TELECOM 99 Starts tomorrow. QCOM news conference is scheduled for Monday. Note other companies with a conference the same day. Mean anything? Here's the schedule:
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 and Matsushita 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 . 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 president John Roth and European Industry and Information Society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen.
Connected society roundtable -- speakers include IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner, China's Information Industry Minister Wu Jichuan, Lucent Technologies CEO Richard McGinn, NTT president Junichiro Miyazu and Ericsson president Kurt Hellstrom.
News conferences by International Launch Services, Pirelli , GSM Association, The Fantastic Corp, France Telecom , Nokia , Siemens , NEC , BreezeCOM, Eutelsat, Informix and 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 chairman C. Michael Armstrong, Alcatel chief executive Serge Tchuruk and Deutsche Telekom chief executive Ron Sommer.
Global convergence panel with KPN CEO Wim Dik, NEC's Hisashi Kaneko, Lucent InterNetworking Systems group president Curtis Sanford.
Infrastructure summit with Alcatel's Jozef Cornu, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carleton Fiorina, KDD president Tadashi Nishimoto, Siemens' Werner Schmuecking, 3Com chief executive Eric Benhamou and Toshiba president Taizo Nishimuro.
News conferences by Hughes Network Systems , Qualcomm , Hewlett-Packard , Telital, Marconi Communications , Cisco Systems , AT&T , Ericsson , Alcatel , Fujitsu , Lucent , Globalstar and COMPAQ .
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12
GENEVA - Telecom 99 and Interactive 99 conference. For details see Web site itu.int
Interactive summit with Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates, Oracle chairman and CEO Lawrence Ellison and Nokia chief executive Jorma Ollila.
Competition panel with Telecom Italia 's Roberto Colaninno and Telefonica 's Juan Villalonga Navarro.
Information infrastructure evolution panel with Newbridge chief executive Terence Matthews, NEC's Yoshinori Yoshida.
Myth and realities of e-commerce panel with Bull chairman Guy de Panafieu.
News conferences by NTT , Bull , Comverse , Sun Microsystems , Microsoft , Nortel , Oracle , Transcend .
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13
GENEVA - Telecom 99 and Interactive 99 conference. For details see Web site itu.int
Access and distribution panel with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNeally.
Mobile communications panel with Motorola chairman and chief executive Christopher Galvin, Globalstar president Anthony Navarra, Matsushita Communication Industrial president Takashi Kawada and Qualcomm chairman and CEO Irwin Jacobs.
News conferences by GTE Bell Atlantic , 3Com , Global TeleSystems , Worldspace, Mannesmann , Atos , Inmarsat, Surf Communications , 3M .
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 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 chief executive Hasso Plattner, NEC 's Kazumoto Iinuna, Cisco's Alan Cohen.
Mobile communications panel with Orange chief executive Hans Snook, BT Cellnet's John Short.
Regulatory roundtable with Japan Telecom president Haruo Murakami; David Edmonds, director general of British telecommunications watchdog Oftel; Vodafone managing director Alan Harper and OTE chief executive George Symeonidis.
News conferences of Triton , MTS , 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 president Katsumasa Shinozuka and Microsoft 's Jon DeVaan.
News conference by Spike Technologies |
