CONFERENCE DAY 1
DAY ONE · WEDNESDAY 19 MAY 2009
(Simultaneous translation will available in English & Vietnamese) |
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08:30
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Opening Ceremony |
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| 08:40 |
Ministerial Welcome Address |
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Le Nam Thang, Standing Vice Minister of Information and Communications
MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (MIC)
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Keynotes - Realizing the Broadband Connected Society in Vietnam
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| 08:50 |
MIC Keynote: Vietnam’s Telecommunication Current Status and Development Trends |
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Dr Tran Minh Tuan,Vice President, National Institute of Information and Communications Strategy, MIC |
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| 09:10 |
Viettel’s View on Broadband
Nguyen Manh Hung, Deputy General Director, VIETTEL CORPORATION |
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| 09:30 |
Mobile Broadband in Emerging Markets - Key Issues and Challenges
Lim Chuan Poh, CEO International, SINGTEL GROUP |
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| 09:50 |
VNPT: toward a broadband society |
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Nghiem Phu Hoan, Deputy General Director, VNPT |
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10:10
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Morning Networking Break |
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| 10:35 |
Delivering the Mobile Broadband Experience Across Asia – Key Success Factors
Dato’ Yusof Annuar Yaacob, Executive Director/Group Chief Financial Officer,
AXIATA GROUP |
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| 10:55 |
Radio Frequency Law Update and Frequency Arrangement for Broadband Wireless Access in Vietnam |
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Doan Quang Hoan, Director General, Radio Frequency Directorate, MIC |
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11:15
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The Wireless World: Now and Beyond |
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John Stefanac, President of Southeast Asia & Pacific, QUALCOMM |
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| 11:35 |
3G: Creating a Windfall for the Vietnamese Economy through Operators’ Growth? - Our Experiences and Lessons Learnt
Dharman Sury, SVP International Business Development, ORANGE FRANCE TELECOM |
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| 11:55 |
New World in Your Hands with Mobile WiMAX |
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Hung Song, Vice President, Global Marketing Group, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS |
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| 12:15 |
Keynote Panel Q&A |
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| 12:45 |
Lunch and Networking |
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Wireless Solutions for Realizing the Broadband Connected Society
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| 14:00 |
CDMA-based Mobile Broadband: The Most Feasible and Economical Trend in the Vietnam market |
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Pham Tien Thinh, Advisor of CDMA Mobile Service Center, S-TELECOM |
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| 14:25 |
Driving Mobile Broadband Adoption: Services and Business for the Viet-Nam Market |
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- Progress of 3G roll-out
- Developing content for 3G
- Open model for cooperation between operator and content providers
Ngo Dien Hy, Director of Service Development Center, VINAFONE
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| 14:50 |
m-Health and e-Health Solutions to Improve the Delivery of Healthcare in Developing Countries |
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- Understanding the range of potential applications for mobile and IT-enabled healthcare
- The role of service providers and regulators in ensuring the success of m-Health and Health Information Systems
- Overcoming standards and interoperability issues to deliver effective services
- Creating the architecture to support e-health and m-health solutions
Amy Gottlieb, Senior Strategic Information Technical Advisor, USAID/VIETNAM
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| 15:15 |
3G Network Design and Optimization Strategies: Getting the Best out of Your Network |
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- Exploring common inefficiencies in 3G network design
- Taking a multi-stage, collaborative optimization approach to enhance the performance of 3G services and applications
- OSS-based optimization: key considerations and advantages
- Key lessons from case studies
- ROI for OSS-based automated design and optimization processes
Roland Keiser, Technical Sales Director, OPTIMI
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| 15:40 |
Afternoon Refreshment s and Networking |
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| 16:10 |
Operator Case Study: WiMAX in Laos - Overcoming the Challenge of High Costs in a Low GDP Market |
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- Striving to achieve affordable ARPUs in a low income country
- Overcoming high backhaul and international carrier costs to deliver affordable services
- Regulatory environment and cost implications
- Strategies to deliver affordable services, while maintaining a viable business case
Dr. Robert Winch, Chairman, PLANET ONLINE LAOS
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| 16:35 |
Why WiMAX Has an Important Role to Play in Viet Nam |
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- Myths and realities about WiMAX
- Key challenges and opportunities for WiMAX globally
- Role for WiMAX in Vietnam and potential business models and services
- Positioning against 3G in Viet Nam
Amrish Kacker, Partner, ANALYSIS MASON
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| 17:00 |
Building End-to-End Network Capacity to Enable the Delivery of Mobile Broadband Content |
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- Predicting future data volumes and capacity requirements
- Applying lessons learnt in fixed broadband into building scalable backhaul network to provide enhanced customer experience of mobile broadband
- Aggregation solutions for seamless integration of 2G, 3G and LTE backhaul - building for current and future needs
Erwin T. Filmer, Solutions Director, Asia Pacific, ECI TELECOM
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| 17:30 |
Close of Day One |
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| 18:00 |
Gala Dinner hosted by MIC, sponsored by VIETTEL |
