GTB Innovation Summit 2010
GTB Innovation Summit: Driving Innovation and Change with IP Transformation
Sponsor — Orga Systems
Sponsor — Hewlett-Packard
Entry to the GTB Innovation Summit is free to all those booked to attend the GTB Innovation Awards dinner the same day, but those intending to attend must pre-register with Laurence Mackintosh on lmackintosh@euromoneyplc.com
Note: timings and content are subject to change.
Monday June 7 2010
12.15 Registration and informal buffet lunch
13.20 Introduction by the chair, Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor of Global Telecoms Business
13.30 Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO of Telus
Smart pipes: how can operators earn revenue from applications and applications developers work with operators? With details of the OneAPI project and the GSMA’s Wholesale Applications Community
13 50 Ramez Younan, CEO of Orga
Building a sustainable and profitable business from mobile broadband services
14.10 Panel discussion
Changing relationships between operators in the IP era
Panel members include Bruce Pollendine, business director for Northern Europe of XConnect, Nektarios Georgalas, principal ICT researcher at BT, and David Cullen, CEO of Nynet
14.50 Coffee break
15.20 Thierry Bonhomme, EVP in charge of networks, carriers and research & development at France Telecom Orange
Network operators, a key role in providing innovation to the users
15.40 Rick Halton, VP of global marketing at Hewlett-Packard
topic TBA
16.00 Panel discussion
Working together to drive innovation — do industry bodies stimulate or slow down innovation?
Panel members: Robin Mersh, COO of the Broadband Forum, Quintin Lew, VP of Verizon, Keith Willetts, CEO of the TMForum and Matthias Maurer, head of customer value management at Deutsche Telekom ICSS, and Graham Trickey, senior director of the GSM Association
16.40 Nan Chen, president CENX and president of the Metro Ethernet Forum
How are the new carrier ethernet exchanges enabling global interconnection of ethernet services, attracting new service providers and fueling further growth of this business network phenomenon?
17.00 Close
19.00 Drinks reception for Awards
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2009
Last year's summit was reported in Global Telecoms Business. Click the image for a PDF (585k): http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/pdf/GTB_Innovation_Summit_2009.pdf