Service Creation, Delivery and Partnering

Tuesday Sessions

SPECIAL SESSION: IMS Forum Presents “OSS and Charging in IMS & NGN Networks 10:45 – 11:30 a.m.
This panel will discuss results from charging interoperability testing for "online"' billing services, drawing specific examples from recent NGN IMS Forum Plugfests. This session addresses technical and business aspects of multimedia, all-IP services, covering all types of interfaces used in IMS, NGN, LTE and WiMAX utilizing Diameter and other protocols for control and management, network operations (OSS/BSS) and integration with NGN applications and services. In addition, the needs of protocol stack vendors and users, equipment vendors using these protocols in functions such as call session control, home subscriber servers, charging, policy management and security will be examined.
Moderator: Michael Khalilian, Chairman and President, IMS Forum
Panelists: Anantha Ramu, Vice President, Engineering & Principal Architect, Acision
Tom Lybarger, Senior Director of Global Services Delivery, Aricent
Tom Kovar, Chair, B/OSS Working Group, HP

Encountering Content and Its Business Ramifications 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Content Encounter is an innovation incubator within the TM Forum service providers and their supply chain experiment with emerging business models and new technologies for the creation, delivery and monetization of digital media services. Phase 3 of this project was completed in November at Management World. Participants discuss how best practices are being developed through this experience that will move content delivery and management forward for the service provider.

Moderator: Jim Warner, Vice Chairman and head of the content sector at the TM Forum
Speakers: Grant Lenahan, Vice President, Strategy, Telcordia
John Myers, Senior Consultant, Subex
Kathy Romano, Executive Director, Revenue Assurance, Verizon Communications
Catherine Michel, CTO, Tribold

Elevating the Product Catalog 2 – 2:45 p.m.
Fundamental communications products have been commoditized, so service providers need new ways to differentiate themselves. One way is to improve the flexibility around product offerings. This requires putting product and service catalogs front and center and integrating them with billing and fulfillment systems. This panel will discuss how to do this and some of the results of doing so.

Moderator: Nancee Ruzicka, Stratecast
Speakers: Catherine Michel, CTO, Tribold
Mary Ann Tillman, Director Product Marketing, Convergys
Elaine Haher, Director, Operations Solutions, Telcordia
Kristi Siple, Senior Director Business Development, Comptel
Alon Meller – Head of the Enterprise Product Catalog Business Unit, Amdocs

Enhanced Revenue through Enhanced Services 3 – 3:45 p.m.
Communications providers continue to experience access line loss at 5-8 percent per year and are looking to find new sources of revenue — and quickly! Communications providers can drive customer retention by building customer loyalty through enhanced services, access to additional digital products and applications that manage access and delivery to those products.

Speaker: Mike Gossman, Director of Marketing for Martin Group