The IPTV World Forum is to set a new standard next year as it reaches it’s most successful levels yet.

Being held at the Olympia in London on March 5th – 7th, The IPTV World Forum is anticipating over 5000 visitors, and will host in excess of 200 exhibitors.

The conference will feature over 30 worldwide telcos & ISPs discussing IPTV service deployment issues including Telefonica, PCCW, Belgacom, BT, SaskTel, Deutsche Telekom AG/T-Com, Telstra, T-Online France, Turk Telecom, NetCologne, Telekom Austria, Fastweb, BSkyB, Orange, Bharti Airtel Ltd and Siminn.

Leading speakers include:

• Bernard Ghillebaert, CEO, Orange UK
• Jean-Charles De Keyser, Chairman, Belgacom Skynet
• Mary Turner, CEO Tiscali
• Paul Berriman, Head of Strategic Market Development, PCCW
• Ashley Highfield, Director Future Media & Technology, BBC
• Paolo Agostinelli, Head of Media & TV, Fastweb
• Marc Schroeder, Senior VP T-Home, Deutsche Telekom
• Chris Coles, President/CEO, Myrio, a Siemens Company
• Jeff Weber, VP Product & Strategy, AT&T

It will also feature leading content players and broadcasters as well as an IPTV showcase area in the exhibition featuring service demonstrations from 25 leading worldwide IPTV deployments. The World Forum next year is also seeing a change in format – it will run concurrent to two other Junction conferences; The Connected Home and TV Over Net.

In addition, the three day joint exhibition, being held for all three conferences, will be free. Junction are seeing rapid growth in their exhibitions and are introducing free exhibitions across all of their events. The Connected Home, held on the 5th and 6th March, will include top speakers such as;

• Peter Kerckhoff, Senior VP Content & Portal for T-Online
• Robin Truchy, Director XBOX Live Europe, Middle-East and Africa, Microsoft
• Thor Jes Thorisson, CTO of Siminn.

TV Over Net, being held on the 7th March, will also host expert speaker in its field including;

• Griffin Parry Director of Broadband & Mobile, BSkyB
• Vincent Dureau, Head of TV Technology, Google Inc
• Kevin Baughan, Director Network Strategy, NTL.

For further info please contact Ingrid Anusic at ingrida@junction-group.com or on +44 (0)117 3116 224, or Dee Anthony at deea@junction-group.com or on +44 (0)117 3116 232.