Palm, Inc. is a platinum sponsor of the event and will have a booth on the expo floor as well as a couple of speaking opportunities. Palm will be participating in both the education session speaking about their Palm Wireless messaging Solutions and doing a customer success story presentation.

The event is intended for IT professionals at all levels in businesses across all industries, such as manufacturing, financial services, pharmaceutical, health care, telecommunications, etc. Gartner predicts mobile and wireless computing will really take off at full force in 2002, and the Gartner Mobile Business Solutions Event is intended to prepare you for this the explosion of mobile projects that will stem from the arrival of key technologies, such as 2.5G networks, programmable handsets, and next-generation PDAs. The event has been designed to answer questions like:

• What economic, social, and legal trends will affect enterprise adoption of mobile and wireless technologies for intranet, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer processes?

• How will applications and systems architectures evolve to exploit mobile and wireless capabilities?

• How will mobile and wireless applications and services be integrated into legacy systems?

• How will security and privacy be assured in an anywhere, anytime, "always on" world?

• What new kinds of traffic will mobile and wireless demand generate for enterprise networks and how will the traffic be optimized?

• Which products and services will be crucial to the mobile and wireless marketplace and which suppliers will dominate?

• How can enterprises update their views of total cost of ownership, return on investment, and productivity to cope with the influx of new generations of networked devices?

• How can access costs be managed when some users prefer to use expensive airtime instead of low-cost, state-of-the-art alternatives?