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ITU TELECOM Forum takes a closer look at our Digital Lifestyles
Industry Leaders at ITU TELECOM WORLD 2006 come together to look for answers
Hong Kong, 29 November 2006 — Top names from the world’s leading ICT companies and other industry visionaries will be gathering at the Forum at ITU TELECOM WORLD 2006 to discuss Digital Lifestyles, examine how ‘digital’ we have become and explore what types of technologies we can expect to shape our lives in the future. Digital Lifestyles is one of three of the ITU TELECOM Forum domains, each designed to enable a closer look at a different aspect of our Digital World.
Attempting to keep pace with the rapid advances in Digital Lifestyle technologies is not an easy task, but with increasing demand for new converged services and ever-more sophisticated applications, staying ahead is essential.
The Lifestyles domain will bring together a stellar list of keynote speakers drawn from leading ICT companies as well as government and academic institutions.
These include Naoyuki Akikusa, Chairman, Fujitsu; Jim Balsillie, Chairman and Co CEO, Research in Motion/Blackberry; Kazuo Furukawa, President and Director, Hitachi, Mark Hurd, Chairman and CEO, HP; Mr Pieter Knook, Senior Vice President, Microsoft; Sean Maloney, Executive VP, Intel; Tadashi Onodera, President and Chairman, KDDI; Eberhard Schoneberg, Chairman and CEO, Artificial Life, Xunsheng Zuo, CEO, China Netcom; H.E. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and Second Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts, Singapore; Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Professor, MIT and Chairman and founder, One Laptop per Child and many more.
Discussion will focus on eleven themes central to Digital Lifestyles, raising a number of key questions that the ICT industry is searching for answers to.
“The themes have been chosen to illustrate market trends that are of critical importance to consumers and businesses alike, as well as to raise some of the challenges that living in a digital world presents,” says Tim Kelly, Head of the ITU’s Strategy and Policy Unit. These themes also form the centerpiece of a new 200 page ITU report, to be released at ITU TELECOM WORLD, entitled “Digital.Life,” available here.
Themes and questions to be addressed in the Digital Lifestyles domain include:
Anywhere, anytime, by anyone and anything: the “4A Vision” of a ubiquitous network society Multiple Play: Are today's technologies flexible enough to supply what customers really want? And how should these services be marketed and priced? The Digital Generation: are today's service providers really in-tune with the needs of the digital generation? Managing our Changing Digital Lifestyles: how can interfaces to the digital world be simplified to make access available to all? Broadband for All: What are the consequences of possible exclusion from broadband internet access for rural and remote communities? The Digital Home: Are wireless networks the best solution for linking together the different members of the household, and the different rooms? Digital Lifestyles @ Work: As our personal and professional lives are merging, and boundaries blurring, what type of tools will be available to help us to manage our lifestyles and work teams? Digital Lifestyles @ Play: how will ubiquitous networks change the way we access the internet, create and record ideas, read books, watch movies or even participate in sporting events over IP-based networks? My Mobile Phone for My Lifestyle: the mobile phone of today is a highly sophisticated device, completely unrecognizable from that of a few years ago. How will it continue to evolve? The Connected Workforce: what is the impact of a distributed workforce on workers, management and firms? IPTV: Can broadband networks really become the platform for the delivery of voice, video and internet access into the home?
Contributing an additional perspective to the debate will be panelists from a range of companies and organizations including Alcatel, BT Group, Cisco, IBM, Herbert Smith, Lucent, SMART technologies, Symantec and Star TV.
A range of experts have been selected to moderate each of the eleven sessions, based on their extensive experience within the field of ICT, plus their ability to bring a unique perspective to the discussion. Moderators include Charles Henshaw, Director and CEO, China Mobile People’s Telephone Company, Dr Norman Lewis, Director of Technology research, Orange Home UK, Professor Eli Noam, Professor, Finance & Economics and Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University; Leslie Arathoon, Director of research, Pyramid Research; Thomas J Ramsey, Partner, Squire, Sanders and Dempsey.
Along with the world’s top ICT companies, a number of industry bodies and non-commercial organizations will be represented among panelists and speakers. These include the Open Mobile Alliance and the UMTS Forum.
Expert views from the world of academia and research will also be delivered from Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan, and the University of Fribourg.
Leading industry analysts Camille Mendler of Yankee Group and Chris Lewis of Ovum will also give their perspective to discussions.
With such an extensive range of speakers, moderators and panelists, participants should expect a ground-breaking debate on the future of the industry.
Full details of the Digital Lifestyles Domain can be accessed via the Forum Programme.
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