DAY 1 - 1st March 2001

08:00 – 09:00 am: Registration
09:00 – 10:00 am: Official Opening ceremony organizer ARABCOM Katia Tayar organizer Chairman & CEO Xperimental Group & Hitek magazine
Ministers Keynote Speeches  Lebanon , Morocco,Palestine, Saudi Arabia, H.E. Mr Rafic Hariri, Prime Minister represented by H.E. Jean Louis Cordahi, Lebanese Minister of Telecom.
ORASCOM Telecom Speaker Naguib Sawiris Position Chairman
Accenture  Speaker Philip Rixhon  Position Partner Topic: Middle East and Africa Telecommunications Gold Rush

OPERATORS SESSION     Chairman Hamad Bin Abdallah Al Attieh  Director General  Q-Tel

10:00 – 10:20 am : Telecommunications Status in Lebanon actual Situation and Future Prospects Lebanon Ministry of Telecom Speaker Director General Mr.Naji Andraous
10:20 – 10:40 am: Libancell  Speaker Hussein El Rifaï Position Chairman  - General Manager Topic:NA
11:00 – 11:20 am: Telecom Egypt Speaker Akil Beshir  Position Chairman Topic: Telecom Egypt Development Plan
11:20 – 11:40 pm: ETISALAT ACADEMY Speaker  Dr.Doaa Fares Position General Manager  Topic: Challenges & Opportunities of training as a critical success factor in Telecom Business in the next Decade

PRESS CONFERENCE with Ministers, Operators, Head of Delegations, CEO’s in Carthage Room

COFFEE BREAK

DEVELOPMENT SESSION   Chairman Sami El Beshir, Teledesic

11:40 - 12:00 Union of Arab Banks Speaker Dr. Fouad Chaker Position Secretary General   Key Note speech
12:000 – 12:20 am: ITXC Speaker  Michael Young  Position Managing Director, REMEA Topic: PTT's are facing a new world of regulatory pressure to deregulate What are their options?
12:20 – 12:40 pm: The Philips Group Speaker  Margrit Sessions  Position  Managing Director Topic: How Telecoms can lead the way to realize benefits special emphasis on tariffing 
12:40 – 13:00 pm: Nortel Networks Speaker  Nabil Gebrael Position Industry Relations Topic: DSL technologies and applications
13:00 – 13:20 pm: International Turnkey Systems Speaker  Saad Al-Barrak Position  Managing Director - General Manager  Topic: IT Challenges for the Telecom Companies in the Middle East
13:20 – 13:40 pm: FLAG Telecom Speaker  Walid Irshaid Position Vice President ME&A Topic: Trends In Bandwidth Technology

13:40 – 14:40 pm Lunch hosted by FLAG Telecom

MOBILE INTERNET & MOBILE COMMERCE SESSION Chairman Jean Louis Farwagi – Arabcom general manager

15:00 – 15:20 pm: Openwave Speaker  Waleed Tlais Position Regional Director, ME, Gulf and Africa: Topic Mobile Internet and e-business
15:20 – 15:40 pm: Reuters Speaker Rami Majzoub Position Media Executive for Lebanon, Jordan, Cyprus, Syria: Topic E-business Strategies & Content in Middle East & North Africa: Where are we heading to?

DEPARTURE from Conference in Shuttle Buses to 
Official OPENING EXHIBITION at 5 pm 

21:00 pm Gala Dinner Hosted by 
ORASCOM Telecom
at Mehanna Restaurant

DAY 2 - 2^nd March 2001

MEDIA & Copyrights SESSION    Chairman Katia Tayar Chairperson Arabcom

09:00 – 09:10 am: Lawyer Walid Abdullah Nasser Topic: Protection of the Content in the Digital medium.
09:10 – 09:20 am: Reuters  Speaker Samir Salameh Position Former General Manager in Lebanon  Topic: Development of International news agency communications

GPRS & BLUETOOTH SESSION   Chairman Katia Tayar, Chairman & CEO  ARABCOM

10:20 – 10:40 am: Thales Instruments Speaker Dr Kifah Qassim Position Product Manager  Topic: Testing in GPRS and 3G Environments

UMTS SESSION  Chairman Abdel Rahman Al Fouheid – Deputy minister – Saudi PTT  

10:40 – 11:00 am: DETECON Speaker Yazen Sheqem  Position Senior Consultant Business Development  Topic: Who is the winner with 3G? How to Enlarge the 3G pie?
11:00 – 11:20 am: PROTEK Speaker  Tony Redden     Topic: Weaning Your Customers on 3G
11:20 – 11:40 am: ALCATEL  Speaker  Hani Ramzi  Position UMTS Mobile Network design Director  Topic: UMTS Radio Access Network Design Problematic

11:40 – 12:00 am COFFEE BREAK HOSTED BY ALCATEL

UMTS Session Chairman Ali Maarouf Deputy STE                                

12:00 – 12:20 am: AIRNET Speaker  Bennet Wong Position Director, technical sales  Topic: Key Technical Considerations in Evolution to UMTS and Wireless Internet
12:20 – 12:40 pm: Freshfield Communications  Speaker Dr. Adel Turkmani Position Managing Director Topic UMTS and its Challenges
12:40 – 13:00 pm: Lebanese Army Speaker Dr General Mohamed Atwi  Position Army General Topic UMTS Network Infrastructure

14:20 – 14:40 pm Lunch hosted by 

International Turnkey systems & 

HITEK magazine at MOSAIC restaurant Phoenicia

Intercontinental Hotel

DEVELOPMENT SESSION       Chairman  Abdel Wahed Fakhroo Qtel

16:00 – 16:20 pm: Wireless Data  Speaker  Jim Beattie Position Business Development Manager Africa & Middle East Topic: The future of Mobile Data
16:20 – 16:40 pm: Damac  Speaker Ahmed Samerai Position Investment Development Manager   Topic: Telecommunications Investing Opportunities
16:40 -  17:00 pm: ESCWA  Speaker  Mr Abdelilah Dewashi Position Regional advisor Topic: Can the ICT Infrastructure of the Region Cope with the Fast Growing Demand of the Knowledge Economy?
17:00 – 17:20 pm: ETSI  Speaker  Margot Scheffer Position Marketing  Officer Topic: Building New Generation Networks through Partnerships
17:20 – 17:40 pm: ADC Speaker Mark Scott  Topic: Value Added Telecom Services
17:40 – 18:00 pm: MARCONI  Speaker Steve Cranie Position Head of Marketing Topic: A Comparison of WLL systems for the provision of Public Telecommunications services

IP, VOIP & ECRM SESSION Sponsor  IBASIS Chairman Dr Jamil Chawki OGERO telecom

18:00 – 18:20 pm: Ibasis Speaker Safee Idrees Position Director, Business Development, Middle East  Topic "Leveraging an IP infrastructure to offer new revenue generating services"
18:20 – 18:40 pm: Cisco  Speaker Mawaheb Kabbara,Position Systems Engineer.Topic : "Telecom Technologies requirements in the Middle East”
18:40 – 19:00 pm: Clarent Speaker Roz Bewsher Position Director Strategic Marketing, EMEA Topic: VoIP - Delivering the Promise
19:00 – 19:20 pm: Altitude Software  Speaker  Riad Boukhris Position Vice President MEA, Africa & South Asia  Topic :Unified customer interaction (uC): Bridging the Physical / Virtual World Gap

21:00 pm Gala Dinner

Hosted by ACCENTURE

at RIVIERA Hotel Upon Invitation  

DAY 1 - 1st March 2001

WAP SESSION   Chairman Hassan Labady  - Director general – Morocco T&T

9:30 – 9:50 am: EHPT Speaker  Linda Ekener Magi  Position Manager Portfolio Mgmt & Marketing Topic: Support for New Revenue Streams Enabled by Mobile Portals
09:50 – 10:10 am: MOBILE WAY Speaker  Olivier Gerhardt Position Business Development Manager Operators Topic: Text messaging the hottest data applications for Mobile Phones
10:10 – 10:30 am  : Mughamrat Speaker Yahia Alaoui Position CEO Topic: Global Arabic Solution for Mobile Phones

10:30 – 10:50 am COFFEE BREAK hosted by HITEK magazine

SATELLITE SESSION  Chairman  Mr Akil Bechir Chairman Telecom Egypt

10:50 – 11:10 pm: Lockheed Martin  Speaker David Green Position Manager, Market Dev. EMEA Topic: Broadband Satellite Services for the Middle East
11:10 – 11:30 pm: PanamSat Speaker Matthew D. Rocksborough-Smith Position Regional Manager, Middle East / North Africa Topic: Satellite-based Internet connectivity and its practicality for the Middle Eastern market

MOBILE BANKING SESSION Chairman Dr Fouad Chaker Union of Arab banks

11:30 – 11:50 pm: Union of Arab Banks Speaker Dr. Fouad Chaker Position Secretary General  Topic: Convergence of Arab Banks with New Economies
11:50 – 12:10 pm: Giesecke & Devrient Speaker Mr Moustafa Samaha Position Director of sales Topic: Mobile banking
12:10 – 12:30 pm: Association of Banks in Lebanon Speaker Mohamed Fehaili Position Economist & Academic Advisor Topic: Mobile Banking

12:30 Closing Ceremony & Recommendations

13:00 – 14:00 pm Lunch Hosted by

ARABCOM

Upon Invitation

Gala Dinner Hosted by

The Lebanese Ministry of Post & Telecommunications

ARABI RESTAURANT - HAZMIEH