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Joint ITU - AICTO Workshop on "Interoperability of IPTV in the Arab region" hosted by Du |
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 20-21(AM) September 2011 |
Contact: tsbworkshops@itu.int |
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Biographies |
Mr. Jawad J. Abbassi, Founder and General Manager of Arab Advisors Group, Jordan
Mr. Abbassi's career experience spans 17
years. Mr. Abbassi founded the Arab
Advisors Group in 2001. As General
Manager of Arab Advisors Group, Mr.
Abbassi directs the research and
consulting activities of the company in
addition to steering its marketing
operations. Mr. Abbassi is also a
frequent guest speaker at conferences
and seminars related to technology,
communications and media in the Arab
World.
On September 14, 2005, the Arab Jordan
Investment Bank (AJIB) and Arab Advisors
Group concluded an agreement by which
AJIB buys a 55% stake in Arab Advisors
Group. The cash transaction allowed AJIB
and the Arab Advisors Group to leverage
strategic synergies to enhance the
quality and scope of services of Arab
Advisors Group. Arab Advisors Group -a
private shareholding company registered
in Jordan- is currently owned by the
Arab Jordan Investment Bank (55%) and
Mr. Jawad Abbassi (45%).
Before founding Arab Advisors Group, Mr.
Abbassi’s career experience includes
working as a senior telecommunications
and technology consultant with the
Yankee Group in Boston - USA. Between
1998 and 2000, Mr. Abbassi was a Senior
Analyst with the communications research
arm of the Economist Intelligence Unit
in Boston. Before his work in Boston,
Mr. Abbassi worked as a corporate
accounts manager for Jordan’s leading
Internet service provider (NETS). With
NETS, Mr. Abbassi led and coordinated
the work needed to establish its first
international leased line with Cyprus.
Mr. Abbassi also worked for Apple
Computers dealership, in addition to
being a weekly columnist on Information
Technology in Jordan’s leading English
weekly.
Languages:
Mr. Abbassi is fluent in English in
addition to being a native speaker of
Arabic. Basic French.
Education:
- BSc in engineering from the American
University in Cairo (Egypt – 1993).
- Mr. Abbassi received an academic
scholarship to complete his MSc in
information systems from the London
School of Economics (United Kingdom -
1998).
- Harvard Business School executive
education in 2010
Memberships and affiliations:
Member of Jordan’s Engineers Association
Member of The Arab Business Forum for
Information and Communication Technology
ABFICT. Elected to the board in 2005.
Member of the steering committee for UN
ICT Task Force of the "Wireless Internet
and the Arab-World" series.
Vice Chairman of Jordan’s information
technology association (int@j) between
2006 and 2008. Elected to the board in
2004 and elected as Vice Chairman in
2006. |
 Mr. Rashid Al-Ahmedi, Director Fixed Access Network – Planning, du EITC, UAE
Mr. Rashid Al-Ahmedi is currently the
Director of Fixed Access Network
Planning of Du. He leaded multiple teams
within the Fixed Access Network
department and took responsibility of
big projects and initiatives.
Rashid have a wide background in
different fixed services and
technologies and he worked as the
technical lead in the Bitstream Service
negotiation between Du and Etisalat.
Education:
• Masters of Quality Management
September 2005 - February 2006,
University of Wollongong in Dubai
• Bachelor of Science in Information
Technology September 2000 - May 2005,
College Of IT, UAE University |
Mr. Saleem Al-Balooshi, Senior Vice President, Customer Operations, du EITC, UAE
Mr. Saleem Albalooshi is currently the
Senior Vice President of Customer
Operations of Du, a fast growing Telecom
Operator in the Region.
Saleem took the challenge of leading a
team that includes Contact Center
Operations - end to end Customer Touch
points in Customer Care, Customer
Services Management and Sales Back
Office.
He provides leadership that drives
continuous improvement and development
in critical operations. |
Mrs. Salha Amara
From 2006 to 2009
Senior Vice President of Inter Operator
Costs
• Management of one NExT transformation
program of Orange FT-Group
• The objective is to respect the
commitment to the investors
• Accountable for the right ratio of
inter operator costs to revenue at
corporate level and in close relation
ship with main countries
From 2004 to 2006
Deputy director for IP Network
• In charge of process to set up the
domestic IP network for Broad Band
services
• Reengineering of the process for
supplying and maintaining IP equipments
• New tools to improve the quality of
services for our customers
From 2001 to 2004
Head of the Employment management in Ile
de France area:
• Organisation of main activities.
• Recruitment of Telecom Talents.
• Mobility intra group forum
• Training program to develop and
transfer skills in the sales and IP
sectors
From 1996 to 2001
• Regional director of Val de Marne in
Ile de France
• Management of sales and network
activities for the area
• Internal and external change
management of local impact of France
Telecom privatisation
• New commercial type of agency
Before
• Various technical and financial
positions within France Telecom |
Mr. Miao Chuanyang, ZTE, China
Mr. Miao Chuanyang currently works at
ZTE Corporation, which is the No.1 IPTV
products vendor in China, for IPTV
standards development in Nanjing,
P.R.China. His major researching focuses
on the service and application in IPTV
system, as well as Terminal devices and
middleware. He has participated in IPTV
standards development in ITU-T IPTV-GSI
from 2008 and contributed in SG16 Q13 in
many topics, such as Terminal device,
Audience Measurement, etc. He received
his Master Degree from University
College Dublin in 2007. |
 Mr. Mohnnad El-Megharbel,
NTRA, Egypt
Mohannad El-Megharbel was appointed as
Standardization and Technical Issues
senior manager at the National Telecom
Regulatory Authority of Egypt on March
2011.
Born in 1980 in Portsaid, Egypt, Mr.
Mohannad graduated from the Engineering
faculty at Suez Canal University, and he
holds a diploma in VLSI from the ITI,
Egypt and an MSc. in communication from
the Nile University, Egypt.
Through his work in the NTRA Mr. El-Megharbel
managed to develop a strong experience
in the telecom regulatory field as well
as in the technology field.
Mr. El-Megharbel served in a different
regulatory discipline ranging from
licensing to interconnection to
competition. He participated in the
licensing for the closed compounds
access operator, towers infrastructure
operators and the second fixed operator.
Also he was a member in the committee
developing the new licensing regime that
is harmonized with the convergence era
in Egypt. His contributions in the
interconnection field is noticeable, he
developed the reference interconnection
offer of the Egyptian incumbent, Telecom
Egypt.
He has been chosen to be a member in
many different regulatory committees
that are responsible for issuing
regulatory policies for the Egyptian
market as the broadband wireless access
regulation (WiMAX) committee, Egyptian
telecom market competition guidelines
committee, fixed market liberalization
policy committee, and the Egyptian
telecom market competition guidelines
committee.
Mr. El-Megharbel is married with two
sons, and he is fluent in two official
ITU languages English and Arabic. |
Mrs. Sana Ghenima, CEO Sanabilmed, Tunisia
Eng. Sana GHENIMA is CEO of Sanabil MED
a company specialized in electronic
publishing and edutainment digital
development. Her long experience in the
field of ICT, conferred her an overall
view of the content market needs.
Commitments in the structures of civil
society to build the information and
knowledge society, gave her rich and
varied experience in the Western world
as well as an Arab. In Tunisia, North
Africa and more broadly, Sanabil MED is
a true leader in creating and adapting
content to different mutations or
technological advances. |
Mr. Mohamed Jemni, Head of ICT laboratory research, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Mohamed JEMNI is a Professor of ICT and
Educational Technologies at the
University of Tunis, Tunisia. He is the
Head of the Laboratory Research of
Technologies of Information and
Communication (UTIC) of the University
of Tunis (www.utic.rnu.tn) . Since
August 2008, he is the General chair of
the Computing Center El Khawarizmi, the
Internet services provider for the
sector of higher education and
scientific research in Tunisia. His
Research Projects Involvement are tools
and environments of e-learning and
Accessibility of ICT to People with
Disabilities. He is currently conducting
two main projects in his laboratory:
• Improving accessibility of deaf
community by the use of ICT and sign
language.
• Development of an e-learning
environment for students with visual
disabilities.
He published more than 150 papers in
international journals and conferences
and realized many studies for
international organizations such as
UNESCO, ITU and ALECSO. |
Mr. Hiroshi Kawamura, President of the DAISY Consortium
Hiroshi Kawamura is the President of the
DAISY Consortium
(http://www.daisy.org/). As a librarian
of the University of Tokyo Library
serving students with disabilities,
Kawamura chaired the Standing Committee
of the Section of Libraries for the
Blind/International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions
(IFLA) from 1990 through 1995.
Kawamura contributed to the World Summit
on the Information Society 2003-2005 as
the Disability Caucus Focal Point and
coordinated the Global Forum on
Disability in the Information Society in
Geneva and Tunis, which was followed by
the international conferences on
knowledge based Disaster Risk Reduction
(DRR) for persons with disabilities in
Phuket 2007 and 2009.
As a researcher, he has been conducting
on site disaster preparedness project in
Urakawa, Japan, to study requirements
for accessible ICT since 2003.
His international collaboration network
includes persons with print disabilities
such as physical, cognitive,
intellectual or psycho-social
disabilities. As the manager of the
DAISY for All Project funded by the
Nippon Foundation, he supported DAISY
focal points in many developing
countries.
Kawamura has been actively involved in
copyright issues faced by persons with
disabilities in both domestic and
international arena. |
Mr. Peter Looms,
Chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group on
Audiovisual Media Accessibility
Peter Olaf Looms is Danish. He was born
and educated in the UK and holds degrees
from the University of Cambridge.
He has worked for more than 30 years on
policy and strategy in broadcasting.
Since 2006 this has included television
accessibility to so that as many persons
as possible can use and enjoy
television. He was instrumental in
setting up the DTV4ALL consortium that
assisted the European Commission in
promoting e-inclusion and television
across Europe. He is currently chairman
of the ITU-T Focus Group on Audiovisual
Accessibility that aims to produce a
roadmap for digital media accessibility
actions including IPTV by the end of
2012.
Looms retired from DR, the Danish
Broadcasting Corporation in April 2011
and continues to work internationally as
a consultant on media accessibility and
as an external professor at universities
in Europe and Asia.
Peter also holds part-time posts as
- Visiting associate professor at the
University of Hong Kong ECOM/ICOM
Masters programme (DAM, Digital Assets,
Convergence and Digital Entertainment)
- Programme Director (Masters in IT -
interactive design and multimedia) and
- External Associate Professor at the
Danish Technical University (Innovation
& Digital Media; Business Models for
Digital Media; Agile Project Management) |
Yushi Naito,
Chairman, ITU-T Study Group
16, (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
Yushi Naito was appointed to ITU-T SG16 Chairman at the WTSA-08 meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2008.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation since April 2006.
He joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in 1975, starting his carrier in the development of Satellite Communication Systems and extended his carrer in research and development of Speech Coding and Network Signal Processing.
Now He is a Senior Technical Adviser at the Information Technology R & D Center of
Mitsubishi Electric。
He started ITU-T activities in 1990 in SG15, and has also been collaborating with SG9, SG 11, SG12 and SG13. He first became the Rapporteur of SG15 in 1992, Working Party Chairman of SG15 in 2000. Together with the whole WP, he moved to SG16 and became a Vice-Chairman/WP1 Chairman in 2005.
He has also been actively participated in Focus Group activities in ITU-T on IPTV , From/In/To/Car Communication (FG-FITCAR) and FG-FITCAR II and FG-CarCOM.
From October 2008, he is in current position.
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Mr. Slim Saidi, International Telecommunications expert, Dubai, UAE
Dr. Slim Saïdi is a recognized
International Telecommunications
Expert., He has held senior executive
positions in Major Operators and
Consulting firms in UAE, KSA, Tunisia,
Mali, Cameroon such as ZAIN , Tunisie
Telecom and KPMG, Arthur D. Little and
(Arthur) Andersen . He has amongst other
lead the marketing team of ZAIN for an
exceptional launch in Saudi Arabia
achieving a landmark 2 million
subscribers in the first 4 months of its
operation.
He carries an extensive experience in
the African and Middle Eastern
telecommunications sector. He has had
multiple assignments in Tunisia,
Algeria, Cameroon, Mali, Chad,
Mauritania, Yemen and other African and
Middle Eastern countries.
Dr. saidi has been advising many CEO’s
and government officials in the region
on strategic matters: privatization,
liberalization, turnaround strategies,
marketing and licensing. He is also a
frequent speaker in Telecom and ICT
conferences and Leadership retreats.
He holds a Ph.D from Ecole Polytechnique
of Montreal, a Principal Engineer Degree
from National Engineering School of
Tunisia and DSA from HEC Business School
of Montreal. |
Mr. Hideki Yamamoto, OKI Electric, Japan
Hideki Yamamoto is the senior manager of
video streaming products of Oki Electric
Industry Co., Ltd. The product, called
OKI MediaServer(*1), is popular as
IPTV(*2) platform based on ITU-T(*3)
H.721(*4) in the world. He received a
doctor of engineering from Tokyo
University in 1995. He aquired an
innovation award from Japan Institute of
Invention and Innovation in 2000. He is
one of editors of the ITU-T
recommendation of IPTV application event
handling (H.740), IPTV audience
measurement (draft), digital signage
system framework (draft), and so on. He
is a vice chairman of both ASTAP(*5)
Working Group on IT Application & User
related Issues, and ASTAP Expert Group
on Next Generation Web.
(*1) http://www.oki.com/en/streaming/
(*2) Internet Protocol Television
(*3) International Telecommunication
Union, Telecommunication
standardization sector
(http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/)
(*4) ITU-T Recommendation H.721 IPTV
terminal devices: Basic model
(*5) Asia-Pacific telecomumunity
standardization program
(http://www.apt.int/APTASTAP) |
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