Telecom Lead Asia: Bharti Airtel CEO Sanjay Kapoor will
deliver keynote at Mobile Asia Expo on 20-22 June 2012 in Shanghai.
Previously announced keynote speakers include: Xi Guohua,
chairman, China Mobile; HTC chairman Peter Chou; Franco Bernabè, chairman, GSMA
and chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia Group; Ryan Ding, CEO, Carrier Business
Group, Huawei; Olivier Puech, president, Asia Pacific, Nokia; Napoleon
Nazareno, president and CEO, Smart Communications and Shi Lirong, president,
ZTE.
Organizations including Cisco, Game Insight, Huawei,
Mozilla, PayPal, SanDisk and Tencent have signed on to participate at Mobile
Asia Expo, joining previously announced exhibitors such as China Mobile, China
Unicom, Datang Telecom Group, MasterCard, NEC, NTT DOCOMO, Visa, Yahoo! and
ZTE, among others.
Mobile Asia Expo will spotlight companies who are taking
a leading role in the Asian mobile industry. Across the event, in the
conference, the exhibition and through networking and business development
activities, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from some of the most
innovative players in the broad mobile ecosystem,” said Michael O’Hara, chief
marketing officer, GSMA.
Mobile Asia Expo will feature the Innovation Lab,
providing a platform through which companies can highlight products and
services and which will be open to all Mobile Asia Expo attendees. Orange is
the Platinum Sponsor of the Innovation Lab; other companies currently scheduled
to present in the Innovation Lab include Ezetop, IBM, Infinite Convergence,
National Instruments and The Now Factory.
Topics to be addressed in the Mobile Asia Expo conference
include applications, devices, embedded mobile, mobile advertising, mobile
broadband, mobile health, mobile Internet, mobile money, mobile operator
strategies, network evolution, NFC, retail in mobile and social media, among
others.