The initiative represents the collaborative work of over 100 organizations from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, more than 700 researchers and in excess of € 80M of investment thus far. At the end of 2005, the initiative completed the first phase of its projects, framing the conceptual architectures for B3G and advancing enabling technologies. Since the beginning of 2006, the projects entered the second 2-year phase.

The Symposium Agenda contains a Joint Plenary followed by two parallel Workshop Tracks:

• Workshop on "Users, Services and Service Platforms" (MobiLife and SPICE)
  • The workshop is built upon the high-level WWI statements:
    • User Centricity is a key in WWI
      • To ensure excellent user experience
      • To find ways to exploit and deploy technologies such that they give added value to the users (or customers)
    • Services and applications are the users’ “window” to the underlying layers and technologies.
    • Users do not see (or should not see) the technologies themselves, but the better user experience and added value they can provide through services and applications
    • Good services and applications give users better user experience and added value, and enable deployment of new technologies!
  • MobiLife and SPICE target these issues as follows:
    • MobiLife researches on concepts, technologies and architectures enabling novel applications and services for B3G. This is the final major public event for MobiLife summarising and demonstrating its results from the 28-month project (Sep2004-Dec2006).
    • SPICE is a 2.5-year project that started in Jan2006. SPICE concentrates on enabling service concepts and technologies from a service platform point of view. This is the first major public event for describing the SPICE concepts and frameworks from its first project year.
• Workshop on "Communication Technologies" (Ambient Networks, WINNER and E2R)
  • The Wireless World, or B3G world, relies on efficient and cost-effective communication infrastructures that can enable applications and services as stated in the high-level WWI statements. This workshop concentrates on the communication infrastructure issues from network, radio and reconfigurability perspectives.
  • Ambient Networks, WINNER and E2R are looking at network, radio and reconfigurability aspects in the future communication systems. They entered their second 2-year research phases in Jan2006 and the projects will present new results from their research work.

We are pleased to welcome you to the 3rd WWI Symposium in Helsinki and are looking forward to a fruitful meeting on concepts and technologies for Systems Beyond 3G – the Wireless World!

Venue

WWI Symposium is being held at Helsingin Messukeskus (the Helsinki Fair Centre) Conference Wing, only 20 minutes by tram or 5 minutes by train (+ 5 minutes walk) from the city centre - visit their website.

The Helsinki Fair Centre
Messuaukio 1
FIN-00521 Helsinki
Finland
Website: www.finnexpo.fi

Local transportation links:

• City Centre - Helsinki Fair Center:
  • Tram (lines 7A and 7B)
  • Train 
• Helsinki-Vantaa Airport 
• Finnair Citybus Schedule 
• Airport taxi: the average fare from airport to city centre is EUR 35.
• Local Bus Service to Airport:  the 615 and 615T leave from train station square, platform 10.

More information about Helsinki and Finland:

• Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau 
• Finnish Tourist Board 
• Virtual Finland

If you are citizen of a country from where it is necessary to have a visa for visiting Finland, you must obtain a visa before travelling. Please contact your local Finnish Embassy for all relevant visa information.