Models and Visions for Market Growth, Innovation and Profitability
The Broadband and Beyond conference to be held in Sydney on 3 and 4 March 2008 will bring together local and international IT, media and telco thought leaders to explore the business opportunities convergence of communications, media and information technology is creating.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is the keynote speaker and will be joined by Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and a host of other international and local speakers who have been selected to provide the Australian audience with a robust and varied perspective on the converging communications environment.
Together they will explore, debate and explain future trends, business opportunities, the impact of climate change and green technologies on the communications industry; world's best practice and global trends in broadband services.
The theme of the conference is Models and Visions for Market Growth, Innovation and Profitability which include:
- Convergence: What it will deliver and who benefits
- How high bandwidth helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Odd coupling in a digital era: or how broadband is creating new and unlikely business alliances.
Broadband and Beyond 2008 offers all industry participants the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the scale and scope of the impact which broadband-enabled convergence will have on our industry and our community.
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Steve Wozniak Co-Founder Apple Computers Inc. (USA) |
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Senator Stephen Conroy Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy |
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Dennis Muscat Senior Vice President of South Asia PacNet |
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Jack Matthews CEO Fairfax Digital |
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Nigel Dews Chief Executive Officer Hutchison Telecom |
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Shirley Lue Arnold Non-Executive Chairman Telkom SA (South Africa) |
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Didier Dillard Head of domestic wholesale France Telecom |
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Mark Scott Managing Director Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Berit Svendsen Vice President and Head Nordic Fixed, Telenor (Norway) |
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Stefan Gustafsson VP Global Sales & Marketing Packetfront, Sweden |
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Annikki Schaerferdiek Vice President, Marketing & Strategy, Multimedia Division Ericsson, Sweden |
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The conference is co-hosted by Communications Alliance and Telstra Wholesale. Communications Alliance chief executive Anne Hurley said Broadband and Beyond was an industry first.
"We are encouraging the industry to take a step outside the day-to- day issues we are dealing with and come together to discuss and debate the big-picture industry issues that will shape our future," Ms Hurley said.
Kate McKenzie, Telstra Wholesale’s Group Managing Director, said she was pleased to support this inaugural industry event.
"At a time when the industry is looking forward to working with the new Federal Government on its plans for the digital economy, now more than ever is the right time to be debating and discussing broadband issues," Ms McKenzie said.
Communications Alliance has been a long-term advocate of a proactive approach to the development of broadband technologies in Australia.
Communications Alliance was formed in 2006 to provide a unified voice for the Australian communications industry and to lead it into the next generation of converging networks, technologies and services.
Membership of Communications Alliance is drawn from a wide cross-section of the communications industry, including service providers, vendors, consultants and suppliers as well as business and consumer groups.
Kate McKenzieAnne Hurley
Group Managing DirectorCEO
Telstra WholesaleCommunications Alliance Ltd
Conference Secretariat:Conexion Event Management
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