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Automated Vulnerability Assignment in DSPs Network to Reduce Remediation Time by 50%

ML-Based Capacity Prediction for CDN, with up to 80% Accuracy

Effective CI/CD Setup to Accelerate Media Services Rollout Time by 60%

Data-Driven Wizard to Improve Inventory Integrity and Arrest 90% of Errors at Source

Accelerating Optical Wave Order-to-Provisioning Time by 90% using SDN Multi-Domain-Orchestrator

360° Network Visualization to Reduce Design Rollout Time by 33%

Adaptive Approach in IT Service Management to Reduce AHT by 50%

VNF Test Automation to Accelerate Service Rollout Time by 78%

Virtual Agent Roll-out Strategy to Boost VA Containment Rate by 32%

Automation of RPA Code Review Process to Accelerate Bot Development Life-cycle by 30%

Self-Healing Tool to achieve faster automated resolution of order fallout issues

Developing Machine Learning-based Approach for Optimizing Virtual Agent Training

How to scale RPA Centre of Excellence

Transforming into a DSP In flight Engine Change

Hema Kadia

VP & Head of SDN-NFV, Strategy and Practice, Prodapt

Hema heads SDN-NFV, Strategy and Practice at Prodapt, defining solutions & service offerings, and addressing the business needs across the digital and network transformation journey. She has over 20 years of experience, with successful achievements in the IT, telecommunications and media industries.

Speaking Session – Day 1

NaaS – Transforming Management of the Network

Time: 15.00 – 15.30

Campfire Session – Day 1

Will SDN/NFV result in even more commoditization of telco services?

Time: 11.30 – 12.00

Demo Theater – Day 2

VNF test automation – developing maintainable tests

Time: 14.30 – 14.45

Digital Transformation of DSPs and the Role of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Paul Termijn

Partner, Prodapt Consulting

Paul is driven by challenges and is always focused on getting the best and ambitious results for the customers and their end customers. Over the last decade, Paul’s focus has been introducing new services, lower run rates and transforming Telcos to digital service providers. Being relation-focused, he gets the best out of people, maintains an end-to-end overview with a great attention to detail. He takes responsibility for results and steers design and development of processes, organization & IT with a healthy interest in underlying technical infrastructure along with leading Prodapt Consulting.
Prior to Prodapt, Paul was the partner of a leading-edge consulting company, which grew significantly and was also the lead architect for many CSPs such as KPN, T-Mobile NL, Belgacom, Tele2 NL, DT for BSS and OSS transformations, migrations, niche product development and multiple introductions for the business market. Prior to the consulting company, he was working for a software company and responsible for network inventory innovations on local loop and class 5 switching administration and processes.
Paul demonstrated excellent technical and consulting skills at the beginning of his career and was promoted to higher roles and functions. That also brought him a lot of formal and informal recognition. Being able to step into a consulting firm and becoming a partner within the first year, was the most important achievement of his professional life.

Speaking Session – Day 3

Customers Drive Digital Transformation

Time: 09.30 – 10.00

Flash Talks & Panel Discussion – Day 3

Building a Digital Operating Model

Time: 15.00 – 15.30

How to build a solid business case for service & network orchestrator easily

Gary Sidhu

Director, API Development & Platform Engineering, CenturyLink

Gary Sidhu is a telecommunications industry leader with 20+ years of experience in the field and a proven track-record of leading multiple-engineering teams to build start-of-the-art digital platforms. He is currently fulfilling his role as the Director of API and Microservices platform & strategy at CenturyLink. His expertise includes effective project deconstruction and budget administration, along with leading large, geographically diverse teams to achieve on-time and on-budget delivery. On top of technical prowess, he also holds great communication and organization skills, which contribute to his managerial role. Gary was a guest speaker at I love APIs conference held in Chicago.

Speaking Session – Day 1

NaaS – Transforming Management of the Network

Time: 15.00 – 15.30

Avai S

Sr. Director – NextGen Practices (Ai/ML, DevOps, Microservices & IoT) – Prodapt

Avai heads the Next-Gen Labs in Prodapt and is focused on evangelizing next-generation technology solutions for the customers involving AI/ML, Data Analytics, Big Data, Microservices etc. She has 19+ years of experience, spread across various domains/technologies like IoT/M2M, Telecom, Healthcare, AI/ML and Big Data and also significant proficiency in setting up CoE/Incubator Labs and concept-to-commercialization of end-to-end solutions in the Next-Gen areas. Avai plays a huge role in DX (digital transformation) initiatives at Prodapt and has authored many thought-leadership papers and published many articles/bogs on various global industry platforms.

Demo Theater – Day 2

AI/ML – Intelligent network monitoring

Time: 10.45 – 11.00

Prakash Ramakaimal

SVP & Head of Business Process Services & RPA – Prodapt

Prakash joined Prodapt in 2013 and is responsible for setting up business process & RPA practice area. His role is to lead the practice area & manage delivery for various engagements. He is responsible for P&L, Delivery, ESAT, CSAT & roll out new offerings/collaterals to support new business. Prakash works closely with sales to ensure growth of business and set up new business.

Prior to joining Prodapt, Prakash was the Practice Head for business process services – Telecom vertical at TCS, Chennai for 7 years. He was responsible for setting up business process services and managed 3000+ FTE serving global telecom customers. Prakash completed his post-graduation on operation management from IIM Kozhikode and post-graduation on Marketing management from Annamalai University. He is a certified Six Sigma Black belt, Lean practitioner and Process consultant. He served in Indian Air Force for 9 years and worked across wireline and wireless telecom operators at Airtel and RPG cellular in various roles.

Campfire Session – Day 2

How should DSPs use RPA and digital labor: Strategic initiative or tactical quick-hit tool?

Time: 11.30 – 12.00

Greg Smith

Head of Technology Strategy, Liberty Latin America

Greg Smith is Head of Technology Strategy at Liberty Latin America (LLA). Greg has more than 22 years of experience across both the vendor and carrier sides where he has worked with numerous Voice, Mobile, and Broadband technologies. At LLA he supports the road-map development for all Technologies covering the full End to End view. Greg’s passion is delivering broadband, video, voice and mobile services to the Liberty Latin America customers supporting the overall improvement of their way of life. Instrumental in delivering network improvements that has driven clear quality improvements visible to the end customer across many technologies. Possesses a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Florida International university, and awarded the Leadership and Chairman’s awards of excellence.

Lunch-briefing Session – Day 1

Transforming into a DSP – In-flight Engine Change

Time: 12.45 – 14.00

Lawrence Tse

SPM, Intelligent Digital Experience, TELUS

Lawrence is based in Vancouver, Canada and has spent the past 13 years working within the telecom industry. He has a passion for technology and has previously worked on emerging call centre trends such as chat bots, speech recognition and back-office analytics. In his latest role as a Senior Program Manager, Lawrence is establishing a Robotic Process Automation Center of Excellence at TELUS. The CoE is being designed to support various business units across the organization with a flexible Managed RPA Service to accelerate the growth and deployments of RPA initiatives.

Lunch-briefing Session – Day 2

How to Establish and Scale Robotics (RPA) Center of Excellence

Time: 12.45 – 14.00

Stephen Kowal

Head of IT Strategy, Architecture and Analytics, Liberty Latin America

Stephen Kowal heads up IT Strategy, Architecture and Analytics for Liberty Latin America. Mr. Kowal draws from over twenty eight years of managing development and implementation of core networks, billing and customer care systems in a variety of telecom operations (wireless, wireline, satellite, internet and broadband) in several countries including Afghanistan, Croatia, Poland and the US. His career has included launching of wireless operations from scratch, leading organizations through rapid growth and transformation of legacy systems in preparation for competition

Lunch-briefing Session – Day 1

Transforming into a DSP – In-flight Engine Change

Time: 12.45 – 14.00

Rajan R N

Head, SDN Labs, O/BSS Practice, Prodapt

Rajan has rich expertise across Telecom O/BSS, project delivery, software engineering, IT services & consulting, and product development. He has delivered world-class telecom O/BSS products in fraud & risk management, RA, revenue operations center, routing optimization, mediation & rating, margin management, data integrity management, and discovery & activation.

Lunch-briefing Session – Day 1

Transforming into a DSP – In-flight Engine Change

Time: 12.45 – 14.00

Aravind Parthasarathy

Robotic Process Automation Leader, Prodapt

Aravind works with his DSP clients to help them understand and maximize their value from Robotics to drive business outcomes. He has rich experience in setting up and scaling intelligent automation programs across different verticals and brings his expertise with related emerging technologies including Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and AI. As a trained Design Thinking practitioner, Aravind uses his techno-functional background to help build creative solutions and consensus amongst diverse stakeholder groups.

Lunch-briefing Session – Day 2

How to Establish and Scale Robotics (RPA) Center of Excellence

Time: 12.45 – 14.00

Kanwardeep Singh Ahluwalia (K.D)

Vice President – Digitization Europe (IT), Deutsche Telekom

KD leads Digitalisation function for DT EU countries. KD has 22 years in the IT and communications industry – a veteran with diverse and expansive experience spanning strategic planning, platforms creation, architecture and execution of consumer products/services. He is an expert in directing effective digitization approach for consumer facing channels. KD has coached cross-functional teams in building modular product platform architectures, utilizing Agile and Scrum practices.

Speaking Session – Day 3

Customers Drive Digital Transformation

Time: 09.30 – 10.00

Methodologies to empower RPA CoE with perpetual demand pipeline

Delivering operational excellence through scalable RPA

Imbedding AI and robotics at the core of your operations

Transforming KPN into a digital Telco through SDN-NFV

Achieving end-to-end service orchestration across hybrid networks

Leveraging bot development framework to empower RPA Centre of Excellence with bot velocity

Design and Deployment considerations for a successful Virtual CPE rollout

Refactoring DSPs’ monolithic application to Microservices – Key to achieving service agility

Artificial Intelligence in Action Embedding RPA and AI in Operations

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Harsha Kumar, President, Prodapt

Harsha focuses his time helping leading digital service providers (DSPs) transform their IT, products, operations, and networks to meet their strategic objectives. He has significant experience applying a variety of automation approaches such as business process management (BPM) and robotic process automation (RPA) to improve revenue realization, customer experience, and productivity.

Pari Bajpay, Senior VP, Digital Platform Development, CenturyLink

Pari joined CenturyLink (CTL) in 2016 as the Senior Vice President of Digital Platform Development with a goal of delivering major transformational initiatives in the Networking and Information Technology space. His strategy focuses on 5 key areas – customer experience transformation, process transformation, service delivery transformation, infrastructure transformation and network transformation.

Hema Kadia, VP & Head, SDN-NFV, Strategy & Practice, Prodapt

Hema heads SDN-NFV, Strategy and Practice at Prodapt, defining solutions & service offerings, and addressing the business needs across the digital and network transformation journey. She has over 20 years of experience, with successful achievements in the IT, telecommunications and media industries.

Russ Bartels, Director, SDN & Network Automation, Windstream

Russ leads the cross-functional team, which is responsible for planning, designing, developing, implementing, and supporting a carrier-grade, multi-domain service orchestration solution and leverages the best practices in software-defined networking and network orchestration. He is also responsible for Windstream’s big data solution, which is focused on network analytics.

André Beijen, Head, Network Innovation, KPN

André is an experienced technology leader who has led several challenging transformations in many innovative and high-tech organizations. At KPN, he leads the development, innovation and improvement of the mobile and fixed networks. He has over 18 years of experience in the industry, with a strong focus on people management, improving ROI, and producing positive results.

Pradeep Balakrishnan, Director, Robotics & Automation, Prodapt

Pradeep helps the digital service providers address key business transformation problems across fulfillment, assurance and billing, with an aligned IT and operations strategy. He specializes in setting up and running large scale intelligent automation CoE programs that deliver significant enterprise-level optimizations by leveraging a wide variety of technologies including RPA, AI/ML and Advanced Analytics.

Rajan R N, Head, SDN Labs, O/BSS Practices & AVP, Prodapt

Rajan has rich expertise across Telecom O/BSS, project delivery, software engineering, IT services & consulting, and product development. He has delivered world-class telecom O/BSS products in fraud & risk management, RA, revenue operations center, routing optimization, mediation & rating, margin management, data integrity management, and discovery & activation.

Scott Holynaty, Business Analysis Team Lead, TELUS

Scott has 20 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, specializing in IT project execution in the service fulfillment and assurance domains. His focus most recently has been customer operations design and project implementation for TELUS’ Broadband Networks program. Here he is currently responsible for leading a great team of analyst’s who deliver new capabilities which enhance the value stream and customer experiences.

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Arnold Buddenberg, Enterprise Digital Business & IT Transformation Architect, Orange Labs Services

Arnold Buddenberg is currently working for Orange Labs Services as Enterprise Digital Business & IT Transformation Architect on digital business transformation, maturing the combined ability of business and process, organization and technology platforms, data and customer journey experience. He holds a graduation in Physics from Groningen University.

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Aravind Parthasarathy, Telebots Practice Head, Prodapt

Aravind works with his DSP clients to help them understand and maximize their value from Robotics to drive business outcomes. He has rich experience in setting up and scaling intelligent automation programs across different verticals, and brings his expertise with related emerging technologies including Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and AI. As a trained Design Thinking practitioner, Aravind uses his techno-functional background to help build creative solutions and consensus amongst diverse stakeholder groups.

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Turn network issues into customer delight through Trouble to Resolve (T2R) automation strategy

Implementing Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-based traffic steering model for video on demand (VoD) services

Strategies to drive efficiency and reduce cost in DSP’s retail billing operations

Innovative and cutting-edge solutions across the O/BSS ecosystem

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Over 30 years of exceptional telecom consulting experience

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NaaS – Transforming Management of the Network

Will SDN/NFV result in even more commoditization of telco services?

VNF test automation – developing maintainable tests

Customers Drive Digital Transformation

Building a Digital Operating Model

NaaS – Transforming Management of the Network

AI/ML – Intelligent network monitoring

How should DSPs use RPA and digital labor: Strategic initiative or tactical quick-hit tool?

Transforming into a DSP – In-flight Engine Change

How to Establish and Scale Robotics (RPA) Center of Excellence

Transforming into a DSP – In-flight Engine Change

Transforming into a DSP – In-flight Engine Change

How to Establish and Scale Robotics (RPA) Center of Excellence

Customers Drive Digital Transformation

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