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April 4 and 5, 2016 · Westin Hotel, Sydney

Australia’s top telecom conference returns

Comms minister Mitch Fifield

NBN CEO Bill Morrow

Vodafone Australia CEO Iñaki Berroeta

Shadow comms minister Jason Clare

Bureau of Comms Research’s Leonie Holloway

ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin

eintellego networks CEO Skeeve Stevens

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Telstra group exec, corp affairs Tony Warren

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Superloop founder & CEO Bevan Slattery

Comms Alliance CEO John Stanton

Symbio Networks CEO Rene Sugo

MC TelcoTogether CEO Renee Bowker

Optus VP Corp and Regulatory Affairs David Epstein

Industry analyst Ian Martin

The politics of NBN & telecom in an election year

Latest fixed & wireless technology updates from OS experts

Market and business insights from leading analysts

Views from the executive suites of Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, NBN, Transgrid, Macquarie, SuperLoop, Equinix

Fantastic networking opportunities with industry peers at a range of coffee, lunch, drinks and dinner events

Monday April 4 OPENING PLENARY 9.00 Telstra group executive, corporate affairs Tony Warren 9.25 Communications Minister Senator Mitch Fifield 9.50 Vocus COO Scott Carter 10.15 Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton 10.40 Morning tea MORNING PLENARY 11.00 Accenture communications industry lead, APAC David Ellis: “Operating from the middle of the digital economy – Integrated Digital Service Providers” 11.25 Transgrid executive general manager Tony Meehan 11.50 Juniper Networks VP Systems Engineering and Centre of Excellence, APAC Russell Skingsley “Importance of automation in the network” 12.15 Symbio Networks CEO Rene Sugo 12.40 Ciena chief technology officer Karl Horne “Liquid Spectrum: Leveraging fibre assets to the max” 1.05 Lunch sponsored by Ciena 2.00 Ericsson head of ANZ Emilio Romeo [2.30 5G and Wireless Futures session, see right] POLICY AND REGULATORY SESSION 2.20 Leonie Holloway, Deputy Chief Economist, Bureau of Communications Research: “Getting the mix of policy, regulations and service standards right” 2.40 Baker & McKenzie partner James Halliday: “Policy and regulatory implications of IoT” 3.00 ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin” “3 key priorities for consumers in telecoms” 3.20 Macquarie Telecom national executive, industry & policy Matt Healy: “How far do we have to fall behind before we are not in the race?” 3.40 Coffee break CHANGING THE NETWORK PARADIGM SESSION 3.55 Procera (Maser) senior director of subscriber experience marketing Thomas Vasen: “QoE: Fighting back against the ISP scorecards” 4.15 Dialogic director, service provider networks Thomas Schroer 4.35 Metaswitch director of sales APAC Ray Tseng 4.55 eintellego Networks CEO Skeeve Stevens: “The Open Networking Revolution” 5.30 Drinks 7-10pm CommsDay annual dinner– see right

Tuesday April 5 OPENING PLENARY 9.00 NBN CEO Bill Morrow 9.25 Vodafone Australia CEO Inaki Berroeta 9.50 Ian Martin Advisory MD Ian Martin “The state of the telecom nation” 10.15 Superloop CEO Bevan Slattery 10.40 Morning tea MORNING PLENARY 11.00 Shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare MP 11.25 Cisco Chief Digital Officer ANZ, Darren Scott 11.50 Optus VP Corporate and Regulatory Affairs David Epstein 12.15 Nokia Australia and NZ head Dr Ray Owen 12.40 F5 Networks VP service provider solutions Mallik Tatipamula “Securing virtualised 5G networks” 1.05 Lunch sponsored by F5 Networks TELECOMS TECHNOLOGY SESSION 2.00 Macquarie Telecom group executive, Luke Clifton: “SDN: under the wave or over it” 2.20 Equinix managing director, Australia Jeremy Deutsch: “The journey to hybrid cloud” 2.40 Ruckus Wireless managing director, ANZ & Pacific Islands Patrick Devlin 3.00 Adtran chief technologist, EMEA & APAC Regions Ronan Kelly 3.20 Guavus vice president, products and strategy Chris Menier: “Big data analysis” 3.40 Afternoon Tea 4.00 Closing keynote: Industry analyst Bob James “The 5G substitution effect and what it means in five years” followed by discussion with analyst Kevin Morgan

SPECIAL 5G AND WIRELESS FUTURES SESSION 2.30PM-3.30PM Monday April 4, Meeting Room IV Level 4 via Level 6

• AMTA CEO Chris Althaus: “Modelling the impacts of mobile on society and economy”

• Huawei Technologies VP Strategic Research and Innovation Dr David Soldani: “A global perspective on 5G developments”

• Professor Reg Coutts: “Will 5G and IoT create a new monopoly?”

COMMSDAY ANNUAL DINNER 7-10PM Monday April 4, Ballroom • Superloop executives Bevan Slattery and Daniel Abrahams • CommsDay chief editor Petroc Wilton • Live music, TelcoTogether pledge and prize draw, Industry Pulse results

The full programme for the two day event

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Day 1 Plenary

9.00am Telstra group executive, corporate affairs Tony Warren Dr Tony Warren is Group Executive of Corporate Affairs at Telstra. He is responsible for Regulatory Affairs, Government Relations, Engagement, External and Internal Communications and Sustainability. Tony is also re-sponsible for leading Telstra's renegotiations with the National Broadband Network (NBN). He is based in Canberra. Prior to joining Telstra in 2002, Tony was a Director of the Network Economics Consulting Group (NECG). Before joining NECG, Tony was a post-doctoral fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, where he led a team of researchers developing methodologies for quantifying barriers to trade and investment in services.

9.25am Communications minister Senator Mitch Fifield Senator Mitch Fifield is the Federal Communications and Arts Minister. He was sworn in as Senator for Victoria in the Australian Parliament on 1 April 2004 and re-elected at the 2007 and 2013 elections. Senator Fifield was previously the Assistant Minister for Social Services, with responsibility for disabili-ties and ageing. Mitch also serves as a member of the Prime Minister's Leadership Group and the Senate leadership team, as Manager of Government Business in the Senate. Before enter-ing Parliament, Mitch worked as a senior political adviser to the former Federal Treasurer, Pe-ter Costello, and held senior advisory positions in the Victorian Kennett and New South Wales Greiner governments. Mitch was a founding director and is the current chair of the Sir Paul Hasluck Foundation.

9.50am Vocus chief operating officer Scott Carter Scott Carter has 20 years experience in the Australian telecommunications industry and a proven track record in sharehold-er value creation. Following a decade with Hutchison Telecom and Request Broadband, Scott was promoted to the role of General Manager Powertel Wholesale undertaking responsibility for the overall strategy and growth of the $130M division. In 2007 Scott joined ASX listed Clever Com-munications Australia as Managing Director and a director of the board. Scott lead the turna-round of Clever Communications Australia and returned the company to profitability before suc-cessfully merging the company with Big Air Group in February 2011. That year, Scott joined M2 where he became chief operating officer, which is now part of Vocus. He assumed his current role last month.

10.15am Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton John Stanton is a seasoned communications industry executive with over 18 years of experience. From 2006-2009 John was Chief Executive Officer of ASX and NZX-listed telecommunications carrier, People Telecom. Prior to that John was an executive with Intelsat, the largest provider of fixed satellite services worldwide. Based in the UK from 2001-2005, he was President and Director of Intelsat Global Sales & Marketing and of the Data, Carrier and Internet Business Unit. John also spent two years in the US with Intelsat as Vice President of Sales and Marketing from 1999-2001. John joined Telstra in 1992 as a result of the merger with OTC where he was Manager of Public Af-fairs. In his early career, John worked as a journalist and as a press secretary with the Australi-an Government.

Day 2 Plenary

9.00am NBN chief executive officer Bill Morrow Bill Morrow was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of nbn in December 2013. Bill is well known for his global experi-ence in leading complex turnarounds and capital intensive start-ups. Prior to his present role, he served as CEO of Vodafone Hutchison Australia in Sydney, CEO of Clearwire Corporation in Seat-tle, and CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in San Francisco. Previously he was CEO of Vodafone's Europe region through Vodafone Group PLC and ran the group’s businesses in Japan and the UK. Bill holds an Associate of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Condie College and a B.A. in Business Administration from National University in San Diego.

9.25am Vodafone Australia CEO Inaki Berroeta Inaki has been with Vodafone Group since 2004, initially as head of sales, northern region in Spain, then as CEO of Voda-fone Malta, then Vodafone Romania and now Australia. has a Master of Engineering in Telecommu-nications from Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea in 1992 and a Master of Business Administration from Henley Management College in 2004. Inaki was Information Technol-ogy Manager at Airtouch, and Project Manager at Keon. Inaki is a Spanish citizen and has been in Australia since the end of 2014. He also served on Malcolm Turnbull’s Ministerial Advisory Commit-tee on Telecommunications charged with reducing red tape.

9.50am Ian Martin Advisory managing director Ian Martin Ian Martin is a highly regarded telecommunications industry analyst whose work is published worldwide through New Street Research. He began his own consultancy last year after working as an analyst for CIMB Securi-ties, RBS, ABN Amro, Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Macquarie Group. He has served as a consultant adviser to the NBN Strategic Review and to Nextgen Group. In the early 1990s he worked as an ana-lyst at the OECD and prior to that had a ten year stint at the Bureau of Communications and Transport Economics where he reviewed topics such as telecom community service obligations and competition. During that time he was seconded to the FCC in the US and Oftel in the UK. He has degrees from the ANU and University of Melbourne.

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