Attending the Austin Mobility Roundtable conference
The Austin Mobility Roundtable 2004 is not an "industry" conference that showcases the latest products. Instead, it features keynotes and panel sessions from the world's most recognized researchers and practitioners in mobile commerce. They talk about the trends where this industry is heading and cutting edge academic research results. The Roundtable conference travels from Japan to Sweden to Austin this year. Next year, it will be hosted in Hong Kong. This year's speakers include
- Tony Scott, CTO, General Motors
- Bill Bodin, CTO, IBM Pervasive Computing
- Robert Austin, Professor, Harvard Business School
- Andrew Whinston, Professor and Director, University of Texas
- Mike McCamon, Executive Director, Bluetooth SIG
- Nada Usina, General Managor of Entertainment, Nokia
- Rafiul Ahad, VP of Product Development, Oracle
- David Beas, VP for Wireless, SBC Lab
- Jason Ford, General Manager of Games, Sprint
- Stacy Smith, VP of Sales, Intel
- Per Andersson, Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
Just to name a few ... Very impressive line up! Dr. Whinston asked me to help prepare his talk on mobile security using materials from an IEEE paper I published on mobile financial services. It is my priviledge and I will be in the conference then!