Ambassador Working Group - Appearances

The goal of the Broadband Forum Ambassador Program is to promote the Broadband Forum and provide education on broadband technology and systems to the communications, information and entertainment industry, as well as other interested parties. The Ambassador Program is designed for speaking engagements for industry events and other opportunities.

UPCOMING AMBASSADOR PRESENTATIONS:

• Telco TV 08
  November 11-13, 2008
  Booth #: 109
  Ambassador: Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO
  Moderator: Realities of Convergence for Small Carriers Panel (3:15 pm - 4:15 pm, Wednesday, November 12)
  Ambassador: Dom Zimring, Broadband Forum Ambassador Chair
  Panel: Quality of Service: The Service Provider Trump Card (1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Thursday, November 13)

PAST AMBASSADOR PRESENTATIONS:

2008

• Steve Kingdom, Broadband Forum Ambassador, presented at Iraq Telecoms - October 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, participated in the session, Standardization Key to Broadband Success, at the Broadband World Forum Europe - October 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, presented at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress - September 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, presented at ECOC 2008 - September 2008.

• Dov Zimring, Broadband Forum Ambassador, presented at the Service Providers and Connected Home Summit 2008 - August 2008.

• Dov Zimring, Broadband Forum Ambassador, presented at IPTV World Forum in Chicago, IL - July 2008.

• Jaime Fink, Broadband Forum Ambassador, presented at Device Management Summit in Santa Clara - June 2008.

• George Dobrowski, Broadband Forum Chairman & President, held a press conference at NXTComm 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada - June 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, presented at CommunicAsia in Singapore - June 2008.

• Dov Zimring, Broadband Forum Ambassador, presented at FTTx Summit in Berlin, Germany - June 2008.

• Bill Welch, Broadband Forum Ambassador, presented at LightReading's Future of Broadband Conference in New York - May 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, presented on the topic of Open Standards for IPTV: Is There a Way Forward at the LightReading Webinar - May 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, presented on the topic of Making Multi-Play a Reality at SOFNET in London - April 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, presented on the topic of Setting the Standard for Remote Management as a Keynote Speaker at the China Broadband Triple Play Conference in Beijing, China - March 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, presented on the topic of FTTx and the Emerging Hybrid Network at the China Broadband Triple Play Conference in Beijing, China - March 2008.

• Steve Kingdom, Broadband Forum Marketing Vice-Chair, presented at IPTV World Forum's Connected Home Show in Olympia, London - March 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, presented on the topic of Standardisation & Interoperability at DSL Summit in Monaco - January 2008.

• Lynn Merrill, Broadband Forum SPAC Chairman, presented at OPASTCO's Annual Winter Convention in Phoenix, Arizona - January 2008.

• Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum COO, presented on the topic of Quality Delivery & Management of IPTV at ICCE in Las Vegas, Nevada - January 2008.

2007

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented at the GPON Deployment Forum on the topic of minimizing costs of FTTH Deployment in Amsterdam, Netherlands - December 2007.
• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented on the topic of DSL Home at BroadBand Europe in Antwerp, Belgium - December 2007.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented on the panel discussion "DSL 2015 - Definitely Still Living" at FIXED 2007 in the United Kingdom - November 2007.

• George Dobrowski, DSL Forum Chairman & President; Greg Bathrick, DSL Forum Board Member; Heather Kirksey, DSL Forum Board Member; and Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO all presented on the topic of Device Management at TM Forum Management World Americas in Dallas, Texas, November 2007.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented on the Standards Summit Roundtable at TelcoTV 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia, October 2007.

• George Dobrowski, DSL Forum Chairman & President, gave the keynote presentation at LightReading's Future of Broadband event in Atlanta, Georgia, October 2007.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented at Broadband World Forum Europe on the topic of Digital Home: Evolving the Home Networking Environment in Berlin, Germany, October 2007.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented at IPTV Evolution 2007 on the topic of Monetizing Applications Beyond TV in Los Angeles, CA, September 2007.

• Peter LeBlanc, DSL Forum Board of Directors, presented at Mobile Backhaul 2007 on the topic of Utilizing xDSL in Boston, MA, July 2007.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented at Broadband Connect Summit on the topic of Service Delivery Excellence in London, June 2007.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented at TV Evolution Summit on the topic of Delivering Quality IPTV Over a Converged Infrastructure in Madrid, Spain, June 2007.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented at FTTx Summit on the topic of Improving Architecture Options in Munich, Germany, June 2007.

• Michael Hanrahan, DSL Forum Board of Directors, and Robin Mersh, DSL Forum COO, presented at Broadband World Forum Asia on the topic of BroadbandHome and IPTV June 7-8, 2007 in Beijing, China.

• Dov Zimring, DSL Forum Consul, presented at the Future of Broadband Conference on the topic of Video & The New Broadband Paradigm and Access Options: FTTx, VDSL, and WiMax on May 16, 2007 in New York, NY.

• Rich Cardone, DSL Forum Marketing Chair, presented at the Future of Broadband Conference on the topic of Policy Management Options: Subscriber Management, Admission Control, and QOS on May 16, 2007 in New York, NY.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum Chief Operating Officer, presented at the China DSL Conference on the topic of IPTV Triple Play: Optimizing Broadband Networks for Service Delivery Excellence on April 19, 2007 in Beijing, China.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum Chief Operating Officer, presented at ARABCOM 2007 on the topic of IPTV & Triple Play: Optimizing Broadband Networks for Service Delivery Excellence on April 11, 2007 in Dubai, UAE.

• Dov Zimring, DSL Forum Consul, presented at The Connected Home - IPTV Forum on the topic of BroadbandHome^TM in Olympia, London, March 2007.

• Lynn Merrill, DSL Forum Service Provider Action Council Chair, presented on Quality of Experience at the OPASTCO Winter Convention in Orlando, Florida, January 2007.

• Robin Mersh, DSL Forum Chief Operating Officer, presented at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics on January 14, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2006

• Sven Ooghe presented "The Importance of Standards for Broadband Access Networks" at Broadband Week Europe 2006 in Berlin, December 2006.

• David Greggains presented "Examining the Status of DSL Standards Today and Developing Strategies to Achieve Smooth and Cost Efficient Network Integration and Migration" at IIR's Optimising DSL Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, November 2006.

• Vincenzo Gulla presented on DSL Forum activities and updates at Carriers World CEE in Budapest, Hungary, November 2006.

• Gavin Young, DSL Forum Technical Committee Chair, presented on DSL technology developments at IIR Telecom in London, November 2006.

• Peter LeBlanc, DSL Forum Board Member; Heather Kirksey, DSL Forum Board Member; Rich Cardone, DSL Forum Marketing Vice Chair; and Yves Hertoghs, Cisco Systems Europe all presented the DSL Forum's BroadbandSuite^TM launch at Broadband World Forum Europe in Paris, France in October 2006.

• Greg Bathrick, DSL Forum Board Member; Heather Kirksey, DSL Forum Board Member; Rich Cardone, DSL Forum Marketing Vice Chair; Lawrence Chee, PMC-Sierra, and Caggatay Buyukkoc, Cisco Systems all presented the DSL Forum's BroadbandSuite^TM launch at Broadband World Forum Americas in Vancouver, British Columbia in September 2006.

• William Lupton, DSL Forum Consul, presented on the TR-069 protocol and its ability ot manage QoS policies on the CPE at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva in June, 2006.

• Vincenzo Gulla, DSL Forum Marketing Chair, presented the activities of the DSL Forum to the Third International Tele-Medicine Congress in Croatia in May, 2006.

• Yue Chen, DSL Forum Ambassador; Rich Cardone, DSL Forum Consul; and Amit Cohen, DSL Forum Consul, presented "Ethernet Aggregation Networks" at Broadband World Forum Asia on May 16, 2006.

• David Greggains, DSL Forum Lifetime Ambassador, presented at the 2nd Annual IPTV and Telco Triple Play Forum on May 9 in Amsterdam.

• Frank Van der Putten, DSL Forum Board Member and Ambassador, presented at the Cherokee Networking Day in Mechelen, Belgium in May, 2006.

• Alan White, DSL Forum Ambassador Working Group Chair, presented on "IP Devices and Service Convergence" at VoIPossibilities Conference and Expo in Nashville, TN on April 13, 2006.

• Sven Ooghe and Christele Bouchat, DSL Forum Consuls, presented at the TSB Director's Consultation Meeting on IPTV Standardization in Geneva, Switzerland on April 5, 2006.

• Gavin Young, DSL Forum Technical Committee Chair, participated in a panel discussion on "Advanced Encoding as a Service Enabler" at the iptvworldforum conference in London on March 6, 2006.

• Gavin Young, DSL Forum Technical Committee Chair, presented "An Overview of the DSL Forum and DSLHome Work and Achievements" in Geneva, Switzerland at the Digital Home Showcase in February, 2006.

• Lynn Merrill, DSL Forum Ambassador and Service Provider Action Council Chair, presented an update on DSL Forum activities at the OPASTCO Winter Meeting in Maui, Hawaii in January, 2006.

For more information on the Ambassador Program, please contact:
Shonna Anderson
Project Manager, Broadband Forum
Phone: +1.510.492.4022
Fax: +1.510.492.4001
sanderson@broadband-forum.org