Future of Wireless Public Webcast - An MIT Enterprise Forum Event

When will users have more control over key elements of buying and using their mobile phone? Join moderator Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal, cellular thought leaders and rabble rousers as we look into the future of mobile telephony, asking questions such as: Where is mobility really going? Is it a phone or a TV set? What are the limitations of our mobile devices? When will we have more control over the phone/carrier combination? What opportunities still exist for entrepreneurs?

Attend a FREE webcast hosted by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Austin that starts exactly at 6 p.m. Monday, November 24th. The meeting will be at National Instruments in Building C (Allow time for processing through the guard and for early networking.) The webcast lasts until 7:30. A local Rap Session will follow.

The Panelists:

Walt Mossberg (Moderator), Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He is also the co-creator and co-producer of the technology industry's most prestigious annual conference, D: All Things Digital, and is the co-executive editor of the technology web site, allthingsd.com, which extends the experience of the D Conference to the Web.

Ralph de la Vega, CEO, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets
Ralph de la Vega, CEO, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, was named to his current role in October 2008. Today, he leads all consumer marketing, sales, content and converged services, customer care and operations for wireless and wired. Previously, he served as President and CEO-AT&T Mobility where he was responsible for all of AT&T’s wireless business since October 2007.

Dr. Phillip Alvelda, Serial Entrepreneur
Dr. Alvelda is the Founder and Chairman of the non-profit Westminster Institute for Science Education (WISE), and the thought-leader behind the WISE Labs collaborative approach to K-12 STEM education reform. Prior to founding WISE, Dr. Alvelda was the founding CEO of MobiTV, Inc., now the world's leading provider of live television, video-on-demand and digital music over mobile and broadband networks.

Braxton Jarratt, CEO, Clearleap
Braxton Jarratt, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of television infrastructure technology firm Clearleap, has an extensive history driving innovation and growth in media technologies. Immediately before co-founding Clearleap, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Tandberg Television (an Ericsson Company), where he led the rapid expansion into the North American market