Industry-leader TM Forum disrupts traditional conference model and creates immersive San Jose event to help businesses conquer challenges and seize opportunities in digital world
MORRISTOWN, NJ – June 25, 2013: As the market for cloud-based digital services continues to explode, global industry association TM Forum has unveiled the scope and format of its all new North American event slated for San Jose, Calif., Oct. 28-31, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Aimed at helping businesses conquer challenges and seize opportunities in the digital world, TM Forum Digital Disruption 2013 stands out by addressing challenges facing service providers today in reducing cost and risk, improving market retention and growth, and driving new digital services revenue.
Located in the heart of the high-tech center of North America, Digital Disruption 2013 brings together key players and innovators in the digital ecosystem, including mobile, cloud, software, Internet, content, and information services providers, and explores how communication providers can collaborate to solve the growing challenges posed by enterprises that are increasingly turning to cloud-based services to run their businesses.
Digital Disruption 2013’s Keynote Perspectives program kicks off on Monday, Oct. 28th hosted by Google’s Emmy nominated author Daniel Sieberg, and features 1-1 interviews and debates with audience participation, and question-and-answer sessions.
In addition, Digital Disruption 2013 includes four Forums focused on all the aspects of delivering profitable services in a disruptive market, and each explores technologies and services from a business perspective:
Disruptive Innovation Forum
- Uncovering technologies that will reshape the market and open up new opportunities
- Understanding strategies to foster innovation
- Confronting, embracing and profiting from disruption
Delivering Enterprise Services Forum
- Exploring new market opportunities, business models and strategies such as enterprise cloud services, and sectors such as eHealth, smart cities and smart transportation
- Building and operating sustainable partnerships across the digital ecosystem
- Delivering enterprise-grade services across complex ecosystems without costs killing margins
Agile Business Forum
- Harnessing the power of virtualized IT and operations while dramatically lowering operating costs
- Minimizing capital expenditure through resource-sharing, outsourcing and virtualization
- Learning approaches and techniques to rapidly move to an agile business
- Benefiting from real-time billing and customer account management
Data Analytics & Customer Engagement Forum
- Using big data analytics to understand buyer behavior and improve customer experience
- Leveraging social media and online communities to drive loyalty and margins
- Engaging with customers in the digital world through practical tools and techniques
- Ensuring data security and privacy
“We’ve designed Digital Disruption 2013 to mirror the way businesses and technologies intertwine, allowing delegates to discuss but also interact with software, tools and best practices that can help them exploit the opportunities that the digital world is creating,” said Keith Willetts, chairman, TM Forum. “By locating the conference in Silicon Valley, our attendees are at the center of the action. Our thought-provoking sessions, panels, debates and hands-on technology showcase gives them exclusive access in solving some of the most pressing business challenges today with the help and expertise of TM Forum and its industry leading members.”
“As the Capital of Silicon Valley and a global center of innovation, San Jose is an ideal location to bring together more than 1,000 of the leading minds in digital technology,” said Chuck Read, Mayor of San Jose. “Our city has a strong track record of successfully hosting a wide array of major events at the McEnery Convention Center and within Downtown San Jose, and I’d like to thank TM Forum for choosing to host Digital Disruption 2013 here in San Jose.”
Digital Disruption 2013 features a number of unique and engaging Zones designed to facilitate attendee education, interaction and networking, including the Innovation Hub, Digital Services Encounter Zone, Expo Zone, Meet-Me Zone, Training Zone, plus a Business Jam, Developer Jam and Platinum Program for senior executives.
Interested in being a part of Digital Disruption 2013? Please contact TM Forum’s event sales team at [email protected]; Carine Vandevelde (+44 207 193 8678); Renee Harris, (+1 404 566 9160), or Vanessa Lefebvre (+34 605 165 449) to discuss sponsorship packages that are right for your company and your budget. Register today for maximum savings.
About TM Forum
With over 900 member companies, TM Forum is the largest global trade association focused on bringing together the digital ecosystem, including communication service providers, digital service providers and enterprises, with the goal of enabling an open digital world. The Forum delivers a wealth of knowledge and practical tools, including unique research, best practices and standards. Our members collaborate to rapidly solve business issues in critical areas, such as business process optimization, big data analytics, cloud management, customer experience management and security.
The Forum has four key roles—to Inform, Innovate, Accelerate and Optimize—and provides a neutral and open platform for collaboration between service providers, enterprises and their suppliers to overcome the barriers to an open digital economy. For more information about TM Forum, visit www.tmforum.org
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