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What: 

ITU Telecom World 2012

When: 

14-18 October 2012

Where: 

Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC), Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE. 

Why: 

ITU Telecom World 2012 leverages the unique reach of ITU as the lead UN agency for ICT issues offering a rare forum for discussion among global ICT leaders and experts who bring to the floor a wide array of national, regional and international perspectives. 

Who:

Heads of State and Government, ministers, heads of UN agencies, regulators, thought-leaders and major corporate stakeholders are heading to Dubai.

Notable speakers and panellists this year include: Ben Verwaayen, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent; Osman Sultan, CEO, du; Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, CEO, Etisalat Group; Eugene Kaspersky, CEO, Kaspersky Lab; Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohamed Saud Al-Thani, Chairman, Q-Tel; Mohamed Nasser Al Ghanim, Director General, TRA; Romain Bausch, President and CEO, SES; John Davies, Vice President, World Ahead Programme, Intel; R. Sifiso Dabengwa, CEO, MTN; Ulf Ewaldsson, SVP,CTO, Ericsson; and Wim Elfrink, Executive Vice President, Cisco.

Programme: 

The full Event Progamme is available here.

Spanning a high-level Leadership Summit, Panel Debates, Visionary Keynotes, Big Conversations and Ministerial Round Tables, sessions will provide an in-depth daily exploration of the following core areas:

• Leadership and Innovation: Top-level government and business summit launching discussions on 14 October, tackling the challenges facing the ICT industry in ensuring that global connectivity is achieved in as fair and transparent a way as possible.

• Delivering Broadband: Exploring the challenges for established players in expanding services and embracing new business models in today’s highly competitive and fast-changing marketplace including sessions on who owns what data, industry dynamics and more.

•  Beyond connectivity: An in-depth look at emerging opportunities, new dimensions and challenges arising from the transformed industry, with focus on privacy, service delivery, spectrum, and a series of sessions with key players in the field of cybersecurity.

• Smart Applications: The enablers, examples and consequences of the new connectivity, including sessions on mobile money, e-Health, smart services and smart societies.

• Designing the future: The shape of communications to come, focusing on human-centric networks.

Media Information:

Opening Ceremony

ITU Telecom World 2012 is open to media. Accreditation is compulsory.

For accreditation and procedures, please see:
http://world2012.itu.int/media-accreditation

The Opening Ceremony will commence at 10 am on 14 October in the Al Multaqua Hall, Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.

All written Press must be seated and visual media in position by 09:45 am

The Opening Ceremony is expected to include the following dignitaries:

•       His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister and Vice President of UAE and Emir of Dubai

•       Dr Hamadoun I. Touré (Secretary-General, ITU)

•       Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar (Group CEO, Etisalat)

•       Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Thani (Chairman, Qtel)

•       Namadi Sambo (Vice President, Nigeria)

Media pools will operate for the Opening Ceremony and VVIP/VIP Tours

To be included in the two media pools, please contact Richard White at richard.white@axicom.com. If you do not pre-register for media pools, a first-come-first-served system will operate due to limited capacity.

Media pool 1 for TV crew and photographers at the  Opening Ceremony:

TV crew and photographers will have designated vantage points and will need to be in position in Al Mulatqua Hall by 09:45 am. Visual media will be required to remain in the Hall throughout the Opening Ceremony and will not be able to join the ribbon cutting and VVIP / VIP tours.

Media pool 2 for TV crew and photographers for the ribbon cutting and  VVIP / VIP Tours of the ICT showcase:

The ribbon cutting and VVIP tour led by the Secretary General of ITU and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum will commence at 11 am and include a tour of the National Pavilions in the Sheik Rashid Hall. There will be designated vantage points for photographers for the ribbon cutting and along the route of the VVIP tour to enable photo opportunities. As part of this pool, media will not be able to attend the Opening Ceremony. Once the VVIP tour has departed the Sheikh Rashid Hall, TV crew and photographers will remain in the Hall to cover the VIP tour led by ITU Deputy Secretary-General.

Media accreditation enquiries:

	+41 22 730 5424
	+971 556 397 533
	pressreg@itu.int