Broadband Access: Overcoming Barriers
Intercontinental Resort Tahiti
12-14 September 2007
Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
PTC President’s Welcome Message
The Pacific Telecommunications Council is delighted to mark the return of our Midyear Seminar activity with an event in the heart of the Pacific. more…
Opening:
- Government of French Polynesia Representative
- OPT Executive, French Polynesia
- David Lassner, Vice-President and CIO, University of Hawaii; PTC President & Board of Governors Chair
Keynote Address:
- Claire Paponneau, Executive Vice President, France Telecom
Featured speakers:
- Ernie Newman, Chief Executive, Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand
- Gordon Bruce, CIO, Department of Information Technology, City and County of Honolulu
- Laurence-Patrick Doyle, Director, Technical Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
- Rajnesh Singh, COO, PATARA and Chairman, Pacific Islands Chapter, Internet Society
- Robert Walp, President Emeritus, GCI Inc.
- Samuele Taufao, IT Manager, Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- Sandeep Kumar, Sales Director - Australia & South Pacific, SES New Skies
- Savenaca Vocea, Australasia/Pacific Islands Liaison, ICANN Global Partnership
See the full program schedule for complete details.
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PTC’08
PTC'08: Telecom with Vision
30th Anniversary Conference
13-16 January 2008
Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa
Honolulu, Hawaii USA
This year’s theme, Telecom with Vision, will focus on the dramatic impact of interactive video and user-created content on telecommunications networks, markets and regulatory policy throughout the Asia-Pacific regions and around the world.
Online registration is available now!
Early Bird Registration - Best discount rates apply prior to 31 October.
Great Additional Features at PTC'08:
- Networker Registration Option
- Meeting Scheduler Only Registration Option
- PTC Pavilion
- Online Meeting Scheduler
- Address the Press @PTC'08
- Sponsorships
Featured Participants (confirmed):
- Andreas Georghiou, CEO, Spacenet, USA
- Claire Paponneau, Executive Vice President, International Wholesale Solutions, France Telecom, France
- Eli Noam, Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School, USA
- Helmut Angst, Senior VP and Head, International Sales and Solutions Division, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
- Ho-Chen Tan, Chairman and CEO, Chunghwa Telecom, Chinese Taipei
- Jack Waters, CTO, Level 3 Communications, USA
- John Repko, CIO, Covance, USA
- Kathryn Morrissey, President, Global Wholesale Services, AT&T, USA
- Kay Johansson, CTO, MobiTV, USA
- Khairuddin Ab Rahman, President and CEO, SMART Digital Communications, Malaysia
- Larry Beckwith, CIO, Bob Evans Farms, USA
- Masae Tamura, Senior Executive Vice President, NTT Communications. Corp., Japan
- Matthias Kurth, President, Federal Network Agency, Germany
- Michael Rouleau, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, Time Warner Telecom, USA
- Mohamed Rozaimy Abu Rahman, General Manager, Telekom Malaysia Global, Malaysia
- Neil Montefiore, CEO, MobileOne, Singapore
- Ofer Gneezy, President and CEO, iBasis, USA
- Paul Twomey, President and CEO, ICANN, USA
- Pham Long Tran, President and CEO, Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Corp., Vietnam
- Ricky Wong Wai Kai, Co-founder/Chairman, Hong Kong Broadcast Network, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Rosemary Sinclair, Managing Director, ATUG, Australia
- Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid, Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, (BDT), International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Switzerland
- Tetsuzo Matsumoto, Senior Executive Vice President, Softbank Mobile, Japan
- Tony Bates, Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems, USA
- William Barney, CEO, Asia Netcom, Hong Kong (SAR) China
Many more invited...
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PTC - Carnegie Mellon University Cooperation
by: Joe Mertz, Ph.D., Program Director, Technology Consulting in the Global Community, Carnegie Mellon University
PTC members have a new avenue for effective corporate social responsibility and bridging the digital divides in the Pacific region. PTC is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University’s Technology Consulting in the Global Community (TCinGC) program to help technologically underserved communities throughout the Pacific region improve their use of ICT.
Since its inception, part of the PTC’s mission has been to rally members around efforts “to overcome uneven development and competency divides.” TCinGC has a track record of success working with governments and non-profit entities to build their capacity to use, manage, and sustain their use of ICTs. This selective program trains and deploys university students with valuable technology skills to serve as ICT consultants.
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Bylaws Review Committee
The Bylaws Review Committee continues with discussions on 12 proposals for changes relating to the composition of the governing bodies of PTC and other organizational matters to improve the efficacy of the Council. Proposals are being discussed in view of arguments for and against each. The committee will be making recommendations to the Board of Governors (BG) with suggested language for bylaw amendments.
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Board of Governors Election: Succession Planning Committee (SPC) Appointed
Advisory Council Chair Ed Simnett has appointed Tim Logue and Chris Vonwiller as the SPC committee this year for the up-coming Board of Governors (BG) election.
The SPC is mandated in our current bylaws as a committee of the Advisory Council to autonomously organize and operate the election. The Secretariat provides support for this process and an independent accounting firm handles the ballot count and certifies the result.
This year, there are 7 seats (half of the 14 member BG) up for election for two-year terms to begin January 2008. There is no Advisory Council (AC) election as this is an off year from the two-year AC election cycle.
The current Board members with terms expiring January 2008 are:
Yoshikazu Kobayashi (For Profit, East Asia)
William Lin (For Profit, East Asia)
Richard Nickelson (Individual)
Richard Taylor (Individual)
Kenji Saga (Individual)
Robert Walp (For Profit, North America)There is also currently one vacant seat.
All members will be receiving a notice of the election on or about 14 September including the nomination form and criteria explanations. Nominations are due by 19 October. You can contact the committee by email: spc@ptc.org
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Members Hotbox
PTC Treasurer, William “Bill” Barney, CEO, Asia Netcom, Hong Kong, has been named Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pacific Internet Limited (PacNet), Singapore. details…
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Call for Handbook Chapter Proposals
The Handbook of Research on Auto-Identification and Ubiquitous Computing Applications: RFID and Smart Technologies for Information Convergence is to be published by Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference - an imprint of IGI Global), scheduled for release in 2008. If you have research interests in this area, the editors would like to invite you to submit a 2-3 page proposal for possible inclusion into the Handbook.
Please view the full call for chapters at http://www.fuzzyontology.co.uk/call/cfc.html If you are interested in writing a chapter, please contact Judith Symonds, Corresponding Editor, no later than 15 October 2007.
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Industry Events
Look for exclusive member discounts
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Asia Telecoms Business Intelligence Forum 2007
10-11 September 2007; Singapore
PTC members kindly quote EN-discount: PTC to receive 10% discount.
Asia MobileTV Congress 2007
11-13 September 2007; Hong Kong
PTC members will receive 15% discount on non-member conference registration fee to PTC members.
APSCC 2007 Satellite Conference & Exhibition: “Asia – Ready for Challenge”
18-20 September 2007; Bangkok, Thailand
PTC members will receive 20% discount on non-member conference registration fee to PTC members.
Vietnam International Communications Summit & Expo 2007 (Vietnam Comm07)
19-22 September 2007; Hanoi, Vietnam
Free Online Pre-registration and Free Vietnam Telecom Market Report are available for PTC members.
Broadband World Forum Europe 2007
8-11 October 2007; Berlin, Germany
PTC members are entitled to a 30% discount on conference programming. To register, please use this link: http://www.iec.org/events/2007/bbwf/register/vip_reg.html
SATCON 2007
10-11 October 2007; New York, New York, USA
PTC members kindly quote discount: 27SG516 to receive 20% discount.
Telecoms World India 2007
27-29 November 2007; New Delhi, India
PTC members will receive 15% discount on non-member conference registration fee to PTC members.
Broadband World Forum Americas 2007
3-6 December 2007; Sao Paulo, Brazil
PTC members are entitled to a 30% discount on conference programming. To register, please use this link: http://www.iec.org/events/2007/bbwf/register/vip_reg.html
Mobility World Congress & Exhibition
4-6 December 2007; Hong Kong
Click here for complete list of industry events
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