[SatNews] Join the thousands of international communications experts at IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, which will be held from December 8 – 12, 2014, at the Hilton Austin in Austin, Texas.

This premier international event is devoted to driving innovations in nearly every telecommunications field. This 57th annual event is dedicated to the latest IoT (Internet of Things), networking, broadband, cloud computing and emerging technology breakthroughs.
 
Themed The Great State of Communications, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 will start on Monday, December 8th, with a day of tutorials and workshops exploring topics such as Evolution Toward 5G Cellular Networks and Optical Wireless Communications (OWC). The core of the conference will then proceed from Tuesday through Thursday with a comprehensive schedule of keynotes, business panels, peer networking events, demonstrations and more than 1,000 technical presentations exploring virtually every new development in broadband, wireless, multimedia, data, image and voice communications. Among the many notable events to be presented...

• CEO Forum on Network Transformation earmarked by the insights of C-level executives detailing their visions for cloud networks that rapidly and intelligently address changing business and customer needs with efficient and aware network functions
• “Dialogue with Industry Leaders: The Roadmap to 2025” and the viewpoints of leading industry experts addressing the explosive growth of the Internet and the advent of the smartphone and new wireless standards
• Hundreds of sessions devoted to topics such as “Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Wi-Fi,” “Security Challenges in Network Function Visualization (NFV)” and “The Road Towards 5G—a Clean Slate Approach”
  • Keynote addresses of senior industry professionals:
    Dr. Edward G. Amoroso, Chief Security Officer, AT&T Inc., who will speak on the “Recent Advances in Cloud Security"
    Dr. James Truchard, President, CEO, and Cofounder of National Instruments, who will address “Next-Generation Tools for Next-Generation Wireless Research"
    Dr. Wen Tong, an Huawei & IEEE Fellow, who will talk about “5G Wireless Beyond Smartphones"
    Dr. Alicia Abella, Assistant Vice President (AVP), AT&T Labs, who will discuss “Cloud Computing: A New Strategic Infrastructure"
    Rajesh Pankaj, Senior Vice President, Engineering at Qualcomm Research, who will explore the “Future of Wireless"
    Pankaj Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Cisco, who will answer the question “Are You Ready for the Internet of Everything?”

Additional details, including a complete agenda of events, are available at http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2014.