Private Wireless Networks Tutorial
Rethinking Campus Connectivity for Higher Education IT Leaders
December 9, 2025
8:00 am to 1:00 pm
Supported by:
Why You Should Attend
Internet2 TechExchange is the premier technical event in the global research and education (R&E) community.
This year’s program includes expert-led sessions with exciting content in four tracks, along with tutorials, working meetings, and co-located events.
Tutorial Summary: To equip higher education IT leaders with a strategic understanding of advanced wireless networking solutions like Private 5G and Neutral Host, demonstrating their transformative potential for campus safety, research & innovation, grant acquisition, and advanced campus operations.
Sessions Include:
- Beyond Wi-Fi: Making Wireless a Strategic Foundation for Your Connected Campus
- Solving the Cellular Coverage Challenge: New Cost-Effective Solutions for Campus Safety and
Operations - Leading with Private 5G Innovation Hubs: Driving Research, Grants & Revenue
- Advanced Application Innovation with Programmable Networks.
- How advanced wireless solutions are a foundational layer for critical campus operations, enhancing everything from smart buildings to
Location/Venue:
1550 Court Place, Denver, CO, 80202
Reservations: 888-627-8405
Tutorial Leaders
Ashish Jain
Co-Founder
Private Wireless PRO
Mark Houtz
Regional IT Director
Northeastern Utah Educational Svcs
Program At a Glance
12:00pm
Badge Pickup, On-site Registration, Networking
1:00pm
Welcome & Introductions
- Tim Downs, Cofounder, Wireless Enterprise Professionals LLC
1:10pm
From Bottleneck to Enabler: Architecting Your Digital Infrastructure for the AI Era.
Is your digital infrastructure hindering business growth and innovation? Today’s business ambitions, from AI-driven productivity to intelligent automation, demand more than just a traditional network. This opening session compels business and IT leaders, along with system integrators, to re-evaluate their digital transformation strategy. We’ll discuss the essential building blocks that are critical for supporting data-intensive workloads and achieving key business outcomes. Learn how to ensure your underlying infrastructure is a strategic enabler, not a bottleneck.
- Ashish Jain, Wireless Enterprise Professionals
1:30pm
Case Study: Large Outdoor Facilities
Why would an outdoor fairground complex require private cellular? Learn from this practical case study on the challenges and solutions to large, outdoor/indoor facility footprints, and the applications that are driving new technology adoption. This is instructional for industrial enterprise, higher education, schools, and any large outdoor facility that moves people, goods and ‘things.’
- Deborah Simpier, CEO, Hawk Industries
1:50pm
It’s the Application! Make the Network Serve Your Unique Application Needs – Dynamically!
Digital automation applications, especially bespoke applications, are a tidal wave of complexity approaching the network IT staff. Applications drive enterprise productivity, security, automation and intelligence; however the underlying network (however smart) is still treated like a dump pipe. This session examines the role of the emerging class of network-aware enterprise applications – and rethinking application and network interaction with programmable network APIs.
- Harpreet Geekee, CTO, Shabodi
- Ashish Jain, Wireless Enterprise Professionals
2:15pm
Case Study: Network Aware Applications for Manufacturing, Airports, Events & Entertainment
- Harpreet Geekee, CTO, Shabodi
2:30pm
Spotlight On: Education, Campus Networks and School Districts
The ever-higher demand from students and staff for cloud services and applications (AI, AR and VR and gaming), and therefore for ever-higher connectivity capabilities is driving significant digital infrastructure change at universities, community colleges, school districts and office campuses. In this session visionary leaders will share their experience on leveraging emerging wireless for campus-wide transformation, addressing key priorities like safety (emergency calling), operational efficiency (campus operations), academic advancement (research & innovation hubs, remote education), and enhancing the student experience.
- Mark Houtz, Utah Telehealth and Educational Services
3:15pm
Audience Q&A and Break
3:30pm
Charting Your Wireless Transformation Journey – Best Practices for SIs and IT Leaders
A focused session providing system integrators and IT/OT Executives with practical insights into evolving their wireless strategy, key application considerations, and real-world deployment strategies. This strategic discussion will guide attendees on how to assess their specific needs, identify relevant use cases, and develop a roadmap for implementing emerging wireless applications for their business needs.
- Ian Watson, Aura Wireless
- Gerry Ford, CEO North America, Baicells
- Dominic Lechasseur, Head of Business Solutions, BTI Wireless
- Tim Downs, Wireless Enterprise Professionals (Moderator)
4:15pm
Proactive Connectivity Planning: Experience New AI Tools to Reduce Risks and Accelerate Deployment
In this session you will experience live demonstration of how the next generation planning tools leverage AI & digital twin strategies to plan private cellular networks that traditional mobile 2G, 3G and 4G didn’t have. In short, designing and deploying enterprise networks is less complicated, less costly and easier to manage than large public mobile networks.
- Mark Houtz, Utah Telehealth and Education Services