BUILDING AFRICA'S DIGITAL ECONOMY

“GENERATED GOOD NEW LEADS AND WAS A GREAT PLATFORM TO MEET
EXISTING CLIENTS TO SHOWCASE PRODUCTS.”
Steven Nagel, Systems Engineer, Dynamic Testing Solutions
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12.00 Leveraging Wi-Fi to meet the demand for
broadband in Africa
• The business case for carrier Wi-Fi
• Integration of cellular and Wi-Fi
• Enterprise managed services
• Monetizing Wi-Fi
• Building the Wi-Fi business case
Steven Glapa, Senior Director - Field Marketing,
Ruckus Wireless
12.20 Using wireless to provide broadband access
• Assessing wireless broadband access technologies
• Strategies to provide broadband access to different areas:
urban, rural
• Future network development to improve wireless
broadband access
Speaker to be announced*
12:40 Utilizing wifi for last Mile broadband service
for estates and multi-tenant building
• Background: Rise of multi-tenant building development
• Overview of last mile solution technologies
• Implementation considerations and economics of wifi as a
last mile solution
• Future: Offload of mobile networks to wifi
Patrick Ananyi, Founder & director,
Tizeti Network Limited
13.00 Lunch
Join us at
Small Cells and
Heterogeneous Networks
for LTE and LTE Advanced
13 – 14 NOVEMBER 2013
Demand for higher capacity networks have driven
the adoption of high bandwidth systems like
LTE, however high bandwidth systems don’t fully
address the increasing demand for data capacity
in mobile cellular networks, Next generation
networks will rely on high density clusters of small
cells to yield capacity.
This 2 day course will describe the concepts
behind small cell systems and detail the
technology and challenges of deploying small
cell networks. LTE advanced includes femto,
relay and WiFi offload techniques to boost local
capacity, however managing the backhaul,
mobility and interference of such systems are
complex tasks that will be covered in this course.
This course is an essential primer for any
operator, engineer or planner that needs to fully
understand the nature of small cells, the capacity
increase possible with such systems and the
many challenges of Hetnet deployment
• Small Cell Concepts
• Base Station Classes
• HetNet Challenges
- Backhaul
- Mobility
- Location Planning
- Interference Management
• Hetnet Capacity
• LTE Relays
• WiFi Offload
• CoMP
www.telecomsacademy.com
Chair: Kim Andersen, Principal Advisory,
CxO Advisors & Ovum
12.00 Hadoop: capturing Big Value in Big Data
• How use case segmentation drives solution design and
technology selection
• What is the disruptive innovation in Hadoop?
• What are target use cases, horizontally and telco-specific?
• How do you start realizing value from Hadoop today?
• How does Hadoop complement existing investments in
business intelligence?
Juergen Urbanski, Chief Technologist Big Data
and Cloud, Deutsche Telekom Group
12.20 Big data, mobile technologies and the
innovation imperative: A City of Cape Town
perspective
• Developing customer intelligence & Segmentation
strategies
• Optimising network data analytics
• Enhancing your Fraud detection methodology
Ferdie Lochner, Head: IT Finance & Innovation
Lead, City of Cape Town
12.40 Leveraging Big Data for Bigger Revenues
• Harnessing the Big Data potential
• Assessing and addressing key challenges
• Using Big Data to create and deliver higher customer value
• View from the field
Ganesh Jayadevan, Sr. VP – Messaging &
Business Solutions, Mahindra Comviva
13.00 Lunch & Exhibition visit
14.00 HANDS-ON LAB: How can telcos tap into the
value of Big Data?
• Understanding the key challenges to Big Data
monetisation faced by Telcos
• Unifying senior management & making better business
decisions
• Which organisational departments need to get involved
with Big Data?
• Securing executive leadership and buy-in from business
leaders
• Dealing with the organisational lack of analytical expertise
• The return on investment of Bid Data: where is the
opportunity?
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14.25 Real-time analytics Data mining: automating
the process
Nicolaas Coetzee, IT Security Specialist,
First National Bank SA
14.45 Big data: the potential to revolutionise
healthcare
• How healthcare organisations will need to increasingly
look to big data to explore ways of managing healthcare
costs in terms of disease management.
• Why disease management and particularly hospitalisation
are huge cost drivers
• How technology is the great “enabler” of cost saving
mechanisms
• Looking at the growing importance of healthcare providers
utilising cloud-based big data systems
• Key metrics drawn from devices add immense value to the
cloud & big data
Simon Spurr, Chief Operating Officer, FOLUP Inc.
15.05 The Telco opportunity in the Big Data
paradigm
Steven Kirenga, Business Solutions Manager,
MTN Uganda
15.25 Refreshments Break & Exhibition visit
15.45 Brainstorming Session: The future of
workspace: how do you enable the mobile
enterprise, the mobile employees in an
African context?
16.10 Security, data privacy and industry
compliance in BYOx strategies
• What are the industry’s leaders caring for the security of
apps, content and devices?
• What are the unique challenges in the African network
infrastructure landscape?
• Controlling what the device does on the enterprise
network, access control to network resources and
applications, data access, encryption and device tracking
16.45 Hands-on Lab: Exploring the role of the Telco
in BYOD
• Why Telcos sit in the unique position to provide
management services alongside their data and voice
transport connections
• How can they step up the mark and start offering a
complete MDM platform on their own?
• What is the partnership opportunity with the bigger MDM
vendors?
• Calculating the ROI potential and how can BYOx be bundled
with Cloud services
12:00 Introduction by Session Chair
Richard Walton, Co Chair Person,
Mobile Monday South Africa
Embracing the New Media Revolution
12:10 Improving mobile Internet access for lowerincome
users in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dirk le Roux, Managing Director,
Afrozaar
12:30 Understanding the Evolution of User
Consumption
Serigne Barro, Partner - General Manager,
PEOPLE INPUT
12:50 Developing a native app in Africa
Kobi Tziruya, COO, M Wise
13:10 Networking Lunch and Breakout Sessions
14:05 Polymorph Interactive Developer Workshop
Led by Herman Lintvelt, Co Founder,
Polymorph
15:35 Networking Break and Developer Outbreak
Sessions
16:35 Everyone is an app developer - the story of
how 3 non-app developers launched GoMetro
- the official Metrorail app
Justin Coetzee, Founder, Go Metro
16:55 iPawn - Tangible Magic in the Digital Era
Erik Jan Bijvank, Founding Partner,
Fonk Mobile
17:15 End of Day and Close of Conference
LTE & Broadband
11.00 Managing opex and capex when upgrading
mobile networks
• Evaluating the investment necessary to deploy \LTE networks
• Determining coverage areas for maximum ROI
• Solutions to maximise cost-efficiency
Representative, Ericsson
11.30 Service Management in the LTE World
• Generating new revenue streams by enabling secure
access to multimedia services over LTE
• Enabling multiple subscription management for Roaming,
M2M, Mobile TV, NFC ….
• Managing on-demand activation of data services over LTE
• Advanced connectivity and seamless access to new services
• Leveraging on high speed access to the SIM and
continuously measuring the quality of experience
• Turnkey solution for remote updates, provisioning and
subscription activation
• Optimising the network by enabling off-load to WiFi services
Shaheryar ZAMEER, Head of
Telecommunication Solutions CIS, Middle East &
Africa, Gemalto
12.00 Optimizing the network to provide the best
possible end user experience
Richard Choi, Chief Commercial Officer,
Jinny Software
12.30 Presentation to be confirmed
Representative, Tekcomms
13.00 Lunch
13.30 Just the facts – using 4G mobile & fixed
services on a dual mode WiMAX/LTE network
• Fixed vs. mobile – fixec capabilities still paly a key role in
the future of the network
• LTE ecosystem evolution and device availability – moving
from WiMAX to LTE and leveraging the ecosystem
• Converging future networks – FMC, a roadmap for today’s
fixed operators
• Evolution of LTE services in Africa
Mark Altshuller, CTO, Telrad
14.00 When should operators start planning for LTE?
• Is 3G enough to meet the needs of mobile broadband
users in Africa?
• Examining the timescale for LTE planning
• What considerations do operators need to make in their
mobile broadband plans?
14.30 Closing remarks
MASTERCLASS
11:50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Nick Thomas, Principle Analyst, Informa
Telecoms and Media
Keynotes Session
Creating Local Content
12:00 OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Engaging
your target audience with focused content
initiatives
Kasia Kieli, President Managing Director
Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA),
Discovery Networks, USA
12:20 Creating a digital outlet for original African
Content
• Giving a platform to new generational voices in Africa (via
the web and mobile)
• Talent discovery, connecting artists with fans
• Monetization via E and M commerce
Nicole Klassen, Head of Content, Bozza
12:40 Content, what’s content?
• Understanding the role of local content initiatives in Africa
• Positioning Umuntu as a champion of original content
• Creating word of mouth success of local content
• Assessing the impact of social media networks on content
Johan Nel, CEO, Umuntu Media, South Africa
13:00 Fireside Chat: Cape Town’s Local Content
Schemes
Mike Aldridge, Broadcast Manager, Cape Town
TV, South Africa
13:20 Content Provider Case Study: Content = Just
telling stories
• Examining the evolution of Channels TV
• Introducing technology changes in the processing of content
• Utilizing new metadata in order to achieve the digital switch
• Providing a sweetener to the consumer to encourage take up
John Momoh, Chairman and CEO, Channels TV,
Nigeria
13:40 Networking Lunch & Exhibition Visit
International Broadcasters Impact
on Africa
14:40 Broadcaster Keynote Case Study: BBC’s
Innovation in the African Market
• Being a global broadcaster 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
Solomon Mugera, Editor, World Service Africa,
BBC
15:00 Developing Pay TV channels in emerging
markets
• LatAm case Studies
• Key learnings from other emerging markets for Africa
• Creating balanced bouquets
Alessandro Tucci, SVP and GM Africa, Fox
Networks
15:20 PANEL: 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
Solomon Mugera, Editor, World Service Africa, BBC
Colman Murray, Global Brand Director, AFP
RelaxNews
Alessandro Tucci, SVP and GM Africa, Fox
Networks
Kasia Kieli, President Managing Director
Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA),
Discovery Networks
15:50 Close of Conference
“THE BEST AFRICA BASED
TELECOM SHOW THAT I HAVE
ATTENDED”
John Gray, VP Sales EMEA, Wavestream Corp
a Gilat Satellite Networks Company
*Speaker details to be announced – check www.comworldseries/africa for updates
17.30 End of Enterprise Mobility Focus Session
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