National Strategies for Ultrabroadband Infrastructure Deployment: Experiences and Challenges

I came about this today and I thought you might want to know. WIK Consulting is organizing a 1.5 day event (26-27 April in Berlin) to discuss some of the most debatable topics of the FTTH world:

What are the key objectives, elements and instruments of the different national broadband strategies?
What is the actual role of the state across the different national broadband strategies?
What are the key elements of public and PPP-operator models?
What role can “universal service obligations” play to reach national broadband coverage
objectives?
Which options are there to secure “openness” of high bit rate broadband infrastructures? What role does “separation” play in this context?
What do we really know about costs and benefits of a (near) ubiquitous national high bit rate broadband infrastructure?

These are some serious issues and if you are interested go and check more on their web site.