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Saturday, 24 October 2009

09:30   Registration and Coffee

09:45   Welcome: Konrad von Finckenstein, Chair, CRTC

10.05   Opening remarks: Chair of Day 1: Suzanne Lamarre, Commissioner, Quebec Region, CRTC

10:15  Session 1: The role of regulation – how much regulation enough? What other regulatory practices can fill the gaps?

Chris Chapman, Chairman, Australian Communications and Media Authority, AUSTRALIA
George Kumi-Brobbey, Director, Finance, National Communications Authority, GHANA
Moderator:  Louise Poirier, Commissioner, CRTC

11:30   Session 1 cont: Analogue regulation in a digital world?

Cordel Green, Executive Director, Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica, JAMAICA
Laszlo Toth, Director of Strategic Affairs, National Communications Authority, HUNGARY
Moderator: Tim Denton, Commissioner, CRTC

12:30   Lunch

14:00  Session 2: Regulating across multiple platforms

Andy Haire, Dy. Director-General ( Telecoms), Infocomm Development Authority, SINGAPORE
Michel Arpin, Vice Chair, Broadcasting, CRTC, CANADA
Moderator: Candice Molnar, Commissioner, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, CRTC

15:00   Break

15:15   Session 3: The openness of the net and regulating it

Chaucer Leung, Head of Regulatory Affairs Branch, OFTA, HONG KONG
Michael O'Keeffe, Chief Executive, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, IRELAND Moderator: Marc Patrone, Commissioner, CRTC

16:15   Closing remarks by the Chair of Day 1

16.30   Dinner kindly hosted by Charles Russell LLP and KPMG

Galerie Gora, 279 Sherbrooke West, Room # 205

Sunday, 25 October 2009

09:30   Opening remarks by the Chair of Day 2: Rita Cugini, Commissioner, Ontario Region, CRTC

09:45   Session 4: What is the regulators’ role in encouraging the new economic models for             ‘conventional broadcasting’?

Joan i Barata Mir, Secretary General, CAC, SPAIN
Dr. Kyung-Ja Lee, Vice Chairman, KCC, KOREA
Moderator: Michel Morin, Commissioner, CRTC

10:45   Break

11:00   Session 5: Spectrum issues

Associate Prof Sudharma Yoonaidharma, Commissioner, National Telecommunications Authority, THAILAND
Prof. Fulvio Ananasso, Director of Studies, Research & Education, AGCOM, ITALY
Moderator: Elizabeth Duncan, Commissioner, Atlantic Region and Nunavut, CRTC

12:00   Lunch

13:30   Session 6: The development of markets - consolidation or diversification?

Stephen Bereaux, Senior Manager Legal and Regulatory Affairs/ Corporate Secretary, TATT, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Johan Keetelaar,  Deputy Director Markets, Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority (OPTA), THE NETHERLANDS
Moderator: Peter Menzies, Commissioner, Alberta and Northwest Territories, CRTC

14:30   Summary by the Chair of Day 2

Closing Remarks: TBD