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Teleforum 30 Agenda

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

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