Rich media services via PC, mobile, handheld, and TV are gaining popularity in the Asia-Pacific. Telecom operators are looking for ways to improve overall customer experience in order to drive more purchases. Having a 360-degree view of customer buying behavior, history, and content preferences would provide critical insight and analytics into up-selling and cross-selling; flexibility in pricing, discounting, and bundling, as well as making content available anytime, anywhere, at an acceptable price point would also help maximize ROI on a piece of content. From content owner perspectives, there are more and more content owner operated portal/video-on-demand services; does ownership of customer billing relationship matter? How would rich media service consumption evolve going forward? How can telco operators and content owners find a mutually profitable ground to operate? The panel of content owners and service providers will offer a comprehensive discussion on these issues.
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Alita Wong
Director, Market Development
Oracle Communications
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Ms. Wong leads business development initiatives and marketing in the Asia-Pacific and Japan. Prior to joining Oracle, she led the strategy consulting and content aggregation initiatives at VC-funded Broadband Network Systems Limited for IPTV, Web streaming, and mobile TV operators. Ms. Wong has been instrumental in strategy and business plan, trials, and rollouts for Hanaro Telecom (Korea), True IPTV (Thailand), and other southeast Asia operators. She has a background in Asia-Pacific regional marketing, strategy, and pre-sales consulting with Lucent Technologies, as well as management consulting experience for the ICT and manufacturing sector with Booz Allen & Hamilton.
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Dan Brody
Vice President for Business Development
Tudou.com
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Mr. Brody was formerly with Google and, as the first employee hired in China, was initially involved in government relations. He later moved to the business development team, signing deals with dozens of partners such as Sina, Tom, Tianya, CCTV, SMG, PhoenixTV, UUSee, and ACDSee. Previously he was the director of government relations and business development for Motorola China, and the managing director of the U.S. Information Technology Office. Mr. Brody graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and studied at Nanjing University and the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing.
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Ringo Chan
Vice President, Wireless, Interactive Content Development and Distribution, Asia Pacific
Vice President, Greater China Turner International Asia Pacific
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Mr. Chan is responsible for overseeing the strategic development and operations of the mobile and interactive business in the Asia-Pacific, including interactive platform sales such as VoD, games, and other interactive applications. Additionally, he also oversees the distribution of CNN International, CNN Headlines, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Adult Swim, and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, as well as manages government affairs and affiliate relations in the territories.
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Puneet Garg
General Manager
Bharti Airtel
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Mr. Garg strives to develop IPTV service, network planning, and design and testing of technology and business models in a highly competitive telecom and entertainment market. Recently he has been relocated back from Singapore and is leading the IPTV rollout in the country. He strives to leverage technology to it fullest potential. Mr. Garg has worked extensively in the Asia-Pacific and India to provide consultancy to operators such as PT Telkom in Indonesia, StarHub and Singtel in Singapore, Astro in Malaysia, and Telstra and VisionStream in Australia on broadband and IP-related services. Mr. Garg is an electronics and communications graduate and has more than 14 years of experience in sales and marketing, pre-sales and consulting services in DTH, network operations, IP and broadband services in the telecom industry.
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William So
Deputy Managing Director, International Division
China Netcom (Group) Co.
Chief Executive Officer
China Netcom (Hong Kong) Operations
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Mr. So joined China Netcom in 2000 as head of international business and has since developed the business from scratch to become the largest in China, working closely with international telecom operators as business and equity partners. He has a very unique background with exceptional experience in both international and China business. Prior to joining CNC, Mr. So served as general manager of a European telecom equipment manufacturer and helped the company to establish a wholly owned foreign enterprise (WOFE) as well as a foreign-foreign joint venture in China.
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