Welcome Remarks Abbie Barbir, Co-Chair, OASIS Telecom Member Section
Opening Keynote: Providers Perspectives on SOA in Telecom Dave Elmendorf, Director 21CN Voice & Multimedia, BT
Panel on Embedding Communications into IT Applications: A Vendor Perspective
This panel session will focus on what vendors are doing to accelerate the adoption of SOA in the Telecom space. What their strategy will be for supporting Telecom services as part of a business flow? What predictions they may have on SOA in Telecom, as well as their business process as a whole? And what challenges and successes they've had with SOA?
Panelists:
Angelo Morelli, Executive Partner, Communications and High Tech, Accenture
Michael Giordano, Director of Application Architecture and SOA, Avaya
Stephane Maes, Chief Architect & CTO, Oracle
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Senior IT Architect, Sun Microsystems
10:45
Coffee Break
SESSION #1 Session Chair: Michael Giordano, Avaya
11:00
Challenges of Telecom Services in SOA Environment: Lessions Learned and Case Studies
This session will focus on current limitations or mismatches of SOA in implementing Telecom specific solutions. Uses cases will be used to illustrate how to solve some of these limitations.Presenters will also suggest possible improvements to current standards, as well as, what new standards are needed to address the limitations.
Topics will include:
Management of services in market place
Nature of performance characteristics of telecom environment such as availability
Creation and composition of services
Third party market place web 2.0
End-to-end integration of OSS/BSS systems
Asynchronous, event and stateful services
Speakers:
Digital Identities for Networks and
Convergence
Amardeo Sarma, Senior Manager, NEC Laboratories Europe
Operator Perspective: Dealing with Issues & Relationships in a Changing Eco-system
Edin Bektesevic, Senior Technology Strategist, Vodafone
Service Oriented Architecture and Use of SOA at Telenor Nordic Sune Jakobsson, Research Scientist, Telenor
Overcoming the Deployment Blues: Preparing for Comms Enablement Will Hern, Architect, Nortel
Elements of SOA in TM Forum’s Service Delivery Framework and its Usecases
Lucia Gradinariu, Senior Advisor, CA, Inc. & Stephane Maes, Chief Architect & CTO, Oracle
SOA Security Challenges, Patterns and Solutions
Martin Borrett, Security Architect Lead, IBM
13:00
Luncheon
SESSION #2 Session Chair: Stephane Maes, Oracle
14:00
SOA Solutions in Telecom Today
This session focuses on current used SOA solutions in the Telecom space. Presentations should focus on use-cases illustrating success stories and suggest possible improvement to current standards.
Topics will include:
Telecom user centric services
Communication enabled applications
Mobility, converged and multimedia applications
Telecom service life cycle management (provisioning, activation, etc.)
Speakers:
Service Oriented Authorisation for Managing Services and Devices in Telecommunication Networks
Babak Sadighi, Co-Founder & CEO, Axiomatics
Identity Based Contextual Composition of Converged Services
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Senior IT Architect, Sun Microsystems and Brenda Connor, Portfolio Manager, Ericsson, Inc.
Services Exploiting SOA and Web Service Technology in Modern Telcos James Aitken, Principal Solutions Evangelist, Aepona Ltd.
Microsoft Mediaroom as a SOA for IPTV
Antonio Fontan, Microsoft
15:20
Coffee Break
SESSION #3 Session Chair: Ian Jones, BT
15:40
Telecom Standards
Each speaker in this session will share their views on the adoption of SOA in the Telecom industry. Discussions will include different perspectives on what needs to be done and when.
Speakers:
OMG Perspective on Standards
Hanane Becha, Key Member-Strategic Standards Development Team, Nortel (representing OMG)
OMA Perspective on Standards Musa Unmehopa, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Alcatel-Lucent (representing OMA)
TM Forum Perspective on Standards
Tony Richardson, Senior Program Manager for the Service Delivery Framework (SDF) Programme, TM Forum
Towards a SOA/WS Enabled NGN Open Service
Envornment: Ongoing Developments in ITU-T SG13
Marco Carugi, Senior Advisor, Nortel (representing ITU-T)
