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Find out the answer to this and other major questions redefining the ICT industry at ITU Telecom World 2014, the key ICT conversation of the year. Join a host of top players drawn from across governments and industry to debate radical changes that are transforming the industry. Speakers include:

Leadership Summit

The Leadership Summit on the Future, exclusively for Leaders at ITU Telecom World 2014, is an exciting, interactive journey, exploring how the ICT industry and the world may look 5 years from now. Led by futurist Gerd Leonhard with a group of renowned futurists and thought-leaders, the Summit will tackle critical questions such as will we see augmented humans in the near future and will this require augmented regulation? Or who will govern, regulate and police a digital world of big data without borders? The Summit will engage and inspire through a mixture of:

• Keynotes from experts and top futurists
• Provocative interventions
• Live technology demonstrations
• Interactive panel debates

Speakers include:

• Yuri van Geest, Singularity University Ambassador Europe
• Rita McGrath,  Associate Professor of Management, Columbia Business School
• Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute and co-founder and chairman, Gapminder Foundation

Forum Programme

Through a variety of session formats, spanning panel sessions, keynotes and high-level debates, Big Conversations and sponsored sessions, the Forum will examine 3 major scenarios; disruption, cross-sector partnerships and the intelligent future. Discussions will explore key trends and developments in technology, regulatory and policy issues, business models, services and applications of each in sessions such as:

• A Regulator’s Nightmare: Tackling the gap between a regulator’s “toolkit” and fast-changing market opportunites
• Networks in the Cloud?: Prospects for deployment of mobile network functions in the cloud
• Broadband Rollout in Emerging Economies – What Comes Next?: How emerging economies can benefit most from broadband
• Big Data for Development: Applying big data management techniques to answering development related questions
• The IT-isation of Telecom Networks: Exploring the “softwarisation” of telecom networks, moving competition from hardware to software