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	Pre-Conference Seminars - Monday, May 22	CONFERENCE TRACKS
	Program Day 1 - Tuesday, May 23	WiMAX Business Track WiMAX Technology Track WiMAX Deployment Case Studies European Hotzones & Digital Cities Track
	Program Day 2 - Wednesday, May 24
	WiMAX Technology Solutions Theater
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PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAM - MONDAY, MAY 22, 2006

	WIMAX WORLD PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINARS Monday, May 22, 2006
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9:00	THE BUSINESS CASE FOR WIMAX Caroline Gabriel, Conference Co-Chair, Research Director, Rethink Research	WiMAX World BACKHAUL PERFORMANCE TestBED Real World Results of Point-to-Point WiMAX and Pre-WiMAX Equipment Testing Led by CW Lab
12:00	Break for Lunch
1:30	Mobile Broadband Executive SummiT Led by Yankee Group
5:00	CONFERENCE WELCOME RECEPTION SPONSORED BY THE WIMAX FORUM & WIMAX TRENDS

CONFERENCE DAY 1 - TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2006

		WiMAX World Conference Program Tuesday - May 23, 2006
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8:30		CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST SPONSORED BY MOTOROLA Eduardo Conrado, Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, Global Marketing and Strategy Organization, Networks & Enterprise, Motorola, Inc.
9:30		WIMAX STATE OF THE INDUSTRY Caroline Gabriel, Co-Chair, Research Director, Rethink Research Berge Ayvazian, Co-Chair, Chief Strategy Officer Yankee Group
10:30		The role of WiMAX for the converged operator Reto Näf, Head of Service Assurance, Technical Operations, Swisscom Mobile AG
11:30		EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE: WIMAX and the future of mobile broadband Moderator: Caroline Gabriel, Conference Co-Chair Panelists: Jim Baker, CEO, Telebria, Dr. Mo Shakouri, Board Director, WiMAX Forum, Eduardo Conrado, VP, Global Marketing and Communications, Motorola, Andres Moreno, Director of the Wireless Division, CETECOM Spain Joe Nardone, GM Service Provider Business Group, Intel
12:30	EXPO OPEN	LUNCH BREAK - EXPO HALL OPENS - WIMAX TECHNOLOGY THEATER click here for WiMAX Technology Theater presentation schedule
2:30		WiMAX: Rolling Out the Reality of Seamless Mobility Daniel J. Coombes, Senior Vice President, Wireless Broadband Networks, CTO, Networks, Motorola, Inc.
		WIMAX BUSINESS TRACK	WIMAX TECHNOLOGY TRACK	WIMAX DEPLOYMENT CASE STUDIES	EUROPEAN HOTZONES, DIGITAL CITIES AND MUNICIPAL BROADBAND
3:30		A Vision to broadband wireless Phil Marshall Director, Wireless/Mobile Technologies, Yankee Group Markku Hollström, General Manager Broadband Wireless, Radio Networks, Nokia Corporation	PANEL: Network planning: the key issues for WiMAX Moderator: Daryl Schoolar, Sr. Analyst, Networking Group, In-Stat Panelists: Malcolm Dowden, Charles Russell Prof. Fernando Velez, IEEE Stéphane Cohen, Head of WiMAX Europe, Motorola Jerome Brouet, Director, Alcatel	WiMAX DEPLOYMENT GLOBAL map Caroline Gabriel, Research Director, Rethink Research	European Hotzones, Digital Cities and Municipal Broadband Berge Ayvazian Chief Strategy Officer & Roberta Wiggins Research Fellow, Yankee Group
4:30		Decision: Deploy "D" WiMAX Now Or Wait for "E" WiMAX? Manish Gupta, VP Marketing & Alliances, Aperto Networks	WIMAX AND OTHER BROADBAND WIRELESS OPTIONS COMPARED Peter Ohman, Director Technology, Ericsson	WiMAX at a cross roads Adlane Fellah, Senior Analyst, Maravedis, Robert Syputa, Senior Analyst, Maravedis	European HotZones and Digital Cities Moderator: Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group Panelists: Vincent Grivet, Co-Managing Director, Maxtel, Gordon Willoughby, Managing Director, Cityspace, Francois Le, VP, Tropos Networks
5:15		NETWORK WITH EXHIBITORS ON EXPO FLOOR
6:00		EXPO CLOSES 6:00PM

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CONFERENCE DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2006

		WiMAX World Conference Program Wednesday - May 24, 2006
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8:45		RECAP OF DAY 1 AND INTRO TO DAY 2 Caroline Gabriel, Co-Chair, Research Director, Rethink Research Berge Ayvazian, Co-Chair, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
9:00		THE WIMAX FORUM - ACCELERATING THE GROWTH OF BROADBAND GLOBALLY Dr. Mo Shakouri, Board Director, WiMAX Forum
10:00		Fishing for Complements - the role of WiMAX vs. 3G Dr. Klaus-D. Kohrt, Senior Vice President Government & Industry Relations Siemens Communication Mobile Networks, Vice Chairman, UMTS Forum
11:00	EXPO OPEN	EXPO OPENS 11:00AM click here for WiMAX Technology Theater presentation schedule
		WIMAX BUSINESS TRACK	WIMAX TECHNOLOGY TRACK	WIMAX DEPLOYMENTS CASE STUDIES	EUROPEAN HOTZONES, DIGITAL CITIES AND MUNICIPAL BROADBAND
11:00		The Business Case for MIMO in WiMAX Mark Whitton, VP and General Manager, WiMAX - Nortel	The evolution of WiMAX devices Malcolm Dowden, Head of Telecoms Practise, Charles Russell	PROGRESS TO THE WIMAX TRIPLE PLAY Giovanni Gasbarrone, Telecom Italia S.p.A.	Panel: Wireless Broadband Opportunities in Eastern Europe Moderator: Roberta Wiggins Research Fellow, Yankee Group Panelists: Sinisa Bakaric, CTO, MICRO-LINK, Croatia Yury Ginosyan, CEO, CEDICOM JSC Yuriy Chuikov, CEO, Alternet Vedad Čengić, Research Fellow, EnergoInvest
11:50		LUNCH BREAK AND VISIT EXPO HALL click here for WiMAX Technology Theater presentation schedule
1:30		executive panel: The critical regulatory decisions for WiMAX Moderator: Adlane Fellah, Senior Analyst, Maravedis Panelists: Janos Grad, Spectrum Manager, National Communications Authority, Hungarian Telecom Regulatory Agency Franz Ziegelwanger , Head of Frequency Management, Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria Regulator, Dr. Mo Shakouri, Board Director, WiMAX Forum
2:30		PANEL: COMBINING WIMAX WITH OTHER NETWORKS Moderator: Julian Bright, Editor of 3G Wireless Broadband, Informa Telecom Panelists: Kevin Suitor, VP, Redline Communications, Simon Altman, Director of Marketing & Sales, Ceragon Networks, Jerome Brouet, Director, Alcatel	WiMAX Deployment in Europe: Unique Technical and Market Dynamics Andrew Tang, Director of WiMAX European Solutions Development, Intel	Case study: can a WiMAX only model survive? Dov Bar-Gera, Chairman, WiMAX Telecom	Panel: Municipal Broadband Projects in CENTRAL & Western Europe Moderator: Roberta Wiggins Research Fellow, Yankee Group Panelists: Peter Ziegelwanger, CTO, WiMAX Telecom Jaakko Kuosmanen, Managing Director, ICT Turku Ltd, Rafi Haladjian, CEO/Founder Ozone Paris, Markus Bömelburg, VP, BelAir Networks
3:30		The Evolution from 802.16d to 802.16e from the Perspective of a Silicon Vendor Makoto Awaga, GM, Mobile Solution Business Division, Fujitsu Limited	PANEL: CAN A SINGLE TECHNOLOGY SERVE RURAL AND URBAN MARKETS? Moderator: Phil Marshall, Yankee Group Panelists: Rudy Leser, VP, Alvarion, Sai Subramanian, VP, Navini Networks. Basheer Cassim, Director, Proxim Wireless Sergio Formoso, Siemens AG	WiMAX Deployment Experience In France Vincent Grivet, Co-Managing Director, Maxtel & Management Board Member, Altitude Group	WiMAX Regulatory Environment Ernst Eidenberger, Director Business Development, Broadband Wireless Access Business Unit, Mobile Radio Division, Alcatel

4:30		WiMAX in the backhaul, the economics Rupert Baines, VP Marketing, picoChip	PANEL: Smart antennas and CHIPSETS EVOLUTION Moderator: Stuart Carlaw, Principal Analyst, ABI Research Panelists: Bernard Aboussouan, VP, Sequans Ian Keene, Vice President, Gartner Research, Mark Guinan, VP UK Operations, ArrayComm LLC	Panel: What is missing from WiMAX? Moderator: Monica Paolini, President, Senza Fili Consulting Panelists: Jim Baker, CEO, Telebria Bruce Gustafson, Director, Nortel, Luis Santiago Galli, CEO, Ertach, Paul Doody, Irish Broadband	PANEL: WIMAX IN RUSSIA Moderator: Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group Panelists: Lee Sparkman, President, Enforta, Alexander Tseytlin, CTO, Synterra Alexei Prohorov, Sotcom Prof. Sergey Portnoy, Alvarion
5:30		CONFERENCE CONCLUDES

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