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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Experts,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As many of you know, I have been involved with IMTC for a number of years. IMTC (www.imtc.org) invites you and your organization members to participate in its 20th Anniversary Forum taking place in Porto, Portugal between the 8th and 10th of October. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This year we are focusing on WebRTC, H.265, spatial audio, VoLTE and video clouds, with some of the biggest names of the industry sharing their knowledge and vision about these technologies. We have a glittering list of keynote speakers:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Laurent Philonenko - VP & CTO, Collaboration Technology Group, Cisco <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pedro Falcão - Director (Deputy CTO), Network Engineering & Planning, Portugal Telecom <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Touradj Ebrahimi - Professor, Head of Multimedia Signal Processing Group, EPFL <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Annicken Rød - Founder & Evangelist, Corporate Spring <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom-Erik Lia - CEO and Co-founder, Videxio <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jeff Pulver - Chairman, Zula<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the video coding session, you will happy to learn that 2 of our SG16 friends and colleagues, Thomas Wiegand and Sakae Okubo, will be presenting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The theme of the IMTC 20th Anniversary Forum is "Today and tomorrow of visual communications, building on 20 years of technology breakthroughs." As you can see in the agenda (http://imtc.org/forum2013/agenda.html), all our speakers will share their insight on the latest in Internet audio/video technologies, and discuss how we got here.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is an early-bird special for registrants who complete their order by September 14th (http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=1233016) - so don't miss out! We look forward to seeing you there!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can find more information here: http://bit.ly/IMTCForum. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please feel free to forward this message to some of your member mailing lists and any interested parties!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Patrick Luthi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rapporteur for Q1/16<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chairman, IMTC 20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Forum Planning Committee<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>