30th June 2010, Bristol, UK - The agenda for Silicon South West's Rising Stars Awards Dinner & Wireless 2.0 Conference has been released today and includes speakers from leading national and international companies in this sector, including Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Ubiquisys and Icera.

This year's Wireless 2.0 conference theme is Mobile Multimedia Comes Home.

Confirmed Agenda for 9th July 2010:

Keynotes – Multimedia in the Hand
9.15 - Welcome, Nick Flaherty, Editorial Director, Silicon South West
9.30 - Joakim Nelson, General Manager, Head of Industry Collaboration & Asset Management, CTO, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
The future of mobile handsets
10.00 - Will Strauss, President, Forward Concepts – market analysis of mobile multimedia
10.30 - Simon Knowles, Vice President Strategy & DXP® Technology and Founder, Icera

11.00 Coffee

Session 2: Multimedia in the Street
11.30 - Chair: Walter Tuttlebee, CEO, MobileVCE
11.45 - Ray Williamson, Motorola - Video; the implications for mobile networks
12.15 - Pete Keevil, CTO, Ubiquisys – Extending the reach of femtocells
12.45 - Dr. Tim Wilkinson, VP Technical Marketing, IPWireless

1.15 Lunch

Session 3: Multimedia in the Home
2.15 - Chair: Gurpritpal Singh, CTO, Cingular Consulting Services
2.30 - Prof. David Bull, CTO, ProVision Communications – Research in video
3.00 - Tim Haysom, CMO, OMTP / Bondi – The rise of the Widget
3.30 - Peter Claydon, VP Sales & Marketing, Deltenna – Extending broadband coverage to rural areas
4.00 - Mark Barrett, CEO, Blu Wireless – high speed connectivity in the home

Close
4.30 - Nick Flaherty, Silicon South West


For registration details see: www.siliconsouthwest.co.uk

For further information please contact:
Simon Bond
Email: s.a.bond[at]bath[dot]ac.uk
Tel: 01225 388 682