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DIARY - TELECOM 99
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 07, 1999 12:58 PM
- Reuters
GENEVA - Following is a diary of events connected with the international
conference Telecom 99 and Interactive 99 (To October 17):
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8
GENEVA - News conferences by PSInet (NASDAQ:PSIX) and Matsushita (T:6752)
ahead of Telecom 99 and Interactive 99 conference. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9
GENEVA - Official opening of international industry conference Telecom 99 and
Interactive 99. News conferences by the United Nations' International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) and Sonera (HE:SRA1V). For details see Web
site itu.int
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10
GENEVA - Corporate leaders from the telecommunications industry, service
providers and government officials attend international industry conference Telecom
99 and Interactive 99 (To October 17). For details see Web site
itu.int
Opening forum speakers include International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi, Nortel (TO:NT)(NYSE:NT) president John Roth
and European Industry and Information Society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen.
Connected society roundtable -- speakers include IBM (NYSE:IBM) chief executive
Louis Gerstner, China's Information Industry Minister Wu Jichuan, Lucent
Technologies (NYSE:LU) CEO Richard McGinn, NTT (T:9432) president Junichiro
Miyazu and Ericsson (ST:LMEb) president Kurt Hellstrom.
News conferences by International Launch Services, Pirelli (MI:PIRI), GSM
Association, The Fantastic Corp, France Telecom (PA:FTE), Nokia (HE:NOK1V),
Siemens (DE:SIEGn), NEC (T:6701), BreezeCOM, Eutelsat, Informix
(NASDAQ:IFMX) and IBM (NYSE:IBM).
MONDAY, 0CTOBER 11
GENEVA - Telecom 99 and Interactive 99 conference. For details see Web site
itu.int
Policy and regulation summit -- speakers include AT&T (NYSE:T) chairman C.
Michael Armstrong, Alcatel (PA:CGEP) chief executive Serge Tchuruk and
Deutsche Telekom (DE:DTEG) chief executive Ron Sommer.
Global convergence panel with KPN (AS:KPN) CEO Wim Dik, NEC(T:6701)'s
Hisashi Kaneko, Lucent (NYSE:LU) InterNetworking Systems group president
Curtis Sanford.
Infrastructure summit with Alcatel(PA:CGEP)'s Jozef Cornu, Hewlett-Packard
(NYSE:HWP) CEO Carleton Fiorina, KDD (T:9431) president Tadashi Nishimoto,
Siemens' (DE:SIEGn) Werner Schmuecking, 3Com (NASDAQ:COMS) chief
executive Eric Benhamou and Toshiba (T:6502) president Taizo Nishimuro.
News conferences by Hughes Network Systems (NYSE:GM), Qualcomm
(NASDAQ:QCOM), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), Telital, Marconi
Communications (LSE:GEC), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), AT&T (NYSE:T),
Ericsson (ST:LMEb), Alcatel (PA:CGEP), Fujitsu (T:6702), Lucent (NYSE:LU),
Globalstar (NASDAQ:GSTRF) and COMPAQ (NYSE:CPQ).
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12
GENEVA - Telecom 99 and Interactive 99 conference. For details see Web site
itu.int
Interactive summit with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) chief executive Bill Gates,
Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) chairman and CEO Lawrence Ellison and Nokia
(HE:NOK1V) chief executive Jorma Ollila.
Competition panel with Telecom Italia (MI:TIT)'s Roberto Colaninno and Telefonica
(MC:TEF)'s Juan Villalonga Navarro.
Information infrastructure evolution panel with Newbridge (TO:NNC) chief executive
Terence Matthews, NEC(T:6701)'s Yoshinori Yoshida.
Myth and realities of e-commerce panel with Bull (PA:BULP) chairman Guy de
Panafieu.
News conferences by NTT (T:9613), Bull (PA:BULP), Comverse (NASDAQ:CMVT),
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Nortel
(TO:NT), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), Transcend (NASDAQ:TRCR).
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13
GENEVA - Telecom 99 and Interactive 99 conference. For details see Web site
itu.int
Access and distribution panel with Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) CEO
Scott McNeally.
Mobile communications panel with Motorola (NYSE:MOT) chairman and chief
executive Christopher Galvin, Globalstar (NASDAQ:GSTRF) president Anthony
Navarra, Matsushita Communication Industrial (T:6781) president Takashi Kawada
and Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) chairman and CEO Irwin Jacobs.
News conferences by GTE Bell Atlantic (NYSE:BEL)(NYSE:GTE), 3Com
(NASDAQ:COMS), Global TeleSystems (NASDAQ:GTSG), Worldspace,
Mannesmann (DE:MMNGn), Atos (PA:SEGN), Inmarsat, Surf Communications
(NASDAQ:BOSC), 3M (NYSE:MMM).
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
GENEVA - Telecom 99 and Interactive 99 conference. For details see Web site
itu.int
Smart living in the interactive world forum with Sprint (NYSE:FON) chairman and
chief executive William Esrey.
International trade issues panel with World Trade Organisation Director-General
Mike Moore and the World Bank's Emmanuel Forestier.
Planning your business via the Internet panel with SAP (F:SAPG) chief executive
Hasso Plattner, NEC's Kazumoto Iinuna, Cisco(NASDAQ:CSCO)'s Alan Cohen.
Mobile communications panel with Orange (LSE:ORA) chief executive Hans
Snook, BT Cellnet(LSE:BT)'s John Short.
Regulatory roundtable with Japan Telecom (T:9434) president Haruo Murakami;
David Edmonds, director general of British telecommunications watchdog Oftel;
Vodafone (LSE:VOD) managing director Alan Harper and OTE (AT:OTEr) <OTE>
(LSE:OTEyg) chief executive George Symeonidis.
News conferences of Triton (NYSE:T), MTS (NASDAQ:MTSC), Floware, Thuraya
Satellite Telecoms.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15
GENEVA - Telecom 99 and Interactive 99 conference. For details see Web site
itu.int
Interactivity panel with The Fantastic Corp's Peter Ohnemus, OKI (T:6703)
president Katsumasa Shinozuka and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s Jon DeVaan.
News conference by Spike Technologies.
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