Events
Market Clarity covers the Australian telecommunications market with insightful research, analysis and market intelligence. We regularly present our research at industry events. This page contains our current presentation schedule.
Market Clarity will be participating in numerous events throughout the year. Please check this page for regular updates.
RECENT EVENTS

Terrapin Telecoms World Australia 2009
7 September - 9 September 2009
Swissotel
Sydney
Telecoms World Australia will cover themes including the Next Generation Networks, National Broadband Network and industry outlook, strategies, and future service.
Market Clarity CEO, Shara Evans, will be moderating and chairing various panel discussions during the 3-day conference:
- Is the telco industry recession proof?
- The regulation and ownership of content - is this the new regulatory battlefield?
Additional information on the conference is available from Terrapin.

Financial Review Broadband Conference 2009
7 July 2009
The Westin Sydney
Sydney
Market Clarity CEO, Shara Evans will be presenting at the "Financial Review Broadband Conference 2009" - an event focusing on the business users of a broadband network ranging from finance to consumer services, health, education and marketing and media.
Shara Evans will be mainly focusing on the correlation of broadband access to fibre ownership and its importance to business users, illustrated with Market Clarity's latest Telecom Infrastructure Mapping Research.
Additional information on the conference is available from AFR.
Informa Broadband Australia 2009
11 June - 12 June 2009
Sydney Harbour Marriott
Sydney
Informa’s fourth annual conference will encompass topics from the National Broadband Network to current broadband infrastructure, services and delivery.
Market Clarity CEO, Shara Evans, will share her insight on the importance of backhaul in regional Australia.
Additional information on the conference is available from Informa.

CommsDay Summit 2009
31 March - 1 April 2009
Swissotel
Sydney
CommsDay's seventh annual conference will are feature an expanded format of separate technology streams as well as their stellar line-up of politicians, CEOs, global vendor leaders and technology experts.
Shara Evans, CEO of Market Clarity, will be chairing a one-day conference and will share insight on the current state of wireless broadband infrastructure in Australia.
Additional information on the conference is available from CommsDay.

ATUG 2009
13 March 2009
Australian Technology Park
Sydney
Market Clarity is pleased to be an industry partner with ATUG.
ATUG 2009 on the 13th March 2009 will start the year with an update from the politicians, policy makers, finance, market and technology experts and industry regulators on the issues that they will be dealing with in 2009 and the impacts end users need to consider.

Kickstart Forum 2009
22-23 Feburary 2009
Hyatt Regency, Sanctury Cove Resort
Manor Circle, Sanctury Cove
Queensland
Kickstart Forum is a three-day conference that is attended by over 50 of Australia's most important technology journalists, which comprises keynote speeches, Six Big Ideas sessions and PR sessions.
Con Tzaidas, Market Clarity's Senior Telecommunications Consultant will present Market Clarity's Telecom Infrastructure Atlas 2009.
More information is available from the Kickstart Forum 2009 website.
Terrapinn Broadband World Australia 2008
5-7 November 2008
Sydney Harbour Marriott
Australia
Key issues for this panel include:
- How wireless services will revolutionise communications infrastructure;
- How wireless services fit in with the National Broadband Network;
- How wireless services will precipitate the bundling of voice, data, internet and broadcasting technologies; and
- How the latest wireless developments will impact service provider quad-play offerings.
Terrapinn Unified Comms Conference
17-19 June 2008
Amora Jamison
Sydney
The aim of the conference is to identify strategies to prepare organisations to evaluate the business case, understand the technology challenges and take advantage of the opportunities provided by unified communications.
Market Clarity is Terrapinn’s research partner for this event, and our CEO, Shara Evans will be presenting at the conference.
Additional information on the conference is available from Terrapinn

Tonkin Australian Broadband Conference
28 April 2008 to 1 May 2008
The Grace Hotel
Sydney
2008 will see the most important decision taken in the field of communications since the sale of Telstra in 1997. At stake is the future of telecommunications, IT and services and our ability to remain competitive in a fiercely competitive global marketplace.
Australian Broadband will go to the heart of the major issues. We will be scrutinising the different models and evaluating what is likely and what is possible. We will be assessing different technologies and forecasting their ultimate role in the creation of a new system.
Perhaps most importantly we will be considering the future of telecommunications regulation in Australia. Most stakeholders have the same overall goal and a competitive environment can only serve to deliver the best possible price to the consumer. Achieving this will very much depend on the right level of involvement from Government and regulatory bodies.
Shara Evans, CEO of Market Clarity, will share her insight on the current state of play of broadband in Australia.
- Where broadband infrastructure is and isn't
- New technologies on the horizon
- What do we need to do to remain competitive with overseas broadband deployments
- What about an Australian Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network?
- The changing face of Australian broadband services

CommsDay Summit
15-16 April 2008
Swissotel
Sydney
CommsDay's sixth annual conference will are feature an expanded format of separate technology streams as well as their stellar line-up of politicians, CEOs, global vendor leaders and technology experts.
Shara Evans, CEO of Market Clarity, will share insight on the current state of fibre infrastructure in Australia.
Further information on this event is available from CommsDay
ATUG 2008
12-13 March 2008
Australian Technology Park
Bay 4, Locomotive Workshop Eveleigh
Sydney
Market Clarity CEO, Shara Evans, will be moderating a high power panel consisting of vendors, operators and end-user organisations on "Technology Futures FTTH." Shara's opening address will set the scene with commentary on recent technology and service developments, spiced with insights from Market Clarity's research findings.
Key topics include:
- What do network operators think about an Australian FTTH network?
- What's happening overseas?
- Why should end users care?
- Where is the business case?
- Where is world's best practice?
- What are the regulatory issues?
Additional information on the conference is available from ATUG

Australia's Telecommunications Infrastructure: A Report Card by Engineers Australia
28 February 2008
Engineers Australia Auditorium
Sydney
Over the period 2000 to 2005, Engineers Australia produced a series of Infrastructure Report Cards at a national, State and Territory level. These Report Cards assessed the planning, management, funding and provision of Australia's transport, water and energy infrastructure. In 2006 Engineers Australia commenced a project to produce an ICT Infrastructure Report Card.
Engineers Australia commissioned Market Clarity, a telecommunications analyst firm, to develop a report on fixed and mobile telecommunications infrastructure and work with Engineers Australia to determine a series of rankings for Australian statistical divisions according to the availability of telecommunications infrastructure. The Report Card covers fixed infrastructure related to telecommunications transmission and access networks, and to mobile networks.
In this presentation Dr Alan McPhail, Chairman, EA ITEE College Board and Telecommunications Report Card Steering Committee, will provide a background to the Telecommunications Report Card and the process which was followed to develop the report including the challenging process of appropriate metrics for each element of infrastructure and the presentation of the metrics in the form of the rankings for the telecommunications infrastructure.
Shara Evans will describe Market Clarity's extensive Telecommunications Infrastructure Database used to support the development of the report for Engineers Australia. Shara will also provide updated information based on further research conducted by Market Clarity over the past 12 months. Shara's presentation will include new geospatial maps depicting Australian broadband infrastructure.
Additional information on the conference is available from Engineers Australia

CommsDay LIVE: The post-poll telecom agenda
3 December 2007
9 am to 5:30 pm
L'Aqua, Cockle Bay Wharf
Sydney
The next parliamentary term will likely see a new minister and radical changes to telecom policy. Big questions that will influence the future of the telecom sector for over a decade will determined by the next government. What price for a fibre to the node network? Will we get fibre to the home? How will Opel's deployment affect the economics of backhaul and broadband? Will Telstra succeed in its campaign for relaxed regulations?
Find out what the industry thinks as CommsDay assembles a top line-up of carrier chiefs, lobbyists, analysts, regulatory specialists and technologists to discuss the impact of the new government - whoever it might be - on the telecom sector.
Shara Evans, CEO of Market Clarity, will share insight on the current state of the Australian telecoms market, key policy challenges for the Government in the post-election period, along with Market Clarity's views on what we will see in the coming months.
Shara will also participate in a lively wrap-up panel session..
Further information on this event is available from CommsDay
AusNOG2007: The Australian Network Operator Group Conference
15-16 November 2007
Harbours Edge, Event Center
Harourside Shopping Complex
Darling Drive, Darling Harbour
Sydney
AusNOG will provide an avenue for network operators of all kinds to meet, discuss and exchange ideas related to the industry with specific relevance to the coming 6-12 months. The conference has a technical, operational and business focus.
Shara Evans, CEO of Market Clarity, will share insight on the current state of the Australian Internet and VoIP services market in her "State of the Market" presentation. Shara's talk will draw upon Market Clarity's extensive databases and will include:
- Key facts and figures on the rollout of broadband infrastructure in Australia - including new GIS-based maps of telecoms infrastructure
- Assessing the impact of infrastructure-based initiatives
- Key facts and figures on the Aussie VoIP market, and the correlation between broadband infrastructure and VoIP services

Terrapinn WiMAX Summit
23-25 October 2007
Sydney Harbour Mariott, Sydney
Market Clarity CEO, Shara Evans will be participating on several panel sessions
Market Clarity's Research Manager, Richard Chirgwin will look at the future for wireless broadband delivery. His address will look at how technologies such as WiMAX and 3G will reshape the Australian telecommunications landscape. Topics will include:
- Evaluating the success of network deployments for both technologies
- The potential for the emergence of a standard to rival both 3G and WiMAX
- How will coverage and capacity issues impact on the comparative success of these wireless services?
Further information on this event is available from Terrapinn.

Communications Policy & Research Forum 2007
24-25 September 2007
UTS, Guthrie Theatre
Sydney
Market Clarity CEO, Shara Evans is part of a panel discussing international broadband adoption comparisons between Australia and other countries. The panel will be chaired by Peter Gerrard, Editor-in-Chief of the Telecommunications Journal of Australia.
Information on this event is available from the Network Insight Institute.

Terrapinn IMS Australia 2007
28-30 August 2007
Afmora Jamison
Sydney
Market Clarity Research Manager, Richard Chirgwin, is chairing the "Outlining a Profitable Fixed Mobile Convergence Strategy Driven by IMS" panel discussion on Day 1 of the conference. The panel will look at:
- What is driving fixed and mobile operators to deploy IMS?
- How soon will this market develop in Australia and why?
- Examining customer demand and potential services
- How will ARPU likely change over time?
ATUG Wireless Workshop - What WiMAX Means For End Users
15 August 2007
4:00pm - 6:00pm
KPMG Building
Level 15, 10 Shelley St
Sydney
Market Clarity Research Manager, Richard Chirgwin will provide an introduction to the WiMAX discussion, putting WiMAX technology into the context of the Australian broadband debate.

Uecomm Hot Topics: Broadband 2007 - Leveraging High-Speed Networks
31 July 2007 - Melbourne, VIC
1 August 2007 - Brisbane, QLD
1 August 2007 - Gold Coast, QLD
2 August 2007 - Sydney, NSW
The broadband debate is red-hot. Everyone seems to agree that increasingly high sped networks are required. But how can businesses take advantage of the broadband revolution? What speeds are really required?
In this seminar, Market Clarity CEO, Shara Evans, will examine the "need for speed" in a business context:
- The applications driving current and future take-up of high-speed connectivity
- The correlation between applications and bandwidth requirements
- Collaborative technologies and business transformation
- The impact of Web 2.0 applications
- What could we do with unlimited bandwidth?
- Broadband in Australia — do we have what it takes to do business in the 21st century?

Terrapinn VoIP World Australia 2007
24-25 July 2007
Hilton Hotel
Sydney
Market Clarity CEO, Shara Evans is Chairing the "VoIP For Service Providers Stream" on Day 1 of the conference. During the day, Ms. Evans will be facilitating discussion groups and providing commentary on:
- Will 2007 be the year of VoIP fireworks?
- Facts and Figures about the Australian VoIP market
- Positioning VoIP in the context of fixed and mobile voice services
- Converged telecommunications status: Where are we in Australia?
- VoIP business models and marketing — lessons from the trenches
- How will incumbents take up the VoIP challenge?
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Thank you for considering Market Clarity for participation in your event. Our analysts are happy to consider requests from conference organisers and other industry parties who wish to engage a keynote speaker. Please contact us.
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Urgent queries should be directed to Shara Evans at (02) 9043-9100.
