Greetings! 

In this week's edition of Telco 2.0 Update, we focus on our Autumn/Fall event series and research agenda, featuring:

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Disruptive Threats: dealing with Google, Apple, Facebook, Skype and Amazon

As part of our H2 strategy report on 'Dealing with the Disruptors' we're conducting a major online survey on the threats and opportunities presented. Take part and we'll send you the results and offer a discount on the finished report for you and your organization. We'll also be sharing some of the findings at our events. (More)

 
New Digital Economics Americas Brainstorm - 'M-Commerce 2.0'
5-6th October, New York '
 

New opportunities in advertising, payments & customer experience

Telco 2.0 analysis, conducted with the World Economic Forum, shows that there are significant opportunities for telcos, mediacos, banks, brands and retailers to create new payments and advertising services as well as richer customer experiences. (More)

 
 

FCC, Amex, Mastercard, Citi and Visa join leading Telcos

The event will be stimulated by 30 leading industry figures from FCC, Amex, MasterCard, Citi, Visa, Harvard, MIT, Telco 2.0 Initiative, Telefonica, Cisco, Ericsson... (more). Keynote speakers include:

   
Dickson Chu
Managing Director, Global Enterprise Payments
Citi
  Bill Gajda
Head of Global Mobile Product
Visa Inc
  Paul de Sa
Chief of Strategic
Planning & Policy
FCC

Co-located with the World Economic Forum strategists meeting and sited at the New York Westin Hotel, 5th-6th October, this event will use new analysis and STL's unique interactive 'Mindshare' format' to bring together senior execs to think creatively about new growth opportunities in TMT.

Register here online, or call +44 (0) 207 247 5003 / email contact@stlpartners.com.

 
New Digital Economics EMEA Brainstorm
8th-9th November, London

Senior Keynote speakers from Vodafone, Orange, Telenor, BT, Turk Telecom

Over 60 industry leaders and subject matter from BT, Orange, Telefonica O2, Telenor, Vodafone, Turk Telecom, Everything Everywhere, Digital Entertainment 2.0 Initiative, MasterCard, Visa... (more). Keynote speakers include:

   
Albert Hitchcock
CIO
Vodafone Group
  Morten Sorby
EVP Corporate Development
Telenor Group
  Yves Maitre
SVP Mobile Multimedia and Devices
Orange
 
 
 

Strategy 2.0: smart customer experience, and the end of voice and text?

This stream focuses on the challenges of defending and replacing voice and text revenues, and includes: NFC - What is the business model?; Customer Experience 2.0 - Rewarding loyalty, penalizing promiscuity; Upselling with precision and panache. (More)

 
 
 

M-Commerce 2.0: MasterCard and Visa join EMEA Telcos

Building on the agenda outlined in the Americas event above, the EMEA event further explores the opportunities to harnessing personal data to revolutionize customer engagement via advertising, CRM and payments. Mobile phones are a key part of this revolution - but are telcos? (More)

 
 
 

Cloud 2.0: strategies and innovations in Cloud and Managed Services

This stream focuses on Cloud Services, and asks 'Where's the money?' and 'Will telcos play a pivotal role?' Following on from our research Cloud 2.0: Telcos to grow Revenues 900% by 2014, we present an update on the latest strategies and innovations in Cloud and Managed Services; PaaS, SaaS, NaaS; Billing-as-a-Service; CDNs and ADNs and Federated Assets. (More)

 
 
 

M2M 2.0: Business model innovation in M2M

Following our analysis in M2M 2.0: Market, Business Models, and Telcos' Role(s), this session, produced in collaboration with Beecham Research, further explores M2M Service Enablers (which we see as key to enhanced M2M profitability and market growth), M2M Business Models, and service enablers for the Connected Home. (More)

 
 
 

Digital Entertainment 2.0: video lessons from America

A special half day workshop from the Digital Entertainment 2.0 Initiative and TDG including sessions on: evolving licensing models from studios (windowing strategies, exclusivity, pricing); new consumption models (detailed analysis of Netflix and TV Everywhere); and new devices (SWOT analysis of Smart TVs, Game Consoles, STBs, DVRs, Blu-ray Players.) (More)

 
New Digital Economics APAC Exec Forum
30 November - 1 December, Singapore
 

Accelerating New Growth Opportunities in Telecoms, Media and Tech

We're running our first APAC brainstorm 30 November - 1 December, at the Capella Resort, Singapore, in partnership with CSG International. This invitation only two day event focuses on strategies that accelerate new growth opportunities and business model innovation with a focus on the APAC region. (More)

 
Telco 2.0: Best Practice Live!
On-Demand Access to 60 Exclusive Video Presentations
 

Our online 'virtual event' platform 'Telco 2.0 Best Practice Live!' provides free, on-demand access to 60 exclusive video presentations including senior execs from Amazon, AT&T, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Google, Harvard, Lightsquared, LoveFiLM, Oi Paggo, Telco 2.0 Initiative, Telecom Italia, Telenor, Telus, Vodafone, World Economic Forum, Yota... (More)

NB Free registration and login required to view these videos

 
 

China Mobile's awesome no.s; the 'HP-ocalypse'; Apple turns bear?

  • Strategy & Finance: China Mobile: 7.4 million iPhones and no contract with Apple (yet)
  • Technology Disruptions: HP cans TouchPad, Symbian-ises WebOS, sells PC business
  • Devices: Apple, HTC cut chip orders as Recession 2.0 approaches
  • Online Video: Fascinating report from Akamai
  • Voice 2.0: New Walkman phone with “annoy dad” button, Skype camera

More on these stories and other news here.

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