2. Talk with Raco Wireless President John Horn
Topics Will Include:
M2M producers have developed sessions that blend many of these topics, so although you may submit a specific proposal for a session, please keep in mind that based on your area of expertise; M2M Evolution may fit you into an already developed session.
M2M Evolution Team appreciates your interest in M2M Evolution, and your decision to submit a proposal. They are seeking high-level executive speakers (C-level, VP, Director, etc.,) who are extremely knowledgeable and are comfortable delivering presentations of a business or technical nature.
Please be advised that M2M Evolution Team receives many applications for speaking opportunities and cannot accommodate all requests. Also please be aware that many of the sessions may be presented in a panel format and/or may feature multiple speakers. The decision to feature multiple speakers in any session is at the sole discretion of conference organizers.
If the conference organizers select your proposal, you will be notified by November 2, 2012 and speaker kits with deadlines and requirements will be sent to you at that time.
Speaker Requirements:
Speakers must adhere 100% to our "NO COMMERCIALISM" Policy. If you cannot avoid commercialism, please do not agree to speak at M2M Evolution. Speakers must share their information in an educational, non-commercial and non-self-promotional manner. Speakers must present new concepts and new ideas, not available from any other source. Speakers must provide session description for the conference website.
More than 500 decision makers, 30 exhibitors and 80 international speakers from the entire industry are expected to attend the German location.
The conference in Germany, organised by the Software and Services division of Informa Group, will follow the launch event in Dallas this November. Who will be there? Hyundai, Toyota, Ford, AT&T, Sprint, Rdio, Panasonic, Nokia, Pandora, Genivi, MERA, Harman and more! The 2013 two day conference agenda will cover business models, pricing and global scaling, regulatory impact, standards and global initiatives, and technical access models and innovations. There will be networking breaks with "in car" entertainment, apps village, ‘drive thru’, wifi zone, automobile innovation and vision of connected car theatres. Fun!
Sophie Powell, Portfolio Manager for Software and Services shares with us, “We are excited to be delivering this dedicated event following comments from industry on wanting a meeting place with genuinely high level decision making attendees and strategic CxO level presentations. Given our existing relationship with the mobile operator wholesale and tech community and past successes in convergence events we are looking forward to offering something a bit different – we hope to see you at the ‘drive in’ to discuss the future of connected cars and how customer loyalty retention in this sector can turn to eventual revenue generation for partners! It’s another fascinating area to cover where connectivity is changing everything.”
The full details of agenda with even a brochure to download if you would like are at www.connectedcarsworld.com for the Frankfurt, Germany event and at http://usa.mvnoindustrysummit.com/connected-cars-mvnos-is-usa/ for the Dallas event.
Press can arrange for interviews with confirmed speakers ahead of the event, by emailing fiona.higgins@informa.com or call +44 (0)20 7017 5289.
Follow what's up on Twitter @telecomstweet. If you have not listened already to my audio podcasts with the dealerships about the latest technology yet, click to listen to Dow Honda and Star Motors Mercedes.
CEO of TW Telecom Ms. Larissa Herda is keynote speaker on Sunday for COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2012 Their annual CEO Breakfast for Comptel members only will listen to speaker CEO Royce Holland of Masergy, a software cloud company. Mr. Jerry James says you'll be able to gather information from and develop business with service providers for retail and wholesale, vendors for thoses service providers, engineering experts (which he notes that everyone has to have), and also legal and taxing authorities. Participants will be able to take part in a golfing event on Sunday. Monday night, one of their members, from BTI of Canada, will entertain with his own band to the crowd of around 2000. Three percent of the attendees of COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2012 are international. (I believe that ITEXPO attracts about 15 % international. Approximately 55 % of the DIDX wholesale membership is international, all service providers and wholesale telecom entities. I'll check on the accurate figures for ITEXPO West and East and also DIDX soon.)
Mr. Jerry James mentions one cool feature that COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2012 offers that most do not ... a business planner, somewhat like the one that Jeff Pulver used to use with the VON shows. Everyone is connected in advance to all other attendees who will be at COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2012. Each can start networking and setting up meetings before COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2012 even begins.
Sounds like they have taken the best of other conferences and put them all into one great experience. So, if you're already at ITEXPO West in Austin (which is absolutely productive and rewarding) this week, don't go back home Friday. Head over to Dallas for COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2012! Visit http://www.comptel.org or http://www.comptelplus.org.
"Long live IP," I can imagine many of us would happily shout together because of the billions of lives that IP has empowered. Because of IP, new businesses, applications, technologies, jobs, innovations, inventions, and possibilities are ours for the making and taking. An industry friend of mine named Sandra Diaz Hoyos, president of Smart Network Solutions, is working with a global set of highly-respected companies to make available the Vive IP Conference, scheduled October 18, 2012 at the Club Campestre in Cali, Colombia.
Running races are one of the least expensive and easiest kinds of athletic events to produce. A majority can walk and/or run. Experiencing an event like running a race together where everyone has to work hard, sweat, laugh, and feel the adrenaline and power together ... it's unforgettable. The business friendships will last forever. *
Technology conferences and exhibitions like Asian Carriers Conference can change one's team, business, and life in the most positive ways, both professionally and educationally because this is where businesspeople feel welcome among friends and strangers and where they can network, teach, learn and collaborate face to face. No time wasted! For the first time, the providers of DIDXchange are recommending ACC 2012 in addition to ITEXPO, 4G Wireless Evolution (also known as Mobility Tech Zone), 4G World, and 4G LatinAmerica for business development and partnership building.
I began talking to Philippines Long Distance Telephony Company team
members about Asian Carriers Conference in early 2011 and am excited to participate for the first time on September 4 - 7, 2012 in Cebu, Philippines. The producers have chosen the classy Shangri-La Resort Hotel as its venue. Am I excited? Big wink! Of course.
What will we get to do? Number one is the plenary sessions that are purposely planned to encourage debate and discussion instead of "business as usual." How refreshing is that? In fact, these sessions will be so much better than typical conference fare in many technology events of commercialized type presentations that are just a summary of a company's website. But ... now, where there is debate and discussion, there is a greater potential for innovation. Second cool thing about ACC 2012, the IP migration kickoff meetings will enable experts to connect with those telcos who need such assistance ... to migrate from traditional telephony for example, to IP telephony. No hiding in the Neanderthal ages.
In addition, ACC 2012 will include some corporate social responsibility projects for the surrounding community in Cebu as part of the program. Plus, what I have been asking every telecom event to include, ACC 2012 will have 3K and 5K Fun Runs for everyone to compete in on September 6th! For every registered runner, Asian Carriers Conference will give $50 to the corporate social responsibility project chosen!(Browse http://www.asiancarriersconference.com for more and sign up to participate.)
My podcast team felt quite honored when Edgar Antonio, the Head of Carrier Marketing and Product Development at PLDT, agreed to let us record a conversation with him about Asian Carriers Conference 2012 and what is the latest for Philippines Long Distance Telephone company.
ACC was first organized in 2005 with 200 delegates participating. Wholesale telecom carriers met to conduct bilateral meetings and networking sessions. By year 2011, Asian Carriers Conference had doubled its attendance until it reached over 1000 in total. It won the Best Telecom Conference Award in 2011 during the 1st Asian Conference Summit and Awards which took placed during CommunicAsia held in Singapore in June 2012. Philippines Long Distance Company, Smart Communications and Sun Cellular event hosts for ACC. Its sponsors and partners are the most esteemed in the industry: Verizon, T-Mobile, Airtel, HGC, Telenor, Sify, AT&T, Bangla Trac, DIDX and others.
Click to stream the conversation or download and listen any time even if you are offline to the 17 minute audio podcast between me and Edgar Antonio of PLDT. Some of the items of great interest I discovered regarding PLDT include thei recent investment grade status by Standard & Poor's global credit rating system and increasingly diversified portfolio of products such as wireless, fixed line, and broadband services, that serve individuals, homes, retail consumers and corporate customers. Their BPO sector is pretty impressive also in both voice and non-voice verticals.
Business persons and companies can sign up now to participate in Asian Carriers Conference, scheduled September 4 - 7, 2012 at http://www.asiancarriersconference.com.
* I am still great friends with these guys who ran together with me every morning during Spring VON 2007 in San Jose!
How many times have you thought of a better way of doing something, but you were afraid to rock the boat, especially if you are not the boss? Who gets made fun of the most? Those who speak up or those who are quiet? Taking a chance is something I am notorious for. I met my husband Michael Bowen through Yahoo Personals in 2003 and my second business partner Rehan Allahwala through online international culture exchange forums in 1995. Many of my friends such as Noreen Rucinski are risk-taking idea people who charge ahead to make things happen. I remember her asking Mark Hewitt during ITEXPO West 2011 in Austin, "How come you don't do anything with patents and intellectual property at this event?"Just four months later at the Miami Beach Convention Center, TMC enabled a SUITS Synopsis under IP/Patents Telecom Sourcing workshop and conference for the first time in February 2012. ;-)
Noreen Rucinski was one of thirty businesswomen who participated in the Women in Telecom and Technology Breakfast which was sponsored by 4GWE Summit at ITEXPO East, Xorcom.com, DIDX.net, and TheSIPSchool.com. We each, like Noreen does in the video, share ideas, experiences, and knowledge that often lead to lasting friendship and business development during and after meetup.
Nowadays, people will find Noreen Rucinski basically making companies better. Contact her on Linkedin, and be sure to send the women in your company to the next Women's Technology Breakfast at a conference near you.
The Women's Technology Breakfast, sometimes called Women in Telecom and Wireless or Women in Telecom and Technology, is a serendipitous, informal event that any ladies can put together. There is no patent for it. ;-) But it is a great opportunity for women to share success tips, hilarious stories, technical expertise, friendship and business development. Take a risk, set up your own ad hoc Women in Technology Breakfast and share the pictures and videos and knowledge with us and the world.
More on patents or women in technology:
Greg Galitzine's http://blog.tmcnet.com/robotics/2012/02/irobot-secures-100th-patent.html
Rich Tehrani's http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/google/google-growth-dropbox-killer-google-is-the-tech-news.html
Embarrassed that your company needs an intellectual property lawyer? 
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