Day One - Tuesday, 28 September 2010 Day One - Tuesday, 28 September 2010
8am Registration and refreshments9am Chairman’s opening remarks
Wholesale Research Director, Ovum
9.05am Opening keynote address: positioning your business to take
advantage of opportunities and challenges for carriers in the new decade
- Setting the scene – what have we learnt from the recession?
- Overcoming infrastructure challenges and preparing for
incremental increases in data consumption
- Understanding the case for market fragmentation as against a
one-size-fits-all solution
- Taking a closer look at the future of the carriers industry
Chief Executive Officer, BT Wholesale
TACKLING THE DECLINE IN VOICE REVENUES AND
MAKING YOUR VOICE OFFERING COMPETITIVE9.25am Keynote address: ensuring your voice offering continues to
be a key revenue generator
- What should carriers do to ensure voice continues to be a cash cow?
- Overcoming challenges of decreasing margins in saturated
markets
- Understanding the implications of the changing regulatory
landscape on your offering
- Putting together a flexible strategy to overcome the threat
and opportunity of VoIP
Chief Executive Officer, BICS
9.45am Keynote address: Leveraging the All-IP migration for new wholesale opportunities
- Current status: bilateral voice traffic migration to IP
- IPX as a single multi-service interconnect model: enabling exchange of multiple services more efficiently, securely and with high quality
- New carrier-based service opportunities such HD voice
- New partnerships, strategic deals and future developments
Chief Executive Officer, iBasis
10.10am Morning Coffee and bilateral meetings10.40am Keynote address: exploring our new IP World
- Lessons learned to date on best practices and businessprocesses for IP migration and optimization
- How can we best manage new routing and addressing
complexity?
- What new tools are now available to increase visibility and
control
- New innovations and opportunities on the horizon enabled by
IP frameworks
Senior Vice President, Product Marketing & Business Development, Global Voice Solutions, Tata Communications
CAPITALISING ON OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED BY
DATA SERVICES11am Panel discussion: growing your wholesale data service
portfolio with new content-based services
- Analysing trends and next generation opportunities: whatdoes new media consumption and mobile content mean to your business?
- Understanding the implications of traffic explosion and quality
demand
- Extending your value chain to facilitate innovation in the service offering portfolio
- Creating new and successful eco systems though vertical partnerships and time-to-time solutions
Senior Vice President, Deutsche Telekom ICSS Neeraj Bhatia, Business Head – Americas & Europe, Bharti Airtel Director of Marketing, Business Development and Operator Relations, Borusan Telekom Head - Product and Bid Management, Tinet MD - Europe & Americas, Pacnet
11.45am Keynote address: taking a closer look at the Balkans region and its role in interconnecting Europe
- Greece – what role does it play in the European carriers market?
- Understanding key connectivity issues between Europe and the Middle East
- Assessing optical and submarine networks in the region
Chief Operations Officer, OTEGlobe
12.05pm CEO Q&A Session: What is the future for voice and data services? What business models will prevail and what will be the right portfolio mix? How much value is there in going beyond network access to provide value added services and applications to carrier partners and large enterprises
Chief Executive Officer, OTEGlobe Chief Executive Officer, BT Wholesale Chief Executive Officer, TDC Wholesale Chief Executive Officer, Telenor Global Services AS Chief Executive Officer, Cogent Communications Mr Tony Jackson,
(Moderator) Director, Telecoms Solutions Marketing, Convergys
12.50pm Networking lunch and bilateral meetings MAXIMISING THE OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTED BY
VALUE ADDED SERVICES2pm Keynote address: delivering on the promises of IP in the 21st century
- Diversifying revenue streams to boost margins
- Leveraging innovative models of cooperation and collaboration
- Revolutionising the wholesale business to add value
VP, Marketing Strategy & Development, Orange
2.30pm Keynote address: understanding the rewards of VAS and cloud computing in new business model offerings for enterprise customers
- What can we learn from similar industries?
- Effectively differentiating the role of your competitor and partner in your strategy
- Is there an optimal number of organisations to partner with for your business?
- How can you consistently support, orchestrate and deliver new business models?
DELIVERING A PROFITABLE UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS
OFFERING THROUGH UM, VoIP & CONFERENCING3pm Speed Networking and afternoon coffee4pm Keynote address: The new Rostelecom
- Understanding the considerable changes that have taken place in the Russian telecoms market
- Setting up one of the biggest fixed operator in the Russian market
- Focusing on the International telecom market
Liuba Istrati, Head of International Voce Sales, Rostelecom
4.20pm Panel Discussion: maximising your existing network
potential to deliver a high quality telepresence offering
- What’s on the agenda for media companies, carriers and endusers?
- Interoperability challenges – taking a close look at your legacy systems and how it could slow you down
- Opening up new avenues for remote surgery, pipeline inspections and hazardous environments
- The role of fibre based networks in delivering quality and speed
Chief Executive Officer, TDC Wholesale Wholesale Research Director, Ovum Ms eljka Pavlini?, Project Manager, Croatia Telecom
5pm Close of Day One and networking drinks reception |
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