MW07SV Home Schedule Speakers Location Contact Us MuniWireless Silicon Valley 2007 Industry at a Crossroads October 21-23, 2007 Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, CA Speaker Presentations SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2007 3:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshop: Wireless and Public Safety: Technology, Applications, Policy and Funding Ryan Croke, State of Illinois, Lt. Governor’s Office (Link to Illinois Broadband [...]

MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley Monday, October 22; 7:00 pm SeaKay is organizing a forum on Access and Disability. SeaKay is a non-profit organization that is promoting community involvement and a wide range of accessibility discussions for the proposed Wireless Silicon Valley regional broadband network. This forum will provide a valuable opportunity for the community to [...]

MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley Tuesday, October 23; 2:00 pm Some of the most important work being done today in wireless broadband networking is happening with community groups and public school systems, using the technology to empower students and local residents to accomplish great things. In communities all across the country, innovative organizations are undertaking grassroots [...]

MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley Tuesday, October 23; 9:40 am Macedonia Connects, a USAID-funded activity that began in 2004, intended to provide Internet connectivity to 460 schools and morphed into a nationwide deployment of broadband wireless covering 95 percent of a country the size of Vermont. Within three years, Macedonia’s home Internet usage went from 4 [...]

MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley Tuesday, October 23; 5:00 pm Intel has been at the heart of some of the most innovative developments in the entire computer industry for more than a generation. One of its most important programs is the Intel World Ahead Program, designed to help provide underserved community segments with access to life-changing [...]

MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley Tuesday, October 23; 4:30 pm At our opening session on Monday afternoon, you heard CIOs from some of America’s largest cities talk about their unique challenges in bringing ubiquitous wireless broadband to their communities. Now, listen to their smaller-community counterparts talk about their own special problems and issues ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ from resource [...]

MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley Tuesday, October 23; 4:00 pm Wireless Silicon Valley may be the single most ambitious ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ and important ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ project for the municipal wireless market today. In attempting to develop a comprehensive architecture used by more than 50 different Silicon Valley communities, the effort highlights both the great potential of wireless public [...]

MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley Tuesday, October 23; 2:00 pm This panel will discuss current and future trends in advertising for wireless carriers, device manufacturers, software vendors and merchants. Radio, TV and web portals have all made billions from advertising. Now, advertisers ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ local, national and global ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ see great opportunities to use mobile devices and [...]

MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley Tuesday, October 23; 2:00 pm If you build a network, will they come? If it’s in the middle of Silicon Valley, they probably will ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ especially when Google’s behind the effort. More than a year ago, Google set out to build their home town of Mountain View, Calif., a “free” wireless [...]

MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley Tuesday, October 23; 2:00 pm They say you can recognize the pioneers because they tend to have the arrows in their back. Here’s an opportunity to learn from several early adopters of municipal wireless, who will share their thoughts on what makes a successful wireless project for cities of different sizes [...]