March 15, 2007
The Metropolitan Club
Chicago, Illinois
At Computerworld's upcoming IT Executive Summit & Roundtable, a small, select group of senior IT executives will explore and discuss the issues, and will get an up-to-date education on where the wireless workplace is headed. Through a concise, morning-long program of analyst and end-user presentations concluding with a rich, interactive roundtable discussion, participants will gain fresh perspective from presenters and each other.
Why You Should Attend
You'll learn from formal presentations and moderated discussion that will surround how today's workplace environments—from corporate enterprise campuses to those in education, healthcare and government—are pushing the wireless envelope. You'll find out how the convergence of voice and video to the data mix is challenging many of these environments to deploy cost-effective but secure expansion. And you'll see how all of this is taking place against a backdrop of users who are increasingly demanding "all-wireless, all-the-time" across the workplace.
From the morning's program, you'll rapidly gather answers to the following questions:
- What are the imminent challenges for today's IT decision-makers?
- What are the pitfalls to avoid?
- How can the next-generation wireless workplace be built efficiently—with both scalability and security?
- How have some workplaces accomplished this not only with wireless data, but with voice and video too?
- How are organizations already making "all-wireless, all-the-time" a reality?
Presenters
Phil Belanger, Managing Director, Novarum
Phil has over 25 years of broad leadership in the technology, marketing and standards of data networks. Phil pioneered local area networking technology with Zilog and Corvus, and extended that leadership by co-leading the multi-company technical and marketing efforts leading to the original IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networking standard.
Phil defined the original market position of wireless LANs for mobile computing with Xircom. With Aironet, he chaired the Wi-Fi Alliance, creating the Wi-Fi brand and laying the foundation for Wi-Fi's success with the acquisition of Aironet by Cisco. He helped create the business model for Wi-Fi service providers with Wayport ,and expanded the market for Wi-Fi infrastructure with extended range technology of Vivato and municipal mesh networks at BelAir Networks.
Phil is well-known as an entertaining and direct speaker and commentator on wireless technology, applications and markets.
Bill Laberis, Vice President, Computerworld
Bill Laberis is Vice President of Custom Content Strategy at
Computerworld, a new position he filled in October 2006. In this exciting role, Bill will work closely with Computerworld's vendor clients to create highly individualized custom content programs that leverage the wide range of Computerworld's media capabilities, including print, online, multimedia and custom events.
No stranger to Computerworld or IDG, Bill was editor-in-chief of Computerworld for ten years from 1986-1996. During his editorial tenure, Computerworld won more than 80 awards for editorial and design excellence, including the Computer Press Association's award as Best Computer Newspaper an unprecedented three times. And as editor, Bill was also frequent speaker and keynoter, having delivered over 100 speeches and addresses while writing over 400 signed editorials. He was often quoted in the business media as an industry spokesman; wrote for several publications including the editorial page of the
Wall Street Journal; and was also a frequent contributor to panel sessions at major industry trade shows and served on the boards of advisors of several major conferences.
In the ten years between leaving Computerworld as editor and rejoining as Vice President of Custom Content Strategy, Bill was founder and president of Bill Laberis Associates, a custom publishing and media consulting company. His company produced special supplements, magazines, newsletters, Webcasts, content-oriented marketing materials and other special customer publications for nearly all first- and second-tier vendors in the computer industry. His company's work included all content and design creation for the quarterly
Microsoft Executive Circle Magazine, read by more than 120,000 business and technology managers in North America, and produced from 2001-2005.
Mr. Laberis is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in Holliston, Mass., with his wife and two sons.