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Ali Ajouz, VP Marketing Sales and Distribution, Orbit Communications |
 Mr. Ajouz has over 17 years of experience in the TV industry, primarily Pay-TV. He holds a MA in Political Economy from Boston University. In 1991 he joined MBC in London as marketing and sales manager, then moved to china to take up the position of Vice President Marketing and Sales with AMG in 1994
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Khaled Taha, Director of Technology, Al Jazeera Network |
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 Khaled Taha is currently the Director of Technology for Al Jazeera Network. His responsibilities include Engineering, IT and New Media across Al Jazeera Arabic and English Channels, Mubashar ("Live"), Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and both Al Jazeera Sports Channels. In November 2006, Khaled has led the successful launch of Al Jazeera English Channel, the world’s first end to end HD implementation at a 24 hour news channel.
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Mohammad Byouk, Senior Manager, Consumer Multimedia - IPTV, Quatar Telecom |
Mohammad Byouk headed the implementation of the first Broad Band IPTV launched commercially by a leading telecom company in the Gulf and Middle East, using the first of its kind MPEG 4 – AVC technology to deliver satellite, Interactive Services and On Demand services over an ADSL 2+ access network in Qatar.
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Hans Paulsen, Chief Commercial Officer, Uganda Telecom |
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Michael Johnson, Managing Director IPTV Syndication Business, Tiscali, UK |
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 Michael Johnson is Managing Director of Tiscali’s IPTV Syndication business, which is tasked to provide white label and wholesale packaged TV services to other telecommunications and media companies. He joined Tiscali as part of its integration with Video Networks Limited (Homechoice) in 2006. At Homechoice, he joined in December 2005 as Executive Director of Sales and Marketing.
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Dr. Cebrail Taskin, IPTV Program Leader, Turk Telekom |
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 Dr. Taşkın is the Program Leader of Turk Telekom’s IPTV Project, working within the Strategy and Business Development Deparment of Turk Telekom. IPTV is a high profile project within Turk Telekom, currently in the business and technical development phase with a target launch date during 2008. His role is to co-ordinate the various streams of of the project, including the consumer proposition, content, regulation, marketing and technology. He has been working on IPTV for 2 years.
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Nuno Afonso, Director of Product & Pricing, Portugal Telecom |
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 Currently, Mr. Afonso is responsible for the analysis and implementation of connected home (or digital home) projects at Portugal Telecom. Mainly, those projects concern the deployment on the large-scale real state market of digital home solutions. He also identifies future trends of the digital home and coordinates the development of new products together with the main manufacturers for home automation and home security.
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Mike Whittaker, Vice President, Broadcast Operations & Technology, Showtime Arabia |
 As Vice President, Broadcast Operations & Technology for Showtime Mike has responsibility for all operational and strategic aspects of the platform - from the broadcast and satellite operations, engineering and projects through to conditional access, set-top boxes and middleware as well as the company’s technology innovation strategy.
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Anette Schaefer, Director Consumer Research, Yankee Group |
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 As director of the Broadband & Media EMEA Decision Service, Anette Schaefer manages all research and consulting. Schaefer extensively monitors consumer market developments and the competition in the media industry. She analyzes the technologies and the overall market convergence, strategies and infrastructure.
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Hany Saad, Media Systems Manager, Dubai Media Inc. |
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Shahid Khan, Partner, IBB Consulting Group, LLC |
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Shahid Khan is an acclaimed thought leader and strategist in converging Media and Telecommunications industries, with expertise in identifying and capitalizing on opportunities based on advanced and emerging platforms across cable, broadband and wireless.
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Mark Denton, VP, International Sales, Ten Sports |
In 2001 Mark relocated to Dubai and joined the start up team of Ten Sports, which currently broadcasts three localized sports networks across Asia and the Middle East.
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