NextGen Roadshow Northern Ireland

The 2010 NextGen Roadshow season continues on Thursday 17 June in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Venue: Titanic House

2 Queen's Road
Queen's Island
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT3 9DT

Hosted by: Titanic Quarter

Roadshow downloads:

• NextGen Roadshows overview

Capacity is limited, so you are advised to book early.

Roadshow Agenda - Northern Ireland - 17 June 2010

09.30    Registration and refreshments
10.00    Opening and first keynote by Lorne Mitchell - Social Economics of Next Generation Broadband
10.20    Welcome by Michael Graham - Director Corporate Real Estate - Titanic Quarter Limited
10.30    A Vision for the UK - Next Generation Broadband for All - Dave Carter Acting Chair of INCA Interim Board and Head of Manchester Digital Development Agency
10.50    Keynote by Sinclair Stockman - the Strategic importance and Opportunities of Next Generation Broadband for Northern Ireland
11.10    The New Market in Telecoms Services - presentation by Adrian Wooster, CTO, Community Broadband Network (CBN)
11.30    Refreshments - (Meet the experts Clinic 1)
11.50    What is a Next Generation Network and Why do I Need it? Keynote by Edgar Aker, Director of Marketing & Product Management EMEA, Draka
12.20    Local Case Studies. Eoin Lambkin - Next Generation Mobile Networks and John Dunne from Intune Networks
12.45    Keynote by Frank McManus - Head of BT Wholesale Sales & Service Division Ireland.  Next Generation Access,  a BT Perspective
13.15    Lunch - (Meet the experts Clinic 2)
14.15    Break-out into 2 workshop sessions:

1. Fibre to Every Home: No problem - How pre-fabricated fibre systems change the paradigm: Local, reliable and easy deployment. Presenters: Klaus Kammermeier, Exec. Director Marketing Carrier EMEA, Corning, Sebastian Eckert and Juan Colina.
2. Local providers and the way forward for NI - Atlas Communications

15.00    Investment Case Options by David Brunnen, Managing Editor, Groupe Intellex
15.15    Breakout into 2 workshop sessions:

1. Partnership building for NGA chaired by Brian Condon, speakers Dave Carter and Rob Chorley, Digital Region
2. Next Gen in Action - Onestream - Scandinavia's largest open access network - Christer Karlsson

15.45    Refreshments - (Meet the experts Clinic 3)
16.00    Panel discussion chaired by Brian Condon
16.45    Questions from the audience and response to issues raised during the day
17.00    Close

INCA reserves the right to make changes to the scheduled programme

During the day there will be 3 specialist meet the experts advice ‘clinic’ sessions.

The clinics, covering separate subjects, will run three times at each roadshow and there is a limit of 3 places at each session. Delegates can opt to attend 1 of these and can register for this on the online registration page.

The clinics will provide impartial advice and the subject matters to be covered are:

• Technology
• Where do I start – effective partnership building
• Business models and finance

If you have any questions or would like to discuss partnership and exhibition opportunities please contact the events director Marit Hendriks.