FACE 2007 (28th of June) was a productive day with many interesting presentations, ideas and discussions. Before the event we asked all members of the community to send us their visions and presentations on future topics of Freeband. We invited 6 of them to present their ideas at FACE 2007.

We also invited two keynote speakers to share their thoughts with us. Emiel Aarts (Philips Research) told us everything about the future of Ambient Computing and Prof Ir. Ton Koonen (TU Eindhoven) presented the subject ‘Bring Broadband to the users’. There was a lot of emphasis on the business and user side within Freeband. Both Emiel Aarts and Mark Steen adressed these issues in their presentations.
This led to an interesting discussion about which parties should be asked to participate in the Freeband community. Another interesting subject, Smart Environments, was put forward by Emil Aarts, Bob Hulsebosch and Henk Eertink. The presentation of Mark Steen was labeled ‘best’ by public vote. Henk Eertink and Bob Hulsebosch came in a good second and third.
We continued the discussion on the future topics of Freeband during the first workshop at 21 September as a part of the ICT Innovation Platform ‘Intelligent Communication’, which was launched at ICT Delta 2007.