Symmetricom announces the company will be presenting a free TechThink Webinar on “Digital Rights Management and its Impact on IPTV Service Quality: Security and its Impact on Quality of Experience Monitoring,” in conjunction with the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. The webinar is scheduled for Thursday, October 18, 2007, 1:00 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. PDT. This ATIS TechThink Webinar is the second in a series of three ATIS Webinars focusing on IPTV and will examine issues surrounding deploying DRM technology and how to measure its impact on Quality of Experience from source content to customer premises equipment.

The continuing IPTV evolution in Asia – subscriber figures are up by 50% in the last year alone to over two million* – is helping to attract record levels of interest for this years’ IPTV World Forum Asia.

Now in its third year, Asia’s leading IPTV event is set to be the most successful, with an expected attendance of over 4,000 visitors and 150 exhibitors.

The event is being held at the Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Singapore from the 5th to 7th December 2007 and will run parallel with The Connected Home Asia, and TV Over Net Asia conferences. The show will explore the major issues of 2007, particularly the transformation and evolution of IP services, the entry into a new phase in IPTV development and setting the media and communications agenda for the future.

Team Lightbulb has provided details for its upcoming one-day course on IPTV. Called Telecom Crash Course: Exploring the IPTV Universe, the conference is designed to provide financial and technical professionals an overview of the issues involved in investing and deploying IPTV services. The conference will be held in New York City on October 25, 2007.

Pulvermedia Inc. today announced that it will host the eleventh annual Spring VON Europe event, 2-5 June 2008 in Amsterdam. The long-running pan-European conference and expo, which has enjoyed a successful ten-year run with several years in Stockholm, now moves on to the European continent by establishing a new home in Amsterdam's RAI Convention Center.

Spring VON Europe 2008 will feature three comprehensive tracks covering Wireless, IPTV and IP Voice technologies. It will showcase speakers from all over Europe, including leading telecom sector company executives as keynoters. Hundreds of additional speakers are participating, including European telecommunications providers, carriers, and cable providers – who will educate the audience on the current and future state of IP communications in Europe, and around the globe.

The Middle East and Africa's first ever major IPTV event, the IPTV World Forum Middle East and Africa, is attracting record levels of interest due to the continued broadband expansion in the Middle East and Africa - subscriber figures are up by nine per cent in the last quarter alone to over seven million.

Boston, MA, USA
October 29 - November 1

Pulvermedia announced that the eleventh annual Fall VON Conference & Expo will take place from October 29 - November 1, at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC). This year, Pulvermedia’s flagship event, which is the largest, longest-running, and most significant event in the IP communications industry, will feature several new adjoining conferences, and multiple new events and pavilions on the expo floor. As a result, a record number of attendees, participating companies and speakers are expected to take part throughout the four-day event.

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October 17-18, 2007 Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles

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The APEM Summit 2007, hosted by Entertainment Asia Network (EAN), is a 2-day executive conference and networking forum focused on discussing, analyzing and identifying critical areas of business in the entertainment industries of Asia. It was organized to bring some of Asia’s most recognized, high-profile film/TV production and distribution houses, online game companies, mobile service providers, product manufacturers, legislative leaders, and more to discuss and analyze how to most effectively generate and maximize profits in the Asia regions. It is the industry’s most Asia-focused business conference that provides the opportunity to gain vital up-to-date market information, discuss business strategies and network with some of the most high-profile executives and major Asian and Western media conglomerates that do business in this rapidly growing region.

iHollywood Forum announced a lineup for this month’s IPTV World conference that includes both top television and telecommunication executives and leaders from leading Internet and mobile companies.

Keynoters Amy Friendlander-Hoffman, Senior VP, Programming, AT&T Operations and Sheau Ng, VP, Consumer and Broadband Technology, NBC Universal, will be joined by Walter I. Delph, Director FiOS TV Video, Verizon Communications, Scott J. Levine, Director of Product Management, AOL Video, Gene Pao, VP, Fox Interactive Media and more than 40 other executives on Sept. 25-26 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Foster City, CA.

Entertainment Asia Network, Inc. (EAN) has announced its agenda and list of confirmed speakers for the upcoming Asia Pacific Entertainment & Media (APEM) Summit 2007 to be held at Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles on October 17-18, 2007.

The two day executive-level conference is the most Asia-focused entertainment industry event for companies who look to do business and learn more about the film, TV, video game, mobile and Internet content industries in Asia, the fastest growing market in the world today. Industry veterans will discuss and analyze key issues from Asia’s entertainment industry that are affecting today’s global market and business strategies.

Entertainment Asia Network (EAN), an Asia entertainment industry news and research source, has announced an impressive line-up of top level entertainment executives from Asia and the US who will speak at this year’s 2nd annual Asia Pacific Entertainment & Media (APEM) Summit 2007 in Los Angeles. These industry veterans will discuss and analyze key topics relevant to local and global entertainment companies looking to do business in the film, TV, video game, mobile and Internet content industries in Asia, including regions such as China, Japan, South Korea, India, and Hong Kong, as well as the US.

The fifth conference will be held on September 27-29 in Kyiv within the context of the exhibition ЕЕВС 2007 Telecom&Broadcasting. Such questions as prospects of implementation and development of the innovative technologies in the countries of Eastern Europe and CIS, legislation and regulation in ICT- industry, standardization, technology issues, business models and solutions for the operators of infocommunication services will be proposed for discussion to the ICT-specialists.

In response to the rapid advancements being made in technology for communications and content creation, management and delivery, organizers of the IP Media Expo, SATCON and HD World conferences have combined the events to bring buyers of these technologies a diverse and extensive conference experience. This convergence of specialties will provide industry professionals with an elite offering of speakers, sessions, exhibits and trend updates. The conferences, to be held October 10-11, 2007 at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York, will provide registrants signed up for one of the events with universal access to each of the show’s exhibits and seminars. Register once to attend all three events. See below for details!

The roles of mobile TV and IPTV relative to traditional broadcast TV are set to be thoroughly debated when 45,000 broadcasters and film-makers gather for IBC 2007 in Amsterdam, September 6-11.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, IBC has evolved from its roots in terrestrial broadcasting to become the leading international event for professionals involved in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment, sports and news content worldwide.

Attracting more than 1,000 exhibitors, including the major technology suppliers, IBC is also the launch pad for the latest state-of-the-art developments that will inspire and empower multimedia content creators into the future. The Internationally-renowned IBC conference debates all the cutting-edge business, creative and technical issues.

"Developments around television are affecting the global broadcast market and causing a fundamental blurring of the lines which previously demarcated the providers of certain services. Essentially, as convergence takes hold, the traditional business models of mobile telephone operators, Internet service providers and broadcasters are coming under threat"
Andy Brauer, Chief Technology Officer - Business Connexion

New developments in technology are bringing the broadcasters, ISPs and Teleco's together to form very unique, dynamic partnerships. As the broadcasting industry grows and branches into new markets, new technology providers are needed to supply the systems that drive and support this change.

"Today is the era of broadband and VoIP communications. Internet giants like Skype and GoogleTalk are changing the telecoms ecosystem by providing virtually free voice. Transforming into an integrated information service provider and building an all-IP based convergence network has now become a strategic necessity for global operators."

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is affording the telecom operators the opportunity to provide mobile and fixed multimedia services, enabling not only new services, but new partnerships, new markets and bringing new competitors.