Law Seminars International Presents

A Critical Two-Day Conference on

The New Face of Wireless Broadband

From Wi-Fi to Wi-Max and Beyond

September 30 & October 1, 2004
Seattle Hilton in Seattle, WA
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Who Should Order Homestudy

Attorneys, industry executives and decisionmakers involved in Wi-Fi installation, implementation or dealmaking

Why Order

"Just when you were starting to understand Wi-Fi, now they’re all talking about Wi-Max! This conference will make sure you don’t get behind the wireless broadband curve. You will get up to date on the technologies, applications, law, and business models and considerations for Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, and other wireless broadband technologies. Hear the latest from industry and government leaders. Wireless broadband also presents special security and privacy issues - the classic trap for the unwary that you can learn to avoid." ~ Program Co-Chairs: Brooks E. Harlow, Esq. and Byron Springer, Esq.

What You Will Learn

~ 3G Cellular, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, and LMDS: What are their Technical Capabilities? ~ Municipal Broadband Initiatives and Special Issues in Working with Government ~ The Critical Issue of Funding ~ Current Regulatory Status of Wireless Broadband Services ~ Effective Business Models for Wireless Broadband Services ~ What’s on the Wi-Fi Licensing Horizon ~ VoIP and other Internet Applications ~ Security and Privacy Issues and Approaches in Wireless Broadband Networks ~ Broadband Everywhere: Rural Challenges and Opportunities ~ Construction & Implementation Workshop

Agenda

Thursday, September 30, 2004
8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Business and Regulatory Update for Broadband Wireless Services
  Brooks E. Harlow, Esq., Program Co-Chair
 Miller Nash LLP / Seattle, WA
  Byron Springer, Esq., Program Co-Chair
 AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. / Redmond, WA
8:45 am 3G Cellular, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max and LMDS: What are their Technical Capabilities?
  Compatibility of new thinigs with old things; technical issues in sharing unlicensed spectrum; interference issues; and typical uses for the various forms of wireless broadband
  James Grams, Senior Vice President
 AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. / Redmond, WA
9:45 am Break
10:00 am Municipal Broadband Initiatives and Special Issues in Working with Government
  Trends in local government provisioning of wireless broadband facilities and services
  Nancy Jesuale, President
 NetCity Engineering, Inc. / Portland, OR
  Roger Black, Chief Operating Officer
 Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) / Salt Lake City, UT
  Opportunities and potential pitfalls in public/private partnerships
  Joel R. Paisner, Esq.
 Ater Wynne LLP / Seattle, WA
12:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm The Critical Issue of Funding
  Who is funding what? What are the money people looking for in a business plan?
  Adrian Smith, Principal
 Ignition / Bellevue, WA
2:15 pm Current Regulatory Status of Wireless Broadband Services
  Regulated spectrum vs. unregulated spectrum: FCC policy initiatives on spectrum management
  John B. Muleta, Bureau Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
 Federal Communications Commission Common Carrier Bureau / Washington, DC
  Other regulatory issues: Pending and recently settled issues in the aera of federal and state regulatory jurisdiction
  Kathryn A. Zachem, Esq.
 Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP / Washington, DC
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Effective Business Models for Wireless Broadband Services
  Where do the various forms of wireless broadband complement each other and where do they compete? What are the natural alliances and where will the playes butt heads?
  Byron Springer, Esq., Program Co-Chair, Moderator
 AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. / Redmond, WA
  Where do the various forms of wireless broadband complement each other and where do they compete? What are the natural alliances and where will the players butt heads?
  Mark Schultz, V.P. Technology & Development
 Western Wireless Corporation / Bellevue, WA
  Where do the various forms of wireless broadband complement each other and where do they compete? What are the natural alliances and where will the players butt heads?
  Daniel Lowden, Vice President Marketing
 Wayport, Inc. / Austin, TX
  Jonathan Russo, Vice President, Marketing
 iPass / Redwood Shores, CA
5:00 pm Reception for Faculty and Participants hosted by Miller Nash LLP

Friday, October 01, 2004
8:30 am Special Address: Licensing Wi-Fi -- What's on the Horizon
  How will President Bush's initiative to bring universal broadband access to every American by 2007 be accomplished? A policy maker's perspective on various wireless technologies, more efficient and creative use of spectrum can help meet this goal.
  Michael D. Gallagher, Esq., Asst. Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information
 National Telecommunication and Information Administration / Washington, DC
9:15 am VoIP and other Internet Applications
  Current applictions and a peek at what is under development
  Tren Griffin, Esq., Telecom Strategist
 Microsoft Corpration / Redmond, WA
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Security and Privacy Issues and Approaches in Wireless Broadband Networks
  Elusive threats: The special challenges arising from hybrid wi-fi/cellular/data networks; differences in the best approaches for private networks (where a company has access to user computers) and public neworks (where a complicated solution is less likel
  Scott Forbes, Security & Privacy Compliance Manager
 Microsoft Corporation / Redmond, WA
  CALEA Compliance: Issues and responsibilities for the various forms of wireless broadband
  Craig Walker, Esq., CEO
 Dialpad Communications, Inc. / Milpitas, CA
  Regulatory and business considerations for healthcare and financial service industries, governments and other applications.
  David G. Schoolcraft, Esq.
 Miller Nash LLP / Seattle, WA
12:15 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm Broadband Everywhere: Rural Challenges and Opportunities
  Next evolution of mobile broadband pure IP; using sofware defined radios that suppor Wi-Max and beyond
  Vern Fotheringham, President and CEO
 Kaon Systems, Inc. / Bothell, WA
  Perspective of a rural service provider; hotspots, hot zones, mesh networks and wide-area Wi-Fi
  Fred Ziari, President
 EZ Wireless LLC / Hermiston, OR
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Construction & Implementation Workshop
  Working through the issues: Deals between serv-ice providers and venue owners; landlord/tenant issues when one or the other sets up a network
  Kraig Baker, Esq., Moderator
 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP / Seattle, WA
  Working through the issues: Deals between service providers and venue ownes; landlord/ tenant issues when one or he other sets up a network/ special issues for office parks, airports, retail spots and shopping malls; issues arising from competing tenants
  Lonnie Rosenwald, Esq., Vice President -- Corporate Development
 AT&T Wireless / Redmond, WA
  Working through the issues: Deals between service providers and venue owners; landlord/tenant issues when one or the other sets up a network/ special issues for office parks, airports, retail sots and sopping malls; issues arising from competing tenants
  John Faulkner, Business Development Manager
 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport / Seattle, WA
5:00 pm Adjourn

Cancellation

There is a $25 cancellation fee for Course Materials orders and $50 for Homestudy orders

Continuing Education Credits

Law Seminars International automatically obtains CLE credit approval for the state in which a seminar is held. On request, we will apply for CLE credits in other states and other types of credits. Current credits status: WA CLE 13.0 (#124177) | CA MCLE 13.25 | CO CLE 16 | OH CLE 12.50 (#000146607)

Cost

Our complete Homestudy Course, consisting of a VHS or DVD recording and the written course materials, is available for $905. The course materials alone are available for $100. We will ship your homestudy order via UPS ground within two weeks after the seminar or the date we receive payment (which ever is later).
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Faculty Bios

Brooks E. Harlow, Program Co-Chair, is a partner at Miller Nash LLP where he focuses on telecommunications, electric energy, and other utility matters. This includes general business advice to start-up companies in the telecommunications and electric energy industries.

Byron Springer, Program Co-Chair, is Vice President/Chief Counsel, Mobile Multimedia Services at AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. where he supports AT&T's newly established Mobile Multimedia Services group in developing and bringing to market multimedia content, applications and services over existing and next generation wireless data networks.

Michael Gallagher, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the NTIA, has worked closely with the FCC, other federal agencies and industry on top-level spectrum policy matters such as ultrawideband, 3G, and doubling the amount of spectrum available for WiFi.

Kraig Baker is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP where he focuses his practice on all aspects of media, entertainment, high-tech and Internet representation, including advising on privacy and security compliance issues.

Roger Black holds the position of Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of UTOPIA. In this capacity he is responsible for supervision of all internal operational functions including budgeting, accounting, purchasing, communications, and plant operations. He also oversees member services for current and prospective member cities.

John Faulkner is the Business Development Manager at Seattle-Tacoma International for the Port of Seattle. John leads the airport's Wireless Implementation Team and authored the airport's Wireless Business Strategy and current Wireless Request for Proposals.

Scott C. Forbes serves as Microsoft’s security and privacy compliance manager in its Law and Corporate Affairs group where he works with its worldwide business groups and vendors to help ensure compliance with in-house policies, international regulations, and industry tandards.

Vern Fotheringham, President and CEO of Kaon Systems, Inc., is a recognized industry leader and entrepreneur in the broadband communications industry. Prior to Kaon Systems, Inc., he was President and CEO of Broadstorm Telecommunications, Inc. a company pioneering in high-speed mobile IP network technology. Mr. Fotheringham is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Vectrad Networks Corporation, a wireless broadband equipment manufacturer of high-speed, scalable, interference immune, metropolitan area radio systems.

Jim Grams is Senior Vice President for Multimedia Network and Systems within AT&T Wireless’ new Multimedia division. He oversees technology development of wireless voice and data capabilities for a new generation of services that capitalize on emerging wireless technologies and devices, such as GPRS, EDGE and Wideband CDMA.

Tren Griffin is Telecom Strategist in the Office of Microsoft Corporation’s CTO and Sr VP for Advanced Strategies and Policy, Craig Mundie.  Mr. Griffin focuses on planning and analysis of telecommunications and network services for Microsoft Corporation in both wired and wireless environments.  His role includes overseeing strategic initiatives relating to the cellular, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, USB, and wire line industries, and formulating communications policy strategy. He also works closely with Craig Mundie in identifying and cultivating leading telecommunications innovators.  

Nancy Jesuale is the President of NetCity Engineering Inc., a design and engineering practice for local government networking, specializing in public safety infrastructure and broadband fiber networks for voice, data, and CLEC applications. She is also the program manager for public safety for the Center fo rWireless Network Security at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Dan Lowden is the vice president of marketing and carrier development for Wayport Inc., overseeing all marketing communications and roaming development initiatives. He also drives awareness and revenue for Wayport's products and services at each Wayport-enabled property. Since 2001, Lowden has been instrumental in increasing Wayport's customer base to total more than 5 million customer connections. He also played a key role in Wayport's efforts to pioneer roaming agreements in the Wi-Fi industry, initiating partnerships with Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS, MCI, SBC and many others.

John Muleta is Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB). FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell appointed him to this position in January 2003. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Muleta was President and CEO of Source 1 Technologies LLC, a privately held systems integration firm based in Washington, D.C. He was also a cofounder of OI Systems Inc., a Washington-based management consulting firm.

Joel Paisner, of Counsel at Ater Wynne LLP, works with companies, municipalities and cooperatives in developing, siting, building and operating communication networks including broadband, wireless and cable networks. He has served as in-house counsel to InterNAP Network Services, and as Vice President of WinFirst, one of the first Fiber-to-the-Home cable overbuilders

Lonnie Rosenwald is a vice president in the Corporate Development group at AT&T Wireless. Prior to joining the Corporate Development group, she was Chief Technology Counsel for AT&T Wireless, and a member of the Intellectual Property group at Preston Gates and Ellis.

Jon Russo, Vice President of Marketing,leads global marketing, channel strategy, corporate communications, and strategic alliance teams for iPass. With more than 15 years of leadership experience in the security, software, and telecommunication industries, he joined iPass in 2001 after serving as vice president of data and internet marketing for Frontier Communications, where he drove strategies and products in data, web, managed security, and IP services to $170 million in revenue.

David Schoolcraft is a member of the business department at Miller Nash, LLP, with a practice focused on corporate representation, technology, health care and data privacy. His practice involves representing companies in mergers, acquisitions, distribution arrangements and general corporate matters. In the technology area, he structures and negotiates e-commerce transactions, drafts software licensing agreements, joint ventures and distribution agreements for Internet-based applications.

Adrian Smith is a principal at Ignition, where he invests in telecommunications and wireless companies. Prior to Ignition, he worked on the development of IS-136 TDMA -- from the initial concept and development, through the TIA standards process, and finally onto field trials, phone testing and system readiness for commercial launch. He has been involved in the circuit switched data, packet data, thin client architecture and browser transport mechanisms for integrated voice and data solutions in IS-136 and is the author of a number of patents associated with IS-136 technology.

Craig Walker joined Dialpad Communications, Inc. as Chief Executive Officer from Headland Ventures where he was a general partner. Prior to that, he was at TeleSoft Partners where he focused exclusively on Internet and telecommunications companies. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, he was a corporate and securities attorney.

Kathryn Zachem has led Wilkinson Barker's efforts to be at the forefront of regulatory developments at the Federal Communications Commission. Her experience spans the various Bureaus of the FCC Common Carrier, International, Wireless, Cable, Office of Engineering and Technology, Office of Plans and Policy, and the recently-created Enforcement Bureau.

Fred Ziari is Founder and CEO of IRZ Technologies, and EZ Wireless LLC. Established in 1984. EZ Wireless has designed and operates one of the first and largest City-wide broadband wireless systems in the nation, covering nearly 600 square miles. EZ Wireless, LLC and Mr. Ziari have been featured and named among the top ten largest wireless systems in the Nation by Newsweek Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Portland Business Journal, and other news media.