CommsDay Telecom Week 2014

CommsDay’s Global Telecom Week Westin Hotel, Sydney

Monday 19 May through Wednesday 21 May, 2014

AUSTRALASIA WHOLESALE & DATA CENTRE SUMMIT MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014: In its third year, the CommsDay Wholesale & Data Centre Summit, presented by Australia’s leading telecom media and conference company CommsDay, constitutes a peak gathering of data centre and wholesale comms entrepreneurs as well as their customers, financiers and policy makers. With a regional as well as domestic focus, the event aims to provide a comprehensive one-day update on the state of the Australian data centre & wholesale market as well as an unsurpassed business networking opportunity for the sector. The Summit will feature leading industry players presenting their perspectives, insights and research. It is timely with several major industry trunk and access infrastructure projects in the mix as well as increasing diversification in the data centre sector.

PLATINUM SPONSOR

LUNCH SPONSOR Macquarie Telecom CEO David Tudehope

Tier 5 MD Marty Gauvin

Vocus CEO James Spenceley

REFRESHMENTS

Inabox Group CEO Damian Kay

Pacnet ANZ CEO Nigel Stitt

Eintellego Networks CEO Skeeve Stevens

PLUS: CloudPlus CEO Jules Rumsey, Metronode GM Malcolm Roe, CloudCentral executive TBC, Green Global Consulting founder Bob Sharon, China Telecom global vice president, carrier business Tan Xu and more.

AUSTRALASIA SATELLITE FORUM TUESDAY MAY 20 AND WEDNESDAY MAY 21 AM, 2014: The Southern Hemisphere’s premier satellite industry event returns bigger and better than ever in an expanded one and a half day format. See next page for details.

Parliamentary secretary for communications Paul Fletcher

AIRCDRE Nick Barnefeld, ADF Director General, ICT Policy & Plans

Optus director, satellite Paul Sheridan

PLATINUM SPONSOR

Arianespace President & CEO Stephane Israel

AUSTRALASIA SUBMARINE CABLE & BANDWIDTH FORUM WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 2-5PM: This new half-day forum focuses on Australasia’s exploding submarine cable sector. Featuring the region’s top sectoral players, topics to be discussed include:

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the merits of proposed new builds to Singapore and the Pacific

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new economic and business models for bandwidth ownership and purchase

how incumbents are upgrading and reacting to new competition what effects new activity will have on the bandwidth market in Australia how new builds can promote positive externalities for Australian and regional economic activity specialist vertical markets such as resources and scientific applications

“Join CommsDay for a very special three days of regional and global networking opportunities with the power players in the data centre, wholesale, submarine cable and satellite industries.

On Monday May 19, you will hear from the entrepreneurs and operators who are powering Australia’s cloud, with data centre firms such as Vocus Communications updating our forum.

SubPartners CEO Bevan Slattery (TBC)

Hibbard Consulting principal John Hibbard

Trident Subsea Cable CEO Mark de Kock

Australia Singapore Cable board advisor Steve Liddell

Southern Cross Cable sales & marketing dir Ross Pfeffer

Infinera VP Asia Pacific Andrew Bond-Webster

On Tuesday May 20 and the following Wednesday morning, our successful satellite day returns, with the cream of the world satellite industry travelling to Sydney for the event.

And that Wednesday afternoon, we focus on Australia’s exploding submarine cable sector, hearing from operators behind new builds on the West Coast as well as established operators on the East Coast. I hope to see you there!” Grahame Lynch, CommsDay founder

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SPONSORS

Tasmanian customers waiting for NBN connections are being given mobile handsets by Telstra, as

CommsDay’s Global Telecom Week programme Monday May 19: AUSTRALASIA WHOLESALE & DATA CENTRE SUMMIT 

KEYNOTES 9am Vocus Communications CEO James Spenceley ● 9.30 Macquarie Telecom CEO David Tudehope ● 10.00 Pacnet ANZ CEO Nigel Stitt ● 10.30am Break

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WHOLESALE FOCUS 11am FirstPath MD Stephen Carter ● 11.30 China Telecom global vice president, carrier business Tan Xu ● 12 eIntellego Networks CEO Skeeve Stevens ● 12.30 Inabox Group MD Damian Kay ● 1 LUNCH

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DATA CENTRE FOCUS 2 Tier 5 MD Marty Gauvin ● 2.25 Metronode general manager Malcolm Roe CLOUD FOCUS 2.50 Cloudplus CEO Jules Rumsey ● 3.15 Break ● 3.25 Outworks CEO Phillip Kidd ● 3.50 CloudCentral CEO Kristoffer Sheather ● 4.15 Green Global Solutions CEO Bob Sharon ● CHAIRED BY SHARA EVANS, MARKET CLARITY

Tuesday May 20: AUSTRALASIA SATELLITE FORUM Day 1 9.05 KEYNOTE PAUL FLETCHER, PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER 9.30 SATELLITE OPERATOR ROUNDTABLE: Paul Sheridan – Vice President Optus Satellite; Glen Tindall - VP Asia Pacific, SES; Terry Beakley Vice President Asia, Intelsat; Adrian Ballintine – CEO, Newsat; Andy Start - President, Global Government, Inmarsat; Phil Cross, Sales Director, IPSTAR Australia & New Zealand; Christian Patouraux, CEO, Kacific Broadband Satellites; MODERATOR - Christopher Baugh, President, NSR. 10.40 Australasia Analyst Overview Presentation: Simon Bull, Senior Analyst, Comsys 11.00: Networking Break: sponsored by Gateway Teleport 11.30: OCEANIA ROUNTABLE: Loyley Ngira, CEO, Our Telekom in the Solomon Islands, Michael Haliday, General Manager, Wireless Nation; MODERATOR - Keith Ramsay, V.P. Sales & Marketing, Gateway Teleport Ltd. 12.20: BROADBAND ROUNDTABLE: Tony Colucci, Vice President, SSL; Nick Leake, Director Satellite Marketing; Matt Dawson, Program Director, satellite NBN Co; Michael Abela, CEO, Skybridge; Oded Sheshinski, Regional Vice President, APAC, Gilat Satellite Networks; Erwin Hudson, Program Manager, NBN Co Long Term Satellite Service (LTSS) Ground System, Viasat Inc; MODERATOR - Christopher Baugh, President, NSR 1.15: Stéphane Israël: Chairman & CEO, Arianespace 1.30: Networking Lunch sponsored by Newsat 2.45: MOBILITY ROUNDTABLE: Don Buchman, General Manager, Commercial Aviation Services, ViaSat Inc, Pierre-Jean Beylier, CEO, SpeedCast, John Humphrey, Strategic Advisor, Kymeta Corporation, Terry Beakley - Vice President Asia, Intelsat, Tui Rutherford, Business Development Manager, Oceania, EM Solutions Pty Ltd, MODERATOR - Simon Bull, Senior Analyst, Comsys 3.35: ENTERPRISE CASE STUDY: Oil & Gas, Offshore Study Chris Hill, CTO & Managing Director Asia Pacific 4.00: Networking Break sponsored by Gilat Satellite Networks 4.30: TELEPORT PANEL: Mario Querner, Vice President, Newtec Asia; Keith Ramsay, V.P. Sales & Marketing, Gateway Teleport Ltd; Sandeep Kumar, Head of Satellite Sales, Telstra Global; Scott Sprague, Chief Commercial Officer, Newsat; MODERATOR - Gregg Daffner, CEO, GAPSAT 5.45: Optus: Platinum Sponsor Speaker

Wednesday May 21: AUSTRALASIA SATELLITE FORUM Day 2 9.05: KEYNOTE: AIRCDRE Nick Barneveld, ADF Director General ICT Policy and Plans 9.30: DEFENSE PANEL: AIRCDRE Nick Barneveld, ADF; Todd McDonell, Vice President Global Government Solutions, Inmarsat; Ted McFarland, Vice President, Orbital Science; Thomas de Menthière Director Government Satcom, Airbus Space and Defence; MODERATOR - Don Brown, Senior Vice President Strategic Planning, Newsat 10.30: EXPANDING THE HOSTED PAYLOAD MODEL: Jack Scott, Key Account Manager Space Systems, Thales Australia 10.50: Networking Break: Sponsored by Kacific Broadband Satellites 11.20: Military SATCOM: increasing capabilities in a fiscally challenged environment: Tim Verschage, Deputy Business Director - Tactical Communications Viasat Inc 11.40: Christopher Hose, Executive Manager Spectrum Planning and Engineering, ACMA 11.55 REGULATORY PANEL: : John Stanton CEO, Communications Alliance; Bob Horton, Representative, GVF; Gregg Daffner, CEO, GAPSAT; 12.30: Close of Forum

Wednesday May 21 PM: AUSTRALASIA SUBMARINE CABLE & BANDWIDTH FORUM SESSION ONE: 2pm: Trident Subsea Cable CEO Mark de Kock ● 2.25pm: Australia Singapore Cable board advisor Steve Liddell ● 2.50 China Telecom global vice president, carrier business Tan Xu ● 3.10 SubPartners CEO Bevan Slattery (TBC) ● 3.35 Short break SESSION TWO: 3.50 Andrew Bond-Webster Sales VP, Asia Pacific Region Infinera ● 4.10 Southern Cross Cable sales and marketing director Ross Pfeffer ● 4.35 Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks APAC market development director Emmanuel Delanoue● 4.55 Panel: Australia Japan C able head of engineering Philip Murphy, Hibbard Consulting principal John Hibbard, CommsDay’s Grahame Lynch, more to be announced. 5.20 CLOSE

The Australasia Satellite Forum 2014 Westin Hotel, Sydney, Australia

1 and 1/2 days: May 20/21 2014

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GOLD SPONSORS

Talk Satellite and CommsDay are convening a one and a half day Satellite Forum. A gathering of world and domestic satellite leaders on the 20 & 21 May 2014 at the Westin Hotel, Sydney, Australia. The aim is to identify and initiate needed dialogue for the development of satellite as a primary delivery mechanism for universal service purposes. The Australasia Satellite Forum will provide a uniquely inclusive forum to address issues of urgent concern to governments, enterprise and consumer entities.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Paul Fletcher: Parliamentary secretary to the Australia communications minister KEYNOTE SPEAKER AIRCDRE Nick Barneveld, ADF Director General ICT Policy and Plans OTHER SPEAKERS

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Paul Sheridan: Vice President Optus Satellite Terry Beakley: Vice President Asia, Intelsat Adrian Ballintine: CEO, Newsat Stéphane Israël: Chairman & CEO, Arianespace Glen Tindall: VP Asia Pacific, SES Andy Start: President, Global Government, Inmarsat Keith Ramsay: V.P. Sales & Marketing, Gateway Teleport Ltd. Sandeep Kumar: Head of Satellite Sales, Telstra Global Loyley Ngira: CEO, Our Telekom in the Solomon Islands Todd McDonell: VP Global Government Solutions, Inmarsat Tony Colucci: Vice President, SSL Mario Querner: Vice President, Newtec Asia Christian Patouraux: CEO, Kacific Broadband Satellites Don Buchman: GM, Commercial Aviation Services, ViaSat Inc. David Ball: CTO, Newsat Matt Dawson: Program Director, satellite NBN Co Christopher Baugh: President, NSR Nick Leake, Director Satellite Marketing Michael Abela, CEO, Skybridge Oded Sheshinski, RVP APAC, Gilat Satellite Networks.

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