European Telecoms Summit 2019
Registration for this event is now closed.
If you would like more information please contact David McElroy.
The 1-day summit takes place on Thursday 3 October 2019 and will help operators and vendors to understand the key drivers and trends that are influencing the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) market in Europe.
The event will assess the changing role of telecoms operators in the mobile value chain by focusing on new, disruptive players and potential partners in communications services.
Our event will feature leading analysts and subject-matter experts, who will offer exclusive insights and advice.
Keynote presentations focus on the operator landscape and their future aspirations, 5G and digital transformation.
Delegates will have the opportunity to attend in-depth breakout sessions that cover the following areas:
- digitalising the customer experience
- telco cloud strategies
- best practices and proof points in digital transformation
- developments in business connectivity
- cementing full-fibre investment
- how edge assists future 5G use cases
- maximising the TV and video opportunity.
Places at the event are limited and are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Register your interest using the button on the right.
Free invitation-only, 1-day event
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Comprehensive agenda |
The summit agenda features keynote presentations and briefing sessions. |
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Industry-leading research |
Presentations will draw on detailed primary and secondary research. |
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Which companies will be represented? |
Telecoms operators, vendors, financial institutions, policymakers and regulators. |
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Who should attend? |
CxOs, marketing intelligence personnel, policy executives, and members of marketing and strategy teams will benefit most from attending.
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Venue
Hilton London Tower Bridge Hotel
5 More London Place,
Tooley Street,
London,
SE1 2BY,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 3002 4300
Web: www.hilton.co.uk
Arrival, registration and refreshments
Welcome and introduction to the European Telecoms Summit 2019
- Summit introduction.
- Overview of the telecoms, media and technology market in Europe.
Presenter: Fiona Glennon, Managing Director
Overview of the current operator landscape and operators' future aspirations
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- A high-level view of the trends in the telecoms industry based on our latest published data.
- Operator revenue split by consumer and enterprise segments, and by major regions (with a particular emphasis on Europe).
- Capex trends split into major categories.
- Industry challenges.
- What is the industry looking for?
- A high-level view taken from our research in major areas including business, consumer, networks and software.
- An assessment of the aspirations of network operators based on what operators are saying to investors.
Presenter: Larry Goldman, Partner, Head of Networks and Software Research and Rupert Wood, Research Director
Short-term perspectives on 5G: deployment status and an assessment of consumer opportunities
- Focus of current 5G investment: spectrum, coverage and roll-out.
- The impact of 5G on spending plans.
- 5G as a capacity solution.
- Launch strategies for 5G mobile and fixed–wireless access (FWA).
- Identifying market opportunities for 5G FWA.
- Emerging consumer use cases (including gaming, AR/VR, video and in-car entertainment).
- The overlap with edge computing, and implications for the consumer value chain.
Presenters: Caroline Gabriel, Principal Analyst and Stephen Sale, Research Director, Consumer Services
Coffee break
Longer-term perspectives on 5G: enterprise IoT and the expansion of telecoms
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- Potential roadmap for future 5G deployments.
- Framework for assessing longer-term 5G applications, including demand, competing solutions (such as private networks and Wi-Fi 6) and RAN.
- Assessment of key 5G applications, such as those in the industrial, automotive and healthcare sectors.
- Aggregate view on the demand for longer-term 5G applications.
- Implications for the value chain: does 5G offer operators a long-term role in the digital ecosystem? Does 5G offer operators a growth story?
Presenters: Caroline Gabriel, Principal Analyst and Michele Mackenzie, Principal Analyst
Digital transformation: myths versus reality
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The presentation will analyse the following three myths that have emerged around digital transformation.
- It encompasses a broad set of operator activities, whether or not they have a software dimension to them.
- It will have a game-changing impact on opex and capex.
- It will automatically turn operators into digital service providers.
Presenter: Caroline Chappell, Research Director
Lunch
Breakout session 1
1. Digitalising the customer experience: identifying best practice
Presenters: Stephen Sale, Research Director, Consumer Services and John Abraham, Principal Analyst
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- The drivers of customer experience: pricing, performance and customer service.
- Primary research results covering churn and Net Promoter Score for operators in Europe.
- The role of digital channels in improving customer service.
- Case studies from global operators.
2. Using NFV and SDN to achieve the end-to-end automation vision
Presenter: Gorkem Yigit, Senior Analyst, and Dana Cooperson, Research Director
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- Telco cloud and network automation reality check: what are CSPs trying to achieve, and how are they doing so far?
- Key NFV/SDN challenges that remain: tackling end-to-end orchestration and automation across domains in preparation for 5G.
- Best practices for resolving the challenges and avoiding cloud and automation silos: standards and open-source initiatives, step-wise progression, and other approaches and tools.
3. Opportunities in the business market: SD-WAN and beyond
Presenters: Tom Rebbeck, Research Director and Catherine Hammond, Principal Analyst
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- How operators are approaching SD-WAN.
- Market forecast for the business market, connectivity vs new services.
- What businesses want from operators, other than connectivity (based on our survey of 3000 businesses).
4. Cementing full-fibre investment
Presenter: Rupert Wood, Research Director
5G has raised questions about the future of wireline, but its future is very promising so as long as operators act quickly and boldly.
What determines the scale of the threat from 5G fixed–wireless access to the local loop?
- The importance of fit-for-purpose indoor networks.
- How quickly copper networks can be decommissioned.
- How soon investment in 10G, or even 25G and 50G, should start.
- How feasible and useful 5G / wireline transport and core convergence is.
5. How does edge assist future 5G use cases?
Presenter: Caroline Gabriel, Principal Analyst and Roberto Kompany, Senior Analyst
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- Operator opportunities, near and longer term.
- How many edge-focused use cases really require 5G?
- Operator options for a profitable role in the edge value chain.
- Will the enterprise-edge sector stay out of operators’ reach?
6. Maximising the TV and video opportunity: capturing revenue growth through innovation
Presenters: Martin Scott, Principal Analyst and Giulio Sinibaldi, Analyst
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- TV and video services still have the potential to provide revenue growth, but operators must compete to capture market growth. We explain the opportunities for operators around launching and aggregating OTT video services.
- Subscription business models are well understood, but transactional, freemium and ad-funded models present further opportunities to diversify audience and revenue sources.
- This session will include fresh insights from Analysys Mason’s Connected Consumer Survey 2019, our new European pay-TV forecasts and our latest strategy reports.
Coffee break
Breakout session 2
Repeat of earlier breakout sessions from 14:00–14:45.