Venue
Palais des Congrès Acropolis
Palais des Congrès Acropolis, 1 Esplanade John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 06000 Nice, France

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Event Date Mon May 14 BST - Wed May 16 BST (over 6 years ago)
In your timezone (EST): Mon May 14 12:00am - Wed May 16 12:00am
Location Palais des Congrès Acropolis
1 Esplanade John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 06000 Nice, France
Region EMEA
Details

Join thousands of telecommunications industry peers at Digital Transformation World – formerly TM Forum Live! – to discover the how of digital transformation.

Explore how the Open Digital Architecture, using industry-agreed Open APIs, is being adopted worldwide.

Meet the 120+ companies collaborating through rapid proof-of concept Catalyst projects on: artificial intelligence; blockchain; zero-touch operations; ONAP; lifecycle service orchestration; 5G; smart cities; digital ecosystems and more.

Become a confident leader in your organization, as you benchmark the maturity of your digital transformation vs industry peers. Learn how zero-touch operations are emerging through simplification, automation and intelligence.

Explore. Collaborate. Become.

Speakers

Speaker 2018

Emmanuel Amamoo-Otchere
Vice President, Technology Introduction and Industry Development Huawei Technologies

Ken Anderson
Chief Developer Advocate, Swirlds

Dr. Shahin Arefzadeh, Ph.D
CTO and Founder, Ziotis

David Artuñedo
CEO Onlife Networks, Telefónica

Shankar Arumugavelu
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Verizon

Craig Bachmann
Senior Director, IoE Program TM Forum

Pari Bajpay
Senior VP, Digital Platform Development CenturyLink

Gion Baker
CEO, Vodafone Automotive

Ari Banerjee
Vice President of Strategy, Netcracker Technology

Daniel Bar-Lev
Director, Office of the CTO MEF

Thilo Bangert
OSS Systems Developer, GlobalConnect

Russ Bartels
Director - SDN & Network Automation, Windstream Communications

Adrian Baschnonga
Global Lead Telecommunications Analyst, EY

Chris Bauschka
RVP, Industry Go To Market Salesforce

Marie-Claude Belda
Co-Founder & Business Development Directorm, Balandra Software

Martin Bell
CEO, Bell Ventures

José Luis Bernal
Digital Business Director, MAPFRE

Dr. Inderpal Bhandari
Global Chief Data Officer, IBM

Aayush Bhatnagar
SVP, Reliance Jio Infocomm

Milind Bhagwat
Chief Enterprise Architect, BT

Marc Bikok
OSS Solutions Manager
Huawei, Program Director of Future OSS and ONAP Innovation with Orange Huawei

Dr. Enrique Blanco Nadales
Global Chief Technology and Information Officer, Telefónica

Pierre Blanchard
President, PRBL ADVISORY

Aaron Boasman-Patel
VP, Content, Research & Media TM Forum

Stephen Bowker
CEO & Co-Founder, Cardinality

Nicolai Böke
Head of Technology Fixed Cable, Vodafone

Gerard de Bourbon
Chief Evangelist Senior Advisor New Growth and Strategy, Tele2

Paul Bradley
5G Strategy & Partnerships Head, Gemalto

Rhona Bradshaw
VP, Customer Experience Transformation Liberty Global

Marcus Brunner
Head of Standardization, Swisscom

Nicolas Bry
Chief Innovation Officer at Orange Valley, Orange

Arnold Buddenberg
Enterprise Digital Business & IT Transformation Architect, Orange Labs Services

Andrea Canessa
Global Leader PaaS & IoT Solutions for Communications – Oracle Industry Solutions Group, Oracle

Oliver Cantor
Associate Director Product Strategy, Verizon

John Carney
SVP Communications & Media, Salesforce

Keith Casey
VP, Technical Assistance Center GCI Communication Corp.

Scott Casey
Vice President Sales, Europe Ubisense

Shoma Chakravarty
Worldwide Technical Leader, Amazon Web Services Amazon

Dr. Edward Challis
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, re:infer

Karthikeyan Chandar
CTO, Movicel

Rajeev Chandrasekharan
CIO, Verizon Business Markets – Digital Technology Solutions Verizon

Raj Cherchattil
Chief Technoloy Officer, Telecom, Media & Entertainment IBM Canada

Pramod Chinchunsure
Head of Next Generation NOC Program, Safaricom Kenya

Mary Clark
Chief Marketing Officer and EVP, Product Synchronoss Technologies

Gnanapriya Chidambaranathan
AVP, Sr. Principal Architect Infosys

Paolo Colella
EVP Digital Services - Europe and Latin America, Ericsson

Hugh Crean
Chief Architect, Three Ireland

Martin Creaner
Chairman, bobbil.com

Thandi Demanet
Business Analyst, IoE & Digital Business programme TM Forum

Aykut Demirkol
Broadband Services Manager, Turkcell

Alexis de Peufeilhoux
Senior Architect, Deutsche Telekom

Francis Depuydt
Head - Digital Customer Experience, Proximus

Thierry Derungs
Wealth Management Chief Digital Officer; Head WM Digital Solutions, BNP Paribas

Vinay Devadatta
Practice Head - Innovation & Industry Relations, Wipro

Sandra De Zoysa
Group Chief Customer Officer, Dialog Axiata

Ken Dilbeck
VP Collaboration R&D, TM Forum

Pawan Dubey
Consultant, Infosys

Jose Domingos
OSS Chief Platform Architect, BT

Kallol Dutta
GM, Delivery & Automation Spark New Zealand

Rafał Dziedzic
Director of Technological Transformation Strategy, Orange Polska

Rolf Eberhardt
Head of Service Orchestration, HPE

Joe Eldridge
Director of Web, TV, and Apps, TalkTalk Telecom PLC

Jamal El Faiz
Network and Analytics, Product Marketing Director Oracle

Mahmoud El Sabry
Director Enterprise Requirement Management & Product Implementation - Enterprise Business, du

Ersan Ersoy
Product Manager, Turkcell Research & Development

Samer M. Eskandarani
Customer Service Design & Delivery GM, Saudi Telecom Company

Dr. Ahmed F. Fahmy
Program Manager, Saudi Telecom Company

David Fan
VP Product Management, Huawei

Dr. Jian Fan
Group Big Data Chief Scientist, China Unicom

Andrew Feinberg
President and Chief Executive Officer, Netcracker

Dr. Eyal Felstaine
Chief Technical Officer, Amdocs

Rene Felber
Head of Risk & Assurance, Telia Company

Niall Fitzgerald
GM, Architecture and Design, Spark New Zealand

Adrian Foltyn
Director of Data Science, HelloFresh

Dan Ford
SVP and General Manager Communications and Media, Vlocity

Andrew Fruhling
VP Digital Experience & Monetization Portfolio (DX), Nokia

Dr. Ibrahim Gedeon
Chief Technology Officer, TELUS

Charles Gibbons
Chief Domain Architect – Service Management & Mobile OSS, BT Technology Services & Operations

Alam Gill
Senior Vice President, Global Managed Services & EMEA Customer Business CSG

Brendan Gill
Chief Executive Officer, OpenSignal

John Gillam
CTIO BT Compute, BT Global Services

George Glass
Chief Systems Architect, BT

Barry Graham
Senior Associate, TM Forum

Isabelle Hajri
Former Chief Marketing Officer
Dhiraagu PLC (Batelco Group), Founder The C-MOod

Daisuke Hara
Senior Research Engineer, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories NTT

Bouke Hoving
CIO, Royal KPN N.V.

Nicolas Howard
CIO, Telefonica Business Solutions

Jenny S. Huang
Distinguished Fellow, ZOOM Project Co-Chair TM Forum

David Hughes
VP Engineering, PCCW Global

Paul Hughes
Director of Strategy, Netcracker Technologies

Nina Hundhausen
Senior Design Strategist, Deutsche Telekom

Dalia Hussein
Director Enterprise Architecture, TELUS

Omar Javaid
Chief Product Officer, Vonage

Fu Jianjun
Marketing Director, Strategic Business Development ZTEsoft

Joseph Johnson
VP, IT Architecture & Transformation Windstream

Philip Joseph
Chief Customer Experience Officer, Ooredoo Myanmar

Hema Kadia
VP & Head of SDN/NFV, Strategy and Practice Prodapt

Miikka Karhuluoma
Head of New Network Management Product Development - Nokia Software, Nokia

Peter Kern
CEO, Cross Network Intelligence - International Division

Taimoor Khizer Abbasi
Market Research Director, ZTEsoft

Yusuke Kiga
Head of B/OSS - Network Solutions Division, Netcracker Technology / NEC Corp.

Youngkung Kim
Director, SK Telecom

Thomas Kinnman
Head of Solution Line Analytics & Assurance, Ericsson

Steven Klockaerts
Chief Information Officer, Telfort

Peter Konings
Director Products, EMEA Verizon

Widmantas Kraużlis
M2M/IoT Product Manager, Polkomtel Sp. z o.o.

Jörn-Dieter Kropfgans
Partner, IBM Canada

Avi Kulshrestha
SVP, Industry Head - Communications, Media & Entertainment, Europe and OEM, Global Infosys

Harsha Kumar
President, Prodapt

Roberto Kung
Senior VP Network Operations & Performance, Orange

Veenod Kurup
Chief Information Officer and Managing Director, Liberty Global

Huidi Li
EVP and Member of Group Senior Executive, China Mobile Communications Corporation

Mounir Ladki
President and Chief Technology Officer, MYCOM OSI

Peter Lam
Managing Director, Engineering HKT

Andreas Lampen
Head of Telecommunication & Media, Capgemini

Pierre Lavillat
NFV Director, Program Manager HPE

Eric Léandri
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Qwant

Lei lei
Senior OSS Architect, China Unicom

Chris Lewis
Managing Director, Lewis Insight

Michael Lewrick
Chief Innovation Officer, Swisscom Enterprise Customers

Stephane Libourel
Head of Service Assurance, HPE

Florian Lichtwald
SVP Global Telecom Partnerships, Zeotap

Anders Lindblad
Communications & Media Industry Lead for Europe, Accenture

Brendan Logan
Global Vice President, Oracle Communications Consulting

Diego Lopez
Senior Technology Expert, Telefonica I + D

Kevin Lowell
VP, Information Technology, US Cellular

Guy Lupo
General Manager - Head of NaaS 2020 (Orchestration, Data, API), Telstra

Stephen Mackintosh
Chief Revenue Officer, re:infer

Shawn Mandel
Chief Digital Office,r TELUS

Utpal Mangla
Vice President & Partner – Global Leader: Watson AI & Blockchain; Telecom, Media & Entertainment Industry
IBM

Andreas Manolis
Head of Strategy & Risk, Group Revenue Assurance, Group Transformation BT Group Finance

Suma Manoraj
Director, Digital Technology, Verizon Business Markets, Verizon

Ernest Margitta
Head of Product Digitisation Delivery, Telstra

Oren Marmur
VP, Head of NFV, Amdocs

Carlos Marques
Head of Product Marketing, WeDo Technologies

Nishi Mathur
Principal Technology Architect, Infosys

Boris Maurer
Digital Transformation Lead, Accenture

Johanne Mayer
Evangelist, NaaS 2020 Telstra

Harmeen Mehta
Global Chief Information Officer, Bharti Airtel Limited

Viml Mehta
Senior Technology Architect, TELUS

Robert Mei
Senior Enterprise Architect, Bell Canada

Erik Meijer
Strategy GPM, Group Innovation, Deutsche Telekom

Björn Menden
Managing Partner, Detecon

Fernanda Mendez
Head of Management and Orchestration Solution Area OSS, Ericsson

Catherine Michel
Chief Technology Officer, Sigma Systems

Paul Morrissey
Global Ambassador; Head of the Data Analytics & Cx Group, TM Forum, Chairman WeareNova Limited (The Co-Foundery people), Professor, Mathematics, Computing and AI, Liverpool John Moores University

Mmakgosi Mosupi
Chief Information Officer, Dark Fibre Africa (DFA)

Joerg Mueller-Kindt
Co-founder and Director of Business Development, NetworkedAssets

Pierre Muller
VP OSS & Operations Processes, Orange

Sophie Nachman
Project Director, Standardization & Institutions, Orange

Mark Newman
Chief Analyst, TM Forum

Doug Nixon
Chief Operating Officer, DGIT Systems

Dr. Jarno Niemelä
Technical Lead (Elisa SON), Elisa Finland

Bengt Nordström
Founder and CEO, Northstream

Simon Norris
Founder & CEO, Nomensa

Sebastian Nowosielski
Virtual Transformation Strategy Agency, Orange Polska

Joann O’Brien
VP, APIs & Ecosystems, TM Forum

Adam O’Keefe
Head of OSS, Three UK

Carlos Palito
Head of Digital Transformation, Entel

Bernardo Paz Betancourt (Ph.D.)
Member of the Board, ENTEL Bolivia S.A.

Jay Perrett
Chief Technology Officer, Aria Networks
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Kevin Peters
President and Chief Executive Officer, NetNumber

David Pleasance
Chairman, TM Forum

Andreas Polz
CTO Infonova, BearingPoint

Adan Pope
CTIO, Ciena

Brad Pruner
Director – B2B Systems Transformation, TELUS Communications,

Tony Poulos
Strategist and Catalyst Evangelist, TM Forum

Roberto Pulice
Head of Digital Services for South & East Africa, Ericsson

Atul Purohit
Principal Architect, Vodafone Group

Phill Radley
Chief Data Architect, BT

Kannan Ramakrishnan
Head, Product Management & Marketing, TCS

Anil Rao
Principal Analyst, Telecoms Software and Networks, Analysys Mason

Chalapathi Rao
Senior VP & Chief Operating Officer, TCTS

Gopal Rao
Partner, Infosys Consulting CME, Infosys

Tony Regan
General Manager of Consulting and Strategic Alliances, Openet

Andrea Reichstein
Head of Research, Galileo Software

Steffen Roehn
Senior Adviser, Reliance Jio

Dirk Rohweder
Chief Operations Officer & Co-Founder, Teavaro

Sri Safitri
Project Director of Customer Experience, Telkom Indonesia

Stefano Santini
Principal Enterprise Architect, Vodafone

Vincent Seet
Head of Enterprise Architecture, Globe Telecom

Rebecca Sendel
VP Services and Catalysts, TM Forum

Hanang Setiohargo
Senior VP, Customer Experience Management, Telkomsel

Anish Shah
President, Information Technology, Reliance Jio Infocomm

Sanjeev Sharma
ICT Program Director Market Area Middle East and Africa, Ericsson

Leonard Sheahan
Senior Director, Oracle Communications

Seiji Shibata
Assistant Manager, Management System Development Department, Solution Service Division

Kobi Shitrit
Founder and Head of Revenue Assurance & Fraud Management, HOT Communications

Brijpal Singh
Senior VP, Reliance Jio

Ivan Skender
Chief Digital Officer, Vipnet (A1 Telekom Austria Group)

Paul Slot
Executive VP Networks & IT Infrastructure (Access, Core and Networks) KPN, Chairman ETIS

Ian Smith
5G Testbeds & Trials Programme Director, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (UK Government)

Dr Mark K. Smith
Chief Executive Officer, ContactEngine

Mike Smith
Client Director, Concentra

Brian Smyth
Business Strategy & Digital Transformation Specialist: Technology, Communications & Internet Industries Accenture

Dr. Gadi Solotorevsky
Chief Evangelist – Revenue Guard, Amdocs

Mark Spoelstra
Chief Technology Officer, DGIT

Nicolas Steiner
Partner @ I4E, Institute 4 Entrepreneurship

Thierry Souche
Chief Information Officer, Orange Group, Senior VP Orange Labs Services

Yuval Stein
AVP, Product Management, Service Assurance Products, TEOCO

Karthik Subramaniam
Head, Centre of Excellence, Torry Harris Business Solutions

Dahn Tamir
CTO & CIO, ReadWrite
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Anas Tawileh
Managing Director, Systematics Consulting Inc.

Jacqueline Teo
Chief Digital Officer, HGC Global Communications Limited

Nuno Teodoro
Chief Information Security Officer, truphone

Kiran Thomas
President, Reliance Industries Limited, Director, Board of Reliance Jio

Dr. Lester Thomas
Chief Systems Architect, Vodafone Group

Simon Thompson
Head of Practice, Big Data and Customer Experience, BT

Andrew Thomson
SVP Digital Enablement, Digital Ecosystem Management Solutions, BearingPoint

Dan Thygesen
VP Wholesale – MVNO, IoT, M2M & Platform Operations, T-Mobile US

Katrin Tillenburg
Managing Director, ABITEL Consulting

Greg Tilton
Founder & CEO, DGIT Systems

Bob Titus
VP Digital Solutions, Netcracker

Gary Traver
Head of Media Product Engineering & Service Delivery, Telstra

David Traynor
Chief Marketing Officer, ASPIDER-NGI

Eric Troup
Chief Technology Officer, Worldwide Communications and Media Industries, Microsoft

Aloke Tusnial
CTO, SDN/NFV, Netcracker Technologies

Dushyan Vaithiyanathan
Head of Consumer Business, Maxis

Rob van den Dam
Global Telecommunications Industry Leader, IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV)

Frederic Vanoosthuyze
Chief Information Officer, Vodafone Germany

Raghavan Venkatasubramanian
Lead Architect - Orchestration & Integration, HOBS Platform

Janki Vora
Data Scientist - Global Solution Center, IBM

Gemini Waghmare
Co-Founder & CEO, UXP Systems, an Amdocs Company

Patsy Wang
VP Business Transformation, OCBC Bank

Zhijun Wang
Deputy General Manager, Information Department; General Manager, Data Center

Luiza Warno
VP Network & Infrastructure Solutions and CIO CEE Region, Liberty Global

Nik Willetts
Chief Executive Officer, TM Forum

Sławomir Wolf
Chief Executive Officer, AVSystem

Safak Yorucu
Product Manager, Turkcell Technology & Research

Koji Yamamoto
Assistant Manager, Operation System Planning, Network Service Operation Department Group, NTT DoCoMo, INC.

George Zhao
Business Development Director, ZTEsoft

Daniel Zini
EMEA Telco & Media Industry Director, Microsoft Business Applications

Yossi Zohar
Director, Communications Industry Product Marketing, Salesforce.com

Narender Singh
CIO, Reliance Jio

D. W. R. Wijeweera
Chief Information Officer, Sri Lanka Telecom

Bart Harlaar
Chief Information Officer, Cable & Wireless Communications

Olivier Fabre
Director, Telecom Europe, Everis

Sam Clitus
AVP, Europe Head of Consulting (Communication, Media and Entertainment), Infosys Limited

John O’Donovan
Chief Architect, TalkTalk

Sumit Singh
Executive Director Network Services & IT, Verizon

Salomon Salinas
Global Lead Connected Campus and Districts, Accenture Digital

Ajit Dhaliwal
Head of IT Delivery, Vodafone UK

Sponsors & Partners

Sponsors 2018

DIAMOND:
• Netcracker

PLATINUM:
• BearingPoint
• ZTEsoft

GOLD:
• Huawei
• Infosys

SILVER:
• Amdocs
• Ciena
• Comarch S.A.
• Ericsson Inc.
• Etiya
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• MYCOM OSI
• Prodapt
• Salesforce
• Sigma

ACTIVITY:
• Amdocs
• Blue Prism
• MYCOM OSI
• Netcracker Press Center
• Netcracker Digital Leadership Summit
• Netcracker cafe
• Netcracker Lanyard
• NetScout
• Nexign
• Prodapt Lunch Brifieng
• Sigma
• Salesforce
• Tata Communications

MEETING:
• AVSystem
• BearingPoint
• Cognizant
• Contentful
• CSG
• Empirix
• Etiya
• GE
• Hortonworks
• MYCOM OSI
• Oracle
• Prodapt
• Tata Communications
• Torry Harris
• ZTEsoft

EXHIBITORS:
• Accenture
• Agama
• Amartus
• Apptium
• Apttus
• AVSystem
• BearingPoint
• Blockchain Telecom Ecosystem
• Bulb Tech
• Ciena
• CloudSense
• Comarch S.A.
• Contentful
• Cross Network
• CSG
• DGIT
• DonRiver
• Enghouse Network
• Ericsson
• Etiya
• EXFO
• Expedite Commerce
• Federos
• FN
• GDi
• GE
• Guavus
• Hewlett Packard
• Huawei
• Incognito
• Infosim
• Infosys
• Infovista
• iQuest
• Multicom
• MYCOM OSI
• N(i)2
• Netcracker
• Nokia
• Nomensa
• Openet
• Oracle
• Qvantel
• Sinefa
• Spirent
• Stream
• Team Cote d’Azur
• TEOCO
• Transware AG
• Vlocity
• ZTEsoft