ATIS Unveils Lineup of TechThink Conference Speakers at NXTcomm 2007.Industry's future technology direction to be shared by powerful lineup of leading technology officers, industry decision makers at ATIS ATIS - A Tools Integration Standard TechThink Technology Conference WASHINGTON -- In the third bullet, first sentence, it should read: Dr. Henry Marcy, Vice President, Food Stream Solutions, Whirlpool (sted Dr. Henry Marcy, Vice President, Food Stream Solutions, Maytag). The corrected release reads: ATIS UNVEILS LINEUP OF TECHTHINK CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AT NXTCOMM 2007 Industry's future technology direction to be shared by powerful lineup of leading technology officers, industry decision makers at ATIS TechThink Technology Conference ATIS unveiled today its full line-up of keynote presenters, panelists and speakers for its TechThink Conference which will feature the most senior business and technology decision-makers in the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . "The lineup of CTOs and senior executives speaking at the ATIS TechThink Conference will expand everyone's understanding of the technology and business considerations that today's leading industry companies are addressing with respect to communications and entertainment," said Susan Miller Susan Miller is the name of:
CTOs from leading service providers kick off ATIS TechThink in a general session entitled What's NEXT is NOW: Delivering Telecom's Converged Network and Entertainment Experience. Offering their unique perspectives on Next Gen communications technology will be TechThink Panelists Chris Rice, Chief Technology Officer for AT&T Pieter Poll, Chief Technology Officer for Qwest; Mark Wegleitner, Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer for Verizon; and Matt Bross, Group Technology Officer for British Telecom, in a session moderated by ATIS President and CEO Susan Miller. Areas of focus for the ATIS TechThink Conference include IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. , IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , Broadband Service and Entertainment Deployment Strategies, 3G, WiMAX and more. The ATIS TechThink Technology Conference will offer 16 different conference sessions, to include the following three "mindbender" general sessions: * The Ultimate Entertainment! The IPTV Experience, featuring Jeff Weber, Vice President Product and Strategy for AT&T; Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. for Telus; Bob McIntyre, CTO for Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco Company; Ran Oz, CTO for BigBand Networks; and Andy Addis, Executive Vice President of Marketing for Hillcrest Labs, in a panel session moderated by Danny Briere, CEO of TeleChoice. * The Power of Intelligent Networking: How IMS will Further Revolutionize Content and Entertainment Delivery, will feature Paul Mankiewich, CTO-North America at Alcatel-Lucent; Larry Lang, Vice President and General Manager of the Mobility Signal and Control Business Unit for Cisco Systems; Andrew White, Director-Network Application Architecture for Qwest; and Jouni Welander, Director of New Solutions U.S. for Nokia Siemens Networks Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is a telecommunications solutions supplier which was created as the result of a merger (by means of a 50-50 joint venture) between Siemens AG's COM division (minus its Enterprise business unit) and Nokia's Network Business Group. . The IMS Mindbender session will be moderated by Rory Altman, founder of Altman & Vilandrie Company. * The Final Frontier: What To Do with All that Fiber to the X?, featuring George Breene, President, SeaChange Interactive; Dr. Henry Marcy, Vice President, Food Stream Solutions, Whirlpool; Tony Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. , SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul and General Manager, Service Provider Routing Technology Group, Cisco Systems; and Peter Barrett, CTO and General Manager of Engineering for Microsoft. The session will be moderated by Jonathan Hurd of Altman & Vilandrie Company. Additional panelists and speakers scheduled to appear at the ATIS TechThink Conference are: Kim Perdikou, Executive Vice President of the Infrastructure Products Group, Juniper Networks; Dan Coombes Coombes is a hamlet and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. It is located three miles (5km) north of Shoreham by Sea on the River Adur. The 11th century village church has frescoes, some of the most important in England, and painted about 1100 A.D. , Senior Vice President, Wireless Broadband Networks CTO, Networks and Enterprise, Motorola; Vikram Saksena, CTO for Sonus Networks; Arun Sobti, CEO for IP Unity; Ken Parker, Vice President - Network Services for TDS TDS total dissolved solids. ; Charles Gershman, President & CEO for Bay MicroSystems; Glen Morten, CTO, Widevine Technologies; Milorad Cvijetic, vice president and chief technology strategist, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. ; Bryan McGuirk, President, Media and Enterprise Solutions, SES Americom, and more. For a listing of all current ATIS TechThink Conference presenters, visit the ATIS TechThink web site at www.techthink.org. ATIS TechThink Conference registration is priced at $895, with discounts on the registration available to employees and executives of ATIS member companies, as well as member organizations of USTelecom and the Telecommunications Industry Association See TIA. (body, standard) Telecommunications Industry Association - (TIA) An association that sets standards for communications cabling. Cables that TIA set standards for include: EIA/TIA-568A and EIA/TIA-568B category three, four and five cable. (TIA (1) (Telecommunications Industry Association, Arlington, VA, www.tiaonline.org) A membership organization founded in 1988 that sets telecommunications standards worldwide. It was originally an EIA working group that was spun off and merged with the U.S. ). The TechThink registration package includes admission to 16 different ATIS TechThink sessions; all NXTcomm General Plenary Sessions and Keynotes; and the NXTcomm exhibition hall from June 19-21, 2007. About ATIS TechThink ATIS TechThink brings you the future of telecommunications technology - straight from the minds that shape it. Register today for the ATIS TechThink Technology Conference at www.techthink.org. Enjoy thought-provoking discussion and debate from the industry's most senior technology executives and visionaries - the thought leaders who will reveal their perspective on the direction of communications technology. Gather intelligence on IPTV, IMS, Broadband Service Deployment Strategies, 3G, WiMAX and more. Get the knowledge you need to guide your product development decisions for the Next Generation Network. TechThink is brought to you by ATIS, the leader in industry standards and solutions that support the deployment of exciting and new communications services and products. ATIS TechThink Corporate Sponsors include Cisco Systems and Media Sponsors include Telephony Magazine and Telecommunications Magazine. About ATIS ATIS is a leading standards development and technical planning organization committed to rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications and related information technologies industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Participants from more than 300 communications companies are active in ATIS' 22 industry committees, Incubator Solutions Program, and other activities. www.atis.org |
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