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Matthias Kunze is Managing Director for Yahoo! Connected Life in Asia. He is responsible for extending Yahoo!’s mobile products, broadband services and digital home experiences in the region. Matthias also oversees the deployment and distribution of Yahoo!’s revolutionary mobile products such as Yahoo! oneSearch, Yahoo! Go services, as well as leading the mobile monetization strategy across the Asia Pacific region. Matthias joined Yahoo! in 2007 as Director Mobile Monetisation for Connected Life in Asia. He is also the Vice Chairman of the APAC Chapter of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). Prior to joining Yahoo!, Matthias has been working in the mobile advertising industry for more than four years. He was the co-founder of Actionality, Inc., a mobile advertising company, which was acquired by Yahoo! in May 2007. He has also successfully co-founded three software companies and worked in the publishing and television business in Europe for many years. Matthias received an M.B.A degree from The University of Cologne, Germany. He currently lives in Singapore with his wife and two sons. Matthias enjoys competitive sports and was formerly a member of the national swimming team in Germany and had participated in the Ironman triathlons.

Matthias Kunze is Managing Director for Yahoo! Connected Life in Asia. He is responsible for extending Yahoo!’s mobile products, broadband services and digital home experiences in the region. Matthias also oversees the deployment and distribution of Yahoo!’s revolutionary mobile products such as Yahoo! oneSearch, Yahoo! Go services, as well as leading the mobile monetization strategy across the Asia Pacific region. Matthias joined Yahoo! in 2007 as Director Mobile Monetisation for Connected Life in Asia. He is also the Vice Chairman of the APAC Chapter of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). Prior to joining Yahoo!, Matthias has been working in the mobile advertising industry for more than four years. He was the co-founder of Actionality, Inc., a mobile advertising company, which was acquired by Yahoo! in May 2007. He has also successfully co-founded three software companies and worked in the publishing and television business in Europe for many years. Matthias received an M.B.A degree from The University of Cologne, Germany. He currently lives in Singapore with his wife and two sons. Matthias enjoys competitive sports and was formerly a member of the national swimming team in Germany and had participated in the Ironman triathlons.

Rahadian Krishna Sundara is Head of Business Research in R&D Center of PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (TELKOM). He is responsible for business strategy of the next product & services, market research, and strategic partnership.

Jamaludin Ibrahim joined TM International Berhad (TMI) on March 2008 as the President and Group Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, Jamaludin Ibrahim was with Maxis Communications Berhad, which he joined in 1997 and was appointed CEO in 1998. During Jamaludin’s decade of leadership with Maxis, the company’s revenue grew more than twenty-fold to about USD2.3 billion and net profit grew to about USD600 million. With nearly 30 years in the ICT industry Jamaludin was named Asian Mobile Operator CEO of the Year by Asian Mobile News Awards 2007. He is currently a board member of the GSMA.

Dr. Bruno is the Founder and CEO of Radius-ED, founded in 2000 and conceptualised as a messaging software R&D Company to address the needs of the mobile data industry. The Company is a global technology service provider and offers innovative messaging solutions and mobile marketing programs to its international partners and clients, including Global Brand Owners, Mobile Operators and Content Providers / Aggregators. Dr. Bruno Sorrentino has 30+ years of experience in the Telecommunication and Technology industries. He holds a PhD in the Faculty of Science from the University of London.

Stefan is MD and Founder of Catalist Group, an early stage technology investment business focused on mobile and web related services and software.

Adrian is responsible for business development in Asia with Spb Software.

On the cusp of his twenties, Suren Pinto took a simple idea and transformed it into a profitable business venture. Eight years later, he leads one of Sri Lanka’s most innovative Value Added Service providers to the telecommunications industry, a feat that was driven by a passion for delivering inventive technology. Suren received his education in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Australia.

Over the past 17 years, Paul has lived and worked in Asia as a media and interactive content pioneer. He created a number of groundbreaking interactive products and companies, launched and built localized versions of international media companies, and raised tens of millions of dollars in venture funding.

Along with his wife Elaine, Paul co-authored "The NUS Entrepreneur’s Handbook" for the National University of Singapore Press. Paul has been a speaker at hundreds of conferences, seminars and trade shows throughout Asia, Europe and the US and is the author dozens of articles for US and international magazines.

Gregory Wade's career spans seventeen years in business development, management, operations, sales and marketing. Wade joined RIM in 2001 and was relocated to Asia Pacific in 2005. During his tenure in North America, Wade was instrumental in establishing the business relationships and growing the BlackBerry offering for iDEN. In addition, Wade played a key role in supporting carrier marketing and solutions sales as well as third party application development. Wade graduated with an M.B.A degree from the Schulich School of Business ( York University) and holds a B.A. degree in History & Political Science from the University of Toronto, as well as minor in French from the University of Toronto.

Rajiv Mehrotra is a veteran of the telecom industry and the pioneer of satellite cable TV in India. He is the founder and chairman of the Shyam Group of companies, with revenues of $60+ million. Shyam Telecom, the flagship of the Shyam Group, has a footprint in all areas of telecom. Shyam Telelink was one of the first operators in the world to deploy CDMA technology for fixed wireless services, and Hexacom (now Airtel Cellular) was the first GSM operator in Rajasthan.

Arvind has more than 15 years of management experiensce spanning the wireless telecom and related application software industry segments. Previously, he served as VP of Strategy and Business Development at SpectraLink where his responsibilities included corporate strategy and investments, strategic partnerships, alliances and business development across Asia.

Before SpectraLink, he was the VP of Marketing at Hellosoft. Arvind is the founder and CEO of Malabar Associates, to help identify mobile wireless and telecom opportunities globally.

As Chief Operating Officer of the MEF, Kevin Vachon is in-charge with leading the MEF’s expanding scope of global activities to accelerate the implementation of the MEF mission. During his tenure, membership has grown rapidly to over 150 members, the MEF’s marketing structure has been globalised and standards development work has expanded. Mr. Vachon held the position of CEO of DIATEM Networks Inc., a Carrier Ethernet software company from 2003 to 2005 and was Chairman, President and CEO of NUVO Network Management, a network management outsourcing firm, from 1996 to 2002. Previously, he held other senior management positions with NUVO and spent 10 years in a wide variety of capacities with Gandalf Technologies.

Mark Dankberg is a co-founder of ViaSat, Inc and has served as CEO and Chairman of the company since its inception in 1986. He began his career with the Collins Radio Division of Rockwell International, and at Linkabit Corp in San Diego, where he held positions in engineering, technical management and business segment management.

He is an acknowledged industry expert in aerospace, defense and satellite communications and has co-developed several military standards on satellite networking. He has participated on Department of Defense advisory panels and was invited to testify before a Congressional committee on high technology growth companies and IPO’s.

Mark holds a number of patents in communications and satellite networking technologies.

Patrick joined NSR in September 2003 and has since authored numerous studies, the most recent being the Global Assessment of Satellite Demand, 5th. Edition and Broadband Satellite Markets 8 th. Edition.

Gregg Daffner is President of G3 Global Communications, an international satellite incubation and consulting firm providing regulatory, strategic planning, business development and transactional advice to satellite communications and information services companies, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Amiram Levinberg is a co-founder of Gilat and returned to the Company in 2005 as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He previously held positions as Gilat's President, Chief Operations Officer and Vice President of Engineering.

Huang Baozhong is the Executive VP of China Direct Broadcast Satellite Co.Ltd.

Pierre-Jean Beylier has been with SpeedCast since December 2000, first leading Sales & Marketing activities and then as CEO since July 2004. Under his tenure, SpeedCast has become a leading satellite service provider in Asia.He was previously working with Rhodia (ex Rhone-Poulenc), where he held successive Sales & Marketing positions spearheading global strategy initiatives.

David Ball became Intelsat’s Vice President, Asia Pacific in July 2006 when the company acquired PanAmSat. He held the same position with PanAmSat since January 2003.

Darby Sanchez was appointed Chief Executive Officer of GlobeCast Asia in January 2009, a role which she previously occupied from 2003 to 2006.

Patompob ( Nile) Suwansiri is currently the Head of Marketing of IPSTAR for THAICOM Public Company Limited and has over 15 years of experience in the satellite industry. Nile has been with THAICOM since its inception in 1992 and has worked in many aspects of the company.

Nongluck Phinainitisart, D. Eng., has been President of Thaicom PLC. since November 2000 and now she is also responsible for Marketing and Sales of Thaicom Satellite.

Ramesh Ramaswamy is assistant vice president of Marketing in the International Division at Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes). In this capacity he is responsible for the strategic development of products and services to be offered by Hughes in the international market.

Abdallah touhami in a Telecom engineer and obtained a Master of Science in Space Studies from the International Space University in France and MBA from the University of Strathclyde in the UK.

Daniel Enns is senior vice president strategic marketing & business development for Comtech EF Data. Focusing on strategic activities, Enns initiates development and orchestrates partnerships. He is considered a pioneer in IP networking via satellite. Prior to joining Comtech EF Data, Enns was General Manager/Founder of Crown Satellite LLC, guiding product and business development on SpectraCast® products. Under his leadership, Crown Satellite was acquired by Adaptive Broadband (formerly California Microwave/EF Data). Enns also held the position of engineering director for World Radio Missionary Fellowship. He holds a BSEE from the University of Manitoba.

Cynthia DICKINS is currently Senior Vice President, Market Development – Asia for SES NEW SKIES, a wholly owned subsidiary of SES S.A. (SES). Ms Dickins was previously President of SES Asia, an SES Business Development company, which was formally integrated into SES NEW SKIES at the beginning of the year. Ms Dickins has been with SES via various predecessor companies since 1997, when she joined GE Americom as Managing Director of Americom Asia Pacific, a Joint Venture with Lockheed Martin. Prior to GE, Ms Dickins held International Management positions with TV Shopping Network, PanAmSat Corporation and Pharmacia (formerly Monsanto Company). Ms Dickins holds a Masters of International Management degree from the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management in Arizona (USA) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Gonzaga University, Washington ( USA). Originally from Mexico City, Mexico, Ms Dickins resides in Singapore with her husband and two children.

Max d’Oreye joined Newtec in 1998 and was recently appointed Vice President Professional Equipment Business Line. During his career at Newtec Max d’Oreye held various responsibilities, among which Program Manager for all ESA activities and VP Marketing. Max d’Oreye has more than 15 years of professional experience in the broadcast and satellite industry and is a specialist of video encoding and satellite transmission technologies and products. He holds an Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Louvain and a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the San Diego State University.

Tom Erling Hansen has a background as an engineer within Telecommunication and IT from the Royal Norwegian Airforce. He built on that with a degree in Business Management from “BI, The Norwegian School of Management”. Since 1993 he has held various positions in the field of Maritime ICT. He was based in Dubai for 5 years working as a Manager for Marinor (Now part of SpecTed) and for Telenor Satellite Services (Now part of Vizada). Since then he has worked for Marlink, a leading provider of Maritime Communication solutions. Mr Hansen arrived in Singapore in 2004 and he is responsible for Marlink activities in Asia Pacific. Mr Hansen has wide experiences with the different technologies used by Maritime and Oil and Gas companies. Marlink is the world’s largest provider of maritime satellite communications with offices in Singapore, Japan, Dubai, Brussels, London, Oslo, Athens, Hamburg, Rockville and Houston.

Dr. Jorn Christensen is a satellite communications consultant. He has participated in every satellite WRC since 1983 representing satellite operators and manufacturers.

Jeffrey Weaver is the Director of Technical Marketing at Montreal based XipLink, a leader in the development of wireless optimization products and software.

Andrew Jordan is the President and CEO of SAT-GE with over 20 years experience in management and development of new markets & products throughout Asia. Graduating in Chinese from the School of Oriental & African Studies in London, his entire career has been focused on the Asia Pacific region. Andrew has worked with most of the major broadcasters and telecommunications operators in the Asia Pacific and globally. His experience includes 18 years in executive management roles in the Asia Pacific satellite industry.

Andrew serves on the Council of Governors and the Satellite Industry Committee of CASBAA (the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia).

Mr. Denny joined Inmarsat in 1988, to head the establishment and operation of the Satellite Control Centre. In the ensuing years, Mr. Denny has held a number of technical and operational roles across the business and, from 1998 to 2008, held the position of Vice President of Satellite and Network Operations, responsible for Inmarsat’s fleet of satellites, network operations and engineering activities, satellite gateways, spectrum regulatory and spectrum management activities and satellite navigation services.
In 2009, Mr Denny assumed a new role in heading up the engineering activities across Inmarsat, including new product and service development, systems engineering and Inmarsat’s new hand-held satellite phone programme.

Chris Burdick joined iDirect in July 2000. During his 8 year tenure, Mr. Burdick has been instrumental in iDirect’s rapid growth and success. As the lead architect and director of development for iDirect’s iVantage, a breakthrough network management system, he helped redefined how service providers manage increasingly complex satellite networks. Mr. Burdick also played key roles in the vision, definition, design and development of iDirect’s award winning iNFINITI Platform. He brings more than twenty years of product development experience to his new role as VP of Product Management, helping to shape the company’s future product direction.

Prior to joining iDirect, Mr. Burdick spent over seven years as a consultant at Intelsat, where he participated in a number of ground network development projects, including the CLASS system, which allows Intelsat to leverage its worldwide TT & C network for third-party satellite launches.
Mr. Burdick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from SUNY at Buffalo, and a Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Maryland.

Gary is presently employed with the Global Government Solutions Group (GGSG) where he leads Cisco’s global team for the Media, Satellite & Broadcast (MSB), and supports the Government Video and IP Routing in Space (IRIS) initiatives. He is responsible for the global coordination and development of the architectures, solutions and products that will accelerate the deployment of Cisco’s next generation media and entertainment offerings, as well as the adaptation of these architectures into Government applications. IRIS will provide the building blocks to support networks in space, and the development of merged space-ground architectures that will drive next generation global services, both commercially and for Government.

Avi Peleg joined Gilat Satellite Networks in 2005, and serves as the Company's Marketing Director for Mobile Solutions. As an expert in satellite backhauling, Avi is involved in the development of integrated optimization solutions between cellular and satellite networks. In his capacity, Avi also plays a key role in building the Company's installed base of cellular networks, which successfully carry live traffic over Gilat's VSAT technology. Prior to joining Gilat, Avi held senior sales and marketing positions with ECI Telecom, in addition to founding ECI's Celtro business unit, a pioneer cellular backhaul optimization vendor. Avi also held senior positions with IBM.

Richard Deasington joined iDirect in 2007 and brings over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. In his role as Director, Verticals Marketing, Mr. Deasington is responsible for the development and execution of iDirect’s vertical marketing strategy.

Dr. Sivarajan is responsible for setting the technology and product direction for Tejas Networks.

Prior to Tejas Networks, Dr. Sivarajan was associated with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, NY. Dr. Sivarajan is co-author of the textbook `Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective' published in February 1998.

He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, and the 2004 Global Indus Technovator Award from the India Business Club, MIT.

Rosemary Sinclair has extensive experience in strategic planning gained through a diverse range of organisations. Her most recent roles have included General Manager ABC Radio - Technology and Services, Director Strategic Development for the ABC, and Director of Education, New Media & Export for Scholastic Australia, where she developed the plans for the introduction of e-business. Ms Sinclair is currently Managing Director of the Australian Telecommunications Users Group, representing the interests of end users of telecommunications to government, agencies, carriers and industry. Rosemary is a Board Member of the International Telecommunications Working Group (INTUG) holding the position of Vice President External Relations and represents the view of end users of telecommunications directly to policy makers and regulators internationally, in particular APEC TEL.

Eamonn Kearns is Vice President, Asia for Dialogic Corporation and has responsibility for the development of sales, marketing and customer support strategies, including growth initiatives and new market penetration. With over 15 years of experience in the computer telephony, telecommunications, and computer industries, Kearns has held various positions in sales management, business development, and marketing at companies such Uniwell Corporation, Intel Corporation and Dialogic. Kearns earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Trinity College in Ireland and an Honors Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Prior to joining Huawei and relocating to the Shenzhen headquarters, Christophe held different positions within the France Telecom Group during more than 11 years; he was notably responsible for the Broadband Business Development at a Corporate Level for Orange in Europe and previously held the Product Marketing Director position for a France Telecom subsidiary in Latin America.

Dato’ Zamzamzairani Mohd. Isa, 49, holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communication Engineering from Plymouth Polytechnic, United Kingdom and has attended the Kellog School of Management’s programme on ‘Corporate Finance Strategies for Creating Shareholder Value’. He was appointed CEO of Malaysia Business overseeing TM Retail, TM Wholesale, TM Net Sdn Bhd and several other related subsidiaries. Prior to the appointment, he was the Senior Vice President, Group Strategy and Technology of TM. He has over 22 years of telecommunications industry experience, starting his career with the then Jabatan Telekom Malaysia in 1984, progressing to General Manager, Global Business, prior to his move to a local mobile operator in 1997. Thereon, Zamzamzairani held senior leadership positions at several multinational companies such as Global One and Lucent ( Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, where he led the companies as the CEO. In addition to his executive responsibilities, Zamzamzairani also sits on the Board of several TM Group subsidiaries, including VADS Berhad.

Prior to Andrew, Dawson spent 10 years with Nortel working on cellular location technologies, intelligent network services, and wireless intelligent networks. Previously, he was involved in intelligent network services for Telstra and British Telecom Research Labs, Ethernet network design and deployment for the University of Sydney, and control system design and software development with GEC Digital and BHP, among other activities.

Ray Butler serves as vice president of engineering, Base Station Antenna Systems, at Andrew Wireless Solutions, being responsible for overall base station antenna design.

Mark Spencer founded Digium, Inc., in 1999 as Linux Support Services. Spencer used his Linux PC and knowledge of C code to develop his own PBX, thus beginning the worldwide open source phenomenon known as Asterisk. As the Chairman and CTO of Digium, Spencer continues to drive the strategic vision and technology direction of the company. He is widely regarded as the pioneer of open source telephony. Spencer has also led the creation of several Linux-based open source applications, most notably Asterisk, the Open Source PBX, and Pigden, formally Giam, Instant Messenger.

Ovadia has extensive experience in systems engineering, marketing and business development. At Tadiran, from which Scopus was spun off in 1999, Mr. Cohen was a Systems Engineer and Marketing Manager of the Data Links Department. In 1995, based on his expertise in communications signal processing, he was put in charge of adapting Tadiran's military technology to Scopus' commercial business.

Rhys has been involved in the technical standardisation for next generation networks, as well as network migration plans for some of the region's advanced service providers. As Technical Director of the Acme Packet APAC team, he has been involved in a number of large-scale projects - spanning residential, enterprise and wireless deployments. Previously, he was an active participant in ITU and 3GPP standards groups as a delegate on behalf of Ericsson.

Sarath Kumar is the Vice President of the Ethernet Products Group at Tejas Networks. He is responsible for the development of a suite of Carrier Ethernet products. Prior to Tejas Networks, he was with Bell Labs (1995-2000), Lucent Technologies, New Jersey, USA, working on design, architecture and performance analysis of Wireless networks. He has a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur (1984-88), M.Tech also in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Mumbai (1988-90) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, (1993-95) in Communications and Signal Processing. He has over 15 patents granted/pending in the areas of Optical and Wireless Networks.

Peter has strong expertise in the Unified Communications market, leading the Voice business in Asia Pacific to deliver integrated voice, video communications and content solutions. Peter’s 11 year background in telecommunications includes seven years’ experience in the Asia Pacific region.

Sean Fleming, Executive Director for Global Solutions Sales at Mformation, has more than fifteen years of management, business and technical experience in domestic and international markets. Before Mformation, Sean was a Managing Consultant for IBM where he managed key projects for Global Telecommunications Companies. Before IBM, Sean was Principal Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture. Sean holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, the School of Engineering, USA.

Bengt is responsible for the sales operation in 6 regions, China, Japan, North Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. Bengt is based in Beijing. Prior to joining Irdeto, Bengt held the position as CEO of LyngBox Media AB, a start-up company in the field of hybrid STB. Bengt has held senior management positions in Thomson Client Device business unit in Asia and with Nokia multimedia business unit in Asia and Europe. Bengt holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Linkoping University in Sweden and Cranfield Institute of Technology in UK.

Derek Manky plays an essential role on the FortiGuard Global Security Team. He contributes to security research and development while acting as a bridge to the public forum on results and findings.

Andrew Messenger is a Partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth and heads the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group. He is one of Australia’s leading lawyers in the area of communications and technology. In 2008 he was appointed specialist legal adviser to the Australian Government on its National Broadband Network Project. He has advised clients such as SBC Communications, Telstra and Vodafone in regard to communications projects in the UK, Asia and Australia. He advised Vodafone Australia on its 3G network rollout, its network sharing alliance with Singtel Optus – 2005 ALB Telecommunications Deal of the Year and its managed services arrangement with NSN for the operation and maintenance of its 2G and 3G networks.

Mike Martin is responsible for the worldwide design, development and management of the company’s broadband access portfolio, including both copper and fiber solutions.

Pak Lum is the managing director of MediaCorp Technologies Pte Ltd, the broadcast transmission infrastructure, operator and service provider for digital and analogue broadcasting services in Singapore. In this capacity Pak Lum oversees all information technology, engineering and transmission activities in MediaCorp, the largest and most established broadcaster in Singapore.

In addition, he is an exco member of the Digital Media Chapter, elected council member of the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation and a member of the advisory committee, School of Engineering, Nanyang Polytechnic.

Pak Lum holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree, majoring in Electronics, from the National University of Singapore. He received an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1989.

Jonathan Dharmapalan serves as Managing Partner of Ernst & Young’s Global Telecommunications Center – Beijing in China. Jonathan leads Ernst & Young’s Emerging Markets Telecommunications practice.

In addition to telecommunications, Jonathan also has significant experience in the related sectors of high technology and media. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Jonathan led the Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Consulting Practice at another major international firm. He also led their Global Media Consulting Practice and their Technology Practice in Silicon Valley.

Jonathan was the editor of the Silicon Valley Series publication and is a co-author of the book, “The Telecommunications Act of 1996: A Comprehensive Overview of the Law”. He is also a frequent speaker at major industry conferences.

Jonathan began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked on several key technologies including the Switching Systems, Signaling Systems, and the Digital Broadcast Conferencing Technology for which he earned a United States Patent.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The California Institute of Technology.

Tristan was appointed Group General Counsel in 2008.

After graduating BA (Japanese) and LLB(Hons) from Auckland University, Tristan commenced his career as the Wellington High Court Judges' Clerk, before going on to practice law with several leading international law firms. He then joined Vodafone Group PLC, where he occupied a number of senior leadership positions, including Legal and Regulatory Director - Asia-Pacific Region and Governance Director - Europe Region.

Outside work, Tristan enjoys spending time with his family and friends, keeping fit at the gym, keeping up his Japanese language skills, and pursuing his interest in music.

Zaid Hamzah is an author of 5 books on technology and the law & a former Director at Microsoft, Zaid has over 23 years of professional work experience spanning commercial technology transactions, strategic technology & intellectual property licensing, strategic government engagement. More recently at Telekom Malaysia, Zaid focuses on telecommunication regulatory management and NGN2 (next generation network) regulations and legal strategies.

Tim Cowen is a senior member of BT Group's Legal and Regulatory team. As General Counsel and Commercial Director for BT Global Services, he led the Commercial, Legal and Regulatory teams across continental Europe, the US and Asia Pacific.

Mr Khoong Hock Yun joined Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) in 2000 and is the Assistant Chief Executive heading the Infrastructure and Services Development Group.

Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, he was Programme Director of multi-million dollar defense projects in the Singapore Ministry of Defense.

Art Price joined Axia in 1995 with the vision of creating a company that would meet the full spectrum of Internet Protocol-based communications needs for businesses and consumers: from creating and maintaining the connecting networks; to developing the applications that help people to learn and to exchange knowledge.

After leaving Husky, Art spent two years as Special Advisor on International Investments to the Chairman of the Board of Hutchison Whampoa Limited, as well as serving on the Board of Directors of Husky Oil Ltd. Art currently serves on the boards of Axia NetMedia Corporation and the Sunterra Group of Companies. He has served as past director of Promoting Calgary Inc., Alta Genetics Inc., Husky Oil Ltd., Lac Minerals Ltd., the World Wildlife Fund, Rawlco Enterprises Ltd. and IPSCO Inc.

Art was recently awarded the Alberta Centennial Medal in recognition of his outstanding service to the people and province of Alberta. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta.
Axia NetMedia Corporation helps organizations and individuals meet the needs of the Knowledge Economy by combining the power of high-speed networks with high-end applications. Axia trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol AXX.

Mr Leong Keng Thai has been the Deputy Chief Executive & Director-General (Telecoms & Post) of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) since December 1999.

Mr Leong graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from the University of Singapore and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Southern California, USA. He also attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

Mrs. Tan Kah Rhu joined OpenNet Pte Ltd as its Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) with the vision to build Singapore’s first nationwide fibre optical infrastructure: enabling ultra high-speed Internet connection, and providing the preferred network needed in delivery high quality content.

Mrs. Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and completed Advanced Executive Program in 1995, London Business School. Mrs. Tan is also a senior member of Institute of Engineer Singapore (“IEC”).

RADM(NS) Tay was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) on 19 Nov 07.

>Stewart White is a lawyer by training and has spent more than 25 years specialising in ICT law, regulation and policy.

In the satellite sector, he has also represented CNN, PanAmSat and Thuraya. He has been an expert to the European Commission on a number of ICT-related and other dossiers. He also advised a number of governments on sector reform (including international regulatory aspects with regard to the privatisation of Singapore Telecom), drafting legislation and licences for newly created regulatory offices, particularly in the Middle East.

He is currently working on NGN and Digital Dividend related issues.

Mr. Ricky Wong Wai-kay is the co-founder and chairman of the Group. He possesses many years’ experience in telecommunications and computer industries, and was voted amongst the top 100 most influential people in the industry in the world, hosted by The Global Telecoms Business Magazine in 2008.

Under the leadership of Mr. Wong, City Telecom (H.K.) Ltd. has played a major role in the liberalization of the telecommunications market in Hong Kong. The wholly-owned subsidiary, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, is one of the major fixed telecom network operators in HK. Its network, which is the world’s largest Metro Ethernet IP network, is connected by self-built fibre backbone to provide 1000, 200, 100, 50, 25 and 10 Mbps broadband Internet access, telephony, IP-TV, corporate and mobile data services.

The group was successfully listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in August 1997 and the Nasdaq National Market in the USA in November 1999, which marked significant milestones of the company.
Mr. Wong holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration for Executives and a Bachelor’s degree of Science in Electronics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Michael Bjarhov has over 30 years of international experience from various management positions, in the IT as well as the Telecom industry.

Michael’s current position is Head of Government & Industry Relations, Asia Pacific based at Ericsson in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Garth Collier is Managing Director of Asia Pacific/Japan, WiMAX at Intel Corporation. He leads a dedicated team tasked to drive the adoption of 4G Mobile WiMAX networks and services across SE Asia, South Asia and Japan.

Where most recently, he was the Executive Director of UK Broadband leading the start-up of one of the first non-line of sight broadband wireless services. Other roles with PCCW included Director of Corporate Strategy, Director of Corporate Finance /Investor Relations and Vice President of Strategic Planning.
Prior to PCCW, Garth held senior roles with Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Telecom and Telstra. Garth has a Bachelor Degree in Engineering from the University of Queensland and a MBA from The Australian Graduate School of Management.

Alan Hadden has 22 years’ experience in the mobile communications industry, and has been President of the GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) since its formation in 1998.

Previously Alan was on the senior management team of a UK PCN/GSM 1800 operator and involved in the start-up, launch, and expansion phases. He assisted key stakeholders and overseas regulators to establish 1800 MHz as a mainstream band internationally for cellular services. He also assisted in discussions to assist the establishment and market entry of new mobile businesses. He represented the company in key UK industry fora, and internationally at ETSI, the GSM Association and the UMTS Forum.

Mr. Min owns Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York in 1983.

Additionally, he supports operator’s market strategies with the focus on mobile broadband, advanced wireless RF technologies and future value chain repositioning.

Tina is the Regional Director for South East Asia of the CDMA Development Group (CDG) responsible for supporting the CDMA2000® carriers in the region with their adoption and evolution of 3G CDMA wireless systems, focusing primarily on devices. Asia-Pacific represents the largest world region in terms of CDMA subscribers, and leads in the deployment of the latest innovative services and applications.

.Tina is a recognized expert in mobile devices and has extensive operational and business experience in the communications industry spanning CDMA450, TETRA, Analogue 450 LEMS, GSM and ETACS.

Stephen Hire is Director of Marketing for Aeroflex Asia with responsibility for the Company’s product marketing, research and strategy including development of test solutions for wireless handset and base station applications. Apart from GSM, WCDMA and CDMA, he also has worked on TD-SCDMA projects since 2002 and the progression through to the latest developments with TD-LTE. Aeroflex is a leading manufacturer of test and measurement equipment for the communications industries. It’s R&D and manufacturing test solutions are widely used by the world’s leading handset and equipment vendors to accelerate time to market and increase manufacturing productivity and return on investment.

Dr Sharrock has been an analyst in the telecommunications industry for two decades. He has undertaken research and consultancy projects for major operators and manufacturers and organisations such as the EC, ETO, Liberty Alliance, UMTS Forum, GSMA, ITU, WiMax Forum and ICSTIS.

Peter joined Gilbert + Tobin as a partner in 1989 and specializes in communications and technology. He completed his Master of Laws at Harvard Law School on a Fulbright Scholarship.

In 2008, Peter was named in the Best Lawyers International list. He has worked on regulatory, interconnection, wholesale contracting, numbering, IP peering and spectrum licensing issues throughout the region. He has been the principal external adviser on interconnection arrangements and regulation to Optus Communications in Australia, and Hong Kong Telecom in Hong Kong, and CLEAR in New Zealand. During 1998-9 Peter was seconded to Cable & Wireless plc in London as acting Director of Regulation, with responsibility for the Group’s global regulatory affairs.

Peter has experience in complex structuring issues which require an understanding of the intersection between technical, regulatory, competition law and commercial issues. He has been involved in the establishment of large scale telecommunications and IT joint ventures, including the deployment of the world’s first large scale HFC local broadband network, in major telecommunications-related mergers in Asia Pacific and in Europe and 3G network deployment in Australia and Europe.

Peter understands of the IT and communications environment has also allowed him to provide strategic legal advice to new economy businesses, such as portals, PKI providers, xDSL service providers, electronic cash and smartcard applications and Application Service Providers. Peter has worked on the early life cycles of many new economy firms, focusing on helping them realise and bring to market their technology.

Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. In 1992, he transferred to NTT DOCOMO, Inc. He is now Director of the Radio System Design Group of NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Since 2004, Dr Marianne Treschow is the Director General of the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). She is also the President of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group during 2008.

David is a veteran in the telecommunications industry with more than 30 years of working experience in countries like Germany, Holland, France, Kuwait, Britain, United States, and Singapore.

David was with StarHub since 1997 and worked during the licence tender phase. After the successful bid, he was put in charge of the fixed network implementation. As Head of Integrated Network Engineering, David was responsible for the day-to-day operations of StarHub's fixed, mobile and cable networks, and charts the division's strategic technology directions. He also heads International Carrier Relations and Domestic Wholesale services which focus on the provision of communications infrastructure, facilities and services with other carriers and service providers.

David has a Degree in Business Management as well as a Degree in Electrical Engineering. He started his career in BT whilst studying at Edinburgh University for his degree. Throughout his career, he has assumed a variety of positions including project management and network design and planning. David was also involved in the restoration of telecommunication services to Kuwait after the Gulf War and in providing satellite services to Russia.

Lawrence is the Partner leading the Accenture Technology Architecture practice for South East Asia Korea and Australia (SEAAK). In this role, he is responsible for developing and managing the technology architects who work across industries implementing complex, leading-edge technology solutions for Accenture’s clients.
Lawrence has worked with clients to formulate business, information and technology strategies, implementing large complex business-critical systems. His work covers clients from all major industries but had spent significant time in the last decade working with telecommunications clients in the region.

Dipesh is responsible for tracking the Indian telecommunication industry covering vast array of technologies and providing consulting services to the telecom companies operating in the Indian/Asian market.

Brendan is responsible for all aspects of communicating Juniper’s unique value proposition to the regional service provider market segment including developing and implementing go-to-market strategies at a regional level, interfacing with local account teams, regional sales and marketing resources, as well as being responsible for various corporate marketing and business team functions.
Brendan brings to Juniper 16 years of industry knowledge with 11 years of technical sales management and sales leadership experience in the Asia-Pacific region. He is based at Juniper’s APAC headquarters in Hong Kong.

Laina Raveendran Greene is Lead Consultant and CEO of GetIT, Inc, a strategic marketing and business planning consulting company based in Silicon Valley focusing on Green ICT and the use of ICT to help reduce GHG in other industries (www.getit.org). She is currently co-producer of the Green Planet documentary at TELECOMTV, and has been actively involved in green related issues professionally and personally (lives in a solar powered home) for many years now.

Rajiv Mehrotra is a veteran of the telecom industry and the pioneer of satellite cable TV in India. He is the founder and chairman of the Shyam Group of companies, with revenues of $60+ million. Shyam Telecom, the flagship of the Shyam Group, has a footprint in all areas of telecom. Shyam Telelink was one of the first operators in the world to deploy CDMA technology for fixed wireless services, and Hexacom (now Airtel Cellular) was the first GSM operator in Rajasthan.

Simon Naylor focuses on extending the superior features and economics of Infinera’s unique, photonic integrated circuit-based Digital Optical Networks architecture, already embraced worldwide, to Asia Pacific. Simon’s operational responsibility is setting up of the company’s operations, building a strong technology and support team and establishing a network of partners to propel Infinera’s growth in this region. I
Simon brings more than fifteen years of technology experience in the Asia Pacific region to his position at Infinera. Prior to joining Infinera in 2006, Mr Naylor was Vice-President, Asia Pacific and Japan for Sonus Networks, Inc, a pioneer in carrier class Voice-over-IP (VoIP) market. At Sonus, Mr Naylor was responsible for sales, marketing and business operations throughout the entire Asia Pacific region, including Japan. He was instrumental in anchoring Sonus as a preferred provider of VoIP solutions throughout the region and for establishing strategic partnerships with industry-leading telecommunications providers, resellers and channel partners.

Anup Changaroth is Director of Product Marketing, Metro Ethernet Networks, Nortel ( Asia), responsible for portfolio marketing of Nortel’s range of next-generation Optical and Carrier-Ethernet solutions in the Service Provider space throughout the Asia Pacific region. He has been involved in the communications field for over 15 years, since designing and building his own V.23 modem in the early 80s.

Dr. Tan is responsible for technical leadership, strategic planning and communication of IDA’s vision for infocomm directions to stakeholders across Singapore.

Jane Rushton-Young is the APJ Business for Data Centre Services for HP’s Asia Pacific Japan, Technology Services.

With the recently acquired Critical Facilities Services (EYP), HP’s Data Centre Services teams are assisting to drive business growth for Technology Services enterprise customers across Asia Pacific and Japan.

Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, program development and execution for regional customer engagement, and all aspects of industry vertical business development to help companies strengthen customer relationships and build better business outcomes across banking and finance, manufacturing and communications sectors.
She has many years of experience of consulting, provisioning and validating the capabilities of corporations for data centre infrastructure and business continuity services. She is also involved with international standards committees in these areas and speaks at industry events.

Naveen is vice president and general manager of IXIA, Asia Pacific. He is responsible for managing regional sales, support and business development for all Ixia products in Asia Pacific.

Danny Lahav has more than 20 years of high-tech experience in R&D and marketing. Prior to Oversi, Danny led the Product Line and System Engineering group of the MSAN at ECI Telecom. He was also the co-founder and V.P. of System Engineering and Marketing at OptiX Networks, a 40G SONET/OTN Chip Company. Before founding OptiX Networks, Danny was Product Manager at Orckit, R&D Manager at Telrad Networks and R&D Engineer at IAI. Danny has an MSc from Tel Aviv University and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University.

Mark Adams is a leader in the Connected TV space with over 15 years experience in sales and marketing. Mark is Vice President of Asia for Accedo Broadband, a developer and aggregator of casual games and information services for customers including BT Vision, PCCW and Sharp.

Henri Setiawan Wyatno is a Researcher in R&D Center of PT Telkom Indonesia, the biggest incumbent telco company in Indonesia. Henri is responsible for making recommendation for strategic and tactical level. R

Dr. Giles Wilson is a key member of TANDBERG Television’s CTO group and performs the role of Senior VP of technology, overseeing the company’s strategy and vision for integrated digital video technology for the creation, management and delivery of HD, IP, on-demand and interactive television. Previously Dr. Wilson was Chief Architect at TANDBERG Television, leading the development of solutions based on advanced video compression technologies. Dr. Wilson’s work with AVC has resulted in TANDBERG Television’s award-winning solutions for VC-1 and MPEG-4 AVC HD and SD encoding technologies. These world-first solutions have cemented Dr. Wilson’s reputation as one of the foremost engineering experts in the digital media industry. He joined TANDBERG Television in 1995 when it was the Advanced Products Division of NTL.

In his role as TANDBERG Television’s IPTV Business Development Director, Alan Delaney is responsible for building and maintaining the company’s relationship with telcos, operators and content owners in order to further the deployment and adoption of IPTV.

Laurie Gonzalez joined Broadband Forum in May 2000 as Marketing Director. In this current role, she is responsible for managing all strategic and tactical global marketing efforts, including both Marketing Communications and classical Marketing initiatives.

Robin Mersh joined the Broadband Forum as Chief Operating Officer in July 2006 and is the senior full time executive.

Dr. Tzu-Han Huang is the President of Northern Taiwan Business Group of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd (CHTN). He has been in this position since January 2008. CHT has already launched IPTV (named MOD) service which now has categories of TV channels, VOD, Karaoke-on-Demand (KOD), Home banking and Games. In order to meet the schedule of HDTV channel and VOD services promotion activities for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, during his time at CHTN, Huang plays the key role in the development of the new services such as HDTV channel trial service and the interactive Major League Baseball on-line voting TV application service in 2007.

Currently, he is with the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR as a Programme Manager of the Next Generation Content for IPTV programme. He also holds an adjunct appointment at the Nanyang Technological University’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Wei-Yun is the recipient of the TEC Innovator Award 2002, the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award 2003 (Merit), Standards Council Merit Award 2005, IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2006 and the Standards Council Distinguished Award 2007..

Gerd is considered a leading expert on a wide range of topics such as social media, web/media 2.0, mobility, innovation, UGC and peer production, social networking, education, copyright and IPR issues, digital content commerce models, convergence, entrepreneurship, innovation in advertising and branding, future planning, digital content strategies and the development of next-generation business models in the content, communications & technology industries.

Mikko Jarva is a consultant responsible for business development with Comptel in Kuala Lumpur.

Stephan is Managing Consultant at Detecon Consulting; a consultancy specialized in the worldwide telecommunication markets. As the head of the Center of Excellence “New Media”, he focuses on the business impact of convergent technologies and changing user behaviors for carriers and other players in the field of media and entertainment. Successful projects were delivered in the area of strategic consulting in the IPTV and entertainment environment for Tier 1 ICT players worldwide. He is the author of numerous articles and presentations on international conferences dealing with opportunities of converged Media ecosystems and visiting lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany.

Carl Gressum focuses on the market place of Internet services and connected consumer electronics. His research areas include operator strategies for the consumer and residential market. His topic range includes home gateways, home network technologies, middleware, service portfolio management and device interoperability. As part of this research he interviews operators’ world wide on their three year market strategies. He also works closely with consumer electronics vendors on the transition to the networked electronics markets. This work includes organisational restructuring, product development and how impacts on customer and product life cycles.

Prior to his work at Premonvision Carl Gressum established Ovum's ConnectedHome advisory service, and built up Ovum's name in the consumer electronics space. He also has a background from Canalys, which he joined to start up their Digital Home Analysis service. He has also worked in the online consumer electronics retail channel in France as the Norwegian Country Manager. He holds a Master of Business Economics from the Norwegian School of Management BI in Oslo, Norway. Parts of his Master were taken at the MBA of Carlsson School of Management, Minneapolis, USA.

Ali Zamiri is a director of business development for Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies, bringing more than fifteen years of business development, marketing and sales experience to Qualcomm. In this role, Zamiri is responsible for MediaFLO’s international business activities with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to joining the MediaFLO Technologies team, Zamiri worked with Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS), fostering strong customer relationships with Asian operators, OEMs and application developers and leading cross-functional groups within the division. Previously he worked as a Business Development, Manager within the Eudora division, launching a new business model for the email software product.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, a Master in Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Asian Studies from the University of Michigan.

Stephen Alstrup is CEO and co-founder of Octoshape, a company providing streaming based on the unique Grid Casting Technology, ensuring a stable high quality stream to large audiences at low cost. The Octoshape Streaming Solution is used by a wide range of broadcasters; Turner Broadcasting Inc., the Spanish National Radio and Deutsche Welle just to mention a few. Octoshape also cooperates closely with EBU; Octoshape is the chosen system for the EBU Media Portal and for the third year running Octoshape will be live streaming the European Song Contest via the internet to 100.000+ viewers all over the world.

David is a lawyer in DLA Piper's Intellectual Property and Technology Group in Hong Kong. David's practice focuses on telecommunications-related matters and competition law issues in the Asia Pacific region.

Mark is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, well-known to radio and television audiences in the Asia Pacific. During his seven year career at CNBC Asia Pacific, he held almost every position in the newsroom, including Producer and Australia Editor, and in front of the camera as Stock Reporter, Anchor and Field Reporter. At age 28, Mark launched CNBC Australia in Sydney as Bureau Chief. In Singapore, he was a member of the inaugural production and presentation team of English-language talk radio station 938LIVE. He started his media career at age 21, becoming Australia's youngest radio curent affairs show host at ABC Radio. Having spent many years in South Africa, Germany and Australia, Mark has called Singapore home since 1997. In a natural progression from traditional to new media, Mark has been CEO of Hong Bao Media (Holdings) Pte Ltd since 2006. This multinational media company helps companies address existing and new audiences by producing video for websites, mobile devices and out-of-home screens. He is also a sought-after speaker, emcee and panel moderator at seminars and conferences.

Social marketer, brand strategist and futurist Tim Parsons draws on 25 years experience driving cutting-edge digital innovation, including work for Fortune 500s such as AUDI, Apple Computer, Honda, Kodak, NatGeo, Sony, Toyota, Woolworths, and over 100 other Australian, regional and global clients. Now working with startups in media, e-tailing and green tech, Tim is also the co-founder of Mobile Monday Sydney and co-author of a new book “Online Culture IS the Culture” to be published later in 2009. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from London’s Imperial College, and lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two children.

Jose Miguel started his professional career with the IBM Networking Hardware Division with Product Engineering responsibility for EMEA.

Tomis presently Executive Chairman of Glocal Media Pte Ltd. & GoGreen Holdings Pte. Ltd. A green focused partnership with actor Jackie Chan.

Gerd is considered a leading expert on a wide range of topics such as social media, web/media 2.0, mobility, innovation, UGC and peer production, social networking, education, copyright and IPR issues, digital content commerce models, convergence, entrepreneurship, innovation in advertising and branding, future planning, digital content strategies and the development of next-generation business models in the content, communications & technology industries. Gerd's background is in Music (he won the Quincy Jones Award in 1986 and is a graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music) as well as in Technology, Internet and Media. His work focuses on the Future of Media, Content, Technology, Business, Marketing & Advertising, Branding, Telecom, Communications and Culture.

Ron is based in Shenzhen, China and is responsible for Branding activities of the Core Network Product Line, including Analyst Relations, Public Relations, collateral development and the overall brand image. Ron has over 30 years of experience in product management and marketing positions in the telecom industry. Prior to Huawei, Mr. Raffensperger was Senior Vice President of Marketing for Sylantro Systems, a U.S.-based provider of advanced voice applications. Mr. Raffensperger has held senior positions at Network Focus, Siemens, ROLM/ IBM, Telebit Corporation and General Telephone. He was also vice president, Marketing at Objectivity (a leading provider of object-oriented databases) and vice president, Sales and Services at Upshot (the first web-based CRM application provider -- purchased by Siebel). Ron earned a BSEE from Iowa State University and attended the MBA program at Santa Clara University.

Randolph Nikutta started his career at Deutsche Telekom in 1996 at a R&D subsidiary leading several larger business oriented R&D projects for the business units of DTAG. Between 2002 and 2008 Dr. Nikutta has been working for Detecon International GmbH which is a consultancy subsidiary of T-Systems International belonging to DTAG. Since April 2005 Dr. Nikutta is responsible for the project field “New Media” at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories dealing with TV and media related topics like interactive IPTV, targeted IPTV advertisement, P2P TV, smart EPG, interactive mobile TV, Free Viewpoint TV, semantic enabled search for entertainment domains etc.

Previously in his career, Tammisto held the positions of Managing Director and Chairman of two Scandinavian/global organizations, CommerceNet and RosettaNet, which he co-founded with Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Siemens, Vodafone, DT, BT, and AT&T. Tammisto lead both organizations in the development and promotion of open e-commerce procedures and standards and held one of the most influential roles in e-commerce and mobile development in Scandinavia, enabling industries to adapt into new Internet based business opportunities.

Mr. Cato Gullichsen is the co-founder of mobile marketing agency, InCent. With offices in Singapore and Norway, InCent provides innovative and creative solutions to Asian and European clients. InCent’s client list includes Walt Disney, Ford, Audi, DHL, Dior and several other international brands. Mr. Gullichsen is a sought-after speaker in the field of new media and mobile marketing and has spoken at many events in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Scandinavia in 2008. He is also a key contributor of the upcoming publication, Introduction to Mobile Marketing (2009).

Mark is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, well-known to radio and television audiences in the Asia Pacific. During his seven year career at CNBC Asia Pacific, he held almost every position in the newsroom, including Producer and Australia Editor, and in front of the camera as Stock Reporter, Anchor and Field Reporter. At age 28, Mark launched CNBC Australia in Sydney as Bureau Chief. In Singapore, he was a member of the inaugural production and presentation team of English-language talk radio station 938LIVE. He started his media career at age 21, becoming Australia's youngest radio curent affairs show host at ABC Radio. Having spent many years in South Africa, Germany and Australia, Mark has called Singapore home since 1997. In a natural progression from traditional to new media, Mark has been CEO of Hong Bao Media (Holdings) Pte Ltd since 2006. This multinational media company helps companies address existing and new audiences by producing video for websites, mobile devices and out-of-home screens. He is also a sought-after speaker, emcee and panel moderator at seminars and conferences.

Dori Ben-Moshe is the Chief Architect & Strategy for Alcatel-Lucent’s Multimedia Solutions. He has over 13 years of international experience with positions spanning various technical and management roles. He co-established "Integra5", a pioneer in unified messaging over TV and was personally responsible for the design, implementation and deployment of a world-class IPTV end-to-end solution. Since joining Alcatel-Lucent, Dori has taken senior responsibilities for E2E triple play solutions projects, including Swisscom’s triple play deployment, and involvement in numerous projects such as AT&T, Slovak Telecom, Ya.com, Chunghwa Telecom, Arcor, SingTel and more.

Dori was the Chairman of Consortium and Overall Project Leader for the Deutsche Telecom Triple Play project where he also led the project executive steering committee.

Social marketer, brand strategist and futurist Tim Parsons draws on 25 years experience driving cutting-edge digital innovation, including work for Fortune 500s such as AUDI, Apple Computer, Honda, Kodak, NatGeo, Sony, Toyota, Woolworths, and over 100 other Australian, regional and global clients. Now working with startups in media, e-tailing and green tech, Tim is also the co-founder of Mobile Monday Sydney and co-author of a new book “Online Culture IS the Culture” to be published later in 2009. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from London’s Imperial College, and lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two children.

Peter Karlsson is the CEO and Account Director at Your Majesty where he is leading the strategic and creative development for clients such as Cisco, The New York Times and American Express. Prior to Your Majesty he was hired to set up the interactive capabilities at BBH New York where he also served as a member of the management board. Peter has been repeatedly invited to give speeches and to host workshops on advertising and design, and has been awarded in most major international advertising award shows, including Cannes Lion, FITC and London International Advertising Awards.

Michel Maeso is SVP of Worldwide Sales at Funambol, the leading provider of commercial open source mobile cloud sync and push email solutions that make it easy to access your personal, work and social network info on your mobile, the Internet and desktops. Michel has twenty years of experience in the high tech industry, including EVP of Sales and Marketing for VitalStream which was acquired by Internap for $222 million, EVP of Sales for Packet Design, VP of Sales at Speedera Networks, one of Silicon Valley's fastest-growing companies before being acquired by Akamai Technologies for $800 million. Michel has also held sales leadership positions at AT&T and BellSouth. He is an accomplished industry speaker and has presented at numerous conferences worldwide.

Raman Flawn is the primary technical lead for Openwave’s sales business in Australia and New Zealand where he is responsible for leading regional technical pre-sales.

Prior to joining Openwave, Raman spent seven years as the global director for telecommunications and media for Fairfax, Virginia-based software company, webMethods, where he was responsible for strategic consulting, business planning, sales strategy development, brand development, web site traffic growth and revenue growth in telecommunications and vertical markets.
Raman holds an Honours degree in Commerce for Economics and Accounting from the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Emmanuel drives Pudding Media’s operations and business in Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Pudding Media, Emmanuel was the Regional Mobile Director for GroupM Asia Pacific (a WPP company). Emmanuel is bringing over 15 years of experience in the IT, Mobile and Internet arenas.

Kaushal Upadhyay, Associate Director, The Nielsen Company, has over 12 years of experience in market research, marketing, business development, and product innovation and distribution in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Kaushal’s extensive experience in the telecommunication industry spans across a wide spectrum, having worked with device manufacturers, service providers, and content developers.

Dr. Chris Drane is founder and Chief Executive of Seeker Wireless. He is one of the pioneers of wireless location. In 1993 whilst on sabbatical leave at the University of Cambridge, he started analysis of the feasibility of GSM location with British Telecom.

Dr. Madanmohan Rao is a new-media consultant and author from Bangalore. He is the editor of three book series: The Asia Pacific Internet Handbook, The Knowledge Management Chronicles, and AfricaDotEdu. He is also world music editor for Rave magazine and contributor to the Poynter Institute blog on new media trends.