Join over 100 senior media and telecom executives focused on strategy, corporate development and M&A, as well as the founders and managing partners of leading investment firms at Argyle Executive Forum's 2010 Deal Making in Media & Telecom Forum. Hear the thoughts of senior industry deal-makers on how they are adapting to and taking advantage of changing circumstances and their views on recent deals and the potential for a revival in the M&A environment.

Kevin Martin will be moderating a panel discussion entitled, "Leadership Speaks" and Jennifer Richter will participate in an "Investor Roundtable." Other panelists will include Kevin Mayer, EVP, Corporate Strategy, Business Development & Technology, The Walt Disney Company, David Messenger, Chief Administrative & Corporate Development Officer, Virgin Mobile USA,  Andrew Morawski, President & CEO, Telstra Incorporated/Telstra International, Prem Parameswaran, Managing Director and Americas Head of Telecom, Global Telecommunications & Media Group, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

Session topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Thoughts on the future of publishing/print media/access to content 
• Outlook for upcoming deals/acquisitions. Issues such as timing and the effect of the regulatory outlook for the next 12 months. 
• Operator’s perspective on M&A activity in telecom/media 
• How you are structuring upcoming deals differently than before: where are you looking to develop? What are the most desirable partnerships/acquisitions in your opinion? 
• A discussion about the future of TV/Broadcasting: what is the future structure of the industry and who will be the winners / losers.