I would go

John Buwa
Michiana Wireless

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From: "Charles Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Motorola Canopy User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General List" 
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Cc: "Jeff Ehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:20 AM
Subject: [WISPA] Thoughts on WiNOG in Chicago (Big Show this Fall)


> As some of you may (or may not) know, we used to organize large trade 
> shows several years ago...at its height, WiNOG had over 500+ attendees 
> with 50+ exhibiting sponsors (I still have pictures of Rick Harnish and 
> Mac Dearman @ the inaugural WISPA meeting in Chicago almost 3+ years ago 
> =)
> In 2006, I decided to put an end to the large shows and change the format 
> into a 1-day traveling road-show due to the fact for the there hasn't 
> really been anything all that exciting out there in the market that would 
> drive traffic to get me to put forth the effort to organize a large 
> show...That said, I believe that with recent market developments, 
> including the release of the 3.65 GHz band, the commercialization of WiMAX 
> equipment in the US and the maturation of the market, I have enough stuff 
> to work with to build an interesting content program.
> That said, before I go out and spend a lot of time and effort throwing 
> something together, I'd like to get a feel for what people feel:
> Here are my thoughts
>
> 1.       WiMAX World 2008 is scheduled for Sept 30-Oct 2, 2008 
> (Tuesday-Thursday) in Chicago...with 100+ exhibitors, it makes for a 
> pretty large gathering of the wireless operator industry
>
> 2.       While WiMAX World has a lot of people coming together, it's 
> focusing more on large mobile broadband operators (ClearWire / Sprint) and 
> the 802.16e WiMAX standard instead of small-to-medium operators who would 
> utilize 802.16d (fixed) WiMAX
>
> 3.       A three-day conference pass for WiMAX World costs almost 
> $2,000...additionally, in looking at the programming, it seems more suited 
> for Wall-Street / Gartner-type Analysts than for operators deploying 
> systems in the field
>
> 4.       WiMAX World (Yankee Group) is aware that they're content program 
> doesn't really cater to the small-to-medium fixed-wireless operators, so 
> they've come to me with a proposal to put together a more focused / 
> targeted program on the side (that's also cheaper)
> Here's my idea
>
> 1.       Do WiNOG as a smaller sub-get-together (100 or so people) focused 
> on the specific issues of fixed-operators on September 29-30 
> (Monday-Tuesday) right before WiMAX World
>
> 2.       Make WiNOG affordable to the network operators (have 2 tiers of 
> admissions - 1 tier for service providers at say $95 to pay for food and 
> another tier for vendors / consultants / random people at $500+)
>
> 3.       Give attendees of WiNOG (through some cross-promotional 
> agreement) the ability to go to the WiMAX World Exhibit hall for free on 
> Oct 1-2 (Wednesday / Thursday), so they would get the focused content and 
> operator peer-to-peer discussion along with the chance to experience a 
> massive exhibit hall
> Thoughts? Comments?
> -Charles
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