Conference Program

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

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Justifying Your Wireless Investment: Determining Where and When to Deploy Mobile Technology in the Enterprise
Andy Farrell, Managing Director, Mobile & Wireless Emerging Business, VeriSign

You think your enterprise may be ready for migrating to wireless, but have you considered how to justify your decision to the powers that be?

 In this session you will learn:

• A framework to help determine the best scenarios for deploying wireless technology to users

• How to quantify the efficiencies your mobile workers will gain

• How to measure the ROI associated with going wireless

• How wireless can take the business to the next level

The goal of this session is for IT professionals to be able to effectively answer the questions that senior IT & business leaders will pose as part of the justification process

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

10:30 am - 11:30 am

The Current Environment: How to Make Sense of the Different Wireless Technologies and the Benefits to Your Specific Environment
Tom Johnston, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, NetMotion Wireless

The industry seems to keep changing and wireless devices and applications have been proliferating at an incredibly rapid pace. But how do you make sense of the technologies, devices and applications and the benefits of these to your enterprise? If you are starting to implement enterprise wireless and trying to get a handle on all the options possible or looking to refine your strategy wireless with the advent of new technologies, this session will provide you with a detailed overview.

You will also learn how different types of enterprises have been extending their enterprise wirelessly and the efficiencies and productivities they have achieved.

Questions that will be answered include:

• How has the environment changed over the last year or two?

• What advancements have been made?

• What wireless technologies are best for my current environment

• What are the changes predicted for the next few years?

• Will my current or ‘soon-to-be’ wireless environment be outdated next year?

11:30 am - 12:30pm

How to Determine Which Applications are Best Suited for a Mobile/Wireless Environment
Dan DeFina, Senior Systems Engineer, Trapeze Networks

 Enterprise Mobility can increase the productivity of your workers, but picking the wrong applications to support in a mobile environment can be a nightmare for your IT staff.

 In this session attendees will learn:

• How to understand the difference between applications that are business-critical and those that are ‘nice to have’

• How to avoid implementing applications that are too cumbersome and do not deliver the value needed

• How to set expectations with users as to when the applications will be supported wirelessly

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Luncheon

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

How to Effectively Implement Wireless in the Enterprise

Douglas Haider, Senior Wireless Consultant, Accuvant

Now that you have a sense of how to justify wireless, an understanding of the different wireless technologies and applications that are best supported, it is now time to understand how to pull this together for effective implementation.

The goal of this session is to provide you with:

• A blueprint for getting this done on time and within budget

• An understanding of how to attain a positive outcome of implementation which includes the interplay of scale, support & architecture

• How to avoid pitfalls with respect to implementation

• How to quantify to management that ‘actual’ ROI

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Refreshment Break

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

How to Secure the Different Enterprise Wireless Scenarios
Jon Green, Senior Product Manager, Aruba Networks

There are a lot of questions being asked about the maturity of wireless security and depending on what specific wireless technology you are asking about, you may get different answers.

In this session attendees will learn how to secure wireless for business use.

Questions that will be answered include:

• Which wireless security technologies have stabilized and matured and which ones are continuing to evolve?

• What are the key challenges to secure wireless for business use?

• Which elements of the network will need to be integrated to assure best security?

• How will future security standards affect today’s implementation?

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Has Wireless Lived Up to The Hype?  Experiences of Enterprise IT Departments 
Moderator: Stewart Christensen, LANDesk Software
Panelists include: