4 November, 2009
AT&T Conference Center
Austin, Texas

The Texas Wireless Summit is the premier conference for industry leaders to discuss and plan for the business models and disruptive technologies that will define the future of the wireless industry.

Now in its seventh year, the Summit is hosted by the Austin Wireless Alliance (AWA) with the support of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at The University of Texas at Austin.

This year's Summit has been designed to facilitate networking and interactive discussions that will stimulate your thinking and provide you with key insights on the future of the wireless industry. The theme of this year's Summit is how the relentless expansion of wireless data networks is allowing new industries to adopt wireless technology as a foundation for future growth. These industries will deploy new data-driven solutions in smart grid, healthcare, telematics, consumer electronics, and software applications, resulting in unforeseen innovations. In addition, the 2009 Texas Wireless Summit will address which wireless technologies work for which applications, wireless security and privacy, and infrastructure deployment and management. 

2008 Keynotes

Michael Bayle
Senior Director, Global Mobile Advertising
Yahoo! Inc. 

Arun Bhikshesvaran
Vice President Strategy & CTO North America
Ericsson Inc.

John Donovan
Chief Technology Officer
AT&T

Dr. Brian L. Evans
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wireless Networking and Communications Group
The University of Texas at Austin
 
Prof. Omer Gurewitz
Department of Communication Systems Engineering
Ben Gurion University, Israel 

Tony Lewis
VP of Open Development
Verizon Wireless

Mark Louison
President
Nokia Inc.

Yoram Solomon
Senior Director, Worldwide Standards and Technology Strategy
CTO Office
Wireless Terminals Business Unit
Semiconductor Group
Texas Instruments

 

2009 TWS What's New

Theme and Topics Released
June 16, 2009 - The 2009 Texas Wireless Summit taking place in Austin, Texas on November 4, 2009 today announced this year's theme. The relentless expansion of wireless data networks is allowing new industries to adopt wireless technology as a foundation for future growth. These industries will deploy new data-driven solutions in smart grid, healthcare, telematics, consumer electronics, and software applications, resulting in unforeseen innovations. 

Topics:
  • Which wireless technology for what applications?
    • There are numerous existing and emerging wireless technologies that have the promise to be used in a rapidly increasing number of applications, but which technologies make the most sense for which applications? For example, should smart meters use LTE, Wimax, 3G, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, or other unlicensed approaches such as "white space"? Should consumer appliances use Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 60 Ghz, or UWB?
  • Security
    • How can wireless data be pervasive and yet not compromise security and privacy? As utilities, healthcare providers, automotive, and insurance companies gain direct feeds into our homes, cars, and personal lives, how will the communications and information remain secure? The choice of security approach has implications on bandwidth, hardware, power consumption, and overall network performance.
  • Infrastructure deployment and management
    • Individuals and business will need to manage devices attached to the networks inside their homes, offices, cars and city-wide. How will those devices be activiated, de-activated, authenticated, remotely managed, remotely accessed, and interact with other devices? How will the enabling infrastructure be implemented? The implications of device and application management are echoes of the "open networks" debate in the traditional cellular industry.
 
2009 Texas Wireless Summit Dates Announced

The 2009 Texas Wireless Summit will take place November 4, 2009 at the new AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Austin, Texas.