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Welcome to Rich Communication 2010!

The 2009 event has now taken place and was very well received, for more details please download the post show report. If you would like to discuss participation options for the 2010 event please contact sarah.northwood@informa.com

Informa is pleased to present the third annual Rich Communications Summit, taking place November 16-17 in Barcelona. The event brings together the principal operators, application developers, vendors, handset providers and analysts of the GSMA RCS initiative and beyond.

The past 12 months has seen some fascinating developments in the area of rich communications with various trials taking place and more tests planned in the near future. This year′s conference will analyse these RCS trials and deployments as well as considering the wider rich communication universe with case study examples from the industry’s leading operators.

What can we learn from already launched rich communication services? What are the main obstacles to wide-spread adoption and what is the future of rich communication?

Advisory Board:

• Pamela Clark-Dickson, Senior Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media
• Aude Pichelin, Chair, RCS; Head of Multimedia Services Standardisation, Orange France Telecom OPERATOR
• Antonella Napolitano, Architecture & Service Platforms Director, Telecom Italia Mobile OPERATOR
• Mila Milenkovic, Head of B2B Partnerships, Business Models Development, Telecom Serbia OPERATOR
• Mark Chin, Technology Strategy Manager, Messaging and Services, Telus OPERATOR
• Andrea Bellocchi, Network Planning Manager (Core & IMS), Wind OPERATOR

2010 Speaker include:

• Eduardo Alonso, Technical Channel Manager & Solutions Architect, Acme Packet
• Dimitri Repinec, Product management - Mobile Data, BICS
• John Darnbrough, Market Development Manager, GSMA
• Eric Ho, CTO - International Market, HUAWEI
• Diane Myers, Directing Analyst, Service Provider VoIP and IMS, Infonetics
• Pamela Clark-Dickson, Senior Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media
• Aude Pichelin, Chair, RCS; Head of Multimedia Services Standardisation, Orange France Telecom OPERATOR
• Guy Redmill, Managing Director, Redmill Communications
• Wooyong Choi, IMS Project Senior Manager, SK Telecom OPERATOR
• Richard Collins, Technology Manager – Data Communications, Symbian Foundation
• Antonella Napolitano, Architecture & Service Platforms Director, Telecom Italia Mobile OPERATOR
• Mila Milenkovic, Head of B2B Partnerships, Business Models Development, Telecom Serbia OPERATOR
• Zeljko Janosevic, Head, Mobile Network Services Planning & Development, Telecom Serbia OPERATOR
• Mark Chin, Technology Strategy Manager, Messaging and Services, Telus OPERATOR
• Thomas Magedanz, University Professor / Director of Competence Center, TU Berlin / Fraunhofer Fokus

The preliminary conference agenda has been put together through extensive research with a wide variety of industry experts and the assistance of our esteemed advisory board – view the highlights here.

2010 Agenda highlights include:

• The completed French trials – what worked, what didn′t and what is the future?
• RCS is here – South Korea′s RCS deployment
• Justifying the business case for deploying rich communication services
• RCS as the natural evolution to LTE & 4G
• End user perspectives – what services do users want and how to better raise awareness of RCS
• Handset vendors and operators – working together to facilitate RCS deployments
• Deploying rich communication solutions on non-IMS networks
• Video telephony – what is its potential and how important is this to the future of rich communication?
• Ensuring RCS messaging is not in isolation
• Overcoming delivery challenges to provide the best customer experience
• Facilitating interoperability and lowering the development effort needed by service providers
• RCS Cloud / RCS as a Service (RCSaaS)
• Analysing the business case for cable operators deploying RCS
• Rich communication and social networking interoperability
• Rich Communication industry survey – Analysing the key findings
• RCS in the business environment – Business Communication Suite (BCS)