Following the success of last year's billing workshop in Bonn, ETIS - The Global IT Association for Telecommunications, would like to invite you to its Billing Workshop: 
'The Changing Nature of Billing Surrounding the IP Environment' which will be hosted in Brussels on 27-28 April 2006.

The keynote speaker will be Pascal Coutier, Senior Partner & CTO at Logan Orviss who will present 'Is IP transformation making billing simpler or more complex?' which will provide insights geared towards the threats, challenges and opportunities for the Telco's dealing with the changing nature of billing relating to the advent of IP based services. David Watrin, Billing Manager for Swisscom Innovations, will be the keynote speaker for the second day and will focus on 'Billing Transformation in an IP and Convergent World'. Some of the confirmed speakers are from Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera, Swisscom, Maltacom, KPN, Slovak Telecom, HP, Oracle, Huawei, Atos Origin, Comverse and INTEC.

Below are some of the topics that will be covered at the workshop:
- Billing for IP based services - the challenges and opportunities
- Consequences of IP on the Inter-connect Billing Environment
- Billing Outsourcing Case Studies
- Revenue Assurance
- Billing Innovations in the IP Environment
- Capturing the value of content
- Business Process Management for MVNO's
- Convergent Charging and Receivables
- Convergent billing for the future Telco services

This workshop is targeted towards the Billing practitioners among the European Telecommunications companies such as Heads of Billing Departments, CIOs, Billing Experts, Operations & Process Management, Settlements people and more from our membership base. Plenty of opportunities for interaction and networking will be provided via case studies and discussions without forgetting the evening executive dinner. This workshop has been kindly sponsored by Atos Origin, Comverse and Martin Dawes Systems.

Caroline Skoldberg from TeliaSonera had this to say about last year's billing workshop... "First let me thank you and your ETIS colleagues for the excellent billing workshop in Bonn last week! It was very interesting and enjoyable and gave much food for thought. And of course, the Thursday night dinner and the arrangements were excellent. My colleague Svein Knudsen, from Netcom, and I agree that it is one of the better conferences we have been to!"

Registration Fee
Entrance to the workshop is free of charge for ETIS Members and 900 EURO + 21%VAT for non-members. This fee includes both days and the Billing workshop dinner.

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