Broadband, Entertainment Convergence Execs Lead Star Speaker Line-Up at TelcoTV 2009

Broadband, Entertainment Convergence Execs Lead Star Speaker Line-Up at
TelcoTV 2009
Seven keynotes, 60 speakers, and 44 sessions in the greatest broadband TV
event to date

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Top names from AT&T, Sony Pictures, and
Nokia Siemens will be among the keynote speakers at this year's TelcoTV
Conference and Expo. They head an impressive line-up of over 60 speakers in
total, reflecting a broad mix of service providers, standards bodies, industry
forums, and vendors in what is recognized as the premier meeting place for the
many industries involved in the convergence of the entertainment and
communications markets.

John Donovan, Chief Technology Officer for AT&T, and author of The Value
Enterprise and Value Creating Growth, launches the keynote program at 8:30
a.m. on Wednesday, November 11. As overseer of AT&T's global technology
direction and innovation road map, including product development, network, and
engineering operations at AT&T Labs, he will provide invaluable insight into
industry developments at the highest level. Following him is a second keynote
by Ramu Potarazu, Chief Executive Officer of the newly formed Avail-TVN Media
- that day's Breakfast Seminar sponsor, presenting Video Over Broadband: TV's
Friend or Foe?.Brook Longdon, head of Global Home Entertainment for Nokia
Siemens Networks, speaks next. Longdon is responsible for business and overall
corporate strategy for media and entertainment solutions, a group that
embraces IPTV, MobileTV, and Converged Media delivery solutions. The keynote
session ends with a Keynote Panel, Charting TelcoTV's Future: Smooth Sailing
or Stormy Waters?.

Mitch Singer, Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice President of New Media
and Technology at Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., launches Thursday's
keynote session. Singer, who also is president of the Digital Entertainment
Content Ecosystem (DECE), is responsible for coordinating digital policy
across all Sony Pictures's businesses, with a keen focus on emerging and
disruptive technologies. He is responsible for developing new digital usage
models as well as coordinating Sony Pictures's worldwide, anti-piracy
activities and involvement in standards setting for the industry. He will be
followed by Bob Howard-Anderson, President and CEO of Occam Networks, then a
second Keynote Panel Broadband Stimulus: Where Do We Stand?. The speakers on
the two keynote panels will be joined by Joe Savage, Fiber to the Home
Council, North America, and Lisa Zaina, Chief of Staff for the Rural Utilities
Service.

Following the morning's keynote sessions, the main Expo opens, featuring more
than 150 exhibitors, and in the afternoon, the program continues with seven
parallel tracks comprising a total of no less than 44 educational seminars and
panel discussions, offering privileged insight into and analysis of the
evolving world of entertainment convergence, embracing mobile TV, Net video,
IPTV, hybrid models, and holistic convergence models. The seven track headings
will be:

-- Focus on the Subscriber - strategies to understand subscribers and
offer
insight into how to meet their changing demands.
-- New Media: Managing a Brave New World - probing the implications of
new
media, its dwindling threats and growing opportunities.
-- The Independent View - discussing telco TV issues unique to the
independent carrier's situation.
-- Video Technology Platforms: Putting the Pieces Together - exploring
the
latest technology innovation available to telco TV service providers.
-- Telco TV Strategy: Defining the Winning Approach - insight into
winning
business strategies for telco TV and broadband.
-- Conquering the Home: Life Beyond the NID - the challenges and
opportunities when service providers enter the customer premise.
-- Content Strategies - offering insight into the changing role of
content
and its implications for service providers of all sizes.

-- For further details visit: http://www.TelcoTVonline.com.

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