[April 18, 2013] First Broadband Latin America Reports Senior Level Speaker Line-Up Tweet Apr 18, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Informa Telecoms & Media, organisers of The Broadband World Series and the first Broadband Latin America show, announced its senior level line-up of speakers. According to the company, 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 Cantu Duran, Corporate Vice President at Nextel Mexico and Raul Ernesto Amaya Montejo, Vice President of Strategy at Avantel 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 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, Sao 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 Telecomunicacoes and will focus on wi-fi operator strategies for Latin America. The second workshop will be run by Motorola Mobility, Platinum Sponsor at the event. The company also said that 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 . 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. Informa Telecoms & Media is a provider of business intelligence and strategic services to the global telecoms and media markets. Informa Telecoms & Media also organises 125 global annual events, attended by more than 70,000 executives worldwide. More information: www.latinamerica.broadbandworldforum.com www.informatandm.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]