Forthcoming Events…

Event: European ASP Summit
Date: 5th – 8th March 2002
Location: Thistle Tower, London
URL: www.asp-summit.com
 
Now in its 4th year, IIR's ASP & Business Web Services European Summit promises to break new records for unrivalled quality of information delivery, objective analysis and unparalleled networking opportunities. This year's conference has been completely re-researched and structured to address the essential role of Business Web Services in the success of the ASP business model and the convergence of telecoms and computing.

Event: Wireless Untangled
Date: 6th March 2002
Location: Burson-Marsteller UK, Waterloo Rd, London
URL: www.burson-marsteller.com

A wireless communications seminar hosted by 3i, one of the world’s largest venture capital companies. This seminar is to launch a white paper on the mobile sector: Wireless Untangled: How to survive and thrive in today's turbulent telecomms market, which is based on a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in conjunction with leading a number of the leading international entrepreneurs at the cutting edge of wireless technology innovation and development. (Sourcewire).

Event: Ecademy Event with Pierre Danon
Date: 7th March 2002
Location: The Media Club, 131 - 151 Great Titchfield Street, London
URL: www.ecademy.com

March 7th sees the highest profile speaker ever to address the Ecademy membership since its inception in 1998. Pierre Danon is CEO of BT Retail a $20bn business providing services to Consumers, SMEs and Corporates. Pierre is a formidable speaker and the man driving Broadband and Web Services into our daily lives.

Event: e-Learning for Financial Services
Date: 12th – 13th March 2002
Location: London
URL: www.elearning-conferences.com
 
Commitment to accessible, quality learning is crucial within a geographically-dispersed organisation. The finance sector is particularly ripe for e-learning with customer-facing employees, changing products and regulations. However, understanding the wider context of learning within multi-cultural companies is essential to ensure employee growth and business renewal.

Event: Developing and Benchmarking your Corporate Intranet
Date: 13th – 14th March 2002
Location: Hilton, Kensington, London
URL: www.kmmagazine.com
This Intranet focused, hands-on benchmarking course will enable you to share in the cutting-edge experience of our industry experts. It is designed to be a highly practical and solution-focused course aimed at enabling executives across all industries and professions to develop and establish an effective corporate intranet. The course opens with an introductory workshop facilitated by Ian Parker and Chris Barnett of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young followed by visits to the following intranet sites: Interbrew, Cable & Wireless and Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions. These tours will compare, discuss and demonstrate the central concepts of developing your intranet, identifying your target audiences and how to measure progress and manage continuous improvement.

Event: GSM/GPRS Performance Management
Date: 19th – 22nd March 2002
Location: Marriott, Lisbon
URL: www.iir-conferences.com
 
With the advent of next generation services it is increasingly critical for you to have a clear and accurate picture of how your network is performing. Foremost in operators' minds is how to optimise and maintain growing networks whilst driving down costs, improving QoS and rolling out the next generation of communication products to attract and retain more customers in an increasingly competitive market. Maximising the visibility of network performance is essential to achieving this. This conference will give you the opportunity to explore, compare and contrast your colleagues' and competitors' measurement strategies and methodologies.

Event: 3G 2002
Date: 20th – 23rd March 2002
Location: Hilton, Amsterdam
URL: www.iir-conferences.com
 
3G2002 will evaluate the key challenges in rolling out 3G Networks and exploiting revenue opportunities from 3G services. This forum will bring together all the leading players in the third generation value chain/web to enable delegates to optimise technical and commercial strategies for overcoming these obstacles and achieving return on investment.
Now in its sixth year, this event will include detailed analysis of technical migration strategies, infrastructure deployment, network planning and optimisation, and network sharing. 3G2002 will also examine the critical success factors and business case for 3G in the current market and will identify revenue generating services and applications.