Telephony Announces Telephony Live 2008 Conference Agenda and Call For Nominations
5/20/2008
NEW YORK (May 20, 2008) - Penton Media's Telephony, a leading publication for communications service providers, today announced plans for its second annual Telephony LIVE: The 2008 Telecom Summit, to be held September 30 - October 1 in Chicago. Telephony will host the Innovation Awards at the event and has opened nominations for service providers. Conference and nomination/award program details are available at
www.telephonyonline.com/telephonylive08.
Targeted to service providers navigating the highly competitive telecom marketplace, the two-day event will focus on practical approaches to adopting new technology, including Web services and IT expertise. The conference will offer keynotes, breakout sessions and real-world case studies from speakers representing service providers, end-users, industry analysts and presenting sponsors. The program features three session tracks - Operations, Service Creation/Applications and Network Technology. General session panels will explore tomorrow's service providers and examine how "open" carriers need to be.
"The Telephony LIVE event is intended to both inspire service providers to innovate, and provide practical ideas for creating new services and driving new service revenues," said Carol Wilson, editor in chief. "Our speakers and presenters combine original thinking with real-world experience to deliver a program that is interesting but also of long-term value."
Telephony will also present the Telephony Innovation Awards, recognizing service providers who have developed unique or first-to-market offerings that either utilize technology or address customer's needs in a new way. Innovation Award recipients will be announced at the event and profiled in Telephony. Innovation Award nominations are now open; to nominate a service provider, visit https://www.mblast.com/mr.asp?2.191789.8.
Telephony, a leading publication for communications service providers, delivers insightful journalism and real-world intelligence about the technologies and business strategies that are driving the telecom industry. For telecom marketers, Telephony reaches a focused audience through a broad range of targeted marketing channels and custom opportunities. Whether through print, e-newsletters, Webcasts, podcasts, blogs, events, custom solutions or online, Telephony connects customers with the buying power of the industry. For more information, visit www.telephonyonline.com. Telephony is published by Penton Media.
Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.
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