1st - 2nd December 2010 | Singapore

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Day 1: 1st December | Day 2: 2nd December

Day 1: 1st December 2010, Wednesday

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8.30 am

Registration

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8.45 am

Chairman Welcome Address

Manoj Menon, Partner & MD, Frost & Sullivan

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9.00 am

Keynote Address: Defining the Smart Pipe Vision
What are the risks of dumb pipe? How does a telecom operator evolve towards smart pipe? What are the critical challenges and what are the key opportunities?

Nitin Bhat, Partner, Frost & Sullivan

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9.30 am

Key Note Address: Dumb Pipe Risk and Risk Mitigation
What are the telcos doing to develop a dumb pipe risk mitigation strategy? What are the challenges? How to define a roadmap for the same?

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10.00 am

Thought Leadership Piece on Smart Pipe and Telecom Transformation

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10.00 am

C-Level Dialogue: Exploring Transformation Business Models & Strategies

  • What are the some of the key themes of the transformation?
  • What are the drivers and the roadmap?
  • How does the business model evolve?
  • Does the financial metrics change?

Participants: C-level executives of Regional Telecom Operators

Moderator: Nitin Bhat, Partner, Frost & Sullivan

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11.10 am

Morning Refreshments and Networking Break

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CONCURRENT TACKS: 11.30 am - 12.30 pm

  Track 1:
Operator Application Store
Track 2:
Cloud Services
Track 3:
Newer Devices
Topic 1:

Rationale and models

Business Models through Cloud Services

Business riding on newer devices like Smart-phones, Dongles etc.

Topic 2:

The Right Approach of building an App Store

Delivering the organizational model to participate in Cloud Model

Opportunities for telcos to drive profitable services and applications on these devices

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12.30 pm

Networking Luncheon

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1.30 pm

Key Issues in Delivering Smart Pipe

  • Operator app stores : Why, how and when?
  • Leveraging high bandwidth services with advent of LTE
  • New telco business models
  • The explosion of new devices and how operators can profit from them

Jayesh Easwaramony, Director, Frost and Sullivan

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2.00 pm

Leveraging high bandwidth services with advent of LTE and other technologies

  • Importance of higher bandwidth for access
  • How to manage backhaul and other costs
  • What applications/services to drive
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2.30 pm

Transformation Success Story: Hear from a telco who has transformed

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3.00 pm

Newer Telco Business Models through transformation

  • What will be new telco business models
  • How can these business models mitigate dumb pipe risk
  • What adjacencies will telcos be playing in  

Nitin Bhat, Partner, Frost & Sullivan

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3.30 pm

Refreshments and Networking Break

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4.00 pm

Panel Discussion: Deciding Investments for new technologies
How to justify investments in new technologies in an increasingly saturated market with declining EBIDTA margins.

Participants: Senior executives of Regional Telecom Operators

Moderator: Nitin Bhat, Partner, Frost & Sullivan

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4.45 pm

Closing Address: Summary of Findings of Day 1

Jayesh Easwaramony, Director, Frost and Sullivan

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5.45 pm

Closing Remarks

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