Apps & Telco APIs 2.0: their role vs. Facebook, Skype and iMessage

Smartphone apps, and in future HTML5 web apps, present new distribution opportunities for telco services including voice, messaging, and payments, as long as developers are motivated to use telco APIs. How should telcos approach the 'App Economy' to best defend existing revenues and develop new opportunities? (More)

Telefonica's BlueVia Platform: Strategy and early progress

Jose Valles, Head of BlueVia, and Director of Enabling Platforms in Telefonica, discusses the role of BlueVia in facilitating access for tens of thousands of developers to Telefonica's assets via APIs. In this short video, Jose describes the business model, and outlines some early results and use cases. (Register and view here)

Developer's view: why BlueVia is radically different

Tom Hume, CEO of Future Platforms, a leading mobile app developer, gives his view on why BlueVia is radically different proposition to developers from what already exists, and outlines real world use cases. (Register and view here)

WAC CEO: developing the cross-industry API platform

The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) is an important cross-industry initiative to facilitate app development and commercialisation. Peters Suh, CEO WAC, presented at our spring brainstorm in Palo Alto, covering the origins and role of the WAC and discussing its progress since launch. (Register and view here)

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.

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)

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)

Connected TV: Forecast and Winners

Our in-depth look at one of Europe's most competitive digital TV markets which reflects many global trends, such as competition between different types of content distributor (loveFilm, YouTube, Virgin Media, BBC, BSkyB, BT, etc.), channel proliferation, new devices used for viewing, and the increasing prevalence of connected TVs. What are the key trends and who will be the winners and losers? (More)

Mobile CDNs and video distribution

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are becoming familiar in the fixed broadband world as a means to improve the experience and costs of delivering bulky data like online video to end-users. Is there now a compelling need for their mobile equivalents, and if so, should operators partner with existing players or build / buy their own? (more)

Strategy 2.0: The Six Key Telco 2.0 Opportunities

A summary of the six Telco 2.0 opportunities to transform telco's business models for success in an IP-based, post PSTN world: Core Services, Vertical Solutions, Infrastructure Services, Embedded Communications, 3rd Party Enablers, and Own Brand OTT Services. It includes an extract from the Roadmap to New Telco 2.0 Business Models, updates on latest developments, and feedback from over 500 senior TMT industry execs. (more)

M2M 2.0: the Money's in 'Enablers'

Our latest report on M2M 2.0 covers: M2M market growth, structure and dynamics; business models; the best role(s) for telcos; and leading thinking from Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telenor, KPN and Swisscom. It describes how 'Service Enablers' are key to the telco opportunity in M2M in addition to connectivity. (more)

Apple iCloud/iOS: Killing SMS Softly?

Our analysis of how Apple's iCloud, iOS5, and MacOS developments build value and control for Apple's digital platform, and their consequences on other parts of the digital ecosystem, including the impact of iMessage on text messaging. (more)

Strategy 2.0: What Skype + Microsoft Means for Telcos

In theory, Microsoft and Skype together have the resources, the brands, the customer base and the know-how to shape the future of telecoms and become a strategic counterweight to Apple and Google. Can they do it - and what should telcos' strategies be? (more)

Cloud 2.0: Telcos to grow Revenues 900% by 2014

Telcos should grow Cloud Services revenues nine-fold and triple their overall market share in the next three years according to delegates at the May 2011 EMEA Executive Brainstorm. But which are the best opportunities and strategies? (more)