MONTREAL – The International Institute of Communications (IICOM) has chosen ‘Trends in global communications: wrestling with unpredictability’ as the theme of its 2009 annual conference.Held October 26 – 27, 2009 at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montreal, the 40th anniversary conference will facilitate the sharing and exchange of empirical data, specialist knowledge and accumulated insights, and help to identify future trends.Key speakers, who include Heritage Minister James Moore and CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein, will address issues such as:- The relative weight of technology and user choice in shaping content-creation and distribution, and the communications sector at large;- The imprint the global financial and economic...