Sponsors:
Speakers:
- Samer Abdin, Co-Founder, Istikana
- Abdelfattah Abu Qayyas, ICT / HR Consultant, CITC KSA
- Shawkat Ahmed, COO, Yahsat
- Ammar Aker, CEO, Paltel Group
- Jihad Alammar, Founder and CEO, Qaym
- Mohanned Audeh, Corporate Sales Manager, Zain Jordan
- Imad Ayoub, CEO, Cyberia
- Francis Barel, Business Development, PayPal
- Sam Barnett, CEO, MBC Group
- Ahmed Barqawi, CEO, iAraby
- Christine Beylouni, Director General, FTTH Council MENA
- Girish Bhat, VP & Business Head for MEA, Tech Mahindra
- Frederic Bonnard, VP, New Media France 24 & Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya
- Nart Bouran, Head, Sky News Arabia
- Lionel Bringuier, Senior Solutions Architect - EMEA, Elemental Technologies
- Sacha Dudler, Advisor to CEO, STC
- Akram Farag, Managing Partner, Oxygen Consulting
- Nabeel Fayoumi, Vice President, RSS-Testing, Technology, & Quality
- Usama Fayyad, Executive Chairman, Oasis500
- Peter Ford, Managing Director, Emerging Markets, Cisco Systems
- Luigi Gambardella, Chairman of the Executive Board of (ETNO) and Vice President of Telecom Italia
- Mohammad Monir Ghannam, Chief Executive Officer, DAMAMAX
- Samer Halawa, President, Globitel
- Ahmad Hanandeh, CEO, Zain Jordan
- Ghassan Hasbani, Digital Economy Expert, former CEO STC International
- Khaled Hegazy, External Affairs Director, Vodafone Egypt
- Paul Hijazin, Executive Producer, Dubai Media Incorporated
- Ihab Hinnawi, CEO, Umniah
- Imad Hoballah, Chairman and CEO Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Lebanon
- Sebastian Hoff, Market Development Director, Ericsson
- Ihsan Jawad, Partner, Honeybee Tech Ventures Ltd
- Mohamad Khawaja, CEO, Startappz
- Ali Korur, Regional VP MENA, Eutelsat
- Andreas Krenn, Head of Marketing and Government/Industry Relations Ericsson Middle East
- Latif Ladid, Founder & President, IPv6 Forum
- Jean-François Leprince-Ringuet, CCO, Eutelsat
- Ismaeel Makdisi, CEO, Intigral
- Tarek Mansour, CEO, iPhoneIslam
- Mohammed Nour Mehyar, Director - Sales & Business Development, Es'hailSat
- Mohamad Mourad, Regional Manager Gulf, Google
- Yousef Mutawe, CTO, Zain Jordan
- Abhijit Navalekar, Principal, Booz & Company
- Ahmed Ossama, Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer, TE Board Member & MD, TE Data
- Tim Peters, Principal, A.T. Kearney UAE Ltd.
- Wissam Rabadi, Executive Director, iPark
- Tarek Saadi, President of Ericsson, North Middle East Region
- Santino Saguto, Partner | Consulting, Deloitte & Touche (M.E.)
- Nael Salah, Managing Director and Founder, ESKADENIA Software
- Fares Sayegh, General Manager, Roya TV
- Nabil Shanti, VP & CCO, Arabsat
- Sami Smeirat, VP Orange Jordan / CEO Jordan Data Communication Company
- Mohammad Al – Taani, Chairman and CEO, TRC Jordan
- Jean-Francois Thomas, CEO, Orange Jordan / Jordan Telecom Group
- Richard Warren, Managing Director, FirstPartner
- Jawad Abbassi,Founder and General Manager, Arab Advisors Group
Agenda:
- The state of the industry panel:
- The state of the industry: reflections on 2012, 2013 and beyond.
- Taxation issues.. what works and what hurts!
- The road ahead: A focus on organic growth or more mergers and acquisitions?
- Progress report on consolidation with adjacent segments: Media into broadband, telcos into media
- Innovative business and revenue models.
- Plans for private and public cloud deployments by regional operators
- The Vision Panel: Predictions for the future of telecom services and media consumption in the region. No references to the present, the topic is the FUTURE and what to expect in it!
- The Focus Group panel: Industry incumbents "picking the brains" of consumers in the audience.
(Roles are reversed; the panelists will ask the audience questions that will start the discussion amongst the panelists)
- On the brink of a Networked Society
- Bringing new growth opportunities to broadcasters and telcos in the Middle East
- The Satellite Industry Panel: The dynamics of supply and demand of the regional Satellite industry. Demand for Vsat services by Telecom operators in rough terrains.
- The role of technology vendors in the regional eco system.
Startups under the spotlight
A selection of startups popularly nominated at the Amman Tech Tuesday anniversary. Presenting their business models directly to the audience who will interact and decide whether they would be future clients or not.
- Broadband enabled: The broadband markets in the region and their role in enabling the convergence eco-system
- Digital content, M/E Commerce & M/E payment panel
- Role of mobile and innovative e-payment schemes in encouraging the growth of e-commerce and m-commerce in the region? Will they deliver more than payment cards?
- NFC the best way forward or are other approaches such as cloud payments better? Indeed does the technology matter at all?
- Mobile Wallets, Mobile Money and their prospects in MENA
- Mobile Points of Sale
- Mobile Startups in the Arab World; leveraging the market boom for success.
- Can/should we develop global mobile apps from the Arab World? Why (not)?
- Successful business models for consumer focused apps?
- What’s missing in this region?
- Investment? Talent? Infrastructure? All or none?
- Five Trends That Predict The End of Traditional Video Delivery Multiscreen, Adaptive, Software Architectures, Cloud, HEVC
- The First Regional Software Quality Assurance Center @ RSS
- A score card for the Arab Media and Telecom markets
- Going back to basics in the news business
