Arlington, Va. – Sun Microsystems Chairman and Co-Founder Scott McNealy will discuss the future of the communications industry during a keynote address at NXTcomm08 slated for Wednesday, June 18 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the industry exhibition and conference entity announced today. NXTcomm, the one event delivering the ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data, comes to the Las Vegas Convention Center June 16-19 and will co-locate with InfoComm08, the leading audiovisual business-to-business marketplace. For more information, go to www.NXTcommShow.com.
“Sun Microsystems is a giant in the world of communications,” NXTcomm Executive Director Wayne Crawford said. “Its open source technologies and network computing platforms facilitate productivity for leading companies in several sectors, including financial services, entertainment and healthcare, to name just a few. Given that NXTcomm08 is the one event delivering the ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data for our industry, it is especially fitting to have the chairman and co-founder of a company such as Sun Microsystems, a company whose vision is `The network is the computer’, grace our stage. We’re honored to have Scott McNealy provide a keynote at our `08 show and share his thoughts on the future of our industry.”
In addition to McNealy, NXTcomm08 will feature keynotes by Survivor Producer Mark Burnett, AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall L. Stephenson, Verizon Chief Operating Officer Denny Strigl and Sprint Nextel President and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Hesse. More NXTcomm08 Keynotes will be announced shortly.
NXTcomm08 is expected to draw 20,000 communications professionals from more than 100 countries and U.S. territories. NXTcomm08 will feature more than 500 exhibitors occupying 200,000 net square feet of exhibit space as well as 100 keynote addresses, sessions and conference events and coverage by over 450 press and analysts.
About NXTcomm: NXTcomm was created in 2006 by its co-owners, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom), to serve as the one communications industry event delivering the ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data. NXTcomm08 will occupy the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center from June 16-19. For more information, go to www.NXTcommShow.com
About InfoComm: Infocomm is the business-to-business marketplace for display, projection, audio, conferencing, lighting and staging, digital signage, Internet streaming and networked presentation and communications systems. InfoComm 2008 will come to the Las Vegas Convention Center from June 14-20 and occupy the North and Central Halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center. For more information, go to www.infocomm.org/events.
