• What are the key challenges faced by mobile operators in the presentation of next generation services?
• Looking at mobile software and its role in service delivery
• Is there an OS of choice? - what are the key requirements?
• Operator wish list for mobile software functionality

• With recent mergers and developments in the OS market, what lies the road ahead? This strategy discussion amongst some of the key players will look at some of the challenges faced by vendors in a competitive market, considering key issues including:
• Support of multiple OSs - what is the current state of play?
• Is standardisation of the OS in the industry the way forward?
• Current state of the OS market - who are the key players in this space
• Continuing industry collaboration for continued innovation
• Is the experience of the PC world illustrative?

• Hardware and software integration is key to supporting advanced cellular technologies
• Challenges of phone design for HSDPA and beyond

• Managing converged functionality and delivering low cost, high performance core computing
• Developing converged Smartphones - maintaining quick time to market and keeping handset development costs down

• Evaluating strategies and impact on user terminals with IMS based services
• Analysing the interoperability issues that may arise with IMS devices
• Open architecture terminals as the key to encouraging and enabling IMS services

• Providing software support for mobile TV content
• Technical limitations, challenges and future opportunities
• Issues relating to standards and multiple broadcast technologies

• What avalanche of new features is driving feature phone developers to choose a high level operating system?
• How is competitive pressure reducing product life, forcing developers to adopt modern rapid development methodologies?
• Why are operators asserting their brand to avoid churn, driving demand for powerful tools to support differentiation?

• Evaluating the software requirements for the feature phone segments
• Balancing the benefits of a common software investment with user experience and product differentiation needs
• Managing the supply chain through use of a software platform approach
• Trading off hardware differentiation versus software flexibility to address market segmentation needs

• Working towards more sophisticated market segmentation in the handset industry - making the right choices between available OSs and application platforms
• Customising software to enable effective marketing segmentation
• Is software reference design the way to improve time to market, save costs and facilitate customisation?

• Overview of current OS market trends
• Discussion of handset segmentation and forecasts
• Identifying factors to increase data usage

• Considering the particular requirements for the low cost device
• Evaluating the development costs vs. needs and requirements of the low-cost market
• Solutions that promote market growth through the value chain

• Delivering profitable multimedia services using a secure industry standard architecture that spans from the mobile client to the core network.
• End to end Linux enables mobile operators to respond to "Quality of Service" mandates for voice and multimedia over IP services.

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• What is the current state of the market?
• In what ways has the market changed in the past year, and what unexpected trends have emerged?
• Consideration of software market for various market segments
• Ensuring software scalability across market segments

• Evaluating the market drivers that are leading to closer cooperation and dialogue between OS providers, application platform developers and others in the eco-system
• Overcoming interoperability issues through standardisation initiatives
• OMTP deliverables to date

• Evaluating application environments and their importance in the delivery of a rich data experience on handsets
• Making the right technology choices - portability as the key to reaching mass markets
• Working with application platforms - fostering interoperability and portability to promote uptake of mass market content in the mobile industry

• Understanding the handset platform requirements of VoIP providers
• Consideration of the handsets role in an IP environment
  • Supporting dual-mode functionality at the applications level
  • Focus on the handset client - usability aspects
• Architectural issues and trends in the development of "Softphones"

• Managing complexity in a fast evolving environment
• Which new players and influencers are emerging?
• Promoting innovation in the mobile value chain through industry bodies, standardisation and partnerships
• Impact of Open Source

• Developing Linux devices - challenges and opportunities
• Fostering interoperability in a fragmented software environment
• Developing Linux devices
• Do Open Source alternatives provide real cost advantage over other technologies?

• Examining the business case for Linux
• The technical considerations and requirements in making Linux technology choices
• Analysing current rates of market adoption for Linux for mobile

• How widely is firmware over the air (FOTA) update technology being deployed?
• What technical challenges have been addressed to deploy advanced FOTA solutions?
• How will emerging over the air technologies go beyond repairing phones to allow customizing of phones?
• What impact will this emerging capability have on operators and application developers, as it allows them to update applications and services on devices already in the hands of users?

• Overcoming interoperability issues and problems with a comprehensive set of specifications
• Meeting operator requirements and avoiding confusion in handset development
• What's missing from W3C and OMA device descriptions?

• How real is the threat?
• To what extent is this industry hype?
• Learning from the PC experience - protecting personal information and battling malware problems

• Identifying current security risks to mobile networks, content and handsets
• Pre-empting the risks - looking at operator implementation of current security solutions