Industry Leaders Gathering at the COMET Executive Summit to Address Technology Trends and Critical Challenges

Pipeline today announced that key executives from the world’s leading technology companies are gathering at the COMET Executive Summit in San Diego, California on November 5-7, 2014 at the US Grant to discuss the latest technical trends and critical challenges pertaining to communications and entertainment technology (COMET).

The range of topics to be covered includes immediate, pressing issues surrounding the use and application of Big Data, business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics; data and network security; network virtualization; customer experience management (CEM); agile and elastic architectures for delivering the next generation of COMET services, applications, and commerce; and more. The event will feature presentation and in-depth interactive sessions with many industry thought leaders, including feature presentations from:

• Soren Telfer
  Director
  Foundry Innovation Labs
  AT&T
• Jason Cook
  Chief Technology Officer
  BT Global
• Kevin O’Brien
  Vice President
  Application Development and Enterprise Technology
  Comcast
• Dale Drew
  Chief Security Officer
  Level 3 Communications
• Stephen Scarlett
  Head of Technology
  Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-defined Networking (SDN)
  Nokia
• Carl Moberg
  Technology Director
  Tail-f (Cisco)
• Kevin Thompson
  Risk and Intelligence, Security RISK team
  Verizon

The event has been specifically designed to bring together key industry stakeholders with those that develop and use COMET solutions in a deeply interactive format to better understand and address these issues and challenges. It has also been uniquely tailored to allow participants to forge peer-to-peer relationships that can be leveraged before, during, and after the event. Participants include operators such AT&T, British Telecom, Comcast, Level 3 and Verizon; and innovative technology developers such as Tail-f (now a part of Cisco), Amdocs, GENBAND, Nokia, and TIERONE. They will be joined by principal industry analyst from ICT Intuition and New Paradigms Research Group and journalists from Pipeline.

The event is open to network operators, providers of communication and entertainment services, technology developers, and technology companies who are faced with or helping to address these key technical trends and challenges.

For more information contact cometevent@pipelinepub.com or to view the full agenda visit: http://www.pipelinepub.com/info/comet/2014_comet_summit.php

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