Video and Gaming: Just Entertainment… Or Serious Business? is one of the keynote sessions at PTC’11. It will be moderated by moderated by Lucy Hood (Executive Director, Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM), Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA).

Video and gaming industry includes the following and more: casinos, racing, video games, video conferencing, 3D video, IPTV, digital music, and virtual worlds such as SecondLife and Avaya Web.Live. Ask any teen-ager and most adults who use the Internet, what they enjoy doing the most? They are very likely to say, “Music, video, games, and/or gaming.”

The PTC conference panel of world-class experts from carriers, services, infrastructure and content companies looks at the expansion of this sector as a key revenue and data driver. Should video and gaming be considered “ancillary revenues,” or should consumer demand for data content be the main driver for building services? Recent strategic activities, research findings, and an engaged discussion will highlight these issues.

Our panelists will discuss their own company perspectives, as well as look across the ecosystem to offer strategic direction:
Helmut Angst, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Deutsche Telekom North America, USA; Erick Contag, COO, GlobeNet, USA; Justin McAleer, Director, Strategy and Business Development, TeliaSonera International Carrier, Sweden; and Mark Taylor VP, Product Delivery and Strategy, Content Markets, Level 3 Communications, USA.

January 18, 2011 in Honolulu, Hawaii, find out more about why video and gaming are the sleeper of the year in current success and potential for IP services (voice, data, virtual phone lines, SMS over IP and more). Sign up at

DIDX, another service provided by Super Technologies, Inc. and who many of its 18,000 wholesale members mash up IP communications services with video and/or gaming, and Techistan are media partners for PTC conference 2011.

Editorial Contributor: Rehan Allahwala