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Programme


Day One – Wednesday April 22 2009
Day Two – Thursday April 23 2009
Day Three – Friday April 24 2009

last modified: 24/04/2009 12:56:00 (GMT)

Day One – Wednesday April 22 2009
8am
Registration and coffee
 

IMPROVING BUSINESS PROCESSES AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE TRHOUGH NETWORK INNOVATION
 

9am
Official Chair Opening: How telecommunications is still valuable even though transport services have lost value
  • An alternative view on the components of telecommunications that provide "value"
  • Transport - synonymous with access?
    Information - synonymous with content? 
  • Customer management - but of which relationships? 
  • What has really changed in the telecommunication's value chain? 
  • How network operators can add new value without becoming content players?
     
 
Mr George Sailsbury, Managing Consultant,
Detecon International

9.20am
Keynote: Providing a future-proof foundation for delivering advanced IP multimedia services in order to arrest the drop in traditional voice business
• Balancing the short-term need of optimising fixed broadband networks with the flexibly required for next generation access technologies 
• Quantifying the opportunities and benefits presented by the delivering a superior customer experience through advanced networks
• Providing additional value to subscribers, content owners, application providers and advertisers through the network
• Creating common architectures for mobile and wireline customers – the role of the operator in creating a painless end-user experience in an all IP age
• Moving beyond pure technical fixes - developing a relationship centric network not a pure tech play
• The features that stand the best chance of growing revenue and retaining customers and the best technology to accommodate those features – going beyond recouping the initial subscriber acquisition costs
 
Mr Marc Fossier, CTO,
France Telecom

9.40am
Keynote: Decoupling costs from traffic - the business rational for NGMN deployment
• The economic un-sustainability of NGMN – the need for new business models to be developed in parallel with the 4G technical development
• Looking at required data rates required to support 4G services – usage patterns, penetration rates, backhaul capacity on the order of 40-100 Mbps per cell site
• Translating high traffic on networks into high revenues by creating a viable ecosystem - how to ensure margins when revenue and traffic are decoupled while cost and traffic remain coupled?
 
Mr Emin Gurdenli, Technical Director,
T-Mobile International

10am
Keynote: The opportunities presented with the advance of disruptive access technology
  • Driving advanced digital delivery into residential and SOHO networks by supporting services that are that are affordable for end users and profitable for operators
  • Maintaining network flexibility to ensure the ability of operators to respond effectively with the market dynamics of the next decade
  • Providing a consistent and open User-to-Network Interface (UNI) to enable consistent experience
  • Supporting interoperability between IMS and non-IMS consumer electronics 
  • Future proofing and interoperability - creating complementary elements within FTTH, VDSL2, WCDMA/HSPA and LTE
     
 
Mr Gee Rittenhouse, CTO,
Alcatel-Lucent

10.30am
Morning coffee and tea
 

TRANSITION TECHNIQUES FROM LEGACY TO CONVERGED ACCESS NETWORKS
 

11am
Keynote: Ensuring consistent quality of experience across multi-network infrastructure
• Examining the drivers for building highly scalable networks
• Lowering overall operating cost while enjoying a faster time to market
• Building a flexible infrastructure that allows intelligent network functions closer to the subscriber
 
Mr Bart Salaets, SE Director - EMEA,
Redback

11.30am
Keynote: Implementing network transformation that will enable the delivery of both traditional and next-generation services over simplified, flexible network architectures
• Boosting network capacity and managing increased traffic growth by capitalising on existing assets
• Introducing new multimedia voice, data, audio and video services across multiple networks both quickly and reliably
• Innovating intelligently by using existing assets – which services can be delivered and managed today with the existing network infrastructure?
• Integrate existing BSS and OSS and incorporating an IMS service delivery system
• Identifying new and emerging technologies that will lower cost and improve performance of access networks
 
Mr Chris Bilton, Director, Technology Strategy,
BT Innovate
Paul Gainham, Director of Service Provider Marketing,
Juniper Networks

12pm
Developing technology around the services that customers want
 • The future of access technologies – How will it evolve?
• How will new access technologies impact current business models, their processes and ways of working?
• How will operators be able to exploit the new technologies in a more sustainable manner?
 
Mr John Frieslaar, CTO - Key Accounts,
Huawei

12.30pm
Panel: Selecting the future access technology to deliver bandwidth hungry services
• Selecting an end-to-end fibre infrastructure to deliver high bandwidth and support high-quality video services
• The economics of access technology that they provide network planners (even cable network planners) with a more straightforward decision
• The importance of instant gratification with applications such as gaming, voice over IP (VoIP), and personal video conferencing – understanding the difference between bandwidth demands and network delays
• What technologies are best suited to deliver the high-bandwidth quick response time demands that will only worsen over time?
• The economic benefits afforded to users of the dominant technology
 
 
Mr Barry Reynolds, Head of Network Stratergy,
Eircom
Gabriel Abrantes, Head of Strategic Planning (Networks),
Sonaecom
Mr Istvan Maradi, CTO,
Magyar Telekom
Mr John Frieslaar, CTO - Key Accounts,
Huawei

1pm
Networking Lunch
 

2pm
Keynote: Overcoming a crisis in transport to create an efficient and flexible transport model
• Tackling TDM networks and the SDH model
• Overcoming the challenges of adopting Ethernet for both revenue services and transport
• Bringing a packet-centric rather than circuit-centric approach to networks
• Developing new management and architectural paradigms to overcome inherent structural challenges
Paul Gainham, Director of Service Provider Marketing EMEA, Juniper Networks
 
 
Paul Gainham, Director of Service Provider Marketing,
Juniper Networks

2.30pm
Panel: Selecting the path towards NGN migration for MSOs
• Upgrading digital platforms to deliver advanced services - VOIP, bandwidth-on-demand, video-on-demand, home security, real-time gaming, IPTV and SME services
• Adding fibre extensions to conventional HFC networks and integrating and consolidating legacy networks to ensure innovation
• Providing significant increase in bandwidth capacity deliverable to the home through the deployment of DOCSIS 3.0
• Will Radio Frequency Over Glass (RFOG) drive cable deployment of PON technologies
• How quickly cable operators will actually install fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) lines?
Paul Kerney, CTO, ONO (Spain) 
Jan Vorstermans, EVP Technology & Infrastructure, Telenet (Belgium)
Paul Hendricks, CTO, Ziggo (Netherlands) 
 
 
Mr Jan Vorstermans, Executive Vice President - Technology ,
Telenet
Paul Hendricks, CTO,
Ziggo

3.10pm
Panel: Meeting the business requirements of service innovation through deploying a SDP
• Defining the requirements the platforms and technologies must support by defying which services the operator should brand versus what it should just enable
• Opening up operator networks to third-parties -  bolstering the ability of operators to raise revenues through Content Delivery Management, BOSS integration and the Telco Application Network Interfaces
• Using a SDP for IMS applications interaction with legacy services, such as SMS, MMS, and LBS
• A horizontal approach to delivering next-generation converged services – is it cheaper to deploy services as a vertical than incur the additional costs of deploying an SDP?
• Future proof investment in SDP platforms through scalable SOA architecture
 
 
 
Mr Arvind Dwivedi, Head of Service Delivery,
Reliance Communications Limited
Stefan Holtel, Service Creation Mastermind,
Vodafone
Mr Colin Pons, Senior Strategy & Business Developer,
KPN
Dr Ian Stokes-Rees, ETSI Grid Task Force,
ETSI
Mr Ajay Joseph, Chief Technology Officer,
iBasis

3.50pm
Speed networking
 

DELIVERING NEW SERVICES BEYOND TODAYS ENTERTAINMENT AND COMMUNICATION
 

4.20pm
Panel: Panel: Selecting the future access technology to deliver high bandwidth services such as IPTV
• The role of home backbone networks in ensuring service assurance and uptake of high-revenue and quality-demanding offerings
• Deploying home networks as a service differentiator and to retain customer loyalty
• Reducing the gap between the promise of home networks and the reality of customer frustration - creating a unifying standard for the different home network technologies, aimed at distributing next-generation service-provider offerings
• Whole-home wired backbone networks – the success of MoCA, HomePNA 3.1, HomePlug and UPA worldwide
• Transition techniques for a smooth migration from IPv4 to IPv6
• Managing and controlling interactions between the femtocells and the wireless network infrastructure in the home -
• Developing a new triple-wire standard for home networking with the G.hn standard - what does the wired networking industry need to make this unification happen?
• Using UWB technology to open new applications for UWB over both wireless and wired communications channels
 
Mr Brian Levy, Vice President and CTO, CME,
Hewlett Packard
Prof Simon Saunders, Chairman,
Femto Forum
Mr Gabriele Elia, Head broadcast solution innovation ,
Telecom Italia
Mr Hein Boot, Director of Network,
Tele2 Netherlands
Gavin Young, Technical Committee,
Broadband Forum
Rong-Yih Chen, Managing Director,
Chunghwa Telecom

5.30pm
Case Study: The value proposition of new verticals for the telco operator by managing the physical assets of the home
• Opportunities in e-Health for Telcos through the deliverance of e-Health Services in the connected home
• What products and strategies are utilising the home automation market?
• Revolutionising the management of energy from its point of generation to the point of consumption
• Current initiatives, past experiences, and future opportunities for control systems and services enhancing demand response, billing, added-value customer services and by improving corporate
 
Mrs Petra Wilson , Chairperson, European Policy workgroup,
Continua Health Alliance

6pm
Cocktail reception
 

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Day Two – Thursday April 23 2009
8am
Registration and coffee
 

DELIVERING TOP-QUALITY MULTIMEDIA AND DATA SERVICES WITH NGMN
 

9am
Official opening and welcome by chairperson
 
 
Michael Horn, Senior Director Field Marketing,
PAPN - IP Networks

9.20am
Keynote: Ensuring the smooth evolution both for network infrastructures and applications within NGMN structures
• The evolutionary path that operators should adopt in their move to advanced mobile networks
• Making efficient use of carriers’ existing and future spectrum resources to ensure greater value
• Phasing in NGMN investment while continuing to maximize the return on current 3G technologies – creating a sustainable business plan that proves flexible enough to sustain operator strategies and technology developments
 
Mr Mark Chong Chin Kok, Executive Vice Prsident - networks,
SingTel

9.40am
Keynote: Creating personal broadband services in NGMN
• Trends in mobile data market and technology evolution to handle continuous growth of data traffic
• KT’s business strategy to get a network synergy
• Deploying WiMAX network  with improving indoor coverage and security
• Providing various application and services to meet customer needs 
 
 
Dr Hanwook Jung, Assistant VP,
KT
Hyun-Pyo Kim, Director, WiBro (Mobile WiMAX) BU,
KT

KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES – NETWORK EVOLUTION
 

10.20am
Panel: Meeting the need to be "constantly connected” through the growth of existing HSPA WCDM networks and successfully migrating to LTE
 
• Extend and improve user experience through adaptable existing architectures – what is possible with UMTS and CDMA 2000 protocols?
• Providing capacity increase in the existing network through software enhancements with no additional hardware - enabling the operator to encourage more data usage at a minimal additional cost through the use of software upgrades 
• Aiming beyond HSPA with the development of migration to LTE/SAE technology
• Moving on to the promise of much higher bandwidths with 3.5G technologies – the promise of better spectral efficiency, higher throughput, and lower latency than W-CDMA/HSPA
• Overcoming the base station processor and backhaul bottleneck - successfully deploying LTE and other next-generation communication systems that require a huge jump in data rates
• Achieving higher system performance compared to that of LTE - satisfying end user demand and be sufficiently competitive against mobile WiMAX
• Moving towards software-defined radio (SDR) to cope with all the different integration needs
• The tipping point – has LTE now gained an advantage in terms of cost and interoperability due to the accelerating pace of development that wider industry support has brought?
 
 
Mr Ger Coolen , CTO,
Vodafone
Mr. Håkan Samuelsson, CTO,
Axell Wireless

11am
Morning coffee and tea
 

11.30am
The Next Generation of Heterogeneous Networks - A Challenge to Test beds
  • Configuration and optimization options brought about by LTE/SAE and WiMAX architectures
  • Running applications seamlessly across heterogeneous technologies
    • Exceeding the capabilities of test labs to create solutions for mixed networks
     
 
Michael Doubrava, Director Testing Service,
Nash-Technologies GmbH

12pm
Panel: The place of WiMAX in the mobile broadband revolution - the near term reality of new data services on innovative devices
• How realistic are claims of both WiMAX when it comes to cost savings on network build-outs, relative to GSM or CDMA-based networks?
• Moving WiMAX out of its traditional into the mobile –  ensuring true network interoperability and a high quality of service among user devices and network equipment
• Interoperability developments surrounding the delivery of an end-to-end services - deploying dual- or multi-mode devices that are interoperable with established 3G technologies to ensure network coverage
• Managing customer expectations with IEEE 802.16e deployment
• The ability of femtocells to overcome concerns relating to in-building coverage in the 3.5GHz spectrum without the need for 2.5GHz licenses
• Overcoming the backhaul bottleneck by applying operational innovation
 
Mr Adrian Cuadros, CTO,
Alestra
Dr Mitja Stular, CTO,
Mobitel Telecommunications services PLC
Mr Tahir Hameed , Director BroadBand Operations,
Mobilink
Magnus Johansson, Group Director of Wireless Broadband,
Digicel Group

12.40pm
Networking lunch
 

1.40pm
Panel: Effectively developing and brining to market new access technologies
• Ensuing technology expansion and future innovation with the use of new business models  
• Network transformation and time to market savings with the rollout of new technologies  
• Developing business while granting savings in operational processes 
• Separating the operational model from the physical presence
 
Mr Flemming Hynkemejer, CTO,
TDC Mobile Nordic
David Schwartz, CTO,
XConnect

DEVELOPING THE NEW BUSINESS MODELS THAT CAN BE IMPLEMENTED WITH NGMN
 

2.20pm
Panel: Converged enterprise networks and the future role of the operator
• Extending further into the enterprise network by brining together business and technology architectures
• Driving the adoption of mobile centric devices further into organizations
• The role of enterprise WiMAX connectivity and Saas in securing the enterprise space
• Will picocells and femtocells deliver on their promise of expanding the delivery of data seamlessly throughout the home and office environment?
• Deepening the relationship between the fixed network and the mobile enterprise network 
Ajay Joseph, CTO, iBasis
Nauman Jaffar, Senior Manager, Product Development and Management, TELUS
Abdulrahim M. H. Al-Bahlani, Director Network Business Unit, Omantel
Fredrik Zetterlund, Founder Spring Mobil, Vice President, OnePhone
Hisham Abdulaal, CTO, Mena Telecom
 
 
Mr Nauman Jaffar, Senior Manager, Product Development and Management,
TELUS
Mr Fredrik Zetterlund, Founder Spring Mobil, Vice President ,
OnePhone
Mr Hisham E Abdulaal, CTO,
Mena Telecom

3pm
Afternoon Tea
 

3.30pm
Panel: Developing a variety of innovative services with network-based location services and Machine-To-Machine (M2M) applications
• Looking outside the core operator business and taking advantage of the M2M opportunity
• Moving from features and functionality in devices to service opportunities created by directly connecting products to the Internet
• Is there room for operators to derive significant revenues from niche market opportunities?
• What services offer the greatest opportunities for operators to move into vertical markets?
• Mobile-to-Mobile (M2M) payments
• Mobile resource management (MRM) applications opportunities for operators 
• Deploying location enabled consumer services and enterprise solutions
• The challenge of crossing into many vertical industries that have unique technical and business requirements - integrating M2M based solutions into their exiting IT infrastructure
 
Mr Jesus Bernat Vercher, Research & Development,
Telefonica I+D
Mrs Marie Austenaa, Research and Innovation ,
Telenor
Joanne Taaffe, Deputy Editor,
Total Telecom Magazine

4.15pm
Cocktail reception
 

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Day Three – Friday April 24 2009
8am
Registration and coffee
 

8.50am
Official opening and welcome by chairperson
 
 
Mr Darragh Stokes, Managing Partner,
Hardiman Telecommunications

DRIVING ICT SERVICE ADOPTION IN EMERGING MARKETS
 

9am
Keynote: Paving the way for the introduction of advanced broadband and multimedia services – boosting network capacity and managing increased traffic growth
• Providing quality IP transport and allow the operator to introduce high-quality multimedia services
• Offering customers state-of-the-art multimedia services with a very short time-to-market - requirements for low cost reliable broadband provision in the developing world 
• How to implement and continually change the network – making connection a reality for developing economies through deploying service migration and inter-working strategies
• Evolution of the organisational structure as the subscriber base grows exponentially in a short time frame

9.20am
Keynote: Which access technologies will drive significant operator revenues?
• Considering alternatives to UMTS or CDMA EV-DO in emerging markets with the 4G value proposition
• Providing an essential building block in meeting demand for wireless broadband – the potential savings in transit investment in moving straight to 4G class technologies
• Choosing the appropriate technology based on the application and business case - facilitate economies of scale for operators and securing the availability of standardised terminals and devices
• Provide greater cell coverage and manifold capacity/speeds at cheaper rates than 3G

10am
Morning coffee and tea
 

BUILDING OUT BROADBAND NETWORKS
 

10.40am
Developing expensive network upgrades for data and voice services in emerging markets
Depending not only on technology performance - the readiness of the underlying ecosystem as a key factor in the attractiveness of delivering mobile broadband attempting to drive cost down
• Structural cost advantages of being able to piggy-back on existing 3G infrastructure – avoiding  costs, delays and quality issues associated with integrating new dedicated equipment
• Will Mbps rates prove sufficient with the rollout of HSDPA/HSDPA+ technology in developing economies?
• Starting preparations for the next standard by offering flexible bandwidth- advanced modulation and antenna systems (MIMO)
• W-CDMA/HSPA – will these technologies become redundant by the acceleration in the time to market of the 4G mobile WiMAX and LTE standards?
 
Mr Valdis Vancovics, CTO,
Lattelecom

11.10am
Panel: Building a viable economic case for WiMAX in developing economies
• Advanced Mobile WiMAX solution with MIMO technology – the real market opportunity
• How will WiMAX operators be able to differentiate themselves from 3g operators?
• Wireless local loop through the implementation of WiMAX - the cost-effectiveness and limitations of other technologies such as copper, coaxial cable and fibre
• Overcoming the cost constraints of CPE and the limited availability of enabled devices
• Considering the high cost of building backhauling capacity infrastructure needed to move data to each radio cell site
• The evolution of WiMAX business models in emerging markets with the development of community broadband wireless (municipal/county) networks
Indra Utoyo, CTO & CIO, PT Telekomunikasi (Indonesia)
 
Mr Vasil Dimitrov, CTO,
Nexcom

12pm
Networking lunch
 

MOVING BEYOND ACCESS TECHNOLOGY AND NETWORK REACH WITHIN GREENFIELD SITES
 

1pm
Panel: Offering valued added IPTV services in emerging markets
• Migrating to next generation TV services without building out dedicated nationwide infrastructure – transporting across which type of broadband infrastructure?
• IPTV personalisation and the flexibility of VoD
Wofgang Breuer, CTO and Operations Officer, Romtelecom (Romania)

1.30pm
Panel: Increasing the affinity for data in emerging markets to become profitable with low-disposable income customers
• Expanding growth by connecting the unconnected - the key differences in the mobile data business models of developed and emerging markets
• Which empowering services will drive data revenue in developed and emerging markets?
o Income generation
o Security and survival
o Logistic and inventory tracking services
o VoiceSMS services 
• Creating a eco-system that stimulates local innovation - allowing end-users to derive greater utility from mobile technology
• Encouraging the development of sustainable business opportunities to ensure that the ARPU is sustainable
• Balancing low and high end-user segments to help control the key instruments of the business operations 
 
Mr Mahmud Hossain, CTO & Head of Networks,
Bangla Trac
Mr Hisham E Siblini, CTO,
Orascom Tunisa

2pm
Panel: Becoming a mobile service retailer by improving access to financial services by providing service provision in the MMT ecosystem
• Mobile penetration vs access to banking services in emerging markets
• Launching and drive consumer adoption of MMT as a valued add for MNOs
• Forming successful partnerships between banks and MNOs
• Extending MMT into a broader suite of mPayments services: domestic and international remittances, airtime topup, utility bills, microfinance loans and payroll
• Sustaining success – what and how to monitor, scale and revise the MM user experience in emerging markets?
 
Hiroshi Tamano, Managing Director,
Docomo Europe
Teele Horstra, Chief Operating Officer,
Rabo Mobile
Steven Kingaby, Project Director,
Rabo Mobile

2.40pm
Closing remarks by the chairman
 


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