Happenings at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012

IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Highlights - 6 December 2012

Featured sections:

• Conference Addresses
IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 began Wednesday’s comprehensive agenda with the eagerly awaited keynote addresses of Vinton Cerf, the current Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist of Google and celebrated computer scientist most commonly known as one of "fathers of the Internet” as well as Krish Prabhu, President of AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer.

• Program Spotlight of the Day

Keynote Session
• The Performance-on-Demand Application Ecosystem: The Next Phase of Telecom Infrastructure by Stephen B. Alexander, Ciena
• The Power of Technology to Transform the Future by Hossein Eslambolchi, 2020 Venture Partners

IF24: Executive Forum: IT Transformation: Clouds, Security, Mobility and Computing
According to the latest market research report, over one third of the world’s 7 billion population are now active Internet users. New business drivers such as cloud computing, virtualization, security, mobility and business social networking are driving the increased consumerization of IT services in much faster and cheaper manner. Clouds, big data and analytics, workforce mobility are among the key priorities for many large corporates. In this panel, the executives will explore the opportunities and challenges of IT and network transformation and provide insight on how communication will change the way we work, live, play and learn.

IF23: Lightning Talks: Only 5 slots left. Sign up by noon today!
The lightning talk session will be held today. It is concluding the Industry Forums portion of the conference. Lightning talks are short five minute talks on technical topics. Any conference related subject can be presented (thoughts triggered by a presentation, a nifty algorithm trick, a thesis project, open source software project, company product, etc.). As of Wednesday noon we have 15 short talks signed up for out of 20 slots. Five slots are still available. If you would like to present a talk sign-up before noon today. Everyone is encouraged to come and listen to this fun, dynamic and interesting session.

• Events of the Day • Program Updates • Exhibit Hall

Yesterday’s News

“Dialog with Industry Leaders” Provides Lively Give-and-take with Audience Members
Tuesday’s IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 activities ended with the highly-anticipated “Dialog with Industry Leaders” featuring a lively question-and-answer exchange between leading communications executives and conference attendees. See newsletter for full article.
Wednesday Morning Executive Forum Offered New Paradigms for Network Architectures
On Wednesday following the morning’s keynote sessions, Joe Berthold, Network Architecture of CIENA Corporation began the Executive Forum on Data Infrastructure and Services with his presentation on “Content-centric Network Architecture.” While bandwidth keeps growing and operators continue their efforts to connect people, places and machines through the use of tens of thousands of servers, they are also increasingly facing the dilemma of “traffics that are growing faster than revenues.” See newsletter for full article.

Conference Best Papers:

include papers from Symposia on Wireless Communications, Wireless Networking

For details, ceck out the Thursday, 6 December 2012 edition of the IEEE GLOBECOM Daily, conference newsletter

(From the Event Floor)

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