| KeynotesWednesday January 26, 2011 9:00 am - 12:15 pm | |
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| Exploiting new business models and technologies - Telekom Malaysia's "Telco 2.0" Initiative
Picking up on the themes set by David and Greg, Ahmad Azhar Yahya, Chief Strategy Officer at Telekom Malaysia overviews the opportunities and challenges of Malaysia’s High-speed Broadband initiative. Specifically he will address the drivers for Telekom Malaysia’s journey towards Telco 2.0 – the shift towards services with improving the customer’s experience and understanding business process as a key transformation driver. Telecom Malaysia has made extensive use of TM Forum’s Frameworx operational standards in this journey and Ahmad will give first hand feedback on their experiences. | Speakers: |  | Ahmad Azar Yahya, Chief Strategy Officer, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) | |  Ahmad Azhar, 46, holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. He began his career in 1987 as an Engineer in Agilent Technologies (formerly known as Hewlett Packard). He then joined management consultants, Accenture in 1990 servicing a portfolio of clients in Malaysia, Asia and the Middle East in various industries from communications, to high technology, oil and gas and the public sector. His experience includes strategic planning and change management, business and operations support systems, enterprise resource management, revenue and customer relationship management. He became a Partner at Accenture in 2000 before joining TM as Group Chief Information Officer on 2 August 2004. In 2008,
Ahmad assumed the role as the Programme Director of High-Speed Broadband (HSBB) Programme in TM, where under his leadership, TM has successfully launched UniFi in March 2010. He was later appointed as TM’s Chief Strategy Officer on 15 July 2010.
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| Exploiting new business models and technologies - impacts of structural separation and high speed fibre Regulators around the world are encouraging investment in fast broadband access networks through separating access network operators from service providers. How is the new business model working; what are the challenges and what can other countries learn from their experience? How is the market responding over the coming months? What new product and service innovations are being enabled through the extra bandwidth and how are consumers reacting to new pricing models? To answers these questions, we welcome executives from Nucleus Connect in Singapore and Australia’s National Broadband Network. By the time of the conference, Nucleus broadband will be 5 months into the deployment across Singapore and to learn from their experiences, we welcome back Nucleus CEO, David Storrie, for the latest updates on the new service. David will also be joined by Greg Tilton of NBN Co for a lively discussion on these ground-breaking approaches to next generation broadband and examine how it's affecting the thinking of other countries in the region. | Speakers: | | David Storrie, Chief Executive Officer, Nucleus Connect Pte Ltd | |  David is a veteran in the telecommunications industry with more than 30 years of working experience in several parts of the world. David leads Nucleus Connect to create a vibrant Retail Service Provider (RSP) environment offering comprehensive and flexible services that will help all RSPs select and deliver broadband connectivity services to their target markets quickly and seamlessly, bringing a more enriching experience to the end-users.
Prior to joining Nucleus Connect, David was with StarHub where he worked during the license tender phase. After the successful bid, he was put in charge of the fixed network implementation. As Head of Integrated Network Engineering, David was responsible for the day-to-day operations of StarHub's fixed, mobile and cable networks, and charted the division's strategic technology directions. He also led International Carrier Relations and Domestic Wholesale services which focus on the provision of communications infrastructure, facilities and services with other carriers and service providers.
| | Greg Tilton, CTO, DGiT Consultants Pty Ltd | |  Greg is the CTO and co-founder of DGiT Consultants, a specialist Telecommunications Professional Services and Software business. Several major Australian Telecommunication’s carriers operate with DGiT software. Notably DGiT and Greg have been major contributors to the Australian NBN Interface specification and related parts of the TMF Frameworx.
Prior, Greg was the GM of Systems Architecture and Technology had sole responsibility for the NBN OSS/BSS systems architecture. The network is being built to make Fibre to the Premise broadband access available to approximately 93% of premises and provide wireless and satellite services to remaining premises.
In Greg’s 16 year career prior he has had technical leadership roles in three start-up Telecommunications Carriers, a start-up Telco specialist software company as well as roles within Telstra. These roles included Chief Architect of Australia’s first CLEC, RequestDSL. Greg has also authored and lectured a Masters subject in Broadband Access Networks at Melbourne University.
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Business Transformation for Tomorrow's World - Successful Frameworks for a Multi-Sided MarketAs telecoms operators transform themselves from being network providers to becoming the future's ‘social brokers’, who will develop the multi-sided business models that not only deliver quality services, but are also capable of dramatically enhancing the consumer experience? Communications service providers are increasingly finding that it’s not only their networks, but also their business and operational support systems and processes that will play a key role in enabling them to transform their businesses, create new revenue streams, leverage network resources effectively, improve and optimize business processes and increase operational efficiency. This keynote session will deliver a concept of what a successful business transformation model could look like. | Speakers: | | Haiping Che, SVP of Huawei, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd | |  Dr. Haiping Che, is Senior Vice President of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Fulfilling the role of CTO of Huawei Software. Dr Che graduated from Nankai University majoring in Automatic Control in 1997, and joined Huawei the same year. He participated in development of commercial products of GSM NSS, SMSC, WIN, WCDMA. He has been the Head of Dept. of Wireless Core Network, Vice President of Wireless Product Line, and has been awarded the first grade of China National Technology Advancement Prize. | |