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The official language of the Broadband World Forum Americas is English. Keynote addresses and plenary panels will be translated into Portuguese.

Denotes a Broadband Content Forum session.

Tuesday, 4 December

9:00 – 10:30

Plenary Panel

Broadband Services and Sustainable Development in Latin America

Chair: Claudio Boechat, Professor, Fundacao Dom Cabral

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 12:15

A1  Deploying Carrier-Class Metro Ethernet Solutions That Provide for Next-Gen Services

Chair: Zeev Draer, Product Line Manager, MRV Communications

A2  The Digital Home: Networking, Technology, and Service Directions

Chair: Craig Herro, Marketing Director, Americas and Emerging Markets Infineon Technologies, Communications Access Group

A3  The Rush to Mobile Video: Establishing and Monetizing a Revolutionary Entertainment and Communications Medium

Chair: Camilla Dahlen, President, Highdeal Inc.

A4  Network Transformation: Mainstreams Toward Future Multimedia Service Offering

Chair: Wilson Cardoso, Director, Nokia Siemens Networks

A5  Transitioning Toward the FTTx Future: Migrating the Access Network

Chair: Michael Howard, Principal Analyst and Co-Founder, Infonetics Research

A6  Net Neutrality: The Service Provider Point of View

Chair: Aloysio Salles Xavier, Marketing Director, Wholesale Business, Telefonica

12:15 – 12:30

Break

12:30 – 13:00

Keynote Address

Speaker: Mauricio Giusti, Vice President of Strategic Planning, Telefónica

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch on Exhibit Floor

14:30 – 16:00

B1  Making the Real Digital Home Work

Chair: Jo Goubert, General Manager Program Management IP Premises Systems, Thomson

B2  Interactive Personalized Video Services: Trends, Technologies, and Solutions

Chair: Stéphane Téral, Principal Analyst, Infonetics Research

B3  Branding, Marketing, and Commercializing to the Latino Consumer with Mobile Content

Chair: Flemming Lund, CEO, Immobia Entertainment

B4  Service Provider VolP Migration and SS7/Sigtran Case Study

Chair: Naeem Akhtar, Cisco Systems

B5  Facing the Challenges of Future Optical Transport Packet-Based Network

Chair: Marcos Kimura, General Manager, Fixed Networks, Nokia Siemens Networks

B6  The Digital Environment

Chair: Jose Luis Dutra, Director, Network Planning and Engineering, Telefonica

16:00 – 16:15

Break

16:15 – 17:45

C1  VoIP Security: Myths and Reality

Chair: Jorge Del Moral, General Manager, Latin America, Acme Packet

C2  Deploying and Managing Large Scale Wireless Video with End-to-End QoS

Chair: Jim Balquist, Senior Manager, Cisco

C3  Bridging TV and Broadband: Strategic Relationships - Advertising, Technology, and Content

Chair: Paulo Sergio Silva, Sales Director, Terra Networks

C4  The New Metro Network — The Migration to OTN

Chair: Ken Davison, Vice President, Meriton Networks

C5  Next-Generation Service Architectures - Creating a Managed Enterprise Services Opportunity

Chair: Cesar Costa, Delta Three

17:30 – 19:00

Reception on the Exhibit Floor

Wednesday, 5 December

9:00 – 10:30

Plenary Panel

New Media Channels

Chair: Roberto Medeiros, Vice President, Telefonica

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 12:15

D1  Differentiated Construction Leading to an Operable and Profitable WiMAX Network

Chair: Carlos Inglez, LA Marketing Manager, Huawei

D2  How to Ensure End-to-End QoS Control for Successful Service Delivery in a Converged Architecture

Chair: Tom Donnelly, Co-founder and Executive Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Sandvine

D3  Broadband Now

Chair: José Luis De Souza, Director, Teleco

D4  Digital Rights: The Good; The Bad; and the Ugly

Chair: Martin Stein, Senior Director, Marketing, Connected Home Solutions, Motorola

D5  The Secure Reseller Model: The "Killer App" to Make IPTV a Reality in Latin America

Chair: Steve Oetegenn, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Verimatrix

12:30 – 13:00

Keynote Address

Chair: Martin Lüst, Head of the Broadband Access business, Nokia Siemens Networks

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch on Exhibit Floor

14:30 – 16:00

E1  Real-World WiMAX Scenarios, Solutions and Business Aspects

Chair: Frank Perthel, Head, Product Line Management, Nokia Siemens Networks

E2  Multipoint-to-Multipoint Services: An Examination of Options

Chair: Dave Dunphy, Principal Analyst and Managing Partner, Telecom Strategy Partners

E3  Evolving Business Designs for the Content and Entertainment Industry

Chair: Marcio Prado, Principal, Oliver Wyman

E4  Evaluating Rights and Licensing in an Exploding Cross-Platform Distribution Universe

Chair: Jim Burger, Attorney at Law, Member, Dow Lohnes PLLC

E5  IPTV 2007: State-of-the-Art Implementation Experience

Chair: James Slevinsky, Director, Technology Strategy, TELUS Communications

16:00 – 16:15

Break

16:15 – 17:45

F1  Why WiMAX? A Comparison of Alternatives for Convergent Services

Chair: Ricardo Distler, Partner, Strategy in Communications and High Tech Markets, Accenture

F2  Fiber to the Home: Will Ethernet Go All the Way? The Comparative Economics of EPON, GPON, and Active Ethernet to Home

Chair: Shashi Bhandari, Director Marketing CPE Products, UTStarcom Inc.

F3  The Business Potential of Games on Demand

Chair: Yoav Tzruya, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Exent Technologies

F4  Personalized Consumer Media: From Broadband Advertising and Content to Blogs, Social Networks and Podcasting

Chair: Sandra Pecis, Vice President, Product and Content, Terra Networks

F5  Generating Revenue with Advanced IP Video and Multiplay Services

Chair: Christopher Hong, Director of Marketing, Wireline Segment, Juniper Networks

17:30 – 19:00

Reception on Exhibit Floor

Thursday, 6 December

9:00 – 10:30

Plenary Panel

IPTV Is Here Already; What Next?

Chair: Mary Francia, Principal, Serowires

10:30 – 11:00

Break

11:00 – 12:30

G1  Building the Highway to Transport Packet Network for Fixed-Mobile Convergence Scenario

Chair: Ricardo Tadao Koyama, Advisor, IP and Optical Networking, Nokia Siemens Networks

G2  DSL Technology Evolution: Pushing the Frontiers of Broadband

Chair: Danny Berko, Director, Solutions Marketing, Broadband Access, ECI Telecom

G3  Social Networking: The Real World Business of Moving Content On-Line

Chair: T. J. Kang, CEO, ThinkFree, Inc.

G4  Successful Ethernet Service Deployments

Chair: Umesh Kukreja, Director of Marketing, Atrica

The official language of Broadband World Forum Americas is English. Keynote addresses and plenary panels will be translated into Portuguese.