IMS Forum Agenda
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Day one - February 26th, 2007
Theme:
Business
Development and Marketing IMS services
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| 7:30am | Registration and Coffee |
| 8:15am | Opening Remarks from the Chairperson |
| 8:30am | Merger
activity and the impact on the communications industry as a whole. - An overview of the recent merger activity within the communications among carriers and equipment vendors and its impact on the IMS Market in North America. |
| 9:30am | Deployed
services and future applications
utilizing IMS architecture. Presenter: Alan Bugos, VP Advanced Technology iBasis |
| 10:30am | Networking and refeshments |
| 10:45am | The impact
of FMC on wireline business models in North America. Presenter: Wilifrid Aissi, Prinicpal IP Architect TimeWarnerCable |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | IMS Services - Business vs Consumer : Where will the initial focus be? |
| 2:00pm | Converged
Operators - IMS in a wireless,
voice, broadband, and IPTV marketplace. |
| 3:00pm | Networking and refreshments |
| 3:15pm | IMS in a
WiMAX network |
| 4:15pm | Revolutionizing
Revenues - Strategies for moving toward new revenue streams and
increasing ARPU. As voice continues to devolve into a commodity, broadband and new services aimed at the in-home market and consumer experience require imagination and agility to capture the next-generation user. This session will focus on the next-gen model. - Who is the next-gen consumer? - Gaming, content, the killer app? - The wide screen - TV, PC, Mobile. Presenter: Joseph Ambeault - Dir Interactive Svcs, VERIZON |
| 5:30pm | Cocktail Reception |
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Day two - February 27th, 2006
Theme:
Standards and
Technical Issues
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| 8:30am | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:00am | Opening Remarks from the Chairperson |
| 9:15am | Keynote: Implementable and Interoperable IMS Standards Presenter: Bhumip Khasnabish - DMTS, VERIZON |
| 10:15am | Vendor
Panel: IMS Solutions Framework on AdvancedTCA communications servers. Moderator: Shantanu Gupta - Intel Panelists: John Fryer - Motorola Greg Pisano - Cantata Bill Bondi - Apertio |
| 11:15am | Networking and refeshments |
| 11:30am | Vendor
Panel: Blended IMS Applications in OSA Moderator: Dr Stephen Wilcox, Intel Panelists: Sanjeev Chawla - Baypackets Vaughn Eisler - BEA Systems Steve Newton - Opencloud |
| 12:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm | ATT's
target IMS Architecture Presenter: Siroos Afshar, Chief Architect VoIP, AT&T |
| 2:30pm | Integrated
Communications Provider perspective on FMC and IMS Presenter: Paul Ingesby - Telkom SA |
| 3:30pm | Networking and refreshments |
| 3:45pm | Voice
Call Continuity Standards Presenter: Randy Wohlert - 3GPP / AT&T |
| 4:45pm | IMS Forum
Panel Panelists: TBA |
| 6:00pm | Close of conference |
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