Industry’s future technology direction to be shared by powerful lineup of leading technology officers, industry decision makers at ATIS TechThink Technology Conference

ATIS has unveiled its full line-up of keynote presenters, panelists and speakers for its TechThink Conference which will feature the most senior business and technology decision-makers in the communications industry.

“The lineup of CTOs and senior executives speaking at the ATIS TechThink Conference will expand everyone’s understanding of the technology and business considerations that today’s leading industry companies are addressing with respect to communications and entertainment,” said Susan Miller, president and CEO of ATIS.

CTOs from leading service providers kick off ATIS TechThink in a general session entitled What’s NEXT is NOW: Delivering Telecom’s Converged Network and Entertainment Experience. Offering their unique perspectives on Next Gen communications technology will be TechThink Panelists Chris Rice, Chief Technology Officer for AT&T; Pieter Poll, Chief Technology Officer for Qwest; Mark Wegleitner, Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer for Verizon; and Matt Bross, Group Technology Officer for British Telecom, in a session moderated by ATIS President and CEO Susan Miller.

Areas of focus for the ATIS TechThink Conference include IPTV, IMS, Broadband Service and Entertainment Deployment Strategies, 3G, WiMAX and more. The ATIS TechThink Technology Conference will offer 16 different conference sessions, to include the following three “mindbender” general sessions:

* The Ultimate Entertainment! The IPTV Experience, featuring Jeff Weber, Vice President Product and Strategy for AT&T; Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO for Telus; Bob McIntyre, CTO for Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco Company; Ran Oz, CTO for BigBand Networks; and Andy Addis, Executive Vice President of Marketing for Hillcrest Labs, in a panel session moderated by Danny Briere, CEO of TeleChoice.

* The Power of Intelligent Networking: How IMS will Further Revolutionize C ontent and Entertainment Delivery,will feature Paul Mankiewich, CTO-North America at Alcatel-Lucent; Larry Lang, Vice President and General Manager of the Mobility Signal and Control Business Unit for Cisco Systems; Andrew White, Director-Network Application Architecture for Qwest; and Jouni Welander, Director of New Solutions U.S. for Nokia Siemens Networks. The IMS Mindbender session will be moderated by Rory Altman, founder of Altman & Vilandrie Company.

* The Final Frontier: What To Do with All that Fiber to the X?, featuring George Breene, President, SeaChange Interactive; Dr. Henry Marcy, Vice President, Food Stream Solutions, Whirlpool; Tony Bates, SVP and General Manager, Service Provider Routing Technology Group, Cisco Systems; and Peter Barrett, CTO and General Manager of Engineering for Microsoft. The session will be moderated by Jonathan Hurd of Altman & Vilandrie Company.

Additional panelists and speakers scheduled to appear at the ATIS TechThink Conference are: Kim Perdikou, Executive Vice President of the Infrastructure Products Group, Juniper Networks; Dan Coombes, Senior Vice President, Wireless Broadband Networks CTO, Networks and Enterprise, Motorola; Vikram Saksena, CTO for Sonus Networks; Arun Sobti, CEO for IP Unity; Ken Parker, Vice President – Network Services for TDS; Charles Gershman, President & CEO for Bay MicroSystems; Glen Morten, CTO, Widevine Technologies; Milorad Cvijetic, vice president and chief technology strategist, NEC; Bryan McGuirk, President, Media and Enterprise Solutions, SES Americom, and more. For a listing of all current ATIS TechThink Conference presenters, visit the ATIS TechThink web site at www.techthink.org.

ATIS TechThink Conference registration is priced at $895, with discounts on the registration available to employees and executives of ATIS member companies, as well as member organizations of USTelecom and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). The TechThink registration package includes admission to 16 different ATIS TechThink sessions; all NXTcomm General Plenary Sessions and Keynotes; and the NXTcomm exhibition hall from June 19-21, 2007.

Source: ATIS TechThink