Ericsson Business Innovation Forum 2009: June 23-24, Stockholm

Among the topics to be addressed, with presentations and demonstrations from Ericsson and other industry-leading representatives, are:

• How can cities and nations boost economic growth and benefit the environment by stimulating the telecom market and IT development?
• High-growth markets drive innovation in the Western world. What are the latest trends from Africa and Asia, and how do innovations there spread to the rest of the world?
• What are the latest trends in telecom and how does Ericsson work with innovation in Silicon Valley, China and Sweden to maintain its leading position?
• What are the most important consumer trends and what services and applications will we see in the years leading up to 2020?
• Cross-industry cooperation brings new services and business models. What new services will we see as for example the telecom, internet and media industries converge?

(listed below in the order they will appear in the program)

• Håkan Eriksson (pdf), Ericsson, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
• Dr Jeffrey Cole (pdf), Director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg School, Director of the World Internet Project
• Martin Körling (pdf), Ericsson, Director Service Layer Technology
• Mikael Bäckström (pdf), Ericsson, President of Nordic and Baltic's
• Sebastian Cederschiöld (pdf), STOKAB, Chairman of the board (the City of Stockholm's broadband company)
• Khoong Hock Yun (pdf), IDA Singapore, Assistant Chief Executive within Infrastructure & Services Development
• Jan Häglund (pdf), Ericsson, Deputy Head of Product Area IP & Broadband Networks
• Håkan Djuphammar (pdf), Ericsson, Vice President Systems Architecture
• Michael O'Hara (pdf), GSMA, Chief Marketing Officer
• Lars-Åke Norling (pdf), President, Telenor Sweden
• Stefan Hedelius and Sanjay Kaul (pdf), Ericsson, Head of Strategy, Business Unit Multimedia and VP Multimedia and Head of Innovation Centers South Africa
• Per Nordlöf, Ericsson, Director Strategy and Business Planning, Business Unit Networks
• Franck Bouetard, Ericsson, Vice President and Head of Consulting and Systems Integration
• Jan Uddenfeldt, Ericsson, Senior VP and Senior Technology Advisor to the CEO
• John Woodget, Intel, Global Director Telecom Sector
• Casey Harwood, CNN International, Senior Vice President of Turner Broadcasting Europe
• Leif Björklund, Ericsson, Head of IPTV solutions
• Yun Chao Hu, Chairman of the Open IPTV Forum

The Ericsson Business Innovation Forum will take place during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Stockholm, the last stop before the finish in Russia. The Volvo Ocean Race is the world's toughest around-the-globe sailing competition, and the teams will have sailed close to 37,000 nautical miles before they enter Stockholm harbor. For those interested in the event, there will be opportunities to watch the world's fastest VO 70 sailing yachts in the pro-am race on June 22 and at the start of the last leg towards St Petersburg on June 25.

On June 22 and 23, we will have evening social events for media representatives attending the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum.

For more information, or registration for the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum, please contact Ericsson Corporate Public & Media Relations at press.relations@ericsson.com or call +46 (0)10 7196992.