The Making of Tomorrow's Cellular Phone
Next generation components that enable multi-mode converged handsets

Tomorrow's handset won't be just a simple cellular phone or PDA, it will also be a camera, a voice recorder, an MP3 player, a web browser, a gaming device, and a GPS. It will be equipped with Bluetooth, WiFi, and UWB connectivity and act as a cellular phone while outdoor or as VOIP phone while indoor. Imagine all these features inside a tiny, pocket-sized handset …

The keys to realize such a multipurpose handset are innovative technologies that enable smaller, more powerful, and more efficient mobile components. These components include everything from antenna, RF front end, multimode transceiver chips, to novel LCDs , keypads, and even fuel cells.

Please join us at this SVCWireless seminar and explore the latest developments in mobile components with a number of Silicon Valley's technology innovators and business visionaries in the wireless industry. What you will find out might challenge your notion of what makes up a powerful cellphone!

Speakers:

Moderator

Tim Chang
Principal, Gabriel Venture Partners
Tim Chang is a Principal based in the Silicon Valley office of Gabriel Venture Partners, and leads the Wireless sector team. Prior to joining Gabriel, Tim was a Product Manager and Business Planning Manager at Gateway, Inc., and also brings to Gabriel his experience as a development engineer for General Motors. Tim brings to Gabriel a background combining operational, technical, and international business experience.

Peter Baldwin
CEO & President, Founder, MVOEM
Peter has a distinguished track record as a mobile pioneer with over 20 years of experience in Mobile Enabling Technology. Before founding MSX, Peter was the executive vice president of operations at Insignia Solutions (INSG), responsible for repositioning the company as the leading mobile technology vendor, starting the end to end system provisioning business and divesting the loss making Java Virtual machine product line. While at Phoenix Technologies (PTEC), Peter the the vice president responsible for growing the emerging businesses, including the Phoenix Information Applicance Division.

From 1986 to 1994, Peter was founder and director of Distributed Information Processing Limited (DIP) who designed revolutionary software for the very first Pocket PCs for companies such as Atari and Sharp. Prior to DIP, Peter was one of the first employees of Psion Limited, Europe's leading handheld manufacturer and lead shareholder of Symbian. Peter holds a BSc in Engineering Mathematics from Bristol University in England.

David Arfin
CEO, GlooLabs
David Arfin is an experienced entrepreneur with strong financial, business development, and problem-solving skills. Prior to GLOOLABS, Arfin was co-founder, chief financial officer, and vice president of business development for Flywheel Communications, an Internet rights-based management company.
Arfin has pioneered new technologies in the legal industry. As founder and CEO of CLE Group, Arfin developed and marketed the award-winning software, The Interactive Courtroom, and cle-Net, the first online continuing education program. In 1996, Practicing Law Institute (PLI) acquired CLE Group. Following the acquisition, Arfin created PLI's Interactive Media Division, and continued to serve as its director for three years.
Arfin holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and an MA in public policy analysis from Claremont Graduate University. He received a BA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Gerry Purdy
Principal Analyst, MobileTrax, LLC
Venture Consultant, Mobile & Wireless, Diamondhead Ventures
Dr. Purdy is a nationally recognized industry authority in mobile computing and wireless data communications. He is the principle analyst with MobileTrax, a professional services firm in Cupertino that produces conferences, conducts market research and consulting in mobile computing and wireless communications. He is also a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures in Menlo Park where he identifies, attracts and recommends investments in emerging companies in the mobile and wireless space.

For over 15 years, Dr. Purdy has been consulting, speaking, researching, networking, writing and developing state-of-the-art concepts that challenge people's mind-sets and developing new ways of thinking and forecasting in the mobile computing and wireless data arenas. Often quoted, his ideas and opinions are followed closely by industry watchers who read his insightful column, “Inside Mobile & Wireless.” Dr. Purdy is a frequent and sought-after speaker and moderator about both present and future trends in mobile & wireless at major industry conferences.

Throughout his education and his career, Dr. Purdy has built the knowledge, experience and intellect that give him his unique vantage point on the industry. He has worked in hardware systems including Compaq Computer (now HP) and Poqet Computer (now Fujitsu), software (Phoenix Technologies & Metier Management) and was VP and Chief Analyst at Dataquest before launching his own analyst and consulting practice in mobile and wireless.

Dr. Purdy is also a founding member of the IBM Mobile Computing Industry Advisory Council, is co-author of ThinkPad: A Different Shade of Blue; Creation of a Successful IBM Brand, and a past member of the COMDEX Conference Advisory Board and the Advisory Board for PC Expo/TECHXNY. He is currently Co-Chairman of the Board for VC Task Force, an organization the produces programs for the venture community.

Dr. Purdy holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Tennessee, an M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Exercise Physiology from Stanford University. Dr. Purdy is also a member of The World Futurist Society.

Frank Chu
President, Essentel, Inc.