W2i Community Wireless Networks Practical Training Session

Community Wireless Networks Practical Training Session

This day-long Practical Training Session expands on the thought-leadership agenda of the W2i Digital Cities Convention with a set of actionable tools for local-government professionals, field practitioners and service operators. NetLogix, a leading data networking consultancy, will provide trainees with hands-on community and solution profiling exercises to jumpstart the planning and deployment of a broadband-wireless infrastructure.

• Thursday, October 13, 2005
• 7:30 a.m.5:00 p.m.
• San Mateo Marriott (San Francisco Airport)

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Training-Session Objectives

Trainees will gain an extensive knowledge in:

• Identifying and prioritizing local-government mobile workforce, business, citizen and community needs and applications;

• Selecting the appropriate technologies and solutions to service those needs.

• Understanding the assets and advantages that local government may leverage to optimize the success of a broadband-wireless deployment and mitigate risk;

• Developing the optimum business and partnership models to increase ROI;

• Crafting an effective RFP; and

• Understanding what is required to build and operate a productive wireless network infrastructure.

Who Should Attend?

• Local-government (state, county, city) executives and IT/communications professionals responsible for e-government applications servicing citizens.

• Local government (state, county, city) executives and IT/communications professionals responsible for mobile workforces including the following Local-Government Mobile Occupations: Urban and regional planners, social workers, social and human service assistants, emergency medical technicians and paramedics, first-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers, fire fighters, fire inspectors, bailiffs and correctional officers, detectives and criminal investigators, police and sheriff's patrol officers, detectives and criminal investigators, recreation workers, highway maintenance workers, maintenance and repair workers, general water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators, bus drivers, transit and intercity transportation.

Agenda

October 13, 2005
7:30 am	Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:30	Welcome and Introduction
9:00	Wireless Technology and Applications Overview
10:15	Break
10:30	Building and Operating a Wireless Network
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Leveraging Municipal Assets
1:30	Achieving Economies of Scale
2:00	Break
2:15	Defining Your Model
3:30	Break
3:45	Crafting an Effective RFP
4:30	Question & Answer