Sunday, February 21, 2016 12:00am to
Thursday, February 25, 2016 11:00pm
Barcelona
GSMA Mobile World Congress 2016
Mobile is Everything
The world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry is the ideal location for networking with 94,000+ delegates from 2,200+ companies, listening to visionary keynotes, participating in trainings, and so much more. In 2016, MWC will provide in-depth coverage of the current and future mobile industry, highlighting specific areas of growth as well as the latest technological developments, next generation services and growth strategies. Now on it’s 10th year in beautiful Barcelona, MWC is the must-attend event.
Learn more and register: http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/attendee-registration/
Digital Operations Transformation Summit
Partnering to Enable Digital Business
15:00-18:00, Sunday, February 21, 2016 
Crowne Plaza Barcelona – Fira Center, Barcelona, Spain
The Digital Operations Transformation Summit will bring together global industry leaders, thought leaders and innovators to explore the latest trends and share their visions and strategies for digital transformation of the ICT industry while inspiring an agile operations model and building a successful business enabling ecosystem.
The rapid development of the digital world has significantly changed user behavior, creating a new pattern of traffic consumption featuring five characteristics: Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY, and Social (aka ROADS).
To deliver the ROADS user experience, operators and enterprises not only need to construct future-oriented infrastructure that ensures efficient operations and agile innovation, but should also focus on the creation of an open industry ecosystem where all players along the digital value chain collaborate and contribute.
The Digital Operations Transformation Summit on February 21, 2016 in the Crowne Plaza Barcelona – Fira Center brings together more than 50 senior executives from telecommunication operators, enterprises, international bodies and research firms to inform and inspire on opportunities within the evolving digital landscape. The Summit is jointly organized and hosted by Huawei, a leading ICT provider; TM Forum, the global industry association for digital business; and Light Reading, a multichannel news and information provider.
This Summit includes presentations on the digital user experience, best practices and strategies in building a digital operations system and the enabling ecosystem. Additionally the roundtable discussion will share the challenges, roadmaps and approaches required to achieve digital operations transformation and ensure competitiveness in the digital age with each other of all delegates.
The Digital Operations Transformation Summit is an invite-only event for senior executives from communication service providers. Interested persons should contact Hugh Hall [email protected].
Please see detailed agenda below.
| Time | Topic | Speakers |
| 15:00-15:10 | Welcome Speech: Demand for Superior User Experiences Drives Digital Operations Transformation |
Ken Wang, President, Global Marketing and Solution Sales, Huawei |
| 15:10-15:25 | Presentation: Hyperadoption, Consumer Needs, and the Opportunity for the Telco of the Future | James McQuivey, Ph.D, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research |
| 15:25-15:45 | Fireside Chat: The Future of 21st Century Communications – A Conversation with AT&T’s John Donovan | John Donovan, Senior Executive Vice President – AT&T Technology and Operations, AT&T Inc
Stephen Saunders, CEO and Founder, Light Reading |
| 15:45-16:00 | Presentation: Huawei’s Vision and Practice on Digital Operations | Dong Sun, Ph.D, Chief Architect of Digital Transformation, Huawei |
| 16:00-16:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:10-16:40 | Panel Discussion: Digital Operations Transformation – The Challenge and Strategy | Moderator: Caroline Chappell, Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading Panelist: Radhika Venkatraman, SVP & CIO, Network & Technology, Verizon Maurice Ma, CMO, Vice President, Carrier Software Business Unit, Huawei Crawford Del Prete, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Products and Chief Research Officer, IDC Barry O’Reilly, Founder & CEO, Antennae |
| 16:40-17:50 | Roundtable Discussion: Digital Operations Transformation – The Challenge, Strategy and Roadmap |
Moderator: Rob Rich, Managing Director TM Forum Insights Research All Delegates (e.g. AT&T/Deutsche Telecom/Verizon/VDF/Orange/MTN etc, Accenture, Deloitte, IDC/Forrester/Ovum etc, Amdocs/IBM/Microsoft etc, TMF, Light Reading, Huawei) |
| 17:50-18:00 | Closing Remarks: Agile Operations Enable Digital Transformation | Peter Sany, President and Chief Executive Officer, TM Forum |
TM Forum’s Rob Rich will also speak at the CxO-only panel, Operator Customer Analytics. Rob will take a look behind the scenes at how operators make more creative and more flexible use of data. You will also be able to catch a glimpse into the future of Network Security with TM Forum’s Deputy CEO, Nik Willetts. Learn more at: http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/.
*TM Forum members receive 15% discount off Gold Pass: use code TMFM1574
In addition to these activities, TM Forum has a private meeting room available. To book a time slot, please contact Janelle Morse at [email protected].