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Guide to Telecom 99
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September 28, 1999: 1:28 p.m. ET
A glimpse of the players and purpose of the telecom industry's biggest meeting
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NEW YORK (CNNfn) - For those who use, invest in or own a business dependent on telecommunications, upcoming developments in the industry will have a substantive effect. Those developments are the focus of the upcoming conference Telecom 99.
Following is a quick rundown on that gathering:
When: Oct. 10-17, 1999
Where: Geneva, Switzerland
What: The biggest telecom exhibition and forum worldwide -- expected to draw at least 180,000 visitors and more than 1,100 exhibitors.
Why: Technological convergence and cross-border mergers are drastically changing how the world communicates and does business. Those changes are creating ever greater demand for speed, efficiency, mobility and reduced costs, not to mention a flurry of regulatory questions and new investment opportunities.
At Telecom '99, the leaders and visionaries in the telecommunications and Internet arenas will map out developments in their industries and, together with policy-makers and regulators, discuss key technological and strategic issues facing them in the new millennium.
Who: Everybody who's anybody in the computer and telecom worlds. Speakers will include the chairmen and CEOs of every leading tech titan from AT&T to Sun and high-ranking government ministers from across the globe. Among them:
C. Michael Armstrong, AT&T (T)
John Chambers, Cisco (CSCO)
Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom (DT)
Michel Bon, France Telecom (FTE)
Tadashi Sekizawa, Fujitsu
Louis Gerstner Jr., IBM (IBM)
Richard McGinn, Lucent (LU)
Bert Roberts, MCI Worldcom (WCOM)
Bill Gates, Microsoft (MSFT)
Christopher Galvin, Motorola (MOT)
Jorma Ollila, Nokia (NOK)
John Roth, Nortel Networks (NT)
Jun-ichiro Miyazu, NTT (NTT)
Lawrence Ellison, Oracle (ORCL)
Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) 
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