The Fourth Annual Media and Telecommunications Convergence Conference, set to take place in Amman on the 4th and 5th June, has been booked to capacity and organisers Arab Advisors Group a member of the Arab Jordan Investment Bank Group have announced they can take no further bookings. The 400 confirmed delegates to the conference represent over 160 regional and global operators, vendors, government agencies, banks, and professional services companies from over 18 countries around the world.
“The response to this year’s conference has been overwhelming and is a clear demonstration of how the entire area of telecom and media convergence is a real world issue, challenge and opportunity for media companies, regional telcos and governments alike,” said Arab Advisors Group’s Founder and General Manager Jawad Jalal Abbassi.
Forty senior and visionary speakers at the conference are set to bring the weight of experience of Oger Telecom, Paltel, Kalaam Telecom, Xpress, Jordan Telecom Group, MTC, Fastlink, Turk Telecom, Batelco, Cyberia, Etisalat, Intelsat, Telecom Egypt, Saudi Telecom’s AlJawaal, PRIMUS Telecommunications Group and Wanadoo from the telecommunications operators side. On the media operators side, senior speakers
from Yahoo!, MBC Group, Maktoob and Info2cell will be participating at the event, joined by executive speakers from major global and regional vendors like Qualcomm, AdaptiveMobile, Glimmerglass, Optimiza, Oracle, Ericsson and Globitel. Moreover, heads of Lebanon’s and Jordan’s regulators will be addressing the conference in addition to speakers from Arab Advisors Group, Spot on PR, Fitch Ratings, Spectrum Strategy Consultants and Booz Allen Hamilton.
“The Media and Telecommunications Convergence Conference has gone from strength to strength each year over since the first annual conference was held back in 2004, but this is the first time we have reached full capacity before a full week before the event. We set a maximum capacity for the conference to allow for an optimal networking atmosphere between all delegates” said Abbassi. “This year’s conference also promises to be the most controversial, liveliest and fascinating event ever – the stakes for both industries have never been so high.”
The Fourth Annual Media and Telecommunications Convergence Conference 2007 will take place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman on June 4&5 2007 with the sponsorship of 10 regional and global operators and companies.
Dubai-based Oger Telecom is the Main Sponsor of the Arab Advisors’s Fourth Annual Media and Telecommunications Convergence Conference 2007. Oger Telecom is one of the region's leading Full Services telecom conglomerates with over 30 million lines under management.
The annual conference has also received the support and sponsorship of Paltel Group (Palestine), Kalaam Telecom (Bahrain), XPress (Jordan), Jordan Telecom Group, Fastlink (Jordan), QUALCOMM (United States), Optimiza (Jordan), AdaptiveMobile (Ireland) and Glimmerglass (United States).
For more details please visit the conference web site at http://www.arabadvisors.com/Convergence/schedule.htm
Arab Advisors Group, a member of the Arab Jordan Investment Bank Group, provides reliable research, analysis and forecasts of Arab communications, media, technology and financial markets. The Arab Advisors Group’s team of analysts in the region has already produced close to 800 reports on the Arab World’s communications and media markets. The reports can be purchased individually or received through an annual subscription to Arab Advisors Group’s (www.arabadvisors.com) Strategic Research Services (Media and Telecom). To date, Arab Advisors Group has served over 420 global and regional companies
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