C5 World Forum 2007

Conference Schedule

Monday, 26 March

9:00 – 12:00

Half-Day Workshop 1 | Moving into the Digital Home

Chair: David Stevenson, Vice President, Network Management and Devices, Access Network Division, Alcatel-Lucent

Half-Day Workshop 2 | Beyond Triple Play, Making Sure the Next Killer Application(s) will be Available on Your Network

Chair: Michael Engström, Vice President, Global Business Development, PacketFront Sweden

Half-Day Workshop 3 | The Metro Network in the Broadband Era: Evolution or Disruption?

Chair: Eugenio Iannone, Senior Vice President, Application Engineering and Market Validation, Pirelli Labs

Half-Day Workshop 4 | Is Carrier Ethernet Ready to Support IMS Architecture?

Chair: Eyal Rosen, Vice President of Marketing, Nokia Siemens Networks

Half-Day Workshop 5 | Interoperability between Carriers and Vendors in a 21st-Century Network — The BT Experience

Chair: Debra Covey, Managing Director, BT Wholesale

12:00 – 12:15

Networking Break

12:15 – 12:45

Opening Keynote Address | Next-Generation Network: Betting on the Future or Building the Future?

Speaker: Stefano Pileri, Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director, Technology, Telecom Italia

12:45 – 13:45

Lunch

13:45 – 15:15

A1 | Delivering FMC with Existing GSM Infrastructures

Chair: Frederic Potter, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Network Software Activity, Thomson

A2 | Media and Telecoms: Which Solutions and Offer Bundles Make Them Allies?

Chair: Maurizio Tondi, Vice President, IP Communication, Italtel

A3 | Convergent Media Platform for Content and Communication Field

Chair: Frank Caruso, Senior Consultant, Huawei Technologies

A4 | The Role of Carrier Ethernet in the 21st Century Network: Services, Business Models, and ROI

Chair: Yossi Saad, Vice President, Marketing, Actelis Networks

15:15 – 15:30

Networking Break

15:30 – 17:00

Plenary Panel | Role of Ethernet Supporting Converged Services

Chair: Ian Masson, Chief Architect, Fujitsu Telecommunications

17:00 – 19:00

Welcoming Reception

Tuesday, 27 March

9:00 – 10:30

Plenary Panel | Lessons Learned from IMS Deployments

Chair: Magnus Furustam, Vice President IMS Program, Ericsson

10:30 – 11:00

Networking Break

11:00 – 11:30

Hot Seat Session

Moderator: Camille Mendler, Vice President, Telecommunication Strategies, The Yankee Group

11:30 – 12:00

Keynote Address

Speaker: Matt Bross, Group Chief Technology Officer, BT Group

12:00 – 19:00

Technology Exhibition
(Lunch available at 12:00)

13:00 – 14:00

Executive Reception and Luncheon

14:00 – 16:00

Executive Roundtable | ICT as an Enabling Factor for Productivity and Social Services

Moderator: Stefano Pileri, Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director, Technology, Telecom Italia

14:00 – 15:30

B1 | Broadband Mobile Internet: How Will the Internet of Tomorrow Evolve?

Chair: Alessandro Stagni, Head of Offer Strategy, Italtel

B2 | Set Them Free – How Freedom of Choice Can Reduce Both Revenue Loss and Costs Associated to Churn

Chair: Michael Engström, Vice President, Global Business Development, PacketFront Sweden

B3 | Managing Migration of Networks, and Support Systems: Operations and Customers

Chair: Bob Cheetham, Head of Portfolio, Fujitsu Telecommunications

B4 | Access Alternatives for the Future Network

Chair: Peter Linder, Director Network Strategy, Business Unit Broadband Networks, Ericsson

B5 | Using a Service Delivery Platform as a Move into IMS

Chair: Marc Rotthier, Vice President and General Manager, Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME), Hewlett-Packard Company

B6 | IPTV Network Design: Technology Advances and Business Drivers

Chair: Yaki Sfadya, Associate Vice President, Broadband Solutions Group, ECI Telecom

15:30 – 15:45

Networking Break

15:45 – 17:15

C1 | Business Model for the First Mile

Chair: Bruce Ross, VicePresident, Product Line Management, Tellabs

C2 | A Different Perspective for the User-oriented Home Gateway and Related Services

Chair: Corrado Rocca, Senior Vice President, Product Marketing and Development - Broadband Access Products, Pirelli Broadband Solutions S.p.A.

C3 | Carrier Grade Ethernet and Service Level Agreements

Chair: Mark Lum, Independent Consultant for Optical, Metro, Ethernet, and Storage Networks and Services

C4 | Automated provisioning of new services: Automated Distribution Frames

Chair: Werner De Wolf, Business Director Intelligent Connectivity Products, Tyco Electronics

C5 | Seamless Mobility: An Inside Look into Fixed-Mobile Convergence

Chair: Matthias Sauer, Head of System Engineering, Feature Phone Business Unit, Infineon Technologies

C6 | WiMAX Alternative: Ordinary or Extraordinary

Chair: Fayçal Amrani, Partner, Accenture

17:15 – 19:00

Reception on exhibition floor

Wednesday, 28 March

9:00 – 10:30

Plenary Panel | Future Networks – Built by Growing the Core or Aggregating the Edges?

Chair: Roberto Saracco, Head, Long Term Research and Scientific Communication, Telecom Italia

10:30 – 10:45

Networking Break

10:45 – 12:00

Plenary Panel | NGN Deployment: The Human Impacts – Carrier Perspectives

Chair: José Costa e Silva, Nokia Siemens Networks

12:00 – 19:00

Technology Exhibition
(Lunch available at 12:00)

12:00 – 14:00

University Program Luncheon | Bridging the Learning/Practitioner Gap for Success in the ICT World

Speaker: Eugenio Iannone, Senior Vice President, Application Engineering and Market Validation, Pirelli Labs

14:00 – 15:30

D1 | Successful Ethernet Service Deployments

Chair: Umesh Kukreja, Director of Marketing, Atrica

D2 | WiMAX 802.16e-2005: An Operator Case Study for Wireless Broadband

Chair: Bruno Potdevin, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Broadband Wireless Access, Alcatel-Lucent

D3 | Simplifying Network Management with ROADM Technology

Chair: Bill Gartner, Chief Operating Officer, Meriton Networks

D4 | Dynamic ICT in Service Provider Environments

Chair: Manfred Reitenspiess, Director, Business Development of High-Availability Middleware, Fujitsu Siemens Computers

D5 | Defense in Depth: A Strategy for Securing IMS Networks

Chair: Steve Wines, Systems Architect, Reef Point Systems

D6 | The New Internet Business Model Based on IPv6: Drivers, Challenges, and Way Forward

Chair: Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum

15:30 – 15:45

Networking Break

15:45 – 17:15

E1 | Fiber to the Most Economical Point. Is It Finally Happening?

Chair: Jean-Pierre Lartigue, Vice President, Marketing and Communication Access Network Division, Alcatel-Lucent

E2 | Rationalizing Telephony Networks Cost Efficiently

Chair: Ove Anebygd, Head of Tactical Marketing, Ericsson Group

E3 | A Flexible End-to-End QoS Control Capability for Retail & Wholesale

Chair: Olov Schelén, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Operax

E4 | Common IP Centric Network for the Fixed-Mobile Convergence

Chair: Mikko Salminen, Director, Fixed-Mobile Convergence Marketing, Nokia Siemens Networks

E5 | Fixing IMS: Delivering Missing Functionality for Profitable NGNs

Chair: Seamus Hourihan, Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, Acme Packet

E6 | Service Delivery on Fixed and Mobile WiMAX

17:15 – 19:00

Reception on exhibition floor

Thursday, 29 March

9:00 – 10:30

Plenary Panel | Are Carrier IP Networks Fulfilling the Enterprise Needs and Expectations on The Front of Innovation?

Chair: Roberto Zuccolin, Head of Marketing and Communication, Italtel

10:30 – 11:00

Networking Break

11:00 – 12:30

F1 | Migrate to Optical Access

Chair: Stephan Neidlinger, Vice President Business Management PON, Nokia Siemens Networks

F2 | Convergent Charging and Billing in Unified Networks

Chair: Jaco Fourie, Director, Business Development, Charging Solutions, Ericsson

F3 | Metro Ethernet Access Methods: Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) Management and Provisioning

Chair: Arie Goldberg, Chief Technologist and Chief Executive Officer, Omnitron Systems Technology

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 – 14:00

Keynote Address

Speaker: Bruno Lamborghini, Chairman, European Information Technology Observatory and AICA, Olivetti Tecnost

14:15 – 15:45

G1 | Single IMS Across Multiple Networks

Chair: Yair Golan, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, VocalTec

G2 | Legacy and Future Proofing the Network

Chair: Bruno Ette, CSO, KEYMILE

G3 | Unified Database for All Subscribers Across Mobile and Fixed (HSS)

Chair: Joy Huang, Director, NGN/IMS Strategy and Planning Division, Huawei Technologies