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VON Europe 2004 Conference agenda at a glance

Pre-Conference Workshops
Monday, June 7, 2004
Conference Day One
Tuesday, June 8th 2004
Conference Day Two
Wednesday, June 9th 2004
Conference Day Three: Enterprise IP Communications Summit
Thursday, June 10th 2004

WiFi Voice vs. 3G Mobile
Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Our panelists explore the latest stage of convergence – the future of Internet and Mobility. In particular they’ll discuss:

- Is 3G the foundation of Europe’s future IP Communications infrastructure, or does WiFi bring the necessary mobility to landline wired technology?
- Will WiFi and 3G be complimentary in the delivery of new data services?
- Can mobile operators leverage 3G spectrum to deliver competitive IP WiFi services?
- What is the status of WiFi VoIP and cellular 3G rollouts and deployments?
- The ultimate cellular/wifi enabled devices – when, how and why? Who has first mover advantage?

Tomi Ahonen, 3G Consultant and Author, TomiAhonen.com
Author of bestselling 3G books, Tomi Ahonen is an independent consultant best known for new services having introduced over 500 of them at his over 90 public speakerships on six continents. Earlier Tomi headed Nokia's 3G Business Consultancy, oversaw its 3G Research Centre, and developed mobile internet gateways. Before that he was employed by three operators/carriers in Finland and the USA, where his accomplishments include the world's first fixed-mobile service bundle and the world record for taking market share from the incumbent. Tomi holds an MBA from St John's University NY and lectures at Oxford University's 3G courses. His books are m-Profits, 3G Marketing, and Services for UMTS.

Alan Duric, CTO, Telio
Alan Duric is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Telio AS, the fastest growing Nordic Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider.

Duric is an early pioneer of VoIP and brings almost a decade of experience in VoIP and active contribution through his development and standardization work (as a co-author and/or contributor to number of IETF, ETSI and ITU standards). Beside his standardization work, as a developer and senior systems architect at Ericsson, Alan was involved in the early deployment and development of some of the worlds largest VoIP networks such as deltathree.

At Global IP Sound (suppliers of voice components for Skype), Duric worked as Senior Systems Architect, where he steered standardization efforts and was responsible for iLBC (internet Low Bitrate Codec), an IETF and CableLabs standard codec for VoIP.

Tom Flanagan, Worldwide Director of Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments
As the worldwide director of broadband strategy, Tom Flanagan identifies market trends and provides the vision and strategic direction for TI’s Broadband Communications Group.

The Broadband Communications Group is charged with driving TI’s extensive broadband portfolio, which includes integrated DSP, analog and software solutions for cable, digital subscriber line (DSL), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and wireless networking.

Previously Flanagan was the director of business development for Telogy Networks, acquired by TI in 1999, and VP Sales and Marketing for ADC Skyline. Flanagan also held various marketing, sales and business development positions during a 12 year career with Dynatech Communications.

Mika Uusitalo, Director of Technology, Nokia
Mr. Mika Uusitalo is Director of Technology at Nokia Core Networks where he is driving
development of Nokia's mobile core network and mobile internet technology, architecture as well
as new solutions.

Previously Mika was Vice President and General Manager of Tahoe Networks (CA, USA),
where he founded Tahoe's European operations as well as run company's R&D activities
in EMEA. Before Tahoe Mika worked at Sonera Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) as Chief Technology Officer,
Vice President and head of Mobile&Internet Technologies as well as Director of Medialab.
In Sonera he was responsible of development of data network, Internet,
Internet multimedia, Internet communication and Mobile Internet services. Earlier he
has worked as Chief Architect at US West (Qwest) Advanced Technologies (CO, USA).
Mika has M.Sc. in Software Engineering from Tampere University of Technology.