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NXTcomm08 was held, June 16-19, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, where the event co-located with InfoComm, the leading B2B marketplace for audio, video, display and projection, lighting and staging, digital signage, collaborative conferencing and digital content creation. The co-location between NXTcomm and InfoComm showed the convergence between the worlds of audiovisual, IT, communications and entertainment technologies has occurred.

Keynote Lineup. Get Inspired.  

Each day of the show, NXTcomm08 deliverd a star-studded lineup of industry visionaries who share their insight into where communications is headed and how you can take advantage of the opportunities and changes along the way.  

Tuesday June 17, 2008 
The opening keynote of NXTcomm08 was given by  Randall Stephenson, Chairman, CEO and President, AT&T, where he said AT&T is "about to connect another billion-plus people to the network”. Stephenson also showed off the new white iPhone which will be available starting July 11, 2008. Tuesday continued with Sol Trujillo of Telstra. The opening keynote session wrapped up with the  ATIS TechThink Executive Panel: Transforming the Network, Transforming the Experience, which was lead by  Susan Miller, President and CEO, of ATIS. Panel members included Pieter Poll, CTO, Qwest Chris Rice, Executive Vice President for Shared Services, AT&T and Mark Wegleitner, Senior Vice President of Technology and Network Planning, Verizon.

 Wednesday June 18, 2008

Wednesday morning's keynote session began with Denny Strigl, President and COO of Verizon. Strigl said “The history of our industry is built with great inventions, but creating a great invention is one thing, putting innovation to work for people is another."
The next keynoter was Dan Hesse, President and CEO, Sprint Nextel, said that by the end of the year Baltimore, Chicago and Washington DC will experience Sprint's WiMAX market.  Hesse was followed by Scott McNealy, Chairman and Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems, who mentioned that all of Sun's software base is open source. Wednesday's keynote concluded with a Panel Discussion Broadband in the Local Loop which was lead by Andrew LaVallee, Technology Reporter Wall St. Journal. Dennis Hinkel, Vice President - Product Technology and Marketing, Cincinnati Bell Business Markets,  Randy Nicklas, Chief Technology Officer, XO Communications and Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO, TELUS Communications. 

Thursday June 19, 2008

The final keynotes of NXTcomm08 were given on Thursday morning. Thursday began with Richard R. Green, President & CEO, CableLabs, told the crowd that cable companies are prepared to deliver Internet access at minimum speeds of 160 Mb/s downstream and 120 Mb/s upstream, beginning as early as this year. Innovation within the telecommunications industry is at risk because of lower R&D spending, particularly at the component level, said Jagdeep Singh, President and CEO of Infinera, Thursday to the NXTcomm08 keynote audience. Next was a discussion, Mobile Entertainment Hits Its Inflection Point!, between Phil Asmundson, Vice Chairman & National Managing Partner – Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Deloitte LLP Jay Samit, CEO of Long Beach Studios. NXTcomm08's closing keynote was given by Mark Burnett, Hollywood Producer and Creator of Survivor and The Apprentice. Burnett shared his success story to the crowd. 

Education Sessions 

NXTcomm08 was where NXTcomm’s conference Partners -- ATIS, FierceMarkets, IEC and Broadband Wireless World; Summit Partners, Telephony and Yankee Group; and Special Interest Sessions by DiversityNXT, Wiley Rein and Stifel Nicolaus as well as NXTcomm’s Original Programming - presented more than 100 educational sessions.

NXTcomm, co-owned by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Associated (USTelecom, united the premier information and communications technology companies with the world's leading communications and entertainment companies that drive broadband-based innovation.

Name Change Announcement

On September 10, 2008, Event organizers today announced the return of the SUPERCOMM® brand with the launch of SUPERCOMM 2009, June 8-11, in Chicago. Reflecting a new industry, a new economy and a new world of communications, NXTcomm’s co-owners, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom), are bringing back the successful SUPERCOMM brand.

SUPERCOMM 2009
Conference: June 8 - 11, 2009
Exhibits: June 9 - 11, 2009
McCormick Place Convention Center