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The 2006 Storage Visions Conference
January 6-7, Las Vegas Convention Center,
Las Vegas, USA
www.storagevisions.com
Looking at digital storage and its role in content
creation and delivery.
The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
January 5-8, 2006, Las Vegas Convention
Center, Las Vegas, USA
www.cesweb.org
A showground for consumer technologies including
television, home networking and home theatre. This year’s event
will highlight emerging technologies and will also feature consumer-side
HDTV heavily.
NATPE 2006 Conference & Exhibition
January 24-26, Mandalay Bay Resort, Las
Vegas, USA
www.natpe.org/conference
This conference provides the US market with an
international perspective on the television industry and will be
looking at mobile television and entertainment, new advertising models,
the future of free over-the-air television and future revenue opportunities
for cable, among other things. NATPE is the National Association
of Television Program Executives
TVoDSL
January 24-27, 2006, Paris, France
www.upperside.fr
Home network, middleware, access networks, compression
tools: all the TVoDSL technical issues will be addressed in detail
by the major manufacturing, economic and regulatory players in this
promising new market at the TVoDSL conference. Above all, France
Telecom, Telenor, Video Networks and other new major players in this
field will provide feedback on trials and real services.
ECCA Congress '06
The Annual Congress of the European Cable Communications
Association (ECCA)
27 February - 1 March 2006
Hilton Vienna, Austria
http://www.eccacongress.com/?src=csi
The 2006 ECCA Congress will provide delegates with an unrivalled opportunity to hear from the top cable company representatives in Europe along with some of the most influential people in the businesses of content, telecommunications and broadband internet.
Representatives from the European Commission, Parliament as well as national regulators and International press will also be attending the congress.
Recognised as the most important event
in the calendar for all the major players in the cable industry,
the ECCA Congress is the largest dedicated Cable event in Europe
for senior executives, attracting an international audience of over
550 participants lst year.
http://www.eccacongress.com/?src=csi
Video Forum 2006
February 7-9, Earls Court 2, London,
UK
www.videoforum.co.uk
Videoforum, in its 11th year, focuses on technology
for production, broadcast, post and new media.
Imagina 2006
February 1-3, Grimaldi Forum, Monte-Carlo
www.imagina.mc
The 23rd European digital content creation trade
show. Includes interactive TV, broadband and digital cinema.
CSTB 2006
February 6-9, Sokolniki Exhibition Centre,
Moscow, Russia
www.cstb.ru
MIDEXPO exhibition company, Cable TV Association
of Russia and IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) are running
the seventh CSTB conference, offering in-depth coverage of cable
and satellite, broadband and broadcasting issues.
BES Expo 2006
February 09-11, The Taj Palace Hotel,
New Delhi, India
www.besindia.com/expo2006
The Broadcast Engineering Society in India (BES)
has ambitions to grow this broadcast equipment show. This is the
society’s 12th gathering and covers direct-to-home satellite,
digital terrestrial TV, cable and broadband sectors. More information
is available via last year’s website (above).
Satellite 2006
February 6-9, The New Washington Convention
Center, Washington D.C.
www.satellite2006.com
High-level conference and exhibition for the satellite
industry.
21st Century Communications World Forum
March 27-30, Business Design Centre,
London, UK
www.iec.org/events
This conference and exhibition analyses the business
and technology requirements for making convergent IP communications
a reality on a carrier scale. Technical issues include how to transition
legacy infrastructure, plus interoperability. Organised by the International
Engineering Consortium (IEC).
IPTV World Forum
March 6-8, Olympia London
www.iptv-forum.com
Three day conference and exhibition focusing
on the business and technology of broadband TV. The conference programme
looks at the business case for IPTV, on-demand services and strategies,
technologies, deployments, case studies including Ireland and Hong
Kong, content security, the role of IPTV in existing digital TV strategies
and much more.
CABSAT 2006
March 7–9, Dubai International
Convention and Exhibition Centre, Dubai, UAE
www.cabsat.com
The 11th CABSAT exhibition takes place this year
in Dubai. The exhibition covers the entire spectrum of the electronic
media industry including cable, satellite, terrestrial and wireless,
video, audio, radio, production, management and delivery.
DVB World 2006 International Conference
March 1-3, Jurys Ballsbridge & Towers
Hotel, Dublin, Ireland
www.iab.ch
Latest update on technical, legal, commercial
and implementation aspects of DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting project)
with briefings from the DVB chairs. Large-screen displays, HDTV, DVB-S2
and broadcasting to mobiles are among the subjects this year.
FT New Media and Broadcasting Conference
March 6-7, The Dorchester Hotel, London
www.financialtimesconferences.com
This conference looks at the opportunities and
challenges presented by new media technologies including broadband
TV, mobile TV and personal media devices. It asks whether mass media
exists anymore and looks at how rights owners/broadcasters can try
to maintain control over their content.
PCTA Cable Convention 2006
March 29-30, 2006, World Trade Center,
Roxas Boulevard, Philippines
www.pcta.org.ph
The Philippines Cable Telecommunications Association
attracts cable TV operators to this event and vendors can exhibit.
CCBN 2006
March 21-23, Beijing, China
www.ccbn.tv
With the Olympic Games coming to Beijing in 2008,
this show will take on increased significance over the next few years.
The Digital Olympics Hall, sponsored by the Science and Technology
Commission of the Games, is the highlight of this year’s show,
in the organisers’ opinion. This event is already on the scale
of IBC and NAB and covers global broadcasting and transmission network
infrastructure, with digitalisation and broadband among the key themes.
14th Convergence India 2006
March 21-23, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi,
India
www.convergenceindia.org
Described as India's largest annual communications
event, this show services diverse technology sectors including IT,
carriers and telcos, broadcast, cable, enterprise, multimedia and
Internet, and mobile. Organised by Exhibitions India.
No events as yet
Billing Systems 2006
June 5-9, Olympia, London, UK
www.iir-conferences.com
IIR's Billing Systems Conference and Exhibition
(the 13th) will cover ways to improve and optimise billing and financial
transaction processes.
