Annual Telecom Forum is
A communication platform recognized as the leading venue by the country's professional telecom community.
The core sectors’ representatives brought together in one venue.
The relevant problems and best case studies.
The meaningful dialogue between business and public authorities.
Efficient networking.
Top company leaders.
The Focus of Discussion
World of telecommunications in 2016. What will happen to the market and what will be its future?
Modern threats. Regulatory policy and government support for Runet protection.
Telecom and media synergy in today's environment. New technologies and their penetration in TV broadcasting.
The development of a new generation of communications in Russia.
New operator cooperation models.
Current marketing and loyalty strategies
What's new at the Telecom 2016 Forum?
The Speaker’s Speech. Interviews with top managers of mobile operators.
Art objects exhibition.
Multimedia space.
Matchmaking is the system of individual meetings.
Forum's audienceTop players of Russia's telecommunications market, the «big three» operators and foreign telecommunications companies, the Ministry of Communications, the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, the Ministry for Economic Development, digital TV operators; content suppliers, telecommunications equipment suppliers, wireless Internet operators, investors, analysts and industry experts.
DRAFT AGENDA
09:00 – 09:30. Registration, morning coffee
09:30 – 11:00. Special session.
Another reality of telecom Ballroom A
The need for transformation has become an issue for many companies in different sectors. The future of worldwide telecommunications is now inevitably connected with mobile financing, OTT, and media. New companies are entering the market of services and applications transmitting their traffic through net providers. Telecommunication companies are no longer competing only with other companies in the sector, but also with those whose business depends increasingly on providers and who also contain some elements of telecom. It is the well-timed decision to effectively transform the company that becomes the major factor of its further development at this time.
- Transformation of the telecommunication business. Switch of brains.
- Competition or cooperation?
- Effective models for the change.
- Telecoms as a new business paradigm.
Moderator
Igor Tsukanov, Deputy Chief Editor, Vedomosti business daily
Speakers
Dmitry Chernyshenko, General Director, Gazprom-Media Holding
Andrey Dubovskov, President, Chairman of the Board, MTS
Sergey Emdin, CEO, Tele2
Vitaly Krylov, CEO, Gett Russia
Alexey Marey, Chief Executive Director, Alfa-Bank
Mikhail Slobodin, General Director, VimpelCom
11:00 – 11:30. Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00. Discussion session 1. T
elecommunications market. On the way to consolidation? Ballroom A
The Russian market has achieved maturity: the shares of its key players are stable, new technologies have been introduced, and the income growth has slowed down. At the same time, price wars still remain the market realitys, providers still face the need to invest into net development to confront the macroeconomic volatility and to jointly stand up for the interests of the sector in front of the OTT providers. At many foreign communications markets the similar circumstances have led to consolidation. Is consolidation possible at the Russian telecommunications market? What forms can it take?
- Consolidation at foreign telecommunications markets: reasons, similarities and differences in comparison to Russia.
- What changes has the competition suffered in the Russian telecommunications market in recent years?
- Back to growth. How to prevent further decline in income per client?
- Recent M&A transactions in the telecommunications sector. How to duly evaluate the asset value in terms of macroeconomic volatility? How do the players of the sector estimate the prospects of the possible market consolidation?
Moderators
Oleg Salmanov, Editor of the Technology and Telecommunications, Vedomosti business daily
Igor Tsukanov, Deputy Chief Editor, Vedomosti business daily
Special Presentation: International practices of the consolidation in the telecommunications markets overview
Mikhail Romanov, Partner, Leader of the Communications, Technology and Media Support Group, EY
Speakers
Vasil Latsanich, Vice President for Marketing, Board Member, MTS
Alexander Popovsky, Executive Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Business Development, VimpelCom
Denis Shiroky, «Business» business unit Director, MTT
Evgeny Vasiliev, General Director, MTT
13:00 – 13:30. Coffee break
13:30 – 15:00. Discussion session 2.1.
Communications providers fighting for efficient business Ballroom A
In these tough times for business, the best recipe for company development should not be violent competition for the clients, but fruitful and strategically reasonable cooperation. During the discussion session, the participants will talk about what do companies undertake under their partnership agreements and what models of cutting their expenses they chose in short- and long-term period.
- Building and operation of new generation network infrastructure. What challenges do companies come across taking the path of RAN Sharing? Joint operation experience: pros and cons.
- Selling and leasing. What are the benefits of the shared use of «passive» infrastructure?
- Outsourcing and insourcing: what to bet on?
- Financial effectiveness of the company's technological reorganization.
- Role of the providers and the possibility of their cooperation in shaping the public communications policy.
Moderator
Oleg Salmanov, Editor of the Technology and Telecommunications, Vedomosti business daily
Speakers
Andrey Azhigirov, Director of Business Unity «Communication between providers», MTT
Alexander Bashmakov, Infrastructure Director, Megafon
Aleksander Chub, President, Russian Towers
Andrew Kantsurov, Head of licensing work in the field of communications, Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media
Lyudmila Smirnova, Chief Financial and Administrative Director, Tele2
Dmitry Shepelyavy, Deputy General Director, SAP CIS
Martin Shkop, Executive Vice President for Infrastructure Development, VimpelCom
Xu Xueming, President of Carrier Business Group, Huawei Russia
Elena Zayeva, Chief of Administration for Communication Regulations and Informational Technologies, Federal Antimonopoly Service
13:30 – 15:00. Discussion session 2.2. S
urf's Up! New generation communications in Russia
Ballroom B With voice communications income decline, data transmission keeps growing dynamically, involving the growing number of customers into the content consumption, usage of the Internet-services, as well as the transmission of the texts, voice and video via IP. Accelerating technology growth hits the classic consumption model. This trend opens unlimited possibilities for new business development and additional monetization of provider services.
- How to stay on top by changing the existing business models?
- Digital explosion worldwide. Its future in Russia.
- Today's subscriber: his profile, needs and dependence on global trends.
- Experience of OTT providers’ cooperation with telecoms providers. What are the benefits?
- MVNO business. First outcomes of Voice over LTE.
- Traffic transmission priority. Do providers need it?
- 3G, 4G, 5G… How does mobile traffic consumption change?
- The Internet of Things at government and commercial service.
Moderator
Eldar Razroev, the Expert
Speakers
Tigran Pogosyan, Senior Vice-President, ZTE Corporation - Svyaztechnologii (ZTE)
Aleksander Scherbina, Deputy CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Russia
Denis Shiroky, «Business» business unit Director, MTT
Svetlana Skvortsova, Strategic Planning Director, Tele2
Mikhail Tregubenko, Senior Manager, EY Advisory
15:00 – 16:00. Lunch
16:00 – 17:30. Discussion session 3.1.
Threat protection Ballroom A
Rapid global changes along with growing technology level of penetration impose the rules. To protect Runet and personal data from existing threats, telecommunications and Internet providers need the state support and well-balanced regulatory policy. How will it affect real business and what are expectations of communications providers in 2016-2017? Participants will discuss this with the sector regulators.
- Modern threats to telecommunications companies and their subscribers. How to prevent and withstand them?
- Individual, state and business. How to strike the balance between data protection, the struggle against threats and business requirements?
- Regulatory policy in the protection sphere of Runet. State requirements and real possibilities of the operators. Where is the limit to desire to control the traffic?
- Fragmentation threat to the Internet: is it a myth or reality? Freedom limitation as payment for security.
Moderator
Andrey Kolesnikov, the Expert
Speakers
Alexey Basov, Vice President, Rostelecom
Natalia Kovalenko, Partner, Head of Cross-Sectoral Group, Pepeliaev Group
Artyom Kozlyuk, Founder of Roskomsvoboda; Board Member of the Association of Internet Users
Dmitry Marinichev, Internet Ombudsman for the President of the Russian Federation
Ilya Sachkov, CEO, Group-IB
Don Stikvoort, the pioneer of Internet security in Europe; Co-Founder, S-CURE
16:00 – 17:30. Discussion session 3.2
New TV business formats Ballroom B
According to many experts, Russia's pay-TV market is one the fastest growing markets worldwide. Providers are betting on this business, in particular with falling revenues on key indicators. However, the pay-TV market continuously transforms in order to adapt to fast penetrating technologies. Thus, companies need to invest and keep up with the times and even get ahead. The session will be focused on the routes providers take and their efforts in the current environment.
- Audience trends for broadcast, pay- and IP TV. Review of viewers’ preferences and video content consumption models.
- Generating content and competitive service portfolios for pay-TV subscribers.
- New technologies and their penetration in TV, digital broadcast TV, HD and Ultra HD: supply and demand, investment and return on investment, the strategy and reality.
- OTT TV providers, media holdings and IPTV providers. Who wins?
- Can foreign streaming media companies develop in Russia? Is there a threat?
Moderator
Konstantin Ankilov, Managing Partner, TMT Consulting
Speakers
Andrey Batanov, General Director, NETBYNET Holding
Mikhail Goryachev, Content Director, National Satellite Company
Dmitry Kulakovsky, Director of Marketing and Business Development, MGTS
Vitaly Shub, President's Adviser, TTK
Alexey Trotsyuk, General Producer, Yellow Black & White
17:30 – 18:00. Coffee break
18:00 – 19:00. Discussion session 4.
Like! My favorite subscriber Ballroom A
Changing business conditions modify positioning strategies of telecom providers. One thing remains unchanged; subscribers are always the top priority for all businesses Participants will discuss the following topics: positioning and loyalty strategies selected by providers, their real effects on business, the most efficient changes for retaining subscribers.
- Shifting the focus on subscribers. What does adjusted audience-winning strategies change?
- Subscriber consumer behavior. What services are in demand?
- Audience monetization: best practices. Mobile advertising: beyond the good and the bad.
- Mobile apps - new options for communication with the audience.
- New methods to win subscriber loyalty.
Speakers
Nikolay Bogatischev, Director of Service and Sales, Megafon. Retail
Elena Naumchik, Co-Founder, CLICK
Eldar Sokolov, Editor in Chief, Sostav.ru
German Yurtaev, Director of sales and service, MGTS
19:00. – Evening cocktail
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