Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:15am to 3:40pm
London
Digital Leadership Summit: Unleashing the potential of telecom Software-as-a-Service in partnership with Nokia
Telecom SaaS is defined as a service delivering a business outcome, bought as a subscription, based on cloud-native software, delivered with a fully digitalized business experience, and a fully automated services lifecycle, and designed for any telecom workload. Consequently, Telecom SaaS involves a significant degree of specialized capabilities required to support carrier-grade availability, scalability, resiliency, performance and security.
There has never been a better time for communication service providers (CSPs) to explore new growth opportunities. So as 5G services continue to expand and develop, join us for this TM Forum Digital Leadership Summit to discover how to utilize telecom SaaS to diversify CSP offerings beyond connectivity and create new value and sustainable growth.
If you are interested in attending this invitation-only event, please contact Iwona Hampson.
Event details:
Date: Tuesday, 12 July
Time: 11:15am – 3:40pm
Location: South Place Hotel, 3 South Place, London, EC2M 2AF | United Kingdom
Agenda:
11:15am – 12:00pm | Registration and networking lunch
12:00pm – 12:25pm | 5G: The good, the bad and the ugly
Welcome and introduction
Why much of the challenge of monetizing 5G will come from the changing dynamics between customer and supplier in the enterprise market
Addressing the elephant in the room: Why is it that so many CSPs have invested in 5G, but no-one knows what the killer app might be yet?
Why CSPs must change the way they interact with customers to become more like partners than vendors
How CSPs can best meet the needs of ever more empowered customers, giving them the flexibility and choice they are accustomed to from the best digitally-driven customer experiences
Tony Poulos, Senior Analyst, TM Forum
12:25pm – 12:50pm | How to scale and profit from your 5G investment using SaaS
Defining telco SaaS as a service delivering a business outcome, bought as a subscription, based on cloud-native software, delivered with a fully digitalized business experience and a fully automated services lifecycle, designed for any telco workload
Why SaaS is the overlooked ingredient to enabling an agile ecosystem
How SaaS, at maturity, can be used to enable straightforward cases such as the augmentation of network operations all the way to complex and still-to-be-realized cases such as Metaverse mixed physical and digital experiences
Making SaaS easy, agile and affordable: Why SaaS is the acceleration engine to realize the full potential of 5G and beyond
Mark Bunn, Senior Vice-President of SaaS Business Functions, Nokia
12:50pm – 1:15pm | Addressing the security challenges of 5G and the public cloud
Why the focus of 5G on application delivery significantly changed how CSPs need to think about security
In a polyglot-based architecture with all instances now cloud native functions made up of different languages, why it becomes so difficult for a CSP to find the vulnerabilities
How to secure the 5G application layer is not very clear – who should take responsibility for it?
Highlighting the challenge for CSPs in having to secure multiple clouds in a hybrid environment for themselves – and for their customers
Joanna Newman, Global Edge Computing and 5G Principal Manager, Vodafone
1:15pm – 1:45pm | Refreshment break and networking
1:45pm – 2:15pm | 5G roundtable discussions
During this session, attendees will be divided into groups to debate some of the most pressing issues facing CSPs today. This is an opportunity for peer-to-peer discussion in a relaxed environment with key takeaways and actionable insights.
What is the best way of monetizing 5G?
How do we tackle the issues of data security, data privacy and data sovereignty in a 5G environment?
How can we establish a collaborative ecosystem and move towards constructing a network of networks?
How will AI, machine-learning and analytics drive 5G revenue?
Moderated by: Jean Lawrence, VP, Marketing & Communications – Nokia Cloud & Network Services, Nokia
2:15pm – 3:00pm | Panel discussion: How can we effectively secure telecom Software-as-a-Service?
Should we reduce non-strategic spend and opt out of managing cloud native technology?
How can we ensure total data privacy and security of SaaS operations when we are opening sensitive data up to third-party vendors?
Most SaaS cloud platforms are not designed with data sovereignty in mind. How can we ensure that data sovereignty requirements are met?
Moderated by: Tony Poulos, Senior Analyst, TM Forum
Pramod Nair, Lead Security Architect, Microsoft
Thomas Foerster, Senior Product Manager, Cybersecurity, Nokia
Joanna Newman, Global Edge Computing and 5G Principal Manager, Network Strategy & Architecture, Vodafone
3:00pm – 3:30pm | Pathway to the future: Network is code
How openness will drive network innovation as we move towards 2030
As the surge of innovation needed to create value in the 6G world, what kinds of fundamental changes are required to the way networks are designed, built, operated, maintained and monetized?
Outlining our vision for the future: the network is code
Jitin Bhandari, VP, Cloud and Network Services & CTO, Nokia
3:30pm – 3:40pm | Closing remarks
Tony Poulos, Senior Analyst, TM Forum
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