Sponsors:
- STC
- Orange
- Qualcomm
- Motorola
- Umniah
- Zain
- Ericsson
Speakers:
- Mr. Khalid Abdalla, Head Of Business Development, BBC World Service
- Mr. Fayez Abu Awad, EVP MEA, Boost
- Mr. Mohammad Al Alawneh, Enterprise and Data Solutions Manager, Umniah
- Mr. Haif Bannayan, CEO, Jordan Education
- Mr. Sam Barnett, CEO, MBC Group
- Mr. Arnaud Bassi, Distribution Director, MENA
- Mr. Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
- Mr. Omar Christidis, Founder and CEO, ArabNet
- Mr. Ross Cormack, CEO, Nawras
- Mr. Emmanuel Durou, Director - TMT Consulting, Deloitte
- Mr. Hosam El Sokkari, Head of Audience, Yahoo! Middle East
- Mr. Tom Erskine, Director of Smart Devices, Nokia
- Dr. Nabeel Fayoumi, V.P Testing, Quality, & ICT, Royal Scientific Society
- Dr. Usama Fayyad, Executive Chairman, Oasis500
- Mr. Jeremy Foster, Head of marketing, Government and Industry Relations, Ericsson Region Middle East
- Eng. Mohammad Mounir Ghannam, CEO, Damamax
- Mr. Saed Habash, commission for western Asia (ESCWA), ESCWA Technology centre
- Mr. Bassam Hajhamad, Principle, Booz & Company
- Mr. Ahmad Hanandeh, CEO, Zain Jordan
- Dr. Bassam Hannoun, CEO, Wataniya Palestine
- Mr. Mustafa Hasan, GM, Hulul
- Mr. Ghassan Hasbani, CEO, Saudi Telecom Company
- Ms. Julia Hildebrand, Deutsche Welle
- Mr. Ihab Hinnawi, CEO, Umniah
- Mr. Athanas Jamo, Strategic Marketing Manager, France24
- Prof. Ibrahim Kadi, ICT consultant
- Mr. Hakam Kanafani, CEO, Turk Telekom
- Ms. Nayla Khawam, CEO, Jordan Telecom Group - Orange
- Dr. Ali Krecht, Technical Operations, TRA - Lebanon
- Mr. Latif Ladid, President, Ipv6 Forum
- Mr. Didier Lelievre, Chief Information Technology and Networks Officer, Jordan Telecom Group - Orange
- Mr. Anders Lindblad, Head of Region Middle East and North Africa, Ericsson
- Mr. Peter Lyons, Director of Spectrum Policy - Africa and Middle East, GSMA
- Dr. Ismaeel Makdisi, VP Corporate affairs, STC
- Mr. Ziad Matar, Sr. Director - Head of the Middle East & Central Asia, Qualcomm
- Mr. Yousef Mutawe, CTO, Zain Jordan
- Mr. Zakaria Nabil, Head of products and solution, Vodafone Egypt
- Mr. Bassel Ojjeh, CEO, nPario
- Mr. Ahmed Ossama, VP Telephony & Home, Telecom Egypt
- Mr. Rohit Raja, Director – Strategic Sales, Tech Mahindra
- Mr. Tarek Saadi, President, Ericsson North Middle East
- Mr. Santino Saguto, Partner, Deloitte
- Mr. Jay Srage, President, Middle East and Africa, Qualcomm
- Mr. Alper Turken, Director of Sales for Southern Europe, Middle East & Africa, Motorola Home Business
- Mr. Philippe Vogeleer, Executive - External Affairs, Vodafone Group
- Mr. Mohamed Youssif, CEO, Yahlive
- Mr. Roy Zakka, Founder and CEO, Ubanquity Systems
- Mr. Jawad Abbassi, Founder and General Manager, Arab Advisors Group
Agenda:
- The state of the industry panel
- The state of the industry: reflections on 2011, 2012 and beyond
- 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
- Driving the evolution of TV and a smart, simple connected home
- The “Rendezvous”: Convergence Startups & industry incumbents.
- The Revolution of Cloud Computing
- Key issues surrounding mobile broadband
- Convergence Strategies Panel: Cloud-based future?
- Regulatory context and public sector initiatives
- Service Providers plans for cloud-based services
- Private clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds
- Role of regional and global players
- The Three Iąs of big Data: How Intent and Insights Lead to Impact
- “Sherkety”: the bilingual cloud computing solution targeting SMEs in the Middle East.
- Today's Cloud, Same Same or Different?
- A video address by Mr. Vint Cerf on the ongoing challenges facing broadband Internet
- Panel on broadband
- The state of the broadband markets in the Arab World
- Technologies deployments and preferences? FTTH vs wireless vs copper!
- Regional online markets
- LTE and 3G
- Are operators ready for the IPv6 transition? Or do we face an impending problem?
- Media Galore: Strategies for Broadcast, Online and Social Media
- Broadcast Media online strategies
- The state of online advertising globally and regionally
- Strategies for enhancing online advertising in the region
- Arabic news TV channels broadcasting in Arabic and there distribution / broadcast strategies in the region
- Profiling the Arab Internet and Cellular users
- Convergence in the service of education: JEI as an example.
The Debates
A- User Generated Content, FTA TV, sponsored content have all but killed the prospects of Paid Content? Paid content is dead.
B- Mobile Advertising by operators. Is Dead on Arrival. No Future!
