| 08:30 am |
Reception, Registration and Welcome Coffee |
| 09:05 am |
Conference Welcome by the Informa Team |
| 09:10 am |
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Daniele Tricarico
Senior Analyst for Latin America
INFORMA TELECOMS & MEDIA |
| 09:15 am |
Overview on the Current Value Added Services
Marketplace in Different Parts of Latin America
- Number and profile of users
- Mobile online behaviour
- What kind of VAS are able to reach the consumers and
why
Mario Meirelles
Senior Analyst for Latin America
INFORMA TELECOMS & MEDIA |
| 09:45 am |
The Operator’s Importance for Content and Application Platforms’ Launch
- How can the operator aggregate value to the business
- The operator functioning as a smart-pipe
Leonardo Flory
Web & VAS IT Manager
TELECOM PERSONAL ARGENTINA |
| 10:15 am |
Staying Competitive: Deploying Hosted Messaging Solutions to Match Evolving Business Needs
- Current strategies to address next-gen technology, new services and capacity issues
- Staying competitive while minimizing capital investment and preserving resources
- Messaging solution features that help maximize ROI
- “Future-proofing” your system while leveraging existing investments
Tony Mijares
Senior Vice President, International Sales
INTEROP TECHNOLOGIES |
| 10:45 am |
Coffee sponsored by  |
| 11:15 am

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Challenges and Opportunities to Increase ARPU Through VAS
- The importance of VAS for operators’ revenues
- How did 3G change the adoption for VAS
- The types of VAS that bring the most revenue to the operators
Omar Howell
Regional Mobile VAS Product Manager
LIME CARIBBEAN
Amilkar Torres
Product Delivery Director
DIGICEL GROUP
Omar Rodriguez
Marketing Manager Mobile VAS
CABLE & WIRELESS PANAMA |
| 12:00 pm |
Digital Music and New VAS Opportunities
Juan Carlo Montoya
Regional Content Manager
IMIMOBILE |
| 12:30 pm |
SPONSOR’S PRESENTATION |
| 01:00 pm |
Lunch sponsored by and exhibition visit |
| 02:30 pm |
Service Assurance: Not Only for VAS, but for Mobile Services in General
- Assurance of services based on the e-TOM model
- Assurance of services based on the ITU-T recommendations
- Services assurance management according to ICE’s (Instituto Costarricense de Eletricidad) best practices
José Chanquín Zuñiga
Telecommunication’s Services Division
ICE |
| 03:00 pm |
How Operators are Driving VAS Revenues Through Personalization
Matt Anderson
Product Marketing manager
AMDOCS INTERACTIVE |
| 03:30 pm |
Quality of Service on VAS and the Expected Revenue - Entel Bolivia’s Case Study
- VAS on the market
- How can you measure the mobile VAS quality? What does the client expect?
- Identification and definition of the associated costs
- Fulfilment of the commercial objective for the company
- When does a service cease to be a value added one?
Silvia Agudo
Revenue & Quality Assurance and Antifraud Strategies Specialist
ENTEL S.A. BOLIVIA |
| 04:00 pm |
Coffee sponsored by  |
| 04:30 am

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Mobile TV , IPTV and Video in General: How are the Operators Looking Into These Applications?
- The potential and present situation of this services in the region
- Availability issues
- Taking the most of these new ways of increasing revenues
Omar Howell
Regional Mobile VAS Product Manager
LIME CARIBBEAN |
| 05:00 pm |
The Exponential Growth of Mobile Internet and How Can it Increase your Revenue
- The present and future perspectives of mobile Internet
- The stimulation of the market brought by 3G, WiFi and smart phones
- Stimulating more subscribers to utilizing the mobile Internet to increase ARPU and making it a must-have service
Omar Rodriguez
Marketing Manager Mobile VAS
CABLE & WIRELESS PANAMA |
| 05:30 pm |
End of Conference Day 1 |