| SCHEDULE | SESSION |
| 08:30-09:30 | Registrations |
| 09:30-09:35 | Welcome & introductions Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, Voice&Data |
| 09:35-10:00 | Birds’ eye view of big news in 2015-16’ & its impact on future
Vikram Tiwathia, DDG, COAI |
| 10:00-10:30 | Inaugural Keynote RS Sharma, Chairperson, TRAI |
| 10:30-10:45 | Monetizing LTE: 6 Lessons from Around the World Letchu Narayanan, Vice President, South Asia,CSG International |
| 10:45-11:05 | Networking Tea Break |
| 11:05-12:30 | From TSP to DSP - The Big Things That Will Happen in 2016-17 : How the launch of 4G and LTE are likely to change user expectations, and therefore put the pressure back on the operators to evolve themselves from TSP to DSP. How the telecom services industry is likely to transform in the wake of increasing competition, and more demanding users. The Voice&Data-Cisco initiative to catalyze this transformation.
Himanshu Kapania, Managing Director, Idea Cellular |
| 12:30-13:30 | Winning Hearts' - Innovative & effective business models to delight customers : how customer expectations are changing, what are the most sought after services, and how operators are becoming customer centric) – panel discussion
Ajay Kaul, Director, Google |
| 13:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00-15:00 | The Tech Edge – Building The Backbone for Competitive Leadership : Panel Discussion on how will operators build an architecture which is an open and customizable framework that enables operators to harness untapped network value, reduce costs, and accelerate revenue growth and align with new business opportunities Abhay Savargaonkar, Director, Network Services, Airtel Vishant Vora, Director-Technology, Vodafone India NK Gupta, Director, BSNL Bijender Yadav, Chief Informations & Technolgy officer,MTS Krish Sridhar, COO, Tikona Digital AK Srivastava, Principal General Manager, MTNL Parag Khurana, MD, F5 Networks |
| 15:00-16:00 | Ensuring high quality, reliable, affordable telecom for all - Cisco-V&D Leadership Roundtable : In the 4G/LTE era, in the Digital India era, in the era when operators must start there journey from a TSP to a DSP, what are the 5 things that operators will have to do, to make money, reduce costs, and build agility to capture new opportunities
TV Ramachandran, President, Broadband India Forum Rajan Mathews, Director General, COAI RK Bahuguna, CMD,Railtel Arvind Bali, Director and CEO, Videocon Syed Safawi, CEO, Viom Ashok Sud, Secretary General, AUSPI Rajesh Chharia, President, ISPAI Gen SP Kochhar, CEO, TSSC Sudhir Narang, MD, BT Romal Shetty , Head-Telecom, KPMG |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Voice&Data Telecom leadership awards |
| 17:00-17:30 | Voice&Data jury awards |
| 17:30 | Closing Remarks followed by Networking TEA. |