Program 2010

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Tuesday 28th September

08:30
Registration, coffee with sandwich

09:00
Chairmans’s opening remarks

Adam Eisen corporate events moderator and consultant in leadership and strategy development.

The Nordic Telecom Industry
- a snapshot of the market

09:10
Telecoms in the Nordic Region – analyzing the market and forecasting of future growth

  • Current and future trends
  • Benchmarking the Nordic Countries – an international outlook

    Dexter Thillien is a research analyst for Informa Telecoms & media, where he works on the WCIS database and the Intelligence Centre platform.

09:40
The outlook for Telecoms – development relative other sectors

  • Growth and profitability
  • New business models?
  • Market earnings recovery
  • Major drivers of earnings going forward

    Helena Nordman-Knutson, Head of Telecom, E. Öhman J:or

10:10
Break for coffee and networking

Regulatory aspects

10:40 – Specially invited
Regulatory aspects of the Telecoms Industry
- what is in the pipeline?

  • The framework
  • Recent changes
  • Implementation of new regulations
    - Net neutrality
    - Radio spectrum
  • The PTS view on the changes and their implications for the Nordic Telecom Industry

    Bernd Langeheine, Director, Electronic Communications Policy, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, European Commission.
    Göran Marby, Director General, Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS).

The Operators’ perspective -
Investments and business models for profitability and growth

11:20
The Telecom Industry After the Recession

  • New Services
  • New Business Models
  • New operational models to be competitive

    Fredrik Gunnarsson, Principal, Head of Telecom, Media & Entertainment, Capgemini Consulting.

11:50 – Key Note Speaker
Broadband to the TV-set and over broadband

  • Convergence drives consumer choice
  • Broadband developments
  • On Demand developments
  • Over-the-top: Opportunity or threat?

    Martin Kull, CTO of Com Hem, Sweden’s largest cable operator and first triple play operator, connecting 1,8 million homes.

12:30
Networking lunch

13:30 – Key Note Speaker
New Business Models

  • Partnering and strategy
  • Opportunities
  • Experiences
  • Challenges

    Georgi Ganev, CEO, Bredbandsbolaget and CMO Consumer Telenor Sweden.

14:15 – Key Note Speaker
The Tele2 road map for growth and profitability

  • M2M
  • Expectations on the future

    Martin Cullberg, Commercial Director Business Market, Tele2.

15:00
Break for coffe and networking

15:30 – Key Note Speaker
Strategies for mobile broadband and Internet business

  • Experiences from 4G/LTE
  • Future investments in fixed broadband and 4G/LTE
  • Expectations on M2M
  • New pricing models for growth and profitability

    Erik Hallberg, CEO, TeliaSonera Mobility Services.

Business models of the future

16:15 – Top level strategy panel
Future business models in the Nordic Telecom Market

  • Consumer pricing models
  • Operator’s role in the market of applications
  • Two sided business models

    Erik Hallberg, TeliaSonera
    Martin Kull, Com Hem
    Georgi Ganev, Bredbandsbolaget
    Per Blom, Capgemini
    Martin Cullberg, Tele2

17:00
Chairman’s closing remarks

17:10
Networking drinks

Wednesday 29th September

08:30
Coffee with sandwiches

09:00
Chairman’s opening remarks

09:10 – Key Note Speaker
LTE – Continued Evolution of Mobile Broadband

  • The Mobile Broadband Reality
  • Experiences
  • Vision & key areas for the future

    Charlotta Sund, Executive Director Customer Unit Baltic Sea, Ericsson AB.

09:50
Mobile Broadband – what’s next?

  • LTE/HSPA is the first step in real mobile broadband, what capabilities can be expected?
  • Spectrum challenges, is it possible to free up more spectrum for mobile broadband?
  • How to handle smart phones in a smart way, extend battery life and reduce signalling load in the network
  • What are the next steps in mobile broadband?

    Tor Leif Aarland, Head of Mobile Broadband Nordic, Nokia Siemens Networks

10:30
Break for coffee and networking

11:00 – Key Note Speaker
Technology Trends – challenges and opportunities

  • How do the market requirements impact the network architecture?
  • Challenges and opportunities of mass deployment of M2M
  • M2M Best Practice Case
  • Smart Pipes and Traffic Management

    Xiadong Zhu, CTO of ZTE Western European Marketing Platform, has 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry.

Trends in Consumer behavior and providers view on business models

11:40
Trends in consumer behavior

  • What is happening in the market today?
    - International trends
    - The Nordic Perspective
  • What to expect from the future?

    Marie Nilsson, CEO, Mediavision.

12:20
Networking lunch

13:30 – Top level strategy panel 
The future of Streaming and Video on Demand

  • Evolution of the market for streaming
  • Providers view on business models of today and tomorrow

    Jonas Dahllöf, CEO, SF Anytime
    Johan Wahlberg,     Head of Strategy, SVT Interaktiv
    Andreas Briese    , Strategic Partner Development Manager, YouTube
    Mattias Fyrenius    , Director New Media, TV4 Group
    Anders Sjöman, VP Communications, Voddler

14:30
Break for coffe and networking

15:00 – Best practice case
Google goes Mobile

In a very short time, Google has gone from nowhere to being a major driving force. Google has launched the smart phone OS Android and its first smart phone, the Nexus One along with a number of poweful apps. Also, Google experiments with super-fast fiber networks in the U.S. What does the future hold?

Claes Eriksson, Account Manager, Google.

16:00
The chairman’s concluding remarks and closing of the conference.