ATCON, NCS for CEOs forum

The Association of Telecommunications Companies of
Nigeria (ATCON) has put its weight behind the CEO Forum scheduled to hold March 22, 2005 at the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Abuja. ATCON joins the team of partners putting together the summits for Chief Executive Officers in the financial and ICT sectors to host the premier meeting of minds of players at mutually narrowing down their common challenges through shared ideas.

“There are still a lot of mis-understandings on how one network relates to another. Operators see themselves as more of adversaries than competitors in market that needs healthy co-existence of all players to flourish ” said ATCON’s president Chief Charles Alaba Joseph to announced ATCON’s willingness to “ensure the success of this necessary platform to stimulate healthy interaction and sharing of ideas among decision makers.”

Also at the weekend, the President of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Africa’s largest network of ICT professionals, Dr Chris Nwannenna described the CEOs Forum as an excellent approach to bringing all stakeholders together to create industry understanding and encourage corporate growth. “This is one of the initiatives the industry is in dire need of to stimulate research and knowledge sharing,” said Nwannenna in Lagos.

Over 50 chief executive officers of different leading
corporate institutions are expected to attend what has become Nigeria’s first ever multi-sectoral forum involving the telecom, financing and insurance industries. The event, tagged the “Nigeria’s Annual CEOs Start-of-Year Telecom Appraisal Forum.” It is to hold at the Digital Bridge
Institute, Abuja.

The CEOs’ event is an initiative of the Knowledge
Media International (KMI) Limited (publishers of IT Edge magazine) in partnership with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). It is geared at promoting a stimulating discourse on key issues that would affect the health of the telecom sector in the year; enable accurate forecasting; consider the sector’s 2005 indices for market margins, returns and profitability as they would affect all operators; and provide insightful data on telecom and related sectors to help CEOs make informed decisions.

This year’s theme is focusing on ‘Regulations/Licensing, Privatisation and Financing; key issues in the past few months that would recur as the dynamics of the sector force companies to re-define their business processes. Already putting its weight behind the event is the National
eGovernment Strategist (NeGSt) Limited. “The CEO Forum
is not a lecture series but a summit for CEOs to mutually x-ray their common challenges. Everyone is a speaker,” said Fola Odufuwa, chief executive officer of eShekels. Odufuwa, the project’s consultant, is moderating at the forum.


The multi-functional CEOs meeting would provide a
common platform for CEOs of banks, telecom and insurance companies to articulate on how to address current and emerging challenges in the sector. It would also offer a fresh vista of financing and investment
options in the local banking sector faced with its own inherent challenges and the global finance market with shrinking usable financial instruments for operators in
small developing economies.

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