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Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2018 11:00 – 12:10 Embracing Digital Transformation & Digital Culture: Day 1 Change or Die Auditorium 2 Monday, 26 February Pressure on revenues from digital disrupters means that it is important for operators to invest in new business models 09:00 – 10:30 and operational processes to ensure that they share in the value from digital transformation. This session will Keynote 1 – Creating a Better Service Provider demonstrate best practice examples of digital Auditorium 1 transformation and culture change from inside/outside the Network operators are the great enabler of the digital mobile industry. economy. Their contribution and statistics are astonishing; Moderator: Stuart Carlaw, Chief Research Officer, ABI Subscribers – 5.1 billion unique mobile subscribers globally Research (December 2017). John Hurley, CTO, Ryanair Connections – 8.4 billion mobile connections worldwide Chema Alonso, Chief Data Officer, Telefónica (December 2017). Sandra De Zoysa, Group Chief Customer Officer, Dialog GDP Contribution – The mobile ecosystem generated Axiata 4.4% of global GDP ($3.3 trillion) in 2016, a figure that will Bjorn Ivar Moen, CMO Mobile, Telenor Norway grow to $4.2 trillion in 2020. Nuria Oliver, Chief Data Scientist, Vodafone The opening keynote of the 2018 Mobile World Congress Jeff Dodds, MD, Virgin Media will feature CEOs from some of the world’s leading Samba Natarajan, CEO Digital Life, Singtel operators, taking to the stage to discuss the short and long term challenges and opportunities facing the mobile industry. 11:00 – 12:10 Value Creation & Investment in Content José María Álvarez-Pallete, Chairman & CEO, Telefónica S.A. Auditorium 3 Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA Telecoms and Media continue to converge, with operators Marie Ehrling, Chairwoman, Securitas, Chair of the Board, increasingly seeing content as a new growth engine Telia Company ‘beyond the core’, but the path to value creation is unclear. Kazuhiro Yoshizawa, President & CEO, NTT DOCOMO, Not all operators have budgets to complete with global INC. platforms and content presents a departure from operators’ Shang Bing, Chairman, China Mobile traditional capabilities. As mobile presents an increasingly Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, GSMA & Founder and important channel for content producers, can operators Chairman, Bharti Enterprises deliver value through partnerships beyond network access? 10:30 – 11:00 Moderator: Sam Evans, Senior Principal, Delta Partners Networking Break featuring Showcase Stage 1 Andrew Haworth, MD, Strategy & Content, Consumer, BT Sport Showcase Stage Mark Britt, CEO & Co-Founder, iflix Group Moderator: Steve Brumer, Partner, 151 Advisors Maaz Sheikh, Co-Founder & CEO, STARZ PLAY Sabina Khilnani, Group Strategy & Business Director, WP Jason Juma Ross, APAC Head of Tech & Telecom Narrative_ Strategy, Facebook Dan Worden, EVP, Merge Labs Jean Coffey, Senior Director, Business Development, Richard Pursey, CEO, SafeToNet Jukin Media Sharon Pursey, Co-Founder, SafeToNet 1 11:00 – 12:10 IoT Security & the Blockchain 12:30 – 13:30 Auditorium 4 Keynote 2 – Investing in a Better Future While some risk is inevitable, the balance between risk and Auditorium 1 reward must be right to ensure businesses and consumers Tech investment and acquisition is white hot, especially adopt IoT-enabled technology and services. Given the around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency, which variety and number of IoT devices, how can IoT security has turned into a race for patents and intellectual property guidelines be agreed? Device complexity and multiple (IP) among the world’s leading tech companies. In this industry involvement makes consensus difficult, but recent keynote, the venture capital community will debate which hacks have proven the need for a wider initiative. Within investment efforts they believe will be game-changers in this discussion we look at the role certain technologies, the digital transformation. particularly blockchain, can take. Moreover, in the rapidly changing digital ecosystem, what Moderator: Ian Hughes, Senior Analyst, Internet of Things, are the investment strategies and opportunities for mobile 451 Research operators? Is it sustainable for operators to keep investing Erin Linch, VP, Corporate Development & Strategy, in new technologies? In a future increasingly defined by Syniverse robotics and artificial intelligence, how can the heavily Seshu Madhavapeddy, VP, Product Management, IoT, regulated world of telecoms become more attractive to Qualcomm investors and help create a better future, today. Rashmi Misra, GM IoT & AI Solutions, Microsoft Moderator: Caroline Hyde, European Technology & Media Paul Williamson, VP & GM, IoT Device IP, ARM Presenter, Bloomberg Television Anoop Nannra, Chairman of the Trusted IoT Alliance & Brigitte Baumann, Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Go Head of Blockchain Initiatives, Cisco Beyond Investing Jaya Baloo, CISO, KPN Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger Rajeev Misra, CEO, Softbank Vision Fund 11:00 – 12:10 Funding Network Investments: Priorities, Business 13:30 – 14:30 Cases & The CFO Networking Lunch featuring Showcase Stage 3 Auditorium 5 Moderator: Steve Brumer, Partner, 151 Advisors For many mobile operators, growth is declining or flatlining. David Grant, CEO, Aerial Technologies This makes a return on network investments more critical Sabina Khilnani, Group Strategy & Business Director, WP than in the past, even as the options for network Narrative_ investment become more complex and demand for Dan Worden, EVP, Merge Labs capacity accelerates. The pressure is being felt across the Ilker Koksal, CEO & Co-Founder, Botanalytics value chain; join us as we explore the implications and Ignasi Vilajosana, CEO, Worldsensing options to ease that pressure. Robert Curtis, Principal Designer, dovetailed Moderator: Dora Petranyi, MD, Central Eastern Europe, Nicole Richards, Catalyst, dovetailed CMS Andre Fuetsch, CTO, AT&T Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, Group CTO, Deutsche Telekom Kamal Shehadi, CLRO, Etisalat International Fredrik Jejdling, VP & Head of Business Area Networks, Ericsson Niall Norton, CEO, Openet Laura Abasolo, Chief Financial & Control Officer, Telefónica, S.A 12:10 – 12:30 Networking Break featuring Showcase Stage 2 Showcase Stage Moderator: Steve Brumer, Partner, 151 Advisors Niall Green, CEO, SECOND SCREEN David Grant, CEO, Aerial Technologies 2 13:30 – 14:30 14:30 – 15:30 Live Events and Fan Engagement Keynote 3 – Creating Better Content & Media Auditorium 3 Auditorium 1 This session will feature some of the greatest Content is continuing to undergo significant period of advancements taking place in the live events space where disruption and acquisition, not least from mobile operators faster connections and more digital content is improving themselves, who see content as the key to customer fan experiences. Highlighting opportunities for stadium and acquisition and retention. Especially now that content can sport team owners so they can stay ahead of the ‘game’ in be delivered on demand, anytime, anywhere and in a this rapidly evolving industry. range of rich formats and devices for a premium Moderator: John Jackson, Research VP, Mobile & experience. Connected Platforms, IDC Not all operators have both the deep pockets, invest or Matthew Candy, VP, UKI & Europe Leader, IBM iX, IBM acquire content, nor even the scale to monetise it. All is not Alexandra Willis, Head of Communications, Content and lost however, and we look at some of the options for Digital, The All England Club and The Championships, smaller players to get involved in original content. Wimbledon Moderator: Janice Hughes, Co-Founder & Director, Moderator: Caroline Chan, VP, Data Center Group & GM, Redshift Strategy 5G Infrastructure Division, Intel Cher Wang, Chairwoman, HTC Alfredo Bermejo, Digital Strategy Director, LaLiga Gavin Patterson, CEO, BT Group Marcos Picallo, Innovation Manager, FC Barcelona Jeremy Fox, CEO, Atrium TV and Chairman, DRG Emili Planas, CTO & Operations Manager, MediaPro Jeff Zucker, President, CNN Worldwide Jason Elliott, 5G Marketing Development, North America, Nokia 15:30 – 16:00 Networking Break featuring Showcase Stage 13:30 – 14:30 Showcase Stage AI Everywhere: Ethics and Responsibility Moderator: Steve Brumer, Partner, 151 Advisors Auditorium 4 Niall Green, CEO, SECOND SCREEN AI has the opportunity to provide great value to all people Ilker Koksal, CEO & Co-Founder, Botanalytics around the world. However, the rapid development of the Ignasi Vilajosana, CEO, Worldsensing technology is outpacing the ability to manage the ethical issues we already see with existing AI systems. Immediate 16:00 – 17:10 concerns with the technology in use today include social A New Roaming Era: Breaking Down Digital Borders profiling, privacy, and security. But there are also future Auditorium 2 issues that need to be addressed now, while AI is still in Roam Like at Home (RLAH) rules entered into force in development. Europe on 15/06/17, bringing an abrupt end to the With a complex intelligent system that is constantly premiums previously applied to roaming. This session will evolving and learning, how do we create standards today explore the impact of RLAH upon roaming revenues and for future AI applications? offer direction for operators seeking to influence and profit Rob High, CTO, IBM from changing customer behaviour in this new borderless Paula Boddington, Professor and Senior Researcher, communications market. Oxford University Moderator: Nicole Peng, Senior Director Mobility, Canalys Dr Clara
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