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I’m delighted to announce the latest speakers for MobileBeat 2009, our conference on July 16 for mobile executives: Nagraj Kashyap, of Qualcomm Ventures, and Aditya Khurjekar, who leads business development for Verizon.

Today is also the last day to qualify for the early bird price, which is a $145 discount. We only have 400 spots. Buy here!

Kashyap and Khurjekar will both join our “investors panel,” where they’ll face off against Matt Murphy from Kleiner Perkins’ iFund and Rick Segal, of the BlackBerry Partner’s Fund to discuss the most attractive areas for investment in mobile.

They represent two of the biggest players in the mobile ecoystem: Qualcomm is active in a number of areas, including wireless chips but also today just announced a national rollout of its mobile live digital TV offering, FLO TV, that will launch Friday and reach up to 200 million people. Verizon, meanwhile, is the U.S.’s largest wireless carrier offering what is arguably the most robust wireless network — first with 3G, but now in its rollout in 4G.

Kashyap (at right in photo) leads worldwide activities for Qualcomm Ventures and has 12 years of experience in mobile, having also worked at Nortel, 3COM, Motorola and PRTM. He’s a board observer at Obopay, WaveMarket, Airplay Networks, GoTV Networks, Triage Wireless and Novarra. Kashyap led Qualcomm’s investments in Airvana (AIRV) and Bitfone (acquired by HP in 2007).

Khurjekar (at left), meanwhile, leads strategic investments for new products and services across Verizon’s business, focused specifically on companies that are showing fast growth.

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