- Suzy Menneret, Wholesale Programme Director – MEF
- Julian Watson, Principal Analyst, Wholesale Telecoms – Omdia
To kick start the day, Julian Watson will lead us through evolving customer requirements that shape current and likely to impact future mobile wholesale innovative patterns. Amongst these, Omdia will look into roaming and travel mobility trends.
- James Williams, Vice President Business Development – XConnect
- Eli Katz, Founder and CEO – Xconnect
- Jason Lunn, Global Connectivity, CPaaS – Cisco
- Guillaume Klein, VP Product Management – iBasis
- Dario Betti, CEO – MEF
- Emmanuel Rochas, CEO Orange Wholesale International – Orange
Join Dario Betti and Emmanuel Rochas as they talk about the trends that will shape up the wholesale industry in the years to come, and how to best prepare organizations to tackle them. In this exchange, we will address the shifts in technology such as the digitization of the business and the increasing use of AI that impact or support the industry. We will look at the today’s priorities including connectivity requirements to support future growth, 5G SA rollout, network and communications API development and how to deliver a seamless digital end-to-end customer experience when it comes to wholesale services. Last but not least, we will consider future opportunities for long term growth: Wholesale as a Platform, 5G Core network as a Service and Direct to Device satellite solutions.
- Suzy Menneret, Wholesale Advisor – MEF
- Catalin Badea, VP Product Management – Netnumber
- Glyn Povah, Global Product Development – Telefonica
- Olly Brough, SVP Sales and Marketing – Trusona
- Taha Jiwahi, Founder and CEO – Beem
- Ron Bonnici, VP Pre Sales & Product Manager – HAUD
- Joanna Kuligowska, Head of Global Market Intelligence & Managed Services – HAUD
The A2P monetization industry faces a set of unique challenges: the need to balance robust security and enforcement measures against the backdrop of the rapidly evolving technological landscape and the rise of fake A2P SMS traffic that affects the entire value chain, from mobile operators to SMS service providers, brands, and consumers. AIT is costing businesses significant operational expenditure, expediting the erosion of A2P revenues, and driving the evolution of bypassing mobile operators in the future. By initiating next-generation technology that assures A2P messaging. Including ensuring subscriber authenticity, validating authentic messaging, and boosting messaging revenue through monetizing messaging assurance. These efforts safeguard the long-term A2P and P2A business opportunities, HAUD’s solution enables businesses to effectively defeat the bot and maintain the integrity of the messaging chain.
- Sam Barker, VP of Telecoms Market Research – Juniper Research
- Asad Khan, Head of Global Presales – Telarix
- Dana Mansour, Messaging Wholesale Team Leader – Monty Mobile
- Igor Skutsenya, Senior Business Development Manager – Lanck Telecom
- Suzy Menneret, Wholesale Advisor – MEF
- Gavin Patterson, Director of Data – MEF
MEF is developing a large set of market data that can support you in making informed decisions for your wholesale business. In 15 minutes, Gavin Patterson will outline the current data availability and ongoing research we will be making available to you, and where to find this valuable information.
- Suzy Menneret, Wholesale Advisor – MEF
- Steffen Sorrell, Chief of Research – Kaleido Intelligence
Come and join us for this introductory session of the topics that will be covered over the second half of the conference This session will bring you up to speed with the latest market developments impacting the wholesale industry in the areas of roaming, IoT and network APIs.
- Gilbert Relou, Head of Consultancy and Strategic Development – Kaleido Intelligence
- Alberto Carro-Melero, Head of Market Intelligence & B2B – Telefónica
- Mihaela Ambrozie, Head of Operations – Vodafone Voice & Roaming Services – Vodafone
- Kathiravan Kandasamy, VP of Product Management – Syniverse
- Prakash Kumta Mohandas, Director Voice and Roaming – Ooredoo
- Brendan Cleary, CEO – Cellusys
In this session, we will deep dive into what keeps the industry awake at night when it comes to roaming including VoLTE, 5G SA deployments, 5G technical and commercial model development, and roaming monetization.
- Nassia Skoulikariti, IoT Program Director – MEF
- Andrew Parkin-White, Co-founder – TecFutures
- Joseph Ajay, CTO and Head of IOT – iBasis
- Luc Vidal-Madjar, Head of IoT and MVNE Solutions – BICS
- Jimmy Jones, Head of Security – Zariot
- Doug Makishima, Advisor – MEF
- Cedric Gonin, VP Global Business Support – Orange Wholesale International
- Lee Suker, Head of Authentication and Number Information – Sinch
- Eddie DeCurtis, CEO an Co-Founder – Shush
Mobile operators are transforming their networks into open, Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platforms via standardized APIs, enabling new applications and creating new monetization opportunities. Exposing network services externally to enterprises and app developers enables new services and also improves the user experience and security for existing applications. What are the implications and opportunities of Network APIs for Wholesale?
