From iPhone Applications to Mobile Banking, Dow Jones’ Wireless Innovations to Spotlight the Best Emerging Mobile Technologies & Companies
Posted on April 8, 2008
Filed Under Mobile Computing, News, mobile phones
SAN FRANCISCO, April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — With the leapfrog
innovation of Apple’s iPhone changing the wireless landscape, hundreds of
top venture capitalists, media companies, corporations and emerging
start-up companies are to detail the wireless sector’s bright future will
hold exclusively at Wireless Innovations 2008
(http://wirelessinnovations.dowjones.com), hosted by Dow Jones on April 22
and 23 at Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, Calif.
The platinum sponsor of Wireless Innovations 2008 is Qualcomm, the gold
sponsor is Tele Atlas, and silver sponsors include Citi Group and
ReedSmith.
Entering its 7th year, Wireless Innovations is the mobile sector’s
premier networking and deal-sourcing event, having first introduced the
venture capital and corporate communities to companies like Apertio
(acquired by Nokia for roughly $185 million), Mobile 365 (acquired by
Sybase for $417 million) and VoiceSignal Technologies (acquired by Nuance
Communications for $293 million), to name a few. Once again, this year’s
program will feature individual business overviews by CEOs of 70 of the
best wireless start-ups, as selected by Dow Jones VentureWire.
Keynotes this year include:
— John Chen, Chairman, President & CEO, Sybase — With its iAnywhere
mobile software platform with a breakaway lead in the market, Sybase’s
head comes to Wireless Innovations to detail his rosy outlook for the
wireless enterprise.
— Lance Drummond, Global Consumer & Small Business Banking eCommerce/ATM
Executive, Bank of America — One of the challenges facing mobile
banking is convincing customers to use the service and that it is safe.
Since its launch last year, Bank of America’s mobile banking initiative
has signed up more than 500,000 customers.
— Brett Galloway, SVP, Wireless Technology Group, Cisco Systems –
Silicon Valley’s leading acquirer of start-up technologies sends Mr.
Galloway to survey the scene and offer a candid account of what Cisco
has planned for its wireless LAN and broadband product lines.
— Peggy Johnson, EVP, Americas & India, Qualcomm — Latin America and
India have leapfrogged into modernity via wireless technologies. Find
out how Qualcomm is driving adoption of 3G-and-higher technologies in
these emerging regions.
— Simon Pugh, Head, Advanced Payments Group, MasterCard Worldwide –
Buying lunch with your cell phone? It’s not as far-fetched as it once
sounded and MasterCard is a driving force behind the many business
partnerships and alliances need to bring this vision to reality.
— Larry Shapiro, EVP, Business Development & Operations, Walt Disney
Internet Group — Content is still king and Mr. Shapiro is leading the
fight to bring Disney content to the very small screen via both mDisney
and Starwave Mobile as well as a myriad of content, distribution and
technology partnerships.
Wireless Innovations will also include a candid, on-stage interview
with Matt Murphy, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, about
the firm’s recent $100 million iFund, which it launched in tandem with
Apple to fund start-ups creating applications for the iPhone.
In addition to the 70 company presentations, attendees will get a
ringside seat for the popular daily “From the Boardroom” panel, which
features some of the wireless sector’s most respected venture capitalists
debating their picks and pans among the presenting companies. Filling out
the “Board” this year will be senior partners from Azure Capital Partners,
Canaan Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers, Opus Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Storm Ventures and VantagePoint
Venture Partners.
Over both days of the conference, in-depth panel discussions will help
provide a clear picture of what’s in store for open source and platform
technologies, mobile advertising, and location-based services. Filling out
these agenda panels will be senior partners from Deutsche Bank, Fox
Interactive Media, Jupiter Research, MySpace.com, Nielsen Mobile, Qualcomm,
Research In Motion, SK Telecom, Tele Atlas, Thomas Weisel Partners,
T-Mobile and others.
For more information or to register, visit
http://wirelessinnovations.dowjones.com. Full-time journalists and members
of the traditional media can request a press pass by contacting Adam Wade
at 415-439-6666 or adam.wade@dowjones.com.
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