FTTH - CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
17 February 2016 The 2016 event will focus on a large number of hot topics for example fibre-enabled services like eHealth, eGovernment, financing and marketing of FTTH networks and much more! 9:15-9:30 Welcome 9:30-10:10 Opening Conference Room 1 Moderator: Nadia Babaali Communications Director - FTTH Council Europe Speakers: Xavier Bettel Prime Minister of Luxembourg Edgar Aker President - FTTH Council Europe 10:10-11:10 Keynote: Inspiration Conference Room 1 Speakers: Ruud Hendriks Co-founder at Startupbootcamp 11:10-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-12:45 Keynote Session: FTTH and Digital Agenda Targets European key decision-makers will present and discuss the broadband situation in Europe and will give their views on the way towards the Digital Agenda targets. The session will start with a presentation of the latest European FTTH Ranking Conference Room 1 Speakers: Dr. Wilhelm Eschweiler Chair - BEREC 2016 Gunnar Höckmark Member of the European Parliament Graham Mitchell CEO - Crown FibreHolding New Zealand 12:45-13:00 FTTH Awards 2016 ceremony Announcement winners FTTH Council Europe Award 13:00-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:30 Session 1 The Billion-Euro promise: Where is the money for FTTH? The Juncker plan, national broadband plans and regional government initiatives regularly announce support for long-term infrastructure planning in Europe. Politicians say billion will be available for broadband projects. But where is the money? Conference Room 1 Speakers: Anna Krzyżanowska Head of Unit Broadband - European Commission Harald Gruber Head of Division Digital Economy and Education European Investment Bank Deb Socia Session 2 FTTH in Europe - progressing or lagging behind? The latest FTTH market numbers published by the FTTH Council Europe show continuous growth of FTTH/B adopion in Europe. What does the market look like? What are the trends? While some countries are progressing very rapidly, others are still lagging far behind. Meanwhile, outside Europe some countries have already reached their FTTH goals. What does this mean for the competitiveness of Europe? Conference Room 2 Moderator: Jan Schindler Chair Market Intelligence Committee - FTTH Council Europe Speakers: Roland Montagne IDATE Markus Laqua Partner - BearingPoint Tim Braukmüller Atenekom Session 3 Trends in Broadband Demand - Consumers want much more than Triple-Play! Consumer bandwidth demand is driven by many new contents, services and applications that go far beyond triple play. Get insights into the latest developments of emerging applications including Smart Home and Smart Services and get a full view on what FTTH enabled broadband can offer the end user - resulting in high take rates and happy customers. Conference Room 3 Speakers: Leopold Diouf General Manager - Alcatel-Lucent Ronan Kelly CTO EMEA and APAC Regions - ADTRAN Kurt Misteli Market Manager WAN, Access Network / FTTx
16:15-17:30 Session 4
How to make the rural business case work The business case for Fibre to the Home is an important and hot topic in Europe. Is there a business case for FTTH in urban and in rural areas? If yes, how could it look like? Is there a way to identify promising areas to start a roll out? What can we learn form global experience? Conference Room 1 Moderator: Thomas Langer Finance Consultant - FTTH Council Europe Speakers Dalibor Vavruska Managing Director Research - Citigroup Matthieu Joosten Telecom Industry Leader - SAS Nelson Saito President - FTTH Council Americas - LATAM Chapter Heather B. Gold President - FTTH Council Americas Dr Safa Nassereldin Chairwoman - FTTH Council Middle East & North Africa Peter Macaulay President - FTTH Council Asia Pacific Juanita Clark Chief Executive - FTTH Council Africa Session 5 FTTH in Luxembourg - more than just fibre! Nearly two out of ten households in Luxembourg are using high speed fibre connections. But the country has not just connected homes to fibre - it has implemented a wide variety of new services and applications including smart power grids and smart city projects. Conference Room 2 Moderator: Peter Sodermans Senior Advisor - The Luxembourg Government Agency Speakers Gaston Bohnenberger Director - Post Technologies Pierre Goerens Communications électroniques - The Luxembourg Marc Kohll Chef de Service Statistiques et Veille des Marchés - Institut Luxembourgeois de Régulation Session 6 FTTH in rural areas - YES we can! FTTH has it’s highest socioeconomic impact in rural areas. And there are innovative solutions, technologies and products available that make rural FTTH roll-out commerically interesting. You don’t believe it? Leading FTTH companies will prove the FTTH works in rural areas and will tell you - YES we can! Conference Room 3 Moderator: Joeri Van Bogaert Chair Financing Committee - FTTH Council Europe Speakers: Alessandro Pirri Director Connectivity and FTTx - Prysmian Group Simon Richardson Head of Department - Fibre Optic Division Fujikura Mike Knott Market Development Manager - FTTH Corning Pratrk Shah Global Technical Marketing Manager - DSM 17:30-18:30 Cocktail Reception 19:00-24:00 Fibration Night Fibration Night will take place at the Big Beer Company restaurant. A shuttle will be provided for delegates to get to the venue.
- Huber + Suhner Thierry Valette CTO Access Network - Huawei 15:30-16:15 Coffee Break
Nadia Babaali and Hartwig Tauber address attendees during the 2015 opening session
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