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09:00 - 10:00 |
Session 1: MVNO Landscape and transformations on the horizon
This session explored the MVNO business and operational landscape looking at where MVNOs have been, where they stand today and where they might go in the future from a business, operational and regulatory perspective. |
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:25
09:25 - 09:40
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Welcome Remarks
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Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU
- Chaesub Lee, Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), ITU
Keynote: Rise of the MVNOs
Keynote: Emerging technological landscape for MVNOs
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Neil Sahota, IBM Master Inventor and World Wide Business Development Leader, IBM Watson Group
Moderator:
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09:40 - 10:00 |
The MVNO business, operational, and policy landscape
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10:00 – 13:00 |
Session 2: MVNO Use Cases for Verticals
This session explored the growing MVNO/vertical relationship across various industries such as banking, agriculture, transport, and smart cities.
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10:05 - 10:30 |
Banks as MVNOs
- Stephen Bailey, Executive Head, Standard Bank Mobile
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Panel session: Banking, mobile money and opportunities for MVNO business models in Africa
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11:00 - 11:35 |
Coffee Break (Sponsored by Tata Communications) |
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11:35 - 11:50 |
MVNOs for the sports industry - Use case: Harnessing the power of Malawi’s 6 million Big Bullets football fans
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11:50 - 12:10 | How car manufacturers can become MVNOs
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Tim Sherwood, Vice President, Business Development, Mobility & IoT Solutions, Tata Communications
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12:10 - 12:30 |
MVNOs and Smart Agriculture
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12:30 - 13:00 |
Impact session: What are the key business and policy requirements for verticals creating their MVNOs?
Panel:
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break (Kindly Sponsored by the Republic of Korea) |
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14:00 - 15:40 |
Session 3: MVNO Innovation
This session examined how MVNOs can innovate through new business models, the potential for strategic alliances with MVNOs and identify the challenges of transitioning to such models.
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14:00 - 14:20 | MVNx models of the future: Case study on White Label MVNOs
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14:20 - 14:40 |
Panel session: The role of MVNOs in Smart Cities
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Tim Sherwood, Vice President, Business Development, Mobility & IoT Solutions, Tata Communications
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Karmanie Govender, CEO, Dreamtime Technologies
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Andy Press, CEO, b-Things
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Phathizwe Malinga, Acting CEO, Sqwidnet
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14:40 - 15:00 |
How MVNOs and MVNEs can achieve cross border IoT/M2M connectivity
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Bilel Jamoussi, ITU, Chief of Study Group Department TSB, ITU
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Deepak Gusain, Director - Business Development - Mobility, IoT and Collaborative Services Tata Communications
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| 15:00 - 15:20 |
Digitization and IoT
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| 15:20 - 15:40 | Impact session: How can the MVNx industry overcome regulatory challenges associated with new business models?
Panel:
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Pascal Prot, CEO, Legos
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Karmanie Govender, CEO, Dreamtime Technologies
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Futoshi Sasaki, Deputy General Manager, Strategy and Business Development, MVNO, Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ)
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Bilel Jamoussi, Chief of Study Group Department TSB, ITU
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Amine Mcharek, Programme Coordinator of the Bridging the Standardization Gap Programme, ITU
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15:40 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break ( Kindly Sponsored by Tata Communications) |
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16:00 - 17:35 |
Session 4: The agile MVNO - Embracing Tomorrow's Technologies
The session explored how MVNOs are well positioned to leverage emerging technologies such as 5G, Blockchain and AI. |
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16:00 - 16:15 |
An SDN and NFV based 5G mobile transport and computing platform - Opportunities for SMMEs
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Ntsibane Ntlatlapa, Competency Area Manager, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of South Africa
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| 16:15 - 16:30 | Past and Future of Japanese MVNO
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Futoshi Sasaki, Deputy General Manager, Strategy and Business Development, MVNO, Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ)
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16:30 - 16:45
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How MVNOs can leverage emerging technologies
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16:45 - 17:00 |
Open Access Algorithms and SMEs in the near digital future
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17:00 - 17:10
| Impact of AI and Blockchain on the future of MVNOs
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17:10 - 17:35 | Impact session: How can the MVNO industry leverage emerging technologies and prepare for new waves of regulation?
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Phathizwe Malinga, Acting CEO, Sqwidnet
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Paul Berriman, Group CTO, PCCW
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Futoshi Sasaki, Deputy General Manager, Strategy and Business Development, MVNO, Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ)
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Bilel Jamoussi, Chief of Study Group Department TSB, ITU
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Amine Mcharek, Programme Coordinator of the Bridging the Standardization Gap
Programme, ITU
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17:35 - 18:00 |
Session 5: 1st MVNO Roadmap for international collaboration
Inputs from impact sessions used to generate the first roadmap for international collaboration and strategic alliances between MVNOs, operators and verticals. |
17:35 - 18:00
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Amine Mcharek, Programme Coordinator of the Bridging the Standardization Gap Programme, ITU & (TBC), KNect365
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19:00 |
Evening Networking Social Event |
