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Agenda

 
Day One: Thursday, 11th June 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Registration and coffee
8.50
Speed Networking Session

Get to know your peers right from the start in this relaxed and informal speed networking session. Bring your business cards!

9.00
Chair's opening address
Suzanne Tindal, Journalist, ZDNet Australia
BROADBAND AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
9.05
Potentially transformative impact of the build out of the digital economy in Australia once the NBN has been implemented
  • Benefits and returns from key focus areas such as Education and Healthcare
  • The cultural change and benefits that can be enabled in terms of the Environment and Sustainability
  • How Australian economy can prepare themselves for growth in the global digital economy
Ian Birks, CEO, Australian Industry Information Association
NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK
9.35
The expert panel perspective
  • Reviewing the Government’s NBN decision
  • Reflecting on the expert panel’s findings
  • Where to from here?
Professor Reg Coutts, Managing Director, Coutts Communications
10.10
Situation update with relation to the National Broadband Network
Colin Lyons, Deputy Secretary, National Broadband Network Taskforce, Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
10.45
Morning tea and networking
11.00
ACCC Regulatory Address
Ed Willett, Commissioner, ACCC
11.35
Independent Analysis: Reaction and examination of tender outcome
  • Is this the landmark decision for the telecommunications industry?
  • What will be the long term impact on infrastructure, broadband delivery and services?
  • Is fibre the singular solution?
David Kennedy, Research Director, OVUM
12.10
NBN – Legal and regulatory implications of the Minister's decision following the ACCC's competition assessment
Justin Oliver, Special Counsel, Minter Ellison
12.45
Lunch
COMPETITIVE NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES
1.45
Home speed Home: Australia's journey to high speed living
  • Introducing the new digital home
Craig Turner, Executive Director, Telstra Product Management
2.20
Cable – The real challenger to the NBN
  • The potential of cable networks and their impact on broadband delivery
Dermot Cox, Business Development Manager, C-COR Broadband
2.55
The future competitive landscape for broadband in Australia
  • Global financial crisis and its impact on telecommunication providers
  • Infrastructure requirements for competitive broadband access
  • Can the Australian market sustain two fixed operators?
  • Can we cut regulation into a two operator market?
David Kennedy, Research Director, OVUM
Dermot Cox, Business Development Manager, C-COR Broadband
Mike Lubin, Vice President, Viasat, USA
3.30
Afternoon tea
BROADBAND FOR REGIONAL AUSTRALIA
3.50
Delivering 21st century technology to regional Australians
  • Arnhem Land - broadbanding the top end
  • Innovative solutions and opportunities
  • Delivering results
Brett Riley, Group Managing Director, Telstra Country Wide
THE IMPORTANCE OF BACKHAUL
4.25
Deploying large-scale competitive backhaul in Australia
  • Infrastructure policies to encourage backhaul rollout
  • Practical initiatives to build backhaul capacity, particularly in regional Australia
  • The future of backhaul under the NBN and beyond
Shara Evans, CEO, Market Clarity
5.05
Closing remarks from the Chair
5.10
End of Day One
 
Day Two: Friday, 12th June 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Coffee and networking
9.00
Chair’s opening address
BROADBAND – INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
9.05
A comparison of policy – Canada versus Australia
  • Comparing broadband infrastructure depolyment in two similar federal jurisdictions
Michael de Percy, Lecturer, University of Canberra
BROADBAND UPTAKE – THE SOCIAL & ECONOMIC IMPACT
9.40
Stimulating economic activity via broadband technology and open networks
  • Examining the potential of business and enterprise through the development of open networks
  • Examples of open access
    • France
    • Netherlands
    • Singapore
    • Korea
  • Lessons for Australia
Mark Vassarotti, Associate Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
10.15
E-health – Innovative delivery of health services using videoconferencing technology
  • Examining telehealth and tele-rehabilitation services through real time videoconferencing, video recording over Next G wireless networks
  • Utilising telehealth services for home-based care
Dr. Craig Kennedy, Director, Statewide Telehealth Services, Queensland Health
10.50
Morning tea and networking
THE MOVE TOWARD MOBILE BROADBAND
11.15
The economic effect of mobile broadband on business and government
  • Mobile broadband's impact on productivity and the Australian economy
  • Sector by sector analysis on workforce benefits
  • Forecasting future penetration and integation of mobile broadband
Dr. Paul Paterson, Executive Director, Concept Economics
11.50
The latest in broadband mobile service delivery
  • Examining the evolution of broadband on the development of mobile software applications and services
  • Review of the latest research within the Australian market on the use of advanced mobile services
  • How are the business models changing?
  • Application and service examples
Horden Wiltshire, CEO, m.Net Corporation
12.25
Lunch
1.30
The critical role of IPTV within the NBN
  • Current IPTV deployments - a global update
  • Review of Australian attempts at IPTV to date
  • Why the NBN changes everything for free-to-air TV
  • What will happen with platform-specific content regulation?
Nick Abrahams, Partner and Sydney Chairman, Deacons
BROADBAND CASE STUDIES
2.05
Internode’s Broadband Strategy
  • Meeting the challenge to deliver affordable Voice, Data and Internet services using every technology from WiMax to Fibre to the Home
  • How and why Internode has built a network that spans the globe from the Coorong to Amsterdam
  • Internode’s plan to survive the transition to an NBN
John Lindsay, Carrier Relations Manager, Internode
2.40
Independent analysis: Creating a ‘credible No. 3’ – The Vodafone/Hutchison Australia merger
  • Analysing the VHA merger on consumer and business markets
  • Challenges in integrating competing networks and operations
  • The impact the merger will have on broadband competition, service and delivery
Warren Chaisatien, Research Director, Telsyte Research
3.15
Closing remarks from the chair
3.20
Close of conference
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