financial times hosts the 29th world telecoms conference - FT Live

FINANCIAL TIMES HOSTS THE
29 TH WORLD TELECOMS CONFERENCE
SMART MOVES FOR CHANGING TIMES
LONDON: 18 October 2010: The Financial Times today announced the full speaker line-up
for the 29 th World Telecoms Conference, taking place in London on 16 and 17 November 2010.
Sponsored by Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Alcatel-Lucent, Tata Communications and Kit digital,
the two day conference will take place at the Marriott Grosvenor Square in London. Global
industry leaders will discuss how telecoms players can adapt their businesses to thrive in
today’s broadening communications eco-system.
Global communications are developing to the point where almost everything – and everyone –
is connected. Emerging technologies and services are changing the shape of the telecoms
sector, with new players entering all parts of the value chain. Competition to own the customer
has never been stronger, reaching nearly every segment of the market and fuelling debate
about the role of regulation. The conference will host discussions about how telecoms players
can become more competitive, innovative and efficient in these changing times.
The FT World Telecoms Conference features 38 speakers, panelists and chairs from around the
globe:
Andrew Parker, Telecoms Editor, Financial Times (Chair)
Richard Waters, West Coast Managing Editor, Financial Times (Chair)
Ian Livingston, CEO, BT Group
The Hon Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries,
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, UK Government
Matthew Key, CEO, Telefónica Europe
Erik Huggers, Director, Future Media and Technology, BBC
Ed Richards, CEO, Ofcom
Nick Read, CEO, Asia Pacific and Middle East Region, Vodafone
Gabriele Galateri di Genola, Chairman, Telecom Italia
Florian Seiche, President, HTC Europe, Middle East and Africa
Bhaskar Gorti, SVP and General Manager, Communications Global Business Unit, Oracle
Erwan Ménard, VP and General Manager, Communications and Media Solutions Business
Unit, HP

Adolfo Hernandez, EVP and President EMEA, Alcatel-Lucent
Laurie Bowen, President – Sales and Strategy, Global Data and Mobility, Tata
Communications
Malin Frenning, Deputy Head of Business Area Broadband Services, TeliaSonera
Andrew Barron, COO, Virgin Media
Naohide Nagatsu, General Manager, R&D European Representative Office, R&D Planning
Department, NTT
Ahmad Julfar, Group COO, Etisalat
Stephen Bates, Managing Director, RIM UK
Rodrigo Barbosa, General Administrative Superintendent, Anatel
Michael Antieri, President, Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions, AT&T
Rajiv Mehrotra, Founder, CEO and Chairman, VNL
Olaf Swantee, EVP, Europe and Sourcing, Orange France Telecom
Phil Jordan, CIO, Telefónica O2 UK
Russell Buckley, AdMob Evangelist, Google
William So, Former President, China Unicom (Europe)
David McCourt, CEO, Skyware Global
Stephen Howard, Head of Global Telecoms, Media and Technology Research, HSBC
Leong Keng Thai, Deputy Chief Executive and Director-General (Telecoms and Post),
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Simon Weeden, Head of European Telecoms Research, Citigroup
Gerd Leonhard, Media Futurist, Author and CEO, The Futures Agency
Mike Fairman, CEO, giffgaff
Stewart Easterbrook, CEO, Starcom MediaVest UK
Shaun Collins, Managing Director, CCS Insight
Emma Lloyd, Director of Mobile, BSkyB
Wolfgang Kniese, CFO, T-Mobile Austria
Hannes Wittig, Telecoms Analyst, JPMorgan
Faisal Galaria, Global Head of Business Development, Spotify
These speakers will be addressing some of the following key themes:
Regulation: How will regulatory approaches shape the future of the global telecoms
marketplace, and what effect will they have on commercial strategies and revenues?
Reinventing next generation networks: How can the industry ensure fixed and mobile
networks offer optimum speed, performance and accessibility via the various available
devices?
Emerging markets: Which markets will be the key to growth over the next three to five
years and which strategies will allow businesses to capitalise on the opportunities
available?

CEO insights: What lessons have industry leaders learned over the past 12 months and
what opportunities and threats do they foresee on the road ahead?
Efficiencies: What are the cost-optimisation initiatives that will still allow telecoms
businesses to focus on their strategic goals?
Value-added services: How can the telecoms sector contribute to the major emerging
growth areas within digital entertainment?
The new digital consumer: How is consumer behaviour changing as new platforms and
digital channels open up, and what does this mean for companies attempting to build
relationships with consumers?
Further information about the conference can be found online at:
www.ftconferences.com/telecoms
For press accreditation please contact:
Julien Payet
FT Global Conferences & Events
E: julien.payet@FT.com
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About the Financial Times:
The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised
internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment,
data and analysis for the global business community, the newspaper, printed at 24 print sites
across the globe, has a daily circulation of 376,564 (ABC figures August 2010), while FT.com
has over 2.7 million registered users and 149,047 digital subscribers. The FT’s combined print
and paid digital circulation is 563,026 (Deloitte assured, July 2010) and it has a combined print
and online average daily readership of 1.9 million people worldwide (PwC assured, November
2009)
Details of all FT Conferences can be found online at: www.ftconferences.com
About Oracle:
Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world's top 20 communications
companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific
BSS and OSS solutions with a standards-based service delivery portfolio, as well as the
capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and
carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service
providers to deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction
and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit
www.oracle.com.
About Hewlett Packard:
As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to
create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. With HP
Communications and Media solutions HP helps you transform the customer experience and
achieve operational excellence through improved service delivery, customer intelligence, billing

and operations support systems, as well as mobile and digital media offerings. With a wide
portfolio of telecom and media specific software solutions and state of the art hardware, HP is
recognised as the only IT vendor with Telco industry content that implements specific Telco
knowledge in an end to end approach, assisting you to achieve challenging business goals. For
more information, visit www.hp.com/cms.
About Alcatel-Lucent:
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted transformation partner of service
providers, enterprises, strategic industries such as defense, energy, healthcare, transportation,
and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video
communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband
networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled
technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the
communications industry. With operations in more than 130 countries and the most
experienced global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a
global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 15.2 billion in 2009 and is incorporated
in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit www.alcatellucent.com.
About Tata Communications:
Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. With a
leadership position in emerging markets, Tata Communications leverages its advanced
solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver
managed solutions to multi-national enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.
The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable
networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs,
and nearly 1 million square feet of data center and collocation space worldwide.
Tata Communications' depth and breadth of reach in emerging markets includes leadership in
Indian enterprise data services, leadership in global international voice, and strategic
investments in operators in South Africa (Neotel), Sri Lanka (Tata Communications Lanka
Limited), and Nepal (United Telecom Limited).
Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock
Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL). For
more information, visit www.tatacommunications.com.
About Kit digital:
KIT digital (NASDAQ: KITD) is a leading, global provider of on-demand, Internet Protocol (IP)based
video asset management systems, with more than 1,000 enterprise customers across
30+ countries.
VX, the KIT digital end-to-end software platform, is used by telecommunications companies to
deliver live and on-demand video content to millions of mobile users around the world. The
software currently supports nearly 500 types of mobile handsets with over 350 content
channels in more than 20 countries. For more information, visit www.kitd.com.