Open Mobile Summit tackles NFC this year

Open Mobile Summit tackles NFC this year in San Francisco, the fun starts November 2nd

The big topics being covered this year at the Open Mobile summit will be NFC and 4G in North America, where Light Squared CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja, will give the keynote speech.

The Open Mobile Summit conference is coming up fast and the organizers have just confirmed that Light Squared CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja, will be giving the keynote speech tackling subjects like the company’s planned fully open LTE network and NFC. NFC is due to give mobile commerce a massive boost and newly created and expanding LTE 4G networks are providing data access that is turbo boosting mobile internet beyond what has been available before.  The convergence of fast data and mobile payments is changing the very structure of commerce and the way consumers interact with the world around them and in many ways goes hand in hand.

Open Mobile Summit speakers

This year’s Open Mobile Summit has attracted a dizzying panel of speakers, many of which you will find articles about on NFC Rumors.

Operators and Network Equipment

• Sanjiv Ahuja, CEO, LightSquared
• David Small, CTO, Verizon Wireless
• Stephen Bye, CTO, Sprint
• Håkan Eriksson, CTO, Ericsson
• Danny Bowman, President Integrated Solutions, Sprint
• Dr Kim Larsen, SVP Technology Economics, Deutsche Telekom
• Kevin Shatzkamer, Chief Mobility Architect, Cisco
• Biren Sood, CEO, Vasona Networks
• Ben Parker, Executive Director, Verizon Wireless
• Eric J. Bruno, SVP, Verizon Telecom

Investors, Analysts and Press

• Andy Miller, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners
• Danny Rimer, Partner, Index Ventures
• Brian Modoff, MD, Deutsche Bank
• Vivek Arya, VP, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Rod Hall, Senior Analyst, JP Morgan
• Tim Chang, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
• Dan Deeney, Partner, New Venture Partners
• Robert Scoble, Author, Scobleizer
• Charlene Li, Founding Partner, Altimeter Group
• Charles Golvin, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
• Harry Wang, Director of Research, Parks Associates
• Sue Marek, Editor-in-Chief, FierceWireless
• Milo Yiannopoulos, Technology Columnist, The Telegraph
• Kevin Fitchard, Wireless Infrastructure Editor, Connected Planet
• Mark Lowenstein, MD, Mobile Ecoystem

Agencies and design

• Larry Weber, Co-founder, Weber Shandwick
• Christian Lindholm, Managing Partner, Fjord
• Gene Keenan, VP of Mobile, Isobar
• Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer, frog

Internet

• Kevin Rose, CEO, MILK and Founder, Digg.com
• Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman and Founder, One Laptop Per Child Foundation
• John Donahoe, CEO, eBay Inc
• Francisco Varela, Global Head of Platform, YouTube
• Jason Spero, Head of Mobile Americas, Google
• Trip Adler, CEO, Scribd
• Steven Goh, CEO, mig33
• Steve Boom, President, Loopt

Apps

• Bart Decrem, General Manager, Disney Mobile
• Sam Altman, CEO, Loopt
• Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora
• Cameron Clayton, EVP, The Weather Channel
• Jeff Smith, CEO, Smule
• Mike Putnam, Director of Mobile Product, TripAdvisor
• Paul Baldwin, CMO, Outfit7
• Drew Larner, CEO, Rdio
• Raimo van der Klein, CEO, Layar
• Chris Mahl, SVP, SCVNGR
• Calvin Carter, CEO, Bottle Rocket
• Keith Lee, CEO, Booyah
• Naoki Aoyagi, CEO, GREE USA
• Baidoin Corman, VP, Gameloft

Media and content

• David Hunke, President and Publisher, USA Today
• Albert Cheng, EVP Digital Media, Disney/ABC
• Matt Freeman, Chief Innovation Officer, McCann Erickson
• Rob Grimshaw, MD, FT.com
• John Loughlin, EVP and GM, Hearst Magazines
• Nate Simmons, SVP Consumer Marketing, Time Inc.
• Jim Lanzone, President, CBS Interactive
• Claire Tavernier, SEVP FMX, FremantleMedia
• Brandon Lucas, VP and GM Mobile, Black Entertainment TV
• Jim Eadie, SVP, MTV Networks
• Kinsey Wilson, SVP and GM Digital, NPR
• Matt McMahon, VP Mobile, Fox Digital Entertainment
• Todd Haskell, VP Advertising, New York Times
• Daniel Danker, GM Programmes and On-demand, BBC
• Pete Distad, VP Distribution, Hulu

Technology and innovation

• Paul Palmieri, CEO, Millennial Media
• Mahi Da Silva, SVP, Opera Software
• David Rose, CEO, Vitality
• Dirk Doerre, VP, Gemalto
• Dennis Sheehan, VP, Immersion
• Terry Hughes, MD, AppCarousel
• Evan Neufeld, CMO, Mobile Intelligence Solutions

OEMs and Silicon

• Dr Jan Uddenfeldt, CTO, Sony Ericsson
• Lixin Cheng, CEO, ZTE US
• Eric Anderson, VP, Samsung Electronics
• Jason Topel, VP, Pandigital
• Paul Marino, VP, Marvell
• Michael Halbherr, EVP, Nokia

Enterprise

• Charaka Kithulegoda, CIO, ING Direct
• Srinivas Krishnamurti, CTO Mobile Solutions, VMware
• Dr Ferdinand Velasco, CIO, Texas Health Resources
• Dickie Oliver, VP Global IT, Yum! Brands

Retail, banking, commerce and payments

• Osama Bedier, VP Payments, Google
• Mihir Shah, VP and GM Mobile, Groupon
• Bill Gajda, Global Head of Mobile, Visa
• Robert Stephens, CTO, Best Buy
• Dickson Chu, MD Global Enterprise Payments, Citi
• Jill Braff, EVP, Home Shopping Network
• Raja Doddala, Senior Director, 7-Eleven
• Chris Brya, Director of Emerging Channels, Choice Hotels
• Nick Sheth, Senior Director, Gap Inc
• Ron Hirson, Co-founder and SVP, Boku
• David Marcus, Founder and CEO, Zong

If you are interested in learning more, read the press release below or head over to the events website which you can find here. There are some great NFC events going on from now through the end of the year. We are covering WIMA, NFC Payments USA and 4G World. You can find links to those pages on the right hand side of this post. The Open Mobile Summit is bringing some impressive thought leaders and decision makers together in one room for a couple of days and if you can make it over, it will undoubtably provide some great NFC networking opportunities. If your passion or company deals with NFC you can expect a lot of discussion revolving around near field communications especially considering that Osama Bedier, VP Payments for Google, will be speaking about Google Wallet.