TORONTO – You only have two days remaining to lock in the early-bird rate by registering for The 2013 Canadian Telecom Summit.
For three days, the leadership of the telecom, broadcast & IT industries will converge at the Toronto Congress Centre from June 3-5 to discuss the key issues and trends that will impact this critical sector of the economy. Join more than 500 of your peers, partners, suppliers, policy makers, regulators, customers and competitors at the 2013 Canadian Telecom Summit.
Now in its 12th year, the summit is the place for Canada's ICT leaders to meet, interact and do business. As in past years, this year's Summit will feature top-level keynote speakers and thought-provoking panel discussions.
Wednesday will start out with a keynote presentation by Sandy Carter, IBM's Vice President of Social Business Evangelism, and a best-selling author who has been recognized as one of the most influential women in Web 2.0 technology. She will be followed by a panel looking at Building an Innovation Economy, moderated by Namir Anani of the ICT Council, with a powerful line-up of executives bringing a variety of perspectives:
- Warren Jestin, Chief Economist at Scotiabank;
- Chris Hodgson, Canadian Retail & Technology Practice Lead, Google;
- Ron Styles, CEO of SaskTel;
- John Weigelt, National Technology Officer of Microsoft Canada.
Following coffee, Wednesday morning continues with a CIO/CTO Roundtable, moderated by Mark Kummer of Cisco and joined by:
- Dave Codack, VP & Head, Employee Technology, Network and Contact Center Services for TD Bank Group;
- Eugene Roman, CTO at Canadian Tire;
- Bill Sayles, EVP Business Transformation at TELUS.
To round out the Wednesday morning program, Kirstine Stewart, EVP of English Services at CBC returns to The Canadian Telecom Summit to deliver a keynote address. The following two days feature new & returning keynoters, proven panels and original sessions.
This year, in addition to its popular regulatory blockbuster, the summit features sessions devoted to:
* The Revolution of TV: Content Anywhere & Anyhow;
* Business Transformation & Strategic Sourcing;
* Devices, Screens & Apps;
* Network Transformation;
* Business Models in a Converged World;
* Consumer Issues;
* The Next Generation of Wireless
