It's that time again. Buy your new shoes, pencils, and binders and join us for our annual Back2School event where we learn what the telcos are doing in their home markets, what they are up to in Silicon Valley, and what they are looking for in potential partners. At this event, the Telecom Council's telco members will present their latest to the general body of the association. The telcos remain powerful gatekeepers and potential allies in the industry, come hear what they have to say to Silicon Valley.
Executive Forum members and Service Provider members are invited to join INmobile members at the INmobile.org / MMA executive reception - an invitation-only reception for senior executives in the wireless industry at the CTIA conference in San Francisco.
The INmobile.org events are consistently the most relevant and well attended executive networking events at CTIA. And sponsorships are still available.
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Debrief: CTIA (morning session)
Sep 17, 2008, 09:00am - 11:00am
Norwest Venture Partners,
Palo Alto,
CA,
USA
Discussion of 2008 CTIA tradeshow in San Francisco. What did you see that was inspiring? What did you see that you enjoyed the most? What did you learn by attending? What were the overarching trends? Each of us has basically one perspective on the show, but it's too easy to miss one of the big trends. We think that more diverse perspectives add to our overall understanding, and less slips through the cracks. We'll lead a group discussion that teases out the key trends and take-aways from the show.
Discussion of 2008 CTIA tradeshow in San Francisco. What did you see that was inspiring? What did you see that you enjoyed the most? What did you learn by attending? What were the overarching trends? Each of us has basically one perspective on the show, but it's too easy to miss one of the big trends. We think that more diverse perspectives add to our overall understanding, and less slips through the cracks. We'll lead a group discussion that teases out the key trends and take-aways from the show.
Our Investor Forum and Service Provider Forum will gather together to review 9 startups, with each presenter allotted 20 minutes to address the audience. Dialogue before and after presentations, during breaks, and over lunch ensures that participants have the opportunity to connect.
Every now and then, it makes sense to sanity check your business model. But your board, your staff, and your investors have all taken at least a sip of the Kool-aid. An outside perspective is needed. That's what we offer with our Peer Review event. You sit at a table with 3 other startup leaders, one VC, and one telco. Each startup gets an hour to present their company's business model, and get peer feedback.
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Annual Handset Roundup
Oct 15, 2008, 12:30pm - 06:30pm
KIICA Silicon Valley,
Silicon Valley,
CA,
USA
The Mobile Forum, a group within The Telecom Council of Silicon Valley, is focused on the mobility aspects of telecommunications. In this event, the Forum is hosting a discussion of the always important topic of handsets in mobile comms.
The Service Provider and Investment Forum is a meeting specifically tailored for start-ups and small firms to present their solutions and investment opportunities to telecom carriers. The telecoms consider the pitches for adoption, strategic, and ROI investment, then have a luncheon discussion on an industry topic. Run continuously since 2001, this event has led start-ups to countless follow-up meetings at the telco HQs.
This special SPIF meeting takes a field trip to see the best telecom start-ups of San Diego, and to network with the people down South. As a special case, VCs and corporate investment delegates may request to join our delegation.
With the 700 MHz auction, the "white space" debate, and new legislation proposing free wireless broadband nationwide, it has been a landmark period at the intersection of wireless and policy. The decisions being made will set the foundation for markets that will impact Silicon Valley companies for years or even decades to come. Silicon Valley companies have played a profound role in influencing or even setting the debate. When Valley companies used to competing on service merit or time-to-market go to Washington, they may find themselves going toe-to-toe with incumbents with more experience and deeper lobbying budgets.
After years and years of technical talk, platform talk, business model speculation, and ecosystem building, it looks like Location-Based Services are finally here. So let's push back the talk of control planes, tri-lateration, TDOA, platforms, and bring forward the discussion of what applications and services will soon be provided to consumers. How will location-awareness be integrated into the mobile lives of end users? How will they interact with position-aware apps? Will your mom ever use this stuff?
Where usually our seminars scratch below the paint to understand how things really work, this time we're flipping that model upside down, and worrying more about the veneer - what is LBS going to look like to the mobile consumer?
For this event, we'll hear from companies leading this sector and from the innovators that will revolutionize the way people use location-awareness. Expect some demos
KT and NTT, their CTOs, key executives and business unit leaders are visiting to inaugurate their Silicon Valley investment partnership. The CTO of KT and the CTO of NTT will each share their vision and roadmap in private to a select audience. This is a private, invitation-only event; distinguished members of the Silicon Valley telecom community including venture capitalists and entrepreneurs are invited by KT and NTT.
This quarter our focus is post-launch startups, with products and services that are ready for the lab trials. Both our Investor Forum and Service Provider Forum will gather together to review 9 startups, with each presenter allotted 20 minutes to address the audience. Dialogue before and after presentations, during breaks, and over lunch ensures that participants have the opportunity to connect.
Discussion of 2008 the Communicasia tradeshow in Singapore. What did you see that was inspiring? What did you see that you enjoyed the most? What did you learn by attending? What were the overarching trends? We'll lead a group discussion that teases out the key trends and take-aways from the show. If you went, you can catch what you might have missed. If you didn't go, you have some catching up to do!
Discussion of 2008 NXTcomm trades show in Las Vegas, Nevada. What did you see that was inspiring? What did you see that you enjoyed the most? What did you learn by attending? What were the overarching trends?
At this event, a group of senior executives from Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) will provide an overview of recent activities, and upcoming milestones for the company, and the fast-growing telecom services market of Vietnam.
Mobile payments are at a critical juncture these days. Few people would argue that using the mobile phone to make payments, transfer money, do P2P and P2B over RF and over networks is in our future. The big questions are: When and how? Our Mobile Payments event seeks to bring together experts and the mobile commerce community to answer those two critical questions.
This seminar is a soup-to-nuts discussion for inventors, creators of IP, start-ups, and medium sized companies without a dedicated legal team. We'll cover the arguments for whether to seek patents and trademarks, how patents can help your company, where to look for them, and how to get them submitted and approved. Equally importantly, we'll look at what is not worth patenting and trade marking, and the right way to submit the ideas that are worth patenting.
Attend Dow Jones's Wireless Innovations 2008 (April 22-23) for an up-close look at the wunderkinds of buzzworthy, wireless companies shaking up the sector with new moves in advertising, mobile media, location-based services, mobile content delivery and revolutionary software and services destined to change how we communicate, work, and play.
Telecom Council members get a 15% registration discount.
25 people to participate in this interactive roundtable discussion, over lunch, to go over the new products, services, and ideas that popped up at CTIA.
Orange Labs,
South San Francisco,
California,
United States
Investor Forum and Service Provider Forum members gather to review 10 early-stage telecom startups who are actively fundraising. Non-members who are telecom investors may request an invitation to this private event. Our luncheon keynote will be from Nikko Citigroup's Telecom Analyst with a focus on Japan's mobile market.
For those of you following "communication over Internet," a group recap of the Spring 2008 VON conference will share the key take-aways, learnings, and any gems found by our members.
An award ceremony to recognize the best telecom startups from 2007. Award categories include innovation, creativity, emergent entrepreneurship and competitive excellence. Join us to acknowledge the success of these great entrepreneurs, and of course to network with one another.
By invitation only,
Silicon Valley,
California,
USA
Member-generated discussion of 2008 GSM Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona. Members will share their take-aways, their observations and insights, and any gems they discovered.
Members of the Council's Executive Forum get some professional insight into 2008, a look back at the predictions about 2007, and will make their own predictions for 2008. There will be fun, voting, and accounatbility mixed in with a serious look at what's ahead.
Whether to work with the carriers or around the carriers is an important question for every entrepreneur in telecom. This panel of 2 VCs, 2 Startups, and a carrier, will give you some insight into the pros, the cons, and some tangible how-to advice.
For emerging companies, building and nurturing strong partnerships is critical to success. Mobile Entrepreneur Day is a half-day symposium dedicated to de-mystifying the partner process for startup companies across the mobile value-chain.
Our Service Provider Investment Forum extends an invitation to outside telecom investors - from telecom vendors to VCs - to join them for their monthly Forum. In this forum, we will review 8-10 startups and have plenty of time to discuss them amongst ourselves.
Four Telecom Council members will share their views on the LBS market with LBS entrepreneurs. Carriers, investors, and vendors are each looking at his market from a different perspective and this panel will give insight into each of them.
