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Day One, Monday 9 June 2008
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08.30 | Registration and coffee
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| EXPLORING VoIP ON A LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCALE |
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09.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks |
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09.10 | Opening Keynote Session: Competing in the VoIP Marketplace – an incumbent operator’s strategy
- Competing whilst following integration trends
- The evolution of telecom operators
- Customers “Expectations and Perceptions”
- Innovative tactics for competition
- Where do we go from there?
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| | Mr. Tamouh Khauli, VP Jordan Telecom Group, CEO Orange Innovation & Corporate Integrated Solutions, Jordan Telecom Group
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09.40 | Regional case study: Capitalising on VoIP Technology
- Understanding the global VoIP revolution- and its revenue potential
- An overview on VoIP deployment in Bahrain
- Opportunities for new entrants
- How to compete against the incumbents?
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10.10 | VoIP: Vision and strategies
- VoIP’s global state of play
- A rapidly changing technological environment
- A technology with tremendous opportunities across the Middle East
- Protecting your market share
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10.40 | Morning Tea
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11.10 | Considerations and challenges for a VoIP implementation
– a mobile operator’s perspective
- Opportunities or Threats?
- VoIP on mobile phones
- Mobile operator’s business model for VoIP
- VoIP is a service enabler for mobile operators
- Meeting the challenges of migrating to all-IP network
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| THE KEY ROLE OF REGULATION IN VoIP DEPLOYMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST |
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11.40 | A glance at the region’s regulations
- Examining key legislative issues in the region
- Effective deregulatory models and policies that empower
people
- Shaping the region’s landscape for VoIP – the role of the Arab
Regulators Network
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12.10 | The implications and challenges of regulating VoIP – the
UAE perspective
- Creating a sustainable regulatory environment
- Understanding the security requirements – the regulators
perspective
- Meeting quality standards
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12.40 | Networking lunch
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| ADOPTING AND MANAGING VoIP |
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14.00 | Successful peering and interconnection strategies
- The rise of new peering models
- Key peering challenges for VoIP
- The benefits and business advantages of peering
- Interconnection challenges and interoperability environments
- The real value of VoIP from peering
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14.30 | Speed Networking
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15.20 | Afternoon Break
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| VoIP’s IMPACT ON CARRIERS AND OPERATORS |
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15.50 | Panel Discussion: Optimising business opportunities and
minimising the risk of falling behind competition
- Exploring future opportunities
- Preparing your data network for VoIP
- Providing combined telecommunication services
- Launching new services to compete with new entrants
- Building strong partnerships
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16.20 | Embracing strategies to succeed in a highly competitive
market
- Building next generation infrastructure
- Meeting the legal requirements
- Developing competitive pricing policies
- Developing branding and marketing strategies to compete in a highly competive marketplace
- Ensuring business continuity – protecting your networks by expecting the unexpected
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16.50 | End of day one and cocktail reception
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Day Two, Tuesday 10 June 2008
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09.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks |
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09.10 | Opening Keynote Session
The Future of VoIP
- The transition from Generation 1 VoIP to a converged offering
- New mobile VoIP solutions
- Simplifying for VoIP for the mass consumer market
- The importance of a customer centric solution
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| BENEFITS OF VoIP TO ENTERPRISES AND END-USERS |
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09.50 | Implementing VoIP to ensure the future delivery of enhanced services for additional revenue and increased profitability
- Ensuring return on investment – the key to enterprise adoption
- Migrating to IP telephony to lower network costs
- IP-PBX and fully hosted solutions
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10.20 | Coffee Break
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11.00 | Providing Next Generation technology: On-demand
communications for enterprises
- Telecom industry challenges and web convergence
- Software as a service market and communication as a service
- Providing CaaS and Hosted VoIP to SMBs
- Opportunities, threats and business models
- Web 2.0, Voice 2.0 and Telco 2.0
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| CUSTOMISING SOLUTIONS FOR THE BEST SERVICES AT THE BEST PRICE |
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11.40 | The successful story of an Internet Telephony provider
- The Journey from PC-to-PC to PC-to-Phone communications
- PC or telephony device? User experience: priority #1
- The dream of FREE
- The power of Communities
- Customer perspective: I want more!
- How to be successful
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12.20 | Networking Lunch
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13.30 | Managing quality and security in VoIP networks
- Ensuring quality before migrating to VoIP
- Enhancing application risk management
- New threats identification solutions
- Best practices of secure testing
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| FUTURE TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES |
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14.00 | Panel discussion: The future is in Wireless VoIP
- Understanding the challenges for implementing mobile VoIP services
- Embracing dual mode devices: GSM and Wi-Fi
- Connecting through GPRS
- Elimination of roaming charges
- Avoiding glitches through enhanced quality and capability
- Competitive scenario (players and solutions)
- Huge market or a niche?
- Data or GSM?
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14.40 | Panel discussion: Triple play and Quadruple play: TelcoMedia offerings in an IP World
- Key learning from VoIP to be implemented in IPTV
- The economy of scale in an IP world
- Future services and voice interaction
- Leading solutions for conferencing application
- Quality of Experience on IPTV service
- High definition standards
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| | Mr. Jay Kishigami, VP Service Strategy, Corporate Management, Strategy division & Exectuive Chief Producer, Convergence, NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories
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15.20 | Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
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Pre-Conference Workshop, Sunday 8 June 2008
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| “IP for Interconnect is an E-volution and Not a
Re-volution” |
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