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IEEE ICC 2012 Industry Forums Program

The Industry Forums are designed to deliver broad interest in telecommunication industry’s current practiced technology, major technology implementations, complex IT business systems, regulatory impact assessments, economic models, and engineering methods used by industry practitioners.

The Industry Forums are focused on three technology pillars with a total of 18 unique forum sessions planned. The duration of each of the forums is 105 minutes with a moderator and 3-6 speakers of with industry expertise in the featured topical area. After all the speakers have presented, a Q&A discussion will follow among the speakers and the audiences.

SA: Services and Applications

SA01: Social Networks Tuesday, June 12 from 10:45 to 12:30
Services and Applications

Chair:
Neeli Prasad, Head of Research, Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Denmark

Driven by rapidly changing requirements and business needs, ICT and applications are undergoing a paradigm shift: components are replaced by services, distributed over the network, and composed and reconfigured dynamically in a demand driven way into service oriented architectures.

It is quite impressive to see how asynchronous communication forms have reached wide success, yet by offering support only to traditional, text-based information exchange. These services are today at the basis of what has been defined as Social Networking, i.e. the possibility for individuals to interact, share, cooperate with others via the communications technology. The impact of such services can be measured not only in terms of the specific and direct service provided to their user constituency and their Quality of Life (QoL), but also in terms of their contribution to the emergence of new communication styles, network architecture, frameworks and language patterns.

The ability of the user to interact in a focused and personalized manner, as this is offered through the social networks, can transform the traditional one broadcast for all, to one broadcast, transformed to the needs of everyone.

New issues are raised related to actions of users/viewers and how this is influenced and influences viewing experience, how it affects the QoL and ways it can improve it, techniques for fusing user generated content in a non intrusive and annoying or destructing way with the broadcasted content and also how can user generated content modify the transmission.

Speakers from Industry and Academia will be invited to have discussion on the topics:

  • Social Interaction and Quality of Life (QoL)
  • Trusted Network Architecture and Infrastructure
  • Business Models
Presentations:
Social Networks: Impact on Quality of Life
Neeli Prasad, Head of Research, Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Denmark
Everything Connected: Benefits and Challenges to Your Quality of Life
Philip Jacobs, Technical Lead, Cisco Systems
Multimedia is turning social: how Social Networks can affect our multimedia access
Ing Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, Professor TEI of Piraeus, Senior Research Associate of Institute of Communications and Computer Systems
Security and Business Model
Yuan Xiang Gu, Cloakware Co-Founder & Chief Architect; Senior Director, Irdeto Research, Ottawa
Social Networks Impact on Wireless Operators
Warren Cope, Senior Manager, Core Technology Strategy and Architecture, Sprint, USA

SA02: National Systems Wednesday, June 13 from 08:00 to 09:45
Services and Applications

Chair:
David Wendling, Vice President, Space System & Network Engineering, Telesat
Presentations:
Quality Improvement of Telecommunications Industry in Pakistan
Ashfaq Naqvi, Executive Engineer, WorldCall Telecom Limited, Pakistan
Bandwidth management dynamics in India’s eGovernance
V. M. Mathur, Professor in Management and IT, Information Systems and Technology Panel
Lifetime and Throughput Maximization - Self Optimization Techniques in Wireless Networks
Hemant Kumar Rath, TCS Networks Lab, Bangalore, India

SA03: Advanced Technologies Wednesday, June 13 from 14:00 to 15:45
Services and Applications

Chair:
Alan Solheim, Vice President, Corporate Development, DragonWave
Presentations:
M2M Communications and Evolution to IoT (Internet-of-Things)
Paul Russell, Jr., InterDigital Communications
Facing the Bandwidth Demand Onslaught: How the industry will have to address this and where the research community can help?
Alex Reznik, Sr. Principal Engineer, Systems InterDigital Communications, LLC
Wireless Sensor Network for Urban Environment Monitoring
Mario LaManna, SELEX Sistemi Integrati, Rome
SOC Architecture Evolution as a key driver of wireless network transformation
Fawzi Behmann, Director of Marketing & Strategic Advisor, Power.org, Chair COMSOC/SP Chapter in Austin
Cognitive Radio over fibre for Next-Generation Mesh Networks
Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Brunel University, UK

SA04: Patent and Licensing Strategies Thursday, June 14 from 08:00 to 09:45
Services and Applications

Chair:
Curtis B. Behmann, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Ottawa
Panel on Enhancing Technology Development & Market Success Using Patent & Licensing Strategies

From Nortel's patent auction and Google's patent-based acquisitions, to Apple and Samsung's patent battles, patents are becoming a key part of technology development and deployment. Last year's introduction of the America Invents Act also introduced some changes to U.S. patent law that may affect development approaches at some companies. This session will include practical industry perspectives from technology companies and a patent licensing company, as well as Canadian and U.S. patent experts.

Outline and Content of the presentation (Draft)

  • Setting the Stage
    • why are patents mentioned more frequently in business and technology news?
    • what is their practical importance to companies and to individual engineers?
    • is skepticism about software patents justified?
    • what are some basic approaches for using patents in engineering & business?
  • Technology Company Perspective- Research In Motion
    • patents as an asset for developing and exploiting technology
    • patents and standards
  • America Invents Act
    • what has changed in U.S. patent law?
    • how does this affect technology development and roll-out?
  • Practicing Engineer’s Perspective- PMC-Sierra
    • integrating patents into technology and development processes
    • engineer/inventor engagement and education
  • Patent Licensing Company Perspective- MOSAID
    • case study
    • changes in semiconductor and telecommunications licensing strategy and practice
  • Q & A Discussion
Presentations:
IP Strategy: Why It Matters to Engineers – from One-Click to Slide-to-Unlock
Curtis B. Behmann, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
The America Invents Act: What do I Need to Know?
Steve Chang, Banner & Witcoff Ltd
Patent & Licensing Strategy: Technology Company Perspective
Robert Guay, Research In Motion
Patent & Licensing Strategy: Practising Engineer's Perspective
Steve Gorshe, PMC-Sierra
Patent & Licensing Strategy: Patent Licensing Company Perspective
Michael Vladescu, Chief Operating Officer, WiLAN

SA05: Government and Defence Thursday, June 14 from 14:00 to 15:45
Services and Applications

Chair:
Malcolm Vant, Former Director General, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) - Ottawa
Panel on Information Service Provision Challenges in the Defence and Security Environment

Along with much of the rest of the world, the Defence and Security sectors of government have firmly embraced information technology and management as a way to do business more efficiently, to gain a business advantage, and in the case of defence to have a warfare edge. This session will examine the challenges faced in providing services supporting defence and security.

The main sub-theme will be Cyber Defence. With greater dependence on information technology, and in particular web-enabled systems and devices, governments and defence forces find themselves increasingly vulnerable to attacks from various quarters. In combat situations, cyber attacks have the potential to cripple both Command and Control Systems and Weapon Systems containing embedded information systems. In day-to-day operations, cyber attacks, both at the nuisance and more lethal levels must be dealt with rapidly and effectively to allow operations to continue with an acceptable degree of risk.

The second sub-theme will examine the provision of knowledge management services in a defence R&D organization – an environment which requires the creation of structured support services for what is inherently unstructured work.

Presentations:
NATO Cyber Defence Policy and Cyber Security Roundtable Summary
Guy Vezina, Director General, Defence R&D Canada – Valcartier & Chair of NATO Research & Technology Organization, Information Systems and Technology Panel
Malcolm Vant, Former Director General, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) - Ottawa
Tools promoting collaborative cyber security innovation
Reginald Sawilla, Cyber Operations Section of Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)
Cyber Security Challenges and State of the Art
Ashutosh Dutta, CTO Wireless, NIKSUN
A Knowledge Services Architecture: Structured Support for Unstructured Work
Albert J. Simard, Knowledge Manager, Defence Research & Development Canada
Improving the Cyber Resiliency of Critical Infrastructure
Sébastien Labelle, Director of Engagement and Partnerships, National Cyber Security Directorate, Public Safety Canada

SA06: Identity Management Thursday, June 14 from 16:15 to 18:00
Services and Applications

Chair:
Amit Jasuja, VP, Development Identity Management and Security Products, Oracle, USA
Presentations:
Title to be announced
Shane Logan, Director SDF & Collaboration Services, Telus
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