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(Last updated: 6.3.2000)
DAY 1 : 25 March Phoenicia Inter-Continental Hotel

Congress President H.E. Minister Dr Issam Naaman

8:00 am –  9:00 am Registration & Welcome drink
9:00 am –  9:25 am Seating
9:30 am – 10:30 am Opening Ceremony

Katia Tayar Organiser of ARABCOM
Hamadoun Toureh Director ITU / BDT
H.E.Minister Issam Naaman Minister of Post & Telecom Lebanon Ministers of Telecom
Ministers Speeches        Morocco - Syria - UAE - Jordan - Egypt
Naguib Sawiris Orascom

Panel Chairman & Speaker
Director General Syrian Telecom Establishment Makram Obeid Director
General of Equipment & Construction Naji Andraous
Director General of Operation & Maintenance Ahmad Oueydat
Director General of Post Jamal Mawlawi

10: 30 – 10: 40
Election of Chairpersons

10: 40 – 11: 00 Mr Mohammad Hassan Omran Chairman THURAYA
11: 00 – 11: 20 Hans-Peter Gebhardt Director General Information Society European Commission Telecommunications Regulation - Scope & regulatory Principles
11: 20 – 11: 40 Dr Ramon Nogueroles Technical Area Manager SIEMENS AG Voice Data Integration: the IN contribution in the evolution from GSM towards UMTS”
11: 40 – 12: 00 Dr Louis Hobeika Chairman &CEO Sodetel The Development and financing Telecom projects in the region
12: 00 – 12: 20 David Green Business Development Manager Lockheed Martin Broadband Satellite Services in the Middle East
12: 00 – 12: 40 Hussein Rifaļ Chairman General manager Libancell GSM in Lebanon, Where do we stand?
12: 40 – 13: 00 Philippe Rixhon Andersen Consulting Privatisation
13:00 – 13: 20 Walid Irshaid Vice-President MEA FLAG Telecom FLAG Broadband Connection for the Arab World

LUNCH Sponsored by FLAG

14: 40 – 15: 00 Abdullah Al-Rakhis President & CEO Zajoul Privatization of Telecom Sector In Saudi Arabia: Zajoul Communications Study Case
15: 05 – 15: 25 Heather Henyon Consultant, International Wireless Practice The Strategis Group Inc. Middle East: Moving towards third generation wireless?
15: 30 – 15: 50 Stephan Eberhagen Director of International Business consultancy Siemens Considerations on the Evolution of IN Prepaid in Mobile Networks from a Marketing Perspective
15: 55 – 16: 15 Roland Jaegers Senior Consultant Varetis Using Innovative Directory Solutions to Enhance CRM strategies for Middle East telcos

16: 20 – 16: 40
Coffe Break

16: 45 – 17 : 05 Dr Leonid Androuchko Chairman Telemedicine ITU Telemedicine in Developing countries
17: 05 – 17 : 25 Shane Stowells Regional Manager Centigram Communications Unified Communications

17: 30 Gathering in Phoenicia Lobby & Departure to Beirut Hall in Bus Shuttles

18: 30
Exhibition Official Opening Ceremony

Gala Dinner Hosted by ORASCOM

 

DAY 2 : 26 March Phoenicia Inter-Continental Hotel


08: 40 – 09: 00
Khaled Rifai System Engineering Manager Lucent Technologies Innovative Voice Over DSL Services
09: 00 – 09: 20 Ryad Boukhris Vice President Middle East & Africa Easyphone Unified Customer Interaction positioning
09: 25 – 09: 45 Mark Toohey Engineering Operation Director Comtel Convergence & the last mile solution
09: 50 – 10: 10 Charles Oshunremi Vice President Qualcomm Inc. Advanced wireless internet solution for rapidly growing wireless internet markets
10:10 – 10: 30 Mahmoud El Soury Vice President CTR Group Impact of Internet in International Traffic

10: 30 – 10: 40 Coffee Break

10: 40 – 11: 00 Michael Dagher Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Fastlink How Fastlink's re-development and re-design of packages greatly increased sales
11: 05 – 11: 25 Dr Hussein Issa Sigiuk General Manager Libia GPTC Assuming New Telecommunications Technologies in Lybia
11: 30 – 11: 50 Martin Kloppenburg Director Sales Optical Networks Siemens Optical networking solutions - An overview
11: 55 – 12: 15 Subash Menon Managing Director Subex Systems Ltd Fraud Management in a Telecom Network
12: 20 – 12: 40 John Mac Mahon Senior Regulatory Advisor British Telecom The Impact of Liberalisation on the national monopoly carrier
12: 45 – 13: 05 Matthew Botwin Regulatory Affairs Pan Am Sat GSO,NGSO, and the Future of GMPCS

LUNCH Sponsored by HITEK magazine

14: 40 – 15: 00 Ilka Ranta Business Development Manager F-Secure Corporation Implementation of enterprise virtual private networks (VAN)
15: 05 – 15: 25 Guy Robert Managing Director Graphium Secure Mobile e-payments for all customers
15: 30 – 15: 50 Paul Cullen Product manager Siemens Siemens Business Over IP platform
15: 55 – 16: 15 Dan Powder Maker Vice President EMEA IBASIS Leveraging Internet telephony for rapid market deployment of IP-based services

16: 20 – 16: 40 Coffe Break

16: 45 – 17: 05 Adil Pastakia Regional Sales director Gric Communications IP Clearing house for value added services in regulated telecommunications market
17: 25 – 17: 45 Nabil Akrout Director of Business Development The Fantastic Corp. Broadband Data Broadcasting
17: 50 – 18: 10 Samir Dajani Group Director & Felix Damiba Manager Application Support Intelsat Intelsat Contribution to the Middle East
18: 15 – 18: 35 Patricia Faccin
ITU Gender Issue

18: 35 – 19: 00 Mohsen Triki Director General Parc Technologique - Ali Ghodbani Director General CERT - Slaheddine Maaref Director Central TUNISIA Telecom Communications Technologies in Tunisia: Development & Perspective.

Gala Dinner Hosted by ARABCOM

 

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