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| Thursday, April 15, 2004 • 10:15-11:15am |
Cross-Operator Communication That Stops Messaging Abuse
Learn about how all types of ISPs can leverage the benefits of combating messaging abuse on a unified front by aligning their anti-spam and virus strategies along three directives: collaboration, technology and policy.
Rich Wong
General Manager, Messaging and Anti-Abuse, Openwave Systems
Richard Wong is a founding member of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), brought together for operators to share best practices in combating messaging abuse, as well as for developing a cohesive point of view on anti-spam legislation. He leads the business direction and management of the Messaging Applications team at Openwave. Formerly, as senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Mr. Wong directed all administration for the Corporate Marketing, Developer Marketing and Regional Market Solutions organizations at Openwave.
Prior to joining Openwave, Rich was the EVP of Marketing of Covad Communications, the nationwide DSL company, leading the product management, channel marketing, developer relations, and branding/communications organizations. In addition, he was also the EVP/GM of the Value Added IP Services business unit at Covad, developing the value added services strategy to extend the DSL strategy beyond Layer 2 transport.
Preceding Covad, he was an Engagement Manager/Team Leader in the San Francisco office of management consulting firm McKinsey & Co, focusing primarily on e-commerce and software clients. Rich was also a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble, where he managed the P/L and lead advertising, marketing and general management for the entire company with several of P&G's brands, leading the cross-organizational directors team and all advertising, marketing, and sales channel initiatives. Mr. Wong holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Rich chaired a session at 3GSM on designing, implementing and operating the new IT systems required to support a wide range of services from real-time data services to content downloads, messaging and commerce. He will speak on the subject of delivering real-time messaging anti-abuse to service providers at CTIA and Commonwealth Club. He has spoken at a number of conferences such as Economist Wireless, and he has moderated several roundtable discussions at Supercomm, CTIA and Mobile Americas.
| Friday, April 16, 2004 • 9:00 - 10:00am |
Wireless Communications Policy and Progress
The FCC's Office of Engineering & Technology is responsible for helping to enable the progress and development of innovative communications and emerging technologies by advising the Commission concerning engineering matters. As Chief of the OET, Mr. Thomas will discuss some of the most intriguing issues and new opportunities in today's market as well as what's on the horizon for wireless spectrum, competitive technologies and broadband services.
Edmund J. Thomas
Chief of the Office of the Engineering and Technology (OET), Federal Communications Commission
Edmond J. Thomas in his 36-year career has held senior positions in R&D, strategic planning, operations, regulatory matters, and telecommunication network design and implementation. On February 1, 2002, he was appointed Chief of the Office of the Engineering and Technology (OET) at the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Thomas served as President and CEO of RSL USA, a $500 million dollar international telecommunications company. In 1998 he was named one of the 50 most influential people in long distance by Phone Plus Magazine. Prior to his tenure at RSL USA, Ed was President of Science and Technology at Bell Atlantic. In this position he was responsible for Bell Atlantic’s new products and service development. In this position he also had full operational and P&L responsibilities for Bell Atlantic’s large customer data products and services. He has also served on the academic advisory boards of the University of Colorado, the Polytechnic University and the State University of New York College of Technology.
During his career, Mr. Thomas has been responsible for many innovative endeavors, some of which include:
• Grew RSL USA from a $120 million in revenue to $500 million in one year while improving profitability by a factor of 5.
• Analyzed and negotiated several $100 million plus acquisitions.
• Redesigned and streamlined RSL USA’s business by integrating four stand alone businesses into one.
• Led the Bell Atlantic’s Science and Technology Inc. (an organization of over 700 people) to ISO/TicKIT certification.
• Pioneered a new approach to organizational and work process redesign. Combined technologists, psychologists, and anthropologists as well as union and management into organizational design teams. This approach resulted in documented savings in excess of $100 million for Bell Atlantic.
• Developed and brought to market the first telephony based speech recognition system. Licensed the technology to US west and Southwestern Bell.
• Established Bell Atlantic as a premier developer and user of expert systems. As a result, Bell Atlantic was named a runner up in the global competition for the Adleman Award.
• Pioneered the use of global information systems in the prediction of signal quality for mobile telephone networks.
Mr. Thomas has lectured many times at industry forums and at the university level on the future of telecommunications and technology applications and impacts. He is also the holder of several patents in the area of data and voice communications. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Network and System Management and is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
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