Isabelle ParadisPresident and Founder @ HOT TELECOM
Isabelle Paradis kicks off MEF Connects Wholesale with an exclusive briefing from Hot Telecom’s 2020 Wholesale Report
We are in the middle of a shift in products , a shift in models. The industry has already seen lower margins in the last decades and that seems to have stimulated two main strategies: Scale or Niche. How can a shift towards solutions help and what product innovation/ differentiation will succeed? This session takes in views from across the ecosystem.
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Keynote:Â Top 3 challenges & opportunities for business messaging
Jerome Gasic, Head of Messaging at Bics keynotes to explore the top 3 challenges & opportunities for business messaging
Panel discussion: A2P SMS at a crossroads – MNO’s safety belt or the last bullet?
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An open discussion giving a regional perspective and updates:
Juniper Research’s Senior Analyst provides an update to their 2020 Wholesale Roaming report with insights into key future strategies and market drivers, such as 5G networks, RCS messaging and roaming fraud.
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Erik van Stokkkom speaks to three industry leaders about their Voice Strategies, the growth divers and challenges faced to arrive at the path to follow in the evolution of voice.
Co-hosted by MEF and i3Forum this sessions explores the latest use cases, best practices and industry initiatives to stay one step ahead of the fraudsters and protect the long term sustainability of the channel.
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An open discussion giving a regional perspective and updates:
Impact of COVID19 on the wholesale markets in the region
Transformation trends in the region
Challenges & Opportunities
Predictions for 2021
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Olaf Giehl, Senior Project Manager chats to MEF’s IOT Advisor about Critical IoT and Quality of Service
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This panel session explores market development in IoT connectivity and will investigate a range of topics including:
What are the market drivers for IoT connectivity – which segments, geographies and technologies offer the greatest opportunities?
How are communications service providers addressing these opportunities and what challenges do they face?
How is the competitive environment developing and what wholesale and retail strategies are CSPs adopting to monetise IoT connectivity?
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Hot Telecom’s Isabelle Paradis presents their predictions of Possible Wholesale Futures from their new report and invites industry leaders to discuss the findings.
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The RCS opportunity : Where are we with intercarrier RCS? How can Rich Business Messaging hubbing work? Plus an update on MEF’s Open RCS MOU
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Briefings & Panel Discussion
Challenges of Voice Fraud – Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier
STIR/SHAKEN – Neustar
Wangiri Blockchain Initiative – Risk & Assurance Group
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An open discussion giving a regional perspective and updates:
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After leading Ireland’s introduction to mobile marketing his involvement has moved into the mobile CS and PS core network. He is currently CEO at Cellusys whose systems at the centre of controlling mobile networks signaling, for security, roaming and IoT serving over 700 million subscribers globally.
As former VP of Sales & Carrier Relations at tyntec, José gained a deep industry expertise developing profitable SMS and virtual number business across the globe. Previously, he managed the operator department of mobile payments business in Central and Southern Europe for Netsize, a Gemalto company. Before then he worked for Verizon where he headed up a European team responsible for international voice services over almost 10 years. José holds a Spanish citizenship, is based in Munich and studied in Frankfurt where he obtained his Master’s degree in Business Administration.
Specialties:
Customer centric management of technical operations, Product Strategy & Development, Innovation, Mobile Applications and Messaging.
Management and facilitation of cross-functional teams in international and multi-cultural contexts.
Steve holds a Bachelor degree in Physics from Imperial College in the University of London and has over 40 years of experience working for globally recognized telecom companies.
We are now in our 4th year of active MEF membership and have introduced many others to the forum with the goal of improving the messaging eco-system for the benefit of all. Most recently I have being heavily involved in bringing the UK mobile operators together to ensure a future successful outcome with MEF for the ‘Smishing’ initiative. This initiative feels closer than ever to approval and implementation and will be a major step forward in maintaining trust in messaging.
He previously worked as project support analyst for a major online retailer, planning, forecasting and reporting on budgets for large company projects.
Sam’s most recent speaking engagement includes Carrier Community (Berlin, May 2019), featuring in multiple panels on the future of the telecommunications market. Sam holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Portsmouth.
Carlos has two decades of experience in telecommunications, starting his career in a technical support engineering role for Ericsson; supporting 2G/3G switching, intelligent networks and GPRS. In 2000 he joined Nortel, where he held pre-sales and global product marketing responsibilities for Wireless Packet Core and, later, Multimedia Applications. In 2010 Carlos transferred to GENBAND as part of their Nortel acquisition (and then Ribbon Communications as part of their merger with Sonus Networks), where he had marketing responsibilities for Cloud and Platform-as-a-Service offers. In 2018 Carlos joined the Mavenir team to help mobile network operators provide innovative solutions for the enterprise of the future.
Carlos Aragon holds a bachelor's degree in telecommunications engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Dario’s focus is in creating new business opportunities in the fast changing digital world, and he enjoys the cultural challenges of working in different countries.
Joanne has worked in the mobile industry since 2000 helping to establish the nascent mobile games ecosystem with market pioneer I-play (Digital Bridges) and later more broadly looking at mobile entertainment services with Player X / Zed Worldwide. She has worked across the mobile ecosystem partnering with MNOs, solution providers and content owners.
He has worked across a wide range of TMT markets with broad experience in consumer and enterprise and a strong focus on the mobile sector. More recently, he has focused in the areas of IoT and Smart Cities. He has helped organisations with strategy development and implementation, competitive positioning, product development, forecasting, business planning, go-to-market solutions, regulatory issues, transaction support and due diligence.
His experience spans the entire mobile ecosystem having worked with some of the world's largest enterprises, vendors, resellers and mobile network operators.
Kevin has worked closely with MNOs across the globe for almost a decade developing solutions to secure, monetise and control the flow of enterprise A2P messaging services.
He is part of the leadership arm of the Tata Group and his work experience spans over a decade including exposure to varied sectors such as telecommunications, steel, chemicals, power and the retail industry.
Throughout his career, he has operated at the vanguard of the industry’s migration of voice towards data, fixed mobile and the increasing impact of OTT players. As Vice Chairman of the board of the i3 Forum, he has spearheaded many industry developments, such as the international rollout of the all-IP infrastructure.
2010 - 2011 Magyar Telekom Plc., Hungary
Head of Fixed Access Development
2012 - 2013
Magyar Telekom Plc.
Director Group Internal Audit
2014 - 2017
Magyar Telekom Plc.
Corporate Agility Officer
2017 - 2018
Magyar Telekom Plc.
Director Operational Development & Business Demand Management
2018 - 2019
Magyar Telekom Plc.
Director Corporate Security & Quality Management
since 2019 Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier
Senior Project Manager
 Premium IPX
 GLF Critical IoT
 RCS (rich communication services)
From tier 1 operators such as AT&T, Swisscom and Interoute to high tech start-ups. John has also successfully launched a number of big data products, as well as mobile and unified communication solutions.
Since he has joined the industry he has served the companies Primus (AKA PTGI), Arbinet, iBasis and Nexmo in the capacities of Business Analyst, Trading Manager, Procurement Manager and Head of procurement respectively.
Currently, Shanka is serving Vonage, based out of London, United Kingdom in the capacity of Carrier Relations Director responsible for carrier connectivity in the European region with the co- responsibilities of managing India termination development initiatives.
Currently, Edwin is Vonage’s strategic carrier relations director and is responsible for ensuring that Vonage customers have access to the best connectivity worldwide and for driving innovation with carriers to bring to market new solutions for the Cpaas market. And an advisor at Homehero, a fast-growing London start-up.
