Seminar on Future Wireless Technologies

The Ministry of Economic Development is convening a seminar on Future Wireless Technologies - including Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio and Future Mobile and Broadcast Technologies - to be held on Thursday 4 November 2010.

This year's seminar will be held in the Waitemata Ballroom at the Langham Hotel in Auckland and is expected to run from 10 am - 5 pm, immediately following the 16th Asia Pacific Communications Conference (APCC'10) being held at the same venue from 30 October to 3 November 2010.

The purpose of the seminar is to share knowledge among wireless equipment manufacturers, research institutions, service providers and government about emerging developments and identifying the areas on which to focus future technical and regulatory work.

Confirmed speakers include; NTT DOCOMO, Huawei, University of Auckland, Vodafone, Tait Electronics, New Zealand Wireless Research Centre, Industrial Research Limited and Victoria University of Wellington.

If you are interested in attending this seminar, please RSVP by sending an email to radiospectrum@med.govt.nz with "Future Wireless Seminar" in the subject heading before Friday 22 October.

The programme will be published in the next few days on the Radio Spectrum Management website.

More information on APCC'10 can be found at: http://apcc2010.aut.ac.nz/