Enterprises are looking for communication cost reduction and employee productivity improvement while dealing with ever-increasing mobility. An Economist Intelligence Unit survey indicates that nearly half of firms between 51% and 100% of employees use allocated mobile devices, while in three years, 71% of firms will be the case. Are service providers well positioned to solve these enterprise business issues? And how could service providers capture such opportunity and deliver value to enterprises? A new wave of managed services could transform opportunities into reality for both enterprises and service providers.

With managed services, including managed business communication and managed data networking, service providers can meet more and more expected enterprise requirements via flexible models (e.g. hosted, managed and service on demand, ...). With the most experience to satisfy small, medium, and large enterprises, as well as service providers, this session will address these new requirements by leveraging cross-industry knowledge, research and innovation, flexible deployment models, comprehensive go-to-market support and broad partners eco-system.

Laszlo Gyalog Vice President, Enterprise Solutions Alcatel-Lucent Carrier Business Group.

Mr. Gyalog, with his team, works on a suite of solutions that enable carriers to offer managed voice and data solutions to their enterprise customers. Prior to his current role, he worked in the portfolio marketing team of Alcatel's Fixed Solutions Division, where he started at the end of 2004, following his Solutions Marketing responsibilities in Alcatel's Fixed Communications Group where he worked on multi-divisional solutions and consulting, primarily focusing on data networks and optical networks. Mr. Gyalog joined Alcatel in 1986 at the Alcatel University. He was training manager for the Alcatel 1000 S12 voice switch and responsible for the full training program of the S12. Laszlo Gyalog holds a Ms. Sc. in electronics engineering with a specialization in Computer Sciences.

Benoit Felten Senior Analyst, Enterprise Mobility Research Yankee Group

Mr. Felten is a senior analyst in Yankee Group's Enterprise Mobility Research group, with expertise in enterprise mobility solutions and how they interact with existing fixed voice and data solutions in the enterprises IT infrastructure. He helps operators, vendors, and end users to understand the trends in the evolution of mobile communication solutions for businesses and the drivers for adoption in large and small businesses.

Thomas Grewing Head of VoIP Product Management, Converged Core Business Unit Nokia Siemens Networks

Mr. Grewing heads the product management group that offers IP-based voice and multimedia communication for business and consumer users. In earlier roles he was regional product manager for NSN's fixed-network solutions in Latin America and head of a Siemens development department for multimedia applications and, before that, for intelligent networks functionality in the Siemens EWSD switch.

Pierre Hanoune Collaboration Strategy Director, Global Enterprise Orange Business Service

Mr. Hanoune's responsibility is to further develop the strategy around collaboration solutions for multinational corporations. Until September 2006, he led the Global Telecom Competence Centre at Philips International, based in Philips' headquarters in Eindhoven. Mr. Hanoune has also been telecom manager for Philips in France and later for western Europe.

Philippe Rogge Vice President, Business Development and Planning, Enterprise Business Unit Belgacom

Mr. Rogge's mission is to define strategy for the years to come and to identify and develop areas of future growth to contribute significantly to the Belgacom Group. He joined Belgacom in 2001 and, prior to this appointment, ran Belgacom's fixed-line wholesale business, was chief communications officer of the Belgacom Group, was chief regulatory officer of the Belgacom Group, and was in charge of group M&A activities. Mr. Rogge started his career at Exxon (now ExxonMobil), where he was active in IT and internal auditing for five years, before joining the Compagnie Maritime Belge, a diversified holding company specified in marine transport, as finance director.