Billing & OSS World 2008
April 14-16, 2009
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas

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Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
Tuesday, April 29
9:30 – 11 a.m.

Plenary Session: OSS Transformation

11:10 a.m. – Noon Concurrent Sessions
  • Session A: Service Creation & Delivery
    Managing the Content Lifecycle — Enabling the Digital Marketplace
  • Session B: Service Assurance & Customer Experience
    When Good Enough Isn’t: OSS for the Video Onslaught
  • Session C: Revenue Assurance
    Building a Revenue Operations Center
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Driving EBPP Adoption
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
1 - 1:50 pm Concurrent Sessions
  • Session A: Service Creation & Delivery
    Case Study: BT 21 Century Network Boosts Web 2.0 Consumer and Enterprise
    Applications with Voice, Presence and Messaging
  • Session B: Service Assurance & Customer Experience
    Delivering Superior QoE with Real-Time Application-Level Monitoring
  • Session C: Revenue Assurance
    Cost-Effective Business Analytics
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Case Study: Evolution: Bringing the Back Office Front & Center to Target New Markets
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
    On-Demand OSS: Driving OSS and Policies to the Edge
2 - 2:50 pm

Concurrent Sessions

  • Session A: Service Creation & Delivery
    Are Back-Office Systems Ready to Turn Web 2.0 and IMS Services into Revenue?
  • Session B: Service Assurance & Customer Experience
    Transforming the Customer Experience Using Business-Process Modeling
  • Session C: Revenue Assurance
    Revenue Assurance Challenges in Managing Third-Party Content Partners and High-Value Multimedia Services
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Charging Ahead with a Real-Time, Advertising- and Policy-Driven Billing Model
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
    Case Study: Global Crossing Assesses Total Cost of Operations
3 - 3:50 pm

Concurrent Sessions

  • Session A: Service Creation & Delivery
    Case Study: Lessons Learned in Deploying IMS-Based Mobile Video Services
  • Session B: Service Assurance & Customer Experience
    Beyond CRM: New Technologies for Improving the Customer Experience Session
  • C: Revenue Assurance
    Revenue Assurance is Dead – or Is It? Session
  • D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Regulation and Compensation: The Rules for Developing Next-gen Revenue Streams Session
  • E: B/OSS Transformation
    Establishing a Program Management Office to Replace a Legacy Billing System
4 - 4:50 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

  • Session A: Service Creation & Delivery
    Open Media Distribution: A Field of Dreams — If We Build It, Will They Come?
  • Session B: Service Assurance & Customer Experience
    Harness the Power of Self-Service to Drive Sales, Reduce Costs and Improve Care
  • Session C: Revenue Assurance
    Case Study: Attaining Cost and Operational Gains via Automated Invoice and Cost Management
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Making Mobile Payments Work: Exploring the Pros and Cons of Leading Methods
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
    Transforming Operations Through Data Integrity: Enabling the Lean and Agile Operator

5-6:30 p.m.

CTO Roundtable Sponsored by:

Wednesday, April 30
 7-8 a.m

Continental Breakfast

8 - 8:50 a.m. 

Concurrent Sessions

  • Session A: Service Creation & Delivery
    Understanding the Relationship Between OSS/BSS and the SDP
  • Session B: Service Assurance & Customer Experience
    Getting More Value out of Multivendor Networks
  • Session C: Customer Loyalty/Management
    Using Billing Data to Promote New Services and Build Customer Loyalty
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Building a Back-Office Royalty Clearing House
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
    Key Integration Issues in Building a Strategic OSS Platform
9 - 9:50 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

  • Session A: Service Creation & Delivery
    Understanding the Service Delivery Framework
  • Session B: Service Assurance & Customer Experience
    Managing the Peer-to-Peer Traffic Burden
  • Session C: Customer Loyalty/Management
    Examining the Relationship Between Customer Loyalty and Credit and Collections
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Achieving and Maintaining PCI Compliance for Credit Card Transactions
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
    The Inevitability of OSS/BSS Transformation
10 - 10:50 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

  • Session A: Service Creation & Delivery
    Innovation ≠ Anarchy: Improving Your Service Creation and Delivery Efficiency by   Using a Process-Driven Framework
  • Session B: Service Assurance & Customer Experience
    Case Study: Cox Realizes the Promise of Self-Service
  • Session C: Customer Loyalty/Management
    Case Study: Sergel-TeliaSonera Tackles Pricing and Loyalty Programs in a Converged World
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Breaking Through the Billing Bottleneck
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
    Case Study: How Viral Marketing and Social Networking are Changing the Role of BSS/OSS for Service Providers
11 - 11:50 a.m. Plenary Session: It’s More than Acquisition and Retention. It’s about Experience!
12-1p.m.

Lunch in the Expo Hall

12-6:15 p.m.

Expo Hall Open

4-6:15 p.m.

Executive Networking Reception

Co-sponsored by:
 
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. B/OSS Excellence Awards Ceremony  

Thursday, May 1
8-9am Continental Breakfast  

9 – 9:50 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

  • Session A: Vendor Presentation
    Understanding and Maximizing your Network Cost Score
Sponsored by:
 
  • Session B: Vendor Presentation
    What's Wrong With My Postal Address?
Presented by
 
  • Session C: Workforce Management
    Optimizing Your Workforce for Multiservice Offerings
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Billing and Customer Care Implications of Becoming a Fully Integrated Provider
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
    Addressing the Legacy Problem
 
10 – 10:50 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

  • Session A: Vendor Presentation
    Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP): Revenue Management on Steroids

Presented by
  • Session B: Vendor Presentation
    Mergers and Acquisitions in the B/OSS Network Management Sectors
Presented by
 
  • Session C: Workforce Management
    Best Practices for Reseller Management
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    Managing the Convergence of Telecom and Banking
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
    NOCs and SOCs in a Service-Oriented Environment
 
11 – 11:50 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

  • Session A: Vendor Presentation
    Delivering Top Quality of Service and The Best Customer Experience with Next Generation OSS/BSS and SDP
Presented by
  • Session B: Vendor Presentation
    Case Study: Delivering Enterprise Order Management
Presented by

 
  • Session C: Workforce Management
    Organizational Development as a Strategic Tool
  • Session D: Billing/Payment Processing
    The Impact of Proposed Taxes on Printing, Mailing and Postage
  • Session E: B/OSS Transformation
    Transformation of the OSS Environment

12-1pm Lunch in the Expo Hall

12 – 4 p.m.

Expo Hall Open

2-4 p.m.

Executive Networking Happy Hour

*Agenda subject to change without notice


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