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Event summary:

 

“Mobile messaging revenues worldwide are expected to grow to $233 billion in 2014, up from about $150 billion in 2009”

 

This well-focused and targeted conference has provided our delegates with the outstanding insights into the future and leading trends of the current mobile messaging environment on the African continent. Carefully selected telecoms experts has provided them with priceless insights on how to secure higher revenue growth from mobile messaging and utilize the opportunities for further development.

 

The future of SMS, MMS, mobile email, mobile IM, mobile social networking as well as messaging related VAS services was thoroughly discussed to guarantee our delegates success in Africa, the fastest-growing mobile market in the world. Our delegates has found out how to take their function further and add value to their business.

 

 

 

Key speakers:

  • Vincent Maher, Commercial Manager: Mobile Advertising; Portfolio Manager: Vodacom Internet Services, Vodacom South Africa
  • Sharoda Rapeti, General Manager Products & Services, MTN, South Africa
  • Herman Heunis, CEO, MXit
  • Betty Mwangi-Thuo, Chief Officer New Products, Safaricom, Kenya
  • Brian Seligmann, Executive Head of Products & Innovation, Cell C, South Africa
  • Samson Isa, Head of Value Added Services, Globacom, Nigeria
  • Oscar Correia, Head of Products, Zain, Kenya
  • Victor Bannerman-Chedid, Head of Product Management Consumer Mobile, Vodafone, Ghana
  • Bernd Mielke, Business Development Manager, Vodafone Group Services

 

Key topics:

 

  • The status of mobile messaging environment in Africa
  • Opportunities for revenue growth and development in mobile messaging in Africa
  • The future of basic messaging services – SMS & MMS
  • Utilization of mobile messaging for educational and humanitarian purposes
  • The outlook for mobile email and mobile IM
  • Further growth of messaging via mobile social networking services and Web 2.0 messaging
  • Messaging related VAS services – mobile payments, mobile advertising & LBS

 

Special Features:

  • Interactive Workshop on “VAS & Innovations in Mobile Messaging” Led by: Stephane Gantchev, Former Head of Value Added Services Innovation, Orange France
  • Keynote CEO HotSpot
  • Start-Up Panel Discussion

 

Who should attend:

 
Event info:

T: +9196 1174 5391

F: +9180 4050 9933

E: lucia.kasanicka@jacobfleming.com

Sponsorship info:

T: +36 1 411 1840
F: +36 1 411 1841

E: mate.buki@jacobfleming.com

 

Sponsors:

 

Gold sponsor:

Movius transforms the way the world interacts with information, media and each other. Movius is a recognized leader in communication solutions for converged messaging, unified communications, virtual telephony, and notification services. Movius is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A with deployments at carriers in over 75 countries.  

 

Silver sponsor:

Syniverse Technologies, an industry pioneer and innovator for more than 20 years, is committed to simplifying the business and technical complexities of mobile communications. With offices around the globe that focus on intensive customer services and technological evolution, we are ideally positioned to help you take advantage of the transformative opportunities resulting from the growing pervasiveness and sophistication of wireless communication.Our expertise and solutions means well over a billion subscribers worldwide can count on receiving seamless service wherever they go. From data and financial clearing services to global wireless data connectivity and interoperability to advanced messaging, we deliver the solutions that allow you to efficiently and profitably offer the endless possibilities of mobile voice, data, video, music and content to your customers.

 

Bronze Sponsor:

TeleDNA is an ISO 9001:2008 certified VAS Infrastructure Company which develops and markets highly scalable mobile value added services platforms to mobile service providers around the world. TeleDNA has supplied very high capacity VAS infrastructure nodes to Tier-1 mobile operators around the world. With more than 50 successful installations in India and overseas, TeleDNA is Leader in cost effective solutions with innovative features which help operators to provide high Quality of Service and enhance revenues.

 

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Endorsing Organization:

160Characters.org has been tracking the mobile messaging industry since 2001. Activities include an industry news web site, free email newsletter, seminars, and the annual Mobile Messaging Awards. While we still firmly believe that SMS has still much untapped potential, at 160Characters the focus is on all types of mobile messaging including MMS, MIM, voice, email and what can be done with them.

 

Endorsing Association:

GRAPA is not standing at the sidelines during this exciting and critical time. We continue to work aggressively with members from around the world to try to better understand what people are doing, how they are doing it and how we can help to formally define these functions, roles and responsibilities and integrate them into our standards/procedures and standard controls libraries.

 

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