PLUGTESTS THE INTEROPERABILITY SERVICE

FMCA Interoperability Week

 
 
 

Thursday 26th June 2008

08:00 - 09:00

R e g i s t r a t i o n   &   c o f f e e

09:00 – 09:30

Welcome and opening address

ETSI Welcome
Jørgen Friis
, Deputy Director-General, ETSI

FMCA Welcome and Conference objectives
Steve Andrews, Managing Director, Convergence, Strategy and Products at BT Plc

09:30 - 11:00

Convergence : A Global Vision

Chair :
Steve Andrews - FMCA Chairman

  FMCA vision on convergence – FMCA Customer Needs & Market Drives Thought Leadership Paper,
Frank Seifert, Swisscom - Head of Voice and Messaging Propositions
  ETSI Vision on convergence,
Richard Brennan,
ETSI Tispan Vice Chair
 

Experiences and hopes of an IMS based approach to FMC
Dr. Enrico Scarrone,
3GPP SA1 Chairman,
Telecom Italia – Innovation,  Technology planning, Standards and IPR

  "WiMAX and Intel's Convergence Vision", Gilles Karolkowski, INTEL, Director of Market Development

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break and
Demo Tour
Interoperability in action

11:30 - 12:00 Keynote by Johann-Georg.Gross, Senior WBA Representative
Vision, Overview & Objectives of a global Operator-led Industry Alliance

12:00 - 12:30

KEYNOTE By Edgar Figueroa, Executive Director of the Wi-Fi Alliance

12:30 – 14:00

Demo Tour Interoperability in action

14:00 - 15:50

The importance of interoperability for the customers

  Industry Analyst View of Convergence Mark Newman, Senior Analyst from Informa
  Keynote Achieving Interoperability – The ETSI Approach
Anthony Wiles, Director of Centre for Testing & Interoperability
  FMCA Product Requirements for Convergence
Andrea Lagana, Project Manager, Home Networks & Terminals Telecom Italia, FMCA Board Member

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break and
Demo Tour
Interoperability in action

16:15 – 16:45

The FMCA Interoperability Week experience
Andrew Haworth,
FMCA Managing Director

  1. What products were tested? How were they tested?
  2. What were the main conclusions?
  3. A view from the participants
16:30 - 16:45 Q&A Session

16:45 – 17:00

Conclusions and future activities for FMCA
Steve Andrews


Contact for the conference only

Ms. Nathalie GUINET
ETSI
tel: +33 4 92 94 43 62
email:
nathalie.guinet@etsi.org