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Registration |
09:30 - 10:15 |
Opening Session
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Dr Chaesub Lee, Director of TSB, ITU [ Biography ]
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Oscar Leon, Executive Secretary, CITEL
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10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 - 11:40 | Session 1: Bridging the Standardization Gap: Establishing a National Secretariat for Standardization
This session will introduce the ITU-T Guidelines on the Establishment of a National Standardization Secretariat, followed by an open discussion on how the countries of the Americas Region might establish a national standardization secretariat.
Moderator:
Clovis Baptista, CITEL [ Biography ]
Speakers: - ITU Guidelines on the Establishment of a National Standardization Secretariat:
Vijay Mauree, Program Coordinator, TSB, ITU [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- Presentations by countries of the region to provide examples of how standardization secretariats work:
- Telecommunication Standardization in Brazil: João Alexandre Zanon, Regulatory Specialist, ANATEL, Brazil [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- US International Telecommunication Advisory Committee (ITAC): Marian Gordon, US Department of State [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- The CITEL Standards Coordination Role in Bridging the Standardization Gap: Wayne Zeuch, CITEL [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
Panel Discussion |
11:40 - 13:10 |
Session 2: Digital Financial Services
Recently, the ITU formed a Thematic Group on Digital Financial Services to act as a multi-sector platform for discussing policy/regulatory issues and innovations in digital finance and financial inclusion that might benefit from standardization. The central purpose for this session will be to outline the challenges faced by digital financial service providers in the developing world when offering such services, and to discuss how the Thematic Group on Digital Financial Services can help address some of these challenges.
Moderator:
Vijay Mauree, Program Coordinator, TSB, ITU [ Biography ]
Speakers: - ITU Focus Group on Digital Financial Services:
Vijay Mauree, Program Coordinator, TSB, ITU [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- Digital Financial Services in Brazil:
João Alexandre Zanon, Regulatory Specialist, ANATEL, Brazil [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- Industry Highlights & Trends: Rosita Najmi, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion: Thomas Lammer, Senior Payment Systems Specialist, World Bank [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- Digital Financial Services in Paraguay: Diego Miranda Gómez, Technical Manager, CONATEL (Comision Nacional de Telecomunicaciones), Paraguay [ Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
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| 13:10 - 14:30 |
Lunch |
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14:30 - 15:45 |
Session 3: Prospects for Standardizing the Internet of Things
This session will provide an overview of current directions taken in standardizing the Internet of Things and related international issues. It will explore the status of various IoT standardization initiatives in the ITU and other standards developing organizations (SDOs). This session aims to facilitate global IoT expansion by better understanding of its trends, including a wide range of standardization work.
Moderator:
Amy Alvarez, Executive Director, International External Affairs, AT&T [ Biography ]
Speakers: - Internet of Things: Global Overview:
Geraldo Neto, Sr. Manager, Government Affairs, Qualcomm [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- Industry IoT Standardization Initiatives:
Mike Chartier, Associate Director, Communication Policy, Intel [ Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- Driving Internet of Things (IoT) standardization to build smart sustainable cities:
Sergio Trabuchi, Vice Chairman, ITU-T SG 20 [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- Capacity Building initiatives on IoT for the CITEL Region:
Vladimir Daigele, BDT, ITU [ Presentation ]
- Panel Discussion.
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| 15:45 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00 - 17:45 |
Session 4:
Conformance and Interoperability (C&I)
This session will focus on implementation of C&I programmes in the countries of CITEL. It will introduce the status of the ITU C&I Programme, including the main ITU activities and projects. There will be a panel discussion among the attendants to identify the next steps for implementing the C&I programmes in the CITEL region, market surveillance activities, combat to counterfeit equipment measures, capacity building and strategies to establish common C&I regimes, which benefit from the achievements of the ITU C&I Programme.
Moderator:
Bruno Ramos, ITU Regional Director for the Americas
Speakers: - ITU C&I Programme: Pillars: Vijay Mauree, TSB, ITU [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- ITU C&I Programme: Pillars 3 and 4:
Vladimir Daigele, BDT, ITU [ Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- Standardization and Conformance & Interoperability Activities in CITEL PCC.I :
Wayne Zeuch, USA, CITEL Rapporteur for Standards and Conformity and Interoperability [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
- PCC.I activities on combating counterfeit, substandard and unauthorized equipment:
João Alexandre Zanon, Brazil, Associate Rapporteur of ITU-T Question Q8/11, and Co-Rapporteur of CITEL on counterfeit, substandard and unauthorized ICT devices [ Biography | Presentation: [ English | Spanish ]
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