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Schedule of Events
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| Wednesday, June 17 |
| 9:30 am – 11:00 am |
EMMA Board Meeting |
| 9:00 am – 12:00 pm |
AAPC Board Meeting |
| 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
Paging Technical Committee
Meeting |
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
EMMA Members Meeting |
| 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
Registration Open & Vendor
Set up |
| 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm |
Welcome Reception sponsored
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e*Message W.I.S. Deutschland
GmbH, Generic Mobile, Indiana Paging Network, Mobilfone,
NEP/UCOM Paging, PageOne, Page Plus, ProPage, SelectPath,
Teletouch Paging, Vox Pro Communications
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| Thursday, June 18 |
| 8:15
am – 8:45 am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45
am – 9:00 am |
Welcome |
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§ PageNet Canada
§ Jacques Couvas, EMMA
§ Scott Forsythe, AAPC
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| 9:00
am – 10:15 am |
Paging, a Global Industry?
Is the paging industry ready for Globalization or is
it already a global industry? This session will present
vendors and operators' perspectives on the benefits
and potential pitfalls of a global paging industry.
Learn how this might impact your business.
§ Kirk Alland, Unication
USA
§ Vic Jensen, Unication
USA
§ Johan Agren, Generic
Mobile
§ Faciliator:
Ted McNaught,
Northeast & UCOM Paging
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| 10:15
am - 10:30 am |
Break sponsored by Prism Paging
and Xacom |
| 10:30
am – 11:00 am |
Technology Repurposing
Spectrum-from Narrowband to Broadband
Jim Weisenberg, Space Data Corporation Space Data is
the leader in Near Space Communications, the area above
airplanes and below satellites where we and the military
fly our balloon-borne SkySite communications platforms
at altitudes of 65,000 to 100,000 feet. We transmit
over the NPCS spectrum where our license interests total
over 60% of the 3 MHz available and we are seeing new
equipment being developed to enable utilities and others
to use our spectrum for automated meter reading (AMR),
and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), as well
as their own private fixed and mobile broadband wireless
system requirements. |
| 11:00
am – 12:30 pm |
Successful Diversification
Strategies
A group of global experts will lead you
down the road of the future by reviewing their
successful diversification strategies.
§ Dietmar Gollnick, e*Message
WIS, Germany Deutschland GmbH
§ Brian Hick, Digicall
§ Mike Lyons, Indiana
Paging Network
§ Chris Jones, PageOne
§ Facilitator: Scott Forsythe,
SelectPath
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| 12:30
pm – 1:45 pm |
Lunch sponsored by American
Messaging |
| 2:00
pm - 3:00 pm |
Paging Systems Evolution
and the Regulatory Quagmire
Sharon Finney, Adventist Health System
This presentation will highlight the regulatory concerns
to be considered as
paging system technology evolves. Sharon, Corporate
Data Security Officer, will discuss how the rapidly
developing regulatory quagmire could impact both paging
system developers and customers.
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| 3:00
pm – 3:15 pm |
Break |
| 3:15
pm – 4:30 pm |
Answering the Call—Paging’s
Performance in Global First Responder Markets
Ralf Ackermann, Vice President of German Fire
Service Association
Listen to first hand examples of how paging services
are critical to saving lives. A first responder will
provide insights into how to continuously improve service
in this critical market.
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| 5:00
pm – 6:00 pm |
Social Hour sponsored by Unication
USA & American Messaging |
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| Friday,
June 19 |
| 8:30
am – 9:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00
am – 10:30 am |
Paging—Worldwide
Trusted Partner of the Healthcare Industry
Panel discussion providing an overview
of paging and critical messaging services within the
healthcare environment
Panelists:
§ John Bishop, Xacom
Pty. Ltd.
§ Dave Anderson,
American Messaging
§ Pete Carney, MultiTone
Electronics
§ Facilitator: Roy
Pottle, American
Messaging |
| 10:45
am – 12:15 pm |
Competing Technologies
in the Healthcare Industry?
Review of technologies being marketed to the healthcare
industry, such as:
METAmessage for Wireless.
Ekahau Wireless Location and Tracking,
and Polycom SpectraLink Wi-Fi phones.
Dan Kiely, VoxPro
Ron Mercer, Paging and Wireless Network Planners
Jim Nelson, Prism Systems International, Inc.
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| 12:15
pm – 1:30 pm |
Lunch on your own |
| 1:30
pm – 3:30 pm |
Round Table Discussions
Pinpoint examination of critical topics within
the industry |
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1. Benefits and challenges
of operating a call center and/or TAS
Facilitator: Dan Kiely, Voxpro
2. Value of broadcasting/group calls.
Facilitator: Perri McNaught
Northeast
& UCOM Paging
3. Adapt, improvise, and refine your business
model
Facilitator: Johan Agren
4. Staying out of the FCC Crosshairs- forms
& deadlines 101
Facilitator: Ken Hardman Esq.,
Counsel to AAPC
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| 3:30 pm – 4:00
pm |
The Future of Paging
Derek Banner, European Mobile Messaging Association
This session will provide a brief synopsis of the recent
past and most importantly, the future of paging as a
global industry. The medical industry and first responders
continue to be major users of paging and will continue
to need reliable, fast, and economic communications.
In this session, we will try to work out how we can
respond to these challenges and push paging into industrial
and geographic areas where few alternatives exist. |
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