- Corporations that were late to web are anxious to be early to the wireless web;
- Wireless Internet devices are not merely small screen PCS but present whole new navigational and voice activated opportunities and challenges;
- Mobile information appliances might account for as much as 50% of web access by 2003.
These trends highlight the following questions:
- What role will technological alliances play in this telecom dominated arena?
- How fast will usage increase among phone loving computer haters?
- Will usage grow faster than the 1995-2000 explosion of the web?
- Will 24/7 connection to the customer change the game?
- What will a wireless world be like as soon as 2005?
We answer these questions first with a keynote address from the technology founder of Global Crossing, Caltech's own Dr. David Lee. We then turn to our panel of experts for their review of our keynoter's remarks and their perspective on venturing in today's Wireless Internet space. Following a break for networking and refreshments, we ask our panel to elaborate their views while listening to the plans and aspirations of young Wireless Internet ventures. We close the program with a round of audience questions.
-----BRING YOUR PALM PILOT FOR SOME BEAMING DEMONSTRATIONS-----
THE KEYNOTE PRESENTER
David Lee
Co-founder
Global Crossing
THE PANELISTS
George Abe
Venture Partner
Palomar Ventures
William E. Mitchell
Founder
firepad.com
Jamie Montgomery
Managing Director
Digital Coast Partners
Richard Titus
Wireless Internet Guru
razorfish
THE ENTREPRENEURS
Eric Simon
Founder
Audio Banner
Linh Tang
Founder
and
Chris Corpuz
Financial Guy
Lava2140, A Communications Company
THE MODERATOR
Neal A. Roberts
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LOCATION
AND TIME
California
Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:45am at Baxter Hall
Program
8:30am to 12:30pm at Baxter Hall
Cost
$40.00 per person ($10 for students - student ID required; free to Caltech students and faculty)
PRE-REGISTRATION AND PRE-PAYMENT ARE REQUIRED
FOR THIS EVENT
SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS MEETING FROM:
CHRISTIE, PARKER & HALE LLP
Christie, Parker and Hale LLP is a Pasadena-based intellectual property law firm. The firm was founded over forty years ago, and now has over thirty lawyers who specialize in the law of patents, copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, and related technological, licensing and litigation issues. The lawyers of the firm have expertise and experience in a broad range of technologies, including computer hardware and software, semiconductors, electronics, communications, physics, chemistry and chemical engineering, biotechnology, materials science, and mechanical engineering.
Christie, Parker & Hale LLP
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