Conference Agenda

Wi-Fi NOW USA 2019: Celebrating 20 Years of Wi-Fi

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• Claus Hetting
  Wi-Fi NOW

A new era: Next generation Wi-Fi

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• Edgar Figueroa
  Wi-Fi Alliance

AT&T Keynote: Enterprise Wi-Fi: A managed service provider perspective

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• Manish Malhotra
  AT&T Business

Keynote: Fahri Diner, Plume

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• Fahri Diner
  Plume

Morning expo & networking break

Exhibition Area

Great Innovations in Wi-Fi Part 1: Powering the connected home with Celeno

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• Tsahi Tal
  Celeno

Great innovations in residential Wi-Fi Part 2: Quantenna

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• James C. Chen
  Quantenna

Enriching the Wireless Experience Across the Home, Enterprise and Automobile with Wi-Fi 6

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• Prabhu Loganathan
  Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.

Q&A Panel: MU-MIMO performance & the future of the Wi-Fi connected home

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• Irvind Ghai
  Quantenna
• Christopher Taylor
  Strategy Analytics
• Chuck Napier
  MAG Consulting

Lunch break in the expo area

Exhibition Area

Keynote by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

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• Ajit Pai
  Federal Communications Commission

Building Trusted Wireless Environments – with WatchGuard

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• Ryan Orsi
  WatchGuard

Wi-Fi Services & Security using DNS Filtering - with TitanHQ

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• Rocco Donnino
  TitanHQ

GoZone Wi-Fi: Effective revenue generation from Wi-Fi networks

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• Wayne Newton
  GoZone WiFi

Afternoon expo and networking Break

Exhibition Area

Keynote: Leveraging Wi-Fi to generate revenue at live events

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• Pat Coyle
  Texas A&M Athletics

Q&A Panel: New strategies & tech for monetizing Wi-Fi

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• Bill Anderson
  AmpThink
• Brian Jacks
  WiConnect
• Gagandeep Singh
  RaGaPa Inc.

Celebrating 20 Years of Wi-Fi & Hall of Fame induction ceremony!

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• Claus Hetting
  Wi-Fi NOW
• Edgar Figueroa
  Wi-Fi Alliance

Welcome to Innovation Day

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• Claus Hetting
  Wi-Fi NOW

Honouring true heroes in disaster relief: ITDRC

• Claus Hetting
  Wi-Fi NOW
• Joe Hillis
  ITDRC

Analyst Keynote: The Wi-Fi opportunity ahead

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• Phil Solis
  IDC

Innovation Keynote: Connecting every thing, every service in the home

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• Cees Links
  Qorvo

AI-driven Wi-Fi management & IoT security - with Minim

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• David Aronoff
  Minim

Q&A Panel: Boosting the case for mass-market Wi-Fi IoT

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• Jonas Björklund
  Aptilo Networks
• David Aronoff
  Minim
• Speaker TBA
  

Morning expo & networking break

Exhibition Area

ASSIA: New architectures for Wi-Fi managed services

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• Tuncay Cil
  ASSIA

Q&A Panel: Getting Wi-Fi reliability & performance right - many challenges, many methods

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• Dimitri Topaltzas
  Epitiro
• Pramod Babu
  Aprecomm
• Abu Islam
  Spirent Communications

Artificial Intelligence in the Smart Home Network - by Qualcomm

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• Ganesh Swaminathan
  Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Lunch break in our expo area

Exhibition Area

Q&A Panel: New business opportunities with Wi-Fi 6

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• Matthew MacPherson
  Cisco
• Jean-Francois Frigon
  Everest Networks
• Niraj Trivedi
  Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
• Nitin Madan
  Broadcom

Getting Wi-Fi quality right - with Komodo

• James Childs
  Komodo Systems Inc.

Breaking new ground: Wi-Fi 6 for the enterprise - with Aerohive

• David D. Coleman 
  Aerohive

Wi-Fi cognition & sensing: A new, high-value service opportunity

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• Taj Manku
  Cognitive Systems

Afternoon expo & networking break

Exhibition Area

Facebook: Telco Infrastructure Project (TIP) and Wi-Fi

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• Vish Ponnampalam
  Facebook

More program items to be announced

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Device-side mobile & Wi-Fi service convergence - with Mobolize

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• Colleen LeCount
  Mobolize

Mist: Enterprise wireless with AI-based Wi-Fi and BLE

• Bob Friday
  Mist Systems

Introducing WISPA - with Claude Aiken

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• Claude Aiken
  WISPA
• Claus Hetting
  Wi-Fi NOW

Charter: A strategy & vision for Wi-Fi & unlicensed bands

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• Craig Cowden
  Charter Communications

The future of Wi-Fi & unlicensed bands for carriers & cablecos - with Dean Bubley

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• Dean Bubley
  Disruptive Analysis

What 6GHz Wi-Fi really means to the home - Presentation by ARRIS

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• Charles Cheevers
  ARRIS

Presentation by Comcast's Xfinity Mobile

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• Rushi Kothari
  Xfinity Mobile

Morning expo & networking break

Exhibition Area

Starry: A radically new approach to wireless Internet

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• Virginia Lam Abrams
  Starry

Technology keynote by Cisco - more details TBA

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• Anand Oswal
  Cisco

Q&A Panel: Building affordable connectivity with Wi-Fi & unlicensed radio - the road ahead

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• Paul Garnett
  Microsoft
• Dudu Mkhwanazi
  Project Isizwe
• Chris Marra
  Facebook
• Dr. Martha Liliana Suarez Peñaloza
  DSA

Lunch Break in our Expo Area

Exhibition Area

Weaving the affordable wireless fabric - with Cambium Networks

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• Chetan Hebbalae
  Cambium Networks

Automated Frequency Coordination: Unlocking the 6 GHz Band for Wi-Fi 6

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• Michael A. Calabrese
  Open Tech. Inst. at New America

Q&A panel: Perspectives and opportunities in 6 GHz Wi-Fi

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• Dave Wright
  Ruckus Networks
• Michael A. Calabrese
  Open Tech. Inst. at New America
• Christina Mary Mason
  WISPA
• Speaker TBA
  

Enhancing the Wi-Fi® user experience​

Exhibition Area

• Susan Silveira
  Wi-Fi Alliance