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Track One – Billing & Charging for New Business Models
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| 09:15 |
Opening Remarks from Chair
Hugh Roberts, Senior Strategist, PATNI TELECOMS CONSULTING |
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| 09:30 |
Billing Opportunities and Risks in E-Commerce |
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- Leveraging the expertise in telco billing to build revenue opportunities in e-commerce
- Understanding how transactions via the handset can cut down on incomplete transactions and transaction processing: How to benefit from this
- Solutions to manage 3rd party relationships and multiple revenue streams
- Managing the “gateway risks” associated with mobile payments and e-commerce payment channels
Dr Ampai Pornprasertsakul, Deputy Director, Services Support Systems, TRUE MOVE
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| 10:00 |
Grameenphone: Preparing Billing to Meet the Challenges of 3G and the Growth of Content Services |
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- Exploring the new services and applications that 3G will bring to Bangladesh
- What are the implications for existing billing systems
- Building the business case for a billing system upgrade – Pros and cons
- Technical and process challenges of migrating customers and services to a new system
Syed Sohael Reza, Head of IT Operations - GM, GRAMEENPHONE
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| 10:30 |
It’s Not your Grandpa’s Prepaid Anymore - the World goes Prepaid |
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- Putting prepaid at the heart of emerging hybrid consumption models
- What are the implications of the changing nature of prepaid on your billing and charging systems
- The business benefits of end-to-end prepaid system that is ready for the era of convergence
- Prepaid solutions to enable advanced devices and services and sophisticated rating, packaging and pricing schemes
Guy Hilton, Manager, Product Marketing - Revenue Management Products & Solutions, AMDOCS
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| 11:00 |
Morning Refreshments and Networking |
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11:40
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E-Billing: Driving Adoption Rates of Online Billing to Reduce Costs and Maximise Revenue Growth Opportunities
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- Approaches to boost adoption rates of online e-billing: Simplicity, clarity, functionality
- Adding value to the online bill – What functions does the customer want on their online bill?
- Strategies and solutions to increase pull-through to sales and customer service from online billing
- How to use online billing capabilities to sell additional credit to customers approaching their usage cap
Hugh Roberts, Senior Strategist, PATNI TELECOMS CONSULTING
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| 12:10 |
Telco 2.0 and the 2-sided business model: The impact on billing and settlement
Adrian King, Director of Product Marketing, METRATECH
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| 12:40 |
Questions and Discussion |
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| 12:45 |
Lunch and Networking |
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Track Two – Best Practice RA, Risk & Fraud Management
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| 09:15 |
Opening Remarks from Chair
Peter Coleman, Executive Director, DELOITTE SINGAPORE |
| 09:30 |
Revenue Assurance for the Multi-Service Operator: Solutions to Avoid Revenue Loss |
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- Identifying the common RA difficulties associated with multi-element bundled services and products
- Retooling revenue assurance to manage multiple systems and data streams
- Managing and reconciling multiple customer profiles across platforms
- Solutions for end-to-end testing of cross-platform offers and promotions
Janice Remedios ,Operations Manager - Revenue Assurance , TELTSRA CORPORATION
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| 10:00 |
Managing Revenue and Fraud Risks Driven by the Evolution to all-IP Networks |
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- Timelines for the transition to all-IP networks and implications to your RA processes
- Overcoming the challenges of tracking packet-based traffic and assigning tariffs
- Why margin assurance is becoming the new priority for the RA professional in the IP environment
Cliff McIntosh, Revenue Assurance Manager, BT GLOBAL SERVICES
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| 10:30 |
Achieving True ‘Business Assurance’ through Revenue Assurance, Fraud and Credit Management Consolidation |
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- Outlining the importance of clearly defined roles within the RA function
- Examining the relationship between RA, Credit and Fraud management
- Consolidating RA, Credit and Fraud Management functions to improve Business Assurance
- Leveraging the benefits of merging the organization, systems and processes to improve overall ROI
Álvaro Ribeiro, General Manager Asia Pacific, WEDO TECHNOLOGIES
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| 11:00 |
Questions and Discussion |
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| 11:10 |
Morning Refreshments and Networking |
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| 11:40 |
Roaming: RA and Fraud Management Strategies to Ensure Accuracy and Minimize Revenue Loss |
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- Strategies to identify roaming fraud and reduce incorrect rating of roaming calls
- How to ensure timely receipt of call data from interconnect and roaming partners
- How to track and assign tariffs to IP packet-based roaming traffic
- RA approaches for managing subscription-based data services when the user roams
Erez Shalom, Research and Business. Information Department Manager, CELLCOM ISRAEL
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| 12:10 |
New Approaches for Fraud Detection |
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- Latest fraud trends in the telecoms industry
- Using a Fourier-Transform based methodology to optimize fraud detection
- Why is it so effective in aiding fraud detection?
- Applying the methodology to real-life incidents of fraud
Zhan Zhang, Chief Architect , BSS/OSS Team, ZTE
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| 12:40 |
Questions and Discussion |
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| 12:45 |
Lunch and Networking |
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Emerging Challenges and New Opportunities for the Billing and RA Professional
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| Conference Day Two Plenary – Wednesday 10 March 2010 |
| 14:15 |
Emerging Fraud Trends and How to Tackle Them |
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- Assessing the major new examples of fraud in 2009/10
- What impact has the recession had on incidents of fraud?
- Creating strategies to manage the fraud risks associated with new products and services
- Processes and solutions to achieve real-time fraud detection and prevention
Peter Coleman, Executive Director, DELOITTE SINGAPORE
Mike Willett, Director, Strategic Risk Management
WAYWICK MANAGEMENT
Formerly Director, Fraud & Revenue Assurance at TELSTRA
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| 15:00 |
Value Creation through End-to-End Revenue Assurance |
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- Value creation through an integrated RA approach - Networks, processes, organization and business evolution
- Practical lessons learnt from a range of business consulting and systems integration projects
- What end-to-end RA means for profitability, customer experience and reduced churn
Patrick Lim, Associate Principal, ERICSSON SOUTHEAST ASIA
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| 15:30 |
Afternoon Refreshments and Networking |
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| 16:00 |
Revenue Protection - Extending the RA umbrella |
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- What is Revenue protection?
- How do we grow from Revenue Assurance to Revenue Protection?
- The functional extension of the RA umbrella
Ashwin Menon, Consultant - Customer Solutions, SUBEX
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| 16:30 |
Panel Discussion: How to Demonstrate the Importance of the Billing, RA and Fraud Management Functions |
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- Why Billing, RA and Fraud Management are essential in an increasingly complex and competitive marketplace
- Ways to demonstrate the cost-benefit of robust RA and fraud management to the board
- KPIs and tools to benchmark performance and measure success
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| 17:00 |
Close of Conference |