Wednesday, January 12, 2005,

Informal Discussion Panel Lunch
Mobile Multimedia

To Include:

• Device manufacturers
• Wireless service providers
• Info services portals
• Content providers
• Strategic suppliers of technology

Venue: An informal lunch discussion. Each panel member opens with a 1-2 minute statement of key issues, questions, and/or topics for discussion. The moderator then leads a Q&A between panel members and also from the audience. A computer projector is optionally available for showing demos/screen shots.

Abstract: The combination of upside business opportunity together with new spectrum availability, wide area broadband packet radio services, advanced video compression, and battery friendly high resolution user interfaces has created a perfect storm driving new consumer services to hand-held multimedia devices. These devices range from enhanced cellphones, wireless PDAs, to purpose specific personal multimedia devices.

The convergence vision is finally coming together but the small form factor and processor intensive demands of transmission, storage, and rendering of rich multimedia content creates unique technical challenges, and opportunities. The challenges include cost, performance, battery life, and managing the complexity of the user interface.

Our panel members will share their vision, benchmark the current activities/state-of-the art, and identify challenges ahead.

Pizza and beverages will be served in N259/N261 at 12:30 PM. Join us for an informal gathering before the discussion begins!