The WiMAX Forum and Informa Telecoms & Media today announced the keynote speakers for WiMAX Forum Congress Latin America Conference and Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 3 - 4, 2008.

As part of WiMAX Forum’s series of global tradeshows, this event is the largest WiMAX focused tradeshow for the Latin American region and will bring together thought leaders from across the industry to focus on the WiMAX adoption and deployment.

Keynote speakers for WiMAX Forum Congress Latin America include:
Ronaldo Sardenberg, President, ANATEL (Brazil)
Teresa Kellett, Director Global Development, Sprint (USA)
Alex Ternero, CTO, Movilmax/Omnivision (Venezuela)
Henry Fuentes Lain, Network Director, Radiografica Coastarricense S.A. RACSA (Costa Rica)
John Xiong, Marketing & Solutions Director, Huawei (Brazil)
Gonzalo Dona, Strategic Technology Director, VTR (Chile)
Carlos Marino, President, Avantel (Columbia)
Dr. Frank Perthel, Head of Business Development Broadband Wireless, Nokia Siemens Networks (Brazil)
Francisco Varela, Head of Mobile Operator Relationships, YouTube (USA)
Ron Resnick, President, WiMAX Forum® (USA)

The WiMAX Forum Series Tradeshows has shown great success generating over 5,300 attendees and 130+ sponsors and exhibitors at WiMAX Forum Global Congress Asia and WiMAX Forum Global Congress. For more information on the WiMAX Forum Congress Series, please visit the WiMAX Forum event homepage at http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wimax-vision.com&esheet=5809685&lan=en_US&anchor=www.wimax-vision.com&index=1.