300+ attendees at IMS 2.0 World Forum 2008!
  
The three day multi-stream event brought together the key players in the whole value chain including service providers of all types and sizes, telecom and IT solution providers and application developers.

Delegates had much to hear and discuss, ranging from the ways to open up the service providers' network resources to external development, the dynamics and tensions between IMS, SOA and Web 2.0 to the debate around charging and billing in an IMS environment. The need for standards' consolidation was much at the centre of the debate with Philippe Lucas, VP International Standards at Orange FT Group calling for a simplification and 'de-fragmentation' of standards' bodies and activities. 

On Wednesday 23rd the Rich Communication Suite Initiative (RCS), held in the exhibition area live interoperability demonstrations of IMS based features such as enriched call, enhanced phonebook and enhanced messaging.  The RCS Initiative is the joint effort of leading industry players including amongst others Ericsson, Telefonica, Orange FT and TeliaSonera to speed up and facilitate the adoption of applications and services that provide an interoperable, convergent, rich communication
experience. 

Countries in attandance included:

Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Russian Fed., Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, UAE

Conference papers now available:

If you were unable to attend but would like to purchase a copy of the IMS 2.0 World Forum 2008 conference papers please contact Daniel Cole at: daniel.cole@informa.com

Make Sure You're There Next Year...
Date for the Diary!

IMS 2.0 World Forum 2009
28th- 30th April 2009
Hotel AB Skipper, Barcelona, Spain
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With 300+ attendees at IMS 2.0 World Forum 2008 alone, the IMS series remains THE PLACE to meet key decision makers and influence the future direction of the market. 

Sponsors and Exhibitors already signed up for IMS 2.0 World Forum 2009 include:

• Openet
• Smith Micro Software

To join this exciting line-up and for further information on sponsorship and exhibition opportunities contact Nick Wilkins on +44 (0)20 7017 5259 or alternatively by email at
nick.wilkins@informa.com

The next stop in the IMS World Series is 'IMS Asia' in Singapore's Grant Hyatt Hotel on 14th & 15th May 2008.  For more information please click here

The next European stop in the IMS World Series will be IMS 2.0 Rich Communication, 1–2 October 2008.  To receive a brochure please email Daniel Cole at daniel.cole@informa.com or for more information please click here