[kictanet] Fwd: African Telecoms Billing And Revenue Management Forum

[Mike Theuri]

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African Telecoms Billing And Revenue Management Forum

Event Registration
Register online or Call:
Customer Services
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7017 7483
Email: registrations at iir-telecoms.com


Mon 03 Sep 2007 - Fri 07 Sep 2007
Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Building on the resounding success of IIR's 3rd Annual African
Telecoms Billing and Revenue Management Forum in September 2006, IIR
is delighted to announce the dates and venue for the 2007 event.

Join us this September in Cape Town and benefit from an event
offering 5 focused days of conference and seminar sessions
addressing. The event will bring together leading operators and
operators to address commercial address the specific Revenue
Management and Billing challenges currently being faced by African
Telecoms Operators and Service Providers.

The event attracted 120 delegates from across the African continent
and Gulf States last year. This forum presents an invaluable
opportunity to hear real-world experiences in a series of cutting-
edge case studies and workshops led by African and European Operators.

The weeklong event offers two back-to-back conferences: the format is
fully flexible allowing delegates to attend either the full five days
to gain a complete overview of Billing and Revenue
Assurance/Management strategies or individual conference days
depending on their particular professional interests.

Who Will Attend?The conference is specifically designed for:

Decision-makers from fixed, mobile, prepaid, post paid, Internet,
broadband and convergent Operators from EMEA, with responsibility
for:
Billing / Prepaid * Customer Care / CRM * IT/MIS/ICT/Mediation *
BSS / OSS Implementation * Systems Development * Network Engineering
* Finance / Accounting / Audit * Revenue Assurance and Fraud
Management * Interconnect / Partner Administration« Business
Strategy / Development * Pricing, Rating, Marketing and Sales

Regulatory agency executives and senior government officials with
oversight for the regulatory framework within the telecom industry
Senior banking executives with responsibilities for managing lending
and financing activities to the telecom industry
Legal practitioners, external auditors, management consultants and
risk management experts serving the telecom industry

Key PresentationsKey topics to be addressed include:

Developing A Successful Billing System Implementation Strategy:
Creating A Benchmark For Implementation And Project Management Best
Practice
Exploiting Prepaid Recharge Mechanisms To Maximise Revenues By
Boosting Both Customer Acquisition And Retention
Examining How The Increased Convergence Of Telecoms With Other
Industry Sectors Will Impact Key Revenue Protection Functions Like
Billing, Revenue Assurance And Fraud Management
Deploying A Prepaid Charging System To Effectively Deliver Prepaid
Content And Next Generation Services
Developing Mobile Banking Services To Generate New Revenue Streams
Understanding Why It is Essential For African Operators To Move
Beyond Revenue Assurance To Revenue Management To Successfully
Respond To Emerging Requirements Of A Fast-Paced And Increasingly
Convergent Telecoms Market
Addressing The People Factor In Revenue Assurance And Billing –
Finding, Retaining And Training Staff With The Appropriate Skills
Setting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) To Benchmark And Quantify
The Performance Of Your Revenue Assurance Strategy
Developing A Successful Revenue Assurance Solution Implementation
Strategy: Creating A Benchmark For Implementation Best Practice
Understanding How To Structure An RA Team And Where To Position It
Within The Company For Maximum Benefit
Addressing The Challenges Of Managing Revenue Assurance For Prepaid
Services
Minimising Cost And Revenue Losses Incurred By African Operators
Through Infrastructure Failure, Damage And Theft


Key speakers include:

Susan Burger, Group Revenue Assurance & Interconnect Manager, MTN
Group

Albert Salima, Billing Manager, Celtel Zambia

Ehtisham Rao, Director Billing, Mobilink

Ebele Eghobamien, HOD Wholesale Billing Services, Revenue Management
Division, Celtel Nigeria

Andreas Krebs, Senior Product Manager, Partnering & Innovation, O2
Germany

Bernard Wole Ilori, Manager, Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management,
Globacom

Mike Nelson, Specialist, Business Analysis, Telkom SA

Dennis Baguyo, Senior Billing Manager, Celtel Group

Henry Whyte, General Manager/Revenue Assurance, Ghana
Telecommunications

Johnson Bareyei, Head Billing and Customer Management, Topcom Nigeria

Syed Thameen, Revenue Assurance Manager, Celtel Uganda

Elliot Mashumba, Service Risk Manager, Econet Wireless

Johan de Wet, Senior Manager, Revenue Assurance and Accounting, Group
Finance,
Telkom SA

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