The revolution in the telecom sector has been driven by the dynamism in the telecommunications market globally, combined with the rapid, widespread changes in telecommunications technology, political and economic forces have driven a broad reform movement in the industry, both in the developing and industrialized worlds. The conference on telecommunications will address topics such as:

• The Current Situation of the Telecom Market in the Countries of Southeastern Europe and Its Future – Overview of the Changing Telecom Market
• An Overview of Legislative and Regulatory Developments in the Telecommunications Sector
• Corporate Strategies in the Region; Have the Telecom Operators in SEE Been Modernized?
• Convergence - Future of Telecommunication
• Liberalization and Privatization of the Telecom Sector in Serbia
• Strategic Business Planning – Mergers, Acquisitions and Privatizations in the Regi

DAY I, January 30th, 2007

14:15-15:15 - Registration

15:15-15:30 - Chairman’s opening remarks

15:30-16:45 - Panel 1: The Current Situation of the Telecom Market in the Countries of Southeastern Europe and Its Future

• Overview of the Changing Telecom Market
• Role of ICT in the society, the corporate sector and the governments
• How to create more favorable market conditions in the telecom industry to attract investments
• Foreign telecom groups entering SEE
• Maximizing opportunities and meeting challenges in SEE markets
• Implications of EU entry on development and growth of the ICT sector

Predrag Ćulibrk, Director of Department for Strategy and Development, Telekom Srbija
Christopher Laska, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Telenor
Milan Elezović, Executive Director, Global Capital Markets Morgan Stanley
Saša Marković, Director, EUnet d.o.o.
Vladimir Preveden, Managing Director South Eastern Europe, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

16:45-17:10 - Coffee Break

17:10-18:30 - Panel 2: An Overview of Legislative and Regulatory Developments in the Telecommunications Sector

• Resolving the existing serious economic and regulatory barriers to further develop Telecommunications in the region
• Creating a regulatory environment conducive to growth, innovation and competition
• Understanding regulatory barriers for competing in different markets in the region
• A legislative challenge of the Governments as the region faces VoIP, Fixed-Mobile convergence, IPTV, Next Generation Networks

Milan Janković, Executive Director, Agency for Telecommunications, Republic of Serbia
Boštjan Makarovič, Head of the Telecommunications Division, Agency for Post and Telecommunications, Republic of Slovenia
Vitomir Dragaš, Agency for Telecommunications, Republic of Montenegro
Ewald Lichtenberger, Attorney at Law, Piepenbrock, Schuster and Partner

19:00-22:00 - Networking Dinner & Cocktail

DAY II, January 31st, 2007

08:30-09:00 - Registration

09:00-09:15 - Chairman’s opening remark

09:15-09:30 - Keynote Address

09:30-10:45 - Panel 3: Corporate Strategies in the Region; Have the Telecom Operators in SEE Been Modernized?

• Commercially viable services and the technologies behind them
• Recent value added developments which may maximize your value in a highly competitive environment
• Examining successful strategies in the region
• Key opportunities for profit in the value added arena

Robert Paterson, Partner-Corporate Finance, Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Stevan Živković, Director, Pupin Telekom
Cristobal Alonso, CCO, mmC Group

10:30-10:55 - Coffee Break

10:55-12:30 - Panel 4: Convergence – Future of Telecommunications

• From NGN to Fixed & Mobile Convergence
• The market potential for FMC and the players who will capitalize on it
• Challenges in managing convergence
• The business case for successful deployment of IMS as the key for FMC
• What does running all services over an IP network mean for the telecom
• Competition development
• Maximizing delivery of services and content over convergent networks
• Role of MVNO (mobile virtual network operators) / different models and advantages
• ENUM – a suite of protocols to unify the telephone system with the internet and a key enabler for convergence

Milan Živković, Senior Consultant, Ericsson, UK
Mirko Avramović, Head of Strategic Planning Department, Telekom Srbija
Radu Mihaescu, Vice-President, Alcatel-Lucent South Eastern Europe- South
Dragan Bogojević, Sales Director, Alcatel Pupin Yugoslavia
Robert Grossman, Emerging Markets Strategy and Innovations team, Cisco
Nenad Saković, Head of Siemens Enterprise Communications d.o.o., Serbia

12:30-12:55 - Coffee Break

12:55-14:30 - Panel 5: Strategic Business Planning – Mergers, Acquisitions and Privatizations in the Region

• Case studies from the region
• On-going privatizations in the countries of the region
• How competitive are the SEE markets becoming, will there be further consolidation?
• Can we expect to see new telecom groups entering the region?
• How do regulatory regimes affect inward investments in SEE telecom markets?

Andrei Krikliwy, Director Telecom, Media and Investment, Raiffeisen Investment, Austria
Richard Rubin, Managing Director, Project Finance Advisors, LLC, Washington
Jan van der Oord, Vice President for SEE, A.T. Kearney
Can Deldag, Head of the Financing Department , Ernst & Young/TR
Jon Peters, Head of Market Development Central & Eastern Europe SP, Cisco

14:45-16:00 - Lunch & Farewell Cocktail