Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center of the Digital Future, maintains a year-round schedule of speeches and presentations about advances and emerging issues in digital technology.
To contact Dr. Cole about a presentation, email to [email protected].
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Jeffrey Cole: Keynote speeches, presentations, and executive briefings
2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2005-2009
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2020
ThinkLA Entertainment Breakfast — keynote speaker, Beverly Hills (April 21)
USC ADR Entertainment Symposium — keynote speaker, Los Angeles (April 2)
IAB Annual Leadership Meeting — keynote speaker, Palm Desert, CA (February 10)
NATPE Miami 2020 — keynote speaker, Miami (January 21)
2019
NCB Treasury and Corporate Customer Conference — keynote speaker, Athens, Greece (November 9)
CTAM Think — keynote speaker, New York (November 6)
IAB Global Summit — keynote speaker, Riviera Maya, Mexico (October 31)
2019 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, USC Gould School of Law and the Beverly Hills Bar Association — opening speaker on Trends, Fads, and Transformation, Los Angeles (October 26)
Global Security Forum — keynote speaker, Doha, Qatar (October 15)
Public Television Major Market Group — keynote speaker, Indianapolis (October 10)
World Internet Project Annual Meeting — opening speaker, Jakarta (July 9)
Seller Forum — opening keynote speaker, New York (June 5)
ad:tech Sydney — international keynote, Sydney (March 12)
Public Media Summit — keynote speaker, Washington DC (February 25)
IAB Leadership Summit — opening speaker, Phoenix AZ (February 10)
Media Insights Conference — keynote speaker, Washington DC (January 29)
NATPE “Navigating Content” — keynote speaker, Miami (January 23)
2018
ad:tech Auckland — keynote speaker, Auckland (November 15)
IAB Brand Summit Brazil — keynote speaker, Sao Paulo (November 8)
2018 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, USC Gould School of Law and the Beverly Hills Bar Association — opening speaker on Trends, Fads, and Transformation, Los Angeles (October 20)
iMedia Brand Summit — opening keynote speaker, Gold Coast, Australia (September 10)
World Internet Project Annual Meeting — opening speaker, Paris (July 2)
Future of the Automobile Conference — opening panel, Los Angeles (May 3)
Thrive: Amazon Long-Life Summit — keynote speaker, Seattle (April 5)
Lightspark Media Summit 2018 — keynote speaker, Salt Lake City (March 2)
IAB Annual Leadership Meeting –– opening speaker, Palm Desert, CA (February 11)
NATPE Miami — moderator, “A Chat with Andy Kaplan and Armando Nunez,” Miami Beach (January 17)
2017
Pivot Summit 2017 — keynote speaker, Geelong, Australia (December 8)
Sports Business Journal’s Sports Media & Tech Program — keynote speaker, Los Angeles (November 7)
2017 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, USC Gould School of Law and the Beverly Hills Bar Association — opening speaker on Trends, Fads, and Transformation, Los Angeles (October 21)
&THEN, The DMA Annual Event — keynote speaker, New Orleans (October 8)
IAB Leadership Dialogues — keynote speaker, New York (September 25)
WPP/Pfizer Day — keynote speaker, Montreal (September 15)
World Internet Project Annual Meeting — opening speaker, Moscow (July 5)
Sports Business Daily Journal Thought Leaders Retreat — keynote speaker, Half Moon Bay, CA (June 16)
Seller Forum — keynote speaker, New York (June 7)
IAB Interact 2017 — keynote speaker, Amsterdam (May 24)
Lightspark Media Summit 2017 — keynote speaker, Salt Lake City, UT (March 3)
Oracle Data Cloud 2017 DRIVE Automotive Summit — keynote speaker, Las Vegas (February 15)
Ontario Media Development Corporation Conference — keynote speaker, Toronto (January 17)
2016
Roche Informatics Leadership Conference — keynote speaker, Basel, Switzerland (November 9)
2016 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, presented by the USC Gould School of Law and the Beverly Hills Bar Association — opening speaker on Trends, Fads, and Transformation (Part VI), Los Angeles (October 22)
MPTV PAN (Motion Picture and Television Professional Advisory Network) Luncheon — keynote speaker, Beverly Hills, CA (October 19)
RDV Media Conference — keynote speaker, Montreal (September 15)
IAB Video Leadership Summit — keynote speaker, Carlsbad, CA (July 12)
Fairfax Media Conference — keynote speaker, Auckland, New Zealand (June 2)
IAA Thought Leadership Forum — keynote speaker, Sydney, Australia (May 26)
IEG — keynote speaker, Chicago (April 20)
IAB Video Leadership Summit — keynote speaker, Carlsbad, CA (July 12)
4A’s Transformation 2016 — keynote speaker, Miami Beach (March 22)
IPI World Congress — panel discussion: Media Use and Regulation in the MENA Region, Doha, Qatar (March 20)
Hulu Annual Sales Conference — keynote speaker, Ojai, CA (February 3)
IAB Annual Leadership Meeting — keynote speaker, Palm Desert, CA (January 25)
2015
Fireside Chat with GroupM CEO Irwin Gotlieb – Videonomics Summit, Santa Barbara, CA (November 9)
ASI European Radio & Television Symposia – keynote speaker, Venice, Italy (November 4)
NDIS New World: Disability in the 21st Century – keynote speaker, Brisbane, Australia (October 27)
2015 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, presented by the USC Gould School of Law and the Beverly Hills Bar Association – Opening speaker on Trends, Fads and Transformation (Part V), Los Angeles (October 17)
Advertising Week — How Sports Fans’ New Behavior Will Disrupt Every Aspect of Marketing and Advertising, keynote speaker, New York (October 1)
IAB Canada MIXX Conference – keynote speaker, Toronto (September 24)
IAA Silver Jubilee Summit – keynote speaker, Kochi, India (September 4)
Media24 Annual Conference — keynote speaker, Stellenbosch, South Africa (July 31)
Next 4 Billion Conference — keynote speaker, Johannesburg, South Africa (July 8)
AARP Life@50+ — keynote speaker, Miami (May 16)
Global Marketing Retail Association Executive Leadership Forum — keynote speaker, St. Petersburg, FL (May 13)
Mindshare Digital Conference – keynote speaker, London (May 12)
Leadership Forum 2015 — sponsored by the Academic Society for Corporate Management & Communication — keynote speaker, Berlin (May 8)
Digital Entrepreneur Leadership Forum — closing keynote, Hong Kong (April 23)
Africa Rising: International Advertising Association (IAA) Leadership Conferencem — keynote speaker, Accra, Ghana (April 28)
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Colombia Digital Day – keynote speaker, Bogota (April 16-17)
USC Real Estate Law and Business Forum – keynote address, Los Angeles (March 12)
YouTube LA Creative Workshop – industry keynote, Los Angeles (March 10)
Mobile World Congress – keynote speaker, Barcelona (March 3)
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Annual Leadership Meeting: Content and the Kingmakers – closing keynote speaker, Phoenix, Arizona (February 10)
The Media Insights & Engagement Conference – opening keynote speaker, San Diego (February 3)
2014
Abu Dhabu Media Summit 2014 – panel moderator, “Re-imagining Television — From Social to Second Screen,” Abu Dhabi (November 19)
National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia Annual Conference – keynote speaker, Rome (November 9)
Ericsson Media Summit 2014 – Organizer and opening moderator, New York (October 29-30)
2014 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, presented by the USC Gould School of Law and the Beverly Hills Bar Association – Opening speaker on Trends, Fads and Transformation (Part IV), Los Angeles (October 25)
2014 Automotive Marketing Roundtable – keynote speaker, Las Vegas (October 16)
Videonomics Summit – Kick-off keynote speaker, Santa Barbara, CA (October 12)
Marketing a la Carte Conference – keynote speaker, Mexico City (September 25)
Wesfarmers Leadership Conference – featured speaker, Melbourne,
Australia (September 10)
AARP Ideas@50+ — featured speaker, San Diego (September 5)
World Internet Project — opening welcome, Milan (July 3)
Aspen Ideas Festival — presentation, Aspen, Colorado (June 28)
Mixpo — featured speaker, San Francisco (June 12)
World Audiences Summit — keynote address, Beverly Hills (June 10)
Mixpo — featured speaker, New York (June 5)
Mixpo — featured speaker, Chicago (June 4)
Ericsson EUGAP General Meeting – keynote address, Kuala Lumpur (May 27)
IAA (International Advertising Association) — keynote speaker on “The Evolution of Everything,” 43rd IAA World Congress, “Innovation & Evolution,” Beijing (May 10)
“The Project 2014: Digital Disruption” — keynote address, Auckland, New Zealand (April 30)
MEC Global Conference — keynote speaker, Istanbul (April 1)
6th Annual Film Finance Forum West — Keynote Address, “Entertainment Media at the Tipping Point, Again!” Los Angeles (March 5)
Youtube — featured presentation, Los Angeles (March 3)
American Family Insurance Townhall — featured speaker, Madison, Wisconsin (February 25).
SC Johnson Sales Conference — featured speaker, Racine, Wisconsin (February 24)
Shamrock Capital Advisors — briefing, Los Angeles (February 20)
Undertone — Presentation for Undertone’s 2014 Sales Kick-Off meeting in New York. The theme for the meeting is “Take the Lead.” (February 11)
Purina Digital Summit — Speech to the Purina Digital Summit in St. Louis. The theme for the event is “Breaking Through the Digital Jungle.” (January 30)
2013
New Zealand briefings — Hon. Amy Adams, New Zealand Minister for Communications and Information Technology; Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development (ATEED); American Chamber of Commerce in Auckland; U.S. Consul General James Donovan. (November 19-21)
The Project 2013 — Keynote speaker, sponsored by AUT University, the U.S. Embassy and Social Media New Zealand) in Auckland. (November 19)
“Mobile Devices and Public Service: Lessons from Asia and Africa” — conference featured speaker, Santa Monica, CA. (November 4)
The Market Research Event – Keynote speaker, Nashville, TN. (October 22)
Videonomics — Featured speaker at Videonomics Monarch Beach Summit, Dana Point, CA. (October 14)
International Institute of Finance — Featured speaker for the board of directors, Washington, DC, (October 10)
GroupM — Keynote speaker on “The Inevitable Future” at GroupM’s “What’s Next 2013,” New York. (October 8)
Beverly Hills Bar Association Institute on Entertainment Law and Business — Opening speaker on “Trends, Fads and Transformation (Part III),” Los Angeles, CA. (October 5)
RadComms13 — Keynote Speaker, sponsored by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, Sydney. (October 2)
GroupM — Keynote Speaker at “What’s Next 2013” in Alicante, Spain. (September 26)
Publishing Business Conference & Expo — Opening keynote, “The Next Wave of Change in the Publishing World.” (September 23)
General Motors– briefing, Detroit. (September 20)
Mixpo — featured speaker, Detroit. (September 18)
Campbell’s Soup, Global Consumer & Customer Insights Summit – briefing, Philadelphia (September 17)
Mi9 Imagine Conference — keynote speaker, Melbourne, Australia. (September 10 and 12)
.FoxNetwork — featured speaker, Miami. (August 28)
Coca-Cola – briefing, Atlanta. (August 27)
Motion Picture & Television Fund — Beverly Hills. (August 22)
Purina (Cat, Snacks, Litter and PET divisions)— briefing for senior leadership, New York. (August 21)
PepsiCo — participant in “Being Digital: A Systematic Shift in Thinking and Behavior” with the company’s leadership team, Menlo Park, CA. (August 8)
Mixpo — featured speaker, Chicago. (August 7)
TakePart Live — guest expert on the first episode of new television talk show, Pivot cable network, Los Angeles. (August 1)
San Diego Chargers — briefing for the organization. (July 23)
NBC Universal Studios Home Entertainment – briefing to the executive team, Los Angeles. (July 1)
Ericsson User Group Asia Pacific — presentation, Bangkok. (May 27)
“Digital & Music Matters 2013” — featured speaker, Singapore. (May 21)
Colgate-Palmolive/Red Fuse Summit — featured speaker, New York. (May 15)
Nordic Media Festival — keynote presentation on how digital technology is changing the world, Bergen, Norway. (May 10)
Videonomics Summit — keynote presentation, “Content, Platforms and the Future of Consumption,” Orlando, FL (April 15)
U.S. Navy — featured briefing at the Pentagon, Washington, DC, (April 10)
NFL Digital Media Summit — keynote speaker at “@SXSW,” Austin, TX. (March 6)
2nd Google Greece Travel Forum — keynote speaker on “The Future of the Travel Industry,” Athens. (February 6)
Northwestern University-Qatar — presenter at the announcement of the expansion of the World Internet Project to eight countries in the Middle East, Doha, Qatar. (February 4)
2012
USC School of Cinematic Arts — keynote speaker at the USC Entertainment Technology Center’s Executive Roundtable, Los Angeles. (December 6)
“thinkLA Trends Breakfast” — keynote speaker, Beverly Hills. (November 28)
Mindshare Media Summit 2012 — featured speaker on “Generation Multi-Screen” in Dubai. (November 20)
“ITEX 2012: The Business Technology Show” — keynote speaker, Auckland, New Zealand. (November 8)
“Stats Check: The continuing evolution of the Internet” — featured speaker at InternetNZ, Wellington, New Zealand. (November 6)
Loyola Marymount University Forum on Media Ethics and Social Responsibility — featured presentation on “Forget Big Brother – It’s Big Business That’s Watching You” in Los Angeles. (October 29)
USC Gould School of Law — opening speaker on “Trends, Fads and Transformation (Part II)” at the Beverly Hills Bar Association Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, Los Angeles (October 27)
AMC 2012 Magazine Media Conference — featured speaker, San Francisco (October 16)
Google “Zeitgeist ’12” — invited participant in the annual Partner Forum, Scottsdale, AZ. (October 14-15)
Abu Dhabi Media Summit — keynote presentation on Day 2 “Digital Frontiers.” (October 10)
International Institute of Communications (IIC) — keynote speaker and featured panelist, Singapore. (October 5)
Social Media Week — keynote speaker, Hollywood. (September 28)
Discover Board of Directors — featured presenter, Chicago. (September 19)
News Limited — featured presentation to the senior executive team, in Sydney, Australia. (September 17)
Wesfarmers Leadership Conference — keynote presenter, Melbourne, Australia. (September 12)
PetSmart — featured presentation to marketing department, Phoenix. (August 29)
MCLE (Minimum Continuing Legal Education) — featured speaker at Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Beverly Hills. (August 21)
Macy’s — featured presentation, New York. (August 14)
Newscorp Digital Retreat — featured speaker, Carmel, CA. (August 8)
Westwood Village Rotary Club — featured presentation, Los Angeles. (July 19)
National Football League — featured presentation, Los Angeles. (July 11)
Shout Factory – briefing, Los Angeles. (July 10)
Shell International — keynote presenter, Cannes. (June 23)
Fox International — featured presentation, London. (June 21)
Danish eCommerce Association – annual conference keynote address, Copenhagen. (June 14)
ad:tech Singapore — opening keynote presentation. (June 13)
Procter & Gamble — featured briefing, Singapore. (June 13)
Mindshare Singapore — featured presenter. (June 12)
Google @ iFXEXPO — keynote presentation on “Trends, Fads and Transformation,” Limassol, Cyprus. (May 30)
Mindshare Luxury Conference — keynote presentation, London. (May 10)
Mercedes — featured presentation, London (May 10)
Ford Canada — keynote presentation, Toronto (April 25)
Canadian Media Directors Council — moderator of the panel, “Who Is Leading the Digital Agenda?” at the annual conference, Toronto. (April 24)
Mindshare 2012 Global Conference — featured presentation, San Francisco. (April 18)
American Public Media — featured presentation to Marketplace Forum, Los Angeles. (April 12)
Videonomics — introductory keynote presentation, Santa Monica, CA (March 15)
Sony Worldwide Digital Marketing — featured presentation to executives, Culver City, CA. (February 29)
Kimberly-Clark CEO Forum — keynote presentation, Dallas. (February 17)
Kantar Media — keynote address at the global leadership meeting, Monaco. (February 8)
Campbell’s Soup — keynote speaker at “Friending Millennials” day, New York. (January 18)
Consumer Electronics Show — organizer and moderator of three “Entertainment Everywhere” sessions, Las Vegas. (January 10)
2011
Mindshare/SAP Conference — featured presentation at “Trends, Fads and Transformation,” New York. (December 7)
Activision — featured presentation, Santa Monica, CA. (December 3)
Microsoft — keynote presentation at “Digital Inspiration Day,” Brussels, Belgium. (November 30)
“Die Schweiz im Internet 2011” — featured speaker at the University of Zurich. (November 29)
Microsoft — featured speaker at two events for clients, Zurich. (November 29)
Professor in Residence, Northwestern University/Qatar — featured presentation, “The Digital Future: What everyone needs to know about the Internet,” Doha, Qatar (November 21)
Digital Marketing Summit 2011 — keynote presentations at the “Be What’s Next in Digital” in Sydney, Australia (November 9) and Auckland, New Zealand (November 14)
MEC Australia — keynote presenter, Sydney, Austalia. (November 10)
Paradigm Agency annual retreat — featured presenter, Carmel, CA. (October 29)
Microsoft — featured presentation to Argentina marketing teams, Buenos Aires (October 27)
Mindshare — keynote presentation at “Digital Morning Argentina,” Buenos Aires. (October 27)
LAMAC — featured seminar presentation, Buenos Aires. (October 26)
Ericsson — featured speaker to clients, Buenos Aires. (October 25)
USC Gould School of Law — featured presenter of “Trends, Fads and Transformation: The Impact of the Internet,” Beverly Hills Bar Association Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, Los Angeles. (October 22)
Worldcom Public Relations Group — keynote presenter at annual meeting, Honolulu, HI. (October 13)
Bavaria Company — featured presentation, Bogota, Colombia. (October 6).
“Colombia 3.0” — key presentation in Bogota. (October 5)
MaxiMedia Conference — keynote presentation, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (October 4)
AMEX International Media Summit – featured presentation, New York. (September 28)
Google “Zeitgeist ’11” Partner Forum — invited participant, Scottsdale, AZ. (September 25-27)
AARP’s Life@50+ National Event and Expo — panelist, “Great Gadgets – Cutting Edge Tech for Living Life” session, Los Angeles. (September 24)
Twentieth Century Fox International – featured presentation at executives summit, Los Angeles (September)
Futuecom 2011 — premium keynote address, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (September 14)
Vodafone — featured presentation, London. (September 2)
Mindshare — featured speaker to clients, London (August 31)
Kimberly-Clark — featured presentation, Neenah, WI. (August 29)
BIT Conference — keynote speaker at “Service Industrialization and the Global Information Economy,” UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles. (July 29)
Microsoft — featured speaker at LATAM event, Miami, FL. (July 27)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology — featured presentation for the KAIST Strategic Entertainment/Media Management Program at the USC Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles. (July 19)
ACTI Chile — keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Chilean IT industry association, with the President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, Santiago. (June 22)
“Media Revolution: Designing the Leap to the Future of Communications” conference — keynote speaker on “Trends, Fads and Transformation: The Impact of the Internet,” Moscow, Russia. (June 20)
Google — keynote presentation, “Forward Thinking” at the “thinkCPG: The Zero Moment of Truth” conference, Athens, Greece (June 16)
Kantar Media Summit — featured presentation, New York. (June 15).
American University of Sharjah — featured presenter at the release of the first World Internet Project Report from the United Arab Emirates. (May 30)
MEC — featured speaker for clients, Paris. (May 26)
e-G8 Forum — moderator of the panel on “Digital Reinvention: Transforming Traditional Businesses” at the “The Internet: Accelerating Growth” conference, Paris. (May 25, immediately preceding the G8 Heads of State and Government Summit in Deauville, France)
IAB Sweden — keynote speaker at “Insight & Vision,” Stockholm. (May 18)
Enterprise Software CEO Roundtable — featured speaker, San Francisco (May 10)
Zurich North America — featured presentation, Schaumburg, IL. (April 25)
ConAgra — featured presentation, Naperville, IL. (April 25)
DirecTV — featured presentation, Los Angeles (April 21)
Ad:Tech Conference — keynote speaker, San Francisco (April 12)
Economist Innovation Conference — keynote speaker at “Can Greece Recover from the Economic Crisis Without Investing in Broadband?” Athens, Greece. (April 6)
Microsoft IMAGINE — featured speaker, Redmond, WA. (March 30)
RTL Netherlands — featured presentation, New York (March 14)
South by Southwest (SXSW) – panelist on “The Last Broadcast: Entertainment is Social — What’s Next?” Austin, TX. (March 12)
4A’s (American Association of Advertising Agencies) — featured speaker at the Leadership/Media Conference “Transformation 2011,” Austin, TX. (March 8)
Financial Times’ Seattle Forum — opening keynote presentation on the changing digital landscape, Seattle, WA. (March 1)
Australian Communications Council and AWARD “Circus” — keynote presentation, Sydney, Australia (February 23)
Symposium on TV Production — featured speaker at the “Challenges in TV Production Businesses and Policy,” Stockholm. (February 18)
World Mobile Congress 2011 — featured speaker, Barcelona, Spain. (February 14)
CMO Executive Summit — keynote speaker for the Governing Body Dinner, Los Angeles (January 26)
2010
Cablevision and Newsday — featured presentation, Melville, NY. (December 20)
Zurich North America — featured presentation, Chicago. (December 7)
ninemsn Digital Marketing Summit — keynote presentation at the “Fast Forward Five (FFWD5)” in Sydney, Australia. (November 17)
Monaco Media Forum — invited participant, Cannes, France. (November 10-12)
Internet Days — keynote presentation, Stockholm. (October 26)
XVI National Academic Libraries Seminar — keynote presentation, Rio de Janeiro. (October 22)
GroupM EMEA Conference — featured presentation to “Interaction 2010: What’s Next?” Valencia, Spain. (October 7)
AARP “Orlando@50+” National Event and Expo — featured speaker, Orlando, FL. (October 2)
Google Partner Forum — invited participant in the annual “Zeitgeist Americas 2010,” Scottsdale, AZ. (September 12-14)
Warner Bros. – briefing in Los Angeles. (July 20)
USC Annenberg School’s Knight Digital Media Center Leadership Summit — opening keynote on “Market Demand: How Audiences Acquire News and Info” at “The Future of Local News and Public Media,” Los Angeles (July 17)
CMO Executive Summit — keynote presentation to the governing body, Chicago. (June 30)
Brasilshop International Retail Congress — featured speaker at the 10th edition, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (June 10)
SubOptic 2010 — keynote presentation on “Falling Apart and Coming Together: Media and Consumer Issues in the Digital Age,” in Yokohama, Japan. (May 14)
Nordic Media Festival — featured presenter, Bergen, Norway. (May 7)
Digital VIP Summit at MIPTV — keynote speaker on “Consumer Directions and Impact on Media Businesses,” Cannes, France. (April 12)
Religion Communication Congress — plenary speaker on “Surveying the Digital Future,” Chicago, (April 10)
Institute for Public Relations — featured speaker at the board retreat, New York (April 7)
USC Trustee Conference — featured presentation on “How the Internet Is Transforming Radio and Television,” Palm Springs, CA. (March 26)
USC Gould School of Law — featured testimony at FPPC Subcommittee Hearing, Los Angeles. (March 24)
Y&R Global Board — featured speaker on “The Changing Media Landscape” and “Teenagers of Today,” Buenos Aires, Argentina (March 22-23)
Abu Dhabi Media Summit — featured presentation at the inaugural summit. (March 9)
4A’s (American Association of Advertising Agencies) Leadership/Media Conference “Transformation 2010” — featured speaker on “YouthQuake: Transformation of Young Consumers,” San Francisco. (March 1)
International Institute of Communications Middle East Telecommunications and Media Forum — featured speaker on “Broadband and the Consumer: What Do We Know?” in Doha, Qatar. (February 10)
International Institute of Communications Digital Communications Literacy Conference — keynote presentation on the growth of digital media, Doha, Qatar. (February 9)
Ericsson Global Marketing Summit — featured presentation, Puerto Rico. (January 25)
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