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Leading speakers include:
Christian de Faria, CEO, Airtel Africa new
Marc Rennard, EVP Africa, Middle East & Asia, Orange Group
Arthur Bastings, EVP Africa, Millicom new
Ahmad Farroukh, CEO, MTN SA new
Katie Lampe, head of Sales Operations EMEA, Twitter new
Chris Daniels, VP of Product of Internet.org, Facebook
Irene Charnley, Group CEO, Smile
Dov Bar-Gera, Group CEO, YooMee new
Rick Fant, VP, Planning and Ecosystem, Mozilla
Miguel Soares, CMO, Unitel Angola
Brett StClair, Enterprise Country Manager South Africa, Google
Day 1 – Tuesday 11th November
Partnerships & Growth
8.45 Welcome by Informa Telecoms & Media
8.50 A different way of bringing the internet to African users: the role of social media
Chris Daniels, VP of Product of Internet.org, Facebook
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9.10 Twitter in Africa: Marketing in the Moment
OTT Katie Lampe, head of Sales Operations EMEA, Twitter
9.30 Panel ‘It’s complicated’: Can operators and the new wave of OTT services make their relationship work?
How is the new wave of voice-based OTT services shaking the digital market?
Partner, ignore, become one: Assessing the different strategies for operators to deal with OTT players
Is a win-win partnership between OTT and operators possible?
What’s in the best interest of the consumers?
Moderator: Arthur Goldstuck, MD, World Wide Worx, Editor-in-chief, Gadget
Panellists:
operator Arthur Bastings, EVP Africa, Millicom
OTT Chris Daniels, VP of Product of Internet.org, Facebook
operator Christian de Faria, CEO, Airtel Africa
operator Ahmad Farroukh, CEO, MTN South Africa
operator Marc Rennard, EVP Africa, Middle East & Asia, Orange Group
10.10 The Internet of Everything – what does it mean for the Future of Africa’s Telecoms, Media & ICT Market?”
Ian Kennedy, Vice President, Systems Engineering Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia, Cisco Systems
10.30 Panel: Delivering broadband effectively to Africa
What are the optimum strategies to deliver reliable and affordable broadband across Africa?
How can improvements be made in the coverage of rural areas?
Strategies to keep costs low while ensuring adequate coverage and quality of service
Assessing the importance of infrastructure sharing in improving networks across the continent
What role will LTE play in improving access to broadband services?
Moderator: Toby Shapshak, Editor, Stuff magazine
Panellists:
operator Léon-Charles Ciss, Marketing Director, Orange Group
satellite Jean Philippe Gillet, regional vice president for Europe and Middle East sales, Intelsat
investor Andile Ngcaba, Chairman, Convergence Partners
carrier Wei Leping, Chairman, Science and Technology Advisory Committee, China Telecommunications Corporation
satellite/ISP Nic Rudnick, CEO, Liquid Telecom
11.00 Refreshments break & exhibition visit
12.10-17.30
Chaired by Richard Hurst
Senior Analyst, Enterprise
Ovum
12.10 Examining the needs
to connect Africa to
broadband
- International connectivity
developments and needs
across Africa
12.10-17.30
Chaired by Ahmed Kajee,
ICT Consultant &
Entrepreneur
12.10 Winning with High
Value Customers
- Business case for High
Value Customers
- How do we cater to their
needs
- What have we achieved so
12.10-17.30
12.10-17.30
Chaired by Thecla
Mbongue, Sr Analyst, Ovum
Chaired by Bradley Shaw,
Founder, Continuum
Consulting
12:10 Keynote panel: The
mobile money advantage
and reaching the
unbanked
- What is restricting reaching
the unbanked population?
- Supplying affordable
12.10 The digital music
landscape in Africa:
Striving in the competitive
digital music market in
Africa
- Examining the
12.10-17.30
10.30-17.00
12.10-17.30
Multi-Platform Focus
Day
Chaired by Dobek Pater,
Managing Director, Africa
Analysis
12:00 Chairman’s
Introductory Remarks
Successful Deployment of
LTE
Russell Southwood,
Editor, Balancing Act
Broadband
Developments &
Cost-Efficiency
11.50 Chairman’s Opening
12:10 Interactive
10.30 Market
Chaired by Steven
Ambrose, Managing
Director , StrategyWorx
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- Assessing the various
technologies: mobile,
wireless, fibre, satellite
- Connecting rural areas
- The role of the various
stakeholder
Bill Lan, Principal
Consultant, National
Broadband, Huawei
Technologies
12.30 Panel: Debating the
changing broadband
landscape; who is best
positioned to deliver
effective broadband to
Africa?
- Examining the provision of
broadband in Africa: who are
the key players (incumbents
or new players; mobile or
fixed wireless, satellite or
fibre)
- Which technologies (or
technology mix) will provide
the most reliable internet
access to African users?
- What is the impact of
regulation and government
policy in broadband access
in Africa?
Robert Aouad, CEO, Isocel
Telecom, Benin
Paolo Campoli, SP Sales
CTO and head of Middle
East & Africa Global, Cisco
Jose Dos Santos, CEO, Cell
C
Jaime G. Ferreira, CEO,
NetOne, Angola
Philippe Poggianti, Wireless
Europe, Middle-East and
Africa Vice-President,
Alcatel-Lucent
Kriv Naicker, General
Manager – Strategy and
Business Consulting,
Huawei Technologies
Kevin Viret, Regional
Director, Africa, Yahsat
13.00 Lunch
SATELLITE & CABLE
CONNECTIVITY
far?
Andre Beyers, Chief
Marketing Officer, Airtel
Africa
12.30 Panel: Have African
operators got it right
when it comes to
implementing a CEM
strategy?
- What are the major
challenges affecting CEM in
Africa and what more
should be done in the
industry to improve the
customer experience?
- What are the best
channels to engage with
customers in African
markets?
- What are the CEM
success stories and failures
in Africa’s telecoms & media
market?
Fabrice André, Director
Quality and Corporate
Social Responsibility,
Orange
Wilgon Berthold Tsibo
Group CTIO, Azur Telecom
Group
Thomas Demolliens,
Head of Sales Africa,
Lumata
13.00 Lunch
14.30 What are the key
elements of a successful
CEM strategy for African
markets?
- CEM is part of a wider
Transformation of Telco
Operators becoming “Datacentric”. Maximizing the
Value of Data will be the
challenge for the coming
years.
- Existing Revenue streams
will be optimized and new
Revenue streams will be
created by capturing and
using all relevant Data from
the Network and IT
environment and turning this
financial services to lowincome individuals and
small- scale entrepreneurs
- What are some of the key
innovations addressing that
end of the market?
- What is financial
empowerment and is mobile
money really addressing
imbalances?
Alice Zanza, Head Payment
System Development
Group, World Bank
Chidi Okpal, Director and
Afriac Head, Airtel Money
Peter Malebye, General
Manager Mobile Money
Services, MTN
Ngoni Simelane, Head:
Technology & Innovation,
Beyond Payments,
Standard Bank
Kim Dancey, Specialist
Advisor: Alternative and
Digital Banking Solutions,
FNB
12:40 Enabling mobile
subscribers to learn, play,
connect and pay across
Africa
- Reaching out to the African
population through
education tools
- Working with the growing
cluster of entrepreneurs in
Africa to achieve success
- Connecting mobile
subscribers to the goods
and services they want – via
their mobile
- Developing and ecosystem to raise the
consumer experience and
aspirations
- How Skrill and Microsoft
are working with MNO’s as
the hub to the audience
- What does this mean for
merchants in the emerging
markets
Nilesh Pandya, VP
opportunities in digital music
in Africa
- Delivering customers the
services they want
- How operators can meet
the needs of music
consumers
Arun Nagar, CEO, Spice
VAS
12.30 Panel: The business
of digital music in Africa:
who, what, how, how
much?
- How can digital music
services been monetised in
an increasingly competitive
environment?
- Which companies will be
most successful: local or
international players?
- Will ringtones & ringback
tones keep dominating the
digital music market? What
other services will grow?
- What type of payment for
digital music?
- Revenue sharing:
evaluating the models
Moderator: Russell
Southwood, CEO,
Balancing Act
Panellists:
Yoel Kennan, CEO, Africori
13.00 Lunch
14.20 Launching Rdio in
Africa
Anthony Bay, CEO, Rdio
14.40 Streaming services
panel: what works and
what doesn’t for African
markets?
- How and when will
streaming take off in a
market dominated by
ringtons and ringback
tones?
- How can operators and
service providers market the
services to their customers?
Remarks: LTE In Africa
Market Overview:
Dobek Pater, Managing
Director, Africa Analysis
12.00 Assessing the key
factors for LTE Success in
Safaricom for Kenya
Thibaud Rerolle, CTO,
Safaricom
12.20 First Mover Panel
Discussion: Overcoming the
obstacles to ensure successful
LTE deployment
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What are the main
challenges hindering the
market? What solutions are
available?
•
Which markets are leading
the way?
•
What deployments can we
expect to see in
2013/2014?
•
Overcoming Spectrum
challenges in enabling LTE
deployments
•
Highlighting the need for
effective spectrum
management
Moderator: Dobek Pater,
Managing Director, Africa
Analysis
Panellists:
Tom Allen, Chief Operating
Officer, Smile
Communications
Dr. Yaw Akoto, CEO, Surfline
Communications
Miguel Geraldes, CEO, MTC
Namibia
Baris Ozkok, Business
Development Director for Africa,
Turkey & Azerbaijan, Alcatel
Lucent
Willie Ellis, Chief Innovation
Officer, Airtel Africa
Maria Pienaar, Executive Head,
Value Added Services, Cell C
12.50 Accelerating the
successful deployment of LTE
in Africa
Heinz Bernold, Principal, The
Boston Consulting Group
Fireside Chat and
Content Demo; Utilising
New Technology In
Order to Engage With
The African Consumer
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Understanding
the overall
importance of
content
partnerships
Assessing the
importance of
working with
the content
providers
Taking an OTT
start up to an
international
audience
Dealing with the
streaming
challenges that
local
infrastructure
presents
Marie Lora Mungai, CEO
and Co Founder, BuniTV
12:50 Operator gains
using virtualized multiscreen head-ends and
time-shift applications
Jakob Hummes, Sales
Director, OTT and
MediaGrid, Harmonic
13:10 Networking Lunch
and Exhibition Visit
Assessing the Role of
Cloud and OTT Service
Platforms
14:30An Overview of the
VOD opportunity in
Africa
Sylvain Beletre, Prinicipal
overview: State of the
market and forecast
Analyst, Ovum
10.55 Network
strategies: Delivering
broadband to Africa
- Need for Network
Performance
- The smartphone game
- Broadband
everywhere: addressing
cost efficient coverage
- Innovative solutions to
address capacity
requirements
Hans Piet, Head of
Mobile Broadband subSaharan Africa,
Ericsson
11.20 Telcos: The
changing landscape
Sunil Joshi, MD & CEO,
Neotel
11.45 Cables &
Systems for Africa’s
telecommunications
Representative,
Prysmian
12.10 Case Study:
How Tier 1 CSPs use
Network Performance
Management to
enhance QoS, reduce
customer churn and
deliver cost-optimized
service-centric
network operations
Mounir Ladki, CTO,
MYCOM
12.35 Lunch
13.50 Making your
VSAT network work
harder: VSAT as a
delivery tool
Value added services in
SES Broadband
network. Satellite
broadband for:
- Wifi back-hauling
- E-learning delivery
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14.30 Connecting the
Unconnected
- Examining how 400 million
+ people remain beyond the
reach of terrestrial fibre
nodes in Africa
- Solving the low and
unreliable internet
connection in rural areas
- Fulfilling The goal of
delivering a high quality
education to every child in
Africa
Ibrahima Guimba Saidou,
SVP Commercial Africa,
SES
14.50 Delivering reliable
and affordable broadband
to West Africa
- Examining the broadband
provision in West Africa:
what more is needed?
- What is the role of
government and regulators
in promoting broadband
access?
- ECOWAS initiatives and
future plans to promote
broadband
Isaias Barreto da Rosa,
Commissioner for
Telecommunications and IT,
ECOWAS
15.10 Providing low-cost
international connectivity
via cable to all countries in
Africa
Yves Ruggeri, VP Networks,
Strategy and Submarine
Systems, France TelecomOrange, and President, ACE
consortium
15.30 Refreshments break &
exhibition visit
16.30 Delivering affordable
broadband via satellite to
underserved areas
Kevin Viret, Regional
Director, Africa, Yahsat
16.50 Turnkey
Communications
into Business insights in
real-time.
- The Telco business will
become much more
Customer-centric across all
Business functions.
Maximizing the End-user
Experience will be the
differentiator in a highly
competitive Mobile
Broadband market.
- CEM will become one of
the pillars of Success for
Operators in the highgrowth African Markets
Hendrik-Jan Steneker,
Business Development
Manager, Ericsson
15.00 Data experience
management as retention
tool
Srinivas V,General Manager
- Messaging & Broadband
Solutions, Mahindra
Comviva
15.30 Refreshments break
& exhibition visit
16.30 Technical
performance and QoS as
a key driver for CEM
- Assessing the importance
of QoS in customer loyalty
- Strategies to ensure QoS
issues are dealt with rapidly
to ensure customer
satisfaction
- How technical teams work
with customer relations
teams
Stephen Essien, Head,
Customer Operations, Tigo
Ghana
17.00 Network Intelligence
to Improve Quality of
Experience
- Visibility into real time end
to end QoE with network
intelligence
- Solve more on-line
customer issues in call
centres using QoE
- Enforce and manage
Emerging Markets, Skrill
Frank McKosker, VP
4Africa, Microsoft
13:00 Industry insight:
Realising the next phase
of the mobile money
ecosystem
- What should the next
generation of Mobile Money
aspire towards?
- How can you create a
common agenda for all
stakeholders with socio
economic benefits?
Brian Richardson, CEO,
Wizzit
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon chairted by
Nnamdi Oranyi, Head of
VAS Projects, Oltio
Business models and
Operator strategies for
mobile financial services:
14:30 Panel: Creating
sustainable and viable
mobile financial services
- Where is the future for
Mobile financial services
within operator business
models?
- How best to integrate
additional services such as
insurance, FMGC, utility bill
and NFC payments?
- What are the best methods
to educate for adoption of
advanced services?
- How will MFS work under
network interoperability?
- What are the impacts of
interconnectivity on security,
customer protection and
ensuring compliance and
creating trust?
Diego Gutierrez, General
Manager, Tigo Tanzania
Andre De Jager, General
manager: Product Solutions,
MTC Namibia
Joseck Mudiri, Senior
Operations Officer, IFC
- Lessons learnt from
existing services in Africa
and internationally
Panellists:
Anthony Bay, CEO, Rdio
Gillian Ezra, COO, Simfy
Chinasa Udeala, Head Of
Content East Africa, Spinlet
15.10 Delivering
successful services by
embracing the dynamic
changes in music
consumption in Africa
- Examining the changing
patterns in music
consumption and the impact
of increasing smartphone
adoption of.
- Preparing for the future of
digital music based on
enhanced engagement, 360
degree music experience
- Addressing the needs of
price sensitive markets
- The role of localized and
customized content in
enticing consumers
Atul Madan, Senior Vice
President Digital Services,
Mahindra Comviva
15.30 Refreshments break &
exhibition visit
16.30 Local content: where
to find it, how to promote
it?
- Challenges in sourcing,
maintaining and monetising
local content
- Managing copyright issues:
types of copyright, how to
manage copyright in a
vacuum
- Using digital platforms to
market local content
internationally
- Bringing artists and
audiences together: how
artists find a way in the
13:10 Build Best Experience
MBB Network
-Global MBB Industry
Observations
-Insights and findings MBB of
Africa
-Build Best Experience
MBB/LTE Network
- Case Study
Karen Yu：
President of Global Wireless
Network Solution Sales,
Huawei Technologies
Analyst, Balancing Act
13.30 Lunch
15:40 Networking Break
and Exhibition Visit
LTE Standardisation and
Spectrum Management
3GPP-Led Session
14.30 Session Chair opening
remarks
William Stucke, Councillor,
ICASA & Adrian Scrase, CTO,
ETSI
14.40 3GPP: Architecture
Evolution
Balazs Bertenyi, SA Chairman,
3GPP
14.50 Operator Case Study
Speaker tbc, Regulatory Affairs,
Vodacom
15.10 3GPP: RAN Evolution
Philippe Reininger, RAN 3
Chairman, 3GPP
15.30 Guiding principles for
National Broadband Policy
Mortimer Hope, Director
Spectrum and Public Policy
Africa , GSM Association
15.50 Refreshments break &
exhibition visit
LTE Roaming
16.30 Enabling effective LTE
roaming through IPX
Raphaël Glatt, Head of
Signalling, BICS
14:50 OTT in Africa:
Room to Grow
Maria Ingold CEO,
Mireality
15:10 Endemol’s Role
in Driving Interactivity
In Africa
Sivan Pillay, MD Africa,
Endemol
Multiplatform Content
Showcase
16:40 SNA Case Study LOCAL SPORT AND
LOCAL
BROADCASTERS: The
Sporting Conversation &
The Media
Gary Rathbone, Founder,
Sports News Africa
17:00 The Mobile
Frontier; Understanding
the intersection
between Web and
Mobile
Distribution for African
Content.
Simbarashe Mabasha,
Director, Afrikan Dust
Media Group
17:20 Roundtable
Discussion; OTT
Innovators Debate
Simbarashe Mabasha,
Director, Afrikan Dust
Media Group
Raphael Porte, CEO,
Tevolution
Ulrich Stark, CEO,
- Enterprise applications
Stephan Kluever,
Sales manager, SES
services Africa
14.20 Energy Storage
Solutions for lowest
LCOE / TCO
Tom Tipple,
Regional Vice
President, Commercial
Development,
EMEA, Imergy Power
Systems
14.50 Building optical
networks in Africa and
the impact of 100G
technology
Frederic Auger, senior
Presales Manager,
Ekinops
15.20 Growing
operators in Africa
with low cost
technology and
improved reliability
- Examining potentially
disruptive technology
that shapes the next
generation voice
networks when
everything becomes
data.
- Meeting ultra low cost
requirements in a
developing market
- Assisting operators
meet their service
obligations and achieve
subscriber growth.
Daryl Bruce Haw Senior Sales Engineer,
SES
16.00 Broadband
Technology Explained
Alan Mayne, Training
Manager, Telecoms
Academy
16.50 end of day 1
masterclass
Panel Sponsor: Orange
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Solutions for Africa
Ori Watermann, CEO,
Skyvision
WIFI
17.10 How Wi-fi fits in the
broadband proposition in
Africa and how to make
money from it
- Pros and cons of Wi-Fi as
an access medium
- Changing Wi-Fi business
models
- Who pays for ‘free Wi-Fi?’
- Matching models to
locations
Ellie Hagopian, Chief
Executive Officer,
Nomosphere
17.30 Free WiFi – Enabling
the Nation
- Project Isizwe and its
ecosystem of enablement
- The positive impact on
education
- The economic
development benefits
- The importance of social
inclusion
Alan Knott-Craig Jr, Chief
Executive Officer, Project
Isizwe
17.50 End of day 1
customer experience using
end to end network
intelligence
- Increase profitability of
serving mobile data users
leveraging QoE
Anthony Vimal, Vice
President - EMEA, Procera
Networks
Paul Opie, Field Marketing
Manager for Africa, Secure
Transactions, Gemalto
15:00 Market Activations –
What they don’t tell you in
the boardrooms
Clement Miano Muriuki,
Manager - Market
Activations, Safaricom
17.30 End of day 1
15:20 Innovation
Showcase: Open and
interoperable mobile
transaction solutions
- The power of a platform to
drive exponential growth
- Solving the challenge at
the point-of-scale
- Broader transaction
ecosystem overview
15.40 Refreshments break &
exhibition visit
16:30 RSwitch Case study:
Interoperability between
mobile operators and
banking services
Tongai Maramba, Gneral
Manager, Tigo Rwanda
16:50 Mobile money and
merchant payments in
Africa: convergence with
traditional payment
systems
- Experience to data in
merchant payments – what
are key challeges and
lessons learned?
- Importance of interoperability and crossindustry partnerships
- What is the role of
independent merchant
acquirers?
Greta Bull, Program
Manager, Micro-Retail
Advisory Services, SubSaharan Africa, IFC
industry, using social media,
live events
Panellists:
Emma Kaye, CEO, Bozza
Jandre Louw, CEO &
Executive Producer,
Rockstar 4000
Ike Orizu, Founder/CEO,
TruSpot
17.10 Maximizing Legal
Digital Music Exploitation
Gain in Nigeria
- Examining the digital
environment in Nigeria
- Rights management
- Addressing some of the
digital licensing challenges
in the Nigerian digital space
Chinedu Chukwuji, CEO,
COSON (Copyright
Society Of Nigeria)
17.30 End of day 1
International Carriers
Panel Sponsor: iBasis
16.40 Panel Discussion:
Enabling MNO’s to provide a
seamless roaming service
over LTE?

Creating a consistent
customer experience when
Roaming

What benefits will this have
on the African market?

Enabling MNO’s to
interconnect with other
mobile service providers
worldwide over an IPX
roaming network

Assessing the importance
of IPX in enabling MNO’s
effective LTE roaming?

Ensuring Interoperability of
LTE Networks

How to deal with local
intersection
Marc Bonneval, Mobile Data
Business Developer Orange
International Carriers
Chris Lennartz, Head of Mobile
Services, iBasis
Chirag Patel, Managing Director
- EMEA, TNSI
Phil Braden, SVP, Technology
and Applications, PCCW Global
Wezwa
Opportunities for TD-LTE
17.10 Opportunities for TD
LTE
Dr. Dou Zhongzhao, Chief
Engineer of Global Technical
Support Center, China
Communications Services
17.30 Identifying and
Overcoming the Challenges of
a Real Life TD-LTE Rollout
Zoltan Miklos, Network Strategy
and Engineering, Telkom
Mobile
18.00 End of Day One
17:20 End of day 1
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Leadership Summit
Invitation Only, Chatham House rules applies
The AfricaCom 100 Leadership Summit is a unique gathering of the most influential personalities in African’s telecoms & digital economy. This elite meeting will bring together digital Africa 100
leaders for high-end conversations in an informal setting.
The objective? To offer you a a personal environment to share experiences, throw ideas with like-minded strategists and really get to the core of the issues affecting your business. Debates
follow Chatham House rules*, meaning you can speak freely without fear of being (mis)quoted by the media.
15.50 Welcome & Refreshments
16.10 Setting the Scene: Introduction from Ovum
16.15 Leadership Mindshare Roundtables
The format is simple: 8 tables with each 1 strategic topic, 1 moderator and 8-12 participants per table. Choose from:
Rural telecoms: what technologies, partnerships and regulatory initiatives are most effective to provide services to remote areas?
New revenue streams: what should operators place their bets on (mobile money, content, social media, big data, other)?
Improving the customer experience: what should be the priorities and how to get the whole organization on board?
Mobile money: what new services beyond money transfers and what companies to work with?
Quality of Service: how can it be improved cost-effectively?
Future technologies & services: what is worth investing in (LTE and beyond, Cloud, SDN & Virtualisation, etc.)?
Improving broadband access across Africa: what technologies and devices to make broadband more widely affordable?
LTE: When, why and how to successfully deploy LTE and what are the main technical and commercial challenges to overcome?
17.15 Discussion round-up: each table’s moderator will feedback key findings to the group, followed by Q&A
17.45 Cocktails
This session is open to members of the AfricaCom 100 group and invited participants. For further information please contact Julie Rey on Julie.rey@informa.com
* When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rules, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor
that of any other participant, may be revealed.
Day 2 : Wednesday 12th November
All about data
9.00 Shifting to a data-focused strategy
Fredrik Jejdling, President of Ericsson Sub Saharan Africa, Ericsson
9.20 Panel - Data in high speed networks: What services can be offered on LTE that a 3G network can’t do?
Ensuring an ROI on LTE investments: business models to monetise data services on LTE
Capitalising on content, video and apps: what new services can be offered?
Focusing on the enterprise: identifying new revenue streams from enterprise users
Moderator: Adrian Scrase, Head of Mobile Competence Centre, 3GPP
Panellists:
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operator Dr. Yaw Akoto, CEO, Surfline
operator Dov Bar-Gera, Group CEO, YooMee
operator Paul Carter-Brown, Group Chief Information Officer, Smile
operator Miguel Soares, CMO, Unitel Angola
operator Jannie van Zyl, Executive Head: Innovation, Vodacom
9.50 From Drops to Rivers: Unlocking Opportunities with Intel Architecture
A vision to create and extend computing technology to connect and enrich the lives of every person on earth. From smart phones to servers, from tablets to in-vehicle infotainment, and from
Ultrabooks to Set-Top Boxes… You’ll find processors at the heart of computing solutions. And it’s the software that really makes these systems come alive to deliver amazing experiences to
end-users.
John McClure, General Manager of Service Provider Group, INTEL CORPORATION
10.10 Panel – Handsets & smartphones to support Africa’s demand for data
Improving feature phones to fit needs of customers and operators
What devices for Africa’s needs?
What’s the ideal price point for a low-cost smartphone for Africa?
Moderator: Arthur Goldstuck, MD, World Wide Worx, Editor-in-chief, Gadget
Panellists:
manufacturer Arif Chowdhury, VP, TECNO Group
operator Sagar Darbari, Head of Segments and Devices, Airtel Africa
OS provider Rick Fant, VP, Planning and Ecosystem, Mozilla
operator Raul Martinez, Commercial Director Africa, Millicom
10.40 Refreshments break & exhibition visit
12.00-17.30
12.00-17.30
Chaired by Matthew Reed,
Principal Analyst, Ovum
12.00 Panel: Pricing &
revenue sharing strategies
for access to content & OTT
services
- Examining the various
models for pricing access to
content services and reverse
the fall in voice revenue?
- How can OTT players and
operators work together to
maximise revenues for both
parties?
- What services are most in
demand from consumers and
how to monetise them?
Chaired by Sadiq Malik,
Principal Consultant,
Broadband Gurus Network
12.00 SDN: How can it
benefit African operators?
- Examining the benefits of
SDN and NFV
- Assessing the commercial
Experience
- The challenges in African
telecom market
Shinya Kukita, Chief
Engineer, Global Business
Unit, NEC Corporation
12.20 Virtualization : A PNL
opportunity for operators
- Virtualization to reduce
12.00-17.30
12.00-17.30
Chaired by Thecla
Mbongue, Senior Analyst,
Ovum
12:00 Regulatory Insight:
Balancing regulation
while fostering innovation
- How should the mobile
phone as a payment
channel be regulated?
- As the roles of financial
insstututions and mobile
operators continually
converge are the public at
greater risk
- Could payment
technologies be the demise
of traditional banking
12.00-17.30
Session Chairperson: Adrian
Scrase, CTO, ETSI
12.00 Effectively managing
spectrum to ensure the
successful deployment of
LTE?
Wilgon Berthold Tsibo,
Group CTIO, Azur Telecom
Group
12.20 Diameter Signaling
Controller (DSC) as an
early Virtualized Network
Function (VNF) - Tier 1
Network Rollout Case
11:45 Informa Introduction
and Speed Networking
Caroline Hicks, Head of TV
Connect, Informa
Telecoms and Media
11:50 Chairman’s Opening
Address
Russell Southwood, Editor,
Balancing Act
Evaluating The
Development of The
Digital Switchover In SubSaharan Africa
12:00 Joint Keynote;
Wananchi’s Digital
12.00-17.30
12:05 Bouncing back: an
African VSAT market
overview
- How are HTS & Ka-band
affecting the development
of VSAT in Africa?
- What might the future
hold?
- How is the performance
of the African VSAT
industry comparing to
other regions?
- Latam parallels – can
Africa look to Latin
America for lessons?
Jeremy Rose , Principal
Consultant, COMSYS
12:25 Mobile Internet
11.00-17.00
Chaired by Ahmed
Kajee, ICT Consultant &
Entrepreneur
CEM & VAS
11.00 How operators
can monetise digital
media services:
content, format and
pricing
- Which media services
are most attractive to
consumer?
- How are the services
consumed: where do
users look for media
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Panellists:
Nicola D'Elia, International
Growth & Partnerships –
EMEA, Facebook
Willie Ellis, Head of Products
& Innovation, Airtel Africa
Marc Herson, CEO, 2Go
Brett Loubser, Head of
WeChat South Africa
Frank Magombo, Head of
Innovations, TNM, Malawi
Maria Pienaaar, Chief
Information Officer, Cell C
12.40 Unlocking the Digital
Potential in Africa with the
4th Wave
- Applying the 4th Wave of
new digital services to Africa
- Enabling mobility for large
and small enterprises via
operators
- Building a robust ecosystem
with network API exposure
- Monetizing with freemium,
sponsored apps & data and
beyond
Mansoor Basha , Director of
Product Marketing,
Comverse
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Digital
Transformation: The Next
Big Thing--Driving revenue
with open digital ecosystem
Key Points:
- What is the strategic
direction for fulfilling digital
business transformation?
- How to drive revenue with
open digital ecosystem?
MacDonald William Taylor，
Chief Consultant ,Huawei
Digital Service BU,
Huawei Technologies
14.50 Handset strategies to
boost data usage
Miguel Soares, CMO, Unitel
Angola
15.10 Making football
mobile: meeting the fans’
needs across Africa
costs
- Virtualization to drive new
revenues
- Api opportunity to deliver
more to our customers
- Virtualization means new
business models
Arnauld Blondet, VP,
Marketing, Products &
Innovations, Orange Group
12.40 The role of SDN as
traffic growth affects
networks in Africa
Stu Benington, Vice
President – Cloud & SDN
Business Unit, Coriant
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Is SDN the future for
Africa? Considerations
when building an SDN
network
- Building a small-scale SDN
network: sharing the
experience
- Integrating SDN into a wider
virtualisation project
- Pitfalls to avoid to ensure
the investment is worth it
- Future SDN opportunities in
Africa
Dries Els, ICT Consultant
15.00 Investing in SDN:
how should African
operators approach it?
- Why SDN: current network
architectural limitations
- SDN Suitability: determining
when/how African operators
would benefit
- Considering SDN
investment: how does it fit
within existing investment
plans and how
to maximize ROI
Stanley Aiyanyor Ogbeide,
Senior Network Engineer,
iConnect South Africa
15.30 Refreshments break &
exhibition visit
16.30 High IQ Networks
Thecla Mbongue, Senior
Analyst, Ovum
12:20 Evolution of ‘nanofinance’ through the
mobile channel
Julian Kyula, CEO, Mo-De
12:40 Cash is now –
solutions for the cash to
digital convergence
Vahid Monadjem - CEO and
Co-Founder, Nomanini
13:00 Lunch
14:20 Driving mobile
money adoption through
bulk transfers and
integrated platforms
Moussa Dao, Director,
Orange Money Cameroon
NextGen Mobile Financial
Services
14:40 Kifiya: a digital
finance and payments
company, Lehulu services
case study
Expanding community
delivered services through
mobile – Lehulu a first step
in simplifying payment
process
o Making the business
case to switch to mobile
and replace inefficient
paper systems
o Challenges in real time
payments: power,
connectivity, maturity of
service provider
o Case for branchless
banking
o What mobile money
might look like
o Need for innovative
approaches for Rural
Finance Strategy
Munir Duri, CEO, Kifiya
Myriam Said, Director
Products and Services,
Kifiya
Abiyot Bayou Tehone,
Director e-Government
Studies
Kim Fisker, Chief Architect,
Ulticom
12.40 How to simplify LTE
routing and signalling
control complexity?
Pieter Veenstra, Lead
Solution Architect, Net
Number
Panel Sponsor: Dialogic
13:00 Panel Discussion:
Securing and Optimising
the Core Networks to cater
for increased traffic from
LTE

How is the increase of
LTE services and
devices affecting core
network signalling

How to handle this extra
traffic in the network
and maintain QoS

Securing the mobile
network in Africa:
Addressing the security
risks and challenges in
LTE networks

How can MNO’s ensure
secure connections on
their network?

Protecting the EPC
against DDoS

Ensuring Security at the
different interfaces of
the Core Network
(RAN-Core border,
Roaming, Internet,
NMS)

Highlighting Security
and protection against
different attacks
(Signaling, Diameter
Roaming, Core
Security, backhaul)
Moderator: Dobek Pater,
Managing Director, Africa
Analysis
Mark Verdun, VP, Strategic
Alliances, Stoke
Thomas Schroer, Director
Service Provider Marketing,
Dialogic
George Debbo – President –
Evolution
Broadband within Reach services and what
- Bridging the digital divide formats are most
Richard Alden, CEO,
is a social concern that
popular?
Wananchi Group and
can be answered with
- Pricing and revenue
Steve Christian, VP
technological innovation.
sharing: where is the
Marketing, Verimatrix
Will Airtime creditIntransfer
and airtime
takeover
other forms
this session
we willremittances
money
for operators
in of mobile pa
discuss how to provide
digital media?
12:30 SES: Changing the
high speed Internet
- Examples of successful
Broadcasting Landscape
services to areas with
services and lessons
in Africa
underserved or nonlearnt from less
Ibrahima GuibaDelivering
Saidou, value existent
through prepaid
options
coverage.
successful ones
SVP Commercial Africa,
- SkyEdge II-c Libra is a
Adia Sowho, Head,
SES
revolutionary mass-market Digital Media, Etisalat
router for consumer
Nigeria
broadband Internet
12:50 How e.TV is leading
11.25 The Future of the
connectivity. Libra is a
the way in new technology hybrid CPE available at
SIM, science or art?
innovation
half the price of a typical
Carsten Ahrens,
Maxwell Nonge, Group
VSAT. The concept of this
Group Senior Vice
Head Channels,Delivering
eTV
a value
drivenhybrid
consumer
/ merchantPresident
proposition
unique
satellite
solution calls for using
Division Telecom
satellite capacity for high
Industries, Giesecke &
13:10 Panel Discussion:
speed downloads, and the
Devrient
What is the hold up with
cellular connection for the
Africa’s Digital
11.50 VAS is dead, long
return traffic. The satellite
Switchover?
live VAS
link reduces the cellular
•How are the key players
network congestion thus
- The end of traditional
adapting to the switchover to promoting an enhanced
VAS
DTT?
user experience.
- Where now?
•What are the key regulatory Erez Antebi, CEO, Gilat
- Squeezing the cloud
and financial challenges
Satellite Networks
- Case Study: How one
being faced?
customer made an 85%
•Lessons learnt from
12:45 Will Ka-band kick
OPEX Saving
previous roles out of DTT
George Yazbek, Chief
start a new growth cycle
•When is it going
Lehulu
to be a first step
simplifying
payment process
Technology Officer,
forinVSAT
in Africa?
ready?
Jinny Software
•What is holding it back?
-Identifying sustainable
12.15 The battle for
business models for KaSteve Christian, VP
Mobile Money success
band in Africa
Marketing, Verimatrix
in Africa’
- Guaranteeing the life
Aldred Dreyer, CTO,
- Introduction and
span of new satellites: is
Namibian Broadcasting
positioning
there enough in the region
Corporation Digital financial service in the Ethiopian context- Squaring off the players
to justify regional-wide KaEugene Nyagathene, CEO,
- Redefining aspirations
band coverage?
Tele10
- Bridging the gap
- How will the emergence
Richard Alden, CEO,
- Case Study analysis
of Ka-band in Africa effect
Wananchi Group
Johan De Lange: EVP
local markets and specific
Mike Aldridge, Managing
Transaction Services,
high value verticals, such
Director, Cape Town TV
Clickatell
as Oil & Gas?
Salvation Alibor, CEO,
13:40 Networking Lunch
12.40 Lunch
Syscomptech
and Exhibition Visit
Communications
13.40 Overcoming the
Assessing the Role Of
challenges of
13:05 Networking Lunch
New Technologies In
transporting valuable
and Exhibition Visit
Driving African
data over low-capacity
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- Offering an attractive range
of football-based services :
news, content, bulletins
- Catering for feature-phone
users as well as smartphones
- Working with operators and
partners to find the optimum
monetisation model
- Assessing the effects of the
2014 World Cup on data
usage in Africa
Daniel Price, Business
Development Manager,
Mobile, Perform Group
(Goal.com)
15.30 Refreshments break &
exhibition visit
16.30 Content provider
perspective: Packaging
content for mobile
- Understanding data usage in
Africa
- Developing the right formats
and content to needs the
needs of mobile users
- Delivering an attractive
proposition to increase usage
Geoff Cohen, CEO, 24.com
16.50 Mxit and Data: a
social media brand’s take
on the data opportunity
- What data services have
most potential?
- Driving product decisions
- Commercialisation: business
models to monetise data
services
- Making the right technology
choices
Andrew Davies - Chief
Operating Officer, Mxit
17.10 Panel: Creating
affordable local mobile
content: What are the
models for African
innovators?
- Examining the importance of
local content in driving data
usage
- What are the challenges in
creating and distributing local
content in Africa?
and the Opportunities for
Operators
Network Functions
Virtualization offers
considerable opportunities for
operators across Africa. But
when should you consider it
and what should you plan
for? Should it be considered
purely as a cost efficiency or
also as a revenue
opportunity?
David Noguer Bau, Head of
SDN/NFV Solutions
Marketing EMEA, Juniper
Networks
17.00 SDN and Network
Virtualisation
Standardisation Landscape
– examining the benefits
for African operators
- SDN and Virtualisation
Standardisation Landscape
- ITU-T Study Groups
- ETSI Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) Industry
Specification Group (ISG)
- Use cases and impact on
African operators
Paul Inglesby, Director, PI
Telecoms-ICT
17.30 End of day 2
Directorate, Ethiopian
Ministry of
Communication &
Information Technology
15:00 How to secure the
next generation of mobile
financial services
Leonard York, HOD
Technical Account,
Giesecke & Devrient
15.20 Interactive
Workshop:
Understanding market
drivers and barriers in
Africa for mobile
payments
Ambar Sur, Executive Vice
President – New Product
Initiatives, Mahindra
Comviva
17.30 End of day 2
GD Telecom (PTY)
13.20 Lunch
14.30 4G LTE … Time for a
Mindset Change

Why consumers and
business want LTE?

The world is rapidly
shifting to LTE (Number
of LTE subscribers
increase 20% on
average, LTE data
volume growing 31% on
average, 3G traffic
decreasing by -36% etc)

Aggressive rollout –
why Fast deployment is
the best (Lower cost per
bit, longer life
investment, etc)

Overlay is the way to go
(it is faster to deploy
upgrade and optimize,
less down time, more
capacity and better
performance)

Why the market shift to
Overlay
Daniel Jaeger, President for
Africa, Alcatel Lucent
14.50 Role of MW antennas
for network optimization
and modernization in LTE
Era
Dr. Junaid Syed, Product
Line Management,
Commscope
Panel Sponsor: Anite
15.10 Panel Discussion:
How can operators
effectively optimise their
RAN networks to manage
increases in mobile data
traffic as LTE subscriber’s
increase?

Building the Radio
Access Network

Test and Measurement
considerations for LTE
deployments: How
critical is test and
measurement to ensure
Broadcasting
WAN links by using
14:30 Can VSAT become existing IT14:50 Understanding the
an integral part of the
infrastructure in
future of Pay TV
telecoms mass market
emerging markets
in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Broadcasting In Africa
Per Hansen, Senior
•Explaining Zuku TV’s
Jean-François Fremaux,
Sales and Support
Broadcast Innovation
Business & Product
Engineer EMEA, Aspera
and tools
to developDirector
mobile money
service, usage and adoption with trus
•Assessing the Strategies
potential role
Development
–
14.00 The Power of
of multiscreen entertainment
LOB Broadband, Eutelsat
Mobile Marketing
in Africa
15:30 Networking Coffee
•Creating a pay TV model
- Best practices to
for the second screen
and Exhibition Visit
succeed with your
•Understanding the
campaigns
16:30 VSAT Applications - What does it take for
importance of a strong UI to
for the Enterprises
engage with the consumer
operators and brands to
January Makamba, Deputy
- Explore the use of VSAT
fully embrace the
Minister of Communications,
applications in the
potential of mobile
Tanzania
government, financial
marketing?
sector and mining sectors.
- Latest survey results
- Mobile communications
showing the specificities
15:10 Convenience the
for Government and
of the African market
New King
Military
Jeremy Osborne,
Saad Mouneimne, Director
- New Trends in the
Marketing Director for
of Sales ME and Africa,
Broadcast services
Africa, Gemalto
Conax
- Mobile and Ka-band in
14.30 Increase ROI
Africa
15:30 Analysing the
with Afrika Customer
Edmund Lee, Senior
growing Role of YouTube
Experience
Sales Specialist, SingTel
in the African Broadcast
Management
ecosystem
16:50 Affordable Rural
- Customer support
Broadband Connectivity
•YouTube’s role in forming
ecosystem setup with
via VSAT: can it be
content partnerships with
minimal upfront capital
done?
local African content
- Application-less chat
providers
- Exploring the business
channel for m-banking,
•Creating YouTube content
case for broadband
m-commerce, IVR and
for the African consumer
connectivity using VSAT
more…
•Understanding the key
- Keeping the costs down
- Reduce your OPEX
African demographics and
while meeting the demand
significantly with new
creating relevant content
for Consumer Broadband
technologies like
•Streaming content for the
- Lessons to be learnt
WebRTC and Network
consumer on the move
from the USA, the most
API’s
Brett St Clair, Head Sub
developed satellite
- Feedback from
Saharan Africa, YouTube
broadband market in the
developers around the
world – how might
world from “hackathons”
differences in urban
- Future innovative
15:50 Pace Interactive
geography affect market
services that transform
Case Study: Next
potential?
standard of living
Generation Television
Rakesh Kukreja, MD,
Mansoor Basha ,
Jerry Frain, VP Products
Wananchi Business
Director of Product
and Strategy, Pace
Services
Marketing, Comverse
16:10 Keynote Address
Understanding How Triple
Play is Impacting On
African Broadcast
Revenues?
17:10 Supply & demand
– VSAT pricing &
business models for the
developing African
market
15.00 Making the most
of social media
opportunities in
Africa’s dinigtal market
Charles Akpom, Co-
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- Making local content
affordable: what are the best
options?
Charles Akpom, Co-Founder/
CEO, Afroterminal
Rick Fant, VP, Planning and
Ecosystem, Mozilla
Koffi Fabrice Djossou, Africa
Liaison, ZA Central Registry
Adia Sowho, Head, Digital
Media, Etisalat Nigeria
17.45 End of day 2
QoS?
Ensuring performance
and QoE through
comprehensive network
measurement devices

Reducing interference
issues in LTE
deployments worldwide

Managing the
increasing complexity in
the network from small
cells
James Zik, Director of
Product Management,
PCTEL
Shaun Desmond, Regional
Director, Anite
Jonathan Borrill, Director of
Marketing, Anritsu

15.40 Refreshments break
& exhibition visit
Optimising Backhaul
16.50 Panel Discussion:
Evaluation of different
backhaul technologies

Role of Fibre to keep up
with soaring data
demand: How can
operators meet costs for
deploying fibre?

Opportunities for
Satellite

Analysing Recent
Developments for
undersea fibre backhaul
solutions

Opportunities for
Fronthaul in Africa
Wilgon Berthold Tsibo,
Group CTIO, Azur Telecom
Group
Jonathan Borrill, Director of
Marketing, Anritsu
Dr. Marten Scheffer, GM of
Network Engineering, Neotel
Francesco Tammaro, Senior
Solution Sales Manager,
Huawei
17.20 Optimising backhaul
to meet demands for faster
and better quality
•Understanding the role of
TriplePlay as creating new
revenue streams for African
telcos
•Analyzing triple play
infrastructure, how this can
be further re-enforced
•Delivering content that is
reliable for the consumer
•Developing a strong
customer base to enhance
long term revenue streams
Sebastian Crozier, CEO,
Orange Horizons
16:50 Networking Break &
Exhibition Visit
Regulatory and Financial
Challenges to The Digital
Switchover
17:40 Case Study:
Understanding the
Regulatory Challenges to
Local Content
Broadcasters in Zimbabwe
Gelfand Kausiyo, Chair of
the Digitisation Technology
Committee, Zimbabwean
Broadcasting Commission
- Combatting the influx of
fibre: adjusting bandwidth
prices to allow effective
competition
- Reliability and
availability: gaining the
advantage with VSAT
- Maximising the value of
VSAT back-up services
- Hybrid services:
protecting your business
with fibre-sat integration
Job Ndege, Managing
Director, Protocol
Solutions
Founder/ CEO,
Afroterminal
17:40 VSAT Africa
Chairman’s Closing
Remarks
16.00 Value added
services for business
users
15.30 Apps and the
Telco : How apps need
to play centre-stage for
Telcos as the primary
brand interaction point
with their customers
and customers expect
class-leading app
experience
Dushyant Saraswat,
Vice President Business, One97
17:45 End of Day 1 VSAT
Africa
17:45 VSAT Africa
Drinks Reception,
Sponsored by SingTel
18:10 Consolidation in
broadcasting and
telecommunications
markets: lessons for
regulatory policy in SADC
and other African regions
Eugene Nyagahene, CEO,
Tele10
11.10 Refreshments &
Exhibition Visit
18:30 Close of Day One
and AfricaCom Awards
Spotlight on Google and
the Cloud Opportunity
for African Developers
12:00 Introduction by
Session Chair
Lianne Du Toit, Senior
Representative, Silicon
Cape Initiative
12:10 FAST DATA:
Using Cloud
Technologies to make
sense of big data
Brett St Clair, Head sub
Saharan Africa, Google
13:10 Networking Lunch
and Breakout Sessions
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connections

Ensuring Qos through
backhaul

Reducing backhaul
costs

How can operators
create value and
increase profits from
LTE when the backhaul
costs of carrying this
ever increasing data
traffic is growing faster
than revenue from
these services?
17.40 To what extent is the
need to upgrade backhaul
a key factor in the move to
LTE for most African
countries?
Dr. Marten Scheffer, GM of
Network Engineering, Neotel
14:05 FAST DATA
Conclusion
Brett St Clair, Head Sub
Sahran Africa , Google
14:35 Internet of Things:
The next little big thing
Intel’s vision is to create
and extend computing
technology to connect and
enrich the lives of every
person on earth. Intel has
industry leading products
spanning from devices to
the cloud, enabling rapid
development of end to end
solutions and services.
Tommi Raitio, Director of
Telco and IOT, MiddleEast, Turkey, Africa
Region, Intel Corporation
15:10 Networking Break
and Developer Outbreak
Sessions
16:10 Develop for
Android, Find Success
on Google play
Tzvika Barenholz,
Developer Advocate,
Google
16:55 Beer, Nibbles and
Interactive Chat
17:30 End of Day One and
AfricaCom Awards 2014
Day 3 : Thursday 13th November
Future revenue streams
Chaired by Bradley Shaw, Founder, Continuum Consulting
9.00 Future product keynote: the Connected Car for Africa
- BMW’s ConnectedDrive: what services and apps does it offer to the driver and how?
- What partnerships are in place with tech companies and app brands to deliver the service?
- How has the offer been adapted to South Africa’s market?
car manufacturer Edward Makwana, Group automotive communication manager, BMW
9.20 The Internet of Things: what does it mean for African markets?
Examining the IoT opportunities in African markets: what services for what markets?
Understanding the IoT ecosystem & new verticals
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Monetising the IoT for telcos: what are the business models?
Focus on mHealth: business models in the IoT in Africa
Panellists:
operator Arnauld Blondet, VP, Marketing, Products & Innovations, Orange Group
connected car Edward Makwana, Group automotive communication manager, BMW
m-health Gustav Praekelt, Founder, Praekelt Foundation and Advisory Board Member, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA)
operator Tony Smallwood, Executive Head: M2M & Vertical Industries, Vodacom
OTT Brett StClair, Enterprise Country Manager South Africa, Google
9.50 What will be the next game-changing service in African markets?
Arun Nagar, CEO, Spice VAS
10.10 Panel: Monetising content: What strategies for the digital age in Africa?
How is the content ecosystem likely to evolve and who will be the dominant players?
How to manage the partnership and revenue share between content providers and operators?
What is the impact of user-generated content on the digital market in Africa?
Will all streaming content services be free in the next few years?
How will triple play strategies change content delivery, usage and monetisation in African markets?
Moderator: Russell Southwood, CEO, Balancing Act
Panellists:
operator Neeraj Gala, Head Content & Alliances, Airtel Africa
OTT Colman Murray, VP Business Development, Yahoo!
broadcaster Maxwell Nonge, Managing Director , Platco Digital
operator Herman Singh, Managing Executive - Mobile Commerce, Vodacom
content provider Justin Zehmke, Head of Publishing, Ole! Media Group
10.40 Refreshments break & exhibition visit
12.00-16.00
12.00-16.00
Chaired by Thecla Mbongue,
Sr Analyst, Ovum
12.00 Infrastructure
sharing: what are the next
steps for African
operators?
- Incorporating infrastructure
sharing in an operator’s
strategy: how to get it right
without weakening the
operator’s assets
- Evaluating the results of
existing infrastructure sharing
initiatives
- Going further: what sharing
models have most potential in
Africa?
- Negotiating partnership
12.00-16.00
Chaired by Richard Hurst
Senior Analyst, Enterprise
Ovum
12.00 Examining the cloud
market in Africa: how is the
ecosystem developing?
- Market overview and growth
forecasts for cloud services
uptake from corporates and
SMEs in Africa
- Examining the evolution of
the cloud provision ecosystem:
major players, new entrants,
expected M&A activity
- Strategies for operators and
cloud service providers to
meet enterprises’ needs
Richard Hurst, Senior Analyst,
Enterprise, Ovum
Chaired by Alex B. Dadson,
Managing Director, Blue
Management Group
12.00 Sharing Best
Practice: Smile
Communications Case
Study
Irene Charnley, CEO, Smile
Communications
12.20 Operator Case
Study: Showcasing
Surfline’s activities and
plans as the premier 4G
LTE data provider in
Ghana
12.00-16.00
Chairman: Tony Poulos,
Ambassador, TM Forum
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
KEYNOTE: Transforming
in the digital age: How to
exploit major new
opportunities in the
evolving ecosystem
Peter Dumore, VP Products
and Portfolio, TM Forum
Agile Business & IT:
Delivering speed and
Chairman’s Opening
Remarks
Sylvain Beletre, Principle
Analyst, Balancing Act
Technology Challenges
and Opportunities of Local
Content In Africa
12:00 Opening Keynote
Address: Engaging your
target audience with
focused content initiatives
•Emphasizing the continued
importance of local content
in the African market
•Positioning Tuluntulu as a
key player on the local
12:00 VSAT Africa Day
2: Chairman’s Opening
Remarks
David Howgill, Chairman
Wireless Backhaul
Group, GVF &
President, Huckworthy
VSAT Network &
Service Optimsiation
12:05 Driving success
for HTS in Africa
- How are satellite
broadband technology
solutions evolving to
enable new business
models?
- Leveraging HTS
Chaired by Tom Jackson,
co-founder, Disrupt
Africa
10.30 What it takes to be
an African Entrepreneur
in the 21st century
- Building a business in
an increasingly
Connected Society
- Triple Bottom Line as a
sustainable business
strategy
- Proliferation of Shared
Value Business Models
- Customer Product and
Service Co-creation
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Serving people
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deals with other operators
and sharing companies
Bayan Monadjem, Chief
Networks Officer, Airtel
Africa
12.30 Cost Effective
Satellite Communications
Networks for Africa
Andrey Kirillovich, Director of
Integration Services and
Projects, RSCC
13.00 Lunch
14.20 What are the optimum
tools to optimise Opex and
Capex in Africa’s telecoms
market?
- Assessing the major tools
for opex and capex reduction
in Africa
- To what extent can costs be
reduced before it starts
affecting quality of service?
- Working with different teams
and suppliers to achieve
viable cost reduction
Representative, G&D
14.50 Lessons learnt from
first infrastructure sharing
projects in West & Central
Africa
- Determining the
infrastructure sharing model:
making the right decision for
each region/operation
- Working with partner
operators and vendors:
positives and challenges of
making the relationships work
- What are the major
constraints and solutions
learnt from the experience so
far?
Wilgon Berthold Tsibo, Group
CTIO, Azur Telecom Group
15.20 Rural telecoms panel:
How to increase coverage
cost-effectively in remote
areas?
- Assessing the needs of
consumers in rural areas to
determine the level of
12.20 Telecom Cloud
Innovation and
Transformation
Pietro Hagemann, Executive
Director of IT & Cloud
Computing Solutions, Huawei
Technologies
12.40 Telco Cloud: Winning
the African cloud market
with fast and secure
services
- What makes a cloud fast,
reliable and secure?
- Pamoja & Symantec: an
ideal partnership for Africa
- Cloud services with high
growth potential – guaranteed!
Frank Bunn, EMEA Marketing
Manager Communication
Service Providers, Symantec
13.00 Lunch
14.20 Developing successful
enterprise cloud
applications
- Examining how cloud
computing can support
entrepreneurship
- What makes a cloud
enterprise app successful?
- Assessing future
opportunities in cloud apps for
businesses and entrepreneurs
Brett StClair, Enterprise
Country Manager South
Africa, Google
14.40 Capturing the small
business cloud opportunity
-Winning value propositions
and packaging approaches
-Innovation in promotion and
go to market channels
-Delivering the best customer
experience
-Strategic partnerships to
maximise success
Tim Marsden, Director,
Service Providers, BCSG
15.00 Panel: Understanding
African enterprises’ needs
to deliver the right telco
Rosy Fynn, Director of
Marketing, Surfline
Communications
Panel Sponsor: Accanto
12.40 Panel Discussions:
Highlighting the
importance of gaining
consumer insight &
managing network
performance for QoE

How should operators
tailor their packages to
the consumer?

Reducing customer
churn and ensuring
revenue through better
assurance and
analytics

How to give most value
to subscribers?

Assessing how the
network is performing
through real-time
assurance and
proactive management
strategies

How does network
performance impact
customer experience,
availability and service
quality?

Ensuring QoE to gain
maximum revenues
Jorma Heinonen, VP Sales,
Accanto Systems
James Wang , Senior Vice
President, Green Packet
Chris Mulhall, Account
Manager, NetScout
Oliver Finn, Head of
Marketing, The Now
Factory, an IBM Company
Astrid Wastegard, Product
Marketing Manager,
Infovista
13.10 Lunch
Capitalising on LTE through
Enhanced Services
14.30 What are the best
strategies to build and
flexibility in a digital world
12:30 pm – 12:40 pm
Introduction to TM
Forum’s Agile Business
and IT Program
Peter Dumore, VP Products
and Portfolio, TM Forum
12:40 pm- 1:05 pm
Panel Debate: Becoming
agile: What does good
look like?
Moderator: Tony Poulos,
Ambassador, TM Forum
Panelists:
- Bill Hearmon, Chairman,
African Broadband Forum
and Africa Director of
Business Development,
Voxox
- Sylvie-Marianne
Rhugenda, Head of
Revenue Assurance &
Fraud Management,
Vodacom
- Obafemi Banigbe, COO,
Millicom Ghana Limited
(TIGO)
Leadership panel of different
providers and enterprises
sharing the different ways
that they are transforming
and debating if one method
was better than another
1:05 pm – 1:30 pm
Managing growth without
sacrificing future agility
Zanele Mgidi, Head of
Mobile Money, MTN Group
1:30 pm – 2:25 pm
LUNCH
content level
•Using local content as a
way of engaging with new
viewers
•Assessing the preference
viewers show towards local
content
Pierre Van Der Hoven,
Founder and CEO,
Tuluntulu
12:20 Creating a digital
outlet for original African
Content
•Giving a platform to new
generational voices in Africa
(via the web and mobile)
•Working with Ghanaian and
West African film makers to
get their content to market
•Using the internet as a way
of advancing local content
Charles Igwe, CEO,
Nollywood Global
12:40 Content, what's
content?
•Understanding the role of
local content initiatives in
Africa
•Creating word of mouth
success of local content
•Assessing the impact of
social media networks on
content
Colman Murray, VP
Business Development,
Africa, Yahoo!
13:00 An Overview of TMT
in Africa
George Twumasi, CEO,
Africa Broadcast Networks
13:40 Networking Lunch &
Exhibition Visit
Customer Engagement:
Maximizing market share,
customer growth and
loyalty
Broadcast and Content
Partnerships With
International Players
2:25 pm – 2:35 pm
Introduction to TM
Forum’s Customer
Engagement Program
Peter Dumore, VP Products
14:40 Broadcaster
Keynote Case Study:
BBC’s Innovation in the
African Market
•Being a global broadcaster
technology to maximize
opportunities in the
consumer, enterprise,
carrier and mobility
markets
Derek Woods, CEO,
SatFiber
12:25 Interactive Q&A
Session: Key Market
Focus: VSAT for GSM
Backhaul & Small
Cells
- Successfully partnering
with Telco Operators to
provide Small Cell, GSM
and last mile backhaul in
remote areas
- HTS vs. traditional
satellite configuration –
how does HTS benefit
the backhaul market?
Chairman: David
Howgill, Chairman
Wireless Backhaul
Group, GVF &
President, Huckworthy
Panellists:
António Rocha, CEO,
Infrasat
Guy Schalker, CTO,
Gondwana
International Networks
Group
Scott Mumford, Group
Head of Satellite
Services, Liquid
Telecom
13:05 Networking Lunch
and Exhibition Visit
14:30 Enabling
seamless connectivity
via end to end
cohesive managed
hybrid networks
- How to achieve true
interoperability with a
variety of networks and
systems
- Cost vs. benefit:
partnering VSAT with
other terrestrial
technologies to enable
sustainably for profits
Ahmed Kajee, ICT
Consultant &
Entrepreneur
11.00 Providing
entrepreneurs with the
tools necessary for
turning simple ideas
into sustainable
businesses
Melilizwe Gqobo,
Hubspace Khayelitsha
11.30 Ampion Venture
Bus : Pan-African
hackathon for startups
with an impact
Fabian Carlos Guhl, Cofounder & MD,
Ampion.org
11.40 Ampion Venture
Bus (Southern Africa):
finalist pitches
Teams of African and
international coders,
designers and business
minds will present what
they have created during
the 5-day Ampion Venture
Bus hackathon, to stand a
chance of being admitted
to the "Ampion
Fellowship”.
1.00pm Lunch
1.45 Securing funds in
tech start-ups in Africa:
what investors are
looking for
2.15 Ampion Venture
Bus (Southern Africa):
announcing the winner
The jury will now
announce the winner &
two runners-up of the
Ampion Venture Bus
(Southern Africa) 2014
2.45 Closing remarks
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- Using satellite to cover
remote areas: what are the
new solutions to make it
affordable?
- Using universal access
funds: what’s needed from
the regulators?
Dion Jerling, Managing
Director, CONNECT AFRICA
Shiletsi Makhofane, Head of
Government and Industry
Relations sub-Saharan
Africa, Ericsson
Aniko Szigetvari, Head, Africa
& Latin America TMT,
International Finance
Corporation
16.00 end of day 3
cloud service
- Feedback on first
experiences of cloud adoption
in Africa
- What are the pitfalls to avoid
when moving to cloud?
- Looking at the future of cloud
services: what will be the main
opportunities for African telcos
and enterprises?
Nancy Matimu, Head
Enterprise Products &
Innovation, Safaricom
Steven Kirenga, Business
Solutions Manager, MTN
Uganda
15.30 How can telcos win
the cloud market?
- Business models for
operators to deliver successful
cloud services
- Understanding enterprises’
needs to deliver the right
services
- Educating enterprises to sell
the cloud proposition
Nkosi Kumalo, Executive
Head of Product Division:
Cloud Computing, Vodacom
15.50 Security in the Cloud:
key challenges and
considerations
- Examining the environment
of virtualization in africa’s
telecoms
- Regulatory considerations for
a better integration of Cloud
solutions
- Improving confidence in the
digital space
Koffi Fabrice Djossou, Africa
Liaison, ZA Central Registry
16.10 end of day 3
launch an LTE network in
Africa

The Fundamental
Ingredients

Different Markets'
Opportunities

Designing the Offer

How to launch your
Offer
Miguel Geraldes, CEO, MTC
Namibia
and Portfolio, TM Forum
14.50 Examining the MHealth opportunities for
Africa and how can LTE
facilitate this?
Dr. Peter Breitenbach, Head
m-Health, Emerging
Markets, Vodacom South
Africa
3:00 pm – 3:25 pm
Managing, measuring and
enriching the customer
experience in an omnichannel world
Dr. Hanlie Smuts, General
Manager: Digital, MTN
Group
15.10 Panel Discussion:
Feathres and applications
for LTE- From VoLTE to
killer applications, what
features will enhance LTE
services?

Voice strategy in multilayered networks with
VoLTE

How will voice be
handles in an exsisting
network

Enhancing the VoLTE
user wexperience
through network
optimization and traffic
management

Leveraging LTE
through the provision of
new content and
applications
Tom Allen, Chief Operating
Officer, Smile
Communications
Mohammed Redi Abshero,
General Manager, AASLM
Com & Telecom LLC
Malcom Ramsay, Owner,
Pixellife
Andrew Heard, Multi- Media
Manager, ABN Digital
South Africa
Open Digital Ecosystem:
Creating and delivering
complex innovative
services
16.30 Merits and
2:35 pm – 3:00 pm
The competitive currency
of the 21st Century:
Extracting maximum
measurable value from big
data
Andre Beyers, Cbayan
hief Marketing Officer,
Airtel Africa
3:25 pm – 3:35 pm
Introduction to TM
Forum’s Open Digital
Program
Peter Dumore, VP Products
and Portfolio, TM Forum
3:35 pm – 4:00 pm
Panel Discussion:
Enabling an open digital
ecosystem: Best practices
for profitable partnerships
Moderator: Tony Poulos,
Ambassador, TM Forum
Panelists:
- Hugo van Zyl, Executive:
Mobile Service Delivery,
Telkom Mobile
- Thembayena Mgozi,
Customer Experience
Design Specialist, Enterprise
Business Unit (EBU),
Vodacom South Africa
creating local content
•Achieving targeted content
for the African consumer
•Understanding the
relationship between the
BBC and it’s African
partners
•Identifying the role of the
BBC brand as a global
broadcaster
Alex Jakana Executive
Producer Editorial
Partnerships, Africa, BBC
15:00 Cape Town TV Case
Study
Mike Aldridge, Broadcast
Manager, Cape Town TV
15:20 A Case Study of
Afrostream's Innovation
Across Africa
Tonje Bakang,Founder and
CEO, Afrostream.tv
15:40 Panel Discussion:
What are the major
challenges and key
successes of being a
global broadcaster in
Africa?
•Who are the key
international players in the
African broadcast market
and how is this changing?
•What is the role of
regulation in influencing the
pace of growth?
•What are the influencing
factors which are driving
African expansion?
•Understanding the specific
needs of the viewer
Alex Jakana Executive
Producer Editorial
Partnerships, Africa, BBC
Colman Murray, VP
Business Development,
Africa, Yahoo!
George Twumasi, CEO,
ABN
16:10 Closing
Presentation
Sylvain Beletre, Analyst,
maximised network
efficiency and ROI
Meir Erez, Director
Solutions Architect,
SkyVision
14:50 Licensing,
regulation spectrum
allocation –
overcoming the
hurdles to ensure
growth in the
African VSAT industry
- Is current regulation
standing in the way of
progress in bridging the
digital divide?
- Regulating and
reducing national VSAT
landing fees: is a panAfrican standardisation
too much to
hope for?
- Understanding the
importance of C-band
satellite services in the
African continent
David Hartshorn,
Secretary General, GVF
15:10 CLOSING
INTERACTIVE PANEL
DISCUSSION: Future
of VSAT in Africa where next?
- Where will the growth
come from? How is
Africa changing and how
can the satellite industry
expand addressable
markets to capitalise on
new HTS capabilities?
Chairman: David
Howgill, Chairman
Wireless Backhaul
Group, GVF &
President, Huckworthy
Panellists:
Dror Limor, VP Sales &
Marketing, SkyVision
Job Ndege, Managing
Director, Protocol
Solutions
Salvation Alibor, CEO,
Syscomptech
Communications
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challenges of VoLTE
Rollout
Mohammed Redi Abshero,
General Manager, AASLM
Com & Telecom LLC
Balancing Act
16:30 Close of Conference
16:00 End of VSAT
Africa
12:00 Chairman’s
Opening remarks
THE MOBILE
MARKETING APP
OPPORUNITY
12:05 Creating
Multiplatform Apps for
the African Consumer
Riccardo Pasqualotto
Sales Director | 2go
Interactive
12:35 Integrating
Mobile Engagement as
Part of An Overall
Brand Strategy
Russel Stromin, CEO,
Strike Media
13:30 Networking Lunch
and Developer Outbreak
sessions
14:30 Launching the
myedit App
Renato Balona,
Business Manager, My
Edit, Media 24
14:50 Fundable App
Business = Business +
Design + Engineering
Justin Coetzee,
Founder, Go Metro
15:10 Networking Break
and Developer Outbreak
Sessions
Appsolutely Fabulous:
Case Studies from SA
Developers
16:00 THE QUEST FOR
THE MOBI GRAIL -
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How to engage the
African consumer via
Mobile
Desere’ Orrill, CMO,
Ole! Media Group
16:40 Creating a
strong successful
mobile marketing
campaign
Lorraine Steyn,
Simplifier-in-Chief, I’m
Bored
17:00 End of Day Two
and Close of AfricApps
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