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• Providing a unified user experience with service convergence
• Elaborating on the benefits of an all-IP network pla n: migrating the core to all-IP
• Migratio n: what are the first steps to be adopted
• Benefits of the access-independent service platform: attractive services, seamless services between fixed and mobile

• Reviewing trends pertaining to the adoption of IMS based services
• Impacting consumer experience - measuring service experience as felt by the user
• Methodologies in marketing and education on convergent services to the customer
• Subscriber profiling, device management and delivery management issues

• IM S: a technology? A vision? Or an application?
• What is the benchmark / litmus test for true IMS?
• Shedding light upon the 'grey areas' in the industry's plans for IMS
• IMS - High on the corporate agenda?

• Understanding mobility’s stake in the current social networking spac e: Where does IMS come in to add the advantage?
• What would be the best business models for mobile community based services
• Assessing how IMS will meet requirements for e-communities to migrate to the mobile device: presence, location, group mgmt, etc.
• Understanding the capabilities of the client and how it can evolve through IMS

• Examining the commercial opportunities for the carrier :
  • FMC, Media & Content, IPTV & Mobile TV, VoIP, Retail, Web 2.0
• Reviewing the benefits in IMS in terms of new revenue streams, cost savings, enhanced capabilities and service provisioning
• Challenges in responding to these avenues of growth
• What are the most cost effective IMS elements to deploy?
• Justifying investments with the implementation of IMS
• What are the organisational changes required to address these issues?
• Discussing if IMS is being over-hyped or able to deliver on the promise

• Implementation options for IPTV
• IP Multimedia System(IMS) as common NGN Service Control Platform
• IMS-based IPTV Architecture - Combining multimedia communications and video broadcasting and VoD
• Service examples and business cases for IMS-based IPTV
• IPTV Communities - The "Virtual Sofa"
• Experiences and Prototyping in the FOKUS Media Interoperability Lab

• Reviewing the revenue potential for quad-play service s: marketing, e-commerce, upselling opportunities, etc
• Defining interactive personal IPTV
• Multi-services + Multi-screen s: how big can this be for operators?
• Understanding network capacit y: what is the role of IMS on IPTV networks
• Analysing broadcasting and IPTV system s: DMB, DVB, VoD, Interactive TV, etc

• Understanding quad-play benefits to the operator business
• Analysing the link between IMS and IPTV
• Reviewing IMS-based IPTV services for the subscriber: which of these will engage the user?
• Service provisionin g: mapping out different services for different screens and formats
• IMS standardisatio n: what is the level of readiness to address issues associated with IPTV

• New Innovative Services? Exploring The Best Strategy For Service Development
• Creating value in blended applications - FMC/Triple/Quad Play
• Understanding the merit of integrating voice into multimedia applications
• Unified communication strategies to deliver a consistent message
• Countering the risk of cannibalisation of existing services

• Where should the operators’ focus be? Voice? VAS?
• Leveraging on the benefits of the IMS platformin terms ofmanagement
• How can operators work with application developers to develop innovative applications

• How attractive is IMS to application developers? What is the level of support from the software community?
• Reviewing the available toolkits by various terminal and network vendors
• Bridging existing internet content to IMS
• Integrating the application server to the IMS cor e: charging, service provisioning and connectivity
• What are the best ways to link up operators and application developers in order to drive innovation

• Reviewing the converging landscape of telco and IT industries
• Building more viable IMS business models through SDP
• Usage models around IMS clients in the digital home and seamless mobility
• The role of SDPs in driving service creation and delivery
• Achieving cost reduction through improved performance in IMS and service delivery infrastructur e: discussing scalability
• Selecting the APIs: who does the application developer write to?
• Exploiting industry standards to optimise SDP performance
• What are the challenges in interoperability with the client
• How can SDP offer a future proof approach regardless of whatever happens to IMS in the future

• How is SDP bridging today’s platform’s with IMS application
• Partnerships between the telco and software communities: implications on the service layer
• Assessing the functionality of Java based platforms in the SD P: J2EE and JAIN SLEE integration
• Automating all lifecycle aspects of services with Next Generation OSS / BSS integration
• Progressing from SDP to IM S: what are the challenges?

• How to enhance the customer experience of community communication
• Utilising IMS in connection with other community service environments
• Building a complete community experience

• What is IMS? - Its position in the technological environment
• IMS and Web 2.0 - Telco versus Internet ?
• IMS or not IMS? - a Guide
• Operator Case Study
• IMS Market - Opportunities and Reality

• Deploying IM S: What are the business drivers?
  • Enterprise, Residential
• Calculating the cost-benefit analysis:
  • co-existence between IMS and legacy networks
  • IMS migration
• Selling the IMS initiative to managemen t: how can ROI be ensured in the short and long term
• Implications of TISPAN - relevant standards for the fixed world

• Reviewing the business case for Fixed-Line / cable operator s: what is the role of IMS?
• Devices for the residential and enterprise marketplac e: dual mode handset capabilities
• Analysing the key technology enabler s: Voice Call Continuity (VCC) & Packet Data Gateway (PDG)
• Migrating to IMS from legacy infrastructur e: softswitch, PSTN, etc
• Overcoming traversal problems pertaining to Nat and firewall

• Reviewing the progress of IMS standardisation: architecture, services, devices
• Analysing 3GPP Release 8 and common IMS specifications
• Interoperability betweenmulti-vendor equipment and solutions: how are standards being reflected here?
• How is the development of standards driving the rapidity of IMS adoption

• Evolving existing billing architectures for the IMS environmen t: what migration strategies should be in place?
• Elaborating on real time billingmodel s: what are the possibilities?
• Upgrade vs. installing new IMS billing elements
• Extending SDP to OSS/BSS integrationmodels
• Harmonising subscribermanagement across TMF and TISPAN
• Critical factors in IDmanagement,modelling and activation of system components
• The unified bil l: what are the benefits for both operators and customer?

• AAA as themechanismto transfer charging information to the billing system
• What are the requirements for AAA to exist within the IMS billing system
• Bridging ID Management and the IMS architecture
• Integrating disparate customer data sources for datamarketing and sales
• Methodologies for secured and flexible authentication
• Understanding the role of the HSS and how operators canmanage data across domains

• Understanding the need for operators to differentiate between service and session type
• Exploring product portfoliomanagement, subscriber provisioning and self-care, session QoS management and real-time rating aspects
• Translating QoS to Qo E: how can the process be controlled and measured, MOS scoring, service latency, etc
• Identifying where problems will occur in access, transport and core area s: how do operators overcome denial of service attacks in an IMS environment?
• Securing interconnection with web service s: integrating 3rd parties, closed vs opened gardens

• Examining customer needs for IMS-enabled device s: to what extent does this help in stimulating usage?
• Assessing the impact of Web 2.0 services on handset capabilities
• IMS service creation and delivery across all device s: how soon will this be a reality?
• Elaborating on SIP developments and how this is reflected across multi-handsetmanufacturers
• Should the industry agree on a common set of requirements that will enable compliance for future IMS devices?

• Reviewing industry trends
• Requirements for effective delivery of servic e: enterprise, multi datausers
• The importance of self care and diagnostic s: security, features update
• Impacting the network with the client framework and standard
• Achieving customer needs and expectations with an end-end experience