EVENTS

Open Mobile Summit 2009 San Francisco

November 4-5. World-leaders address the million dollar questions in wireless at this powerful industry conference.

The Open Mobile Summit returns to San Francisco after 2 highly acclaimed, sold out launch events in London 09 and San Francisco 08.

This is rapidly becoming one of the most important events in the industry calendar, and NGMN are happy to endorse it once again. It provides a critical forum for senior industry figures to explore how to build and monetize an open mobile economy.

Speakers include:

• John Donovan CTO AT&T
• Vint Cerf Chief Internet Evangelist Google
• Cole Brodman CTO T-Mobile
• Dadi Perlmutter EVP and GM Mobility Intel
• Jan Uddenfeldt SVP Ericsson
• Kevin Lynch CTO Adobe
• Michael Abbot SVP Palm

Plus BT's Hossein Moin, Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, Verizon, Sprint, Clear, Virgin Mobile and many more.

Panels include: Who pays for mobile broadband? Platforms for innovation: Degrees of Open-ness. Regulation, Anti-trust and Open Access, Future of the operator portal, App Stores Fad or Future? Future of the OS, PC vs Phone, Operator models for open access and more.

Friends of NGMN will be offered £100 discount on the price of attending if they quote 'NGMN' when they register at www.openmobilesummit.com. If you are planning to attend don't leave it too late, according to organisers the event is on track to sell out early this year.