SESSION MODERATORS:
Sasha Qadri, Host, DTW Ignite
Joann O’Brien, VP Digital Ecosystems, TM Forum
KEYNOTE: CSPs' strategic options for growth and value creation in the digital economy
- What are the main choices for growth?
- Deciding where to play – horizontal, end-to-end vertical, or both?
- What does it take to become a successful solutions or platform player?
- Will a delayering strategy create more value?
- How can telcos leverage their existing assets to go beyond connectivity?
Elisabetta Romano, Chief Network Operations and Wholesale Officer, TIM and President, TI Sparkle
KEYNOTE: Survival architecture for CSPs in a changing world
- Fast-changing world, fast innovation: market, customers and society evolutions
- Agile architecture to survive fast changes require an architecture as agile as development methods and technologies
- Collaboration at the heart of the transformation
- Go beyond standardization and be operational with code and solution sharing and validation
Koen Vermeulen, CIO, Orange Group
FIRESIDE CHAT: From telco to techco: Transforming the buzzwords into a reality
- What are the ingredients to enable the transformation to a techco?
- Is there a special ingredient to shortcut the transformation to a techco?
- What are some immediate opportunities realized by techcos?
Francesco Venturini, CVP WW Telco & Media, Microsoft
Jon James, CEO, Nuuday
FIRESIDE CHAT: Drivers for telco evolution: Why and how to make the techco journey?
- With the current economic climate of uncertainty around the world, how does transforming into a techco help operators weather the storm?
- Cloud, strong partner ecosystems, Web 3.0, and next-generation business models – how to adapt to an ever-changing landscape with emerging technologies while reining in costs
- The challenges of finding and retaining talent to make the shift to techco a reality
- How do telcos remain relevant by moving from delivering connectivity to identifying future opportunities?
Interviewer: Sylvain Seignour, President, Netcracker
Jamal Najem, Chief Transformation Officer, du
Hesham Fahmy, CIO, TELUS