PTC'09 Call For Participation

The Call for Participation for PTC’09 is now open! Proposals due 6 July 2008. Submit your proposal online. PTC’09 will focus on the vital role of collaboration in bringing new communications services to market.

The conference will simultaneously highlight the impact that collaborative efforts have on the industry, while featuring the importance of collaboration as the means by which ever-more complex systems and services are developed and distributed.

Special consideration will be given to proposals that address the conference theme and the following topic areas:

1. International Communications: A World of Opportunity

2. Submarine Networks: Growth and Transformation

3. Satellite Communications: Where the Earth Meets the Sky

4. Mobile Communications: Life with Ubiquitous Broadband

5. Whither Voice? Do Voice Carriers have a Future?

6. New Applications Driving Broadband Demand

7. The Enterprise Market: Becoming One with the Customer

8. Public Policy and Building Civil Society

9. Hot Topics

Proposals are accepted for Featured Speakers, Managed Sessions, Topical Presentations, Industry Briefings, Workshops and Research Papers including submissions for the research paper prizes for participants and students.

Proposals are due 6 July. (Complete student research paper submissions are also due 6 July.) Submit a proposal. See the complete Call for Participation for details.

Many thanks to the volunteer members of the PTC’09 Program Committee:

Stephan Beckert - Co-Chair; Director of Research, Telegeography
Richard Taylor - Co-Chair; Professor and Co-Director, Institute for Information Policy, PSU
Tom Costello, Vice President, Content Development, IEC
Susan Irwin, President, Irwin Communications
David Lassner, Vice President & CIO, University of Hawaii
Steve McClelland, Principal and Consulting Editor, Personal Media Press
Shrihari Pandit, President, Stealth Communications
Morley Winograd, Executive Director, Center for Telecoms Management, USC
Lorain Wong, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Pacnet
Ken Zita, Managing Partner, Network Dynamics Associates