What a start

June 12, 2006

The National Post carried a preview story of The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit in this morning’s paper, kicking off a discussion of some of the regulatory issues that will be canvassed over the next 3 days.

The opening 3 keynotes, from Vonage founder Jeff Citron, Palm Americas head Michael Moskowitz and Ericsson CTO Nikos Katinakis got things going.

Messages included the future of mobile TV – including highlights from Palm’s MOBIfest. A new enabler for mobile blogging. Nikos spoke of some of the early success stories for service providers.

On the wires

June 12, 2006

Canadian Press has an advisory out about The Canadian Telecom Summit taking place this week.

It is sandwiched between an announcement about a fertilizer company holding their investor day Monday and an investment symposium by the Canadian Petroleum producers… there is a joke in there somewhere… comments, anyone?

Bookends

June 11, 2006
VonageATTTomorrow, The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit opens with a keynote address from a pioneer of the new world order, Jeff Citron, founder, chairman and chief strategist of Vonage. The first day closes with a keynote address by Ron Spears, President of AT&T; Business, the icon of the last century of telecommunications. In between, there will be addresses from leaders of wireless and device companies, such as Palm, Nokia and Ericsson, as well as keynotes from HP and the newly rebranded Orange Business Services (formerly known as Equant).

Panel discussions will cover Wireless applications and competition issues, VoIP evolution and community and social issues, such as rural broadband and illegal content.

The juxtaposition of the new and old is appropriate as we look at the industry moving forward. Tuesday’s sessions will hear from more industry leaders as well as look at policy issues: how the government needs to evolve its approach to telecom regulation and IT strategies. Wednesday, the conference wraps up with a closing address from CRTC Chair Charles Dalfen.

Showtime!

January 25, 2017

Canadian Telecom Summit After months of preparation, it is just about ‘Showtime’ for The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit. Construction is underway as the stage is getting installed through the weekend. The WiFi is already up and running and I can’t wait for our espresso bar to arrive on-site.

This is our 5th annual schmoozefest of the most influential leaders of the Canadian telecom industry – both speakers and delegates. This year, we have again attracted a stellar line-up of speakers and record audience and the agenda will explore some important issues.

I will post from the conference as time permits. Stay tuned or even better, register and join us!

Peak internet

June 9, 2006

Building global communities are themes discussed by disciples of Marketing 2.0. Global communities – connecting over the internet, collaborative work tools – you know the mantra.

Recently, a number of family members were commenting that there haven’t been any new jokes coming into our inboxes recently. The same jokes are being recycled.

Anyone else notice that? I think this is noteworthy. My late Uncle Norman used to say that you either need new jokes or new friends. When the entire world is connected, you can’t get new friends; you have them all.

Does this mean that we have already circulated all the jokes?

I’d like to see a couple economics students look at this: run a regression analysis over time, looking at growth in internet penetration, total jokes received in inbox, jokes that are new, jokes worth forwarding.

Is this a leading indicator that the internet has peaked?

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