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The GVF hosted 3rd Annual West Africa Satellite Communications Summit (WASCS3) has now been confirmed for 20-21 November 2007 and will take place at The Protea Hotel Oakwood Park in Lagos, Nigeria. Following on from the success of the first two events in this annual series, WASCS3 will again be organised by UK-EMP, and will focus-in on the latest developments in the evolutionary deployment of satellite broadband networking to serve the leading commercial and enterprise verticals of the region.
As a surge of new satellite capacity stimulates market growth on the continent as a whole – particularly after the successful launch of the Nigerian owned and operated NigComSat-1 geostationary satellite in May 2007, and in anticipation of the results of the recent acceleration of the RASCOM satellite programme – the West Africa region is increasingly at centre stage in the arena of state-of-the-art satellite-based communications, with broadband satellite services assuming an even stronger leading role in the regional socio-economic development agenda.
In this context the West African private sector continues to seize upon the strategic ICT efficiencies afforded by satellite-based voice, data and video solutions at an unprecedented rate, whilst the public sector has been moving to facilitate service providers' efforts through market liberalisation and regulatory advances. Such leading regional verticals as the oil & gas industry, the banking sector, and the enterprise & distribution environment will be given particular focus at this event.
Thus, WASCS3 will provide an unparalleled networking opportunity for global and regional satellite communications providers to meet with an ever-expanding community of decision-makers from these various vertical market satellite communications end-users, as well as from other key user groups which have come to rely upon this Nigeria-based conference as a means of meeting suppliers of satcom products and services.
Since its inception in 2005, this series of GVF Satellite Communications Summits has generated widespread regional interest and high-level executive participation, from both end-users across the region and from satellite service providers globally. The 2007 Summit in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial Capital, follows on the success of the 1st and 2nd Summits, in 2005 and 2006, held in the Administrative Capital of Abuja.
Against this dynamic regional backdrop, two days of informed debate and discussion will take place around a series of “Leadership Insights Sessions”, “Interactive Panels” and “Industry Showcase Sessions”, and which will cover the themes indicated in the ‘Outline Programme’ pages of this website.
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