9:30 am

Registration & Welcome Tea/Coffee

10.00 am

Opening Remarks and Welcome Address, IDC India

10.15 am

Convergence and the Mobile Device

Parijat Chakraborty, Associate Vice President, User, Communications and Verticals Research, IDC India

The once-humble cell phone has emerged as the singular laboratory for testing the limits of technological convergence. Driven by digitization, and aided by advances in processing and display technologies, as well as improvements in memory and miniaturization, the cell phone has increasingly appropriated key attributes of many useful consumer devices, from music players and radios to digital cameras and television, to emerge as the mobile device of choice. However, the proliferation of access technologies and the advent of network convergence - that allows multiple access technologies to be tied to a common network core - has created the impetus for many consumer devices themselves to be directly connected to the network. This presentation discusses the implications that this convergence has for the world of mobile devices, and how the mobile device once known as the cell phone is constantly evolving to contend with emerging technological and business realities.

10.45 am

Managing Security for the Mobile Workforce

Haridas Nair, Director - Emerging Technologies, Information Technology Solutions Group, Sybase, Inc.

According to IDC, insufficient security is among the Top 3 reasons cited by enterprises in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), which prevented them from deploying enterprise mobility in their organization. 

As mobile technology drives the next wave of enterprise computing, your management and security requirements cross new boundaries and invoke a whole new set of challenges that need to be addressed. At the same time, you must ensure your mobile workers have the information they need – when they need it.

If your success depends on having the right strategy and solutions in place to control your mobile deployments without compromising productivity or security, then you’ll be interested in the following information on Mobile Management and Security. 

In this session, we will highlight the risks and exposures that mobile data and devices face, and address how companies should advantageously manage and secure them. We will also discuss effective management and security solutions that companies can implement to protect data and devices without compromising the productivity and reliability of their mobile workers.

11.15 am

Networking Tea/Coffee Break

11.30 am

FMC – A Question of Security

Tony Poulos, Vice President of Strategic Relations, Asia, Reef Point Systems

"Prominent service provider standards bodies (3GPP, 3GPP2, ETSI, CableLabs) have specified security as fundamental in their next-generation Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) architectures:

• Unlicensed Mobile Access

• IP Multimedia Subsystem

• Picocells and Femtocells

• IMS over WiMAX

• Wireless LAN Access.

Operators will need to address the full set of session-oriented convergence control functions (e.g. access termination, privacy, security, policy management,

QoS) that the diverse FMC standards require:

• Mobility – deploy access control solutions for all industry standard-specified FMC architectures (i.e., IMS BGF & P-CSCF, Wireless LAN PDG, UMA and other functions)

• IP – meet high-performance and massive scalability requirements for handling FMC-based, VoIP and always-on multimedia services.

• Personalization – built-in session-aware intelligence and policy control for customized, per-subscriber services.

A typical FMC subscriber will have multiple devices (laptop, mobile phone, PDA, etc.) simultaneously registered, multiple always-on applications (VoIP, instant messaging, IP TV, web browsing, video messaging and/or gaming), as well as always constantly changing registrations when roving between CDMA/GSM and WiFi/WiMAX connections. This presentation will outline and investigate what operators will need to be aware of as they enter the FMC world of next generation networks and IMS. 

12.00 noon

Mobile Security for the CIO (TBC)

Christopher Kwok, Manager - Technical Services, Asia-Pacific, Research in Motion (TBC)

12.30 pm

Networking Lunch

01.30 pm

USERS' VOICE: Scenario of A Mobility Solution Deployment

Anil Prakash, Secretary General, Telecom User Group of India (TUGI)

02.00 pm

Interactive Panel Discussion and Q&A Session

The panel discussion will be moderated by an IDC analyst and will elaborate on the future of convergence technologies on telecommunications and the different approaches that telcos and large enterprises should take as they move ahead. Delegates would be free to question the panel members as they answer questions on the best approaches that companies should adopt.

02.30 pm

Closing Remarks and Lucky Draw - 1 no. Apple iPod to be won! 

02.40 pm

Vote of Thanks

02.45 pm

Networking Tea/Coffee Break 

03.00 pm

End of Conference

Note: Agenda details subject to change at the discretion of IDC. Topics and themes listed here are indicative.