Monday, April 10 and Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Westin Hotel, Sydney Delegate registration inclusive of two buffet lunches • • • •
Industry‐leading keynotes and nearly 40 expert telecom speakers and panelists Fantastic networking opportunities with hundreds of industry colleagues CommsDay annual dinner featuring the 2017 Industry Pulse results PANEL SESSION: Cutting the FUD on access technologies and their upgrade paths
HEAR FROM politicians, regulators and policy experts including communications minister Mitch Fi ield. Their report card on the past year and their plans & forecasts LEARN FROM senior executives from NBN, Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, Vocus, Equinix, Superloop about their strategies and plans to deal with industry change SHARE THE latest wisdom of some of the world’s top technologists from Cisco, Nokia, Cyient, Ciena, F5 Networks, Juniper, Arris, Adtran, Ericsson, TCS and more
THE PROGRAM MC: TelcoTogether’s Renee Bowker DAY ONE: MONDAY APRIL 10 9am Vodafone CEO Inaki Berroeta; 9.25am Communications Minister Mitch Fifield 9.50am Vocus head of corporate and wholesale operations Alex West: “Transformation. Lessons learned on the integration journey” 10.15am Symbio Networks CEO Rene Sugo: “How mobile carriers block innovation” 10.40 Morning tea 11.20 Nokia Bell Labs president and corporate CTO Marcus Weldon 11.40 Cyient senior solutions consultant Kiran Solipuram “Consolidation of Network Management – Case Study” 12.00 Juniper Networks VP and CMO (APAC) Ashish Dhawan: “The importance of automation in the network” 12.20 Equinix Business Development Director, Networks & Content, Asia Pacific Andrew Oon: “A vision for an interconnected Australia” 12.40 F5 Networks Director Systems Engineering Richard Duncan: “Boosting service provider IoT and 5G readiness” 1.00 Lunch TECHNOLOGY SESSION ONE: 2.10 Brocade Communications senior director Jason Baden “Smart Cities: RETHINK Smarter Business Models, Smarter Analytics and Networks ” 2.30 ADTRAN CTO EMEA and APAC Ronan Kelly “Open Software Defined Access - The Future for Network Monetisation 2.50 Ciena Senior Director, Business Development & Solutions (Asia Pacific) Anup Changaroth “Self-driving Optical networks for an on-demand world” 3.10 Ericsson APAC CTO Dr. Magnus Ewerbring: “Business Opportunities with 5G” 3.30 Afternoon tea REGULATION, POLICY & FUTURES SESSION: 3.40 Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton 4.00 ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin
4.20 Shadow regional communications minister Stephen Jones 4.40 Optus acting Vice President of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs Andrew Sheridan 5 Professor Reg Coutts: “The USO and wireless” 5.20 Consultant Bob James: “The NBN versus wireless” 5.40 Pre-dinner drinks 6.00 CommsDay Dinner MCed by Petroc Wilton DAY TWO: TUESDAY APRIL 11 9am NBN director network engineering Pete Ryan 9.25am Superloop CEO Bevan Slattery 9.50 FutureSumo CEO Skeeve Stevens: “New tech and the coming skills crisis” 10.15am Shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland; 10.40 ACMA acting chairman Richard Bean 11.05 Morning tea 11.25 Cisco Director, APJ Cloud and SP Channel Clayton Pyne: “Digital Transformation: Reimagining value creation in a digital world” 11.45 Telstra Wholesale group director Will Irving 12.05 Cradlepoint director, Asia Pacific channel and carrier Gareth Parker: “Forces shaping LTE for the WAN” 12.45 Arris senior staff solutions architect (video) Asia Pacific Scot Mason: “Video and IoT: Positive for ARPU?” 1.05 Lunch TECHNOLOGY SESSION TWO: 2.00 Net2Edge Asia Pac MD Graeme Bellis: “The Future of Silicon” 2.20 Netcomm Wireless CTO Steve Collins 2.40 BAE Systems director Cyber Intelligence & Security Rajiv Shah 3.00 THE FUTURE OF ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES Expert Panel featuring Nokia’s Els Baert (FTTx), Arris’ Joshua Eums (HFC), Netcomm Wireless’ Steve Collins (LTE & FTTdp), Professor Reg Coutts (original NBN expert panelist), NBN’s Tony Brown, Accenture’s (& former Telekom Malaysia CTO) Giorgio Migliarina. 4 Conference Close & refreshments
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Spend some quality networking time with nearly three hundred industry colleagues at our annual CommsDay Dinner, held at the Westin Hotel ballroom on the first night of the Summit. Book your seat or table now to avoid disappointment. Featuring the release of the 2017 Communications Industry Pulse. 6.30-9pm April 10
PANEL SESSION: Clearing the FUD from the upgrade path for access technologies
There’s too much FUD about the upgrade path for access technologies in the NBN. This panel aims to sort fact from fiction with expert representation from Nokia’s Els Baert (FTTx), Arris’ Joshua Eums (HFC), Netcomm Wireless’ Steve Collins (LTE & FTTdp), Professor Reg Coutts (original NBN expert panelist), NBN’s Tony Brown, Accenture’s (& former Telekom Malaysia CTO) Giorgio Migliarina. Get the detail on what is real in access. 3-4pm, April 11