FORUM AGENDA

Spectrum Efficiency and New Technology

Date:                Tuesday, December 9, 2003

Time:                9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location:          United States Department of Commerce
Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 4830
1401 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20230

9:00 am            Registration

9:15 am            Introduction and Welcoming Remarks

Dr. Sam Bodman, Deputy Secretary of Commerce

9:30 am            Session 1

Incentives for More Efficient and Beneficial Spectrum Use

Moderator(s):

Michael D. Gallagher, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information

John B. Muleta, Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, FCC

Confirmed Panelists:

Rick Burke, Director of Operations, Pegasus Telecommunications, Inc.

Michael Calabrese, Vice President, New America Foundation

Chris Hardy, Vice President and General Manager, Comsearch

Bill Hogg, Vice President, Standards and Network, Cingular

John Lawson, President & CEO, Assoc. of Public Television Stations

                        James J. Miller, Deputy Director of the Office of Navigation and

Spectrum Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation

Dr. Adele Morris, Economist, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Dr. Greg Rosston, Deputy Director of Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, Stanford University

Al Vincent, Director, U.S. Department of Commerce/NTIA/ITS

11:00 am          Questions from the audience

11:30 to 1:00 pm          Break

1:00 pm            Session 2:

                          Deployment of New and Expanded Services and Technologies

Moderators:

Michael D. Gallagher, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information

Ed Thomas, Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC

Confirmed Panelists:

Mike Bamburak, Vice President Technology Architecture & Standards, AT&T Wireless Services

            Dr. David Borth, Vice President & Director, Motorola, Inc.

Dr. John Chapin, Chief Technical Officer, Vanu, Inc.

David Clapp, Principal Engineer, QUALCOMM, Inc.

Chris Douglass, Advanced Infrastructure Leader for Wireless e-Business, IBM Global Services

Dr. Marc Goldburg, Chief Technology Officer, ArrayComm

Dr. Paul Kolodzy, Director, Stevens Institute of Technology

Dr. Carl M. Panasik, Director, Advanced Architecture, Texas Instruments Inc.

2:30 pm            Questions from the audience

3:00 pm            Conclusion:

Concluding Remarks by Michael D. Gallagher, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information