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CEWIT 2003: Business Without Boundaries
Conference Highlights

Track 1: Applied Technology Solutions

Security in a Wireless World

"Keys to Secure Your Wireless Enterprise"
- Toby Weiss, Senior Vice President, Computer Associates International, Inc.

"Wi-Fi Security for the Extended Enterprise"
- Philip Carter, Area Sales Director for Mobility Products, Cisco Systems

Workforce Mobility

"Workforce Mobility Panel"
- Moderator: Tyler Roye, President and CEO, Invision.com, Inc
- Pallavi Vachani, Business Productivity Advisor, Microsoft Business Solutions
- Jeff Jones, Vice President, Wireless Solutions, IBM
- Chuck Schwartz, President, Rovenet
- Steven Scarano, Director of Business Development, Everything Wireless

mCommerceSuccesses and Best Practices

"Wireless Implementation in the Enterprise"
- Session Chair: Sumit Deshpande
- Kerry McCutchen, Lead Technologist, EDS

"Wireless Paramedicine: Bringing the Ambulance to the Doctor"
- Richard Jerothe, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure, North Shore LIJ Health System
- Michael Oppenheim, Director of Enterprise Clinical Information Systems, North Shore LIJ Health System.

CTO/CIO Panel - Viewpoints & Directions

- Moderator: Sumit Deshpande, Vice President, Computer Associates International
- Vaho Rebassoo, CTO, The Boeing Company
- Linda Reino, CIO, Universal Health Services
- Walt Thomas, CIO, Computer Associates International, Inc

Track 2: Vertical Industry Solutions

Education Panel

- Moderator: John Culbertson, President, OpenAccess
- Mike Lorion, Vice President Education, PalmOne
- Tom Roslak, Associate Dean for Instructional Technology, Suffolk Community College
- Dennis Dintino, Controller, Polytechnic University
- Kenneth A. Miller, President, Globecomm Systems, Inc

Manufacturing Panel

"Wireless Asset Management"
- G. S. (Gil) Bautista, Jr. Global Market Leader, Symbol Technologies, Inc.

"Wireless Equipment Application"
- Brendan Sullivan, Executive Director of Engineering, Estee Lauder Companies.

"Wireless in Supply Chain Applications"
- Girish Rishi

"RFID at IBM's 30mm Plant"
- John Marteney, Pervasive Wireless Solution Specialist, IBM

Homeland Security Panel

- Moderator: Ron Pirich, Technical Manager, Northrop Grumman
- Kalle Levon, Associate Dean of Research, Polytechnic University
- Ralph James, Associate Laboratory Director, Energy, Environment and National Security
- Marek Samotyj, CEIDS Initiative, EPRI

Healthcare Panel

- Moderator: Robert Kelly, Associate Chair Computer Science, Stony Brook University
- Donald P. Harrington, Professor and Chair Radiology, Stony Brook University
- Eugene Sayan, Chairman and CEO, Softheon Inc.
- Jeff Schou, Director of Healthcare Marketing, Symbol Technologie, Inc.
- Satya Sharma, Associate Dean of Administration, Stony Brook University

Track 3: Advanced Research

"Ultra-Wideband Communications: A Technology whose Time Has Come"
- G. B. Giannakis, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Chair in Wireless Telecommunications, University of Minnesota

"Research at the Ubiquitous Convergence Research Institute"
- Dong-Yoon Kim, Ajou University, Kyunggi Province.

"Adaptive Modulation, Coding, Transmit Diversity and Networking For Next-Generation Wireless Systems"
- Lajos Hanzo, Telecommunications Chair, Department of ECS, University of Southampton.

"InterPlanatary Internet: State-of-theArt and Research Challenges"
- Ian F. Akyildiz, Ken Byers Distinguished chair Professor in Telecommunications.
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.

"KETI's Nano-scale Quantum Devices Research Center"
- Choon-Ho Kim, Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI)

"Systems Software Challenges for Wireless Mobile Computing"
- Tzi-cker Chiueh, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University