The internationally acclaimed telecom strategy and investment series produced by TMT Finance will hold its inaugural East Africa conference in Nairobi on November 26, 2013. (www.tmtfinance.com/eastafrica). TMT Finance & Investment East Africa 2013: “Leading the next wave of telecoms growth”, will gather key leadership from telecom companies, financial institutions, government departments and global advisory business, to debate opportunities for co-investment and partnership across the region.
“We are really delighted to bring the conference series to Nairobi due to enormous interest in the region from our global network of telecom executives, financiers, investors and advisers,” said Dominic Lowndes, Managing Director of TMT Finance, the event organisers. “East Africa’s mobile and fixed telecoms industry is at an exciting stage of development with major demand for infrastructure and services and significant opportunity for investment.”
The conference will bring together key financial and strategic decision makers in a series of panel discussions, keynote presentations, networking events and specialist breakout sessions. Over 40 speakers will be announced including leading telecom CEOs, CFOs and Strategy Heads, Regulators, Policy Makers, Global and Regional Heads of leading financial institutions, investors and advisers.
Key session themes at the conference include: Telecom Leadership Round Table: Accelerating growth; Mobile Infrastructure Strategies: Investing in towers and maximising returns; Mergers and Acquisitions: How will telecoms consolidation shape the market?; Regulation and Policy: How best to stimulate growth and investment?; Financing Telecoms: Raising capital from local and international markets and alternative sources; Broadband Infrastructure; From 4G to Satellite and Fiber; Investing in Mobile Data and Services; Mobile Banking and M-Health; and Media and Convergence: Delivering content and collaborating in a new ecosystem.
“We are inviting companies and representatives from across the region, as well as global players, to participate and we encourage local players to contact us if they would like to take part,” said Lowndes. “We will announce the first round of key speakers in August.”
TMT Finance events provide a unique platform for presenting new ideas and facilitating dialogue between leading industry executives and the global financial and advisory community. Speakers and delegates are telecom and infrastructure CEOs, CFOs, CSOs and Heads of M&A, investment banking heads, private equity investors, government representatives, regulators and specialist legal and strategic advisers and thought leaders.
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