Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil is one of the world's most respected futurists, renowned for the accuracy of his predictions and exceptional presentations. He is the best-selling author of The Singularity Is Near and The Age of Spiritual Machines. Awards include: Lemelson-MIT Prize—the world's most prestigious for innovation, National Medal of Technology, National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee, 13 honorary doctorates, PBS named him one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America", described as "the restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal, and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes, Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison"

Michael Krammer
former CEO, E-Plus; former CEO, tele.ring
Michael Krammer is a very respected and visionary leader in Europe. He moved from the CCO to CEO position at tele.ring in 2003. Tele.ring was Austria's fourth largest wireless operator and was acquired by Deutsche Telecom in 2006 and merged into T-Mobile Austria. Previously, he had been Executive Director Business Unit Business Customers and a member of the management board of max.mobil (T-Mobile Austria). Tele.ring played a major role in lowering wireless service prices in Austria. In 2006, he was named CEO of E-Plus, Germany's 3rd largest operator and part of KPN, which had just launched a discount brand and acted as technical partner to discount MVNO brands.

Marcelo Erlich
General Manage | ANCEL
ANCEL is Uruguay's largest wireless operator with nearly 1 million customers at the end of 2006. It is one of the first movers to introduce HSPA in Latin America and the Congress will be great timing to hear the latest on the HSPA roll-out. ANCEL holds 45% of the market, which has been growing by 89% per annum. Uruguay is the only market in the region where a state-owned company is leading competition against Movistar and CTI . Marcelo Erhlich has been instrumental in ANCEL/ANTEL's growth, since joining them in 1980 and has headed the company since 1995. Under his leadership, ANCEL's market share has increased from 37% in five years and they achieved an average of 40% EBITDA growth per annum over six years.

Susan A. Johnson
Senior Vice President, Business Development | AT&T
AT&T is the US' biggest wireless operator, with over 62 million subscribers and spectrum licenses in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its networks feature cutting-edge GSM/GPRS, EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA technologies. Susan Johnson is responsible for corporate strategic planning and the identification and assessment of new business development opportunities across the AT&T family of companies. Since 1994, she has been leading finance and corporate development strategies within Pacific Telesis and SBC before their acquisitions by AT&T, and building on her investment banking experience with Salomon Smith Barney's San Francisco Technology Group. She has been a key player in many of the biggest mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications space in recent history.

Sanjay Kapoor
President Mobility Services | Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Airtel Limited has 32 million wireless subscribers in India and is adding 1 million per month (96% growth p.a.). It achieved 123% net profit growth in 2006 and has been rated among the 10 best performing IT companies in the world by BusinessWeek. Sanjay Kapoor has been one of the key visionaries establishing and growing Bharti Airtel's mobile operation throughout India since 1998. He was also President and CEO of Teletech Services India Ltd., a company he established as a recognized player in India's burgeoning ITES-BPO landscape.

William Huang
General Manager, Research Institute | China Mobile
China Mobile is the world's largest mobile operator with over 320 million subscribers and is growing by over 5 million customers per month. It holds around 67% market share in Mainland China. Forbes ranked it the world's 112th largest public company. William Huang joined China Mobile in January from UTStarcom, where he was CTO. For the last 20 years, he has been involved in the development of key communication technologies.

Greg Santoro
Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer | NII Holdings
NII Holdings, formerly known as Nextel International, operates in major business centers and related transportation corridors of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chile. As of December 31, 2006, NII Holdings had nearly 3.5 million subscribers. Greg Santoro is responsible for their corporate strategy, product marketing and management, and new service development, including long term strategic planning, leading key strategic growth initiatives, crossmarketing of brands and overseeing product management and development. He is an expert in product management, having previously been responsible for Nextel's suite of voice, data, digital media and custom network solutions product lines; and the management and development of BellSouth's portfolio of Internet products.

Ali Tabassi
Vice President, Technology Development | Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel is the US' 3rd largest wireless operator with nearly 54 million subscrinbers at the end of the first quarter of 2007. Ali Tabassi is responsible for leading Sprint Nextel's development of technology, network, systems architecture and technology evolution strategies. He also oversees evaluation of emerging technologies that enable delivery of differentiated products and services in pursuit of new business opportunities. Mr. Tabassi ensures that Sprint Nextel is at the forefront of technology innovation, in particular contributing to the development and implementation of Sprint Nextel's next generation wireless broadband network. He has more than 20 years of experience in the development, integration, and operation of wireless solutions in the communications, networking, and IP industries.

Joe Jasin
Vice President of Corporate Development | SK Telecom International
SK Telecom is South Korea's largest wireless carrier with over 20 million subscribers and 50% market share. It also operates in China, Vietnam, and in the US as an MVNO called, Helio, a JV with EarthLink, Inc. (an ISP). Itwas the world's first carrier to launch a 3.5G HSDPA network and handsets, which it developed on top of its existing CDMA network. Joe Jasin's deal-making expertise from investment banking and private equity in the wireless industry gives him a very interesting perspective on his topic of quadplay convergence deals. He was aPartner at the Private Equity firm MCC Global and founded the boutique Investment Bank, Wireless Blueprint, LLC. He is presently a Member of CTIA's W.I.C. Content DRM & Super Distribution Committee. He founded and Chairs the SDForum, for mobile internet group, enabling a voice for software developers in Silicon Valley.

Bill Obermeier
Executive Director of Brand, Advertising, Media and Sponsorships | Telstra
Telstra is Australia's biggest wireless and wireline carrier. Since March 2006, Bill Obermeier has helped Telstra brand and launch the Next G Network, the world's largest and fastest (14.4Mbps) national wireless broadband network, and achieve rapidly growing market share. He has also recently helped brand and launch the Next IP Network, the largest national integrated IP and wireless broadband network in the world. Under his direction, Telstra has achieved several Australian and world firsts including the first online Idol competition associated with Australian Idol, the first fully interactive video and sound on-demand metrolite, and Australia's first integrated online and mobile user-generated content property that also features a revenue-sharing business model.