3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Session A:
Going the Last Mile to the Home - Making the Connection; Phone, Satellite, Cable, Wireless
It doesn’t matter how the broadband signal gets to the user, our job is to get it there and there is no shortage of new ideas and new concepts available when it comes to solving the problem of traversing the “Last Mile.” This part of the equation may be the most critical stumbling block of all in the delivery of broadband. Whether it’s the phone wire, satellite, the cable or the new hot button, wireless, broadband is gong to get there and we are proud, in this session, to bring together some of the country’s most innovative and interesting thinkers on this topic.
Dave Robinson, VP and GM, Digital Network Systems, Motorola
David Nash, Director of Marketing for Intel Architecture Lab, Connected.Home Initiative
Thomas Flanagan, Director, Business Development, Telogy Networks, A Texas Instruments Company
August E. Grant, Ph.D., Director Market Research and Entertainment Programming, 2Wire
Alec Saunders, Group Product Manager Home Networks, Windows Division, Microsoft Corp.
Ryan Ashton, Vice President Marketing, Inari
John Todd, Principal, Thomas Weisel Partners, Moderator
Tom Flanagan, Director, Business Development, Telogy Networks, A Texas Instruments Company: Prior to joining Telogy in January 1997, Mr. Flanagan served as a Board Member and Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ADC Skyline from 1993 to1996. While at ADC Skyline, he was responsible for all product marketing and developing and implementing the company's strategic plan. Previously, Mr. Flanagan held various executive and technical positions in a 10-year career at Dynatech Communications, ultimately becoming Director of Business Development in 1992. Mr. Flanagan received BS in political science from James Madison University. About Telogy Networks Telogy Networks, a Texas Instruments Company, is the leading provider of embedded communications software to global equipment manufacturers. Telogy's Golden Gateway® software enables its customers to develop connected products that send real-time voice, fax and data over packet networks (such as Internet/Intranet, Frame Relay, and ATM). As one of the few embedded software companies with both microprocessor and DSP expertise, Telogy Networks offers its customers truly comprehensive product solutions. Telogy's products are in use by virtually every communications equipment manufacturer, including Cisco Systems, 3COM, Nortel Networks, Motorola and many others throughout the world.
David Nash is the Director of Marketing for Intel Architecture Lab's Connected.Home Initiative, which is focused on accelerating deployment of high bandwidth Internet to the home, home networking, as well as new home devices and their applications. An Intel employee for the past 10 years, Mr. Nash has held several technical and marketing positions and has extensive experience in bringing new communications products and technologies to market, including Intel® ProShare Video Conferencing and Intel Video Phone. Mr. Nash has also worked closely with leading PC OEMs and Software Vendors to deliver new capabilities for the PC platform in the areas of ease of use, power management, serviceability / manageability, and high performance graphics. Mr. Nash was also responsible for Intel&Mac226;s industry enabling and interoperability efforts around TAPI, ISDN and Personal Conferencing standards. Mr. Nash holds a B.E.E. from the State University of New York. Mr. Nash has spoken at several industry conferences, including CEDIA, DSLcon, Forum '99, and HomeNet '99
Alec Saunders, Group Product Manager of Home Networks, Windows Division, Microsoft Corp.: As group product manager of Home Networks for the Windows® Division, Alec Saunders is responsible for market development activities related to Microsoft’s home networking efforts including Universal Plug and Play. In the upcoming months, his particular focus will be advancing the connected home by delivering enhanced home networking technologies within future versions of consumer Windows. Saunders first joined Microsoft in 1992 as a member of the product management team in Ontario, Canada. He was responsible for the entire line of developer tools and the MS-DOS® product. When Saunders moved to Redmond, Wash., in 1994, he worked on the Windows 95 launch and has since found a particular interest in Windows consumer software, serving as a product manager for early versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and later in a planning capacity for consumer Windows and the Windows CE operating system. Before joining Microsoft, Saunders worked at several small software startups in the Waterloo, Canada, area in a variety of roles from developer to sales. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in mathematics. These days he enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, listening to opera and collecting West Coast Native American art.
Ryan Ashton, Vice President Marketing, Inari: Ashton joined Inari in March 1999 after serving as senior vice president, marketing and sales for Megahertz Corporation. At Megahertz, Ashton was responsible for strategy development and building the brand that continues to dominate the PCMCIA modem and networking category. Ashton was also marketing communications project manager at Novell Inc. where he was responsible for assuring worldwide brand consistency, and he oversaw the first translation of Novell’s networking operating system (NetWare) into five key languages. Ashton holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young University.
John Todd, Principal, Thomas Weisel Partners: John Todd recently joined Thomas Weisel
August E. Grant, Ph.D., is Director of Market Research and Entertainment Programming for 2Wire, Inc. Grant is a former broadcaster and academic who specializes in research on new media technologies and consumer behavior. After completing his doctorate at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Southern California, he spent nine years with the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He then became the founding Director of the Center for Mass Communication Research in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina. Grant's primary interest is mass communication technology, and his research and teaching reflect the convergence of communication forms through the application of new technologies. He has written numerous articles and conference papers dealing with high-definition television, television audience behavior, television shopping services, theories of new media, and emerging communication technologies. He is the editor of the Communication Technology Update (now in its sixth edition), a semi-annual review of the latest developments in over three dozen technologies in electronic mass media, telephony, consumer electronics, computers, and satellites. He has also served as a consultant to various media organizations regarding new communication technologies and consumer behavior.