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    <description>The Gartner Wireless &amp; Mobile Summit will provide core knowledge and cutting edge market updates allowing you to mobilize your organization. Hear clear insights into developments around mobility, network evolution, device management, security, infrastructure innovation, and Unified Communications. </description>
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      <title>Tutorial A: Virtual Worlds - The New Frontier </title>
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      <description>Tuesday, April 22, 2008 16:00 - Virtual worlds lie at the nexus of social networking, online gaming and collaboration and are now are entering the mainstream. Explore opportunities on offer, gain insight into what others are doing, and understand where this sector is headed!

(Documentation for tutorial attendees only) (1 hr)</description>
      <author>Stephen Prentice</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:30:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tutorial B: WLAN in Your Enterprise — Top 10 Success Factors</title>
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      <description>Tuesday, April 22, 2008 16:00 - The wireless LAN market is reaching maturity. This presentation will discuss the progression of wireless LAN infrastructure and emerging standards, including the challenges of building a completely wireless office such as coverage, power and cabling.

(Documentation for tutorial attendees only) (1 hr)</description>
      <author>Michael J. King</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:30:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tutorial C: Handbag Power: UMPCs, Tablets and Other Larger Form Factors</title>
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      <description>Tuesday, April 22, 2008 17:05 - A new class of tablet PC devices has arrived promising improved and pocketable Web access. UltraMobile PCs and mobile Internet devices are hyped. This presentation will track tablet PC adoption and the evolving alternative form factors.

(Documentation for tutorial attendees only) (55 min)</description>
      <author>Brian Gammage</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:31:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Pre-Conference Tutorial</category>
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      <title>Tutorial D: Emerging Technologies in Wireless</title>
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      <description>Tuesday, April 22, 2008 17:05 - By 2012, wireless networks will reach multi-gigabit speeds and wireless will be cheaper than wires for many applications. A new generation of databases and middleware will link networks of thousands of tiny wireless sensors and we’ll look back on the Apple iPhone as just the start of a user interface revolution. 

(Documentation for tutorial attendees only) (55 min)</description>
      <author>Nick Jones</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:31:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Conference Opening and Welcome Presentation</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 08:45 -  (15 min)</description>
      <author>Monica Basso, Steve Blood</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:16:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Keynote Session</category>
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      <title>Gartner Keynote I: Zeitgeist and Technology: How Society Influences Technology Evolution and Adoption</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 09:00 - Technology succeeds or fails based not on its intrinsic qualities, but on human perceptions of its value. Perceived risk, fashion and support for individual’s values are as important as features. The consumerization of technology will require organizations to design for social as well as technical success. (55 min)</description>
      <author>Nick Jones</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:25:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Premier Interview: Flexible Working and Mobility Strategies</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 - Anthony will discuss the technology trends and broader themes that are increasing the opportunities for enterprise to develop new working practices and enhance their existing business model through wireless. 

- Is the technology now available to really let your workers work anywhere? 
- Evaluating the options available for enterprises 
- Managing an increasingly diverse mobile fleet 
 
 (20 min)</description>
      <author>Anthony Keyworth, Carolyn Kimber</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:49:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Premier Sponsor Panel</category>
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      <title>Refreshment Break in the Solution Showcase</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:40 -  (25 min)</description>
      <author>Gartner</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:19:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Industry Panel: Enterprise Communications and Mobility in a World of Externalized IT </title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:05 - The most agile enterprises are edging their IT infrastructure into the cloud, gaining new levels of scalability and reach. Access to capacity is critical, ownership is not. Your users may be anywhere and increasingly your applications will be delivered by somebody else over networks you don’t own to devices you cannot manage. As enterprises externalize their IT, how is the industry that supplies them changing to support their changing requirements? Hear from leading vendors how they are shifting their offers and development focus. (55 min)</description>
      <author>Pat Calhoun, Clyde Foster, Brian Gammage, Susan Macke, Rakesh Mahajan, Alfredo Patron</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:48:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lunch and Solution Showcase</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:00 -  (1 hr, 10 min)</description>
      <author>Gartner</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:06:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Session</category>
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      <title>Mobile Device Management Scenario</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 13:10 - Mobile device utilization, driven by a variety of applications, continues to rapidly rise within organizations at the individual, department, and enterprise level. The fragmented tools for device lockdown, session encryption, and other key functions create an overlapping and confusing set of choices.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Monica Basso, John Girard</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:22:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Strategies, Policies and Organization for Wireless Success</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 13:10 - Successful enterprise mobility strategies require a balance among people, processes and technology. This presentation defines mobile strategy and demonstrates how to create mobile policies, competency centers and mobile worker segmentation profiles.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Leif-Olof Wallin</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:09:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mobile Scenario: Disruption Through 2012</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 13:10 - Network operators, handset manufacturers and operating system vendors are all under attack with consumer electronics companies, Web powerhouses and technology innovators vying for a slice of a trillion-dollar pie. Corporations must navigate a careful path through this maze.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Nick Jones</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:20:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Analyst/User Roundtable: Mobile Applications (pre-registration required)</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 14:10 -  (45 min)</description>
      <author>Michael J. King</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:45:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Analyst/User Roundtable</category>
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      <title>Using Mobility for a Successful Business and a Sustainable Environment</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 14:15 - Mobility solutions can demonstrably improve performance, productivity and efficiency. BT will share its own and customers’ experiences of how mobilising business processes and applications can transform the way an organisation does business, as well as demonstrating responsibility for achieving a sustainable environment (30 min)</description>
      <author>Rakesh Mahajan</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:13:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Solution Provider Session</category>
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      <title>Pervasive Connectivity - Planning your Migration to 802.11n</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 14:15 - 802.11n – What’s behind:

The benefits of 802.11n

What you have to consider migrating to 802.11n

The answer of Siemens Enterprise Communications
 (30 min)</description>
      <author>Marcus Birkl</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:13:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Solution Provider Session</category>
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      <title>Refreshment Break in the Solution Showcase</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 14:45 -  (25 min)</description>
      <author>Gartner</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:41:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Session</category>
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      <title>Wireless Broadband Scenario </title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 15:10 - Wireless broadband technologies are competing for global dominance as the next generation access medium. When will they become a reality and what will they deliver? We discuss the technology investments and architectural implications. (55 min)</description>
      <author>Ian Keene</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:09:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Fixed-To-Mobile Convergence Enterprise Offerings Today and Tomorrow</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 15:10 - Mobile devices will become the primary telephony device for fixed-mobile convergence. Enterprise systems are moving toward integrated support of mobile devices so they are no longer point solutions with separate voicemail, numbers or cost structures. This presentation looks at how enterprises can pursue convergence.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Phillip Redman, Katja Ruud</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:10:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Employee-Owned Mobile Devices: The IT Nightmare Goes On</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 15:10 - User-owned IT is a reality, even in the most conservative organizations. Associated risks can be contained, but only if understood. Enterprises must decide how, where and when to embrace the use of user-owned mobile devices, and critically, when to say no.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Brian Gammage, John Girard</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:10:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Analyst/User Roundtable: The Mobile Platform Wars of 2008 (pre-registration required)</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 16:10 -  (45 min)</description>
      <author>Nick Jones</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:45:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Analyst/User Roundtable</category>
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      <title>End-User Advocate Panel: The Future Standard for Mobile Business Broadband — What Technology Will Lead the Way?</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 16:15 - With WiMAX finally proving its value, with 3G take-up gradual but well-proven and embedded in the market, with Wi-Fi use widespread key industry organizations discuss how they see the industry developing.  (40 min)</description>
      <author>Edgar Figueroa, Tim Hewitt, Ian Keene, Alex Sinclair</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:10:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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      <title>End-User Case Study: The Dutch Ministry of Defense approach to FMC — Creating Your Own Private GSM Network</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 16:15 - Within the Ministry of Defense there are 250+ PABX systems handling approximately 65,000 fixed telephones, 20,000 GSMs and Blackberries. This presentation discusses our move toward an all-wireless solution centered on our own GSM network.  (40 min)</description>
      <author>Teus  Van der Plaat, Leif-Olof Wallin</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:11:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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      <title>End-User Case Study: The Value of Mobile Solutions for Process Enhancement Within the British National Health Service</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 16:15 - NHS Connecting for Health provides the supporting infrastructure for the NHS National Programme for IT Delivery encouraging new technology adoption, strategic planning and tactical implementation.  (40 min)</description>
      <author>Dr Mark Ferrar, Phillip Redman</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:11:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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      <title>Mobile Application Development and Architectures</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 17:05 - An increasing number of platforms and tools are becoming available to help software developers create richer and more capable mobile applications. We explore the platform and tool strategies of key vendors. (55 min)</description>
      <author>Michael J. King</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:11:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Pocket Power: Annual Updates On Mobile Devices</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 17:05 - Mobile devices constantly change, leaving enterprises exasperated. This session will help you relieve your frustrations with insight and advice into approaches for managing constantly changing mobile device technologies.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Ken Dulaney</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:12:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Governing Digital Natives: Building A New Nation or Chasing Ghosts?</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 17:05 - By looking at plausible future scenarios, we will examine how technology will challenge, transform and enhance traditional functions of government, providing strategic planners with advice about steps to take today to minimize disruption. (55 min)</description>
      <author>Andrea Di Maio</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:12:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Networking Drinks Reception</title>
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      <description>Wednesday, April 23, 2008 18:00 -  (2 hr)</description>
      <author>Gartner</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:32:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Session</category>
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      <title>Mobile E-mail Scenario</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 08:15 - Wireless e-mail is a user priority posing technical, financial and organizational challenges. Enterprise-grade products are maturing to meet IT organization requirements. Innovation is coming from consumer devices and services; a democratization process will bring wireless e-mail to the masses.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Monica Basso</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:13:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>A Vision for the All Wireless Office</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 08:15 - With 802.11n, wireless LAN technology exceeds Fast Ethernet performance. Dual-mode cell phones are bringing about the demise of the office deskphone. This session will discuss the vision for the emerging wireless office summarizing the technologies, challenges and benefits. (55 min)</description>
      <author>Ken Dulaney</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:13:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Open Standards and Open Source: Taking a Closer Look</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 08:15 - Open standards and open source software reduce vendor lock in, but few organizations understand what openness entails. Starting from public sector experiences, this presentation dispels myths and advises how to reap benefits and avoid risks.   (55 min)</description>
      <author>Andrea Di Maio</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:13:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Analyst/User Roundtable: Telecoms Expense Management (pre-registration required)</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 09:15 -  (45 min)</description>
      <author>Phillip Redman</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:46:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Analyst/User Roundtable</category>
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      <title>End-User Case Study: GSM-R Safe and Efficient Communication for Norwegian Rail</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 09:20 - Norwegian Railroad has implemented a new communication and emergency radio system along 3800km of railroad and more than 450 tunnels, all on a tight schedule for rollout and with strong requirements for safety and user involvement.  (40 min)</description>
      <author>Harald Nikolaisen, Katja Ruud</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:14:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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      <title>End-User Case Study: The ABN AMRO Global Managed Mobility Service</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 09:20 - The ABN AMRO's three year journey from hundreds of contracts costing millions of euros across a global footprint ended with one contract, multi-million saves and happy employees. (40 min)</description>
      <author>Michael Crouch, Michael J. King</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:14:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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      <title>End-User Case Study: Procuring Large Wireless Infrastructures — A Public Safety Example From the Danish Agency for Governmental Management</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=814</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 09:20 - The Danish government presents how it has procured a national Tetra infrastructure for public safety using the EU competitive dialogue procedure with great success. (40 min)</description>
      <author>Jeppe Juul Andersen, Kristian Billeskov</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:27:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Analyst/User Roundtable: Mobile VoIP Strategies (pre-registration required)</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=838</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:10 -  (45 min)</description>
      <author>Steve Blood</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:47:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Analyst/User Roundtable</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Managing a Mobile Handheld Environment in an International Enterprise</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=841</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:10 - Medtronic Europe has implemented a program to use mobile handheld devices to reduce workload and increase data accuracy. This presentation will specify the business drivers of this program, the technical challenges, the solution implemented and the lessons learned in mobilizing core company processes. 
 (30 min)</description>
      <author>Harrie Koekelkoren</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:13:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Solution Provider Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Beyond Boundaries - What Will Shape Flexible Working in the Future?</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=844</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:10 - The seminar will discuss the findings of research that aims to help organizations make the most of the opportunities:

• Employee-centric drivers
• Employer-centric drivers
• Segmenting employees for a more flexible future
• The role of technology in the flexible workforce
 (30 min)</description>
      <author>Anthony Keyworth</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:13:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Solution Provider Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Refreshment Break in the Solution Showcase</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=818</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:40 -  (25 min)</description>
      <author>Gartner</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Gartner Mobile Security Scenario</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=819</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:05 - Wireless access continues to evolve creating opportunities for new disasters. We analyze architecture and security strategies allowing enterprises to stay ahead of users’ demands. We provide decision frameworks for choosing efficient and effective security solutions. (55 min)</description>
      <author>John Girard</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:35:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Business Value Of Mobility </title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:05 - Organizations need to demonstrate business value from mobile projects, to progress with investments. How can they demonstrate the success of investments in wireless initiatives? We provide a decision-making framework to help planners identify business value.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Phillip Redman</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:27:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Riding the Consumerization Wave </title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=821</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:05 - Consumer mobile technology will be faster and cheaper than professional equivalents. Employees will bring consumer services such as media sharing, video calling, and the wireless Web into the enterprise. The best information sharing and collaboration tools will emerge from the consumer space.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Monica Basso, Stephen Prentice</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:27:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>End-User Case Study: BP Implements a Global Standard Mobile Work Management Solution</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=822</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:10 - BP Exploration and Production is implementing a global standard for work management. The BP Digital Communications and Technology department has a program focusing on mobile and wireless applications. These two work streams combined to build a mobile work management application. The project has progressed from business process workshops to document the statement of requirements, through choice of software, detailed functional design, application configuration, internal and user testing, deployment and lessons learnt. (30 min)</description>
      <author>Christopher Geen, Katja Ruud</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:34:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>End-User Case Study: Raising Digital Inclusion: Milton Keynes Council’s WiMAX Wireless City</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=824</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:10 - Milton Keynes Council has launched a new WiMAX-based wireless broadband service in Milton Keynes, in partnership with FREEDOM4, supporting a target to have over 90% of residents digitally included within the next four years.  (30 min)</description>
      <author>Steven Jewell, Ian Keene</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:34:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>End-User Case Study: The Path to Mature Mobile Services Management at Clifford Chance</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=845</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:10 - As part of Clifford Chance’s drive to be the world’s premier law firm, Anthony Vigneron’s teams are tasked with delivering superior mobile services management to 4,000 Blackberry users across 27 offices in 20 countries.  (30 min)</description>
      <author>Brian Gammage, Anthony Vigneron</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:49:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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      <title>Analyst/User Roundtable: The (Virtual) World in Your Hands (pre-registration required)</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:15 -  (45 min)</description>
      <author>Stephen Prentice</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:47:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Analyst/User Roundtable</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Lunch and Solution Showcase</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:40 -  (1 hr)</description>
      <author>Gartner</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>From Mobile Architecture To Enterprise Communications and Context Driven Architecture</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 13:40 - An imminent transformational wave will lead new IT architectures. New opportunities and risks triggered by the blending of communications and applications will require a move from fairly tactical mobile architectures to Context-Driven Architecture (CoDA). (55 min)</description>
      <author>Leif-Olof Wallin</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:28:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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      <title>Breaking the I&amp;O Mobility Paradox: Efficiency and Innovation</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 13:40 - Your IT infrastructure must be flexible and efficient, but this can fit uncomfortably with mobile and wireless technologies enabling new forms of communication and collaboration. We describe how to overcome barriers and enable business advantage.  (55 min)</description>
      <author>Monica Basso, Brian Gammage</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:28:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Mobile Business 2.0: The Web Goes Mobile</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=828</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 13:40 - The next generation of mobile business will be personal and contextual, identifying and exploiting our moments of need. It will use principles including location sensitive information, communities of place, proximity marketing, sociable interfaces, and mPayment. Simple propositions will hide complex business relationships. (55 min)</description>
      <author>Nick Jones</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:28:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Track Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Analyst/User Roundtable: Security Consequences of User-Owned IT Devices (pre-registration required)</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=840</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 14:40 -  (45 min)</description>
      <author>John Girard</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:48:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Analyst/User Roundtable</category>
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    <item>
      <title>End-User Case Study: How the Go-Ahead Group is Transforming Public Transport With Mobile Technology</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=829</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 14:40 - With nearly a billion passenger journeys every year, the Go-Ahead Group, a major British bus, rail, aviation and parking operator is looking at ways to improve customer service and operational efficiency.  (40 min)</description>
      <author>Michael J. King, Dave Lynch</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:28:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>End-User Case Study: AstraZeneca’s Practical Experience of Building a Global Service Platform for Mobility</title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=830</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 14:40 - AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical company with a highly mobile workforce. This applies specifically to the sales teams in where mobile services can provide “always on” and real time information they need to increase the salesforce effectiveness and to improve the quality of the calls.  (40 min)</description>
      <author>Håkan Redtzer, Katja Ruud</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:29:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>End-User Case Study Panel: Three Examples of How Government Organizations Have Enhanced Public Services Through Wireless and Mobile Technology </title>
      <link>http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EMOB8I/WebPages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=831</link>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 14:40 - Peterborough City Council, Westminster City Council and City of Stockholm have all made innovative use of mobile technologies to improve the way services are being delivered; here they discuss their achievements and how your organization could realise similar benefits.  (40 min)</description>
      <author>Andrea Di Maio, Helga Einarsdóttir, Christopher Halliday, Andrew Snellgrove</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:29:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>End-User Case Study Session</category>
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      <title>Refreshment Break</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 15:20 -  (20 min)</description>
      <author>Gartner</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:47:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Gartner Keynote II: Unified Communications and Mobility</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 15:40 - Unified Communications (UC) brings together the many communications channels enterprises use in both the fixed and wireless worlds. Mobilizing while unifying communications is a top priority and usually one of the first steps enterprises undertake in their UC deployments. This session will address the challenges of unifying voice, messaging and conferencing while ensuring a mobile component to the solutions. (40 min)</description>
      <author>Steve Blood, Bob Hafner</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:50:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Keynote Session</category>
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    <item>
      <title>Gartner Debate: Open vs Proprietary — A Pointless Battle or the Next Frontier?</title>
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      <description>Thursday, April 24, 2008 16:20 - The lack of standardization and proliferation of proprietary technologies is an undoubtable reality in mobile and communications industries. Successful mobile products such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian are, at different extent, closed and not widely interoperable. A number of attempts to pursue openness and innovation through adoption of standards, open development platforms, open source and community are emerging, from mobile Java, SyncML, mobile Linux up to latest Google's Android. Standardization hopes are growing in the market, despite stories such as mobile Linux and Java so far prove that without a single strong committed player, often these alliance and community initiatives end up in fragmented results and incompatibility. (40 min)</description>
      <author>Ken Dulaney, Bob Hafner, Stephen Prentice, Phillip Redman, Leif-Olof Wallin</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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