Bluetooth Conference

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JUNE 2002
The Annual Bluetooth Congress
11-14th June 2002
The RAI, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Organised by IBC

Last year's event was attended by nearly 2000 people, despite the telecom industry downturn.  This year's event will see exhibition attendance available to non-conference attendees for the first time and will see many more real products now available.

MAY 2002
Bluetooth UnPlugFest 8

Wireless Design Conference  
15-17th May 2002
Business Design Centre, London, UK
Organised by United Business Media

This is a new event being held for the wireless industry - click here to see the program details. 
The WDC includes several Bluetooth papers, including:
    Implementation of a single chip Bluetooth transceiver     Jan Craninckx: Alcatel
    Making Bluetooth IP accessible                                            Charles Sturman: TTPCom
    An Integrated Bluetooth and GPS Radio                              Micí McCullagh: Parthus

To benefit from a 10% discount please either register online and state specifically you are a member of Bluetoothweb/DECTweb or contact Nicola Jedrej via e-mail .If you wish to become a member of the Bluetoothweb/DECTweb communities and gain the benefit of these discounts, you can join here.

Please inform relevant technical staff within your company who could benefit from this offer.

MARCH 2002
Bluetooth UnPlugFest 7.5
Note that all teams that wish to register to attend an UnPlugFest must be verified as suitable by a member of the Organizing Committee prior to attending their first UnPlugFest.

JANUARY 2002
Bluetooth UnPlugFest 7
13-18th January 2002 
Hong Kong China

Sunday 13th  Afternoon : Registration Orientation and  Pre-Testing
Monday 14th  - Friday 18th : Interoperability Testing

Another opportunity for the Developer Community to come together and test interoperability between their new products still in development.  With interoperability still perhaps the most vital key to commercial success for Bluetooth, the need for the Unplug Fests is as great or more than ever.

2002 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
Bluetooth Pavilion
8-11th January 2002
Las Vegas, Nevada USA

The Bluetooth Pavilion at the Consumer Electronics Show will see some of the great ideas which are finally emerging into real product launched onto the consumer stage.  It will arguably be another opportunity for the pundits to pit Bluetooth against 802.11 - but hopefully this time round they may be able to see that many of the applications are quite different from those targeted by 802.11.

DECEMBER 2001
Bluetooth Developers Conference
11-13 December 2001
Moscone Convention Center
San Francisco, California, USA

This event will bring together thousands of Developers and Bluetooth Adopters that will allow the opportunity to demonstrate wireless applications using Bluetooth technology, and the opportunity to learn from the best in the wireless space. Technical sessions will be taught by the Bluetooth Adopters.

Keynote talks:
*  Stepping into the Wireless Future with Simon Ellis, chair of Bluetooth SIG Marketing
*  The Evolving Marketplace - Real-World Tests, Trials and Triumphs with Joyce Putscher, director of Converging Markets and Technologies Research Group, Cahners In-Stat
*  The Connected Future - a Vision of Wireless Life with Ken Khangura, chief engineer of Fast Cycle Electrical/Electronic Products & Brand Subsystems in Research and Vehicle Technology, Ford Motor Company

Five conference tracks:
*  Advances in Software Development
*  Bluetooth in Action: Application Development
*  Hardware Implementations
*  Creating an Industry: Business Development and Opportunities
*  Bluetooth Market and Industry Case Studies

Pre-Conference Seminar: December 10
Associate Members Meeting: December 10

NOVEMBER 2001
Comdex Fall
Includes Bluetooth Pavilion
10-16 November 2001
Las Vegas, USA

OCTOBER 2001
Bluetooth Solutions Forum
2-3 October
Troy, Michigan, USA
Intelligent Interaction about Bluetooth wireless technology and how it can be applied and integrated in the Automotive Industry. Join over 100 automotive executives and senior engineers as they hear about the application and development issues of this new and highly effective short-range wireless communications protocol. Developed in conjunction with the Car Working Group and Automotive Experts Group of the Bluetooth SIG.  

3rd Nordic Bluetooth Conference
Oct 3-5 2001 
Organised by IBC
Stockholm, Sweden
The conference will address the following issues:
* Future business opportunities with Bluetooth
*How Bluetooth can be implemented to enable wireless communications in our everyday lives?
*The marketing and technical issues for Bluetooth products
*How Bluetooth enables Mobile Internet, 3G and Mobile Commerce
*Bluetooth in industrial, automotive, home and consumer applications
*How can Bluetooth create revenue for mobile operators? 

Also on the third day there will be particular focus on getting a Bluetooth idea to a Qualified Bluetooth product.

Bluetooth Latin America
8-10 October
Organised by IBC
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Programme:
* In depth overview of Bluetooth and its future directions
* Application Development tools and new features to be supported
* Membership and SIG structure, qualification process and working groups
* Security Issues and Solutions esp. BT transactions
* Bluetooth PAN profile and protocols
* Identifying and creating Bluetooth Proximity Based Mobile Commerce and other Killer Business Applications
* New Business Models including: Advertising, Voice, Enterprise, Transactions, Content
* Explore the vast potential of Bluetooth in other applications

Bluetooth Summit 5
8-11 October 2001
Organised by IIR
The Austria Centre, Vienna
An official conference of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group

UMTS Congress
17-19 October 2001
Organised by IBC
Barcelona, Spain

Bluetooth Forum Developers Forum China 2001
18-20 October 2001
Beijing, China