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Wednesday 28th February 2007
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| 08.30 | Registration and coffee
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| 09.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| DRIVING PROFIT IN THE RUSSIAN AND CIS TELECOMS MARKET |
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| 09.10 | Keynote address: exploiting liberalisation – seizing the optimum strategy for the Russian market
- Building subscriber value through the deployment of leading edge technologies
- Analysing infrastructure investment trends – building a platform for full next gen service rollout
- Assessing the impact of Svyazinvest bill – responding to increased privatisation and competition
- Guaranteeing the positive impact of next gen technology deployment – building robust service portfolio value
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| 09.40 | Keynote address: overcoming challenging market share dynamics for long distance carriers in a liberalized market
- Using strategic partnering to build competitive advantage in new market sectors
- Determining the competitive advantage for a service provider in the near future
- Analysing which types of strategic partnerships make sense for service providers in the Russian and CIS marketplace
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| 10.10 | Keynote address: the impact of liberalisation and privatisation on the mobile market
- Injecting new capital flows through privatisation – creating and improving local network infrastructures throughout Russia and CIS
- Assessing partnerships and alliances with local operators in a liberalised environment – building lucrative inter-operator relationships
- Facilitating fair competition for new entrants in the face of entrenched incumbents
- Understanding the regulatory environment of Ukraine and the CIS
- The generation of competition for voice services through liberalisation
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| 10.40 | Coffee break
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| MARKET LIBERALISATION |
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| 11.20 | Panel session: deregulation and liberalisation in the Russian and CIS marketplace
- Evolving from state monopoly to a more competitive and complex market place
- Facilities based versus service based competition – enabling a level playing field
- Capitalising on the liberalisation of international and long distance carrier capacity
- Future challenges in market deregulation - gauging the incumbent’s significant market power
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| 12.00 | Evaluating Russian companies investment trends - seeking higher returns in the rapidly expanding CIS telecoms markets
- Understanding the key drivers behind Russian investment in the evolving CIS marketplace
- Which markets and operators within the CIS are most attractive to acquirers?
- Assessing the best way for Russian investors or operators to benefit from faster growing markets in the CIS
- Evaluating how long these opportunities will be attractive to Russian operators
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| 12.30 | Open multi-market model as an alternative to a traditional business model in a GSM-dominated market
- How to convert technological advantages into efficient business – key principles for building a strategy of intellectual 3G services provider
- Open system ideology. Focus on data services and VAS
- Access to new clusters via convergent projects
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| 13.00 | Lunch
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| OPTIMISING WHOLESALE STRATEGIES |
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| 14.00 | Panel session: developing the carrier services business – moving from capacity to integrated services
- Balancing wholesale and retail markets - can carriers have services utilising both?
- Evaluating the impact of market liberalisation on wholesale strategies
- Rolling out key applications that stimulate capacity demand - delivering new revenues
- Assessing the impact of market liberalisation partnerships and alliances with local operators
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| 14.45 | The mobile customer has changed – now it’s the organizations’ turn to adapt
- The mobile era and customer behaviour - understanding the essence of change in customer expectations
- Commoditization and the shift in competition focus
- Assessing the driving forces behind organizational change
- Implementing a "bionic" model of organizational structure and operational management
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| 15.15 | Speed Networking
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| 15.55 | Coffee Break
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| 16.30 | Building effective customer retention and marketing strategies
- Understandign the evolved subscriber base in the Russian market place – meeting the demands of sophisticated customers
- Optimising pricing strategies to build effective revenue models for new services
- Evaluating which next gen services will consistently generate customer demand
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| 17.10 | Networking drinks reception
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| 17.30 | Close of day one
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Thursday 1st March 2007
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| 08.30 | Registration and coffee
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| 09.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE |
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| 09.10 | Keynote address: establishing network modernisation as a key success factor in the highly competitive Russian telecommunications market
- Expanding last mile connectivity to facilitate effective delivery of NGN services
- Understanding the meaning of NGN in terms of its impact on network service delivery, quality and profitability
- Providing a versatile service platform -evaluating the benefits of combining IPTV, voice and data services
- NGN deployment – investing in long-term network development
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| 09.40 | Keynote address: assessing the impact of VoIP on voice revenues in Russia and CIS
- Analysing the impact of free VoIP on incumbent voice revenues
- Discovering how operators can effectively monetise the usage of VoIP services
- The financial drivers – is there a compelling business case for launching VoIP services?
- Assessing the increasing volumes of VoIP traffic – adopting intermediary strategies to benefit from both legacy and future voice traffic demands
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| 10.10 | Panel session: managing next generation networks – delivering service assurance for new IP services
- Running all services over an IP network – what such a strategy means for your business
- Satisfying customer needs on an end to end basis – ensuring QoS and reliability
- OSS support for your next-generation IP network
- Leveraging the combined platforms, architectures and skills to effectively deliver content based services
- Capitalising on state programmes to stimulate broadband penetration and data usage
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| 10.50 | Coffee break
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| 11.20 | Improving the return on innovation investment - an IPTV case study
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| 11.50 | Building seamless mobility through WiMAX
- Offering cost-effective seamless mobility across various technologies
- Putting consumer experience at the heart of next gen network rollout
- Enhancing user experiences and enable new revenue opportunities for operators
- Enabling access across technologies - cellular, broadband wireless, WiFi, and wireline
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| 12.20 | Enabling successfully deployment of a WiMAX network
- Combating the challenges to successfully implementing a WIMAX rollout
- Assessing the Russian and CIS demand for WiMAX networks – is there a market requirement for wireless data services?
- Fitting into the competitive landscape – the place of WiMAX for carriers, mobile operators and ISPs
- Balancing commercial viability and customer experience
- Assessing which customer segments benefit from the rollout of WiMAX services – facilitating consumer and enterprise services
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| 12.30 | Close of conference followed by lunch
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