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Teleforum 30 Agenda
by JTsocial
Telecom Operators of Small States
Agenda for Teleforum 30 & Workshop Malta 8th to 10th June 2022
The Westin Dragonara Resort
A representative from GO plc carrying a notice ‘TELEFORUM 2022’ will be at Malta International Airport to welcome you and guide you to your transport to The Westin Dragonara Resort sponsored by 2Operate and Sofrecom
Hotel Accommodation on Bed & Breakfast basis: • 7th June sponsored by Salesforce • 8th June sponsored by Cherry & White • 9th June sponsored by Sinch AB • 10th June sponsored by Nokia
Tuesday 7th June - TeleForum 30
Wednesday 8th June - TeleForum 30
1900 Welcome reception at Westin OVRM Verandah – sponsored by Sponsorship Fund
WORKSHOP - RESERVED FOR TELEFORUM MEMBERS ONLY
The Westin Dragonara Conference Centre
0830 Registration
0915 Welcome – Nikhil Patil – Chief Executive Officer, GO plc
8-10 June 2022 The Westin Dragonara Resort, Malta
Case Studies
0930 Anatomy of a Billing Project
Cyrille Joffre – Chief Operating Officer, SURE Guernsey 1000 Opportunities and Challenges of an Independent Infrastructure Company
Thor Jes Thorisson – Telecom Consultant, Mila 1030 Coffee Break – sponsored by Sponsorship Fund
1100 Introducing a National Public Warning System in Luxembourg
Jean-Paul Casel - TELCO Evolution 5G Program Manager, POST Luxembourg 1130 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Chairperson: Orri Hauksson – Chief Executive Officer, Siminn
Panel: Cyrille Joffre, Jonathan Brincat, Thor Jes Thorisson and Jean-Paul Casel 1230 Stand up network lunch - sponsored by Sponsorship Fund
Growing Business
1400 Investing in Start Ups
Paul Grech – Senior Manager Strategy GO plc & Investment Director GO Ventures 1430 ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSUON
Chairperson: Daragh McDermott - Chief Executive Officer, JT Group
Panel: Arthur Azzopardi, Paul Grech, Bernd Liebscher and Cyrille Joffre 1530 Coffee Break – sponsored by Sponsorship Fund
WORKSHOPS – KNOWLEDGE SHARING BY GO
1545 The Role of Purpose in an Organisation
Nikhil Patil, Chief Executive Officer - GO 1615 Digitisation
Kelvin Camenzuli, Chief Digital Officer – GO
WORKSHOP – KNOWLEDGE SHARING BY POST LUXEMBOURG
1645 Digital Compass and Luxembourg’s Ultra-High-Speed Broadband Strategy
Joel Weiler, Head of Compliance – POST Luxembourg 1715 Close of Workshop
1845 Assemble in Hotel Lobby
1900 Welcome dinner at Quadro Brasserie
- sponsored by Cerillion and Omnitele
Thursday 9th June - TeleForum 30
The Westin Dragonara Conference Centre
0830 Registration
0900 Opening Address
Nikhil Patil - Chief Executive Officer, GO plc 0910 Welcome Address
Jordi Nadal Bentade – Chairman Teleforum 0920 Confirmation of Proceedings of TeleForum 29 and Adoption of Meeting Agenda
Joe Busietta –TeleForum Consultant
Digital Transformation
0930 Improve Efficiency and Grow Revenue Streams
Jordi Nadal Bentade - Chief Executive Officer, Andorra Telecom 1000 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION - DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Chairperson: Kristian R Davidsen - Chief Executive Officer, TUSASS Greenland Panel: Jordi Nadal Bentade, Martin Peronnet and Gary Lamb 1045 Coffee Break – sponsored by 2Operate
Strategy
1100 All-IP, Copper Phase-Out and FTTH Deploymeny
Joel Weiler – Head of Compliance, POST Luxembourg 1130 Collaboration on Securing Competitive Roaming Rates
Daragh McDermott – Chief Executive Officer, JT Group 1200 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION – STRATEGY Chairperson: Nikhil Patil – Chief Executive Officer, GO plc Panel: Joel Weiler, Daragh McDermott and Gary Lamb 1230 Accelerating your Journey to Cloud: Salesforce for Telecommunication Industry
Carlo Gessi, Salesforce Telco and Media Strategic Account Executive,
Italy and Mediterranean (20 mins) 1250 The New Factors Shaping the Future of Business and Networks
Claudio Santoianni, Nokia Marketing, Communication & Corporate Affairs Director,
Mediterranean Region (20 mins) 1310 Official Group Photograph
8-10 June 2022 The Westin Dragonara Resort, Malta
1320 Stand up networking lunch
Sponsored by Telavox and SpikeeLabs 1430 Presentations by Sponsors: Telavox and Omnitele
Transformational impact of the Operator lead UCaaS
Erik Domajnko VP Operator Business Telavox (10 mins) 1440 Application of Machine-Learning Models to Maximise RAN Quality and Cost Efficiency
Arnold Van Holten, Head of Sales and Marketing Omnitele (10 mins) 1450 Walk About Session in Sponsors’ Area
Delegates will be divided in 2 or 3 groups and will interact with the sponsors.
The session will feature a dialogue between sponsors and delegates in order to provide a landscape and evolving role of sponsors. 1550 Coffee Break – sponsored by 2Operate 1610 Presentations by Sponsors: Sinch AB and Cherry & White
Maximizing the Value of your SMS Business
Francois Boshoff, VP & Head of Product Management – Sinch AB (20 mins) 1630 Monetising Next Generation Networks
Matt Carpenter, Head of Broadband Networks & John Cassidy,
Business Development Manager - Cherry & White - (20 mins) 1650 Structural Separation – a BSS/OSS perspective
Dominic Smith, Marketing Director, Cerillion Technologies (10 mins) 1700 Cloud Native … What Does That Mean
Pierre Lecomte, Chief Executive Officer, SpikeeLabs (10 mins) 1710 Close of Meeting
1800 Assemble in the hotel lobby and departure
2000 Dinner at the Roof Top, Gracy’s Brasserie in Valletta, preceded by guided tour
Dinner at the Roof Top of Gracy’s Brasserie in Valletta located right in the capital city
Valletta and situated in the stunning 17th century Palazzo Verdelin. This will be preceded by a guided tour in Valletta including St. John’s co-Cathedral www.stjohnscocathedral.com built by the Order of St John between 1572 and 1577, having been commissioned by Grand Master Jean de la Cassiere - sponsored by
Sinch and Cherry & White with pre-dinner addresses by Robert Arcon, VP Operator
Sales, Sinch and Ian Spindler, Commercial Director, Cherry & White (10 mins each sponsor) 2230 Return to The Westin Dragonara Resort
Friday 10th June - TeleForum 30
The Westin Dragonara Conference Centre
0855 Welcome
Nikhil Patil – CEO, GO plc
Technical
0900 CYTA’S Fixed Broadband Access Implementation Strategy
George Malikides – Manager Line Access Network & Technical Support Services, CYTA 0930 Rolling out FTTH Network
Ayrton Caruana – Chief Customer Service Operations, GO plc 1000 Coffee Break – sponsored by Sofrecom
1030 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION – TECHNICAL Chairperson: Jansen Reyes - Director Technology, Gibtelecom Panel: George Malikides, Ayrton Caruana, Cyrille Joffre and Joan-Marc Lauga 1130 Presentations by Sponsors: IFG, Elisa Polystar, 2Operate and Sofrecom
Enhancing your Networks through Powerful Software
Ian Ginn - Founder & Director, IFG Consulting Europe (10 mins) 1140 How to Run Networks More Efficiently and Accurately / Get ready for the 5G era
Anna Konberg, Business Region Director/
Vugar Aliyev, VP Global Presales, Elisa Polystar (10 mins) 1150 2solve ECO-RAN for Green and Sustainable Mobile Networks
Kaj Juul-Pedersen, Chairman, 2Operate (6 mins) 1156 Challenges and Key Success Factors for the Deployment of a Broadband Strategy
Fergal Golding, Regional Director for the Europe Area, Sofrecom (6mins) 1202 PLC to Private
Gary Lamb - Chief Executive Officer, Manx Telecom 1245 Stand up networking lunch
Sponsored by IFG Consulting Europe and Elisa Polystar 1400 TELEFORUM: Update and Future – SESSION FOR TELEFORUM MEMBERS ONLY
Jordi Nadal, CEO Andorra Telecom and Chairman Teleforum • Teleforum account • Next Meeting • GSMA – Potential Relationship with Teleforum Telcos • Consultancy Agreement
8-10 June 2022 The Westin Dragonara Resort, Malta
5G
1500 Fibre vs 5G on the IOM
Hugo Van Zyl – Chief Technical Officer, Manx Telecom 1530 The Status of 5G and Siminn’s Rollout of 5G
Erik Figueras – Chief Technical Officer, Siminn 1615 Coffee Break – Sofrecom
1630 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION - 5G Chairperson: Martin Peronnet, Chief Executive Officer, Monaco Telecom Panel: Hugo Van Zyl, Erik Figueras, Jean-Paul Casel and Jona Olsen 1715 Topics for Next Meeting
Joe Busietta, Teleforum Consultant 1730 Close of meeting
1800 Assemble in Hotel Lobby and departure for Mdina
1815 Dinner at Ta’ Betta Wine Estates www.tabetta.com overlooking a terrace with stunning scenery of Maltese countryside with the medieval city of Mdina to the North and the port city of Valletta and the Mediterranean to the East. This will also be preceded by a tour of Mdina, one of Europe’s finest examples of an ancient walled city and exemplary in its mix of medieval and baroque architecture - sponsored by Nokia and
Salesforce with pre-dinner addresses by Sergio Solivera, Head of Market Unit South and Central Europe, Nokia and Marios Papageorgiou, Account Executive, Salesforce (10 minutes each sponsor) 2300 Return to The Westin Dragonara Resort
Saturday 11th June - TeleForum 30
Transport from The Westin Dragonara Resort to Malta International Airport
Sponsored by 2Operate and Sofrecom