Events

Skype's Zennstrom to speak at Von Europe, Stockholm May 23-26

Picking out Zennstrom from the list of speakers is invidious; there are more featured speakers at Von Europe than there are delegates to most conferences.

The agenda kicks off Monday with "gateways and softswitches" and works itself up from there into a crescendo of "The EU Regulatory Perspective on VoIP" by Alain Van Gaever, Policy Development - DG Information Society & Media, European Commission plus tutorials on SIP, and more "breakout sessions" and Birds of a Feather gatherings than you can shake a stick at.

The event will have a marked Swedish flavour, and in parallel with the VON conference, a group of local organisations are holding a showcase event - featuring amongst others:

Nanoradio,with Pär Bergsten, CEO

Nanoradio has developed the world smallest WLAN-chip -Nanoradio is a fabless semiconductor company with the mission to create value from core competence in building wireless components and systems for the wireless industry and applications by providing the best solutions and components in the market. Nanoradio AB was founded in March 2004 by a group of experienced engineers and businessmen devoted to wireless communication technology and it´s development. Details at www.nanoradio.se

Neonode, with founder Thomas Eriksson

Neonode is a Swedish mobile handset developer- it claims to be one of the first mobile developers in the world to introduce Internet - via wireless broadband access, using Wireless LAN (WLAN) - into mobile phones. The company has been working with Philips Semiconductors since last autumn to develop a mobile with low power consumption and WLAN support. The launch of the new Neonode mobile is planned for the second half of 2005.

Neonode has put its energy into the development of new innovative technology, such as the Neno  user interface and the zForce light-beam-controlled touch-screen.  N1 is the first unit to use these new technologies. Details at www.neonode.com

Kista projects: such as

Optimobile's  GSM Gateway - with Lars Edman, CEO - the company is active in the field of convergence between cellular telephony and wireless voice over local area networks (VoIP over WLAN, WiFi). The WBX technology guarantees automatic and seamless handover of voice calls between WiFi (VoIP) and cellular telephony. End users experience a single interface for mobile voice calls performed using WiFi (VoIP) and cellular networks. End users are connected over WiFi (VoIP) in environments with WLAN-coverage (e.g.enterprises, hot-spots etc). When WLAN-coverage is not available voice calls are automatically switched to the cellular network without interrupting the call.  - details www.optimobile.se

Possio, represented by David Thorberg, CEO - it has a PWR - programmable Wireless Router - that makes it possible to connect PCs, handheld devices, phones, and other WLAN or Bluetooth-enabled terminals to cellular networks using GSM/GPRS, CDMA or UMTS networks. Possio also manufactures the worlds only integrated GSM Fax as well as PCMCIA cards for GSM/GPRS and GSM-R. More at www.possio.com

Full reports will be filed from the show.