• 11:00am - 12:30pm
• with sponsor tables

• 12:30pm - 12:45pm
• Speaker: Ben Miller, SVP International Sales

• 12:45pm - 1:15pm
• Speaker: Graeme MacArthur, Executive Vice President

• 1:15pm - 1:45pm
• The Perfect Storm for Business Communications
• The changing workforce and adoption of cloud technologies are driving businesses to replace and upgrade their legacy communications infrastructures. This “Perfect Storm” is driving an increasing number of network operators seeking to serve this growing market. Learn more about the trends driving the growth of Business Communications and how to capitalize on this to drive growth for your organizations.
• Speaker: Chris Carabello, Senior Director of­ Product Marketing

• 1:45pm - 2:15pm 
• The Converged Future of Consumer Communications Services
• The modern consumer is on the move - and they want services to go with them. Both fixed-line and mobile network operators face challenges from the increasing number of OTT apps. Communications packages need new higher-value features to keep up with consumer demands and stay relevant. In this session, Metaswitch will outline the current state of consumer needs and habits, and outline the future of consumer communications as it converges on a world that needs to support any media over any network.
• Speaker: Robert Welsh, Marketing Manager, Consumer Solutions

• 2:15pm - 2:45pm 
• with sponsor tables and snacks

• 2:45pm – 3:15pm
• Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are driving a dramatic shift in Carrier Network Interconnect. Metaswitch will help you understand the terminology and technology behind these changes. You’ll learn how an implementation of these concepts will position you to develop new models for interconnect services that reduce your costs, increase your margins, improve time to market, and enable new services for your customers.
• Speaker: Speaker: Micaela Giuhat, VP Product Marketing, SBC

• 3:15pm – 3:45pm

• All cloud deployments, whether they are for IT applications or NFV, embody a network fabric that provides controlled connectivity between and among workloads.  And as anyone who has built a cloud will testify, the network fabric is one of the hardest aspects to get right.  In this session we look at the various kinds of network fabric solutions that are available today for OpenStack clouds, and describe Project Calico, a new open source solution that offers a unique combination of simplicity, scalability and security.  We also discuss how Calico addresses the networking needs of the next generation of virtualization technology: containers.

• Speaker: Martin Taylor, Chief Technical Officer

• 3:45pm – 4:15pm

• Dean Bubley, Founder of Disruptive Analysis, will give commentary and context for the first day’s presentations. In particular, he will examine the critical move for operators to become “agile” innovators, both through more flexible, virtualised networks and with more dynamic organisation and “design mindsets” for service creation. This will be set against both “hard” technology trends such as NFV, SDN & 5G, but also against the wider, inevitable future of cloud platforms, IoT, the sharing economy, machine-learning & AI, and even robotics.

• Speaker: Dean Bubley, Founder of Disruptive Analysis

• 4:15pm – 4:30pm
• Speaker: Ben Miller, SVP International Sales

• 4:30pm – 8:00pm
• Drinks reception and ping pong tournament 

• 7:30am – 8:30am

• 8:30am – 8:45am
• Speaker: Ben Miller, SVP International Sales

• 8:45am – 9:15am
• Small Business and enterprise customers are demanding more and better communications services. The rapid advancements in applications and infrastructure technologies from Metaswitch will allow you to defend and grow your customer base and revenues. This presentation reviews the Metaswitch Business Communications solution that powers market-winning SIP Trunking, HPBX, UC, and Contact Centre products and the analytics it offers to enable your delivery of a superior quality-of-experience.
• Speaker: Chris Carabello, Senior Director of­ Product Marketing

• 9:15am – 9:45am
• If you want to rapidly expand your business into new markets or provide additional services to your customers in an increasingly competitive marketplace, it is not enough just to have a network - you need to build, market and sell your services. Metaswitch offers an array of resources and services to support your Business Communications growth, including deployment and “Reference Architecture” guidance, pricing and packaging support, brandable brochures, videos, and more. In this session, you will give you a brief insight into our MarketVisions program, introducing the best route-to-market, which when coupled with a repeatable deployment approach will allow you to compete and win.
• Speaker: Chris Carabello, Senior Director of­ Product Marketing

• 9:45am – 10:00am

• 10:00am – 10:30am

• The world of carrier interconnect has shifted dramatically in the last few years. Whether the carrier is a wholesaler or a reseller, we are witnessing a constant decrease in retail and wholesale prices, slowing of interconnect traffic growth, as well as shift of the international traffic to OTT like services.

  It is therefore the right time to reinvent the market, and create a new model for interconnect services that can offset the changes and create new value for customers and carriers alike.  With a new paradigm in the technology used, while supporting the right evolution to the desired end, we can help transform the interconnect services into new a vibrant market.

  Our Interconnect Solution is designed to help Network Operators defend their market share by providing a smooth transition from legacy voice infrastructure to IP and IPX architecture, and provide the foundation for new services that will insure additional revenue.

• Speaker: Micaela Giuhat, VP Product Marketing, SBC

• 10:30am – 11:00am
• Containers are riding high as the next generation of virtualization technology, providing a lightweight mechanism for running network functions as "microservices".  The container space is crowded with different projects and approaches and this session will help you understand the differences (and similarities) between Docker, Kubernetes and Mesos.  We'll also discuss how containers relate to OpenStack and how they are applicable to NFV.  Finally, we'll discuss how the combination of containers and Calico can be a great solution some types of computationally intensive network function.
• Speaker: Ed Harrison, Project Calico Evangelist

Intel’s strategy for Cloud Network Virtualization

• 11:00am-11:15am
• Intel will describe how it is helping leading Carriers adopt virtualised networking, based on a commitment to Open standards and software.
• Speaker: Murray Cooke, Network Computing Solutions Architect, Intel

Why NFV alone will not enable agile, competitive differentiation – What’s missing and how to add it

• 11:15am - 11:30am

• Among the many promises of NFV is the belief that it will enable telecoms operators to innovate with agility, and establish valuable differentiation.  While some pieces of that story ring-true, some gaping holes remain in the arguments.  In this short session, we will take a look at what’s real , highlight the missing pieces and provide ideas for how to establish sustainable, competitive advantage.

• Speaker: Mark Windle, Head of Marketing, OpenCloud

• 11:30am – 1:00pm

• 1:00pm – 2:00pm
• Whether you’re deploying VoLTE for mobile users or looking to enhance broadband services for users connected at home, it’s never been more important to ensure the best infrastructure is in place to support the high-value services that consumers now expect. Metaswitch will detail their solution and how it meet your needs in both aspects, and demo some of their latest features.
• Speaker: Robert Welsh, Marketing Manager, Consumer Solutions

• 2:00pm – 2:30pm
  
• Speaker: Guntram Dox, Senior Expert & Project Manager at Deutsche Telekom

• 2:30pm – 2:45pm
• Speaker: Ben Miller, SVP International Sales

• 2:45pm-3:45pm