Dear ITU-T SG16 experts, Please join Joint ITU-T Workshop and IMTC Forum 2006 on "H.323, SIP: is H.325 next?" San Diego, California, USA, 9-11 May 2006 by registering at http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/h325/200605/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Provisional Program (as of 21 April 2006, subject to small changes) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Day 1 (Tuesday 9 May) --------------------- Opening Session Welcome address Keynote 1 Session 1 -- Real-time conferencing / conversation * Dave Lindbergh: Status of the H.325 Project * Paul Jones: H.325 3rd Generation Multimedia System * Stefan Wenger: H.325 as a chance to converge SIP-based terminal design Garland Sharratt: Decomposed media processing in NGN/IMS * Tyler Johnson: H.325@Internet2 * Peter Saint-Andr: Jabber, XMPP protoco * Andrea J Saks: Accessibility in New Emerging Networks and Services * Yoichi Kato: A Web Conference System Architecture for the Broadband Era * Panel discussion "What next? -- per Theme of Conference" All available Speakers, moderated by PA Probst Day 2 (Wednesday 10 May) ------------------------ Session 2 - IMTC Awards * Istvan Sebestyen: IMTC Award Presentations * "Keynote 2" by Joan Mitchell: JPEG1 Session 3 -- New Developments on Media Codecs (Audio / Speech / Still Picture, Video) * Ajay Luthr: Video Compression Development H.264 * Claude Lamblin: Current speech codec developments at the ITU-T * Christophe Beaugeant: The G.729EV Codec * Joan L. Mitchell: Still picture coding (JPEG1) * Susie Wee: Still picture coding (JPEG2000) Session 4 -- IPTV * Noel Matthews: Presentation on IPTV * Orit Levin: IPTV Standardization perspective * Yoshinori Goto: IP broadcasting activities in ITU-T * Richard Brand: ATIS activities on IPTV * Deepak Kamlani: Emerging Quad Play initiatives, and implications in the public and home networks * Panel Discussion -- IPTV: standards, anything else ... Speakers, moderated by Dave Lindbergh Day 3 (Thursday 11 May) ----------------------- Session 5 -- Mobile Technologies * Marwan Jabri: Multimedia technology for converged networks * Leo Lehmann: ITU-T Standardization of Multimedia Service Mobility - Current Status and Future Directions for Telecommunication Networks * John Giere: Infrastructure of a Ubiquitous Society - Creating value through true convergence Summary and Call for Action * Session Chairs (Day 1-3): Summary * General Discussion * WS/Forum Wrap Up and Close -- Best regards, OKUBO Sakae e-mail: okubo@aoni.waseda.jp (<== sokubo@waseda.jp, valid until 31 March 2007) Visiting Professor Global Information and Telecommunication Institute (GITI) Waseda University ****************************************************************** Waseda University, YRP Ichibankan 312 Tel: +81 46 847 5406 3-4 Hikarinooka, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken Fax: +81 46 847 5413 239-0847 Japan H.323 videoconferencing: arranged by advice ******************************************************************