Join the 3^rd Southeastern Europe Broadband conference and expo, to be held in Belgrade, Serbia, 24 to 26 Jun 2008. The conference covers the technology and regulatory developments, as well as the broadband communication developments trends and best practices in the Southeastern Europe. The conference covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. This fast growing market is attractive to incumbent vendors as well as to an increasing number of competitive players focusing on emerging markets of the Southeastern Europe region.

The conference is the unique opportunity to hear about latest technology developments from the leading techno-marketing experts, as well as the service and infrastructure deployment experience from the representatives of regional telecom operators and service providers.

The up to date information about the event is at: www.seebb.org.

The preliminary conference program is the following:

Day 1: June 24

Conference opening ceremony

10 AM to 11:30 AM

• Keynote presentations from government officials, telecom operator executives and conference organizers

Broadband Infrastructure Developments in SEE

1 PM to 2:30 PM

• Presentations from Telekom Srbija – to be announced
• Mr Sietse Lettinga, Director, Carrier Services, Romtelecom, – presentation to be announced
• Mr Petru Fuiorea, GM, International Sales, Romtelecom, – presentation to be announced
• Presentations from T-Com Montenegro – to be announced

Next Generation Metro Ethernet Services – Part 1

3:30 PM to 5 PM

• Arie Goldberg, CEO, Omnitron Systems Technology: “Delivering Next-Generation Carrier-Ethernet Business Services”
• David Noguer  Bau, Head of Carrier Ethernet & Multiplay Marketing, Juniper Networks: “Building Efficient Metro Services”
• Dr. Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, Chief Technology Officer, Actelis Networks: “Delivering Business Data Services over Carrier Ethernet: Leveraging the Copper Network”
• Jan Hof , Marketing Director EMEA SAM, Extreme Networks: “Provider Backbone Bridging, tuning Ethernet into a Carrier Ethernet”

Day 2: June 25

Mobile Broadband

9:00 AM to 11:30 AM – session A

• Luciano Splendorini, Senior Director of Business Development Central and Eastern Europe, Qualcomm: “HSPA Evolution Enabling Mobile Broadband and VoIP”
• Jelena Djurović, Senior Advanced Expert, Network Planning , Telenor: “Mobile Broadband”
• Darko Parun, Member of the Management Board and Chief Technology Officer, VIP: “Mobilkom Austria Group goes broadband”
• Dr. Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, Chief Technology Officer, Actelis Networks: “Meeting the Demand for Wireless Backhaul - The Role of Carrier Ethernet”

Broadband Satelite Communication

11:30 AM to 12:30 PM – session A

• James Taylor, Vice President of Avanti Communications Group plc: “Satellite Broadband...  A New Way”
• Yoni Richman, Regional Sales Director, Gilat: “Satellites and Cellular bridging the "Bandwidth Divide"

Emerging Broadband Services and Business Models

9:00 AM to 12:30 AM – session B

• Presentations form Telekom Srbija – to be announced
• David Noguer  Bau, Head of Carrier Ethernet & Multiplay Marketing, Juniper Networks: “The role of the Service Provider in the Multiplay networks”
• Dr. Predrag Filipovic, President, Agora Creative Solutions Inc: “e-Government, ON or offline”
• Nebojša Jovanović, CEO of In.life d.d. (Detel), Ljubljana Slovenia; Ditka Maučec, COO of In.life d.d. (Detel), Ljubljana Slovenia: »Free Telephony in SEE Region«

Next Generation Mettro Ethernet Services – Part 2

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – session A

• David Collins, Marketing Director, Hatteras Networks: “Mid-Band Ethernet Realizing $8B in Metro Ethernet Service Revenue over Copper"
• Hanno Michael Viehweger, Regional Technical Director High Growth Markets, Extreme Networks: “Momentum of Ethernet for the Next Generation Carrier Networks”
• David Collins, Marketing Director, Hatteras Networks: “Mid-Band Ethernet Realizing $8B in Metro Ethernet Service Revenue over Copper"

Voice over IP  Services

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM – session A

• Joerg Deibert, Sales Director Central and Eastern Europe, Sonus Networks: “Successful VoIP Implementations at International Carriers”
• Nebojša Jovanović, CEO, In.life d.d. (or Detel), Ljubljana Slovenia; Ditka Maučec, COO of In.life d.d. (or Detel); Enes Hajdarević, Chairman of the central board of Cable operator HS Sarajevo, BIH:  »IP Telephony on the Cable broadband«

Braodband Infrastructure Solutions

1:30 PM to 4:00 PM – session B

• Bob Machine, Architecture and Strategy Group, Axiom Systems: “Lean manufacturing for the telecoms service factory”
• Ishai Rosmarin,, Sales Director, Acme Packet: “FMC network evolution – what elements to hold, what elements will fold”
• Gijs van Kersen, Head of Mobile & Convergence Marketing EMEA, Juniper Networ: “Scalable and cost-efficient mobile backhaul using MPLS”
• Ishai Rosmarin,, Sales Director, Acme Packet: “IMS:  The role of SBCs”

Day 3: June 26

SEE Braodband Development Strategy and Regulation

9:00 AM to 10:30 AM

• Nikolaos Koulouris, EETT Vice President for the sector of Electronics Communications, National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT), Greece: “Broadband status and development strategy in Greece "
• Velislava Velkova, Head of Electronic Communications Market Research and Analysis, Communications Regulatory Commission –CRC,  Bulgaria: “WiMAX and WiFi – Regulatory Framework and Experience Bulgaria"
• Dr. Vojin Šenk, Dean of Telecommunciation Deparment, Faculty of Technical Scineces,  Novi Sad, and Mirjana Kranjac, committee for the broadband Communications, Vojvodina: “The strategy of broadband development in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina" committee

Broadband Home

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

• Dr. Predrag Filipovic, Senior Analyst, The Diffusion Group: “Broadband and HomeNets Future: Global Analysis and Forecast”
• Dr. Radomir Jovanovic, CEO, SPIDCOM Technologies: “HomePlug AV, the Powerline Communication standard for whole house Triple Play”