CeBIT 2012 (Tuesday 6 to Saturday 10 March): CeBIT Global Conferences 2012: first speakers on board

Hannover (ots) -

- Leading figures from the international digital world
- Speakers from Amazon, eBay, IBM, Microsoft, SEC, eMeter, Rovio
and more

CeBIT's organizers have already secured the first of many
high-profile guest speakers for the CeBIT Global Conferences 2012.
CGC features leading figures from the international digital world and
is the No. 1 conference event for the global ICT industry. Among the
speakers already signed up for the 2012 event (6 to 9 March) are: Dr.
Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon; Jacob Aqraou, General Manager, eBay
Classifieds Group; Michael Rhodin, Senior Vice President, IBM
Software Solutions Group; B. Kevin Turner, COO, Microsoft; Hamid
Akhavan, CEO, Siemens Enterprise Communications; Larsh Johnson, co-
founder and CTO, eMeter.com; and Mikael Hed, CEO Rovio.

The CeBIT Global Conferences examine key issues in IT,
telecommunications, digital media and consumer electronics. The lead
themes for 2012 include intelligent networks, new approaches to the
Cloud, Internet and lifestyle, and social business. The CeBIT Global
Conferences are targeted at decision makers from industrial companies
that use technology, the ICT sector, entrepreneurs and multipliers
(media organizations, industry associations, etc.).

Each day of the Conferences has a different theme. Day One,
Tuesday 6 March, is themed "All things smart" and is dedicated to
energy supply sustainability, intelligent traffic control systems,
mobility, education and health. The keynote speakers are Michael
Rhodin of IBM and Microsoft's B. Kevin Turner. The day's proceedings
will conclude with a discussion panel titled "Smart Car - Smart Grid
- Smart Cities." The speakers here include Larsh Johnson, the CTO of
eMeter, the US-based market leader in smart grid management software.

The main theme for Wednesday 7 March is "Flying the Cloud." The
topics covered include cloud storage and cloud processes, privacy,
mobility and convergence. The keynote speakers include Dr. Werner
Vogels, Amazon's global CTO and second-in-command behind CEO Jeff
Bezos. Another of the keynote addresses will be given by Hamid
Akhavan, CEO of Siemens Enterprise Communications, a joint venture
between the US-based private equity firm The Gores Group and
Germany's Siemens AG. The closing panel discussion is titled
"Managing Big Data and Trust," which ties in neatly with the overall
theme for CeBIT 2012, "Managing Trust."

The keynote addresses and panel discussions on Thursday 8 March
are themed "Upgrade your Lifestyle: Entertainment, Mobility,
Content." The day's keynote speakers include games developer Mikael
Hed of Rovio. Hed's claim to fame is the game "Angry Birds," which he
published in 2009 and which has since clocked up more than 400
million downloads worldwide.

Friday 9 March centers around the convergence of social networks
and business and is themed "Social Business: Listen, Share, Care."
One of the keynote addresses will be delivered by eBay's Jacob
Aqraou. Having started out as the world's very first
consumer-to-consumer marketplace, eBay is now increasingly developing
into a business-to- consumer platform and now offers new goods from
commercial providers as well as second hand goods from other users.

The CeBIT Global Conferences staged during CeBIT 2011 featured
more than 50 high-profile international speakers, among them EU
Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Ford CEO Alan Mulally, Mozilla CEO Gary
Kovacs, Capgemini CEO Paul Hermelin, leading US blogger Chris
Pirillo, and Salesforce co-founder Parker Harris. More than 3,200
people from over 100 countries attended the event's keynote
addresses, talks and panel discussions. The live streams of the CeBIT
Global Conferences were accessed more than 20,000 times, while the
on-demand versions attracted more than 70,000 views.

About the CeBIT Global Conferences

The CeBIT Global Conferences (CGC) are a core part of CeBIT, the
global digital industry's largest, most influential tradeshow and
congress. The CGC premiered in 2008 and are now the most important
conference event in the ICT industry. In 2012, they will be held from
6 to 9 March, running daily from 10 a.m. to about 1 p.m. The venue is
Room 2 of the Convention Center (CC) at the Hannover Exhibition
Center. Admission is free of charge for CeBIT visitors. The
conferences will be conducted in English and simultaneously
translated into German. Further information is available online at
www.cebit.de/en/cgc (in English) and www.cebit.de/de/cgc (in German).

Your contact for further information:
Gabriele Dörries
Tel.: +49 511 89-31014
E-mail: gabriele.doerries@messe.de

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