9th Convergence India 2001

Conference Programme
21 March 2001
0830 - 0930 hrs
0930 - 1030 hrs
1030 - 1100 hrs
1100 - 1130 hrs

Registration
Opening Ceremony
Keynote by Mr. Bill Cowper, Director- Asia Pacific, Sun Microsystems, USA
Tea / Coffee


TRACK 1

1130 - 1330 hrs
"The Broadband Access Opportunity"
Chairman & Keynote
* Mr. Shashi Ullal, President & Managing Director, Hughes Escorts Communications Ltd. India

Speakers:

* "Broadband - the Road to Convergence"
Mr. Nick Graham, Marketing Manager, Americom Asia Pacific, Singapore

* "Internet over CATV: Indian Experience"
Lt.Col. VC Khare (Retd), Vice President Technical. Indusind Media & Communications Ltd., India

* "Optimized Fiber for Terabit Transmission- Band-Width on Demand"
Mr. Michel Magon, Director Marketing and Business Development, Alcatel Optical Fiber, France

* "The Undersea Market - An Overview of the TyCom Global Network",
Mr. Rajesh Kheny, Managing Director-Asia/Pacific, TyCom., USA

* "Free Space Optics to solve the metro bandwidth chaos"
Mr. Avtar Singh, Manager-India & Latin America, Lightpointe Communications, Inc, USA

* "Applications of SDH and DWDM"
Mr. AM Gopalakrishnan, Ass. VP, Fibcom

1330 - 1415 ------------------- Lunch

1415 - 1715 Workshop by Intel Capital

INTEL CAPITAL - INVESTING IN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES"

1430 - 1600
* "Intel Capital Overview & Investment Strategy",

Mr. Siddhartha Das, Director Intel Capital, India
1600 - 1730 Tea & Networking with Intel Capital members


TRACK 2

1130 - 1330 hrs
WorkShop on Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)
By
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), Switzerland

Speakers:

*
"DVB in 2001"
Ms. Nahid Khan, MarComms Executive
DVB - Switzerland

*
"Standardization and Market Introduction of MHP"
Mr. Jean-Pierre Evain, Senior Engineer, EBU (European Broadcasting Union) - Switzerland

*
"Developing Interactive TV Applications using MHP APIs" , Sun Micro Systems

1330 - 1415 hrs---------------- Lunch

1415 - 1800 hrs

* "Audio Systems for Digital TV"
Mr. John Couling, Professional Product Manager, Dolby Laboratories, UK

* Mr. AS Guin, Chief Engineer, AIR & Doordarshan

1545 - 1600 hrs ---------------- Tea/ Coffee

* "Converging Content vs Diverging User Experience"

* "On the possibilities of advanced MHP applications"
Mr. Fabian Beutin, Software Engineer & Project Manager, Convergence Integrated Media

* Q & A session
Mr. Jean-Pierre Evain, Senior Engineer, (European Broadcasting Union) - Switzerland

Day 2
Day 3