For service providers around the world, the network is the strategic platform for delivering new and advanced services to many end-user devices. Operators, carriers, Service providers are transforming their networks into multi-service, Intelligent Next Generation Broadband Networks to deliver “The all Time Broadband Connected” to consumers at home, at work, and on the move.
ARABCOM 2010 Summit and Exhibition will focus on available investments opportunities in different countries on a national and individual level, the latest technologies and solutions that will accelerate network convergence significantly and reduce the digital gap.
Day One 13th May
10:00 – 11:30 am
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Keynote Opening address ( Ministers Speeches )
ICTs for economic growth
How can ICTs contribute to accelerating economic growth? - What can governments to do or not do, to maximize economic growth from ICTs? What are the available Countries investment opportunities ?
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Official Opening of Exhibition and Tour
12:30 – 13:30 pm
Session 1 ( Operators Chairman & CEO ) Vision 2020
Strategies for Growth –Move from Promise to Reality
The head of the Global largest Mobile operators will discuss their different approaches to business expansion including operational innovation, mergers, acquisitions, and growth in a competitive environment
14:30 – 16:00pm
Session 2
New Infrastructure to provide the foundations for mobile ubiquity . Wimax – LTE – FTTx -FTTH –Femtocells - Quadplay
What are the greatest challenges in the migration towards access-agnostic, all-IP core networks? What is the impact on the service landscape? What are the major challenges to successfully launching next generation Broadband mobile networks in 2010? - Which deployment scenarios are prevalent for mature and emerging markets? And: what are the major drivers? - What specific challenges are operators facing and what are the key enablers to be in place for a successful deployment (e.g. interoperability, security, roaming, etc.)? - What role does the availability of spectrum play? What will be the nature of the convergence of mobile and fixed broadband services?
16:00 – 17:00 pm
Session 3
Services and applications delivery in a converged world
Mobile Internet - Content – IPTV – Mobile TV – Unified Communications – Ubiquitous Networks - Convergent billing
Next generation networks in an all-IP world will provide high capacity pipes for the delivery of services.
KEY QUESTIONS :What will fill those pipes, who will be the service providers and what will be the key competitive differentiator? Forecasters paint a future dominated by waves of consumer video, a future in which best effort will no longer be sufficient and where real time and non-real time services have to coexist. Service providers will need to deploy architectural frameworks that support policy control of access networks and continuously monitor and ensure the user's quality of experience. Quality of experience, driven by technology though the implementation of appropriate architectures and best practices, is becoming a key competitive differentiator.
17:00 – 18:00 pm
Session 4
Green Telecommunications
Reducing the carbon footprint: Case study
In order for countries to advance towards sustainable low-carbon economies, international co-operation will be crucial in application of green ICT for raising energy efficiency, and the development of an international market for environmental goods and services.
Special efforts need to be made at the international level for co-operation on developing clean technology.
Day two 14th May
10:00 am – 11:00 pm
Session 5
Smart Cities – Smart Homes . Case studies & Trends
Emerging technologies are poised to reshape our urban environments - Our cities are fast transforming into artificial ecosystems of interconnected, interdependent intelligent digital organisms. Smart homes are becoming a trend .
How will Smart Cities and smart homes deliver better e-services to citizens and businesses
11:00 – 12:0 pm
Session 6 ( PART 1 )
The Mobility Summit – Mobile lifestyle
How to successfully plan, implement, and manage mobility initiatives that address the needs of end users, IT, and the enterprise. How organizations can deploy and implement technologies that will provide an optimal mobile device management, security and VPN connectivity experience
This session will bring together some of the most advanced companies in the mobile industry for which applications form a core part of their strategy to share their insight into how applications and services will evolve over the next year
12:00 – 13:00 pm
Session 7 ( PART 2 )
Creating New Capabilities for People through Personal Mobile distributed Environments . Anywhere, Anytime, Any device
Tracks to be covered will include :
A- Smartphones: devices, applications & services
B- The Impact of a fully functional device
C- Empowering & Mobilizing the Workforce
D- Mobile Government
E- Mobile Advertising
F- Mobile banking
G- Mobile healthcare
H- Mobile payment / Mobile money transfer
and more…
14:30 – 15:30 pm
Session 8
Call centers Outsourcing
If you are interested in saving your valuable time and productive resources, then outsourcing your services to a call center is your best bet. Call center outsourcing offer your business: Cost advantages - Increased bottom-lines –Save on resources - Specialized skills. This session will focus on the new cal center launched in Lebanon and the Unique opportunities they might offer to large clients around the globe , by using the latest technologies .
15:30 – 16:30 pm
Session 9
The Security issue and challenges
No country or operator acting alone can ensure its own cyber security; global partnerships are necessary and unavoidable.
How vulnerable is the system that is at the base of every service, transaction, communication and exchange required for the steady functioning of the global economy and individual well-being? - Is there a real risk? From who? What? What are the most vulnerable targets? - What gaps still need to be filled?
16:30 – 17:30 pm
Session 10
Regulating for the future
Regulation is both a substitute for and a compliment to competition - it encourages and protects market entry, protects consumers and ensures ever wider access to services.
KEY QUESTIONS: Are we regulating as fast as the new upcoming technologies & consumer needs ? What are the available licensing opportunities ?
17:30 – 18:00 pm
End of Summit Closing ceremony and Recommendations
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