TelcoTV Conference & Expo Announces New Vision Awards Program
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Awards recognizing innovation in video and entertainment convergence will be
granted to the most compelling new products, applications, or services
TelcoTV, the premier meeting place for the massive convergence of the entertainment and communications
markets, today announces a new awards program for TelcoTV 2008. The TelcoTV Vision Awards will honor
innovation in video and entertainment convergence. Awards will be granted to the most compelling new products,
applications, or services in each of the seven designated categories: Broadband Access Network, Conditional
Access, Customer Premises Equipment, Middleware, Encoding, and two awards for Service Provider Innovation.
An eighth award, Best in Show, will be bestowed upon the most innovative, most interesting technology on
display at TelcoTV.
To be eligible, the product or service being nominated must have been unveiled or commercially deployed no
earlier than last year's TelcoTV event
(held October 23-25, 2007). Winners will be announced at TelcoTV 2008,
November 11-13, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Orange County, California. The nomination deadline is
Submissions will be judged by a panel of industry experts, including
Bernadine Arnason, Chairman, TelcoTV; Steve Fravel, Video Services Manager, NTCA; Keith Galitz, President,
Canby Telcom; Aditya Kishore, Senior Analyst,
Heavy Reading; Sam Masud, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading; Kevin McGuire, Vice
President, Business & Technology, NTCA; and David Osborn, General Manager, Valley Telephone Cooperative.
"TelcoTV Conference & Expo, has long been recognized as a leader in the telecom marketplace, providing
exceptional education and opportunities for collaboration across the entertainment and telecommunication
industries. With
the TelcoTV Vision Awards, we are now celebrating the achievements of the vendors and service providers who
help make our show such a success and
advance the telco video industry as a whole," says Joseph Braue, Group
Director of TechWeb's Light Reading division, which co-produces the show with
the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association, a group of almost 600
service providers, more than half of which offer TV and/or IPTV services.
The TelcoTV Conference & Expo includes the largest TV and IPTV focused exhibit floor in the United States,
with more than 130 vendors already
committed, as well as a three-day conference program that is focusing on IPTV,
TV, Internet video, mobile video, advertising, and successful content
About Light Reading
Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the ultimate source for technology and financial
analysis of the communications industry,
leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. It reaches an extensive audience of
executives and technologists within the telecom and enterprise networking communities, as well as the
financial/industry analysts and investors who track these sectors. Light
Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005, and operates as
a unit of TechWeb.
About TechWeb
media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers
worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected
and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than
13.3 million business technology professionals actively engage in our
communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; online
resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light
Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and
the market leading, award-winning
InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also
provides end-to-end services ranging from next-
generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of
United Business Media, a global provider of
news distribution and specialist information services with a market
capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.
About NTCA
The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association is the premier association representing more than
580 locally owned and managed
telecommunications cooperatives and commercial companies throughout rural and
small-town America. NTCA provides its members with legislative, regulatory, and industry representation;
meetings; publications and educational programs;
and an array of employee benefit programs. Visit us at www.ntca.org.
CONTACT:
Tony Fisch
President, Tony Fisch Consulting
(323)461-7878
tony@fischconsulting.com
SOURCE TechWeb
CONTACT: Tony Fisch, President, Tony Fisch Consulting, +1-323-461-7878, tony@fischconsulting.com
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