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Opening Presentation
Chris Vein, Senior Technology Advisor to the Mayor of San Francisco
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Opening Kenote
Paul Butcher, Marketing Manager, State & Local Government, Intel
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Panel: Case Studies
Richard Bull, Police Chief, Ripon, California
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Michael Lawrence, Chief Information and Security Officer, and Steve Schooley, City Traffic Manager, Lenexa, Kansas
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Pu-Tsung King, Deputy Mayor, City of Taipei, Taiwan
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Mark Ansboury, Chief Operating Officer, OneCleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
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Keynote
Richard Rotondo, Vice President, Marketing, Motorola
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Panel: The Technology Roadmap
This plenary session panel provided the primary audience of local-government elected officials and agency executives with a lively debate on existing technologies and tools for overcoming implementation challenges.
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Panel: The Regulatory Framework
This plenary session panel approached the broadband-wireless regulatory landscape from three different levelsfederal, state, and local. Emphasis was on local governments’ opportunities, broadband-wireless plans, and projects.
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Panel: Public-Private Partnerships
This plenary session panel made up of local-government professionals and incumbent and emerging service provider executives explored the opportunities for innovative public-private partnerships, with an emphasis on leveraging local governments as anchor tenants to improve mobile workforce productivity and share excess capacity for broadband digital inclusion.
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Dinner Keynote
Bronwyn Guthrie, Vice President, IT Services Public Sector, IBM Global Services
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Panel: The Role of Elected Officials
This plenary session panel made up of four mayors and one governor emphasized the role of elected leaders in implementing broadband-wireless infrastructure.
Pu-Tsung King, Deputy Mayor, City of Taipei, Taiwan
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Mayor Richard C. Barr, City of Adel, Georgia
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Mayor Joe Chow, City of Addison, Texas
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Mayor Gavin Newsom, City of San Francisco, California
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Ibrahim Turaki, Governor, Jigawa State, Nigeria
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Structured Brainstorm Workshop Summaries
This panel featured structured brainstorm workshop summaries by workshop leaders, technology and marketing experts from leading broadband-wireless industry and service providers.
Workshop 1A: Funding a Broadband-Wireless Municipal Network
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Workshop 1B: Emergency First Responders and Broadband Wireless
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Workshop 2A: Public-Private Partnerships I
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Workshop 2B: Public-Private Partnerships II
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Workshop 3A: Community Consensus Building
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Workshop 3B: A Bay-Area-Wide Cloud
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Workshop 4A: What Are the Metrics for Success?
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Workshop 4B: Metrics and Motivations
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Workshop 5A: Multi-Service Offerings
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W2i Digital Cities Convention (West): Executive Summary, Case Studies & Workshop Findings is published by the Wireless Internet Institute (W2i), a Division of World Times, Inc., and based on the proceedings of the W2i Digital Cities Convention co-hosted by W2i and the City and County of San Francisco in partnership with international-development, local-government, and private-sector organizations in San Mateo, CA, October 1012, 2005.
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