Communications, Technology and Entertainment Execs Converge on Center Stage at NXTcomm 2007.Verizon, Motorola, GE Leaders Offer Attendees a Glimpse of What's Next for Consumers CHICAGO -- Today a heavy-hitting line-up of communications, technology and entertainment industry executives outlined their visions for the future of the rapidly evolving industry from NXTcomm's keynote stage. NXTcomm, the only venue where the business and technology of communications, information and entertainment meet, runs through June 21, 2007, at Chicago's McCormick Place McCormick Place is an enormous exposition complex located in Chicago, Illinois. . Verizon Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Ivan Seidenberg Ivan G. Seidenberg (born December 10, 1946) is the CEO of Verizon Communications. As chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon Communications Inc., formerly Bell Atlantic and previously NYNEX, Seidenberg steered those companies through two of the largest led off the morning session offering a clear picture of how the company's investment in cutting-edge networks will forever change consumers' communications and entertainment experiences. "Communications technologies are the disruptive force in the 21st century economy. All of the defining experiences of the digital lifestyle - social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network , media sharing, e-commerce, mobile media - depend on our advanced networks and the practical applications that deliver their power to customers," Seidenberg explained. "Together, our broadband, mobile and global IP networks comprise a powerful delivery system for the media-rich, interactive content that is transforming television, the Internet, commerce, medicine and education." Seidenberg pointed to the fact that more than 50 percent of Americans will have a broadband connection See broadband and wireless broadband. this year and more than 75 percent will have wireless phones to illustrate how consumers are demanding broadband and mobility. "We have barely begun to imagine all the ways that rich graphics, two-way broadband and virtual reality will transform medicine, education and creative industries. This surge in visual, interactive content - delivered to any screen, anytime, anywhere - has changed our industry forever," Seidenberg stated. "It has taken many years of investment and innovation to prepare our wireless, wireline and global IP networks to handle this exponential growth Extremely fast growth. On a chart, the line curves up rather than being straight. Contrast with linear. in demand for broadband and mobility, but now, it is our industry that is pushing the envelope on speed and providing a pathway to the future." Seidenberg announced that Verizon has just signed up its one-millionth FiOS customer, a family in Massapequa, New York Massapequa is a hamlet (and a census-designated place) located in Nassau County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 22,652. Massapequa is a suburb on the South Shore of Long Island in the Town of Oyster Bay. that is already benefiting from the company's fast broadband speeds and innovative video offerings. Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander zan·der n. pl. zander or zan·ders A common European pikeperch (Stizostedion lucioperca) valued as a food fish. [German, from Low German Sander also addressed NXTcomm attendees, sharing his perspective on what convergence means for the industry and consumers. Zander said that consumers want their content mobile, personalized and ready to share and companies have to keep up. "Today it's about fast, affordable broadband Internet See broadband. . Tomorrow I believe it's about wireless and broadband media platforms. And we as an industry have to work together, software and platforms, the content players and the carriers, as well as the equipment suppliers like ourselves, to bring this vision of this broadband media platform to a reality." Zander demonstrated for the audience a new Motorola product, 'Follow Me TV,' which allows you to move recorded programming from room to room, television to television. General Electric Vice Chairman and Executive Officer Bob Wright also addressed the crowd to share the entertainment industry's views on the future for communications. "We are entering a golden age of media, where consumers have easy, affordable and legal access to a wealth of news, information and entertainment content on every imaginable platform and on platforms that are still being invented," Wright stated. "What could not even be dreamed of a few years ago is now either real or close to it. So it's a very exciting time." To maximize these opportunities, Wright pointed to three areas where the communications and entertainment sectors must work together, including developing new advertising models to ensure that telecoms and content owners benefit from mobile, interactive and IP-based video; defining technological standards to spur investment in interactive and enhanced video services by allowing for national scale; and protecting content from illegal distribution. The morning session concluded with a lively panel discussion moderated by Maria Bartiromo, host of CNBC's "Closing Bell" and the host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated "Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo." The panel discussed how national and international communications policies affect investment and innovation and featured three top communications policy makers including Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information John Kneuer who manages communications policy for the U.S. Commerce Department, Ambassador David Gross David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American particle physicist and string theorist (although he's stated to the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, on 09/27/2006, that the second area is included in the first one). who oversees international communications policy for the U.S. State A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and Department and Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein from the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. . "Today's session really showcased the potential for communications, technology and entertainment companies to work together to ensure that consumers have access to the most innovative technologies and opportunities," said NXTcomm Executive Director Wayne Crawford. "From the top executives to the key policy makers, this session gave NXTcomm attendees a great glimpse of what the future holds for our industry." NXTcomm, the only venue where the business and technology of communications, information and entertainment meet, runs June 18-21, 2007, in Chicago. The show brings together top executives from every segment of the global industry to exhibit, explore new business opportunities and buy the latest technologies driving the converged communications and entertainment industry. Showcasing hundreds of new and innovative products, the NXTcomm exhibit floor will reflect the dramatic changes in the industry. NXTcomm also features a broad range of educational programming. For more information, go to www.NXTcommShow.com. NXTcomm, the new industry venue co-owned by 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. ) and the United States Telecom Association The United States Telecom Association is a trade association for telecommunications service providers and suppliers. The Association represents 1,200 companies offering a wide range of services across the communications platforms, including voice, video and data over local (USTelecom) that will feature the business and technology of communications, information and entertainment, comes to Chicago's McCormick Place June 18-21, 2007. NXTcomm will unite the premier information and communications technology (ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. ) industry supplier and technology companies with the world's leading communications and entertainment companies that are together driving broadband-based innovation around the world. For more information, go to http://www.NXTcommShow.com/. |
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