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The Mobile Workforce is now a reality that all enterprises must take into account when developing and deploying IT systems. Increasingly, users at all levels require access to information from wherever they are, rather than simply through an IT system at the workplace.

Mobility challenges many of the fundamental assumptions upon which traditional IT systems have been based, and introduces a host of new and conflicting requirements.

The Conference will explore how enterprises are gaining competitive advantage through the use of mobile applications. The conference will look at how the 'vision' of mobility has become a business reality, consider the business imperatives that are driving the requirement, look at mobility in practice through a variety of user case studies, and examine the technological hurdles and developments in mobile systems and applications. It covers:

• The Mobile Vision - A Business Imperative
• Mobility in Practice: the Pros and Cons - User Case Studies
• An Increasingly Mobile Workforce - The Way Ahead
• Mobile Future - Technology Directions
  
• Mobile Security - Challenges and Solutions
  
• Mobile & Directory

Our speakers include:

• Richard Bauly, VP, Strategy & Business Development, Psion Teklogix Inc. - Mobile work: trends and challenges
• Prof. Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary College, London - Future Business of Mobile
• Charles A. Stockton, Senior Program Manager for Mobile Computing, Enterprise Level, Boeing - Implementing Mobile Computing Solutions at the Boeing Company
• Per Hasvold, The Future Telemedicine Laboratory - Development and deployment of "In the field" computer supported collaboration tools in Norwegian hospitals
• Dr. Bill Hancock, Cable & Wireless - Mobile Wireless Security: Issues, problems, futures
• Janet Laylor, National Library of Medicine, US National Institute of Health - Keeping Mobile Executives Connected
• Michele McGough, solutions4networks - Addressing the Needs of the Mobile Worker in the Financial and Pharmaceutical Sectors
• Michèle Rubenstein, solutions4networks
• Pat Brans, Solution Business Manager, Hewlett-Packard - Mobile Field Sales and Services
• Paul Barker & Jeremy Fry, CMG
• Michael Krasner, Principal, Krasner Consulting - Value and Usability in a Mobile World