Attendee Benefits

How will participants benefit from attending M-Enabling Summit, the Global Coference and Showcase for Mobile Applications and Services for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities?

• Mobile service providers will participate as speakers and attendees, while several leading companies may also want to showcase their achievements and further establish their leadership in this field. As attendees, they will benefit from discussions with other stakeholders, including telecom regulators, policy makers and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities. In addition, the conference will provide a unique display of accessible and assistive solutions supporting new services and marketing initiatives to expand their user base.


• Telecom Regulators and policy makers will participate as speakers and attendees, while regulatory authorities may also want to showcase their programs. They will all benefit from a uniquely designed conference program presenting the best mix of accessible and assistive solutions for mobile phones and services. The location of the conference, its institutional environment as well as the panels and break-out sessions designed to ensure the participation of leading regulatory authorities from around the world, will add unique opportunities for peer exchanges. Policy makers from governmental and inter-governmental agencies will equally benefit from the same environment.


• Applications developers will have a unique opportunity to network with the largest mobile service providers and to seek new distribution opportunities and methods for their products.  They will very much benefit from participating to the showcase to demonstrate and explore business opportunities with handset manufacturers, operators and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities, government agencies and multiple private sector participants delivering services on mobile devices.


• Handset manufacturers will benefit from the participation of key buyers and influencers including mobile operator’s executives and policy makers promoting accessibility and assistive features, such as telecom regulators, Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and experts, large information services, e-government and e-commerce providers.  The M-Enabling Summit will be the best global venue to promote new mobile accessibility features and assistive solutions which cannot be promoted to the appropriate target audiences in large multi-purpose wireless conferences.  Focused public relations programs which will precede the conference, as well as public relations activities during the conference, will allow key messages around new accessibility and assistive solutions to be instantly promoted around the world among relevant audiences.  The participation of operating systems vendors and application developers will also allow handset manufacturers to establish specific networking programs during the conference to promote their own application development initiatives and programs.


• Operating systems providers will be able to demonstrate the strengths of their technical environment for accessible and assistive applications in one single venue to the most focused and influential group of buyers, influencers and accessibility experts from around the world.  The conference will be a unique opportunity to host parallel sessions for developers and private meetings with operators, handset manufacturers around specific areas of innovation and business opportunities.  Leading operating systems providers will have a unique opportunity to address in one venue the core group of accessible and assistive mobile eco-system participants.


• Mobile phone “middleware” vendors and cloud-based solution providers can be sponsors, as well as showcase participants to promote their solutions among handset manufacturers, operators and seek the support of influencers such a Universal Service Funds in localizing and selling their products.


• Mobile device accessories and peripherals and interface equipment will uniquely benefit of the showcase to sell and/or distribute their applications through handset manufacturers, mobile operators, Organizations of Persons with Disabilities, and government agencies.


• Organizations of persons with disabilities, senior citizens and independent community living services will have an opportunity to share their experience and explore the latest available mobile technologies and applications.  Interactive break-out sessions will allow those representatives to provide input on good practices for policy makers and service providers, and strategies that work best from their perspective.  An important segment of the program for representatives of senior citizens and persons with disabilities will be break-out sessions on specific areas of mobile applications and services including mobile-based assistive technologies.


• Information services, e-government and e-commerce providers will participate as speakers and attendees.  They will benefit from the interaction with leading providers of handsets, operating system environments, application developers and accessibility experts.  Sessions covering the regulatory and legislative trends affecting their services will also be a strong area of focus.  Some agencies or private organizations may want to participate in the showcase from a Corporate Social Responsibility standpoint to demonstrate their leadership servicing seniors and persons with disabilities.


• Public and private sector organizations providing services to seniors and persons with disabilities via mobile platforms will participate both as speakers and attendees.  They will benefit from the display of solutions and services, as well as from sessions dedicated to latest trends in technology and applications.  This category of participants may represent a large constituency.