Last month, ETIS held its 2007 Conference: 'Innovative Telecommunication Services & Business Models to Win New Markets' which was hosted in Brussels. The conference began with a joint session on day 1 followed by 3 tracks on day 2, focusing on Business Trends & IT Consequences, Telco Billing Opportunities & Challenges and Information Security. The conference was well attended and gathered over 130 delegates from 20 countries and 63 organisations.

The keynote speaker was William Mosseray, Executive Vice President for Strategy, Belgacom who presented his views on the future services and business models for the Telecom industry. The conference also featured over 40 presentations by senior ICT executives in the Telecom industry from companies such as BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, KPN, TDC, Belgacom, Telenor, Eircom, HP, Oracle and more.

Below are but a few of the topics that were covered:
- Innovative Telecommunication Services & Business Models
- Future networks & technology as driver for new services
- Digital Content Delivery
- New Business Trends & IT Consequences
- Customer Self-service & moving the Telco business online
- Partnerships, Mergers & Acquisitions
- Vendor, Outsourcing & Cost Management
- Telco Billing Opportunities & Challenges
- Information Security & Data Retention
- Fighting Spam on the EU Network Level

In addition to the education programmes, there were plenty of unique opportunities for networking, with lunches, networking breaks and the pleasant gala dinner.

ETIS Members can view the presentations online in our members corner at: http://www.etis.org/members/area.asp?id=40

ETIS would also like to thank the following conference sponsors for helping to make the event a success: Cloudmark, HP, Atos Origin, CopperEye, SenSage, Bizanga, Sandvine, Martin Dawes Systems and IDDT. If you are interested in learning more about sponsorship opportunities in ETIS, please contact Fred Werner at: fw@etis.org

 

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