Overview

January 18

Get Ready for 5G: Putting this Powerful Technology to Work

5G is bringing revolutionary capabilities to wireless networks, which in turn is transforming the ways in which government agencies can leverage Wireless WAN. 5G offers unprecedented speed, lower latency, and greater flexibility — making it ideal for ensuring network failover at office sites, connecting remote and temporary "pop-up" facilities, supporting smart city and autonomous vehicle initiatives, and more.

Join Government Technology on Jan. 18 to find out how your organization can securely adopt 5G today and prepare for future advancements in this important wireless technology. We’re hosting a live, interactive conversation that will provide:

-- Advice on building an effective 5G technology plan

-- Examples of effective public sector use cases for 5G

-- Practical advice for ensuring security as you expand 5G adoption

Speakers

Bob Woolley — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Bob was the chief technical architect for the state of Utah’s Department of Technology Services, including the development of the state’s Utah.gov portal. Utah has been widely recognized in these areas with numerous national awards. He has also been a technical lead and RFP writer for the WSCA/NASPO Cloud and Data Communication Procurements. He has experience with state, county and higher education employee skill assessments and technology upgrade implementations, including large-scale database migrations from RDMS to NoSQL platforms. He has extensive private-sector experience with Microservices Architecture implementation and DevOps using hybrid cloud deployment patterns.

James Weaver — Speaker

Director of Product Marketing, Cradlepoint

James Weaver is Director of Product Marketing at Cradlepoint. With 25+ years of technology experience, James’ analytical-creative approach to marketing has earned him notable awards including the Presidential Award of Excellence, the Gold Award of Distinction, and the Gold Effie Award from the American Marketing Association. Prior to Cradlepoint, James held finance, marketing and product marketing roles at Nortel and Avaya. James has a finance degree from Weber State University and an MBA in Marketing from Vanderbilt University. When not at work, James enjoys outdoor recreational sports and is proud of the fact that he has only had to call search and rescue once.