Conference Program
Oct 25: Sunday
4:00 PM
Registration Opens
6:00 PM
Opening Reception (Noe Terrance)
Oct 26: Monday
8:30 AM
Registration opens
9:00 AM
Opening Remarks: Eric Bohlin, President, ITS (Bradbury/Rose Room)
9:30 AM
Keynote: Fred Devereux, President, AT&T Mobility West
Realizing the Intelligent World (Bradbury/Rose Room)
10:15 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Plenary Panel: Today's Reality and Tomorrow's Experience - Intelligent Networks
Bradbury/Rose Room
Leszek Izdebski, Managing Director, SPTG Media Group,Cisco
Jean Marc Frangos, Managing Director, External Innovation, British Telecom
Stephen Schmidt, VP Telecom Policy & Chief Regulatory Legal Counsel, Telus
Johannes Bauer, Professor, Information Technology and Services, Michigan State University
Moderator: Jonathan Adelstein, President and CEO, PCIA
12:00 PM
Lunch (Bradbury/Rose Room)
1:30 PM
Session 1: The Information Society: opportunity and concerns for the collective (Olvera Room)
Moderator: Hernan Galperin, Annenberg School of Communications, USC
Judith Mariscal Avilés (Cide)
Carolyn Gideon (Tu s University) Chris aan Hogendorn (Wesleyan University)
Ying Xu (Penn State University) Carleen Maitland (Penn State University)
The Informational Life of the Poor: a study of digital access
in three Mexican towns
Broadband Industry Structure and Cybercrime : An Empirical Analysis
Communicating Abroad: A Case Study of Za’atari Syrian Refugee Camp
Session 2: Broadband Policy Development in the US and Asia (Flower Room)
Moderator: Richard Schultz, Dept. of Political Science, McGill University
Barbara A. Cherry (Indiana University)
Historical Distortion: How Misuse of "Public Utility" and "Natural Monopoly"
Misdirects U.S. Telecommunications Policy Development
An Empirical Analysis of Fixed Broadband Adoption in Thailand
Chalita Srinuan (King Mongkut's Institue of Technology Ladkrabang)
Pratompong Srinuan (Office of National Broadcasting and Telecommunications
Telecommunications Commission)
Sobee Shinohara, (Director, KDDI) Horoyuki Morikawa, Masatsugu Tsuji
Competition or Smartphones? Factors Promote Mobile Broadband
Adoption in OECD 34 Countries
Session 3: ICTs & Development: improving social welfare and economic growth (Figueroa Room)
Moderator: Francois Bar, Annenberg School of Communications, USC
José Alberto Candelaria Barrera (Ins tuto Federal de Telecomunicaciones)
Avijit Sarkar James Pick, Jeremy Johnson (University of Redlands)
John Serbe Marfo and Richard Boateng(University of Ghana Business School)
3:30PM
Session 4: Disaster Mitigation Through ICTs (Olvera Room)
A Panel Data Analysis of Temporary and Permanent Effects of Fixed
Broadband Penetration Over Economic Growth
Africa’s Digital Divide: Geography, Policy, and Implications
Developing Big Data Capabilities in Developing Countries: Evidence From
Ghana's Banking Industry
Moderator: David Sawcer, Keck School of Medicine, USC
Ankur Chaturvedi, Anoop Simha, and Zhen Wang (Nanyang Technological
University)
John Cheng, Hitoshi Mitomo
(Waseda University)
Daniel Hellmann, Carleen Maitland
(Penn State College of IST)
ICT Infrastructure and Social Media Tools for Disaster Management
The Role of ICT in Collective Resilience in a Time of Crisis
The Potential of Big Data and Telecommunications in the Ebola Response
Session 5: Managing the Fast Lane: net neutrality principles in comparative perspective (Flower Room)
Moderator: Stanford L. Levin, Department of Economics and Finance, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Shinichiro Terada
(Harvard University / KDDI Corporation)
Toshiya Jitsuzumi (Kyushu University)
Martin Hilbert (University of California, Davis)
Network Neutrality Debates: Case of Japan
Means and Ends toward the Broadband Society: Net Neutrality and Over-the-top
Players
How Ubiquitous is Ubiquitous Communication? Assessing Bandwidth Distributions
In and Among 172 Countries from 1986 to 2014
Session 6: Networking Communities: access or exposure (Figueroa Room)
Moderator: Erik Bohlin, Chalmers University of Technology
Wonkyung Rhee (Waseda University)
Jolly Chun Kau Wong (Hong Kong Police Force)
Xu Yan (HKUST Business School)
Yutaka Tokushima and Tomoaki Watanabe
(Keio University)
5:00 PM
Monday Program Ends
7:00 PM
Gala Dinner
Oct 27: Tuesday
9:00 AM
Cyber-attacks based on nationalism: Far-right groups in Japanese and Korean
cyberspace
Public-Private Partnership (PPP): A Win-Win-Win (WWW) Approach for Effective
Public Service-A Case Study of the Award-winning Indoor Communications System
of Hong Kong Police Force
A FabLab for Development in Rural Philippines: Reflecting on the Recipe for Success
for a Community Technology Center
Keynote: Peter Marx, Chief Innovation Technology Officer, City of Los Angeles, Technology Supports for Responsive
Governance (Bradbury/Rose Room)
9:45 AM
Plenary Panel: Building the intelligent world, the next leap (Bradbury/Rose Room)
Manu Namboodiri, Senior Director of Business Development, Qualcomm Smart Cities Team
Omar El Sawy, Professor, Marshall School of Business, USC
Khaled Hassanein, Professor, Information Systems, McMaster University
Moderator: Andrew Haire, AJH Communications
11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:30 AM
Session 7: Smart Cities and Autonomous Devices: transport and smart homes (Olvera Room)
Moderator: Omar El Sawy, Professor, Marshall School of Business, USC
Kyoung-Youn Na (Construction and Company Research Institute of Korea)
Chang-Ho Yoon (Korea University)
Athanasios Karapantelakis (Ericsson) Research and Jan Markendahl (KTH Royal
Institute of Technology)
Kumiko Miyazaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Kentarou Nishida (Tokyo University)
ICT Development and Productivity of Transport Infrastructure
The role of Mobile Network Operators in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS):
Current situation analysis, challenges and suggested approach.
Technology strategies and the strategies towards standards; the case of the
diffusion of smart houses in Japan
Session 8: Internet of Things: social and political frameworks (Flower Room)
Moderator: TBD
Dong-Hee Shin, Sungho Kim, and Yeonoh Hong (Sungkyunkwan University)
Andrew Haire (AJH Communications)
Luis Guillermo Martínez Ballesteros, Óscar Álvarez, and Jan Markendahl
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
A Socio-Technical Framework for Internet-of-Things Design
What Makes IoT different for the Regulatory Authority
Net Neutrality Principles and Its Impact on Quality-of-Experience Based Service
Differentiation in Mobile Networks
Session 9: Innovating Regulatory Policy for the IoT: cross-national approaches (Figueroa Room)
Moderator: Johannes Bauer, Michigan State Uni.
Tomoaki Watanabe (Keio University)
Julia Wendel (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Stanford Levin (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
Stephen Schmidt (TELUS Communications Company)
Graham Scott (Dartmouth College)
Shape of Universal Service Policy for IoT: An Exploration from US and Japanese Policies on
Universal Service for Broadband
Innovativeness of national regulatory authorities
in EU telecommunications
Broadband for All: Policies for a Connected Society
1:00 PM
Lunch (Bradbury/Rose Room)
2:00 PM
Session 10: Smart City Dynamics: planning and assessment (Olvera Room)
Moderator: Manu Namboodiri, Sr. Dir. Business Development, Qualcomm
Phil Marshall (Chief Research Officer, Tolaga Research)
Myriam Raymond (Université d’Angers) Rawy Iskandar (Spimesense)
Sherif Kamel (American University in Cairo)
Amirhossein Ghanbari(KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Jan Markendahl (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Thomas Casey (VTT Finland)
Óscar Álvarez Álvarez (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
System Dynamics Modeling of the Impact of Internet-of-Things on Intelligent
Transportation Solutions
On the suitability of the Work System Framework as a methodology for
investigating IoT implementations in developing Countries
Repositioning in Value Chain as a Viable Strategy for Historical Actors of Telecom
Industry - How to Benefit from Horizontal Integration of ICT for Future City
Ecosystems
Session 11 Privacy and Security: tensions and trade-offs (Flower Room)
Moderator : Ruhollah Shemirani, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC
Jenifer Winter (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Teppei Koguchi (Shizuoka University)
Toshiya Jitsuzumi (Kyusyu University)
Norihiro Kasuga (Konan University),
Akihiro Nakamura (Yokohama City University)
Manabu Shishikura (Nagasaki University)
Teppei Koguchi (Shizuoka University)
Toshifumi Kuroda(Tokyo Keizai University)
Takanori Ida (Kyoto University)
Big Data Analytics, the Social Graph, and Unjust Algorithmic Discrimination:
Tensions between Privacy and Open Data
Analysis of the Economic Value of Leaks of Personal Data
An Empirical Analysis of Consumers’ Concerns about Privacy through Using the
Internet
Session 12: Broadband Policy: theory and reality (Figueroa Room)
Moderator: Barbara Cherry, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University
Hsin-Yi Sandy Tsai (National Chiao Tung University)
Johannes Bauer (Michigan State University)
Christian M. Bender (WIK-Consult)
Georg Goetz (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)
Toshifumi Kuroda (Faculty of Economics, Tokyo Keizai University)
Takanori Ida (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University)
Teppei Koguchi (Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University
Designing Workable Mobile Broadband Policies: Theory and Evidence
Coexistence of Service- and Facility-Based Competition: The Relevance of Access
Prices for “Make-or-Buy”-Decisions
The Impact of Asymmetric Regulation on Product Bundling: The Case of Fixed
Broadband and Mobile Communications in Japan
3:30 PM
Coffee Break
4:00 PM
Capstone Panel: Wireless Engineering & Business Innovations at Venues - Market, Technology & Business Assessment
Bradbury/Rose Room
Pete Bohley, President, Repeated Signal Solutions
Phil Marshall, Chief Research Officer, Tolaga Research
Eric Bender, Co-Founder, Sr. VP, Wilcon
Moderator: Rich Grimes, COO InSite Wireless
5:30
Tuesday Program Ends
Oct 28: Wednesday
9:00 AM
Session 13: Data Analytics (Olvera Room)
Moderator: Arif Ansari, Associate Professor, Data Sciences and Operations, USC
So Yeon Han (Inha University)
Younghoon Chang (Sunway University)
Siew Fan Wong (Sunway University)
Hon Qui Chong (Sunway University)
Sangman Lee (Honeypic co. Ltd.)
Farhan Khan (Ericsson India Global Services)
Uncertainty mitigation in online ticketing purchase: The moderating effect of
analytics information
Practical Approach Towards Big Data Analytics
Session 14: Financial Instruments and Broadband Adoption (Flower Room)
Moderator: Elizabeth Fife, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC
Chalita Srinuan (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang)
Prince. Kwame Senyo (University of Ghana Business School)
Wonkyung Rhee (Waseda University)
Willingness to Pay for Cloud Computing Service by SMEs in Thailand
Realizing value from big data – A Semiotically inspired approach
Origination and distribution of cyber-nationalism between Korea and China
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM
Session 15: Business Models and the Internet of Things (Olvera Room)
Moderator: Francis Pereira, Marshall School of Business, USC
Rob van Den Dam (IBM)
Norihiro Kasuga (Konan University)
Akihiro Nakamura (Yokohama City University)
Manabu Shishikura(Nagasaki University)
Toshiya Jitsuzumi(Kyusyu University)
Teppei Koguchi (Shizuoka University)
Athanasios Karapantelakis (Ericsson Research)
Jan Markendahl (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Internet of Things and its Future
Demand Analysis for Time-Shifted Viewing in Japanese TV market
Investigating the Role of Mobile Network Operators as Platform Providers in the
Internet of Things
Session 16: Spectrum Management (Flower Room)
Moderator: Mark Lloyd, Annenberg School of Communications, USC
Yuntsai Chou (Yuan Ze University)
Hsienming Lien (National ChengChi Unversity)
Weimin Hu (National ChengChi Unversity)
Fernando Beltran (University of Auckland)
Raul Katz (Columbia University)
Maria Massaro (Chalmers University of Technology)
Gerard Pogorel (Telecom ParisTech)
Erik Bohlin (Chalmers University of Technology)
12:30 PM
ITS Regional LA Conference Ends
A Compensation Model Developed to Increase Spectrum Usage Efficiency in the 4G
Era
Assessing Alternative Spectrum Assignment Methods to Achieve Social Goals for
Broadband Access
Next Generation of Radio Spectrum Management Licensed Shared Access and the
trade-off between Static and Dynamic Efficiency