Research & Consulting Director, Telecommunications Group IDC CEMA

Mohsen Malaki joined IDC in May 2001 and is based in IDC CEMA's headquarters in Prague , Czech Republic . As Research & Consulting Director of IDC's CEMA Telecommunications Group, Mr. Malaki is responsible for the strategic development of methodologies and tools, as well as research guidance and consulting engagements of IDC in the telecommunications markets in the CEMA region (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa ). His areas of expertise are channel strategy, product and service positioning and strategy in the wireline voice and data businesses.

Mr. Malaki has a wealth of experience in strategic consulting projects within the Middle East region: he has consulted to organizations such as Qatar Telecom, Integrated Networks, Cisco Systems, Siemens, ZTE, TECOM (Dubai's EITC), among others.

Policy Analyst within the Strategy and Policy Unit of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

  Ms. Sund is actively involved in ITU's activities related to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Next Generation Networks (NGN), Internet Governance, Spam and Cybersecurity in a variety of capacities, ranging from policy research to organizing technical workshops and international conferences.

Ms. Sund's research interests further include business development and process optimization, the Internet of Things, and how to build confidence and trust in the use of ICTs.

Ms. Sund holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management (United States of America), an undergraduate degree in economics from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland) and diplomas from the University of Hong Kong and Beijing Language and Culture University (People's Republic of China).

Senior Manager, Fixed Mobile Convergence FMC), Nokia Networks

Mr Ilkka Lakaniemi, is responsible for FMC and Fixed-to-Mobile Substitution (FMS) analysis, media and regulatory relations at Nokia Networks. He worked for Nokia Ventures 2000-2003 in charge of business environment analysis for socio-economic issues.

He is a Visiting Professor/Lecturer at the Emirates Centre for Entrpreneurship, Helsinki School of Economics and Victoria University in Australia .

He is also an Industrial Fellow at the Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA). Prior to Nokia, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and a Research Associate at the World Institute for Development Economic Research at the United Nations University .

Vice-Chairman for the MPLS Application and Deployment Working Group of MFA

Mr. Nikhil Shah brings more than a decade of industry experience to Juniper Networks where he is a Director with mobile group and involved with defining strategy, product portfolio and partnerships initiatives in the area of IMS/FMC and mobile carrier solutions. He also serves as the Vice-Chairman for the MPLS Application and Deployment Working Group of MFA (MPLS/FrameRelay/ATM) Forum since July'03. ( www.mfaforum.org ). His current focus includes efficient mobility backhaul/RAN transport, QoS aware multi-service transport for IMS while working with Juniper's strategic partners. Mr. Shah is veteran participant in standards bodies and has spoken at various industry events.

Prior to Juniper, Nikhil held various engineering and management positions at Lucent Technologies, Cabletron, Zeitnet (an ATM switching start-up), Tata Consultancy Services and ISRO, India . Mr. Shah received his Bachelor and Masters degree in Computer Science from Gujarat and Bombay Universities . He also holds diploma in Business Management from Bombay and also completed Greater Boston Executive Program at MIT Sloan School of Cambridge, MA.

Head of Technical Sales Core Departments at Siemens Communications Mobile Networks

Head of Technical Sales Core Departments at Siemens Communications Mobile Networks in Dubai Regional Head Quarters.

Hamadi Baklouti Graduated in Information Technology in quality of SW Designing Engineer, He spent 8 years working for Siemens as Technical Sales Manager in Fixed Networks technologies in Tunisia 2000, He moved to Dubai to work for Siemens Center of Competence for Middle east region in quality of Technical Consultant for Mobile Core technologies. During this period, He exercised Product and Solution consultant roles throughout the Middle East Region. Currently, He is leading Technical Sales Core Department at Siemens Communications Mobile Networks in Dubai Regional Head Quarters.

The Subject will be (please let me know which one is more suitable) 9. Wireless technology networks integration and their impact on FMC OR 12. Case study - Successful FMC launching experience : Netherlands

Director, Huawei FMC/IMS Planning & Solution

With over 10 year's telecom R&D and Marketing experience as a senior engineer in Huawei, currently Mr. Chang is the director of Huawei FMC/IMS Marketing Department, with responsibilities including FMC/IMS technology trend research, product planning, solution design and promotion. He previously worked in mobile product R&D, Switching/NGN product R&D in Huawei Technologies, and has solid experience on network convergence.

Contact Details

Email: zhangchunli@huawei.com

Phone: +86 755 2878 6798

Address: Huawei Industrial Campus, Bantian, Longgang, Shenzhen 518129, P.R. China

Jean-Luc Scherer is a member of Ericsson's Technical Sales Support organization in the Middle East Region.

Mr Scherer held various system and product management positions within the company and has been in charge

of Ericsson's IMS e-2-e characteristics for both Fixed and Wireless solutions. Mr Scherer holds a M.Sc in Discrete

Principal Consultant Convergys EMEA

  Mervyn Wingfield has more than 35 years experience in software development & deployment in different parts of the world, and has played a leading role in a number of major software projects, including several with multinational partners. Since the end of 1992 he has been working in the area of Telecomms Customer Care & Billing Systems.

He is currently (since 1998) a Principal Consultant in Convergys EMEA (previously Geneva Technology), where his main areas of expertise are Customer Care & Billing Solution Architecture, related Business Processes, Product Definition & Configuration and System Implementation. Most recently he has been involved in several large project & solution definition studies for operators in all of the fixed line, mobile, IP and cable/pay TV areas.

Prior to joining Convergys/Geneva he worked for Logica, where from 1995 he was a Principal Consultant in their International Business Unit for Mobile Telephony.

Lars Theobaldt is Managing Partner with Detecon

He has 18 years of truly international experience in what we call Information & Communication (ICT) Industry, today

He started in market research during 1987, analysing the effects of reregulation and privatizations on mobile communications and value-added network services.

In 1994, he moved to the ICT-consultancy practice of an international management consultancy company, participating in a large variety of international projects for top management; i.e. market entry strategies & roll outs, turnaround management, executive sales & account management programs or the implementation of innovation & portfolio-management.

Lars is with Detecon International GmbH since 1999. The Key Qualification of his Group center around the following skills

Building-up Marketing & Sales Organizations

Executing Marketing & Account Planning

Strategic and operational Portfolio Management

Developing innovative products (especially in the field of 'ICT-Convervence')

Lars initiated Detecon's multidisciplinary Expert Team on "Fixed-Mobile Convergence" and is heading it since 2002.

Managing consultant for Telco Strategies at Detecon International

Dr. Sven Rohte studied Business at the Universities of Marburg and Trier ( Germany ) with a specialty in strategic management and organization. He is a managing consultant for Telco Strategies at Detecon International and established the Abu Dhabi branch office over the last two year.

Over more than 8 years he has played an important role in the development of corporate strategy and organizational developments for companies in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Golf Region.

In the course of his work he has been responsible for a number of restructuring projects in the international telco business. In recent assignments he was involved in designing organizational structures for telcos to better deploy FMC services.

Nicolas MERCOUROFF is VP Fixed-Mobile Convergence at Alcatel

Since 2005, Nicolas MERCOUROFF is VP Fixed-Mobile Convergence at Alcatel. In this role, he is responsible for global coordination of Alcatel strategy and program regarding convergence, in particular fixed-mobile convergence and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem).

Previously, Nicolas Mercouroff graduated in France from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1986 with an engineering degree and a PhD in Computer Science completed in France and in Cambridge (US).

He joined Alcatel in 1991, where he led several research projects, and the Alcatel NGN multimedia program since 2001.

Vice President of Sales

Vice President of Sales, is responsible for the development, implementation and success of Kineto's European sales strategy. Most recently Mr. Schmid was founder and CEO of eyeP Media, and a leading vendor of voice and video over IP client software, where he was responsible for the company's success with major European and North American service providers such as British Telecom.

Manager- NGN and Converged Networks Technical Sales Support

Taqi Baig is the Manager for Technical Sales Support for Next Generation and Converged Networks in the MEA (Middle East and Africa) region. Prior to his international assignments in Lucent MEA, Taqi was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff with Lucent Bell Labs at Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. His major interest areas include the Next Generation Network infrastructure and data/voice convergence. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.