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April 4 and 5, 2016 · Westin Hotel, Sydney Australia’s top telecom conference returns
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Views from the executive suites of Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, NBN, Transgrid, Macquarie, SuperLoop, Equinix Fantastic networking opportunities with industry peers at a range of coffee, lunch, drinks and dinner events Comms minister Mitch Fifield
NBN CEO Bill Morrow
Vodafone Australia CEO Iñaki Berroeta
Shadow comms minister Jason Clare
Telstra group exec, corp affairs Tony Warren
Optus VP Corp and Regulatory Affairs David Epstein
Bureau of Comms Research’s Leonie Holloway
ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin
Superloop founder & CEO Bevan Slattery
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The full programme for the two day event Monday April 4
Tuesday April 5
OPENING PLENARY 9.00 Telstra group executive, corporate affairs Tony Warren 9.25 Communications Minister Senator Mitch Fifield 9.50 Vocus COO Scott Carter 10.15 Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton 10.40 Morning tea
OPENING PLENARY 9.00 NBN CEO Bill Morrow 9.25 Vodafone Australia CEO Inaki Berroeta 9.50 Ian Martin Advisory MD Ian Martin “The state of the telecom nation” 10.15 Superloop CEO Bevan Slattery 10.40 Morning tea
MORNING PLENARY 11.00 Accenture communications industry lead, APAC David Ellis: “Operating from the middle of the digital economy – Integrated Digital Service Providers” 11.25 Transgrid executive general manager Tony Meehan 11.50 Juniper Networks VP Systems Engineering and Centre of Excellence, APAC Russell Skingsley “Importance of automation in the network” 12.15 Symbio Networks CEO Rene Sugo 12.40 Ciena chief technology officer Karl Horne “Liquid Spectrum: Leveraging fibre assets to the max” 1.05 2.00
Lunch sponsored by Ciena Ericsson head of ANZ Emilio Romeo
[2.30 5G and Wireless Futures session, see right]
POLICY AND REGULATORY SESSION 2.20 Leonie Holloway, Deputy Chief Economist, Bureau of Communications Research: “Getting the mix of policy, regulations and service standards right” 2.40 Baker & McKenzie partner James Halliday: “Policy and regulatory implications of IoT” 3.00 ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin” “3 key priorities for consumers in telecoms” 3.20 Macquarie Telecom national executive, industry & policy Matt Healy: “How far do we have to fall behind before we are not in the race?” 3.40 Coffee break CHANGING THE NETWORK PARADIGM SESSION 3.55 Procera (Maser) senior director of subscriber experience marketing Thomas Vasen: “QoE: Fighting back against the ISP scorecards” 4.15 Dialogic director, service provider networks Thomas Schroer 4.35 Metaswitch director of sales APAC Ray Tseng 4.55 eintellego Networks CEO Skeeve Stevens: “The Open Networking Revolution” 5.30
Drinks
7-10pm CommsDay annual dinner– see right
MORNING PLENARY 11.00 Shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare MP 11.25 Cisco Chief Digital Officer ANZ, Darren Scott 11.50 Optus VP Corporate and Regulatory Affairs David Epstein 12.15 Nokia Australia and NZ head Dr Ray Owen 12.40 F5 Networks VP service provider solutions Mallik Tatipamula “Securing virtualised 5G networks” 1.05 Lunch sponsored by F5 Networks TELECOMS TECHNOLOGY SESSION 2.00 Macquarie Telecom group executive, Luke Clifton: “SDN: under the wave or over it” 2.20 Equinix managing director, Australia Jeremy Deutsch: “The journey to hybrid cloud” 2.40 Ruckus Wireless managing director, ANZ & Pacific Islands Patrick Devlin 3.00 Adtran chief technologist, EMEA & APAC Regions Ronan Kelly 3.20 Guavus vice president, products and strategy Chris Menier: “Big data analysis” 3.40 Afternoon Tea 4.00 Closing keynote: Industry analyst Bob James “The 5G substitution effect and what it means in five years” followed by discussion with analyst Kevin Morgan SPECIAL 5G AND WIRELESS FUTURES SESSION 2.30PM-3.30PM Monday April 4, Meeting Room IV Level 4 via Level 6 • AMTA CEO Chris Althaus: “Modelling the impacts of mobile on society and economy” • Huawei Technologies VP Strategic Research and Innovation Dr David Soldani: “A global perspective on 5G developments” • Professor Reg Coutts: “Will 5G and IoT create a new monopoly?”
Summit master of ceremonies Renee Bowker, TelcoTogether Formerly an experienced senior manager & strategic marketer, Renee has over 14 years of achievement in the telecommunications industry in Australia, Ireland and the USA. COMMSDAY ANNUAL DINNER 7-10PM Monday April 4, Ballroom • Superloop executives Bevan Slattery and Daniel Abrahams • CommsDay chief editor Petroc Wilton • Live music, TelcoTogether pledge and prize draw, Industry Pulse results