Keynote Speaker -- Randall Stephenson, AT&T Inc.
March 23, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

Randall Stephenson,
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
AT&T Inc.

Randall L. Stephenson is chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president of AT&T Inc. He was appointed to the position in 2007.

Since becoming chairman, Mr. Stephenson has strengthened AT&T's position as the world's largest telecommunications company by focusing on mobility and broadband access to the Internet. Today, AT&T has established leading positions in wireless smartphones, wireless data, global business solutions, broadband, voice and local search advertising, and is continuing to gain momentum in video entertainment.

Mr. Stephenson previously served as the company's chief operating officer, from April 2004 to June 2007, where he was responsible for all wireless and wired operations, and as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer for SBC Communications (today AT&T), from August 2001 to May 2004.

Mr. Stephenson was appointed to AT&T's board of directors in 2005.

Born in Oklahoma City, Mr. Stephenson began his career with Southwestern Bell Telephone in 1982 in the information technology organization in Oklahoma. He then progressed through a series of leadership positions including an assignment in Mexico City as SBC International's director of finance, overseeing SBC's ownership interest in Teléfonos de México. In 1996 he was named controller for SBC Communications. Additionally, Mr. Stephenson served as senior vice president-Consumer Marketing.

Under Mr. Stephenson’s leadership, AT&T announced the largest education initiative in company history — AT&T Aspire — a $100 million philanthropic program to help strengthen student success and workforce readiness.

He is a member of the board of directors of Emerson Electric Co., a national board member of the Boy Scouts of America and is chairman of the 2009-2010 corporate campaign of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Mr. Stephenson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma and a Master of Accountancy degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- Ralph de la Vega, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, AT&T, Inc.
March 23, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

Ralph de la Vega,
President and CEO, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets
AT&T, Inc.

Ralph de la Vega, President and CEO-AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, was named to his current role in October 2008. Today, he leads all consumer marketing, sales, content and converged services, customer care and operations for wireless and wired.

Previously, he served as President and CEO-AT&T Mobility where he was responsible for all of AT&T’s wireless business since October 2007.

Prior to that, he served as group president-Regional Telecommunications and Entertainment, with responsibility for overall leadership in regional wired, including consumer, regional business sales and network. He was appointed to that post in January 2007, after the close of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, which consolidated ownership of Cingular.

From 2004-2006, de la Vega served as chief operating officer of Cingular Wireless, with responsibility for technology planning, network operations, marketing, sales and customer care.

Before joining Cingular in January 2004, he served as president-BellSouth Latin America, with overall responsibility for BellSouth's operations in 11 countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Nicaragua, Brazil and Guatemala.

He also has served as BellSouth's president of Broadband and Internet Services. In this position, he had overall responsibility for the deployment, marketing and operations of broadband services. In addition, he had responsibility for BellSouth Internet Services and BellSouth's rapidly growing data support groups.

Mr. de la Vega started his career in 1974 with BellSouth (then Southern Bell) as a management assistant. He has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility in Network Planning, Consumer Services, Engineering and Operations — including a rotational assignment at Telcordia (Bellcore) — and was responsible for all BellSouth Telecommunications Network Operations in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Mr. de la Vega's involvement with the community is extensive. He is the chairman of Junior Achievement Worldwide and the chairman of Hispanic initiatives for the Boy Scouts of America. He also serves on the board of the Georgia Research Alliance. He recently was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s prestigious Alumni Hall of Fame which honors select Hispanics for their personal achievements, contributions and service to America.

A native of Cuba, he holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Florida Atlantic University and a master’s degree in business administration from Northern Illinois University, and he has completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- Julius Genachowski, FCC
March 23, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

Julius Genachowski,
Chairman
Federal Communications Commission
Invited.

Julius Genachowski was nominated by President Barack Obama as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on March 3, 2009, and sworn into office on June 29, 2009.

Chairman Genachowski has two decades of experience in public service and the private sector. Prior to his appointment, he spent more than 10 years working in the technology industry as an executive and entrepreneur. He co-founded LaunchBox Digital and Rock Creek Ventures, where he served as Managing Director, and he was a Special Advisor at General Atlantic. In these capacities, he worked to start, accelerate, and invest in early- and mid-stage technology and other companies. From 1997-2005, he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Fortune 500 company, where his positions included Chief of Business Operations and General Counsel.

Genachowski’s public service spanned broadly across government. His confirmation as FCC Chairman returns him to the agency where, from 1994 until 1997, he served as Chief Counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, and, before that, as Special Counsel to then-FCC General Counsel (later Chairman) William Kennard. Previously, he was a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice David Souter and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (ret.), and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for Chief Judge Abner Mikva. Genachowski also worked in Congress for then-U.S. Representative (now Senator) Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), and on the staff of the House select committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair.

Genachowski has been active at the intersection of social responsibility and the marketplace. He was part of the founding group of New Resource Bank, which specializes in serving the needs of green entrepreneurs and sustainable businesses, and has served on the Advisory Board of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). He also served as a board member of Common Sense Media, a leading non-partisan, non-profit organization seeking to improve the media lives of children and families.

Genachowski received a J.D from Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), where he was co-Notes Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received a B.A. from Columbia College (magna cum laude), where he was Editor of Columbia Spectator’s Broadway Magazine, re-established Columbia’s oldest newspaper (Acta Columbiana), and was a writer and researcher for Fred Friendly. He was also a certified Emergency Medical Technician who served on the Columbia Area Volunteer Ambulance, and taught cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Genachowski, a son of immigrants, is married to Rachel Goslins and has three children, Jacob, Lilah and Aaron.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- Iñaki Urdangarín, Telefónica
March 23, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

Iñaki Urdangarín,
Chairman
Telefónica Internacional USA INC

Awarded a Diploma in Business Sciences by the Central University of Barcelona. He went on to complete a Degree in Business Administration and Management and an MBA at ESADE Business School, where he lectures in the Department of Business Policy.

Former professional handball player, played with FC Barcelona and on the Spanish national team from 1986 to 2000. He has participated in three Olympic Games, for which he has two bronze medals. He also won two silver medals and one bronze medal at the European Championships.

He co-founded the Nóos Institute, a scientific association whose mission is to promote strategic research into the management of patronage, social responsibility, and sponsorship activities. He was his president until April 2006.

Iñaki Urdangarín is President of the Commission for Public Affairs for the Board of Telefónica Internacional. He has been assigned to Washington D.C. to reinforce the institutional presence of Telefónica in North, Central and South America and to contribute towards facilitating the dialogue between the company and interest groups among regulators, industry and society, within the axis of the United States, Europe and Latin America.

He is a member of the Board of Telefónica Internacional, Telefónica Brasil and Telefónica México.

Iñaki Urdangarín lives with his wife and four children in Washington DC.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- J.K. Shin, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
March 23, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

J.K. Shin,
President, Mobile Communications Business
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Mr. J.K. Shin was appointed as the head of Mobile Communication Division at Samsung Electronics in January 2009, based on his continuous success and contribution for the fastest growth of Samsung mobile business. In his current role, Mr. Shin is responsible for all aspects of Samsung Mobile Communication business – from R&D and manufacturing to Sales and Marketing.

Prior to this, Mr. Shin was Executive Vice President of the Mobile Communication Division, leading the whole mobile R&D team since January 2006. Under his leadership, Samsung has succeeded to prove its technology leadership with many innovative mobile phones and played a major role for Samsung to be the 2nd largest mobile manufacturer in the world.

He joined the company over 25 years ago and has played a key role in the Samsung Mobile business from its beginning. From Samsung’s first mobile phone, produced in 1998, to the newest full touch mobiles, Mr. Shin has introduced numerous and highly successful models for the global market.

Mr. Shin graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Kwangwoon University in 1981. He joined Samsung in 1984 and focused primarily on R&D in the Mobile Communication Division.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- Dan Hesse, Sprint Nextel Corporation
March 24, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

Dan Hesse,
Chief Executive Officer
Sprint Nextel Corporation

Dan Hesse, 56, was named chief executive officer of Sprint Nextel on Dec. 18, 2007.

Prior to his appointment as Sprint CEO, Hesse was the Chairman and CEO of Embarq Corporation, a $6 billion company which provided voice, data, wireless and entertainment services in eighteen states.

From 2000 – 2004, he served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Terabeam Corporation, a wireless telecommunications service provider and technology company.

Hesse spent 23 years at AT&T. From 1997 – 2000, he served as the President and CEO of AT&T Wireless Services, at the time the United States’ largest wireless carrier. Previously, Hesse launched AT&T’s global online initiatives, which included the AT&T Worldnet family of internet services, as the leader of the Online Services Group. From 1991-1995, he was based in the Netherlands serving as the President and CEO of AT&T Network Systems International, a joint-venture telecommunications technology company with revenues of $2 billion. He also held prior AT&T management assignments in Network Operations, Network Engineering, International Services, Human Resources, Strategic Planning, Product Management and Sales.

Hesse received a master of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master's degree in business administration, with distinction, from Cornell University, and a bachelor of arts degree, with honors, from the University of Notre Dame. He was awarded the Brooks Thesis Prize for writing the outstanding master's thesis from all master's programs at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Hesse has been named Wireless Industry “Person of the Year” by RCR magazine, “Executive of the Year” by Wireless Business and Technology magazine, “Most Influential Person in Mobile Technology” by LAPTOP Magazine, and he received Wireless Week magazine’s Leadership Award. He is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He also serves on the board of directors of Clearwire Corporation, where Sprint is the largest shareholder, and on the National Board of Governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- John Stanton, Trilogy Partnership
March 24, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

John Stanton,
Chairman of the Board
Trilogy International Partners

John W. Stanton is the Chairman of the Board of Trilogy International Partners. Mr. Stanton was Chairman of the Board, a Director and Chief Executive Officer of Western Wireless Corporation (“WWC”) and its predecessors from 1992 until ALLTEL’s acquisition of WWC on August 1, 2005. WWC was one of the largest providers of rural wireless communications services in the United States and through its subsidiary, Western Wireless International, was licensed to provide wireless communications services in seven countries, including Bolivia and Haiti. Mr. Stanton was Chairman and a Director of T-Mobile USA, formerly VoiceStream (“T-Mobile USA”), a former subsidiary of WWC, from 1994 to 2004 and was Chief Executive Officer of T-Mobile USA from February 1998 to March 2003. Mr. Stanton served as a director of McCaw Cellular from 1986 to 1994, and as a director of LIN Broadcasting from 1990 to 1994, during which time it was a publicly traded company. From 1983 to 1991, Mr. Stanton served in various capacities with McCaw Cellular, serving as Vice Chairman of the Board of McCaw Cellular from 1988 to September 1991 and as Chief Operating Officer of McCaw Cellular from 1985 to 1988. Mr. Stanton is a member of the board of directors of Clearwire Corporation, Columbia Sportswear, Inc., and Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd., each of which is publicly traded.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- William Morrow, Clearwire Corporation
March 24, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

William Morrow,
Chief Executive Officer
Clearwire Corporation

Mr. Morrow is a seasoned telecom industry executive with a diversified background leading wireline and wireless communications companies in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

Prior to joining Clearwire on March 9, 2009, he served as President and CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E, where he oversaw a business with over $13 billion in annual revenue and more than 20,000 employees. During his tenure, he oversaw operations and successfully directed an overhaul aimed at improving the company’s efficiency, supply chain and customer focus, generating operational efficiencies and improved customer satisfaction.

Before joining PG&E, Mr. Morrow held several leadership positions at Vodafone, the number two wireless provider in the world with more than 133 million subscribers. At Vodafone, he served as CEO for Europe overseeing global marketing, global technology and the largest operating businesses in the company portfolio. Before being named CEO, he held market level responsibility as president of Vodafone K.K. in Tokyo, CEO of Vodafone Ltd in the UK, and was President of Japan Telecom, the third largest telecom company in Japan. Earlier in his career, he held several strategy and operations positions with Vodafone in the U.S. and Europe and several international leadership positions with AirTouch.

He began his career at Pacific Bell, where he held several technology and engineering positions, including responsibility for company-wide operations of packet data products.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- René Obermann, Deutsche Telekom
March 24, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

René Obermann,
Chief Executive Officer
Deutsche Telekom AG

René Obermann, born in March 1963 in Düsseldorf, Germany, has been Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Telekom since November 2006.

He joined the Group in 1998 as the Managing Director Sales for T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH. In April 2000, he became Chief Executive Officer of T-Mobile Deutschland. Internationally, he assumed responsibility for the European business of T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG one year later as the Board Member for European Operations and Group Synergies.

From the end of 2002 to December 2006, he was CEO of T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG and the Deutsche Telekom Board Member for Mobile Communications. In this period, T-Mobile continued its growth course as one of the leading mobile operators in the world with more than 100 million customers, successfully introducing the T-Mobile brand in eleven countries.

René Obermann’s career began with a business traineeship at BMW in Munich. Following that, he set up his own business ABC Telekom in Münster in 1986. He became Managing Partner of Hutchison Mobilfunk GmbH, the successor of ABC Telekom, in 1991. From 1994 to 1998, Obermann was Chairman of the company’s Management Board.

René Obermann has been a presidium member of the German industry association BITKOM since March 2007. In the 1990’s, he was Chairman of the former German Association of Mobile Communication Service Providers for two years.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- Padmasree Warrior, Cisco Systems
March 24, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

Padmasree Warrior,
Chief Technology Officer
Cisco Systems

Padmasree Warrior is Cisco Systems' Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company's technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco's corporate goals. As an evangelist for what's possible, she pushes the organization to stretch beyond its current capabilities – not just in technology, but also in its strategic partnerships and new business models.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- Biz Stone, Twitter
March 25, 2010, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

Biz Stone,
Co-founder
Twitter, Inc.

Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter, one of the fastest growing social networking sites today. The service provides a real-time, one-to-many network that is changing the way people communicate.

Prior to founding Twitter, Stone helped build other popular social media services Xanga, Blogger, and Odeo. After launching Xanga in 2000, he published two books about the origins and social significance of blogging: Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content and Who Let the Blogs Out?: A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs.

In 2003, Google invited Stone to join a recently acquired Blogger.com team at its Silicon Valley headquarters in a fulltime, senior role. While there, he helped re-launch the service and grow Blogger significantly worldwide.

Since leaving Google in 2005 to rejoin the startup world, Stone has served as an advisor to such startups as answer community Fluther.com, travel service Trazzler.com (which he co-founded), content encouragement service Plinky.com, and the non-profit organization Justgive.org, among others.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Stone teaches an annual masters class at Oxford's Saïd Business School. In the fall of 2008, he debated and won – along with esteemed teammates including Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn – at Oxford Union against the proposition, "The Problems of Tomorrow Are Bigger than the Entrepreneurs of Today."

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- James Cameron, Academy Award-winning Director
March 25, 2010, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

James Cameron,
Academy Award-winning Director

James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Canada, just north of Niagara Falls. Chafing at the strict discipline of his engineer father, Cameron became the master builder of his playmates, and enlisted his friends in elaborate construction projects, building go-carts, boats, rockets, catapults and miniature submersibles. His artist mother encouraged him to draw and paint. She helped arrange an exhibition of his work in a local gallery when he was still in his teens. Inspired by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, he began to experiment with 16 mm film, photographing model space ships he had built.

The Cameron family moved to Fullerton, California when he was 17 and Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College. Uncertain of his direction in life, torn between art and science, he dropped out of college, married and a waitress and drove a truck for the local school district. After the film Star Wars reawakened his love of filmmaking, he quit his job and followed his own course of study in the library of the University of Southern California, reading up on the technology of special effects, optical printing, front and rear projection. He spent his meager savings on photographic equipment, building his own dolly track and experimenting with beam splitters in the living room of his small suburban house.

His wife and friends doubted his sanity, but he borrowed money from friends to make a short film he showed to low-budget maestro Roger Corman. Corman gave Cameron a chance to work as a model builder and production designer on his horror films. "Three weeks after I started I had my own department," Cameron told Premiere magazine. "I was hiring people, and everybody else that worked there just hated me."

After two years with Corman, Cameron got his first crack at directing, but it almost turned into his last. The producer of Piranha II: The Spawning fired him unceremoniously, claiming the footage Cameron had shot was unusable. Cameron followed the producer from Jamaica to Rome, let himself into the editing bay after it was closed, and recut sections of the film himself.

While in Rome he conceived the film that was to make his reputation, The Terminator. The script found takers at the major studios, but Cameron insisted on directing it himself, a deal-killer. He finally sold the rights to producer Gale Anne Hurd for one dollar, on condition that he direct it himself. Cameron's unbridled enthusiasm won over Hemdale Films head John Daly and star Arnold Schwarzenegger. While waiting for Schwarzenegger to become available, Cameron wrote screenplays for Rambo: First Blood Part II and Aliens.

With the international success of the Terminator, Cameron won the director's chair for Aliens and went on to direct The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and True Lies. Typecast as a director of high-testosterone action films, Cameron raised eyebrows by proposing Titanic as an intimate love story, albeit one with mind-boggling special effects. As production of the film ran months over schedule and millions of dollars over budget, industry pundits predicted an ignominious disaster. Cameron proved them wrong when Titanic broke box office records all over the world and swept the Academy Awards, winning an unprecedented 11 Oscars, including statuettes for Cameron as Best Director, and for the film as Best Picture.

Cameron's reputation as a driven perfectionist has become part of Hollywood legend, but he takes it in stride as he calmly plans his next film. At the end of 2009, he unveiled his most ambitious project of all: Avatar, a science fiction epic, four years in the making. Based on a script Cameron first wrote in 1994, Avatar is the first big budget action film to be shot in 3D, using revolutionary camera technology Cameron developed himself. The revolutionary film earned over $1 billion in its first three weekends. Released simultaneously in IMAX as well as 3D and conventional widescreen and formats, it is already the highest-grossing IMAX film ever. Within a few weeks of its release, Avatar's box office receipts should exceed those of every other film ever made, with one exception -- Cameron's Titanic, still the all-time box office champion. Whatever future surprises James Cameron has up his sleeve, he has already made motion picture history and touched the lives of millions.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Speaker -- Aneesh Chopra, CTO of the United States
March 25, 2010, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

Aneesh Chopra,
Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer
United States

Aneesh Chopra is the Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He works to advance the President’s technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland.

Chopra was sworn in on May 22nd, 2009. Prior to his appointment, he served as the fourth Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2006 until April 2009. Prior to his appointment by then-Governor Timothy M. Kaine, he served as Managing Director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly-traded healthcare think tank. Chopra was named to Government Technology magazine’s Top 25 in their Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers issue in 2008. Aneesh Chopra received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and his M.P.P. from Harvard’s Kennedy School. He and his wife Rohini have two young children.

Back to the main Keynotes page

---

Keynote Roundtable Moderator -- Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNBC
March 25, 2010, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center

Michelle Caruso-Cabrera,
Anchor and Reporter
CNBC

Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is an anchor and reporter for the network’s Business Day programming and can be seen on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” (M-F, 12 p.m. – 2p.m. ET).

Previously, Caruso-Cabrera was co-anchor of "Worldwide Exchange" (M-F, 4 a.m. - 6 a.m. ET), CNBC’s first global daily business news program utilizing the resources of CNBC, CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia. She was also the co-anchor of the second hour of CNBC’s "Morning Call" (M-F, 11am – 12 pm ET) and anchored CNBC’s "Wake Up Call" (M-F, 5 a.m. - 6 a.m. ET).

She reported for NBC News from Baghdad, covering the elections and its impact on Iraq's post-war economy and has also traveled to Cuba, Brazil and Venezuela to report on and produce groundbreaking stories about the economies of those countries. She has profiled Milton Friedman, Carlos Slim, Hugo Chavez, Ricardo Alarcon, Gustavo Cisneros, and Haim Saban, among many others.

Caruso-Cabrera joined CNBC in 1998 from WTSP-TV in St. Petersburg, Fl., where she spent four years as a general assignment reporter. Prior to joining WTSP-TV, she was a special projects producer for Univision, where she won an Emmy Award for a five-part series on children with AIDS, as well as an Emmy nomination for a report on sexual abuse by clergymen. At Univision, she gained extensive experience covering Latin America. She began her career in 1991 as a stringer for The New York Times, reporting on education issues.

Caruso-Cabrera has also been awarded Broadcaster of the Year from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and was named one of the "100 Most Influential Hispanics" in the country by Hispanic Business Magazine. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Wellesley College.

Back to the main Keynotes page