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Industry heavyweights to headline IIC Canada 2011


OTTAWA – Heritage Minister James Moore, CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Hubert Lacroix, and CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein are among the big name speakers confirmed for the 2011 International Institute of Communications (IIC) Canada conference.

Scheduled for November 28 – 29 at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, the event is themed ‘Competition, Innovation and Applications: Towards a Digital Economy for Canada’.  Cartt.ca is a media partner.

This year's conference will also feature a pre-conference on public broadcasting, presented in conjunction with CBC/Radio-Canada, on the morning of November 28.  Plenary panels will include ‘Copyright and the digital economy’; ‘Over-the-top services: reframing the content landscape’ and ‘Bandwidth billing: who pays whom to use what?’.

Registration is open now and will be accepted through Friday, November 25, or until event capacity has been reached.  Click here for more information or to register.

www.iic-canada.ca