Conference Program

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

The Next Generation Wireless Enterprise: How the IT Department Should Prepare for it

Dan DeFina, Senior Technical Wireless Consultant, Trapeze Networks

Leading industry analysts believe the five biggest wireless trends affecting Enterprise IT departments are:

• Laptops and smart phones

• Wide-Area Broadband Wireless

• ROI

• Convergence

• Wireless E-Mail

What about 802.11n and the suggestions of ‘the end of Ethernet’?

How will these trends and technologies impact your organization?  What can you do to prepare for them?

In this session attendees will learn how to make their organizations more productive by having a strategy that covers these areas and more.  IT departments will walk away with an understanding of how to answer these questions in terms that both senior IT leaders and business executives can understand.

10:00am-10:30am - Refreshment Break

10:30am - 11:30am

Maximizing the Productivity of The Mobile Employee - Removing Key Obstacles In Wireless Deployments

Andy Willett, Sr. VP of Marketing and Business Development, NetMotion Wireless

The proliferation of wireless networks and Wi-Fi have created a surge in technology that can expedite and improve productivity for mobile workers. This session will examine common obstacles in wireless deployments, including coverage gaps and interruptions, inter-network roaming, and device management, and how these hurdles affect IT managers and diminish worker productivity. This session will frame these issues within actual mobile deployments with Orange County Sherriff's Department, NY Presbyterian Hospital, and Cox Communications, and provide best practices for resolving these issues within your own organization.

11:30am - 12:30pm

Robust WLAN Application Delivery Architecture

Chris Ellerman, Engineer, Meru Networks

As wireless LANs move from networks of convenience supporting web and email applications to pervasive networks supporting critical business applications, WLAN architectural requirements are evolving.

In this session attendees will learn the following:

• WLAN requirements to support voice and other time sensitive applications

• WLAN requirements to support video and other bandwidth intensive applications

• Emerging architecture to support pervasive WLAN requirements

• Planning for Enterprise wide 802.11n wireless LANS

• 802.11n field deployment case studies

12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon

1:30pm - 2:30pm 

Fine Tuning Your Users: How to Set a Strategy for Configuration, Connectivity, Synchronization and Management Issues

Dan Croft, President & CEO, Mission Critical Wireless

One of the biggest challenges IT departments face when working through wireless implementation is supporting the end-user technically. To enable their productivity they need to be ‘in-sync’ with other users and the network.

In this session, attendees will learn how to:

• Lessen the burden on the help-desk

• Build a framework for remote supporting the IT issues road warriors face when connecting wirelessly

• How to better sync e-mail and updated applications

• How to handle new employees who bring contracts with different/legacy carriers

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm 

Strategies for Securing the Next Generation of Wireless Technologies and Applications throughout the Entire Enterprise

Security has always been a major concern for enterprise IT departments with respect to wireless implementations.  But with wireless technologies, applications, devices and network evolving, how do you design a security framework that will adapt to the dynamic wireless needs of the enterprise?

In this session attendees will learn:

• How to design a comprehensive security strategy to cover the internal network, network endpoints, applications, and mobile devices

• How to determine how much ‘security is enough’ in a wireless environment

• How to encrypt Wi-Fi traffic for privacy

• How to make sure comprehensive security does not interfere or preclude access to mission-critical applications

• How to ensure regulatory compliance and implement PCI compliance in your wireless network

• How to implement network admission control (NAC) for wireless network

• How to mitigate active WLAN attacks

• How to implement a policy of physical security to protect against the abuse or theft of mobile devices/laptops

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Key Performance Indicators: How to Prove that Your Organization is Capitalizing on its Wireless Implementation (KPIs)

Moderator:  Bruce Miller, Director, Product Management, Xirrus

Panelists include Geri McGreevy, 2nd Vice President-IT, The Northern Trust,

Paul Carugati, Information Protection Services, CISSP, CCNA, Motorola,

Scott DuPart, Enterprise Architecture Services, Infrastructure Architect, HCSC-BlueCross BlueShield,

Fred Kwong, Network Consultant, Zurich Insurance

Wireless has proven that it can increase the productivity of employees as well as generate new revenues in many organizations.

But how do you get the biggest ‘bang for your buck’ with respect to wireless implementation?  How can you benchmark your success and achieve your goals from both an IT and business perspective to help exceed enterprise expectations?

In this session attendees will learn:

• How to define and establish key performance indicators and metrics

• Suggestions for setting expectations internally

• How to set expectations with hardware and software vendors and SLAs with carriers

• How to articulate KPIs and metrics in terms that line executives can understand