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June WCA Meeting Agenda

"HP's Mobile E-services Bazaar,"Andrew Bolwell

The lines between our professional and personal lives are blurring, business is increasingly conducted "on the go", and we want to be able to access information and services no matter where we are. Mobile operaters are actively looking to mobile e-services as a way to help their customers better live this mobile lifestyle, and as the future growth engine for their business. This presentation will focus on how HP's Mobile E-services Bazaar is bringing together players from all over the mobile ecosystem to address this opportunity, and how companies providing mobility solutions can work with HP to help invent this new future.

Andrew Bolwell began his career with Hewlett-Packard in 1989 as one of two engineers supporting HP-UX in Australia, and then moved on to Japan, where he was responsible for developing HP’s consulting business with key global accounts across Asia Pacific. Andrew then returned to California and to business development for HP’s ImagineCard Alliance, a smart card initiative with Informix and Gemplus, and then worked with Yahoo! to develop and market corporate portals. He is now global leader of Hewlett Packard’s Mobile e-Services Bazaar.

Cometa's Nationwide Wi-Fi Network, Michael Kleeman, CTO, Cometa Networks and
Neeraj Bharadwaj, Apax.

Mr. Kleeman will discuss how Cometa is facilitating the deployment of a wholesale nationwide Wi-Fi network. He will review some of the technical and business challenges faced by the company as they become a wholesaler of wireless Internet access to telecommunications companies, ISP's, cable operators, wireless carriers, large retail chains, hotels and universities.

"Wi-Fi continues to be the fastest growing wireless technology," said Michael J. Kleeman, Chief Technology Officer of Cometa Networks. "Over the past few years, there have been many attempts to deploy public Wi-Fi hot-spots. In my presentation, I will demonstrate how Cometa's technology and business model are both aligned for success." Founded in December 2002 by AT&T, IBM, and Intel with Apax and 3i, Cometa Networks is pioneering
wholesale Wi-Fi. Neeraj Bharadwaj of Apax recounts how the deal was put together to found Cometa, and then CTO Michael Kleeman discusses Cometa's business model and the Wi-Fi products it will use to extend the PSTN.

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- Program ends at 6:00 PM with networking until 6:30 PM.
- Participants are cautioned not to discuss proprietary information.
- Questions: Contact Al Juodikis at (888) 351-6701, email: wca@wca.org
- A $10.00 donation will be collected at the door to defray costs.

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