Virtue Insight: Telecom Past Conference

WiMAX 2010 - April 23, 24 2009, ITC Sheraton, New Delhi, India

“Strategies, Business Model Reengineering & Opportunities for WiMAX Development”

Key Themes discussed at this conference:

Increasing ARPU with innovative WiMAX services which are appealing to Indian consumers.

Business applications: Best practices, service offerings & deployment

Global marketing strategies in order to incite the user to use advanced data services.

Strategies on boosting the penetration of WiMAX usage in smaller cities and rural areas.

International success stories & lessons learnt from large-scale WiMAX deployments

Exploiting the opportunities created by technology convergence

Positioning yourself in light of new market entries & strategies for capturing the mobile market.

Grabbing the WiMAX opportunity: regulation, network deployment & business models

Analyzing the development of India's WiMAX policies, touching upon the overall telecommunications and broadband policies

Outlining India's telecommunications market, stirring upon issues as broadband penetration and major players in the market

Areas to be focused by network equipment providers, system integrators and testing service providers to tune themselves in the Indian environment.

Analysing the crucial issues and opportunities in standards, interoperability, spectrum, licensing, network optimization & frequency planning

Key Speakers:

NK. Goyal, President, Communications & Manufacturing Association of India (CMAI)

L.V. Sastry, Vice President & Head, Bharti Airtel

TV Sriram, Vice President - Technology, Bharti Airtel

Gulzar Azad, Tech Lead Mobile Partnerships, APAC, Google

Hung Song, Vice President - Global Marketing Group - Telecommunication Systems Division, Samsung

A.Sethuraman, Executive Director, Huawei

Chandan Ghosh, Head Long Distance & Operations (Carriers & Enterprise Business), Aircel

Neeraj Sonker, Vice President, Wireless Engineering & Implementation, Tata Communications

Rajat Mukarji, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Idea Cellular

C.S. Rao, Chairman, WiMAX Forum

Vivek Vasishtha, Director Technical Policy & Standards, Corporate Affairs Group, Intel

Satya N Gupta, Chief Regulatory Advisor, BT Global Services-SAARC Region

Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director for Global Govt Affairs,Motorola

Deval Parikh, Chief officer Handsets, VAS & procurement, Virgin Mobile

Arun Joshi, President and CEO, Encodex Telesystems

Rakesh Kushwaha, CTO & Founder, Mformation Technologies

Data Sharn Mishra, Network Architecture Expert, Qatar Telecom

T.R. Dua, Senior Director, COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India)

Rajesh Chharia, President, ISPAI (Internet Service Providers Association of India)

Anil Prakash, Secretary General, ITU-APT Foundation of India, Secretary General, IPTV India Forum

S.N. Zindal, Former Director General, Association of Competitive Telecom Operators (ACTO)

S.D. Saxena, Chairman, PTC India Foundation (Former CFO BSNL, MTNL)

Sridhar T. Pai, CEO, Tonse Telecom

Conference Summary:

"With communication and Content ruling the roost, the advent of new technologies is gearing up fast, with the market realizing the need of establishing the right supporting infrastructure. We feel proud to bring together the top stakeholders to discuss The WiMAX and opportunities", said Ms. Sarika Sareen, Head Sales, Virtue Insight, while opening the WiMAX 2010 at New Delhi.

The conference touched upon the various aspects of the WiMAX industry and how the technology as a niche is growing and expanding with new opportunities emerging. The conference had participants discuss business opportunities to critical challenges and the future scope and roadmap. Discussing the existing infrastructure and laying down the future roadmap, Mr. N.K. Goyal, President CMAI, opened the conference.

The WiMAX 2010 was the perfect platform for engaging discussions and provided an open platform for delegate(s) to network with the relevant people from the industry. Commenting upon the success of the conference, Mr. Lakshmikant Pathak, Chief Manager-Corporate Communications elite Core Techonlogies Ltd, commented "The conference was indeed a great experience. Both the presentations and the panel discussions/interactive sessions were very enlightening. I congratulate Virtue Insight for organizing a very useful and interesting Conference"

The industry was in full support to the WiMAX 2010, with leading corporate supporting the event as Samsung, elite Core Technologies, encodex, mformation, huawei and Solo.

The WiMAX 2010 was LIVE Streamed online and also covered LIVE on blogs, facebook and twitter, with Until ROI being the Online Content Partner.

Thanking the delegate(s) and sponsor(s) for their support and participation, Mr. Fen Castro from Virtue Insight, remarked, we are highly thankful to our sponsors and delegates for their enthusiastic participation and making the conference a huge success, while inviting everyone for the 3G Summit 2010 at New Delhi.

Conference Testimonials:

The WiMAX 2010 was an exciting event to be at. With some of industry’s top professionals and decision makers present, it was surely a deal worth signing on!

Other than the fact that the event was Covered LIVE on Blogs, Twitter and facebook, it was being LIVE webcasted as well!

We present to you, one of the most crucial aspect of any event, the feedback! We went around, connecting with delegate(s), Sponsors and Speakers, and well, this is what they had to say:

Mr. Nikhil Jain, COO & Director, eLITECORE Technologies Ltd.

Mr. Jain, shared his perspective on eLITECORE’s vision of the WiMAX in India and how the technology is changing the rules of the game. While speaking on the technology, Mr. Jain was vocal in bringing out the major benefits of the WiMAX technology, and how eLITECORE’s technology is being implemented by major Indian players like BSNL.

Giving his perspective on content and the technology, Mr. Jain mentioned, technologies like WiMAX are going to be the answer to the growing demands of content and with the consumption patterns rising world over, the technology will have to be implemented at a much wider level.

While speaking of opportunities, Mr. Jain also commented upon how WiMAX is still in its growing stages and though there’s a huge potential, its also a long way to go.

While appreciating The WiMAX 2010, Mr. Jain, remarked, its a good event and a great platform for industry professionals to connect and raise the bar.

Mr. Ashish Talwar – Telecom leader India, GE

Mr. Talwar while appreciating the event also provided suggestions and crucial feedback towards further polishing the improving the quality of presentations.

Mr. Suresh Vaidyanathan – Head – Brand & PR, India Marketing, Huawei

Suresh appreciated the effort and congratulated the organizers for the successful event. He also, gave crucial insights on how Huawei acts as the strong backbone for the industry and how the company has grown and the future opportunities it is looking forward to in India.

Conference Sponsors