Internet Service Providers' Association

iWeek 2006 Program

 

Please note: Preliminary Programme and subject to change. Please check for updates

 

Monday, 4 September 2006
07:15 - 08:45	Registration / Tea / Coffee
Session: The Internet in South Africa: The last 10 years & the next 10 years
08:45 - 09:00	Opening remarks	Session Chair: Greg Massel ISPA Chair & Director, Switch
09:00 - 09:30	Opening address	Deputy Minister of Communications Radhakrishna Padayachie
09:30 - 10:15	Mark Shuttleworth Director, HBD Venture Capital	Challenges and Strategies in ICT regulations in Africa
10:15 - 11:00	Esther Dyson Editor, Release 1.0	What matters more than ICT? A question & answer session with Esther Dyson.
11:00 - 11:30	Tea/coffee break
11:30 - 12:15	David Frankel Executive Chairman, Altirah Capital, South Africa, First ISPA Co-chair Mark Todes Director, Korbitec / Ex ISPA Co-chair	A retrospective look at the pioneering days of the industry: a question and answer session
12:15 - 13:00	Teachers Award Ceremony
13:00 - 14:15	Lunch
14:15 - 14.30	Opening remarks	Session chair: William Stucke: Managing Director, ZAnet Internet
14:30 - 15:15	Arthur Goldstuck Managing Director, World Wide Worx	10 Years of Internet market watching: what it tells us about the future
15:15 - 16:00	Dr Duncan H Martin CEO of Tertiary Education Network (TENET)	The evolving world of research and education networking
16:00 - 16:30	Tea/coffee break
16:30 - 17:15	Vika Mpisane General Manager .za Domain Authority	Strategically positioning the .za domain name
Close
Tuesday, 5 September 2006
07:45 - 09:15	Registration /Tea/Coffee
Session: The Wireless Internet Boom and Internet Exchanges
09:15 - 09:30	Opening remarks	Session Chair: Theo Kramer: Chairman, UniForum SA
09:30 - 10:15	James Seng Internet Consultant	Wireless deployment in Asia
10:15 - 11:00	Dr Patricio Seoane Chairman, ISPA Argentina (CABASE)	Wireless Internet Boom
11:00 - 11:30	Tea/coffee break
11:30 - 12:15	David Jarvis CEO UniNet	UniFi Knysna Project
12:15 - 13:00	Arnold Nipper Technical Director DE-CIX (Germany)	Trends in building and running Internet Exchange Points
13:00 - 14:15	Lunch
Session: Voice over the Internet
14:15 - 14.30	Opening remarks	Session Chair: Calvin Browne: Director, UniForum SA
14:30 - 15:15	Harald A Summa Managing Director of the German ISP Association eco	VoIP - More questions than answers!
15:15 - 16:00	Ferdinand Tjombe Executive Chairman, Namibia Strategic Business Communications (NSBC)	The status of Internet and VoIP in Namibia
16:00 - 16:30	Tea/coffee break
16:30 - 17:15	Dave Gale Director of Business Development, Storm	Interconnet (The Cybersex of VoIP SPs?)
Close
Wednesday, 6 September 2006
07:30 - 09:00	Registration /Tea/Coffee
Session: Regulatory Development
09:00 - 09:15	Opening remarks	Session chair: Alan Levin: Chairperson, ISOC-ZA
09:15 - 10:00	Veni Markovski Senior Advisor, Governmental Agency for Information Technologies & Communication Chair of the Board, Internet Society - Bulgaria	How civil society and government can work together to make Internet more accessible
10:00 - 10:45	Dr Tracy Cohen ICASA Councillor	The importance of credibility in telecoms regulation and investment
10:45 - 11:15	Tea/coffee break
11:15 - 12:00	Richard Nash Secretary General, EuroISPA	The legal last-mile - lessons from implementation of the EU regulatory framework
12:00 - 12:45	Eric Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA and GISPA (ISPA Ghana)	Reducing bandwidth cost on SAT3 & EASSy
12:45 - 13:15	Adiel Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC	The African Internet Numbers Registry update
13:15 - 14:15	Lunch
Session: Who is watching what? Interception; Data retention and content
14:15 - 14.30	Opening remarks	Session Chair: Edwin Thompson: Legal & Operations Executive, Verizon Business, ISPA Treasurer & CUASA Chairman
14:30 - 15:15	Wim Roggeman President, ISPA Belgium	How ISPs can help society against child porn, racism and hate speech.
15:15 - 16:00	Peter Coroneos Chief Executive, Internet Industry Association (IIA) - Australia	ISPA Spam Code, Australia
16:00 - 16:30	Tea/coffee break
16:30 - 17:15	Professor Michael Rotert President, EuroISPA and President of the German ISP Association eco	Data Retention / Interception - A horror scenario for ISPs and Law Enforcement Agencies
Close
Thursday, 7 September 2006
09:00 - 10:00	Registration /Tea/Coffee
Closed Meetings
10:00 - 11:00	WorldISPA meeting
11:00 - 13:00	ISPA Code of Conduct workshop	Interested Members Only
13:00 - 14:15	Lunch
14:15 - 16:00	ISPA Annual General Meeting	Members Only
16:00	Cocktail Party

 

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