Official Networking Evening Drink Reception with drinks, canapés, DJ and Show(OUTDOOR TBC)
Carrier Community (CC), a global telecom club established 2008. CC is organising its 7th annual CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE 2020 GCCM – Berlin 25th & 26th August 2020 at the Berlin Marriott Hotel for its members with the below features and activities. Five hundred+ member executives representing decision makers from 250+ telco operators in 50+ countries will convene in Berlin to network and do business.
CC will bring together members and Telco Eco-Partners from various segments such as Data, Cloud, Application Providers, Voice, SMS Messaging , Mobile, OTT/ Content Providers, VAS, Submarine Cable, Enterprise, Satellite, ISP, Data Centers and other related segments while enabling them all to meet, network with peers and explore new business opportunities, discuss latest market trends at the knowledge sharing/executive panel sessions and showcase their latest product launches. Members can also use the online meeting portal to directly schedule individual meetings with attendees.
The CC team is also organizing its 3rd annual CC-SMS Messaging Summit – Germany, Berlin to be held the 24th and 25th of August 2020 at the Berlin Marriott Hotel in a different ballroom (please view here the past event highlights and contact our team for more information on registration at [email protected]). The 4th annual CC Global 2020 Awards (CCGA) Berlin will take place on 25th August 2020. To view more details, please click here. The annual CDO-Breakfast Summit will take place on 26th August 2020, please click here to view the past event highlights.
All CEE 2020 GCCM registered members and partners have full access to the below highlighted features and activities in Berlin:
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Based at Lago di Como in Italy, VSC provides strategic advisory services in M&A, Business Development & Media for the telecommunication industry. Over the last 25 years, Erik developed extensive expertise and deep domain knowledge working at major telecom companies. His international career includes senior & executive level positions. Over the years, Erik has been a regular speaker & moderator at major international telecom conferences.
An expert in wholesale voice and SMS messaging with over 20 years’ experience in the telecom industry as former VP of Sales & Carrier Relations at tyntec, one of the largest A2P SMS service providers globally and as Regional Manager at Verizon where he headed up a team responsible for international voice services in Europe. José also previously managed operator relations in Central and Southern Europe for Netsize, a Gemalto company. José holds a degree in business administration from the Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M.
Specialties:
Launch SMS services / Shift from Voice to Messaging / A2P SMS Monetization / MNO revenue assurance / SMS platforms / P2P SMS Cost optimization / Training Sales and Carrier Relations / Wholesale Voice / VoIP / Integration of Operators, Carriers, Aggregators into value chain of OTT services / Off-net connectivity for OTT services.
Andreas Constantinides is a messaging consultant with expertise in SMS & OTT messaging. He is a sales-oriented person, passionate for high value customer service performance, with significant distinctions in training, marketing and customer service. He is a qualified Professional Business Trainer of National Organization for the Certification of Qualifications & Vocational Guidance and author of numerous best-seller Sales books and manuals.
Mrs. Schönborn studied Computer Science at the Berlin Technical University and worked as a businesswoman since being a student. She founded and raised an IT-Consulting Company in 1994, a town-planning and smart city company in 1999 and an innovation and digital transformation consultancy in 2012.
After working with the newest technology trends for over 25 years, now Mrs. Schönborns focus is on empowering the digital readiness. She works as a consultant for the Management to find new Business Models and empower the employees for the change process. She leads towards a new vision, sets up the Digital Office and she is one of the few experts that train the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) in leading the digital transformation. Mrs Schoönborn loves to think different, out-of-the-box, unconventional and lateral to find new insights and solutions for processes and the way people collaborate. easily, agile and successful.
Melvin de Jonge is senior product manager in the Marketing division, dealing with the development and go-to-market of wholesale services for Mobile Operators worldwide, that vary from pure connectivity to disruptive solutions as Big Data reporting tools and security/protection services.
Prior to joining Sparkle, he worked for TIM Group from 1998 to 2009 gaining a deep experience in mobile value added services for retail markets in Italy and abroad. He was appointed in several marketing roles as innovation specialist, product manager and customer base analyst.
He started his career as an ICT consultant at KPN in The Netherlands.
Melvin holds an MSc in Econometrics & Operations Research from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).
Daniel is a co-founder of Preiskel & Co and has over 20 years’ experience working in the telecoms, media and technology sectors, advising across the globe. He has been ranked for over 15 years in major independent research guides as one of the world’s leading communications lawyers.
He is particularly recognised for commercial and regulatory work in the UK and overseas. He also advises various clients (including a major Korean handset manufacturer) on international investments and acquisitions as well as on major privatisations. Recent work includes advising a group of mobile operators and content providers in reversing a decision of a European telecoms regulator. He has recently been advising Japanese and Middle Eastern mobile network operators on MVNOs as well as advising a range of MVNOs & MVNAs in various continents. Daniel, together with his international team, typically advises companies on the legal aspects of their multi-national services, with an increasing amount of advice on cloud issues, software as a service, privacy and data retention issues.
Daniel Preiskel has chaired and is a regular speaker at prestigious international telecoms conferences and is on the Steering Committee of the MEF Privacy in Apps Programme that has attracted a fair amount of coverage in the press.
Daniel is a founder of the International MVNOx Association and former Vice-Chair of the IBA Communications Law Group. He is a member of and provides regulatory input to the following industry associations: ISPA, ITSPA, MEF and FCS. In addition, he and his team have advised the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and some of their member companies from a cross section of industries.
Previous experience includes working as an investment banker in Deutsche Morgan Grenfell’s telecoms team and heading telecoms and technology departments at two City law firms. He has also worked in the European Commission’s Competition Directorate on anti-trust matters in the telecoms sector. In addition to his broad range of TMT sector clients, he advises companies in a range of sectors including gambling & gaming, retail, energy and sport.
He has a MA in law from Cambridge University (Jesus College), speaks seven languages and has passed the SFA investment banking exams.
As EVP Mobile Cloud, Paul leads Digitalk’s cloud-based ‘MVNE as a Service’ business unit, supporting MNOs, MVNAs and MVNOs. Paul has an extensive background in the telecoms industry, working with both operators and vendors in a range of executive roles to deliver innovative and successful communications products and services.
Miguel started in 1999 as a developer and in 2002 he co-founded an MSP in West Africa. In 2007 he also co-founded what would be the first Wi-Fi ISP in Cape Verde. Five years later, Miguel accepted the invitation from Ezelink Telecom in Dubai, to revolutionize the company strategy in the Intelligent Hotspot, IoT and Smart City solutions as Director of Technology.
Afterwards, since 2015, Miguel has been working in Silicon Valley and been involved in several projects to help Service Providers monetize their voice business. Currently, he is Vice President of Product Line Management for Applications at Enghouse .
42com Telecommunication GmbH is active in the field of retail voice, wholesale voice and switch solutions (switch partitioning). Our company provides tier-1 operators, MNOs and OTTs with stable direct routing connections in all countries around the world, especially in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Through a customized business model, Partner can choose from a selection of individual destinations and trusted global carriers and conduct operations with the highest professional standards. We also engage in bilateral trading, swap deals, and fixed-price routing.
Founded in 2002, 42com is one of the leading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) service enablers, based in Germany. In order to gain a more dynamic international presence, the founding of the subsidiary 42com International Inc. (USA) followed in 2012. We offer a highly accessible web-based customer management and billing platform for technical and managerial control of advanced telecommunications services. Our real-time billing from the cloud includes, e.g. fixed line and VoIP telephony, interactive voice response and intelligent routing management. We also offer a variety of client solutions, e.g. mobile dialer as smartphone app.
Brilliant Telecom is the provider of communications enabling Telecom operators worldwide to focus on their core strategies, performance, and growth. We carve-out and outsource the non-core International Voice & SMS business of telecom operators, boosting profits through the economy of scale.
Brilliant Telecom represents a group founded in 2006 with USD $100+ million in revenues, delivering over 3 billion minutes in 2019, present in 15 countries, and serving over 1,000 operators.
More than 50% of Mobile and National Operators in Europe and CIS countries trust Brilliant Telecom and use us as the leading hub for Russia, CIS, and European traffic.
To learn more, please visit: http://br-tel.com
Alaris Labs is an innovative dynamically growing company focused on creating advanced solutions for telecom carriers and service providers. Our expertise is based on more than 10 year experience in the telecom market accumulated by our staff and is backed by extensive knowledge of the leading-edge technology and deep insight into clients’ needs. Alaris Labs has successfully developed and implemented more than 100 projects all over the world.
Alaris SMS Platform is a multifunctional platform (SMS application server) for comprehensive SMS traffic management. It integrates various modules, i.e. routing and billing ones, with the in-house switch on top of it.
Alaris inVoice solution offers an unprecedented combination of full featured billing, flexible routing and user-friendly business process automation tools.
Telefónica International Wholesale Services provides world-class wholesale services to fixed and mobile operators, service providers, carriers and OTT-Media companies. Our global portfolio includes Voice, Carrier Enterprise, Mobile and Satellite services, innovative Digital solutions (Security, Cloud, IoT, Big Data) and end-to-end solutions for enterprises. As a leading global provider of a wide range of integrated communication solutions, Telefónica has a global footprint, with presence in over 40 countries (particularly strong in Latin America & Europe) and service reach in more than 170 countries.
For more information, please visit www.wholesale.telefonica.com
Apelby Communications
We are global telecommunications provider of carrier-to-carrier, retail and outsourcing services. Since our establishment in 2005 we have continued to grow in both and number of customers and traffic.
Apelby Communications offers complex telecommunications services to voice carriers, small and medium enterprises and business clients.
Local presence in emerging markets together with PoPs in main hubs as Frankfurt, Hong Kong or London allows our wholesale department to offer most competitive international voice services all around the globe.
We strive for excellence in quality of services provided to both retail and wholesale customers.
About Twilio
Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video, and email by virtualizing the world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.
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Millionen Entwickler auf der ganzen Welt nutzen Twilio, um das Potenzial der Kommunikation voll auszuschöpfen und Kundenbeziehungen zu stärken. Twilio macht Kommunikationskanäle wie Voice, SMS, Chat, Video und E-Mail allgemein, schnell und umfassend verfügbar. Wir virtualisieren die Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur der Welt mittels APIs, die von Entwicklern einfach zu nutzen, aber dennoch robust genug sind, um die anspruchsvollsten Anwendungen der Welt zu unterstützen. Kommunikation wird so zu einem zentralen Bestandteil des Toolkits von Softwareentwicklern. Auf diese Weise ermöglicht es Twilio Innovatoren jeder Branche – vom aufstrebenden Unternehmen bis hin zu den weltweit größten Konzernen –, die Interaktion mit Kunden völlig neu zu gestalten.
Bankai Group is a globally recognized leader in ICT and services sector, with interests in wholesale & retail Voice and Telecom Technology business. Since last 29 years, we have been instrumental in providing ultimate Voice & SMS Carrier Solutions worldwide with exceptional competence in IP interconnects. We automate the businesses of telcos, carriers, Tier 1 & 2 operators and service providers through BridgeVoice, an automated carrier platform for online trading & settlement of Voice, SMS and Unified Communications & Collaboration services. We also offer indigenously developed Mobile Finance Solutions, BSS and NSS for the telecom & VAS industry. For more information, please visit www.bankaigroup.com
Expereo is a provider of managed Internet network services, SD-WAN and Cloud Connectivity optimisation solutions. Expereo’s portfolio provides Global Internet Connectivity (GIaaS), Global Cloud Acceleration (XCA), SD-WAN Managed Services, Security and Xpertise – global professional, managed and field services for network connectivity solutions. With an unmatched global reach, Expereo powers 12,000 enterprise and government sites in 190+ countries, helping customers improve productivity and empowering their networks and cloud services with the agility, flexibility and value of the Internet, with optimal performance.
Established in the UK in 2012, Internet Mobile Communications Ltd (‘IMC’) is a FinTech and international telecommunications business. IMC has three divisions comprising International Settlements, Wholesale Carrier Services and Retail Business Solutions with presence in UK, Moldova, Chile, India and Malta. Trading under the Bank of Telecom® brand, IMC provides a rich portfolio of voice and SMS services to the global carrier community. IMC developed, owns and operates the Bank of Telecom® an automated, online trading platform with same day settlements, that is leveraged by over 1300 in international voice telecom suppliers, with 100s of routes across over 130 markets, and over 230 SMS interconnects. Bank of Telecom Members include many major PTT, MNO, MVNO and Tier1 carriers as well as hundreds of small niche telecom suppliers. Bank of Telecom is a trademark of Internet Mobile Communications Ltd. IMC also introduced in 2018 the telco industry’s first blockchain-powered International Settlements service – BoTCoin® Market – allowing telcos to take advantage to Blockchain technology to settle at a fraction of the cost and speed of Banks. IMC was named a technology provider in the Global Leaders Forum’s Communications Business Automation Network (CBAN).
Sigma Telecom was founded in 2003 to provide high-quality telecommunication infrastructure services including; optimization, planning and drive testing. In 2014 Sigma made the transition to begin providing high-quality VoIP services to telecommunication operators, suppliers and vendors worldwide.Sigma Telecom’s aim is to deliver communication products that convert communication networks via progressions in capacity.Whether the subject is improving network quality or reach, Sigma Telecom grows with a commitment toward innovation to provide its customers with the benefits of the best quality phone calls, lowest costs and flexible services.Being a trusted partner to global clients is as important to Sigma Telecom as growing the company and developing new products.Sigma Telecom always utilizes the highest quality routes available in order to provide the most efficient services to its partners.
Sigma Telecom has developed an impeccable reputation in 13 years with its global clients.
It has been a source of pride for Sigma Telecom to work with industry leaders such as China Telecom, BICS, Etisalat, TATA, Korea Telecom, iBasis, Telecom Italia, Deutsche Telecom, Turkcell, Turk Telekom and other communication services, equipment providers, governmental agencies and industry associations worldwide.
As a company, Sigma Telecom has a firm global footprint in the Telecommunications industry working with clients in over 170 countries from around the world. Our largest footprints can be seen in the Middle East and the African continent.
At Sigma Telecom we understand our clients’ business challenges, this allows us to provide advanced services and custom solutions which enables the highest quality of communication while also creating new platforms for us and our clients to grow and improve.
Our success can be attributed to a strong dedication towards the satisfaction of our partners whether we’re building a new network or extending and improving an existing one, Sigma’s commitment to it will show. In 2018, we took our place in the list of ITU (International Telecommunication Union) sector members along with other major operators of the world.
Adding our accumulated experience and the constant pursuit of innovation and technology, Telecall is now synonymous with quality and efficiency. Reference in the telecommunications segment and combined with new concepts, we are a service provider that offers complete and intelligent solutions in telephony and internet business. Ensure the best service and the lowest fares in all mobility and security that Telecall only provides for you.
For more information, please visit www.telecall.com
Türk Telekom International is 100% owned by Türk Telekom and acts as its international business unit handling all international data and wholesale voice business functions. Türk Telekom International provides single account management and unified network operations over the entire Türk Telekom International network which includes 20 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Middle East and the Caucasus, covering a full range of Internet/data services, infrastructure and wholesale voice services to incumbents, alternative carriers, mobile operators, cable TV companies, Internet service providers and corporate customers. Türk Telekom International offers premium quality telecommunication solutions in the form of: guaranteed SLA-s, local experts, dedicated staff, centralized end-to-end network management, trustworthy and reliable attitude, delivering on commitments, on-time delivery, tailor-made, scalable and cost-effective technical solutions and a proven management team with a full service portfolio. Covering over 40,000 km of fiber optic network and more than 150 interconnections worldwide TTI is one of the most important players for the global telecommunications industry. For more information, please visit www.turktelekomint.com
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