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Day 1 : April 25, 2013
Day 1 Primary Track Speakers
9:00 to 9:20 am Welcome and opening remarks Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading
9:20 to 9:40 am Government keynote N Ravi Shanker, Administrator (USOF), Department of Telecommunication DoT, Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India & CMD, Bharat Broadband Network
9:40 to 10:25 am Exclusive Telco business leader roundtable : 4G- enabling the next wave of telecom growth in India Moderator - Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading
  • N Ravi Shanker, CMD, Bharat Broadband Network
  • Arvind Bali, MD & CEO, Videocon Telecommunications
  • Vipul Saurabh, COO, Aircel India
  • Jagbir Singh, Director - Networks Services Group, Bharti Airtel
  • RK Bahuguna, CMD, Railtel Corporation of India
  • AK Bhargava, Director - Operations, Bharat Broadband Network
  • Rajat Mukarji, CSO, Idea Cellular
  • Sanjay Rohatgi, Managing Director, Service Provider , Cisco - India and SAARC
  • Vimal Wakhlu, CMD of Telecom Consultants of India Limited, DOT
  • Rajiv Bawa, Chief Representative, Telenor Group
10:25 to 10:45 am LTE Networks In India Jagbir Singh, Director - Networks Services Group, Bharti Airtel
10:45 to 11:00 am BREAK  
11:00 to 11:20 am Future of broadband user experience Gulzar Azad, Head - Access, Google India
11:20 to 11:40 am 4G Mobile backhaul: enabling the next wave of telecom growth in India Michael Nielsen, VP - Packet Networking, Ciena Communications
11.40 to 12:30 pm Panel discussion: Regulatory and spectrum Issues Moderator - Rajan Mathews, Director General, COAI
  • Dr. CS Rao, President, Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India
  • NK Goyal, President, CMAI Association of India
  • Anil Prakash- Secretary General, ITU-APT Foundation on India
  • Satyen Gupta, Ex- Principal Advisor,
  • TRAI, Hon. Secretary General, NGN Forum
  • Mahesh Khera, President, Broadband India Forum
12.30 to 1:15 pm LUNCH BREAK  
Track 1:  4G Network evolution
1:15 to 1:40 pm 4G HetNet and backhaul architectures
integrating small cells and Wi-Fi
Analyst Presentation - Berge Ayvazian,
Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading
1:40 to 2:00 pm Role of software defined networking and network functions virtualization in
4G network evolution
Radhey Shyam Sarda, Deputy Director (Wireless Solutions), Huawei India
2:00 to 2:20 pm Next era of mobile network and data services
Atsuhisa Shirai, Director, Head of International Roaming, Global Business Dept NTT DOCOMO
Board Director, Wireless Broadband Alliance
2:20 to 3:00 pm Roundtable discussion:
4G RAN, HetNets, Wi-Fi and small cells
Moderator - Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading
  • Dr. Venkatesh Sunkad, Vodafone India
  • Sandeep Gupta , Head - Radio (SAE), Bharti Airtel
  • Suresh Nair, Small Cell Forum
  • Joe Zeto, Director, Product Marketing, Ixia
  • Debjani De, Senior Architect, Radisys
  • Dr. Mo Shakouri, Chairman, WIMAX Forum
3:00 to 3:15 pm BREAK  
3:15 to 3:40 pm Overcoming 4G requirements in backhaul  
3:40 to 4:00 pm 4G Network evolution and monetization Ravi Chauhan, Managing Director, Juniper Networks
4:00 to 4:30 pm Roundtable discussion:
Next generation packet core and backhaul
  • Deepak Saxena, AVP – Network Services, Idea Cellular
  • Viswanathan Ramaswamy, SVP - Technology Strategy and Architecture, Vodafone India
  • Hemant Malik – CTO, Juniper Networks
  • Navneet Dhingra, Head of Mobile Broad Band (MBB) Core for Region India, Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Balaji Kulothungan, CEO, PointRed Telecom
 
4:30 to 4:50 pm Industry’s first 4G mobile architecture to capitalize on data in motion Jaswant Boyat, Technical Director - SP India & SAARC, Cisco Systems India
4:50 to 5:15 pm Roundtable discussion: Flexible backhaul architecture for
high capacity 4G RAN and small cells
Moderator - Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading
  • Bijender Yadav, Director – Network Planning & Projects, Sistema Shyam Teleservices
  • Tuuli Sarvillina, Group Product Manager, Mobile Routing Business Unit, Tellabs
  • Michael Nielsen, VP - Packet Networking, Ciena Communications
5:15 to 6:00 pm Exclusive CTO roundtable Moderator - Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading
  • Anuj Jain, EVP and Chief Technology Officer at Reliance Jio Infocomm
  • Ashwani Khillan, CTO, SistemaShyam Teleservices;
  • Tarun Kumar, Director, Tikona Digital Network
  • S Krishnan, Director-Networks, Videocon Telecommunications
  • Robert Sewell, Head of Technology Solutions, Aircel India
6:00 to 8:00 pm Chairman’s networking reception Exhibit Hall


Day 2 : April 26, 2013
Day 2 Primary Track Speakers
Track 2: Monetizing 4G Network
9.00 to 9:15 am Opening remarks Ari Banerjee, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
9:15 to 9:45 am Operator keynote Robert Sewell, Head of Technology Solutions, Aircel India
9.45 to 10:05 am The network and service evolution –
competing in an over the top world
Steve Northridge, Product Marketing
Director, Oracle Communications
10:05 to 11:00 am Executive roundtable:
New business models for 4G in India
big data, CEM, OTT, policy management, cloud services
Moderator - Ari Banerjee, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
  • Nitin Bhandari, AVP, New Products & Partnerships, Vodafone India
  • Joby Babu, Chief Operating Officer, Nimbuzz
  • Steve Northridge, Product Marketing Director of Oracle Communications
  • Sethumadhavan Srinivasan, Director,
    Strategy & Marketing, Huawei India
  • Geeta Gurnani, Telecom Solutions and Business Development Lead, IBM India South Asia
11:00 to 11:20 am BREAK
11:20 to 12:00 noon Monetizing 4G and voice over LTE deployments in Korea and US Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading
12.00 to 1:30 pm
Lunch Break
Exhibit Hall



Track 3: 4G Device and application strategies
1.30 to 1:50 pm 4G Device and application strategies Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading
1:50 to 2:10 pm MobileFirst - best practices for mobile device and applications management Sougata Mukherjea, Senior Research Scientist, Telecom and Mobile Research, IBM India Research Labs
2:10 to 3:00 pm Executive roundtable:
India device and applications
ecosystem update
Moderator - Berge Ayvazian, Heavy Reading
  • Anupam Vasudev, CMO, Aircel India
  • Deepak Mehrotra, CEO, Micromax
  • Anand Narang, Director, Marketing - Devices, Huawei India
  • Shwetank Dixit, Web Evangelist, Opera Software
  • Ranjan Sharma, Director, Wireless Technical Sales, ZTE
  • Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO, DataWind
  • Praveen Rajpal, CEO, Handygo
3:00 to 4:00 pm Conference ends Exhibit Hall

 


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