February 13th, 2008Conference to watch: eComm2008
Far away from the industry PR festival in Barcelona, another conference is coming in Mountain View on what comes next in telecoms in the potential post-walled-garden world of open wireless and open telecom. What will wireless and telecom look like if the agitators and disruptors of openness (Google, Voip, Open spectrum rules etc.) have their way? Thanks to Lee Dryburgh for the pointer. The program looks really cool. Example topics (from the conference site):
- Future of telephony and SMS in the era of social media
- Consumer VoIP has only had minor impact so what happens next?
- How will Android™ and the Open Handset Alliance™ change the mobile ecosystem? What about an iPhone™ SDK?
- How is the networked information environment displacing telephony and main stream media?
- How can our personal service IDs, contact IDs, devices and content be managed, synced and shared?
- Is the mastery of different distribution systems a key to winning both technically and financially? Will the Internet subsume the other systems?
- Do WiMAX, LTE, WiFi mesh, 4G, UWB, SDR and wireless grid technologies represent opportunities? What about VoIPo3G?
- How can communications be enhanced with attention metadata, positioning, presence and digital reputation?
- Will open spectrum unleash a torrent of wireless innovation?
