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Renowned Technology CEOs To Deliver Keynote Addresses at Wireless Data Industry's Premier Event
Guy Kawasaki of Garage.com and Carl Yankowski from Palm, Inc. To Share Vision, with Attendees at WAVE 2001 in Las Vegas
WOODBRIDGE, NJ - December 11, 2000 - Renowned high-tech industry executives Guy Kawasaki of Garage.com and Carl Yankowski of Palm, Inc., will headline BellSouth Wireless Data's WAVE 2001 (Wireless Alliances and Vision Exchange) conference, one of the wireless data industry's most anticipated annual events. The conference, which will feature its strongest line-up of industry leading speakers and sponsors ever, will be held May 14-16, 2001, with optional developer workshops on May 17, at The Aladdin Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.
An internationally recognized entrepreneur and speaker, Kawasaki, will deliver a keynote address on Tuesday, May 15, to kick-off the conference. Prior to joining Garage.com, a venture capital investment bank that has helped more than 60 high tech companies raise over $200 million in equity financing, Kawasaki served as the Chief Evangelist of Apple Computer. He is also a featured columnist for Forbes Magazine and has authored seven books including "How to Drive Your Competition Crazy" and "Rules for Revolutionaries."
Yankowski, who has a highly successful track record at the senior executive level, will keynote on Wednesday, May 16. As CEO of Palm, Inc., Yankowski is building on Palm's worldwide leadership in the handheld computing market, including creating new markets, extending the company's existing business, ensuring operational excellence and creating continued brand value. He has over 25 years of marketing and technical expertise gained through prominent executive positions with such leading companies as Sony Electronics, Inc., where he helped grow annual revenues from $6 billion to more than $10 billion and The Reebok Brand.
"We're excited to have two visionaries such as Guy Kawasaki and Carl Yankowski headlining WAVE 2001, which promises to offer attendees their best experience yet," said Janet Boudris, Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing, for BellSouth Wireless Data. "With its impressive lineup of industry leading speakers, sponsors and programs, WAVE has evolved into a must-attend annual event for anyone who wants to build alliances and discover ideas, and get a pulse on what's happening in the exploding wireless data industry."
WAVE 2001's major sponsors include Palm, Inc., Panasonic Personal Computing, Ericsson Mobile Data, Melard Technologies, Siebel Systems, Mobile Data Solutions, Inc. (MDSI) and Clyrcom Wireless Data. They top a list of 45 leading forces in the wireless data industry that will sponsor the wireless data conference and the three-day Solutions Showcase. WAVE 2001 will bring together commercial and corporate developers, end users, hardware manufacturers, systems integrators and solution providers. It is a forum for attendees to build alliances, exchange ideas and discover emerging business opportunities.
WAVE 2001 will offer a wide variety of business and technology sessions designed to demonstrate the advantages of wireless data solutions that utilize the BellSouth Intelligent Wireless NetworkSM. Sessions will include in-depth discussions, as well as demonstrations and presentations from industry experts, leading platform and solution providers, manufacturers and corporate end-users.
There will also be optional developer workshops on May 17. These intensive workshops are designed for commercial and corporate developers to walk away with the tools needed to immediately begin the development process on the award-winning BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network.
In addition, WAVE 2001 will feature the first annual "Best Use of the Network" award program for BellSouth Wireless Data partners with commercially available solutions that utilize the BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network. Winners will be selected by a panel of media judges from leading wireless industry publications in the following categories: field force automation, insurance, telemetry and transaction, and mobile professional.
Over 600 entrepreneurs, developers, end users and press attended WAVE 2000 at the Mission Valley Convention Center in San Diego, double the 1999 attendance and the largest number of people to attend a BellSouth Wireless Data event. Attendees heard top executives from industry-leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Cisco Systems describe their roles in the wireless data industry, attended informative seminars addressing the business and technical aspects of the wireless data industry and saw demonstrations of the hottest products and services available today in conjunction with the nationwide BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network.
For more information on WAVE 2001 or to register for updates, please go to www.bellsouthwd.com/wave2001.
BellSouth Wireless Data, L.P., headquartered in Woodbridge, N.J., is an expert in providing proven wireless data communications solutions that eliminate the barriers between critical information and mobile users, and provides telemetry and transactions applications. BellSouth Wireless Data operates its wireless data service throughout the United States, covering more than 93 percent of the urban business population located in 492 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and non-MSAs with a total population of 200 million people. Recognized as the industry leader, the company has been the recipient of several major awards from such entities as Microsoft, PC Computing, Frost & Sullivan, Wireless Week and Mobile Insights. E-mail: Bellsouthwd.info@bellsouthwd.com. Web site address: www.bellsouthwd.com.
BellSouth Wireless Data is a member of the Cingular Wireless family. Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between SBC (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE: BLS), provides wireless voice and data service to more than 19 million customers in 38 states, the District of Columbia and two U.S. territories. SBC and BellSouth share control of Cingular Wireless. Cingular operates in 42 of the top 50 markets in the United States.
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