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First Ever Broadband Latin America Announces Senior Level Speaker Line-Up
[April 12, 2013]

First Ever Broadband Latin America Announces Senior Level Speaker Line-Up


LONDON --(Business Wire)--

Informa (News - Alert) Telecoms & Media, organisers of The Broadband World Series and the first ever Broadband Latin America show, announced its senior level line-up of speakers today. The show, which expects to attract hundreds of attendees from across Latin America and beyond, will cover the most relevant topics affecting the broadband industry in the region with a particular focus on delivering broadband excellence by ensuring seamless quality of experience and profitability.

Speakers confirmed so far include Rogerio Takayanagi, CEO at TIM Fiber Brasil, Gustavo Cantú Durán, Corporate Vice President at Nextel Mexico and Raúl Ernesto Amaya Montejo, Vice President of Strategy at Avantel (News - Alert) Colombia plus many more. Plus, Day 1 features a special joint keynote session with co-located event, TV Connect Latin America, featuring Eric Mauskopf, Strategic Partnerships at You Tube USA, Fernando Garcia Calvo, Head of OTT strategy & products at Telefonica (News - Alert) Digital, Luiz Fernando de Castro Bourdot, Director Access Engineering at Embratel Brasil, Caio Bonilha, President at Telebras, and Gustavo Fonseca, Marketing Director at Telefonica.

The event, taking place from the 2 - 3 July at The Grand Hyatt, São Paulo, Brazil, will also feature two pre-conference workshops on the 1 July. The first will be run by Daniel Nunes, Teacher and Technical Consultant at Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações and will focus on wi-fi operator strategies for Latin America. The second workshop will be run by Motorola (News - Alert) Mobility, Platinum Sponsor at the event.

The event aims to cover all the most pressing issues surrounding broadband including leading broadband strategy and technology, mobile and wireless broadband, business models, strategy and service innovation, customer satisfaction, managing OTT challenges & Opportunities, Regulatory & Security concerns plus FTTH. Rogerio Takayanagi, CEO at TIM Fiber Brasil comments "In Brazil, most of the customers with broadband access have a low performing service (over 70 per cent have less then 2Mb/s of bandwidth). In this market, the main players are incumbents that face challenges in offering higher internet speeds because of the length of the copper network and the investment required to upgrade to a Next Generation network." Flavio Lang, CMO at TIM Fiber Brasil, will be speaking on this subject on Day 1 of the show alongside Ricardo Sanfelice, Marketing & Product Executive Director, GVT Brazil.

With support from the entire industry including TIM Fiber Brasil as Official Host Operator, Telebras as Strategic Operator Partner and Anatel as Institutional Partner, the event will attract the top professionals from the telecoms ecosystem. Plus the show also includes an interactive exhibition, co-located with Critical Communications Latin America, TV Connect Latin America and VSAT Latin America ensuring that no other event in the region encompasses more of the telecoms sector.


To view the full event programme and to register for Broadband Latin America please visit www.latinamerica.broadbandworldforum.com or call +44(0)20 7017 4108. Free passes for telecoms operators are also available for a limited time only. Alternatively, keep up to date with the event on Twitter @BBWorldForum or use #BBLatam.

About Informa Telecoms & Media (News - Alert)

Informa Telecoms & Media (www.informatandm.com) is the leading provider of business intelligence and strategic services to the global telecoms and media markets. Driven by constant first-hand contact with the industry, its 90 analysts and researchers produce a range of intelligence services including news and analytical products, in depth market reports and datasets focussed on technology, strategy and content. Informa Telecoms & Media also organises 125 global annual events, attended by more than 70,000 executives worldwide.

For media information please contact Nicola Allen at [email protected] or on +44 (0)207 017 4108


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