TORONTO – Sabia, Mohamed, Entwistle, Dalfen, Citron, Linton – all will be featured at the 2005 Canadian Telecom Summit.
Less than three weeks remain to register for Summit – May 30 to June 1 at the Toronto Congress Centre.
Delegates will join 500 of the most influential stakeholders in discussions of the future of telecommunications in Canada. Now in its fourth year, the 2005 Canadian Telecom Summit offers a wide range of topics being reviewed strategically by the senior leaders of the industry.
With 17 keynote speakers and more than 50 panel members, The 2005 Summit will look at telecommunications from all angles: wireless and wireline, voice and data, business and consumer services; and look closely at Voice over IP and the key enabling technologies that still need to be deployed as carriers begin to launch VoIP services for the masses.
Canadian industry leaders Michael Sabia (CEO of BCE), Darren Entwistle (CEO of Telus), Bill Linton (CEO of Call-Net/Sprint Canada) and John MacDonald (Allstream) will provide their views during keynote addresses while panels of business unit heads and company presidents look at business services, residential services, and next generation networks. On Monday, special breakout sessions will look at VoIP and wireless services in greater depth with experts from around the world.
Global leaders such as Michael Capellas of MCI, Don Peterson of Avaya, Bill Owens of Nortel, Andy Mattes of Siemens, Hubert de Pesquidoux of Alcatel and Carlos Dominguez of Cisco will bring their perspectives on trends affecting the world of telecom.
The heads of Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility, Ericsson and palmOne will also reflect on 20 years of mobile wireless services in Canada (Rogers Cantel was the first) and look to the future. A special session will examine issues surrounding the implementation of wireless number portability. Other sessions will look at emerging wireless applications and wireless infrastructure.
The CRTC is about to issue its decision on regulation of Voice over IP. The Canadian Telecom Summit is hosting a panel of experts from all of the major carriers as well as the cable industry to discuss this and other regulatory issues. The decision will be just weeks old by then. Prior to that panel on Tuesday May 31, we’ll hear from Vonage CEO Jeffrey Citron. Our closing address on Wednesday June 1 will be from CRTC Chair Charles Dalfen.
All participants are invited to join the annual cocktail reception sponsored this year by Microsoft Canada, following Tuesday’s closing keynote address by David Hemler, president of Microsoft Canada.
To register, click on www.telecomsummit.com.
