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Heavy Reading's Links 2005 Executive Summit™ is a can't-miss event for an elite circle of telecom industry leaders – including top executives representing the world’s most influential service providers, technology suppliers, and investment houses.
Links 2005 offers a unique combination of invaluable industry insight into the forces that are transforming telecommunications networks worldwide and an unprecedented chance to network with telecom industry leaders and potential customers as part of an impressive array of social activities – including a gala banquet and an executive golf tournament on one of the world’s most beautiful courses.
The cornerstone of Links 2005 is a series of intensive sessions in which Heavy Reading’s top analysts and telecom industry leaders will offer their unique insights into the massive networking transformation that’s now underway. The Links 2005 session agenda is aimed directly at exploring and explaining the immediate issues and long-term trends that all telecom industry participants must come to grips with now, including these hot-button issues:
- The new models of optical networking
- Migrating to the MPLS edge
- Carrier Ethernet service hype and reality
- The future of fixed/mobile integration
At Links 2005, Heavy Reading’s top analysts will present original research available only to conference attendees. The conference is the only way to tap into these critical insights from the telecom industry’s fastest growing and most dynamic research organization, making Links 2005 truly a must-attend event!
Click here to register for LINKS now!
Speakers and Presenters
Following is a partial list of speakers and presenters participating in Heavy Reading's Links 2005 Executive Summit:
Morning Keynote
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Behzad Nadji
Chief Architect, AT&T
Vice President, AT&T Labs Research
Vice President, AT&T Network, OSS & ITS Architecture |
Dr. Nadji is responsible for applied and core research into technologies essential for AT&T's network infrastructure and services strategies. He has led research projects in the areas of speech technologies, IP network technologies and network management, security, fraud management, IP information systems, data mining, software techniques, and grid computing. |
Afternoon Keynote
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Scott Beaudoin
Chief Technologist,
WilTel Communications |
Mr. Beaudoin leads development of the technology underlying WilTel's robust set of data, voice, IP, and video transport solutions. With more than 22 years of experience in architectural framework, detailed design, and operational oversight of global communications networks, Beaudoin is also responsible for optimizing the efficiency of WilTel's network to reduce costs and deliver more effective services. |
Speakers
Paul Hibbert
CTO,
BT Infonet |
Ralph Ballart
VP of Broadband Infrastructure,
SBC Laboratories |
Dan Moffat
President and CEO,
New Edge Networks |
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Jamey Heinze
Director, Data Services,
Broadwing Communications |
Rod Randall
Senior Managing Director,
Vesbridge Partners |
Jonathan Reeves
President and CEO,
Mangrove Systems |
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Anurag Lal
Senior Vice President, Strategic Services & Business Development,
iPass |
Wade Campbell
Director of Strategic Marketing
Motorola ECCG |
Thom Sumbler
VP of Business Development,
OnFiber Communications |
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Rob Keil
Founder and VP of Marketing,
Hammerhead |
Abdul Kasim
VP of Ethernet Business Development,
ADVA Optical Networking |
Dr. Ashish Vengsarkar
Vice President, Global Business Development
Meriton Networks |
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Charles Gershman
Founder, President, and CEO
Bay Microsystems |
Tom Issenhuth
Principal Architect,
Core Network Development,
Level 3 |
Rajiv Ramaswami
VP and GM,
Optical Networking Group,
Cisco Systems |
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Rob Lane
VP of Sales and Marketing,
Tropic Networks |
Todd Etchieson
Senior Director, Service
Provider Equipment Segment,
RadiSys |
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Speaker roster subject to change
Summit Agenda
Wednesday, November 9: Tee Time & More
The Links 2005 Executive Summit™ kicks off with our second annual Executive Golf Tournament. At last year’s event, more than 60 telecom movers and shakers hacked, sliced, and occasionally even birdied their way through 18 holes of action. This year’s tourney promises even more in the way of fairway fun – and healthy competition.
1:00 p.m. Executive Golf Tournament
This year's event will take place at the Monarch Beach Golf Links, an incredible 18-hole, par 70 oceanside course designed by the legendary Robert Trent Jones Jr. The sweeping Pacific Ocean view provides a dramatic backdrop for one of a select few championship oceanfront golf courses in California. To make things even more interesting, the event will include a hole-in-one contest featuring a Grand Prize of $100,000!
There are 17 other holes to conquer, and a hole-in-one on any of the four remaining par 3s will earn other prizes. We’ll also have prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place “Cart Team” scores; contests for Long Drive, Closest to the Pin, Longest Putt on both the front and back nines; and anything else we can come up with (maybe Loudest Golf Attire or Most Expensive Set of Clubs).
Prizes will include: Ping G5 Drivers & 3 Woods, TaylorMade Rosa Putters, MAC Powersphere Driver & 3 Woods, Gift Certificates, Plaques, and Monkey Shirts.
And when the round is done, we'll celebrate with the winners and commiserate with the losers with a Cocktail Party, a Gala Banquet, and the most intense Brandy & Cigars Hour you’re likely to ever attend.
Here’s your chance to take on the telecom industry’s key movers and shakers on one of North America’s highest-rated courses. Last year’s tournament winner ? Dave Curry of World Wide Packets – already has his tee time lined up as he guns for his second prestigious Heavy Reading crown.
Here’s the scorecard:
Heavy Reading's Second Annual Executive Golf Tournament
November 9, 2005
Monarch Beach Golf Links, Dana Point, Calif.
Tee Time: 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Note: This will be a shotgun start, so please be at the clubhouse no later than 12:30 p.m.
Equipment: Bring your own clubs, or rent from the course. Golf club rental (Callaway Equipment) is $50 to $60.
Please contact Dave Williams for more information regarding the Executive Golf Tournament
Phone: (858) 485-8870; email: dave.williams@heavyreading.com
Non-golfers, don’t fret – there are plenty of other options. Available activities include:
Spa Gaucin – Choose from a spa menu made up of exquisite treatments ranging from the Southern California coast to the springs of Hungary that refresh, soften, and leave your mind and body rapt in euphoria. At least for a few hours, the worries of telecom network transformation simply melt away...
Monarch Beach Club – Landscaped nature trails, accessible only by a private beach tram, lead to a 6-acre beach and exclusive access to a private beach club. Resort guests are able to enjoy food and beverage facilities, hotel services, and equipment rentals while they spend the day in the sun on Monarch Beach. Services available include body board and ocean kayak rentals, and the St. Regis's very own Surf Butlers, who will have you surfing like a pro in no time (so they say).
Tennis Club at Monarch Beach – Provides six hard and two clay courts for fuzzy-ball action, all under the watchful eye of resident tennis pro Gary Dudic.
Fitness Center – If you simply can’t go a day without putting your body through the wringer, the St. Regis offers a fully equipped fitness center with 14 weight machines, 5 treadmills, 5 elliptical trainers, 3 bikes, a Stairmaster, an assortment of free weights, and a trained attack dog named Schatzie to keep you moving at a brisk pace.
Yoga classes – Yoga postures and breathing exercises will purify your mind, body, and spirit – an ideal way to prepare for a full day of telecommunicative tranformation.
Dana Point Harbor – Hang with the nautical set at nearby Dana Point Harbor and enjoy an afternoon of windsurfing, sailing, tidepool exploring (yay!), biking, swimming, or simply making fun of all the fashion-challenged yacht-owning tycoons – unless one of them happens to be your boss, of course.
The Resort is within driving range of several major Southern California attractions, including: South Coast Plaza, known as one of the premier shopping centers in the country; Disneyland; Universal Studios in Los Angeles; and the San Diego Zoo, Sea World, and Legoland (woohoo!) in San Diego.
Please contact Diana Tenuto for more information or to reserve your afternoon activity*
Phone: (212) 925-0020 x 116
Email: tenuto@lightreading.com
* Additional charges apply for some activities
6:30 p.m. The Links 2005 Kickoff Cocktail Reception
Telecom network transformation is serious business, and it requires serious preparation. Start those revolutionary juices flowing with a glass of wine, or two, or five. Better yet, try our exclusive Heavy Reading cocktail – guaranteed to light up any Breathalyzer on the market!
8:00 p.m. The Heavy Reading Gala Banquet
What better way to ward off those cocktail-inspired demons than with a superb five-course (more or less) meal prepared by some of the finest chefs that Southern California has to offer. Along with some surprise entertainment, pinot noir-laced Heavy Reading analysts will be available to tell you what they really think about the transformation of telecom architectures and services.
10:00 p.m. The Brandy & Cigars Hour
Bring those cocktail-inspired demons back to life with a round or two of gullet-warming Cognac and some world-class smokes, enjoyed under a canopy of Southern California stars.
Thursday, November 10: Tracking Network Transformation
The conference agenda will draw on results of research conducted exclusively for the Links 2005 event by Light Reading's market research division, Heavy Reading. This exclusive research will provide conference attendees with unique insight into the technologies that are transforming every aspect of modern telecom networks, including end-user services and applications, wireline and wireless technology platforms, and the components and subsystems underlying those platforms. Heavy Reading's top analysts will be on hand to present original research that will be made available only to Links 2005 attendees.
- 08:00 a.m. – 08:30 a.m. Registration
- 08:30 a.m. – 08:45 a.m. Introduction
- 08:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Panel Session 1:
The New Models of Optical Networking
Moderated by Scott Clavenna, Chief Analyst,
Heavy Reading
Optical networking, long out of the spotlight, has quietly undergone significant transformation. Today's optical networking solutions, from advanced PONs in the access network, to ROADMs in the metro and new modes of transport in the core, are vastly superior to those touted during the telecom bubble. These new solutions take advantage of such developments as photonic integration, tunable optics and amplification, wavelength selective switching, automated software control planes, and ATCA to create flexible optical platforms for a variety of different applications and customers. Operators, feeling the bandwidth pinch from Ethernet services and triple-play rollouts, are currently planning and undertaking significant optical network builds. This session will explore this market in detail, and draw upon recent Heavy Reading research to chart a course for optical networks through the rest of this decade.
- 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break
- 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Keynote
Behzad Nadji, Chief Architect, AT&T;
VP, AT&T Labs Research
- 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Panel Session 2:
Migrating to the MPLS Edge
Moderated by Rick Thompson, Senior Analyst,
Heavy Reading
Original research from Heavy Reading will pinpoint how service providers are revamping their edge networks to deliver a rich range of services to residential and business customers – and the effects that those network redesigns will have throughout the entire telecom industry.
- 12:30 p.m. – 01:45 p.m. Lunch
Rod Randall, Sr. Managing Director,
Vesbridge Partners
- 01:45 p.m. – 03:15 p.m. Panel Session 3:
Carrier Ethernet Service – Hype & Reality
Moderated by Stan Hubbard, Senior Analyst,
Heavy Reading
Hundreds of carriers are now offering some form of Ethernet service, but how do those services match up, and where are the true opportunities to capitalize on growing demand with truly profitable services? Insight into carrier Ethernet’s long-term development will be delivered by Heavy Reading's top analysts.
- 03:15 p.m. – 03:45 p.m. Keynote
Scott Beaudoin, Chief Technologist,
WilTel Communications
- 03:45 p.m. – 04:00 p.m. Break
- 04:00 p.m. – 05:30 p.m. Panel Session 4:
The Future of Fixed/Mobile Convergence
Moderated by Graham Finnie, Senior Analyst,
Heavy Reading
FMC is emerging as a critical element in delivering a full range of anytime, anywhere services over any and all available network resources and connections. Heavy Reading will reveal and analyze the latest intelligence on carrier moves into FMC and gauge supplier efforts to keep one step ahead of this challenging part of the convergence movement.
- 05:30 p.m. – 07:15 p.m. Cocktail Reception
Moderators
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Scott Clavenna, Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading
Scott has been active in the telecommunications market research business since February 1991 and has published more than 30 comprehensive market research reports on the optical and broadband networking industry – including, for Heavy Reading, “The Future of Sonet/SDH” in November 2003 and “Telecommunications Recovery Investment Opportunities” in March 2004. Scott provides customized research on the telecom market to leading venture capitalists, telecom systems vendors, and carriers worldwide. He is a member of OSA, IEEE, and SPIE, and is an active course instructor for OSA and SPIE on metro optical networking and optical switching. |
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Graham Finnie, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Graham has 20 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry, with a particular emphasis over the past few years on broadband and consumer communications and video entertainment. He came to Heavy Reading from a 10-year tenure at The Yankee Group, where he was most recently responsible for establishing a European broadband and media research program. |
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Stan Hubbard, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
A communications professional with extensive experience in wireline-related business analysis and strategic marketing, Stan spent seven years with Ciena Corp. – most recently as Director of Market Intelligence – prior to joining Heavy Reading. During his tenure with Ciena, he led the analyst team conducting industry, customer, and competitive analysis and managed the company's industry analyst relations program. His current focus is on Ethernet, optical, and other wireline technologies. |
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Rick Thompson, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
Rick was a principal analyst for PointEast Research, leading market analysis and strategic consulting across a wide range of network communications market segments. He has worked on product management and marketing at PanGo Networks, Sycamore Networks, Packet Engines, and Fore Systems. |
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Accommodations
The St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort & Spa is now full. There are no rooms available in the hotel. Here is a list of nearby hotels* that are quickly accessible to the St. Regis. Please note: Hotels in the Dana Point area are filling up quickly, so book your rooms today! All of the hotels, unless noted, are about 1 mile away from the St.Regis.
Laguna Cliffs Marriot Resort & Spa
949-661-5000
Doubletree Guest Suites, Dana Point
949-661-1100
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, Dana Point
949-248-1000
Surf & Sand Resort (this is about a 15 minute drive from the St. Regis, Dana Point)
949-497-4477
* Heavy Reading does not have room blocks at these hotels.
Qualified VIP Guests
The VIP Guest plan is an ideal way for you to connect with an important service provider or enterprise client in an impressive social and business setting. Each paid attendee to Links 2005 is allowed to bring one VIP guest to attend at no extra charge. VIP guests also are allowed to participate in the Links 2005 golf tournament. Executives from service provider or enterprise user organizations all qualify as VIP guests. All VIP guests must be qualified by Heavy Reading prior to attendance.
Testimonials
This year’s event will build on the phenomenally successful inaugural Links Executive Summit held last September. More than 160 telecom industry executives attended the first Links event, including top-level decision makers from these major companies:
- Service providers: AT&T, BellSouth, Chunghwa Telecom, Equant, France Telecom, Level 3, Masergy, McLeodUSA, SBC, Singapore Telecom, Sprint, Swisscom, Teleglobe, Verizon, Yipes Enterprise Services
- Investor groups: Crescendo Ventures, Highland Partners, Hoya Holdings, Matrix Capital, Maverick Capital, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Morgenthaler Ventures, Pacific Growth Equities, Palo Alto Capital Partners, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Vesbridge Partners, Wachovia Securities
- Technology suppliers: ADVA Optical Networking, Alcatel, ANDA Networks, Atrica, Avici Systems, Calix, Ciena, Cisco Systems, Covaro Networks, Ericsson, Extreme Networks, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, JDS Uniphase, Juniper Networks, Laurel Networks, Mahi Networks, Movaz Networks, net.com, Nokia, Siemens, Tellabs, UTStarcom
Attendees of our Links 2004 event were overwhelmingly positive about the quality of the conference sessions and keynotes:
“Light Reading's '04 Executive Summit was one of the most insightful conferences that I have participated in. The research presentations were outstanding, and the audience consisted of the industry's key decision-makers." – Bijan Khosravi, President and CEO, Movaz Networks
“I would like to thank you for sending us the invitations to the Light Reading Links 2004 Executive Summit… I found the presentations to be quite insightful about emerging trends in the carrier sector. In fact, we discussed several aspects of our findings with many clients of Pacific Growth Equities.” – Erik Suppiger, Networking Analyst, Pacific Growth Equities
"I really enjoyed the event. It's very rare that I'm able to sit through an entire day – there were some interesting and varied perspectives." – Steve Liddell, Group VP, Transport and Infrastructure, Level 3
"I had a blast. Put me on the list for next year!" – Drew Lanza, Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
"Great Summit! Great dinner with an excellent venue. Very good speakers and quality attendees. Worth every moment/dollar." – Kevin Mullenex, Solid Information Technology
We look forward to your comments as an attendee of the Links 2005 Executive Summit!
Sponsorship
Prime sponsorship positions for Links 2005 will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. To ensure that your company secures a prime slot for this compelling event, the time to act is now! Please contact:
Contact Us
For more information on Heavy Reading's Links 2005 Executive Summit™ please email us at summit@lightreading.com or contact:
Dave Williams
Sales Director
Heavy Reading
(858) 485-8870
dave.williams@heavyreading.com
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