• 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

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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

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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
          • 16.00

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

          • Panellists: Franklin Selgert, Senior Innovation Manager, KPN, The Netherlands
          • Luis Angel, Galindo, Senior Manager, Strategy & Innovation, Mobile Services, Telefonica, Spain
          • Antonella Napolitano, Business Innovation Director, Telecom Italia and Vice Chair, GSMA RCS
          • 17.00

            • End of Conference