Resources

This page provides you with a rich bank of resources consisting of news and research reports as well as presentations from other SIGs.

"TV Evolution - Ready for Another Growth Spurt" 3rd Feb 2010 at Queens College

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Welcome to the Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia SIG from Nigel Hobday, East of England International

“3D TV” - Mike Brooks, Arqiva
“London 2012- the BBC Vision” - Amanda Farnsworth, BBC

 


Cellular 25, 21st January 2010

 

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'A Digital Age, A Digital World, Digital Britain'
The RT. Hon Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Digital Britain

'Technical and Commercial Innovation – The Next Ten Years' - Mike Short, CTO, O2 Telefonica -Presentation to follow shortly

'Network sharing and the wireless broadband revolution' - Emin Gurdenli, Technical Director, T-Mobile UK

Universal Broadband Service Obligations – the new wireless frontier? - Ed Candy, CTO, Hutchison Group UK

Innovation and sustainable growth - the reinvention of invention - Graham Fisher, Head of Research & Development, Orange Labs, UK

The Rise of the Customer Engineer - Jeni Mundy, CTO Vodafone UK,  Vodafone Group Services Limited - No presentation slides

Icons of Invention - The Dynatac Dynasty – making the impossible possible - Alain Mutricy, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Motorola

From steam to silicon - cellular software and service value - John Caterer, Qualcomm

Consumer expectations – connecting with the future - John Cronin, Managing Director, Wireless Access, Arqiva

The Network Economy - a 25 year view - John Cunliffe, CTO, Ericsson Limited.

Information networks in an information age - From mainframes to a cellular service economy - Sigurd Schuster, Head of Technology Roadmapping, Nokia Siemens Networks

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Making Wireless a Business SIG

"Monetising Moving Targets" 13th January 2010 at Philips, Cambridge Science Park

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Introduction from Leo Poll of Philips "Coffee-Fuelled Innovation"

Laurence John of Amadeus Capital "Getting the Business Model Right - a VC's Perspective"

We regret that Jonathan Morgan's presentation cannot be made accessible here - if you would like a copy, please email ingrid.sims@cambridgewireless.co.uk and I will arrange one.

Paul Gough of u-blox "Capturing Location in an Instant - Challenges for Commercialisation"

 


Wireless Sensing SIG: 15th December 2009 

 

 "Uncovering the Potential of Wireless Sensing"

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"Wireless Sensor Network for Monitoring Civil Engineering Infrastructure" - Kenichi Soga, Professor of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Dept of Engineering

"Pervasive Wireless Sensing: Who needs it?" - David Crellin, Sciencescope

"Wireless Monitoring of our road network: Current Application and Future Opportunity" - Adam Guy, Senior Consultant Cambridge Consultants

"Sensing the Future" - John Hunter, Zimiti

 "Sensing on the Move - but what about the Smarts?" - Dr Eiman Kanjo, Cambridge Mobile Sensing and Dirk Trossen BT

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Wireless Healthcare SIG: 10th December 2009 

 "Technology: Miracle Cure or Firewater? Understanding the needs of UK Healthcare"

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Introduction - David Cudby, Networks for Independant Living

Welcome from the Sponsor - Justin Paul, Airwave 

"Transforming Community Services" - Pam Smith, South West Strategic Health Authority

"General Practice for the Future" - Dr David Carson, Author of the Carson Report

"Case Study: Improving Services. Better Care" - Martin Gardner, Kelvin Connect

"i-House" - Rob Chesters, Medilink West Midlands

"Paediatric patient experiances with technology" - Ekta Sood, Hidalgo (Presentation to follow shortly)

"www- Wheezing, the Web, and Wireless" - Howard Last, Active Medicine Ltd


Joint DCKTN and Academic & Industry SIG Event 9th December 2009

 "Bridging the Language Barrier between Industry and Academia"

Click on the title below to view the opening presentation from Professor Steve McLaughlin of the University of Edinburgh -

"Setting the Scene"

 


Software and Open Source SIG: 3rd December 2009

 

 "Open Handset Ecosystems - Can They Deliver the Handsets that Consumers Want?"

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Introduction from Kevin McIntyre of Nokia

"Open Ecosystems - A Good Thing?" David Wood , Delta Wisdom 

"Adapting to the Open Source Ecosystem" Alberto Bonamico, Symsource

"Open Apps - Good, Bad or Ugly?" Andrew Savory, LiMo Foundation (coming soon) 


Short Range Wireless SIG 12th November 2009

"Proprietary or Open Wireless? How to Choose the Wireless Communications for Your Connected Product" 

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Introduction from Carl Garrood of Rohde & Schwarz UK

“Fitting The Wireless System to the Application – A Case Study” - Tim Whitaker, Cambridge Consultants

Wavenis Open Standard Alliance: How a Proprietary Technology Jumps into a Standardization Process”- Christophe Dugas, Coronis - Wavenis

"ZigBee Applications in sub-1GHz Frequency Range" - Sascha Beyer, Atmel

“IEEE802.15.4, the Standard for Proprietary Wireless Solutions” - Gordon Macnee, Jennec Ltd

“Choosing the Optimal RF Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks” - Erling Simensen, Texas Instruments

“Short Range Wireless Modules for the M2M Market” - Philip Collins, Telit UK

“Standards Based Short Range Radio Overview” - Marcus Greenhill, Spectre


Location Based Systems/Services SIG: 4th November 2009

"How do we Make Location a Desirable User Experience?" 

Click on the titles below to view the provocateurs' presentations and the notes from the three group discussions -

Introduction from Colin Smithers of Plextek

Group 1: Technology - Presentation by Adrian Swinburne of Quintaxiom + Faciliator's Notes

Group 2: Context - Presentation by Kurt Lyall of Xgenta + Faciliator's Notes

Group 3: Privacy -  Facilitator's Notes 


 Legal SIG, Cambridge Consultants, 22nd October 2009

"In Times of Need - Find a Friend" 

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Cambridge Consultants -  Alan Wiltshire

“Structuring a technology joint venture” - Ron Moscona, Dorsey and Whitney

“Business strategies for collaborations” - Kevin Coleman, Alliantus

“Royalties" - Ben Wilcox, PriceWaterhouseCoopers


 China SIG, Jesus College, Cambridge, 15th October 2009

 "Sharing Perspectives with Huawei" 

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We regret that Huawei's Case Study cannot be made available for viewing but you may request it from the speaker by emailing ingrid.sims@cambridgewireless.co.uk

“Overview of the Intelligent Transport Systems” - Martin Davey of Transport for London

“Personnel and Casualty Welfare Monitoring for the Incident Ground” - Justin Pisano of Hidalgo

"Information Networking - Bringing Sense into Future Systems" - Dirk Trossen from BT


 Wireless Start Up Fest 2009

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"The View from the Google Campus"
- Limvirak Chea, Google 
 

“How Rohde and Schwarz can help Start-ups”
- Carl Garrood, Rohde and Schwarz

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“Airetrak Indoor Location Solutions” - Roger Willmott, Airetrak
 
 
 
“Introducing AlertMe Smart Energy” - Pilgrim Beart, Alertme.com
 
“Blu Wireless – THE Single Chip 60 GHz Company” - Mark Barrett, Blu Wireless Technology 
 
 
“TouchDevice Software Only Input Technology for Mid-Tier Mobile Phones” - Giovanni Bisutti/Mike Bradley, Input Dynamics 
 
 
 
“Trace Locate Anywhere” - Andy Thurman, Director, Omnisense 
 
“Rummble: for people & places nearby you’ll love” - Andrew Scott, Rummble
 

Semiconductor SIG: 'Entrance Strategies: 1st October 2009

Resourcing Early Stage Innovation’

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Tudor Brown from ARM


Ivor Evans from CSR


Chris Smart from Acacia Capital


Barry Dennington from NXP UK


Simon Knowles from Icera


Bruno Johnson from Cascoda


 

 

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