Conference: Enterprise Wireless Track

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a Senior Vice President and Founding Partner with Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, conducts strategic seminars and advises key clients. Andreas is a computer scientist, a master of data communications and distributed systems, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a self-professed geek, with an engineering, programming and consulting background. Mr. Antonopoulos honed his speaking skills in front of audiences ranging in size from five executives in a boardroom to hundreds of people in large conferences. With more than three hundred speaking engagements under his belt he is considered a world-class and charismatic public speaker and teacher. Before joining Nemertes, Mr. Antonopoulos was the Security Practice Director at ThruPoint Inc, where he was responsible for a global team of security consultants who deliver solutions to multinational clients. Prior to ThruPoint he was a Security Practice Lead at Greenwich Technology Partners, where he designed the security architecture of a global wire-transfer network interconnecting the world's banks.

Fanny is a Boston area entrepreneur helping companies create successful technology products and nurture them through their launch and growth phase. Her consulting company, octoScope, Inc., provides services focusing on product design and advocacy. In her last two companies Fanny has built significant value through creating and promoting winning products. In 2001 Fanny founded Azimuth Systems, the leading provider of Wi-Fi / WiMAX / LTE test equipment, and served as the company's Chief Technology Officer for five years. As a result of her design and advocacy work, the original wireless test platform that Fanny pioneered at Azimuth has become the industry standard for physical and protocol layer testing. Before founding Azimuth, she managed the Agilent Handheld Cable Testers and Network Troubleshooting Tools business unit formed through the acquisition of Scope Communications. Prior to that, she was VP of Engineering at Scope where she led the development of the technology that was acquired by Hewlett Packard/Agilent. Fanny spent over 23 years in engineering and management positions developing data communications and network test products. She is actively involved with the industry standards work and is the founder of IEEE 802.11T, the committee defining test metrics and methods. She has been publishing articles and presenting on data communications technologies and test. Fanny has been awarded 4 patents. In 2004, she received a Woman to Watch award from Mass High Tech.

Keith Shaw is Programming Director at Network World, responsible for multimedia strategy (videos, podcasts, chat events). In addition, he writes the Cool Tools column, which looks at personal technology, gizmos, gadgets and other fun stuff. You can reach Keith at kshaw@nww.com. Shaw also assists Network World in a variety of print and Web site projects. He has moderated several events for the Network World Events group, including Technology Tours on wireless LANs and Messaging/Spam. In 2004 he won an award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for the Sept. 15, 2003 article, Spam in the Wild. Shaw has been at Network World since December 1999. Before joining Network World, he worked at Computerworld for three years in several editing and production positions. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years, with experience at many daily newspapers. He has vast experience in writing, editing and design. He holds a bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism from Syracuse University.

Paul DeBeasi is a Senior Analyst at the Burton Group and has over 25 years experience in the networking industry. Before joining the Burton Group, Paul founded ClearChoice Advisors, a wireless consulting firm, and was the VP Product Marketing at Legra Systems, a wireless-switch innovator. Prior to Legra, Paul was the VP Product Marketing at startups IPHighway and ONEX Communications and was also the Frame Relay product line manager for Cascade Communications. Paul began his career developing networking systems as a senior engineer at Bell Laboratories, Prime Computer, and Chipcom Corporation. Paul holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Philippe Winthrop is a Director in the Global Wireless Practice at Strategy Analytics with a focus on Enterprise Mobility spanning all aspects of the enterprise mobility ecosystem, from mobile strategy adoption to mobile application integration, as well as managed services for mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless' adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA. After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. Philippe most recently was the Research Director for Wireless and Mobility at Aberdeen Group, a Boston based research firm. Not only did Philippe launch the Wireless and Mobility practice at Aberdeen, he also conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe is a frequent speaker and presenter and currently sits on the advisory board of Mobile Enterprise Magazine.