Conference Program

CHRIS RICE
Chief Technology Officer
AT&T, Inc.

As Executive Vice President, Chris Rice oversees the Network Planning and Engineering Group for the new AT&T Inc. His responsibilities also include overseeing the development and deployment of advanced access, switching, and routing technologies for the company. Prior to being appointed to his current position in March 2004, he was responsible for SBC Communications' enterprise-wide technology direction, new technology introduction, platform development and network regulatory.

Previously, Mr. Rice served as Vice President-Network Engineering, where he was responsible for all current planning and engineering for SBC Southwest and SBC SNET. Prior to that, he was Vice President-Network Planning and engineering for SBC Internet Services, where he was responsible for all network planning, engineering, systems and operations. Since joining the company he has also held a variety of other management positions in network operations, network engineering, network planning, project management and outside plant operations.