• 09.15

    • Chairman’s Welcome & Introduction

    Guy Redmill, Managing Director, Redmill Communications Ltd, UK
  • 09.30

    • Defining the Relationship Between IMS & FMC

    Shaun Ledgerwood, Director International Sales Support, Sprint

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    • Market trends of managed services and impact on FMC?
    • How IMS can help providers deliver these services?
    • How can IMS accelerate the move to FMC?
  • 10.00

    • Providing an Open Collaboration Platform - A New Business Model for Operators

    James Parton, Head, O2 Litmus, UK Jose Rodriquez, Telefonica

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    • How can Operators open up their network intelligence to 3rd parties and drive developer programmes?
  • 10.30

    • Networking Break & Exhibition Visit

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  • 11.20

    • Open APIs and their Role for IMS Applications

    Sune Jakobsson, Research Manager, Open Services Group, Telenor, Norway

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    • Improving the attractiveness of operators as application distributors to third party developers
    • How to reap the long term rewards
    • Services principles, architectures, standards, services and service creation approaches and tools for telecoms and internet
    • Technology landscape beyond voice - open APIs and service environments in a converged Web/Telco service system
  • 11.45

    • Cable Operator Perspective on IMS

    Ove Færgemand,, Project Director, CTO Office, YouSee A/S, Denmark

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    • Trends analysis - IMS, PacketCable 2.0, IPTV & Media Convergence Solutions
    • Future options
    • Strategic evolution
  • 12.10

    • Analyst and Trend Watcher Panel: What New Applications are Being Developed and What are the Future markets?

  • Panellists: Nick Hunn, Vice Chair, Mobile Data Association
  • Mila Milenkovic, Head of B2B Partnerships and Business Models Development, Telekom Srbija
  • Sune Jakobsson, Research Manager, Open Services Group, Telenor, Norway and GSMA One API Project
  • Angelo Morelli, Executive Director, Global Service Delivery Platforms, Accenture
  • Dr Günther Pospischil, Head of architecture.innovations.projects, Mobilkom Austria
  • Phillip Redman, Vice President, Network Services and Infrastructure, Mobile and Wireless, Gartner
  • James Parton, Head, O2 Litmus, UK
  • Jose Rodriguez, >Telefonica,

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    • What are the trends for applications and end-users?
    • Debating the lack of awareness of IMS applications (eg VoIP well known, how about Presence, Location Services etc?).
    • Operators will deploy any application with a defined ROI, but this is a slow process – how can this process be streamlined and satisfy the operator business case and be faster to market with new innovative IMS applications?
    • Enabling operators to open up to 3rd party developers – how to create partnerships and a revenue sharing environment
    • Integration of capabilities eg IMS Presence and Location?
    • Non-human IMS services and applications, eg M2M, telemedicine – Making money when the user is not on the phone
  • 13.00

    • Networking Lunch

  • Topic

    • IMS Strategies & Vision Stream

  • Topic

    • A: IMS Deployment Strategies - Session 5: Deploying Profitable IMS and RCS Services

  • Session Chair

  • Dr Karim Taga, Managing Director, Arthur D Little
  • 14.00

    • IMS Enabling Rich Communication Services

  • Aude Pichelin, Director of Multimedia Services Standardisation, Orange FT Group, France

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    • Understanding the benefits of RCS and IP
    • How IMS is the foundation of innovative services such as RC
    • Going to market with RCS
  • 14.30

    • Rich Communication Suite and Telecom Italia Experience: RCS Achievements and the Way Forward

  • Antonella Napolitano, Business Innovation Director, Telecom Italia and Vice Chair, GSMA RCS

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    • Demonstrating the value for Operators to join the GSMA RCS
    • Solving Interoperability & standard service profile
    • Addressing social network & Open API
    • Case study of interoperability trial in Italy
    • Sharing user experience tests results
    • Discussing RCS go to market activities
    • Preparing the future: RCS & LTE
  • 15.00

    • Exploring the Business Rationale and Strategy for IMS Deployment in Pakistan

  • Muhammad Ali Khan, General Manager, Commercial Planning and Support. Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd, Pakistan

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    • Rationale for investing in Quad-play architecture - Maximizing ARPU
    • Finding Killer Applications for IMS - From cellular to VOIP fixed line operations
    • One Number: One Phone: Leveraging IMS to become a Total Solution Provider
    • IMS in the context of Broadband Wireless Access
    • Opening gateways for converged services
    • Regional case studies and success stories
  • 15.30

    • Networking Break & Exhibition Visit

  • Topic

    • B: Technology Know How Stream - Session 5: Delivering Service Principles & Architectures in a Converged Web/Telco Environment

  • Session Chair

    Toon Norp, Business Consultant, TNO Information and Communication Technology, The Netherlands
  • Facilitated by TNO Information and Communication Technology
  • 14.00

    • Integrating Off-Deck Applications with IMS

  • Boaz Zilberman, Chief Architect, Fring and O2 Slovakia

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    • Identifying the technical challenges
    • Demonstrating Fring’s integration with mobile operators
  • 14.30

    • A General Architecture for Enabling IMS End User Services

  • Robert Mullins, IMS Project Manager, Telecommunications Software and Systems Group, Ireland and Eircom

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    • Free and open source development tools, and their commercial counterparts
    • Testing functionality using open source infrastructure
    • Porting to commercial grade infrastructure
  • 15.00

    • Panel and Application Demos: How to Boost IMS Application Development

  • Panellists: Nuno Silva, Engineer, PT Inovacao, Portugal
  • Christian Marsch, VP Strategic Alliances, Funambol, Germany
  • Juan Mateu Mullor, CEO, Solaiemes

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    • Enterprise integration – IMS Corporate, Voice integration
    • Horizontal application development on IMS
    • Cloud Computing & IMS
    • Appstore from IMS perspective/IMS vs Appstore
    • Mash-up –creating an open environment for development of IMS services
    • Integrating IMS apps with Internet services
  • 15.30

    • Networking Break & Exhibition Visit

  • Topic

    • Closing Keynote Plenary Session: Delivering IMS Network Evolution and Migration Strategies

  • Session Chair

    Moe Tanabain, Partner, Partner, Intuigence Consulting Group
  • 16.00

    • Trusted Third Party Model:Adapting a Model to Promote IMS Services

  • Speaker: Luis Angel, Galindo, Senior Manager, Strategy & Innovation, Mobile Services, Telefonica, Spain

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    • Co-collaborating: a New Business Model
    • Reducing your CAPEX, creating more value
    • The role of WIMS 2.0 under this model
  • 16.30

    • Closing Panel Discussion: Achieving the A-Z of IMS Deployment within the Evolution Pathway

  • Panellists: Franklin Selgert, Senior Innovation Manager, KPN, The Netherlands
  • Antonella Napolitano, Business Innovation Director, Telecom Italia and Vice Chair, GSMA RCS
  • Marc Jadoul, Market Communications Director -Network & System Integration Division, Alcatel-Lucent
  • 17.00

    • End of Conference