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MEDIA ADVISORY — MEDIA ADVISORY — MEDIA
ADVISORY
Key ICT Players Meet to Discuss Future
CEOs and CTOs to Provide Unique Vision
Geneva, 3 July 2006
| What: |
Celebrating ITU’s leading role in setting standards in communications:
one day event to hear what some of the top executives from the world of
ICT have to say about the future of this remarkable industry. |
| When: |
20 July
2006 |
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Where: |
International Conference Centre Geneva, (CICG), Geneva |
| Why: |
In 2006,
ITU celebrates its leading role in making the standards that have played
a massive role in shaping the information and communication technologies
(ICT) and services of today. In 1924/5, two technical
committees were created to set standards regulating technical and
operating questions for international long-distance telephony and
telegraphy. Fifty years ago, in 1956, these two technical committees
were merged to become CCITT (Consultative Committee for International
Telegraphy and Telephony) which later became ITU-T, where all
standards-setting activities of ITU were consolidated for wire and
wireless networks. While celebrating the past achievements of ITU in
the field of standardization, the event will be forward looking in
focus. The morning will see keynote speeches from among others the
Chairman of the Board of China Netcom and the CEO and President of NTT
and CEO of Svyazinvest. In the afternoon there will be two executive
round table discussions on the future of ICTs. The discussion panels will consist
of CTOs and other senior experts from some of the world’s major ICT
companies, including Alcatel, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, France Télécom,
KDDI, Korea Telecom, KPN, Nortel, Rostelecom, Siemens, Telefónica and
ZTE.
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| Who: |
Study
group chairs and experts attending the meeting on next generation
networks — global standards initiative (NGN-GSI) will be present. The
event is free and open to any interested party but only a limited number
of places are available, so please register online as soon as possible.
An audio webcast of the entire event will be available
here. Journalists interested in attending should contact the ITU
Press
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