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Keynote
Willie W. Lu, USCWC
Willie W. Lu is chairman and director of U.S. Center for Wireless
Communications (USCWC), and a special advisor on emerging technologies
and strategies in several China information and communications
authorities as well as full professor of Zhejiang University, China.
Prof. Lu was member of Technological Advisory Council of U.S. Federal
Communications Commission (US FCC-TAC), a senior principal architect
and vice president of Siemens and Infineon Technologies and consulting
professor of Stanford University. He is also an internationally very
well recognized and accredited senior expert in emerging wireless
technologies and has been a senior technical advisor for 22 wireless
communication authorities in more than 10 countries. |
He is an
independent technical examiner for lots of high-tech venture capitals
in the United States, Europe, Asia, and other places, and is listed in
major Who's Whos in the world. He has guest edited around 50 special
issues on emerging wireless communications in IEEE, IEICE, ACM, CIC
and other major publications, and has had over 150 papers published in
major professional publications. Prof. Lu was member of the editorial
board of IEEE Spectrum, the flag of IEEE. He has been technical
chairman of numerous IEEE conferences including GLOBECOM'03, WCNC'02
and VTC'03, and wireless feature editor of IEEE Communications
Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (former
J-TVTWireless), and others. He is a frequent keynote and featured
speaker at lots of global technical fora, and a prominent wireless
pioneer on the worldwide basis. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, IEICE,
CIC, CIE and Sigma Xi, and an adjunct professor at many world-class
universities in the world. Willie is also the founding chairman of the
prestigious World Wireless Congress, Global Mobile Congress and Fourth
Generation Mobile Forum (4GMF), and has been a distinguished and
notable Chinese wireless expert overseas by various Chinese
authorities since 1996. Dr. Lu is founder and chief inventor of the
well-known Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) technology being widely
used for next generation mobile Smartphone platforms. For more
information, please visit: willielu.com. |
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Nancy Victory
Partner
Wiley Rein
Ms. Victory has extensive experience in communications policy. She advises a broad cross-section of the industry on the business implications of regulatory policy and represents these entities before the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and the Administration. |
Professional Experience
• Chair, FCC Independent Panel Reviewing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Networks (January-June 2006). Named by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to head the panel reviewing the impact of the hurricane on telecommunications and media infrastructure and make recommendations to the Commission regarding ways to improve disaster preparedness, network reliability and communication among first responders.
• Chair, FCC Advisory Committee for the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (2003-Present). Named by FCC Chairman Michael Powell to head efforts to assemble U.S. industry positions on spectrum use issues in preparation for the conference.
• Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (2001-2003). Appointed by President Bush to serve as his advisor on domestic and international communications policy and manager of the federal government´s use of spectrum. Managed 250-person agency comprised of policy staff,grant administrators, spectrum engineers and lab facilities.
Achievements included:
- Launch of comprehensive spectrum management reform effort, including Presidential memorandum calling for recommendations to improve spectrum management and historic memorandum with the FCC for closer coordination and use of spectrum.
- Addressed spectrum needs of new technologies by devising plans to make 90 MHz available for advanced (3G) wireless services and 255 MHz available for unlicensed wireless use.
- Contracted with private sector companies for management of .us and .edu top-level domains and assisted with legislation signed by the President creating a safe space for children on the Internet (.kids.us).
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| ENTNET 2008: Enterprise Solutions for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning |
| 8:00 – 8: 15 |
EntNet Opening:
Daniel Minoli, ENTNET TPC & Latif Ladid, ENTNET Keynotes Chair |
| 8:15 – 9: 30 |
Keynote 1: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning: Lessons From Katrina, Dr. Nancy Victory, Chair FCC Katrina Report
Q&A: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning: Lessons From Katrina |
| 10:00 – 12:00 |
Panel 1: Emerging Communication Services for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning |
| 13:30 -14:15 |
Keynote 2: Open Wireless Architecture:
Prof. Dr. Willie Lu, & Q&A: Open Wireless Architecture
Q&A: Open Wireless Architecture |
| 13:30 -15:30 |
Panel 2: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications for Network Services |
| 16:00 – 17:45 |
Panel 3: Communication advances for the Casino, Oil, and Global industries |
| 17:45 – 18:00 |
EntNet Closing |
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