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GSR14 Agenda Day 2

 Wednesday 4 June 2014                                                                                         

​PREVIOUS DAY       NEXT DAY
Global Regulators - Industry Dialogue (GRID)
​09.00 – 10.30 

​Session 3:  Big data - an opportunity or a threat?

• Maximizing the potential of data and why it matters for consumers, industry players and governments
• Understanding the issues at stake
• The link with open data (crowd sourcing, cloud computing, etc.)
• Is there a need to regulate data management and service providers?
• How to prevent market dominance in this area and protect the rights of the data owners?
• Addressing privacy, copyright and IPR, transparency and digital security issues

Presentation: GSR discussion paper on Big data (co-authored by Mr Viktor Mayer-Schönberger)│Presentation , Mr Andy Haire, Chairman, AJH Communications, Ilc
Moderator: Mr Mohamed Al Ghanim, Director General, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), United Arab Emirates, GSR07 Chair.
Panelists: 
  • Dr Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta, Member, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) 
  • Mr Zhigang Ma, Deputy Chief Engineer, Institute of Economy and Policy Research, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China
  • Dr Mustafa Aykut, Coordinator, International Affairs and Policy Coordinator, Türk Telekom 
  • Mr Khaled Koubaa, Head of Policy, Google 
  • Mr Peter Pitsch, Executive Director, Intel

Coffee break ​
​10.45 – 12.00 

​Session 4:  Is it time to rethink spectrum licensing?

• Taking into account the need for more spectrum, spectrum sharing and refarming: how to balance licensed spectrum obligations and costs with those of license-exempt operators?
• How to ensure a level playing field among licensed and license-exempt operators providing mobile services?
• Is it time to rethink the licensing framework, mechanisms and fees? Is auctioning still the way forward?

Presentation: GSR discussion paper on New Frontiers in Spectrum Licensing │Presentation , Mr John Alden, vice President, Freedom Technologies  
Moderator: Mr Jacques Stern, Board Member, Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes (ARCEP), France              
Panelists: 
  • Mr François Rancy, Director, Radiocommunication Bureau (BR), ITU 
  • Mr Piro Xhixho, Chairman, Electronic and Postal Communications Authority, Albania 
  • Mr Hideo Fuseda, Director of Mobile Communications, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan 
  • Mr Luigi Gambardella, Vice President and Head of Relations with international organizations, Telecom Italia
  • Dr Robert Pepper, Vice-President, Cisco Systems, Inc. 

Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.30

Network Debate: Meeting the demand for capacity, are we getting there?

• Rolling out ultra-high speed wired and wireless broadband, where are we?
• What are the main barriers to reduce network deployment costs?
• Innovative regulatory, policy and commercial approaches (e.g. telco-built CDNs, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV))
• Infrastructure sharing approaches and cross border cooperation

Moderator: Mr Kamal Shehadi, Chief Regulatory Officer, Etisalat and GSR09 Chair 
Panelists:
  • Prof. João Confraria, Member of the Board, Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), Portugal 
  • Mr Gonzalo Ruiz Días, president, organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPEL), Peru 
  • Mr Paarock VanPercy, National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana 
  • Mr Deepak Mathur, Senior Vice President APMA, SES 
  • Mr Pablo Pfost, Head Group Regulatory Affairs, Telefonica

Coffee break​ ​
​15.45 - 17.00

​Session 6 : New business models driven by digital communications and services


• A financial perspective on the business case of application providers, OTTs, cloud providers, start-ups, etc.
• Understanding their business models
• How to generate revenues in the digital ecosystem? Shifting revenue streams
• Is cost sharing a solution?
• In light of the call for light regulation, is there a need to regulate? How to do so in a globalized world?

Presentation: GSR discussion paper on The impact of data on ICT business models │Presentation, Mr René Arnold, Head of Department Markets and Perspectives, WIK-Consult GmbH
Moderator: Mr Mohamed Bubashait, General Director, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Bahrain
Panelists: 
• En Hesham El Alaily, Executive President, National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA), Egypt 
• Mr Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi, Chairman, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Malaysia 
• Mr Jim Beveridge, Director, International Technology Policy, Microsoft 
• Ms Lauren Van Wazer, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Akamai Technologies