Here, you will find information for speakers, room assignments, and speaker registration, as well as a wealth of other information to make your experience at the Broadband World Forum Europe as productive as possible.

Please check back often, as information will be updated on a regular basis.

Information in this section includes the following:

• IEC Contacts
• Room Setup
• Pre-Show Preparation
• On-Site Speaker Preparation Room
• Presentation Deadline
• Presentation Guidelines
• Day of Presentation
• Session Format
• Registration Procedure: Pre-Show and On-Site
• Room Locations

Pitsa Madoch Director of Content Development Phone: +1-312-559-4601 pmadoch@iec.org

Lynne Bobak Marketing Manager Phone: +1-312-559-3862 lbobak@iec.org

Andréa Scrementi Forum Coordinator Phone: +1-312-559-4138 ascrementi@iec.org

Lisa Reyes Public Relations Manager Phone: +1-312-559-3325 lreyes@iec.org

Session rooms are equipped with the following:

• LCD projector
• Cabling
• Screen
• Microphone at table and podium
• Tent cards with names of speakers placed at speaker seating
• Head table for all speakers placed at the front of the room

We encourage chairpersons and speakers to hold a conference call to discuss session format and time sequence as well as discuss presentation overview to avoid any content overlap. A dedicated speaker preparation room will be available to all speakers at the Estrel Hotel at Estrel Convention Centre. Speakers are welcome to use the speaker preparation room for on-site preparation meetings with their panelists.

Please note: The speaker preparation room is Small Gallery (10).

Deadline: All speaker PowerPoint presentations are due by 6 September 2007.

Please note: This is a firm deadline because of production timelines. Presentations that are not submitted by 6 September 2007 will not be included in the conference proceedings.

Presentations should be sent to Andréa Scrementi at ascrementi@iec.org in PowerPoint format.

The following are some helpful tips in regard to producing your presentation:

• Presentations are to be noncommercial.
• The IEC does not have a PowerPoint template; feel free to use your own.
• Avoid too much content on one slide, as attendee feedback has been negative with regard to this.

The day of your presentation, please bring your laptop computer, as laptops are not provided in session rooms. We suggest loading all presentations on one laptop for easy transition from one speaker to the next.

• The session chairperson will provide introductory comments for approximately five to 10 minutes.
• Speaker presentations should be approximately 10 to 15 minutes in length, depending on the number of speakers.
• Reserve 10 to 15 minutes for questions at the end of the session. Strong feedback has shown this provides great value to attendees.

Pre-Show Registration: Chairpersons and speakers should register for the Broadband World Forum Europe using a special speaker's on-line registration form offering a selection of conference packages.

On-Site Registration: Once you arrive at the Estrel Hotel at Estrel Convention Centre, speakers are asked to check in at an Advance Registration counter to pick up name badges, session tickets, and materials.

Monday, 8 October
10:00 – 13:00
SESSION/TITLE	LOCATION
Workshop 1 | Contents and Applications — Key Success to the Broadband Story	Room 1
Workshop 2 | Digital Home: Evolving the Home Networking Environment	Room 2
Workshop 3 | Mass-Scale IPTV Deployment — Are We Ready?	Room 3
Workshop 4 | How Deep Do We Want to Distribute Intelligence?	Room 4
Workshop 5 | The Opportunities and Challenges of Multi-Play	Room 5
Workshop 6 | Next-Gen DSL: Pushing the Frontiers of Broadband	Paris
14:30 – 15:15
Opening Ceremony and Keynote Addresss	Estrel Saal A-C
15:15 – 16:45
Plenary Panel | New Media: New Millennium — The Emergence of Convergent Media	Estrel Saal A-C
17:00 – 18:30
A1 | Mobile TV and Interactive Advertising	Room 1
A2 | Future of TV: Personalized and Connected Entertainment	Room 2
A3 | Operationalizing IPTV and Content-Based Offerings: Service Fulfillment for the Application Age	Room 3
A4 | Collaborating with Web Service Content Providers	Room 4
A5 | Service and Network Security — Red Alert or False Alarm?	Room 5
A6 | Femto Cells — Next-Generation Indoor Network Access	Paris
18:30 – 19:30
Welcome Reception	Orangerie
Tuesday, 9 October
9:00 – 10:30
SESSION/TITLE	LOCATION
Plenary Panel | Creating Technological Innovations — Taking Advantage of Opportunities	Estrel Saal A-C
11:00 – 11:30
Keynote Address	Estrel Saal A-C
14:00 – 15:30
B1 | Mobile Music: Driving Adoption	Room 1
B2 | The Evolution of Home Networking — Phase Two	Room 2
B3 | Advertising's New Frontier	Room 3
B4 | WiMAX — Financial, Services, Technology Trends for Service Providers	Room 4
B5 | Next-Generation Content Navigation in a Mobile and Multi-Platform Home	Room 5
B6 | FTTX, xPON: Who Wins?	Paris
B7 | Services for Mobile Broadband Networks	Estrel Saal A
15:45 – 17:15
C1 | Mobile Gaming: The Game Console in the Consumer's Pocket	Room 1
C2 | Management of QoS in Home Networks	Room 2
C3 | HDTV over IP Delivery Challenges	Room 3
C4 | Fixed-Mobile Convergence Developments and Experiences Impact on Business Plans	Room 4
C5 | Supporting Media and Internet Convergence in a Rapidly Changing Telecom Market	Room 5
C6 | FTTx: Commercial, Technical, and Regulatory Challenges	Paris
C7 | New Content — New Devices	Estrel Saal A
Wednesday, 10 October
9:00 – 10:30
SESSION/TITLE	LOCATION
D1 | Mobile TV: From Reality to Profitability	Room 1
D2 | What Are Possible Service Provider Device Strategies for the Residential Market?	Room 2
D3 | New Consumer Trends — The Evolution of TV	Room 3
D4 | Broadband for All in Developing Countries	Room 4
D5 | Toward Converged Broadband Architectures for Mobile, Wireless, and Fixed Access	Room 5
D6 | Empowering Your Triple Play with VDSL2 in the Access	Paris
D7 | Games — Crossover into Music, TV, Cable, Broadband and Movies — "Advertainment" and Custom Branded Experience	Estrel Saal A
11:00 – 11:30
Keynote Address	Estrel Saal A-C
11:30 – 12:00
Keynote Address	Estrel Saal A-C
14:00 – 15:30
E1 | Mobile TV: Powered by 3G and Evolution	Room 1
E2 | Beyond Triple Play: Home Network-Based Services	Room 2
E3 | Home Highways for Video Distribution	Room 3
E4 | Driving Broadband Uptake Beyond Early Adopters and Copper Lines	Room 4
E5 | Video's Effects on Network Traffic Patterns	Room 5
E6 | Carrier Ethernet's Role in Mobile Backhaul	Paris
E7 | Does DRM Work for Us or against Us?	Estrel Saal A
15:45 – 17:15
Plenary Panel | Over-the-Top Advertised Video versus QoE Subscription Based Offers: Is There a Win-Win Combination?	Estrel Saal A-C
Thursday, 11 October
9:00 – 10:30
SESSION/TITLE	LOCATION
F1 | Interactive Personalized Video Applications and Services: Trends, Technologies, and Solutions	Room 1
F2 | Managing the Set-Top Box	Room 3
F3 | What Makes IPTV Fly? — How to Increase the Success of Multi-Play Service Operators	Room 4
F4 | Service Transformation toward Convergence	Room 5
F5 | | Benchmarking and Projected Take-up of Mobile Broadband Technologies	Room 2
F6 | King of the Metro — Ethernet Yes, but What Else?	Paris
11:00 – 11:30
Keynote Address	Estrel Saal A-C
11:30 – 12:00
Keynote Address	Estrel Saal A-C
13:00 – 14:30
Plenary Panel | From Hollywood to the Desktop: Content in the New Media Age	Estrel Saal A-C
14:45 – 16:15
G1 | Mobile Broadband Services and Applications	Room 1
G2 | The Connected Home — Leveraging the Potentials of IMS	Room 2
G3 | IPTV and Internet Video: Competitive or Complementary	Room 3
G4 | Managing Quality of Experience for IP-Based Communications	Room 4

Room Locations are subject to change