I’m going to be part of an Innovation Jam at the Verizon Developer Community Conference in San Jose, CA next week. The conference is for mobile application development, which is an incredibly dynamic environment. The innovation jam has been put together by WIP, the Wireless Industry Partnership to stimulate a dialog around innovating to face the challenges and opportunities that have been created by new devices, faster networks, access to more API’s, and a rapidly growing market.
WIP jam sessions include “unpanels” where the goal for facilitators is to ask the right questions and kick off a really good dialog. With that in mind, I’d like to help get the dialog started here and ask for some help in coming up with some good questions.
The July 28th conference has sold out, but you can register for a webcast.
Here’s an intriguing question for you. As femtocells become widely deployed, and as the innovators latch onto them, imagine what happens when a femtocell has not only wireless extension capability, but also has embedded within itself a set-top box, WiFi, Bluetooth, a router, perhaps even gaming capability. What happens to the home experience?
I would be interested in hearing about location. With greater emphasis being placed on location – aware products and services, more devices will have the capability of disclosing a user’s presence. However, understanding general location comes with a price not just associated with privacy but also with battery drain. How can innovation occur so that wireless user, if we chose, can get a seamless experience that does not compromise usage of our devices. What are the next generation of methods to find wireless device users, advancement in GPS, integrated sensors, some type of crowd sourcing for location? And how can we adjust preferences to let only certain groups where we are, when we are there?