Testimonials

“We have now been at NGT three times. The calibre of people we interact with at NGT are the movers who are going to make things happen. This venue has allowed us to get in to the handset guys and then beyond - into the application providers and up into the carrier space.”

Brad Anderson, U-Nav

"NGT China provided an excellent forum for the exploration of service availability challenges and how standards will play a key role in resolving these issues."

Deepak Shahane, President, Service Availability Forum, and Director of Software, Motorola Embedded Communications Computing

"NGT conducted a very professional conference with care taken to map relevant hot industry issues, trends, and messages from both telecom service providers and telecom solution providers to its audience. NGT's focus on sharing industry experiences, leading edge technology and new techniques through case studies is an excellent way to accelerate awareness and adoption. These are great forums to understand the burning regional issues in deploying the new generation of networks. Thank you for the opportunity to participate!"

R A Beatty, Director, Industry Strategy and Solution Sales WW Sales and Support Systems & Technology Group, IBM

"NGT is a great platform to launch into China's Communication market. The organizers not only helped us in getting maximum exposure for our resentation, they also assisted in bringing together key customers with the exhibitors, to form a very high quality face-to-face exchange of ideas and business opportunities."

Nalin Advani, Vice President of Asia Pacific Operations, Solid Information Technologies

"As the leading provider of solutions for network and server automation, we are committed to delivering world class solutions to our customers in this region. The NGTC conference is a great forum to discuss our vision of the future of networks, telecom and convergence, with our current and potential customers and partners."

Ajay Gummadi, Vice President - Network Automation Products, Opsware Inc.

"In a world overflowing with conferences, NGT stands out with their ability to organize and deliver a timely and very professional conference, full of the most relevant industry issues of a technical and business nature. It was an excellent forum for debating and sharing opinions on how to move forward in crucial areas for next generation networks and services. Of particular benefit to me was the opportunity to hear from key Chinese telecom decision makers regarding their needs and requirements. This was facilitated by personal introductions made by the organizers. The NGT China event was very much worth the time, and I look forward to participating in the next event in October."

John Strassner, Fellow of the Technical Staff and Director, Autonomic Computing, Motorola Labs, and Assistant Professor, Waterford Institute of Technology

"The NGN conference was a great opportunity to share ideas and concepts how to develop and shape the future of our industry. The insight into the speed and trajectory of the specific developments in China were particularly valuable.

The event and the dialogs during the conference were worth the effort! The support from NGT staff with introductions to the various participants during the breaks was a good idea."

Norbert Hentges, CTO, Deutsch Telekom

"Congratulations! You have conducted a very successful event. It was my pleasure to attend NGT China! "

Fan Zhang, CTO, China Unicom

"Though I have a very tight schedule, I was glad to see that the NGT event brought international views to China's telecommunications industry, which justifies my travelling from Tianjin to Beijing on a foggy day to attend the NGT event."

Xuehong Zhang, Chairman and GM of China Mobile - Tianjin Branch

"The NGT conference exceeded my expectations. The attendees I met there were all senior ranking executives and decision makers across China's telecommunications industry. The NGT staff facilitated private meetings for me with many of these key executives during the show, which has definitely accelerated our business relationships in China"

Frank Casanova, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Apple

"The Nov 2004 event was the best event to date. In our track, Norbert Hentges was a superb addition both as a speaker and as a panel contributor. In addition, having "competitive" vendors participating adds balance and multiple viewpoints on the same subject.

The facilities are excellent and the GDS staff, as always, did a sensational job not only in running the event but also in facilitating introductions and conversations."

James Christie, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Aprisma

"I was glad to host the NGT event on Nov 9, 2004. The event provided a good platform for Chinese equipment manufacturers to interact with international counterparts and to explore the cooperation opportunities. I look forward to good projects of this sort in the near future."

Qingzhong Zhang, Secretary General of Equipment Manufacturing Society of CIC and Former President of PuTian Group

"I was impressed by the level of the speaker and delegates and good overall organisation. I'm glad to be part of it."

Hui Zhang, Director of Wireless Dept., CNC Labs

"Thanks for inviting us to participate in the conference and meetings with potential partners from other countries! The outcomes of these are positive."

Maoping He, CTO of Broadband Products, ZTE

"The presentations are excellent! I'm glad to have attended this conference. I would be interested in going through the presentation files from GDS Infocentre to further study the speeches presented by so many excellent speakers. Thanks for your efforts in organising and coordinating this event!"

Qingqiang Pang, VP of Mobile Terminals R&D, Capitel

"Overall this is a good event. Congratulations."

Xiangyang, Liu, Assistant GM and Director of Corporate Strategy, China Netcom Shang Dong Zi Bo Branch

"The NGT China conference was extremely worthwhile for a company like ours. We found the presentations gave us a better understanding to new opportunities in China.

The quality of participants and the audience was outstanding and a good source of contacts and potential business partners. The panel discussions were 'on target' and gave us a good insight into the future trends of our industry.

Due to this conference, we are now engaged with several new companies in China and in Europe and have signed up an additional distributor that was introduced to us at this event. I would like to compliment you and your team on the organization and professionalism you demonstrated.

I would be happy to recommend the NGT China conference as a great way of making contacts and expanding a company's business opportunities in China to anyone."

Bradford S. Anderson Director of Business Development u-Nav Microelectronics, Inc.

"I was very impressed with the audience turnout along with the high calibre of presenters and panel members. We made a number of high-level contacts with the end-user community along with some top-level business contacts. I was very happy with participating and it looks like we will have some follow-up tasks to complete with audience members.

This was a great opportunity for RadiSys to present our perspective of the market (and ATCA specifically) to a wide cross-section of people and organizations involved in the Telecom Equipment Manufacturer (TEM) and Service Provider (SP) market space."

Marshall Eisenberg, Product Management, RadiSys

"Excellent participation from worldwide vendors."

Frederick Chen, Service Provider Marketing, Asia Pacific

"The best part of the conference for me was the 1-1 meetings that your team set up for me... that was quite good and provided me an opportunity to dig into what my customers are doing and aligning with other carriers around the world."

Lonnie Mcalister, CTO, Intel Communications Group

"The conference was very well structured and not overloaded. The topics discussed met our expectations. Participating in the "Open Standard Network Architecture" track enabled us to reach our customers and their customers (operators) and even complemented their messages (e.g. CAPEX efficiency). Very good fit."

Jens Wiegand, Director of Strategy & Architecture for Switched Platform Operation, ECCG, Motorola Computing Group

“Congratulations! You have conducted another very successful event. It was a pleasure to support this NGT event! I will share my view of the development and standardization in NGN with you again in the future”

Zhao Huiling, Vice President of China Telecom

"A Fantastic Event "

Stephen A Falk, Vice President, Sprint

"I was impressed with the big audience for the keynote!"

Li Xiaoming, VGM of Data and Fixed Line Department, China Unicom

"I enjoyed the conference and am impressed by your professionalism and organizational skills. I sincerely hope that we will be able to cooperate again in the near future. ”

Weiming Li, Vice President, Asia Pacific Division, Amdocs

"I found NGT to be a fantastic way to meet many potential partners, customers and influencers in the China market. We've been to two shows and have really accelerated our China sales activities as a result"

James R Christie, MD APAC Operations, Aprisma Spectrum Powered Solutions

"Thanks for your efforts in organising and coordinating this event! We are pleased to have this opportunity to interact with our partners in the value chain"

Hong Zhong, Director of First Research Institute and GM of Broadband Access Products, ZTE Corporation

" I was glad to see the NGT event brought international views to China's telecommunications industry. On top of presentations, networking and interactions with other speakers allowed us to exchange thoughts and explore cooperation opportunities."

Professor ZiQiang Hou, Chief Science Consultant, China Netcom

“Congratulations! You have conducted a very successful event. It was well organised and by far surpassed the VoiP conference that was taking place in parallel. The speakers you assembled were the expert execs in their respective company and fields. Overall, planning of the event was very effective as well.”

Enis Erkel, Vice President of Nortel Networks, China

"We thank you and the members of your GDS team for making this a very successful speech at Enterprise China event. We also appreciate your help to set up the meetings for us with Great Dragon and Nortel. It helps us expanding our potential business in the China market. It is good to hear that you are planning the next summit Next Generation Telco China 2004 next year. We are looking forward to working with you in the future."

Carman Chan, Sales & Marketing Manager - Asia, Octasic Semiconductor

"With the China market being so large, the opportunity to speak there is very worthwhile"

Doug Smith, Chief Technical Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan, Portal Software

"The event was well coordinated and seemed to attract a lot of attendees… you did very good job"

Patrick Lau, Vice President - China, Novell Software

"Thanks for your support. We’re sure we can continue taking GDS opportunities in China"

Liora Bar, Com AC Product Communication, Infineon Technologies

"I was impressed with the attendance, the organisation, professionalism and positive service-oriented attitude of the conference staff. Also the conference program, and the venue itself, the Kerry Hotel"

Gary Katz, Director of Corporate Marketing, Aplix Corporation

"The conference was very well co-ordinated and the attendance also met our expectations. We would like to thank you for exemplary support both prior to the event and at the time of the conference. We would also like to make a special mention for coordinating and arranging our meetings with the delegates and speakers. I’m looking forward to a fruitful relationship with GDS and for the event next year!"

Stephen Vaz, Vice President - Asia, Eftia

"Thanks for organising such a great event!"

Glen Lu, Vice President - Asia, Mforma

"A great success. High quality. Congratulations!"

Technology Department, MII

"In such a fast-moving business world, choosing a reliable, efficient conference that is really beneficial is becoming a challenge. Your event has proven one of the successes."

Robert Xu, Head of Corporate Planning and Communications, Siemens SSMC

"I liked the conference, it was a very good set up and I was astonished by how many participants were there."

Wilfried Brachschoss, Vice President Marketing Access Products Worldwide, Infineon Technologies

"GDS did a good job organising the seminars. The coordination and presentation were first rate. VIPs and speakers were well treated."

Tom Sun, Vice President, Asia Pacific Operations, PMC-Sierra

"A good forum for introducing Conax to the Chinese broadcast and telecom market. A well organised event."

Angie Bockelie, Area Manager, China CONAX AS

"Keppel [Communications] is equally satisfied with the response received and turnout achieved. I am impressed with the efficiency of your staff. [We] are definitely looking forward to participating in future shows and are keen to explore other opportunities with GDS when they arise…"

Edward Tay, Business Development Manager, Keppel Communications.

"Very well organised."

Mike Wrape, Senior Technology Manager, Nokia

"Thank you for the excellent preparation and organisation of this important event, your professional attitude and the personal attention all of you gave us. We look forward to working with you in future events!"

Nicholas Frischmann, General Manager - China, VCON

"The organisation was effective and efficient. The number of attendees was impressive."

Andries Grondman, International Business Development Manager, Irdeto Access

"It was great to get your professional assistance at the Next Generation Broadband Intelligence Conference. I was very impressed with the organisation and efficiency. The VIP closed-door session was very good… we could discuss and change ideas with the most successful companies in this industry."

Nil Chen, Solution Consultant, HP

"It was organised very well, probably one of the most organised meetings I have ever attended! GDS’ staff members are very professional!"

Tong Yu, Regional Director of Marketing, Harmonic

"From my point of view, everything is perfect!"

Yuan Gu, IP Infusion

"Your team did a great job!"

Don Clarke, Head of VDSL Development, BTExact Technologies