[March 10, 2014]

TM Forum Live! Agenda Challenges Service Providers and Enterprises to Think Digital

Today TM Forum announced the expanded agenda for TM Forum Live! which features the hottest industry topics, including big data, business agility, customer experience, cyber security, Internet of things, virtualization and more. TM Forum (News - Alert) Live! is the new name for TM Forum's flagship event for executives in the global communications and digital services industries and beyond. It examines the business and operational aspects of digital service delivery. The expanded agenda is aimed at helping all players innovate more effectively, adapt more rapidly, deliver more for less and exploit major new opportunities digital transformation.

Themed "Transforming to a Digital Business," and beginning on Monday, June 2, at the Acropolis in Nice, France, TM Forum Live! includes three full days of thought-provoking presentations, keynotes and roundtables dedicated to digital business transformation with six topic-driven Forums, plus a full-day Cable Summit, and pre-conference workshops on big data, network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN).

TM Forum Live!'s sessions feature a stellar line-up of over 250 speakers from AT&T, BT, Delta Airlines, Deutsche Börse, eBay, Microsoft, Orange (News - Alert), Salesforce.com, Skype, Telefonica, Time Warner Cable, Vodafone, and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts to name a few.

"TM Forum Live! provides the insight needed for businesses to grow their bottom line by becoming more agile at delivering new services and offers, speeding time-to-market, and increasing customer loyalty while reducing costs and risk. This expanded agenda shares the unique market understanding of thought leaders from multiple industries, member companies and experts," says Keith Willetts, chairman, TM Forum. "TM Foru Live! is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to come together with a diverse group of people from a variety of companies that each have something to share in moving rapidly to exploit the digital world."

At TM Forum Live!, attendees will hear case study examples from leading companies about how to navigate business and technical challenges during the following six Forums:

• Agile (News - Alert) Business and IT Transformation addresses the issues related to business agility, cloud, increased revenue, decreased time-to-market, reduced waste, and increased staff productivity and satisfaction through more efficient working practices.
• Big Data Analytics and Customer Engagement focuses on issues relating to customer lifecycle management, understanding customer experience metrics and making the most of big data analytics.
• Internet of Things explores which enterprise services operators are developing, and how operators can ensure the smooth delivery of these services to different verticals such as Smart Energy, eHealth, Smart Cities, connected homes and more.
• Virtualizing Everything: Cloud, SDN and NFV targets the issues and opportunities surrounding virtualization for service providers and various types of enterprises. This Forum is an integral part of TM Forum's new Zero-touch Orchestration, Operations and Management (ZOOM) project which focuses on building a blueprint for a new generation of service provider support systems to deliver true business agility.
• Security and Privacy examines emerging security challenges, and provides insights into the privacy concerns of consumers and how they can be addressed
• Revenue Management provides new insights into how service providers can optimize and more effectively integrate their systems, processes and procurements in order to protect their revenue in the digital world.

In addition to three solid days of conference sessions, TM Forum Live! features multiple pre-conference sessions on Mon., June 2:

• A full-day Cable Summit discusses how cable is no longer a business tied to legacy infrastructure and investments; exposes new revenue growth opportunities; and examines how to rapidly deploy and introduce services, improve operational efficiency and communicate with end-users more effectively.
• Two intensive half-day workshops on NFV (sponsored by HP) and big data offer selected service providers a highly interactive and unique opportunity to interact with leaders in the global communications industry.

On Tues., June 3, NFV is also the focus of a special Open House, Open Mic networking event with unstructured talks from audience participants.

The TM Forum Live! brings together all the elements of TM Forum's focus on leading the successful transformation of service providers and enterprises to succeed in the digital world. TM Forum Live! in Nice, France, is the Forum's flagship event and features its industry-leading Excellence Awards. TM Forum Live! Asia is planned for Sept. 2-3, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. TM Forum Live! Digital Disruption is slated for Dec. 8-10, in San Jose, Calif.

About TM Forum

TM Forum is a global trade association trusted by the world's largest enterprises, service providers and suppliers to help them continuously transform to succeed in the digital economy. We help our members reduce costs and risks, improve business agility and grow their business through a wealth of knowledge, tools, standards, training and practical advice.

We bring together more than 85,000 professionals from 900+ member companies to share experiences, collaborate and rapidly solve critical business challenges including IT transformation, business process optimization, big data analytics, cloud management, customer experience management and cyber security. Our three strategic programs-Agile Business and IT, Customer Engagement and Open Digital -enable us to provide a platform for overcoming the barriers to an open digital world. For more information about TM Forum, visit www.tmforum.org.

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