• Deploying Wireless for Rural Broadband - 802.11 & Satellite
  Case study examples, deployment scenarios, considerations
  Presented by Cisco Systems & Ensign

Broadband is seen as economically and socially fundamental by its supporters – but what needs to be done so that broadband is more central to public policy and government thinking? Should Broadband access be a public right or simply a consumer choice? How do we show the impact of broadband? Is existing policy enough to eliminate concerns about the Digital Divide and Rural and Regional Broadband access? How do we reconcile the revolutionary pace of technology change with the traditional glacial pace of regulatory change (for example in the regulation of radio spectrum)? Can Ofcom provide regulation flexible enough to allow full commercial innovation and enterprise?  And how should the consumer/citizen interest be best represented in the brave new digital world?

Facilitator: Ian Scales, Editor, Interaxion Magazine

Keynote Presenter: Michael Fabricant, MP, Shadow Minister for Economic Affairs
Broadband Britain - in the public interest!

Panel:

• Kip Meek, OFCOM
• Peter Radley, SEEDA
• Antony Walker, Broadband Stakeholder Group
• Chris De Courcy Bower, Lucent Technologies

Who is exploring new/different business approaches and technologies, particularly aimed at extending the spread of affordable broadband access and how businesses can exploit it? What is BT doing to encourage greater DSL take-up by resellers? What is the relationship between price and take-up? What is the role of marketing and how can it be better done? How will we migrate from the typical 0.5-2mbps bandwidth on offer today to the 10-100+mbps of tomorrow? Can existing infrastructures cope with rapid upgrades? How do we encourage the process of innovation in usage? What does all this mean for those using it?

Facilitator: Ian Scales, Editor, Interaxion Magazine

Presentations:

• Trish Jones, BT
• Andy Long, Easynet
• Mike Wilkinson, Alcatel
• Jarleth Lalley, Axia
• Niall Murphy, The Cloud

Broadband is nothing without its radical thinkers. Whether it s in technology, in markets, in applications or in society, we need our heretics as well as our entrepreneurs and our generals. This panel will explore some of the thinking that has gone into the broadband revolution and discuss how we harness the energy and intellect needed to progress beyond the mundane.

Facilitator: Brian Condon, Chief Executive, ABC

Presenter: Malcolm Matson, First Broadband:
Back to the Future - Broadband Britain, 1984-2005

Panel:

• Peter Cochrane, ConceptLabs
• David Isenberg, Isen.com
• Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group
• Erol Ziya, ABC
• Gordon Adgey, Buckfastleigh Broadband

• Sponsored by Lucent Technologies

Introduced by The Rt Hon Alun Michael MP, Minister of State for Rural Affairs

• Sponsored by Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester Co-Opand the DTI

Launch of the Community Broadband Network (CBN), introduced by Malcolm Corbett

Dinner Keynote: The Rt Hon Alun Michael MP, Minister of State for Rural Affairs

• Sponsored by Groupe Pathfinder

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Broadband for business users is about gains from new broadband technologies - gains in productivity and in saved costs, gains delivered through new processes and in added value, even whole new businesses. So far the gains have not been widely understood or recognized. This session looks at how businesses, particularly SMEs, can take advantage of the broadband promise to make trading more efficient, to reach out to customers in more attractive ways, to become closely integrated with communities and more. It also looks at how to reach out better to SMEs.

Facilitator: Brian Condon, Chief Executive, ABC

Presenter: Jenny Searle, Oracle

Panel:

•  David Frost, Director General of the British Chamber of Commerce
• Simon Berry, RuralNet
• X SME

Broadband Fixed wireless (BFWA) and Wi-Fi are solutions to different problems and present different challenges for anyone modelling a business around them. What are the regulatory drivers, who has managed to respond to those challenges best and what lessons can be learned, especially in non-DSL communities? At the same time are there ways wireless technology can reliably develop to do more and fit in better with developments in copper and fibre (fixed) networks?

Facilitator: John Wilson, ABC

Keynote Presenter: Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group (California):
The wireless frontier - Mongolia, Tonga and The Reservation: Towards a Spectrum Commons

Panel:

• Mike Parker, Groupe Pathfinder
• Chris Scott, Belfast Beacon
• Peter Gibson, Stratex Networks
•  Scott Bain, Cisco Systems
• Joe Sonke, OFCOM
• Prof. Jim Norton, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
• Dr Kristina Georgieva, Atkins

• Sponsored by Stratex Networks

Broadband often revolves around partnerships commercial and public sector alike. What works and what doesn't? Who has broken new ground through choice of partner? What opportunities for partnership exist?

Facilitator: Ian Scales, Editor, Interaxion Magazine

Presenter: Steve Coppins, SEEDA:
Broadband Strategy - Regions, partnerships and innovation

Panel:

• Frank O'Donnel, Scottish Enterprise
• Michael Eaton, Welsh Assembly Government 
• Dave Thomas, Ceredigion County Council and the MARAN Project
• Ian Derbyshire, Devon County Council and the Broadband4Devon Project
• Fabian King, SWRDA
• Peter Craine, DTI

How do we define community networks in a meaningful way? Can community networks be seen as a strategic, scalable, sustainable part of Britain s overall broadband scheme? Which community projects are making sense and how? What are the priorities in terms of public policy, regulation, services and funding? What community networks properly take advantage of broadband?

Facilitator: Malcolm Corbett, Community Broadband Network

Presenter: Bill Jones:
The SEEDA Self-Help Portal for Community Networks

Panel:

• Gordon Adgey, Buckfastleigh Broadband
• Daniel Heery, Alston Cybermoor
• Lindsey Annison, Edenfaster
• John Harris, Carnet
• Neil Homer, Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester Co-op
• James Stevens, Consume