility, a parent company that produces an electronic weekly commentary , as well as a tutorial called the Wireless Data University, which is held in conjunction with the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA Show). He is also a partner in a newly formed company called "The Wireless Experience" - the first source dedicated exclusively to Total Sales Training for leading companies in the industry.
Prior to August 2003, Mr. Seybold published an investors newsletter in conjunction with Forbes. In the eight years prior to the launch of this newsletter, he published Andrew Seybold's Outlook, a monthly publication covering mobile computing and communications from an end-users perspective. He has written several books, and currently contributes monthly columns to a variety of trade magazines. As a result, Mr. Seybold is highly sought after as a speaker and panelist.
Lalit Kotecha has an Advanced Technology Strategist role at Verizon Wireless, where he is responsible for next generation wireless and associated technologies. For the past several years he has actively participated and contributed to the IEEE 802.16 and 3GPP2 standards bodies. Previously, he worked as a Wireless Architect to design systems based on Advanced Antenna Technology and multi-hop mesh networks, both enhancing WiMax technology and proposed as part of the 802.16 standards. Mr. Kotecha was instrumental in deploying 1xRTT data networks in the South Korean market while working with Cisco Systems. He has over thirteen years of experience designing wireless systems including, GSM, CDMA, 802.16, 802.11, UWB, digital switching systems, and satellite-based personal wireless networks for Motorola, Hughes, and Cisco Systems. Mr. Kotecha has an MS from the Indian Institute of Science.
Dr. J. P. Shim is Professor of MIS at Mississippi State University and Director of International Business Strategy Program (on business executives training). He received his Ph.D. from U of Nebraska-Lincoln and completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education program. He is the co-author of several books and has published over 50 journal articles such as Communications of the ACM, Journal of AIS, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management. He worked as an IT consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton-ASE, Inc. Professor Shim has received various awards, grants and distinctions, including NSF, Microsoft Corp., and John Grisham Faculty Excellence Award.
Michael J. Finley is Area Vice President for Nextel Communications and is responsible for operations, sales and engineering in the Southern California region. Prior to joining Nextel in 2002, Mr. Finley was Senior Vice President at Wingcast, a joint venture between the Ford Motor Company and QUALCOMM to develop a telematics platform for Ford vehicles.
From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Finley was President of Verizon Wireless in Southern California, Vice President and General Manager in Sacramento and Vice President of Sales in Ohio for Airtouch Cellular. Prior to joining Airtouch, Mr. Finley held positions with Cellular One and McCaw Cellular.
Mr. Finley began his career in wireless in 1985 by starting Celluland, a national franchise that created an alternative distribution approach in advance of consumer marketing of wireless products.
Mr. Finley is a graduate of Creighton University and the General Manager Program in Executive Education at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Region 1 Homeland Security Advisory Council and is the Chairman of the HSAC Technology Committee. He is an Advisory Board Member of REZN8 and a Board Member of the Mathis Foundation For Children and The Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission.
Anna Maria Hall, who has more than 8 years of experience in the wireless industry, is Director of Sales for the Corporate Markets Group at Cingular Wireless. Her region spans Greater Los Angeles, Central California, San Diego, Las Vegas and Hawaii. Hall leads 10 teams of wireless telecommunications consultants in providing wireless business solutions (voice and data) to firms with up to $750 million in company revenues.
Hall started her wireless career with BellSouth Mobility in the 1990's working with businesses to increase productivity and efficiencies through wireless communications in Bakersfield, California. She moved to Los Angeles to work for LA Cellular where she started her wireless management career, working with Global and Middle Market accounts.
When AT&T Wireless bought LA Cellular, Hall served in management focusing on Middle Market enterprises. She served on a taskforce to develop the current Corporate Markets Group, which is designed to support the specific needs of growing Middle Market business entities.
With the merger of Cingular and AT&T Wireless, Hall was assigned to her current role for the "New" Cingular. Hall's team is bringing 2.5G and 3G wireless data services to market that are revolutionizing modern business. This group is supported by a staff of Data Solutions Consultants who focus on large, complex and custom applications.
Wireless Data Solutions available for business (some of which include wireless phone services) include tools for mobile professionals that empower individuals to better meet the needs of customers. Sales Force applications give immediate access to critical customer information, inventory, email, access to contacts and calendaring. These tools increase response times and give companies a competitive edge. Field Service Solutions include supply chain, equipment/service history, and timesheet management which lower costs. Fleet Service Solutions impact performance management, security and dispatch efficiencies.
Hall has been honored with the Circle of Excellence Award for outstanding service to her company. She was also honored with a Quality Team Award Nomination for leading various reorganization efforts leading to improved production and business customer support.
Hall received her Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and holds an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Dr. Sasha Dekleva is an Associate Professor at the College of Commerce, DePaul University in Chicago. He has over ten years of industrial experience in engineering, systems analysis and management at IBM and other companies in Slovenia. Besides being on faculty at DePaul University since 1985, he has taught at the Universities of Iowa, Maribor, and Ljubljana. Professor Dekleva's papers appeared in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, Data Base, Information & Management, Journal of Software Maintenance, Journal of Systems and Software and many others.
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