Overview
About SubOptic
SubOptic is a non-profit, non-incorporated international organization, steered and sponsored by leading members of the telecommunications industry. It is best known for the conference it organizes, widely considered as 'the Olympics' of the submarine cable community.
Since 1986 the SubOptic series of conferences, organized on a non-profit by the submarine cable industry, has been the place to go to find out more about all aspects of our industry. SubOptic 2007 in Baltimore attracted over 700 attendees from a wide variety of organizations and geographic regions, and SubOptic 2010 will be the seventh convention in the series.
The SubOptic Executive Committee (EC) was formed in 1998 as a non-incorporated, mutual, non-profit making organization with a membership that has varied since then from between 14 & 16 member companies, representing the various strands of our community. The membership changes between each conference cycle, reflecting the changing composition of our community. The definition of our community has been very broadly defined and includes, but is not limited to:
- Purchasers of systems and system capacity
- Suppliers of systems
- Suppliers of system components and services
- Suppliers of network management services
- Maintainers of systems
- Suppliers of cable protection
- Non-carrier investors
- Academic, professional and research institutions in the field
- Relevant international standards and regulatory bodies
The primary purpose of the EC is to ensure that the conference promotes the interests of our community by enabling ideas and information to be exchanged, fostering debate and educating the industry.
It performs this role by acting as the Strategic Governance Board for the individual conferences that it has organized, which are implemented by a Host organization, which is a nominated member of the EC. As part of that role the EC ensures that the conferences maintain a high level of professional and academic integrity and are not to the individual advantage of any one EC Member or to one segment of the community.
Apart from the conferences, the EC is also looking at ways that SubOptic can provide more value to our community. A number of activities have been identified, including the development of guidelines for standard contracts to supply and construct cable systems.
Sponsorship and Exhibition
Various Sponsorship opportunities will be made available, starting from the Platinum package, Gold and Silver Sponsorship, up to individual items such as Coffee Breaks, Poster Sessions and giveaway items. We have prepared 52 booths, each 3m x 3m for your Exhibition needs. They will be up for sale on our website, together with the Sponsorship opportunities.
The first booth comes at a 50% discount, while from the second onwards, each booth comes with a free registration. (Max. three registrations) Details will be posted on our website by April, 2009, so be sure to visit us at subobtic.org.
Conference Theme
The theme for SubOptic 2010 is "enabling the next generation of networks & services". We will focus on the future of the industry, but will still encourage and welcome papers and posters which look at the enormous hive of activity in the industry since SubOptic 2007.
The "future of the industry" is not just a matter of new cable projects - the real drivers of the future are the people in the industry: the end-customers who purchase capacity; carriers who purchase systems and capacity; suppliers of systems; suppliers of system components & services; suppliers of network management services; maintainers of systems; suppliers of cable protection; non-carrier investors; market analysts; academic, professional & research institutions in the field; and relevant international standards & regulatory bodies.
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