Dallas, TX October 16, 2007 – The TM Forum, the world’s leading industry organization dedicated to operational and business management issues for information, communications and entertainment services announced today that its annual Americas event will take place on November 4-8, 2007 at the Adams Mark Hotel and Convention Center in Dallas, TX. The event will focus on operations and management issues for today’s service providers needing to deliver both today’s services and the “next generation” content rich services the market is demanding including streaming media on demand, IPTV, Quad play and more.
“New service offerings are re-shaping the market with new revenue streams and creating new competitors faster than ever before. Current systems and processes are being challenged like never before to deliver these services,” said Martin Creaner, President of the TM Forum. “Management World Americas is the only event of its kind that provides the insight, information and interaction with industry leaders to better tackle these complex issues.”
Comprehensive keynotes from across the industry will be:
· Mike LaJoie, CTO, Time Warner Cable
· Roberta Bienfait, CIO, Blackberry RIM
· Kevin Salvadori, CIO, TELUS
· Bhaskar Gorti, SVP and General Manager Oracle Communications
· Mike Hill General Manager Global Telecommunications Industry, IBM Corp.
Other event highlights include:
- A Conference program of over 90 hours, involving 50 service providers, an Executive Summit with more than 150 speakers on Business Transformation, Cable, Billing, Operations, and a host of other topics
- Networking with leading operators, suppliers, and influencers in the communications, information, and entertainment services industry.
- An innovative and interactive “Content Encounter” experience that focuses on solutions to the management challenges of creating and delivering content and location based services.
- TM Forum’s unique catalyst showcase and living lab demonstrating the latest advancements in Business Support Systems frameworks, mobile backhaul management, and seamless OSS/BSS for IMS
- Over 70 exhibitors demonstrating the latest advancements in operation and management software, services and offerings for the creation, management and billing of services
- 17 onsite technical training courses addressing key TM Forum industry standards and best practices.
Media and analysts receive complimentary registration to the event. For more information on how to receive free registration, contact Juliet Shavit at jshavit@tmforum.org.
About the TM Forum
With over 600 members in 65 countries, the TM Forum is the world’s leading trade association focused on management of information, communications and entertainment services. The Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the way that services are created, delivered, assured and charged. Members include the majority of the world’s service providers, network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators.
The Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical programs and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through its initiatives to help providers move to 21st century ‘lean’ processes, the Forum helps its members automate business processes by deploying operational systems that will work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. The organization provides industry benchmarks, guidebooks, process and software frameworks and specific ‘plug and play’ standards. These give service providers the direction and specific roadmaps to achieve much greater business efficiency and operational flexibility.
For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs such as the Prosspero initiative and its Management World conferences, please visit www.tmforum.org
Media Contact:
Juliet Shavit
TM Forum
+1 215-504-4272
jshavit@tmforum.org