Pre-Workshop 1st October 2007

How can operators enable innovation in IMS application development

• Workshop Led by: JEAN-CHARLES DOINEAU, Service Infrastructure Practice Leader, OVUM

Workshop Objectives

Early adopters of IMS have been developing a few IMS services, which they have introduced in the market in a pretty shy way. The promises of IMS as a technology aren’t only about a nice architecture or about some siloed services, innovative as they could be. The promises of IMS are as well about building an innovation engine, re-using components in the service creation lifecycle and increased time to market. This workshop will examine some real-life examples of IMS implementations and the benefits gained through these deployments in terms of service creation and innovation.

09:30 Registration and Coffee

• Business and technical drivers of IMS and business case
• Strategic role of IMS in the service creation process
• Defining a service creation logic making the most out of IMS
• Next Generation Services Empowered by IMS

16:00 Close of Workshop

About the speaker

Jean-Charles leads Ovum's Service Infrastructure research practice, which focuses on the applications market that enables service provisioning in the telecoms space. His responsibilities include managing and providing guidance to the Service Infrastructure team, as well as delivering research and engagements on the service infrastructure markets.

Jean-Charles specialises in service platforms that have important telecoms network dependencies like IMS, SDPs, AIN, billing, IPTV or messaging platforms. Jean-Charles has over 11 years of experience in the industry, and has been advising all major companies operating in these markets on their business strategy. Jean-Charles also advises service providers, assisting them in their solution design in these areas. Jean-Charles is a frequent conference speaker on network equipment market strategies and on the network application software markets.

Before joining Ovum, Jean-Charles founded a network equipment research and consulting team, which developed a business unit dedicated to network equipment provider consulting and which was heavily involved in application software strategy analysis. Jean-Charles started his career as a manager at Ernst & Young Consulting, in the telco-media division. Jean-Charles is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique.