| The need to secure "cyberspace" is absolutely vital to our everyday lives and for doing business, but takes on even more importance when we are talking about the security of a nation. Cyberspace is the operating domain realized most prominently over communications networks, the services they enable, and the data conveyed by those services is now a nearly universal mandate across the globe. Defense activities that took place at Management World Americas
Tuesday, December 8th (Day 1)
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Wednesday, December 9th (Day 2)
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Thursday, December 10th (Day 3)
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Defense Related Sessions and Spotlights
Tuesday, December 8th (Day 1)
| | Activity | Details | Time | | Defense Spotlight | Three hours of conference sessions dedicated to the Defense Industry. See full agenda | 2:00pm -
5:30pm | | IT & Operational Excellence Summit | Migration Mountains – How to Overcome the Issues Associated with Data and Process Migration for Today’s Communication Service Providers
Matt Hooper, Marketing, Celona Technologies Ltd
Phil Dance, MD Technology Exploitation, BT Group plc | 2:00pm -
3:30pm | | IT & Operational Excellence Summit. | A Smart Grid Communications Strategy
Shekhar Gupta, CCNA, CCNP, Product Development, CenturyLink | | 4:00pm -
5:30pm | Forumville
| Forumville Defense Tour
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Wednesday, December 9th (Day 2)
| | Activity | Details | Time | | IT & Operational Excellence Summit | Making the ITIL and Service Management Linkage Happen
Jenny Huang, OSS Strategic Standards, AT&T Inc
Michael Lawrey, Executive Director, Operations, Telstra Corporation
Matthew Burrows, Managing Director, BSM impact Limited
John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Progress Software | | 9:00am -
10:30am | IT & Operational Excellence Summit
| Telecom Change Management
Ranerio Fernandes Silva, IT Coordinator, Oi/Brasil Telecom | | 11:00am -12:30pm
| | Superior Business Performance: One Process at a Time
Adan Pope, Chief Strategy Officer, Telcordia Technologies
Ari Banerjee, Vice President – Next Generation Software Systems, Yankee Group | | | IT & Operational Excellence Summit | Accelerating Service Delivery with IPsphere
Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO, TELUS | | 4:00pm -
5:30pm
| | New Services & Business Models Summit | | Delivering Secure & Profitable Cloud Services | Cloud Computing: How it Changes the Profile of the Traditional Service Provider
Michael Lawrey, Executive Director, Operations, Telstra
Catherine Michel, CTO & Founder, Tribold | Panel: Head in the Clouds but Feet on the Ground: How can Service Providers be part of the New Cloud/SaaS Value Chain?
Joe Weinman, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, AT&T Inc.
Debra Osswald, Global Communications Industry Strategy Leader, IBM Corporation
Elisabeth Rainge, Program Director NGN Operations , IDC
Nava Levy, Head of SaaS/Cloud Computing Program, Product Business Group, Amdocs Management Limited
Bobby Napiltonia, SVP WW Channels and Alliances, Salesforce.com | | | Thursday, December 10th (Day 3)
| | Activity | Details | Time | IT & Operational Excellence Summit
| | Rapid Service Delivery Through SDF/IPSPHERE II | SDF Panel: How Can New Models for Service Delivery Enable Real Business Agility?
Lucia Gradinariu, Founder, Principal Consultant, LGG Solutions
Donald Toland, Chief Business Architect, Product Operations , Qwest Communications International
Sanjay Mewada, VP of Strategy, NetCracker Technology
Russell Wurth, Director Solutions Architecture, Network Cadence | | 9:00am - 12:30pm
| SDF: How to Apply TM Forum Artifacts to your Service Delivery Framework
Jenny Huang, OSS Strategic Standards, AT&T Inc. | | Streamlining Operations by Creating a Standardized Representation of Complex Enterprise Communications Services Using the TM Forum SID
Christoph Casati, Manager of Systems Integration, Cavalier Telephone
Yogen Patel, VP Product Strategy, Convergys | |
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| Defense Networking Lunch
December 8 | 
The lunch provided attendees with an opportunity to meet with people doing business in the Defense industry in a private venue to discuss industry issues and network. |
Forumville – Defense Specific
| Learn about the Defense Catalyst Theatre Presentation and Overview of the Defense Satellite Communications demonstration – see how TM Forum best practices and frameworks come to life in a battlefield scenario.
Learn more | | Last Year's Attendees | 335 companies attended in 2008 including:
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