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 Brussels Expo Centre. Speakers are welcome to use the speaker preparation room for on-site preparation meetings with their panelists.

Deadline: All speaker PowerPoint presentations are due by 4 September 2008.

Presentations should be sent to Kate Lyons at klyons@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 voiced negative comments 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: All speakers and chairs will receive a complimentary full conference pass and their registration will be cared for.

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

Your session at the Broadband World Forum Europe 2008 will certainly provide unique and fantastic photo opportunities for you and your company. Therefore, should you desire professional photos of you, your panel, or your session, the IEC is pleased to offer the photography services of Ms. Kathrin Heller, who will serve as this year’s official BBWF Europe 2008 show photographer. For information on pricing and packages, please contact Kathrin at kathrin_heller@gmx.de.

*Please note that though personal (noncommercial) photography is allowed in session rooms, absolutely no videography is allowed. If you would like a video recording of your session, please contact Andy Kiener for special package options at akiener@iec.org. Non–IEC videography is not allowed anywhere throughout the event, and neither photography nor videography is allowed on the exhibition floor.

Monday, 29 September 2008
TIME	SESSION	LOCATION
10:00 – 13:00	Workshop 1 | Carrier Ethernet: The Future Is Now	Hall 10 Room 10-A
	Workshop 2 | Pirates of the Net — Challenges and Solutions for Digital Content Distribution	Hall 10 Room 10-B
	Workshop 3 | Femto Cells — Applications and Solutionsx	Hall 10 Room 10-C
	Workshop 4 | Next-Generation Broadband Access Technologies: Docsis 3.0; VDSL, and FTTx	Hall 10 Room 10-D
	Workshop 5 | The Mobile Future of Broadband: Evolving to Mass-Market HSPA and LTE	Hall 10 Room 10-F
14:30 – 15:00	Welcome Address | Speaker: Scott Alcott, Belgacom	Auditorium 2000
14:30 – 15:00	Keynote Address | Speaker: Didier Bellens, Belgacom	Auditorium 2000
15:00 – 15:30	Keynote Address | Speaker: Ben Verwaayen, Alcatel-Lucent	Auditorium 2000
16:00 – 17:30	A1 | Creating New Networked Experiences in the Managed Home	Hall 10 Room 10-A
	A2 | The Role of Data Layer in Enabling a Unique User Identity and a Ubiquitous User Experience	Hall 10 Room 10-B
	A3 | IPTV versus Internet TV	Hall 10 Room 10-C
	A4 | High Quality Home Delivery: The Role of Home Networking Technology in Ensuring QoE	Hall 10 Room 10-D
	A5 | Modeling WiMAX and Mesh Networks for Maximum ROI	Hall 10 Room 10-E
	A6 | IP Technology — Optimizing Managed Services for Operators and Service Providers	Hall 10 Room 10-F

Tuesday, 30 September 2008
TIME	SESSION	LOCATION
9:00 – 10:30	B1 | Creating a Compelling Telco Hosted Unified Communications Offer	Hall 10 Room 10-A
	B2 | Targeted Advertising — New Business Opportunities and Advertising Challenges in Mobile and Fixed World	Hall 10 Room 10-B
	B3 | The Impact of Next-Generation Voice, Data, and Video on Home Networking	Hall 10 Room 10-C
	B4 | Will the Move to LTE Boost the Projected Take-Up of Mobile Broadband Access Technologies?	Hall 10 Room 10-D
	B5 | Clean Pipe; Clear Conscience?	Hall 10 Room 10-E
	B6 | Should Broadband Networks Be Publicly Owned?	Hall 7 Auditorium 500
	B7 | Transform Network Operations Center (NOC) into Service Operations Center (SOC): A Paradigm Shift for Improving Customer Experience (CE)	Hall 10 Room 10-F
11:00 – 11:30	Keynote Address | Speaker: John McMahon, Sony Pictures Television International	Auditorium 2000
11:30 – 12:00	Keynote Address | Speaker: Carl-Henric Svanberg, Ericsson	Auditorium 2000
14:00 – 15:30	Plenary Panel | The Role of Service Providers in the Content Value Chain	Auditorium 2000
16:00 – 17:30	C1 | Characteristics and Applications of IPTV for Enterprise	Hall 10 Room 10-A
	C2 | Advanced User Interfaces	Hall 10 Room 10-B
	C3 | 3G Femtocells: Where's the Party?	Hall 7 Auditorium 500
	C4 | Access Network Evolution and Move to All-IP: Converging tracks by VDSL2 national plans	Hall 10 Room 10-D
	C5 | To Select the Fittest FTTx (C/B/H) Construction Modes	Hall 10 Room 10-E
	C6 | Enhancing a Broadband-Enabled Economy	Hall 10 Room 10-F
	C7 | Gigabit/s-to-the-User: A Dream or Future Reality?	Hall 10 Room 10-C

Wednesday, 1 October 2008
TIME	SESSION	LOCATION
9:00 – 10:30	D1 | Innovative Broadband Services for Enterprises	Hall 7 Auditorium 500
	D2 | How Open DRM Systems Enhance the Consumer Experience and Enable New Business Models	Hall 10 Room 10-B
	D3 | Changing the Way we Communicate	Hall 10 Room 10-C
	D4 | Service Assurance in the Home Network — The End-to-End Service View and Its Most Critical Component	Hall 10 Room 10-D
	D5 | A Question of Sustainable Access Network Providing Profit Growth. Standard DSL versus Fiber and Wireless Access	Hall 10 Room 10-E
	D6 | Scalable Architectures for Next-Generation Broadband Networks: God-Box or the Right Box?	Hall 10 Room 10-F
	D7 | Merging the Power of Network and IT: Operations Systems for Layers 1 through 7	Hall 10 Room 10-A
11:00 – 12:30	Plenary Panel | The Impact of IDTV on the Broadband Community	Auditorium 2000
14:00 – 14:30	Keynote Address | Speaker: Julio Linares Lopez, Telefonica S.A.	Auditorium 2000
14:30 – 15:10	Plenary Panel | From Telco to a Networked IT Services Infrastructure	Auditorium 2000
15:30 – 17:00	E1 | Broadband Innovation in Belgian Business	Hall 10 Room 10-A
	E2 | The Future of Web Content	Hall 10 Room 10-B
	E3 | Standardization Key to Broadband Success	Hall 10 Room 10-C
	E4 | How Carriers Can Take Control of the Home	Hall 7 Auditorium 500
	E5 | Unified Optical+Ethernet Access and Backhaul: A New Strategy for Fiber-to-the-X	Hall 10 Room 10-E
	E6 | The Next Steps for a Real Fixed-Mobile Convergence	Hall 10 Room 10-F
	E7 | European Regulatory Frameworks — Moving towards Liberalization and Sustainability	Hall 10 Room 10-D

Thursday, 2 October 2008
TIME	SESSION	LOCATION
9:00 – 10:30	Plenary Panel | How Can Enterprise Benefit from Business Applications Hosted by End-to-End ICT Service Providers	Auditorium 2000
11:00 – 12:30	F1 | A New Advertising Ecosystem: How Broadband Service Providers, Advertisers, and Publishers Can Leverage Traffic Data to Deliver the Most Relevant Ads to Consumers	Hall 10 Room 10-A
	F2 | Planning Now for LTE: The Business Case for a New Long-Term Evolution Network	Hall 10 Room 10-C
	F3 | Evolution of Access as Part of NGNs	Hall 10 Room 10-D
	F4 | Road to 100G: Meeting the Broadband Services Challenge	Hall 10 Room 10-F