For the first time the CommunicAsia Summit conference featured a three-day CEO Perspective panel session, where senior executives of telcos and vendors exchanged industry views and insights with the audience. "I find this conference very good for sharing and bouncing ideas," says Tom Goodwin, regional CTO of Lucent Technologies, and one of the panel speakers.
Another attendee at the CEO dialogue session was Siemens Communications' Thorsten Heins. "It was my pleasure to speak," he says. "This was such a high quality and vibrant audience. The questions they asked were also excellent . . . As a board member of Siemens with responsibility for Asia Pacific, I will come here again."
On the exhibition itself, the convergence theme has brought more mobile operators and handset manufacturers than ever before - which is perfect for Zi, says Canadian exhibitor Zi Corp's chief operating officer Milos Djokovic. "Our Qix service discovery platform is just what 3G needs to increase usage and drive up ARPU; CommunicAsia gave us a perfect Asian launch pad," he adds.
"Visitor traffic has been very good and we got a lot of potential customers. The visitors come from a wide range of countries both local and international." says Panutat Tejasen, board member of Thailand's Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA).
On the BroadcastAsia side, exhibitior Harris Corp's trade show manager Marilyn O'Dear says: "This year has been even better than last year. The addition of the Encoda system to our booth has also been very successful."
(Cheryl Constable)
