"Enabling fixed and wireless networks for broadband media services"

This industry summit and networking event will provide a unique forum to discuss some of the critical issues facing media companies and network operators seeking to enable new online and mobile broadband services. With voice revenues under pressure, network operators and service providers need to acquire new subscribers and increase revenues by offering new services, while minimizing infrastructure and operational costs involved with the rollout of new services.

 

Speakers Include:

Dr. William Cooper (Summit Chair) Founder and CEO, informitv	Neil Holloway Vice President Business Strategy, Microsoft International	Adrian Finighan International Anchor & Correspondent, CNN

Bill Scott (Keynote) Leader,Digital Consumer Media & Entertainment, IBM	Dr. Katja Mueller (Moderator) Research Director, Point Topic	Anette Schaefer (Moderator) Director EMEA, Entertainment Strategies Yankee Group

Alan Hadden President of Global mobile Suppliers, Association (GSA)	Eran Rom CEO, Jungo	Dr. Myles MacBean VP Disney Online, Walt Disney Internet Group Europe

Simon Danker Director of Digital Media, BBC Worldwide	Richard Jukes Managing Director, Ground Up Media (Gum)	Niall Murphy Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer The Cloud

Suranga Chandratillake Chief Executive Officer, blinkx	Simon Loe Head of Sector Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent	Russel Buckley Managing Director, Europe, Admob Inc.

 

IPTV and wireless or mobile broadband services are among those being currently deployed to increase their product portfolio and maintain the loyalty of subscribers.

Fixed mobile convergence and broadband gateways are among the strategies by which network and service providers are seeking to maintain their connection to consumers.

Meanwhile, media owners are rapidly rolling out new services over the top of existing networks, taking advantage of growing consumer demand for ever faster broadband networks.

• Next generation networks promise to bring entertainment services to the home and to the handset, but can the current infrastructure meet the increasing demand for high quality audio and video?
   
• How successful will service providers be in offering television and video over their telephone networks and how will they cope with the rising levels of over the top traffic generated by online services?
   
• How will home networks be managed to enable media to be delivered, stored and distributed to multiple devices?
   
• How far will broadband wireless networks be able to compete with fixed networks in offering high capacity services at reasonable cost?
   
• How will consumers ultimately pay for the infrastructure upgrades necessary to deliver the next generation of on-demand media and mobile data services?
   

These and other questions call for the gathering of industry thought leaders to address some critical issues that will determine the future of media and communications.