Find out how insurers, warehouses, and trucking companies can leverage wireless technology for improved tracking and monitoring.
This webcast was originally broadcast on:
Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST
Tracking and monitoring corporate assets, inventory, deliveries, and the whereabouts of individuals is of critical importance in industries such as shipping and trucking, insurance, security, and law enforcement. Effective, accurate location and behavior tracking solutions are essential to protect valuable corporate assets, reduce theft and loss, and ensure the safety of individuals and communities.
Sprint Emerging Solutions Group has partnered with industry leaders to deliver wireless-enabled, location-based solutions that deliver dramatic improvement over legacy tracking and monitoring methods—and with less time and cost necessary for both implementation and ongoing use. Join us for this compelling webinar as we discuss the capabilities and benefits of wireless-based solutions that will dramatically improve the visibility and security of your most important assets.
WHAT ATTENDEES WILL LEARN
- Insights, industry trends, and best practices from the perspectives of two leaders in wireless-based asset tracking: Omnilink and Sendum.
- How Sprint’s network allows for the rapid implementation of a high-performing, wireless-based solution.
- Chief security and loss prevention officers at warehouse, trucking and insurance companies
- Construction site owners
- Law enforcement technology decision makers
- Insurance underwriters who provide coverage to assets while in transit
Presenters
Steve Hudson
Chief Development Officer
Omnilink
Omnilink Systems offers the most accurate and reliable location-based services (LBS) platform for powering location aware mobile devices and other solutions to track people and assets of value.
Steve Hudson has twenty years of telecommunications experience and has been a leading force and thought leader in location based services (LBS) and Machine to Machine (M2M) segments. As Chief Development Officer for Omnilink, Mr. Hudson drives Omnilink's Commercial growth strategy, alliances, business development, channel sales, corporate development, and industry collaboration. Prior to Omnilink, Mr. Hudson joined Sprint PCS at launch, and spent eight years in various management positions; first helping drive the emergence of Sprint's wireless Private Label Services Group, then assuming a Strategic Business Development role over the Location Based Services initiative. Prior to Sprint PCS, Mr. Hudson started his career in Sales with Sprint Long Distance and then ran operations for two start-up resellers and facility based carriers. Mr. Hudson is a frequent speaker and contributor for wireless industry conferences, media, and analyst briefings. He holds an MBA from Rockhurst University and dual bachelor degrees in Business Marketing and Management from Kansas State University.
Wayne Chester
President and CEO
Sendum Wireless Corporation
Sendum designs and manufactures wireless location devices. Our initial product, the Package Tracker PT100-C, is a very small (pager size) wireless location device designed to track high-dollar packages and assets for the North American transportation industry.
Wayne Chester is the President & CEO of Sendum Wireless. Wayne's career in the technology industry spans executive, marketing and sales management, and technical roles in wireless communications, medical devices, utilities and banking systems. Before founding co-founding Sendum in 2001 with Kerry Zoehner, Wayne was Senior Vice President of Wireless Products at Glenayre, the world's leading provider of wireless data messaging platforms and infrastructure. Prior to Glenayre, Mr. Chester held various marketing and technical roles with Westech Information Systems and EDS in Canada and the United States.
Steve Myers
Senior Product Manager
Sprint Emerging Solutions Group
Steve Myers is a Sr. Product Manager in Sprint’s Emerging Solutions organization. An 18 year Sprint veteran, his current focus is on addressing the challenges facing enterprises implementing mobile wireless solutions. The growing area of mobile enterprise data is a cornerstone of Steve’s experience over the past 8 years, including a focus on enterprise data services, M2M and LBS. His overall experience includes fixed broadband wireless, business development, managed services and ISP.
Prior to joining Sprint-Nextel, Steve managed several corporate data and voice networks for Fortune 500 companies and was an executive for a software development and publisher startup for four years. He is best known for finding ways to integrate new and existing technologies to solve the needs of business communications
Steve holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering degree, 6 patents and extensive graduate studies in business, telecommunications and engineering.
Moderator
Rich Tehrani
TMC Chief Executive Officer, Group Editor-in-Chief
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