• Conference Chair:
  Tingye Li 
  
  

• Chair:
  On-Ching Yue, Lucent Technologies
  
• Speaker:
  - William C. Y. Lee, Vice President and Chief Scientist, Vodafone AirTouch
  “G3G and Its Future”
  
  - Mary Chan, Vice President, Lucent Technologies
  “The Evolution of TDMA Wireless to 3G with EDGE Technology”
  
  - Ivan Kaminow, Former Congressional Fellow and Senior Science Advisor to OSA
  “Internet and Washington”

• Chair:
  Haifeng Li, Tyco Submarine 
  Systems Ltd.
  
• Speaker:
  - Thomas E. Darcie, Vice President, AT&T
  “A Remarkable Time in Telecommunications”
  
  - Ann Von Lehmen, Executive Director, Telcordia Technologies
  “Multiwavelength Optical Networking: From Vision to Reality”
  
  - Rebecca Lu, Director, Corning Inc.
  “Overview of Planar Technology”

F5- Technical Session I. 
       Wireless  Applications I:

• Session Chair:
  T. C. Chiang, Lucent Technologies
  
• Speaker:
  - Gerry Christensen, SignalSoft
  “Location as a Network Asset”
  
  - HP Jin, TeleVigation
  “Wireless Internet”
  
  - Arnold Gum, Qualcomm
  “Wireless Application Enablers: Powering Personal Portable Applicatons”
  
  - Byron Chen, Ibrahim Tekin, and T. C. Chiang, Lucent Technologies
  “GeoLocation in 3GPP”
  

• Session Chair:
  Chien-Jen (Simon) Chen, Tyco Submarine Systems, Ltd.
  
• Speaker:
  - Jin-Yi Pan, Sorrento Networks, Inc. 
  “Proactive End-to-End Metropolitan Optical Network Solution”
  
  - Jianhui Zhou, Optical Networks Inc.
  “True Optical Networking for Emerging Metro Markets”
  
  -Michael Choy, Lucent Technologies
  “Opaque Optical Networking – 
  A Technology Update”  
  
  - Georgios Ellinas, Telcordia Technologies
  “Failure Protection in Optical Networks with Arbitrary Mesh Topologies”