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Billing, Policy & Revenue Management
When: October 9 – 12, 2007
Where: Miami, Florida
Who It’s For: Professionals in the wireline, wireless and cable service provider industries, as well as CIOS, VPs, managers of Billing and IT Operations, analysts, consultants, content aggregators, manufacturers, and others responsible for billing/prepaid, BSS/OSS implementation, finance/accounting/audit, revenue/margin/risk management, and more.
The Billing, Policy & Revenue Management even, run by IIR, is “specifically designed to help Fixed, Mobile, and Cable Service Providers optimize their billing, revenue assurance and revenue management strategies in order to meet the increasing demands of operating in the Next Generation (NGN) environment.” Two pre-conference workshops (“Leveraging Data Integrity & Analysis for Revenue Assurance” and Developing An Effective Migration Strategy for Pre And Post Paid Convergence”) will be held on October 9, followed by three days of presentations. Contributors will include Gautam M Shah, Director of Platform Management for Boost Mobile, Flavio Lang, Voice & Convergent Product Manager of Brasil Telecom Group, Pierre Marin, IT Billing Development Director of France Telecom, and others. Attendees can choose to attend one or more days and service providers get a 50% discount.
Optimising OSS
When: October 15-18, 2007
Where: Barcelona, Spain
Who It’s For: OSS industry
Optimising OSS is about just that: how to best optimize OSS, which should almost definitely be of interest to you if you’re a regular Pipeline reader. At the event, you’ll find presentations by Paul Muschamp, Head of Technology Strategy and Architecture of BT; Giuseppe Covino, Project Manager for Telecom Italia; Ros Singleton, IT Solutions Design for Cable & Wireless, and many more. Attendees will also be privy to Orange-France Telecom Group’s currently developing Business Processes in support of OSS for converged networks, Telecom Italia’s approach to OSS architecture development, and many other strategies and solutions from major telecom contenders like AT&T, Exatel, Telenor, and others. Also of value will be the post-conference workshop on October 18th, where attendees will learn how to implement the information they gleaned from the previous days of the event and apply that to designing and developing OSS architectures that are able to successfully support convergence. If you are looking for in-depth information about OSS solutions, as well as information on the direction of the current OSS industry and a discussion of real-life issues and solutions, this event could be the one you’re looking for.
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CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2007
When: October 23-25
Where: San Francisco
Who It's For: Wireless vendors and SPs.
CTIA's fall show, not-so-little brother to its massive spring counterpart, will take feature speakers from Microsoft and popular social networking site Facebook. Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder and vice president of engineering at Facebook, will deliver the keynote address on Wednesday, October 24, cementing CTIA's intent to provide solid and cutting edge Web 2.0-friendly content. In addition, by “a mix of enterprise, entertainment and Mobile Data 2.0 sessions, the conference program addresses the most important issues facing the wireless industry today.”
As with other large shows, focus can be a bit of a problem for OSS professionals. Still, the availability of networking opportunities and opportunities for sheer visibility always make events like this a must-do.
Fall VON
When: October 29- November 1
Where: Boston, MA
Who It's For: It's a big one. Buyers, sellers, and (perhaps most importantly) networkers.
Pulver's big show hits Boston over Halloween in its 11th year. The show expects 250+ exhibitors, 300+ speakers, and 9000+ attendees, making it one of the larger North American shows of the Fall. In addition to the ubiquitous-at-his-VON Jeff Pulver, speakers include Embarq CEO Dan Hesse, Nokia EVP and CTO Tero Ojanpera, and Alcatel-Lucent CTO Paul Mankiewich.
Like many big shows, the focus for OSS personnel is somewhat limited, but these shows are still a sort of requisite for seeing and being seen, so it's worth a spot on the calendar. We're especially interested to see whether the “Innovators in Action” track fulfills its promise to be an “unconference” for developers and startups. If so, it fills a nice niche for the Web 2.0 types.
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