Venue: Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain, Trinidad
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) will be organising the inaugural Caribbean Broadband Forum in November and will bring together ministers, regulators, carriers, donor agencies, technology suppliers, application developers and content providers to discuss policy, strategy, roadmap, technology, business models and content to enable universal broadband services throughout the Caribbean islands and harness opportunity for profit for the ICT industry, local economy and for achieving Millennium Development Goals.
Speaker Faculty Includes:
Hon. Kennedy Swaratsingh, Minister of Public Administration, Trinidad and Tobago
Mrs Marcia Forbes, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Mining and Telecommunications, Jamaica
Mr Cris Seecheran, Executive Director, Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago
Mr Bashir Patel, Director of Programmes and Business Development, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
Mr Valmiki Singh, Managing Director, National Frequency Management Unit, Guyana
Mr Telojo Onu, Managing Director, Caribbean e-Business and International Trade Institute
Mr Ken Sylvester, CEO, The Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network
Mr Ahmed Toumi, CEO, International Telecommunications Satellites Organisation
Mrs Monika Bylehn, Senior Analyst, Ericsson
Mr Dirk Currie, CEO, Telesur
Mr Magnus Johansson, Group Director Broadband, Digicel
Mr José Ayala, Head of Technology Ericsson Central America and Caribbean
KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
MINISTERIAL ROUNDTABLE
REGULATORS ROUNDTABLE
CARRIER ROUNDTABLE
Who should attend?
Public sector - Policy Makers, Regulators, Universal Service/Access Fund Agencies.
Carriers – fibre, submarine and satellite network operators
Telco Operators: Fixed and mobile network operators, ISPs, mobile internet and web SPs
Manufacturers: network infrastructure equipment suppliers,
Content Developers: Application service providers and software and application developers.
CALL FOR PAPERS: If you have an interesting case study to share or would like to demonstrate a key solution in this area, please contact Conference Producer Miss Mani Rai at
m.kaur-rai@cto.int or tel: 0044 20 8834 1565 to discuss speaker and exhibition opportunity.
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