Tuesday 24 May 2011

• 07.00 - 18.00
  BADGE PICK-UP AND ONSITE REGISTRATION
  Location: Hotel Lobby – Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
• 08.00 - 17.00
  EXHIBITION AND BILATERAL TABLES
  Location: Halls A, B & C, Exhibit Level
• All Day
  MEETINGS IN MEETING ROOMS
• 09.00 - 10.30
  THE MIDDLE EAST: PROMOTING GROWTH WITH STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS AND DIVERSIFYING YOUR WHOLESALE BUSINESS
  Location: Maryland B, Lobby Level
• 09.00 - 09.15
  Coffee and networking
• 09.15 - 09.30
  ANALYST PRESENTATION ON MARKET SHARES, CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS AND GROWTH STATISTICS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST CARRIER MARKET
  
  PRESENTER: Louay Abou Chanab , Principal, Communications, Media & Technology Practice, BOOZ & COMPANY 
  
• 09.30 - 10.15
• EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE
  • What will be the impact of new regional and international cables coming online within the next year?
  • How can carriers in the region work together to promote telecoms and ICT development across the Middle East?
  • What impact are new broadband access and devices having on the growth of the Arabic internet?
  • How is the development of content in the Middle East progressing? What are the major investments in the region to support this?
  • What are the next major growth markets in the region?
  • measuring the progress of development in Iraq 
  MODERATOR: Louay Abou Chanab , Principal, Communications, Media & Technology Practice, BOOZ & COMPANY
  
  PANELLISTS:
  Andrew Grenville , Executive Vice President Investments, du
  Ali Amiri , Executive Vice President, Wholesale and Carrier, ETISALAT
  Taher Bouzayen , Vice President Global Wholesale and International, QTEL
  Sa'ad bin Ahmed Demyati , Vice President, Wholesale,  STC
  Radwan Moussali , Managing Director and Regional Head for Middle East and North Africa Region for Global Data and Mobility Services, TATA COMMUNICATIONS
• 10.00 – 10.30
  Coffee and networking
• 10.00 - 11.30

  Sponsored by

  MORNING COFFEE BREAK
  Location: Atrium, Exhibit Level
  All ITW delegates are invited
• 10.00 – 11.30
  BREAKFAST & GLOBAL ETHERNET SESSION HOSTED BY GLOBAL TELECOM & TECHNOLOGY (GTT)
  Location: Virginia A, Lobby Level
  All ITW delegates are invited
  

  GLOBAL TELECOM & TECHNOLOGY “GLOBAL ETHERNET” PRESENTATION & BREAKFAST EVENT
  

  Join GTT for coffee & breakfast and an insight into Global Ethernet:

  - Carrier Ethernet peering opportunities
  - Carrier Ethernet wholesale services and interconnection developments and trends
  - Changing business requirements of Global Enterprises and the need for Carriers to create a solutions-oriented approach
  - The Cloud and next-generation Carrier Ethernet, MPLS, and packet-optical technologies that are being used to support high-performance business
  Following the session, there will also be an opportunity for you to network with industry peers
  
  Win a Free iPad – Drawing Held During Show!!

  SPEAKERS:
  John Hendler, Senior Vice President, GTT
  Rick Calder, President & CEO, GTT
  

• 11.00 – 12.30
  INTRODUCING:  Global Business Exchange for Telecom (GBET)
  HOSTED BY IXLINK
  Location: Delaware A, Lobby Level
  All ITW delegates are invited 
  

  Adopting Best Practices and Exchange Principals for International Wholesale Commercial, Operational and Financial Transactions:
  
  The Global Business Exchange (GBET) will bring together the wholesale community to inform, educate and channel ideas to establish best practices and standards for electronic trading, risk management and back office automation.

  Join the GBET and your peers to brainstorm and construct transformational ways and solutions for:
  •Automating common business transactions, (i.e. buying and selling, settlements and reconciliations);
  •Synchronizing common formats and templates, (i.e. SLA, Trouble Tickets and Agreements);
  •Bringing together all industry standard entities associated with international telecom wholesale to drive toward industry wide practices
   
  Deutsche Telekom ICSS, Verizon, TeliaSonera International Carrier, and iBasis have agreed to serve as the founding Directors of GBET.
   
  The GBET Chairperson, Margaret Morosi, Head of Global Services at Deutsche Telekom-ICSS, and the GBET board will introduce you to its mission, goals, and objectives as well as solicit ideas on industry-wide best practices, and the shift towards electronic collaboration.
  
  MODERATOR: Christopher McChesney , Senior Vice President, BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN

• PANELLISTS:
  Margaret Morosi, Head of Global Services, DEUTSCHE TELEKOM 
  Henrik Liungman, Director of Marketing for International Wholesale, VERIZON
  Simon Dodsworth, Director of Trading Operations, TELIASONERA INTERNATIONAL CARRIER 
  Katherine Doe, Vice President of Commercial Operations, IBASIS
  Mark Hatam, General Manager, IXLINK

• 11.00 – 12.30
  REGIONAL FOCUS ON AFRICA: TRANSFORMING AFRICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITALISING ON MARKET EXPANSION
  Location: Maryland B, Lobby Level
  
  
• 11.00 – 11.15
  Coffee and networking
• 11.15 - 11.30
  ANALYST PRESENTATION ON MARKET SHARES, CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS AND GROWTH STATISTICS FOR THE AFRICAN CARRIER MARKETS
  
  PRESENTER: Paul Brodsky , Senior Analyst, TELEGEOGRAPHY
• 11.30 – 12.15
  EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE
  • Assessing the key developments in the African telecoms markets and how these changes have impacted the region
  • Role of new subsea systems expected to come online in the next 1-3 years: ACE, Lion2, WACS
  • Will additional capacity translate to increased fibre build outs and improved inland connectivity links?
  • Overcoming obstacles to further develop connectivity links to landlocked markets
  • Evaluating the importance of route diversity: ensuring redundancy and reliability, preventing outages
  • Identifying strategies to profit from the growth of key services
  • profiting from the increasing reliance on mobile banking
  • is there a need for local content hosting to lower costs of consuming data-rich services?
  • Pinpointing the future opportunities in the African markets
  • opportunities for African and international operators
  MODERATOR: Mike Conradi , Partner, DLA PIPER
  
  PANELLISTS:
  Mike van den Burgh , CEO GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS
  Nic Rudnick , CEO, LIQUID TELECOM
  Funke Opeke , CEO, MAIN ONE CABLE COMPANY
  Aslan Tricha , Vice President of Sales Engineering, SES 
  Chris Wood  , CEO, WIOCC
  
  12.15 - 12.30
• Coffee and networking
• 14.00 – 15.30
  REGIONAL FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA: KEEPING THE PACE WITH A RAPIDLY EXPANDING MARKETPLACE
  Location: Maryland B, Lobby Level
  
• 14.00 - 14.15
  Coffee and networking
  
• 14.15 - 14.30
  ANALYST PRESENTATION ON MARKET SHARES, CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS AND GROWTH STATISTICS FOR THE LATIN AMERICAN CARRIER MARKETS
   PRESENTER: John Krzywicki, Partner, ANALYSYS MASON 
• 14.30 - 15.15
  EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE
  • Assessing M&A activity and market consolidation: a closer look at the competitive landscape in Latin America
  • implications of regional and international investment
  • Assessing current capacity availability and route diversity in Latin America
  • government initiatives to promote connectivity to underserved regions
  • Promoting market innovation: evaluating the key services and technologies driving the market
  • Ensuring profitability from the growing uptake of content and data services
  • opportunities provided by 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games
  • Progressive business strategies to promote regional development
  • growth opportunities and creating new revenue streams
  • Anticipating future market trends: capitalising on new growth opportunities
  MODERATOR: Julian Rawle , Managing Partner, PIONEER CONSULTING
  
  PANELLISTS:
  Felix Camargo , Carrier Services Director for the Americas, CABLE&WIRELESS PANAMA
  Gabriel Holgado , EVP Latin America, GLOBAL CROSSING
  Genaro Garcia Dominguez , CEO, INTERNEXA
  Michael Wheeler , Vice President of the NTT Communications Global IP Network, NTT AMERICA
  Dolores Martos , Vice President Sales, Latin America & Caribbean, SES WORLD SKIES
  

  Rafael Arranz , EVP, Marketing Capacity & IP Sales American and Pacific, TELEFONICA INTERNATIONAL WHOLESALES SERVICES
  
  15.15 - 15.30
• Coffee and networking
14.00 – 15.50

ROUNDTABLE HOSTED BY NEUSTAR
Location: Delaware A, Lobby Level
All ITW delegates are invited 


TRANSITIONING TO IP FOR VOICE, MESSAGING AND VIDEO: USING ADDRESSING AND ROUTING THAT SAVE YOU MONEY AS YOU GROW: 

• Hear customers talk about the major challenges of going all IP 
• Find out why is so IP compelling for network interconnection
• Learn approaches that effectively support all IP implementation  
 • Understand why IMS and LTE aren't enough to capitalize on IP 

MODERATOR: Deborah Kish, Principal Research Analyst, in Garter Technology and Service Provider Research