Sign up for our awesome SF Bay Area Tech Events weekly email newsletter.     LOCATION EVENT DETAILS <P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>By 2020, Cisco predicts that 50 billion people & things will be connected to the internet. In the last five years, mobile data traffic has grown 18-fold with video driving consumption. Last year, 60% of all mobile data traffic was offloaded onto fixed networks through Wi-Fi or small cells. While demand & speed have intensified, there has been a renewed interest in alternatives to cellular which have promise in the marketplace. Will we see a reinvention of what it means to be a telecommunications operator? What will this mean for innovators & policy makers to enable & incentivize innovation to fuel not only demand but universal access.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN>The Presidio Forum presents <I>Accelerating Alternative Connectivity</I> panel discussion where the community will explore emerging technologies & policy considerations for the next generation of wireless from organizations & companies seeking to enable alternative methods of connectivity such as LoRa, mesh networking & software defined radio technologies.</SPAN></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal">The Presidio Forum thanks our sponsors John Heitmann & Jameson Dempsy from <A HREF="https://www.kelleydrye.com/Our-Practices/Industries/Communications" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Kelly Drye & Warren LLP </A>for & Jameson Buffmire & the team at <A HREF="http://www.orangesv.com" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Orange Labs Silicon Valley</A> for hosting the Presidio Forum's inaugural event.<BR><BR></P> <P CLASS="MsoNormal"><IMG SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/4489000/unknown.png"><BR><IMG SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/4489000/unknown2.jpeg"></P>