Tuesday

Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel
Newport Beach, CA

• 7:00AM - 5:00PM-
Registration Open

• 7:30AM - 8:30AM Breakfast - "FOCUS ON THE FUTURE"

Chair: Lynn Rejniak, NEBSA Board Chair/Director, Classroom Technology Services, Univ. of South Florida

Panelists: Dr. Patrick Gossman, NIA Past Chair, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Wayne State University and Andrew Kreig President & CEO of Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI)

The NIA Past Chair and the President of WCAI take a look back on 2007 and provide their perspectives on the opportunities and challenges facing EBS licensees and the wireless industry in 2008

• 9:00AM -10:00AM

Session: FCC Issues and Answers - What’s Next for EBS?

Panelists: Todd Gray, NEBSA FCC Counsel; Edwin N. Lavergne, Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C.; Paul J. Sinderbrand, Attorney, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP

Although EBS licensees and the wireless broadband industry have accomplished a lot over the past few years, there are still big issues facing every EBS licensee.

Hear about these issues -- at the 30,000 foot blue sky level -- from the experts who will try to help you plan for what's coming -- the roll out of wireless broadband services across the country, white space auctions for currently unlicensed spectrum, and the deadline for showing substantial performance over each EBS station.

• 10:00AM – 10:15AM Coffee Break

• 10:15AM – 11:45AM

Session: Educational Applications in Broadband

Chair: Dr. Phyllis Schiffer-Simon, NEBSA President/Director, BECON Network

Panelists: Al Shilling, Assistant Director Emerging Technologies, Lee County, Florida Schools; Kim Bowman, Director of Public Broadcasting and the Florida Knowledge Network; Bernadette Siy, Television Station Manager, WLRN, Miami-Dade County Public Schools; Msgr. Michael Dempsey, Director, Pastoral Communications; John Humpal, Distance Learning, Hawkeye Community College

Wireless broadband is making it possible to reach educational populations that have never before been reached or as effectively served.

Here are real examples/uses of the expanded capacity for video delivery that will work on the midland and applications of two-way wireless that can deliver more and better education to students, for adult ant continuing education, and beyond the classroom.

• 12:00N -1:30PM Luncheon

Guest Speaker: Jim Hong, Director of Engineering, Point-to-Point Wireless Broadband Solutions, Motorola

With more than 20 years of experience in the wireless radio industry, James Hong, director of systems engineering, has overall responsibility for the team that designs and installs Motorola’s Point-to-Point (PTP) Wireless Group’s wireless broadband products to customers worldwide
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Mr. Hong also oversees Motorola PTP’s new product beta testing program, all technical training, and the group’s pre- and post-sales field engineering support.

Mr. Hong joined Motorola as a result of the company’s acquisition of Orthogon Systems. Prior to joining Orthogon Systems, Mr. Hong served as senior systems engineer for Western Multiplex and Proxim Corp., where he was responsible for designing large and complex wide area wireless networks for telco, enterprise, and wireless ISP markets worldwide.

As an entrepreneur, Mr. Hong founded and sold an ISP, Future Vision LLC. During his tenure at Future Vision, he engineered and maintained over 100 microwave wireless data communication systems for customers throughout the U.S. and Brazil
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Earlier in his career, Mr. Hong worked in the healthcare industry where he managed corporate information systems projects. He is an amateur radio operator active on HF through 10 GHz bands and has received factory training and certification from eight of the industry-leading wireless equipment manufacturers
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Past Speaking Engagements James Hong has presented at several industry events including WISPCon and EC Expo. In addition, he has conducted many technical training sessions for VARs and end users throughout the U.S. over the past 10 years
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• 1:45PM - 3:15PM

Session: The Technologies – Where They Are And Where They’re Taking Us

Chair: John Forker, Associate Director, Academic Technologies and End-User Support, University of Maine System

Panelists: Jim Hong, Director of Engineering, Point-to-Point Wireless Broadband Solutions, Motorola; Robert Peterson, Director of Sales, Education Market, Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc.; Bastain Schoel, Carrier Networks, Wireless Products Marketing; Jim Madsen, EVP Business Development, NextWave Wireless; Rudolph Mazza, Marketing Director, Alcatel-Lucent

WiMax systems are coming online and adding subscribers.

How soon will the bells and whistles promised by WiMax become available?

And, there are other technologies, spectrum and applications on the horizon. Get up to speed on VoIP, OXHM, LTE and end user devices.

• 3:15PM - 3:30PM Coffee Break

• 3:30PM - 5:00PM

Session: FCC Nut and Bolts, The Rules and Transition

Chair: Terri Natoli, V.P. Regulatory Affairs & Public Policy, Clearwire

Panelists: Nadja Sodos-Wallace, Regulatory Counsel, Clearwire; Trey Hanbury, Director, Spectrum Proceedings, Government Affairs,Sprint Nextel; Evan Carb, Law Office of Evan Carb; Dawn Alexander, Alexander and Associates; Matt Leibowitz, Leibowitz & Associates

Protect your license and the educational and financial value that it represents!

Each EBS licensee needs a basic understanding of the FCC rules and policies governing EBS, including regulatory compliance requirements.

Come and learn about construction and operation requirements, leasing requirements, license renewals, ownership reports, the Universal Licensing System and more!

• 6:00PM Dinner on Your Own

• 7:00PM -10:00 PM Hospitality Suites

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