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Note: - This press release
was for wireless World 2001 which was to be held on September
24-26, 2001 but now the event stands postponed due to September
11 attacks.
Venue
Maitred and Wireless World 2001
Released: Sat Aug 4,2001
Wireless World 2001 announces first conference with wireless
LAN networking.
At this year’s Wireless World conference,
September 24-26 at the World Trade Center in New York City, for
the first time ever conference attendees will be able to browse
searched profiles of fellow attendees and send messages to select
contacts – all from their PDAs. Through technology developed
by Venue Maitred, Wireless World 2001 hopes to establish the first
wireless community specific to a conference and a location.
Conference attendees fill in a profile from their homes, offices
or on the trade show floor.
VenueMaitred then compares their profiles to others at the conference.
When the program finds
a match, the attendee is paged or phoned an SMS message, buzzed
at his/her PDA, or emailed
notification of the match. From either their handheld devices
or their laptops, attendees can
review matches before establishing actual contact. If one attendee
chooses to contact other
attendees, he or she can invite them into a real-time chat room
or send them email. Users can
chat or send email by tapping out a message, scribbling it, or
recording a voice message.
Scribbled notes or voice-recorded messages are sent as attachments
for easy access.
“We are pleased to be able to debut this technology and
believe it will revolutionize the
conference industry,” says Wireless World Conference Director
Jonathan Sarno. “Individuals and
companies spend a tremendous amount of money to attend conferences,
but they have no
guarantee of making important connections. In the past, exhibitors
and speakers had an
advantage in that attendees would come to them. Attendees had
to hope they would make the
right connections. For example, an attendee could sit one row
behind the perfect business
partner and never meet him or her. With this new technology, you
would have to work hard not to
make contacts.”
According to a study by Cahners-In-Stat Group, the wireless
LAN market is projected to
expand at a 25% compounded annual growth rate from 2000 through
2004 and reach $2.2 billion
in worldwide sales. By the year 2003, 75% of access to the Internet
will be either through a
browser-enabled phone or handheld PDA. By 2004, the number of
Americans expected to own
PDAs will top 17 million.
About Wireless World 2001
Wireless World returns to New York City September 24-26, 2001
to build on Wireless World
2000's explosive launch and promises to be this year's definitive
gathering of the wireless
industry's leaders with the only wireless CEO summit this year.
2001’s conference goes global
with delegations coming from all corners of the globe including
Latin America, Asia (China,
Korea and Japan), the Middle East, Africa, Germany, Russia, India,
and the Nordic countries.
They will meet in New York City's World Trade Center -- ground
zero for global business -- and
will focus on the international issues of the times, which are
increasingly vital to the future
wireless of globalization, standardization and integration.
For more information, please see http://www.wirelessworld2001.com.
For an interview with Mr. Sarno, please contact Kathleen Wallace
at kwallace@wirelessworld2001.com.
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