IPTV World Forum MEA 2008

Speakers are being invited from the key sectors involved in the IPTV market; telcos,
content providers, device manufacturers, ISPs, technology providers and many more. 

If you are interested in speaking at the IPTV Middle East & Africa please contact 

Ingrid Anusic
Head of Conferences 
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Confirmed Speakers  Include;

Mr. Khauli returned to Jordan recently after a long career in the United States. During the past 23 years of work Mr. Khauli held the position of Senior Vice President of Operations at Novell USA and topped his career achievements in spending four years working at the USDOD (United States Department of Defense) where he worked on the Class 3 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

Mr. Abdulhadi has a 30 year career which started in 1977 when he joined the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) in 1977.  After a ten-year tenure with SABIC in senior positions at the corporate and joint venture levels, Mr. Abdulhadi moved to the private sector where he held the top management positions at DAC, and several Mawarid Group companies since 1991.

Mr. Miltos Vidalis has held over the last 17 years several senior positions in different companies in the Telecommunications and IT industries, including Vodafone, Giesecke & Devrient and Siemens.

Ted Hsiung has held senior positions with PCCW and HK Telecom for the past ten years.  His current position is Head of Business Development for PCCW International Projects.  Prior to this, he was Head of Business Development for CASCADE Ltd, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary and the technical services arm of PCCW.

Sarat Dutt Lallah, CEO of Mauritius Telecom, is an ICT consultant and has held positions of Manager, Computer Department and Software Manager of a leading Mauritian group. In 1991, he launched his own company. From July 1997 to September 2000, he served as Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology and also occupied, concurrently, the post of Minister of Social Security and National Solidarity from October 1997 to September 1999.

Avinash heads up Product Marketing for IPTV at du. He joined du in 2006 when it was a Greenfield startup, and has been part of the core team that has evolved the company into a integrated quad play telco.

He joined FASTWEB at the startup (2000) in the Strategic Planning Dept. and has subsequently (2001-02) been in charge of the Company’s relations with investors and financial/industry analysts.

Rikus Matthÿser joined the South African Department of Post and Telecommunications in 1985. While working in the Technology Strategy section he implemented an ATM pilot project and compiled a Broadband Technology Strategy for Telkom South African.

Tariq Habib brought a decade of experience with entrepreneurial spirit in design & business management of complex ICT systems, in such areas as telecommunications, Internet and e-business, when he came on board in 1999.

Benjamin Schwarz is a passionate senior executive with 18 years of international experience in consulting and Telco organisations where his innovation and technology leadership help secure positions in emerging markets.

Marc-Antoine d’Halluin’s executive career in the TV industry began at Sony Pictures in 1995 where he held the position of Manager and then Director within the corporate development group.

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. Ten Sports remains the highest rating sports network across the Indian sub-continent and is available to over 70 million pay TV households.

Khireddine Slimane had his engineer formation in the telecommunication institute of Oran (Algeria), and had complementary telecom training in France and Sweden.

Prior to creating glowria in 2002, Mihai was VP International for UOL, largest online provider in Brazil. He launched UOL in 5 Latin American countries, the USA and Spain, becoming the leading ISP and portal ahead of AOL and Terra. Before joining UOL, Mihai launched Latin America’s first webmail white label platform for clients including Telefónica.  Prior to that, Mihai was an IT consultant for companies such as Intel Europe, TotalFinaElf, Renault, Saint-Gobain and BNP Paribas.

Julian is a Principal Analyst in Informa Telecoms & Media’s data research team. Julian has researched the wireless and fixed line industries for 16 years.

Fearghal Kelly joined ioko in 2005 as Media Solutions director, Kelly is responsible for ioko’s media practice division, extending its client base and defining the services that ioko brings to market. Since joining, Kelly has established partnerships with Autonomy, the world's number one provider of automated infrastructure technology, and Vividas Kelly has been instrumental in ioko’s recent contracts with the BBC Film Network and Channel4.com.

In his role as TANDBERG Television’s IPTV Business Development Director, Alan Delaney is responsible for building and maintaining the company’s relationship with telcos, operators and content owners in order to further the deployment and adoption of IPTV.  

Paul Gainham joined Juniper Networks in 2003 as Product Marketing Manager for Juniper Networks EMEA. In his current role Paul’s responsibilities include managing the team that drive the marketing activities around Juniper’s core and edge routing platforms, working closely with internal sales as well as customers and channel partners to ensure that Juniper products are well represented in the market and reflect and drive customer needs and directions in this space.