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2008 Mobile Enterprise Executive Summit

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 / Arrival Day
3:00 - 7:30 pm Registration Open
3:00 - 4:30 pm Editorial Advisory Board Meeting
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Opening Cocktail Reception
Evening Sponsor Dinners
Thursday, November 6, 2008 / First Day of Sessions
7:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Open
7:30  - 8:15 am Networking Breakfast
8:15 - 8:20 am Summit Opening Remarks
8:20 - 9:05 am Opening Keynote
Mobile Business Strategies: The Challenges & The Realities

Is your organization a longtime user of mobile and wireless solutions? Are you just starting the process of building a mobile business platform? Or, are you now weighing whether the time is right to dip your corporate toes in the wireless waters? Whatever your status, this keynote session will give you information you can use. Through real-world examples and personal anecdotes, our keynote speaker tells you what you really need to know about implementing a mobile business strategy.
9:10 - 9:45 am General Session #1
Mobile Fraud & Security

Speaker: Ward Pyles, Security Analyst, Southern Company

Employees at large, wireless networks, lost or stolen devices -- as the number of mobile workers increases, the challenges of protecting valuable information expand exponentially. Learn the latest security pitfalls to beware of. Find out what steps leading enterprises are taking to protect their intellectual property and secure their prized customer data.
9:45 - 10:05 am Networking Coffee Break
10:05 - 10:50 am General Session #2
Mobile Technology & the Multi-Generational Workforce

Moderator: Susan Nunziata, Editor Iin Chief, Mobile Enterprise

Discussion Participants:
Kevin R. Baradet, CISSP, Chief Technology Officer, S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
James Barrecchia, Sr. Director/Business Systems Delivery, Atlas Air/Polar Air Cargo
Greg Lush, Chief Information Officer, The Linc Group

Is your enterprise equipped to manage the technology expectations of a wide range of workers? Young adults entering the workforce today are coming from universities equipped with the latest wireless technology -- does your organization stack up? How do you handle training issues across a workforce that has a wide degree of comfort levels with technology? Through real-world examples, our panelists share their best practices for managing and training your mobile workforce.
10:55 - 11:30 am General Session #3
Fixed-Mobile Convergence - Facilitating Workforce Collaboration


Speaker
: Patrick Tisdale, Chief Information Officer, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP

Fixed-mobile convergence, unified communications -- by any name, the bottom line is unprecedented opportunities for workers to collaborate and serve customers no matter where they are. This case study illustrates the results one leading enterprise is achieving from its FMC colusion, and what lessons it learned along the way.
11:30 am Break for Golf Outing
6:30 - 7:30 pm  Cocktail Reception to honor all of the 2008 Mobilizer Award nominees
Evening Sponsor Dinners
Friday, November 7, 2008 / Closing Day
7:30 am - 12:00 pm Registration Open
7:30 - 8:30 am Networking Breakfast with Topic Tables
Topics
* Mobile CRM
* GPS/LBS Solutions
* Sales Force Automation
* Asset Tracking & Management
8:30 - 8:35 am Day Two Opening Comments
8:35 - 9:00 am Mobile Enterprise Mobilizer Awards Ceremony

The Mobile Enterprise Awards Ceremony will honor the recipients of this year's Mobile Enterprise Mobilizer Awards. The 2008 Mobilizer Awards will honor the best mobile deployments in these five areas:
  1. Field Service
  2. Customer Relationship Management
  3. Supply Chain
  4. Mobile Campus
  5. Pace Setting
9:05 - 9:55 am Day Two Keynote

Winning Perspective

Speaker: Mobilizer Award Winner

This session will feature a case study from one of this year's Mobilizer Award winners presenting an in-depth view of their winning initiative.
9:55 - 10:10 am Networking Coffee Break
10:10 - 11:05 am General Session #4

Measuring the Costs & Benefits of Mobility

Moderator: Eugene C. Signorini, Vice President of Enterprise Research and Mobile Solutions, Yankee Group
Discussion Participants:
Larry Beiss, Director of Advanced Engineering, CSX Transportation
Thomas Gagne, Senior Manager, Technology Division, Continental Airlines

Yankee Group analyst Eugene Signorini presents the results of a new study revealing how leading enterprises are gauging the real, tangible benefits of mobilizing their workforces -- and how they're valuing the less tangible results. The study presentation will be followed by a panel discussion addressing how mobility solutions improve business processes, enhance customer relationships, and enable employees to achieve work/life balance. Learn about the measurement criteria your peers are using to evaluate their mobile solutions, and how measurement tools differ across the wide spectrum of enterprise applications.
11:10 - 11:55 am Closing Keynote

The 10 Questions Your CEO Should Ask about Mobile Technology and How You Should Be Ready to Answer

Keynote Speaker: Andrew Seybold, President/CEO, Andrew Seybold Inc.

Knowing the right questions to ask is crucial when shaping a mobility strategy for your enterprise. If you're a CEO, industry guru Andrew Seybold gives you the right questions to ask [hint: it's more than "how can we make the iPhone work across the enterprise?"]. If you're an I.T. executive, Seybold's session will give you the answers you need to ensure that upper management buys into your mobility strategy.
11:55 - 12:00 pm Official Summit Closing Comments
12:00 - 1:00 pm  Closing Networking Luncheon 
1:00 pm  2008 Mobile Enterprise Executive Summit Concludes