Carrier Community (CC) a global telecom club established in 2008, organising its 2nd specialized and hybrid CC- TIS 2021 event on the 29th and 30th of September 2021 in Rome hosted by Sparkle. Venue to be confirmed soon and shared. Should the event be rescheduled as a result of a pandemic, the CC Team will notify its members early enough with new alternative date. For more information please feel free to contact our team at [email protected].
During these two days leading industry telco and ICT players came together to learn, share, shape industry and network while discussing market relevant digital transformation trends and development related with the telecom infrastructure such as Submarine, Connectivity, Security, Datacenter landscape, Internet Xchange and Wholesale Digital Transformation. The event focused predominantly on infrastructure and content, and convene more than 200+ global companies in segments such as: Data/ Capacity, Submarine, Content Providers, Technology Providers, Internet Exchanges (IX), Security, Datacenters, Cloud and other related segments. CC members, partners and experts join to accelerate innovation and agility in a hybrid world and do real business. Moreover, all on-demand keynote presentations and knowledge sharing discussion panel Sessions are broadcasted and accessible over our online CC- Media Portal/ CC-Webinar.live gallery platform to join and watch. During the summit CC provided access to the online meeting, contact and messaging tool and sponsorship branding opportunities. The annual CC-TIS 2021 Summit will take place live in Rome. To view the post event guide and statistics, please scroll down this page.
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Wednesday, September 28
20:00 - 22:00 (CET Time Zone)
Pre-Event Networking Get-together with Drinks
Thursday, September 29
08:30 - 09:30 (CET Time Zone)
Registration-Morning Coffee Networking Reception
09:45 - 10:15 (CET Time Zone)
10:15 - 11:15 (CET Time Zone)
Key-Note Speeches & Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session
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Topic: How submarine cables support the digital transformation trend?
• Current market challenges and strategic opportunities
• What are key drivers for new system conception? How much new routes are relevant?
• Why partnerships are important in submarine development?
• Infrastructure planning and investment
• Lean in and invest in 5G or wait and upgrade?
• What is the outlook for Submarine builders and vendors?
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Moderator |
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10:30 – 11:15 |
Executive Round Table Discussion |
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Panellist: coming soon
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11:40 - 12:30 (CET Time Zone)
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session
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Topic: How will 5G change wholesale industry today and tomorrow? The Wait is Over, Understanding the Impact on our business and life from both positive and negative sides.
• Where are we with latency reduction?
• What are the security concerns we should consider now?
• Resource decisions—private LTE or 5G?
• Will spectrum sharing enhance prospects in emerging markets?
• Emerging technologies beyond 5G
Moderator |
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11:40 – 12:30 |
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session |
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14:00 - 14:40 (CET Time Zone)
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session
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Topic: Internet Exchanges and neutral colocation
• IXPs and natural disaster response
• Working towards enabling environments and Cloud Platforms
• The role of ISP for enterprise
Moderator |
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14:00 – 14:40 |
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session |
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15:30 - 16:30 (CET Time Zone)
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session
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Topic: Data Centers At the Forefront of the Vision of a Data-driven World
- Facing the speed to market challenges
- Keeping your cool about rising costs from climate change
- Virtualization, AI and machine learning—potential disruption?
- How will data centres continue to build on the subsea cable boom?
- The current state and trends for sustainable solutions and green data centers
- Sustainability as a basic foundation of datacentre operators’ corporate strategies, differentiation and competitive advantage
- How does Green Financing help datacentre operators to meet their long-term sustainability goals?
- What are the main obstacles operators face in implementing sustainable data center solutions
- How the operators need to facilitate the new financial structures, to attract green financing?
- How will the appetite for green data centers change in future and what are the main trends to follow?
Moderator |
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15:30 – 16:30 |
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session |
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16:00 - 16:45 (CET Time Zone)
Networking Drink Reception
19:00 - 21:30 (CET Time Zone)
Official Evening Welcome Networking Reception
Friday, September 30
08:30 - 09:30 (CET Time Zone)
Registration-Morning Coffee Networking Reception
10:00 - 11:00 (CET Time Zone)
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session
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Topic: Cybersecurity at the Forefront
• New challenges for Cybersecurity: how new technologies (IOT, Big Data, 5G…) will change the security arena and the “fights” between attackers and defenders?
• Current main challenges for Operators to defend their infrastructures and services
• Main opportunities for Operators to improve or develop focused propositions to be provided to their customers
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Moderator |
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10:15 – 11:00 |
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session |
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Panellist: Sparkle, details coming soon
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12:30 - 14:00 (CET Time Zone)
Networking Session and Lunch Break
16:00 - 17:00 (CET Time Zone)
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session
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Topic: Wholesale Industry in a data hungry age - Challenges and opportunities.
• How the fast Digital Transformation impacts traditional carrier business models?
• New Business strategies, structures and how they reshape businesses?
• How new technologies reshape the products & services being developed?
• Constraints and challenges limited by current technologies?
• Building New Networks with SDN & NFV
• Betting on virtualized networks—what’s the impact?
• Partnering vs buying cloud expertise, pros and cons
• Moving to the cloud-revenue opportunities
Moderator |
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16:00 – 17:00 |
Executive Round-table Panel Discussions Session |
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17:00 - 17:30 (CET Time Zone)
Official GCCM Closure