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Conference Lectures
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| MORNING PLENARY
SESSION Chairperson: Dr. Orna Berry Venture Partner, Gemini Israel Funds & Conference Chair |
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| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome Words by Ehud Olmert, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade, Labor and Communication, Israel |
| 09:10 - 09:40 | FROM
SHOCKS TO OPPORTUNITIES Eric Benhamou, Chairman, Board of Directors, 3Com Corporation |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | EMERGING
OPPORTUNITIES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS Niel Ransom, CTO and Member of the Executive Committee, Alcatel |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | CAN
WE TALK? EVOLUTION FROM VOICE AS THE KILLER APP Richard L. Schwartz, President & CEO, SoloMio Corporation |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | WIRELINE AND WIRELESS
ACCESS THE KEY TELECOM BATTLE GROUND Anthony Maher, Chairman, Alvarion |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | BEYOND
MOBILITY Sebastiano Tevarotto, Vice President & General Manager of Network Services Providers, HP |
| 11:30-13:00 | DRIVING VALUE THROUGH
MESSAGING, PRESENCE AND COLLABORATION - PANEL Chairperson: Yossi Vardi Chairman, International Technologies |
| Joi Ito, CEO, Neoteny Co., Ltd. | |
| DRIVING
VALUE THROUGH MESSAGING, PRESENCE AND COLLABORATION Lance Johanson, GM Europe Mobile, Yahoo |
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| DRIVING
VALUE FROM MESSAGING, COLLABORATION AND PRESENCE Tim Hubbard, Director, NGN Technical Marketing, Nortel Networks |
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| Ed Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Desktop Messaging, AOL | |
| TURNING ADVERTISING
INTO DIRECT-MESSAGING Eyal Schiff, Co-founder, Dotomi |
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| Itzik Cohen, Senior Director, Corporate Development, WebEx Communications, Inc. | |
| Zvi Pakula, VP Portfolio Management, Comverse | |
| THE IMPACT OF PRESENCE
ON MOBILE VALUE ADDED SERVICES Rafi Ton, Vice President Asia Pacific, Followap |
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| 11:30-13:00 | SECURITY
Chairperson: Avi Ginsburg Corporate Vice President, Research & Development, Rafael-Armament Development Authority Ltd. |
| SECURE
CONTENT PROTECTION STRATEGIES FOR THE DIGITAL HOME Dr. Beth Erez, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, NDS |
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| BOOSTING
ARPU THROUGH INTEGRATION OF SECURITY SOLUTIONS IN MOBILE HANDSETS
Rami Koren, Vice President, Marketing of Security, M-Systems |
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| CIRCLES
OF TRUST AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT Christian Pinaud, Research and Development, Middleware and Advanced Platforms, France Telecom |
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| ENABLING MANAGED
IP VPN SERVICES FOR ENTERPRISES Sanjeev Gupta, Data Product Marketing Director, Nortel Networks |
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| "HELLO,
WHO IS SPEAKING?" VOICE BIOMETRICS FOR TELECOM USER AUTHENTICATION Almog Aley-Raz, CEO, Persay |
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| NETWORK AS KEY COMPONENT
FOR REVENUE GENERATION Edo Ganot, EVP Sales & Business Development, Discretix Technologies Ltd. |
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| 11:30-13:00 | GROWTH
THROUGH COOPERATION Chairperson: Dr. Eli Opper Chief Scientist, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor |
| TELECOM
- GROWING FOR THE FUTURE Dr. Phil Bond, Undersecretary for Science and Technology, US Department of Commerce |
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| PARTNERING
FOR SUCCESS 21st CENTURY MODELS FOR INNOVATION William Hope, Executive Vice President (Networks), SingTel |
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| CELTIC: A SUCCESSFUL
MODEL FOR R&D COOPERATION IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN EUROPE AND
BEYOND Jacques Magen, CELTIC Chairman Director, R&D Public Affairs, Alcatel Research and Innovation |
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| EUROPEAN
RESEARCH ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS: A FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATION Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, Head of Unit, Networked Audiovisual Systems, Home Platforms, Directorate General Information Society, European Commission |
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| EXTERNAL
R&D-COOPERATION AT TELIASONERA Veikko Hara, CTO, TeliaSonera |
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| CORPORATE VENTURING
AS COOPERATION MODEL TO ACCELERATE GROWTH Ingo Potthof, Investment Director, Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH |
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| 11:30-13:00 |
FUTURE MOBILE OPERATOR:
KING OF NETWORKS OR MASTER OF CONTENT? (IMA TRACK) Chairperson: Eyal Reshef Founder & CEO, Israel Mobile Association-IMA |
| FUTURE
MOBILE OPERATOR: KING OF NETWORKS OR MASTER OF CONTENT? Paul O’Sullivan, CEO, Singtel Optus |
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| IDENTIFYING
KEY EMERGING ENABLERS THAT WILL CREATE THE FUTURE MOBILE NETWORK? Steven S.K. Chan, Director, Internet Services & Product Development, MobileOne Ltd. |
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| Panel Participants: Jean-Pierre Duthoit, Senior Executive, VP Network & IT, Cegetel SFR Zvi Slonimsky, CEO, Alvarion |
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| 14:00-15:30 | THE SMART MOBILE
TERMINAL Chairperson: Amer Husaini Vice President, Product Operation EMEA & South Asia, Motorola |
| MOTONEXT
- BUILDING THE FUTURE OF SEAMLESS MOBILITY Amer Husaini , Vice President, Product Operation EMEA & South Asia, Motorola |
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| MANAGING QUALITY
AND RELIABILITY ON SMART MOBILE TERMINALS Yoram Salinger, Red Bend Software |
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| THE SMART MOBILE
TERMINAL Stefan Majurin, CMO Sales & Marketing EMEA and VP, CMO Sales Mediterranean, Nokia |
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| MAKING THE CELLL
PHONE MULTIMEDIA-FIT David Tolub, General Manager, Mobile Division, M-Systems |
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| DIFFERENTIATION
WITHOUT FRAGMENTATION FOR THE MASS MARKET Marit Doving, CEO |
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| 14:00-15:30 | CO-DEVELOPING
INNOVATION Chairperson: Rafi Koriat President and CEO, Lambda Crossing Ltd. |
| A
PRACTICAL ROADMAP FOR TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS Lizabeth Converse Wilson, Managing Partner, White Pine Consulting Group |
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| CO-OPITITION
IN A TIME OF CHANGE: SURVIVING A DOWN MARKET THROUGH PARTNER AND CHANNEL INNOVATION Sanjay Mewada, Vice President, Communications Network Infrastructure, Telecom Software Strategies, The Yankee Group |
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| FROM
TELE-COMMUNICATIONS TO OPTICAL MICRO-COMMUNICATIONS Meir Orenstein, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
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| GROWTH
THROUGH COOPERATION Dov Hershberg, Executive Director, BIRD Foundation |
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| THE
RACE TO 4G MOBILE CELLULAR SYSTEMS Eli Sofer, Chairman, Israel 4G Consortium and VP Business Development, Runcom Technologies |
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| GLOBAL
CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS IN HIGH GROWTH EMERGING MARKETS - THE CHALLENGE
AND THE OPPORTUNITY Mark Gazit, CEO, SkyVision Global Networks |
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| 14:00-15:30 | NEW AND FORTHCOMING
TECHNOLOGIES Chairperson: Daphna Steinmetz Associate Vice President, Comverse |
| WIMAX: THE FUTURE
OF BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS IS HERE TODAY Tzvika Friedman, President & COO, Alvarion |
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| THE STORAGE IS THE
CHANNEL Carmel Sofer, Former President of Comverse Europe and Venture Partner, Gemini Israel Funds |
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CORE TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE CONVERGED NETWORK Howard Goldberg, President and CEO, InterDigital Communications Corporation |
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| CONVERGENCE:
WHAT IT REALLY MEANS Jane Zweig, CEO, The Shosteck Group |
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| THE
CASE FOR APPLICATION-OPTIMIZED DEVICES Amit Haller, CEO, IXI Mobile Inc. |
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| NEW
DIRECTIONS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES Masaki Yoshikawa, Managing Director, Global Coordination Dept., NTT DoCoMo, Inc. |
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| FUTURE
VISION OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Zion Hadad, CEO, Runcom Technologies |
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| 14:00-15:30 | FUTURE MOBILE OPERATOR:
IDENTIFYING EMERGING ENABLERS (IMA TRACK) Chairperson: Eli Reifman Founder & CEO, Emblaze |
| Steven S.K. Chan, Director, Internet Services & Product Development, MobileOne Ltd. | |
| WILL
IP STANDARDS CHANGE THE MOBILE VALUE CHAIN? Francois Behague, Vice President, Technology & Development, Alcatel |
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| Panel Participants: Amir Aharoni, Co-Founder & CEO, Mobixell Yakov Shulman, Acting CEO and Vice President Sales, ART Advanced Recognition Technology Steven S.K. Chan, Director, Internet Services & Product Development, MobileOne Ltd. |
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| 16:00 - 18:00 | AFTERNOON PLENARY
SESSION Chairperson: Yehoshua (Shuki) Gleitman CEO, SFKT (Shrem, Fudim, Kelner - Technologies Ltd.) |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | HI-TECH, BUBBLE-TECH,
ISRA-TECH Zohar Zisapel, Chairman, RAD Data Communications |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | 3G EVOLUTION IN THE
CONTEXT OF MOBILE BROADBAND, IP AND IMS Bo-Erik Dahlstrom, Vice President, Group Function Sales and Marketing, Ericsson |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | HOW
FRANCE TELECOM PREPARES THE FUTURE OF TELECOM SERVICES Marc Fossier, Senior Vice President, Group Chief Technology Officer, France Telecom |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | CANADA'S STRATEGIES
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: BUILDING A DYNAMIC AND COMPETITIVE ECONOMY Michael Binder, Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | MULTI
MODE, MULTI BAND NETWORKS Sam Arditi, Vice President, Intel Communications Group and General Manager, Cellular and Handheld Group, Intel Corporation |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | INTEGRATED PERIMETER,
INTERNAL AND WEB SECURITY Marius Nacht, Vice Chairman, Senior Vice President and Founder, Check Point Software Technologies |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | AWARD CEREMONY EXCEPTIONAL START UP IN THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATION |
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Greetings H.E. Mr. Maurizio Gasparri, Minister of Communications, Italy |
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| Ehud Olmert, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade, Labor and Communications, Israel |
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| Uri Olenik, Director General, Ministry of Communications, Israel |
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| Eli
Opper, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Industry, Trade, Labor and Communications, Israel |
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| Yair
Amitay, Managing Director, MATIMOP Israeli Industry Center for R&D, Israel |
