May 22-23
Cascais-Sintra
Speakers
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Álvaro Ribeiro
CTO
WeDo Technologies
Álvaro has more than 20 years of experience in the OSS/BSS industry. He joined WeDo 16 years ago, participated in its founding, worked as a Senior Manager of WeDo Solutions BU, leading many delivery projects in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Álvaro was the Vice President for Asia Pacific region since 2007, before his appointment as Vice President Professional Services on 2016 and recently as Chief Technology Officer, responsible for Product Development and Support as well.
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Andreas Manolis
Group Head of Strategy and Risk
BT Group
Andreas is the Group Head of Strategy and Risk for BT Revenue Assurance. Prior to joining BT, Andreas was the Head of Revenue Assurance & Fraud at mobile operator EE. He is a former Board Director of the Telecommunications UK Fraud Forum and the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum.
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Antonio Vanni
VP, Executive Program Director
Ericsson
Antonio has over 20 years of professional achievements in diverse solutions/programs, customers and organizations in Latin America, Europe and North America.
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Benjamim Ferreira
Roaming SME & Senior Consultant
WeDo Technologies
Benjamim Ferreira is WeDo Roaming SME & Senior Consultant and Project Manager of Roaming and Business Assurance projects. Prior to WeDo, Benjamim worked for key CSPs and IT Integrators & Vendor multi-national companies, like Hewlett Packard, Vodafone Group and Altice. Benjamim has a holistic experience on a software full cycle perspective, working for different sectors with telecommunication focus. From business development and pre-sales, to manage complex and multi-disciplinary projects and programs, covering also all delivery phases.
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Bernardo Lucas
Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer
WeDo Technologies
Bernardo Lucas is WeDo Technologies Chief Marketing and Stratefy Officer. Previously, Bernardo worked as a project lead at US based Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he led technology, media, telecommunications, retail and financial services consulting projects. He holds an MBA from INSEAD with distinction.
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Carlos Marques
Head of Product Marketing
WeDo Technologies
Joining WeDo Technologies in 2009, Carlos Marques previously held roles in marketing and sales for IT companies. Carlos is WeDo Technologies’ product marketing manager, the leader of the company product board - the “meeting point” for product & services strategy at WeDo Technologies. Carlos is also the person responsible for managing the product roadmap process in the company.
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Carlos Martins
RAID Cloud Product Owner
WeDo Technologies
Carlos Martins is a software engineer and a certified Usability professional that joined WeDo to help redesign the RAID’s UX. Carlos has more than 14 years of experience on the development and architecture of rich internet applications. More recently focused on the RAID.Cloud solution to build hassle-free software as a service solutions that help Telcos fighting Fraud.
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Cláudia Calado
Advanced Analytics Manager
WeDo Technologies
Advanced Analytics Manager with over 20 years of experience in BI and Advanced Analytics projects mainly in Banking and Telco. She is specialized in applying machine learning techniques to address all sort of business challenges, like Churn prediction, behavior segmentation, fraud profiling, as long as the data exist.
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Gábor Tóth
Process & System Development Manager
Vodafone Hungary
Gábor Tóth have been working in Vodafone Hungary for the past 8 years and he is currently the Process and System Development Manager for the Enterprise Commercial and Sales Operation department.
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Gal Kimel
Partner Segment Lead
Amazon Web Services
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James Veitch
Comedian, Tech Influencer
Responsible for the fastest ever TED Talk to reach over ten million views in the history of TED, UK comedian, musician and writer James Veitch has become renowned for his unashamedly nerdy and hilarious digital content.
A former Apple Store Genius, Veitch’s comedy is high-tech: picking apart, parodying (and pranking) the fast-advancing and perplexing technology we live with. His live shows have explored technology, retrogaming, and finding love through troubleshooting theory. He had sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe
in 2014, 2015 and at Soho Theatre in 2016 with his first three shows, Dot Con, Game Face and Genius Bar and has written and performed two viral hit seasons of his show Scamalot with Mashable. He’s performed across the UK, the U.S. and Scandinavia and his best selling book, Dot Con, based upon the show, was published in 2015. He is currently at work on more geeky comedy about life, love and enabling bluetooth. He lives in London with his full body pillow. -
Jean-Marc Barret
Head of Skill Center of RA & Fraud
Orange Group
Jean-Mac has worked in Orange group for more than 18 years and he's currently in charge of the skill center of Revenue assurance and Fraud.
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Josie Harty
Fraud & Revenue Assurance System Optimisation Manager
Virgin Media UK
Josie has more than four years’ experience in many aspects of Fraud and Revenue Assurance. She leads a specialist team responsible for the delivery of F&RA process and system optimisation initiatives across Virgin Media’s UK and Irish business.
Prior to joining the fraud and revenue assurance team, Josie worked in Virgin Media’s customer division.
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Kishore Vangipuram
SVP Roaming Business Unit
Mobileum
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Mange Kumarasamy
Telemetry CMO
Telus Canada
Mange Kumarasamy is the Chief Marketing Officer of the Telemetry Team at TELUS. He leverages a broad network of relationships inside TELUS and has a deep background in business, technology, communications and IT focused organizations. As a Telecom Specialist he has 20+ years of experience in Sales, IT, Product Development and Engineering.
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Mircea Petrescu
Carrier Services, Revenue Assurance and Fraud Senior Manager
MTN Cyprus
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Nicolas Esquirol
Software Engineer
Orange Group
Nicolas currently is working at Orange Fraud and Revenue Assurance Skill Center.
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Nixon Wampamba
General Manager Revenue Assurance & Fraud Management
MTN Group
An engaging, functional specialist with a career focusing on revenue assurance, risk management and related technology systems and processes. Nixon built his global, professional experience as an expert advisor in the telecommunications industry in multi-national organisations such as Telefonica, T-Mobile, Bharti Group, Ericsson and MTN. Culturally agile, Nixon has lived and worked across Africa, the UK, North and South America working with and leading specialist teams. Currently Nixon is the General Manager at MTN Group looking after all RAFM Technology and the Shared service hub with oversight across 22 MTN Operations.
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Nuno Fernandes
Head of International Business Development
Saphety
Nuno has over 14 years of professional background oriented within the IT business development and consulting services for retail, telco and banking & financial industries. In 2004, was invited to join the Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services department merging IT know-how with an auditor perspective. Since October 2016 is globally responsible for all International business development at Saphety.
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Parthiban Balasubramanian
Product Owner - Telemetry
Telus Canada
12+ yrs experience in Telecom, Information Media and Entertainment domains. 6+ years of experience in leading and driving technical teams from design phase till deployment phase.
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Prisciliano Quintanilla
CIO
7-Eleven Mexico
Prisciliano Quintanilla performs CIO role at 7-Eleven México convenience stores and Petro-7 service stations since 2007. Mr. Quintanilla is responsible for overseeing the operation, performance, vision and transformation of information technology and telecommunications of both companies; participating actively on strategic planning process.
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Raul Azevedo
VP Product Development
WeDo Technologies
With professional experience in Telecommunications, Banking and Retail, Raul Azevedo re-joined Wedo Technologies in 2010 as Director of Product Development, responsible for WeDo’s product development, product management and research areas. Raul chaired the TM Forum’s Fraud Management Team between 2011 and 2015.
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Rui Horta
Head of Fraud and Security Department
Unitel
At Unitel (Angola), Rui leads the team responsible for detection, investigation and report of all sorts of Internal or External Fraud and Security Incidents, and advises the company on main fraud and security risks and provides guidance for prevention and control, among other responsibilities.
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Rui Paiva
Chief Executive Officer
WeDo Technologies
Rui Paiva is CEO and co-founder of WeDo Technologies. Prior to founding WeDo Technologies in 2001, Rui Paiva was System Information Director and Deputy of Optimus Communications’ Executive Committee. Before, he was Consultancy Director at HP Portugal, following a career at Telecel/Vodafone Portugal heading up the Infrastructure, Operations and Help Desk Department.
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Selman Demirel
Software Engineer
Turkcell
Selman is a Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in Telecommunication Industry. He has been working in Turkcell as Revenue Assurance Developer for the last two years and took active role in Turkcell RAID 8 upgrade and Billing Verification Integration.
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Thomas Steagall
Vice President North America
WeDo Technologies
Seasoned Executive with 18+ years of experience in the Telecom Industry, providing consulting services globally to Tier 1 companies. Specialized in Risk Management, Revenue Maximization, Asset Optimization and Operational Excellence. Very solid know-how on the entire IT/Cloud space - OSS/BSS/ Digital transformation journeys as well as on Business Process Management.
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Tony Poulos
Market Strategy Advisor
WeDo Technologies
Tony has a strong telecom BSS knowledge in billing, revenue assurance, managed services, payments and mobile content delivery. In June 2011, Tony was recognized as one of the 25 most influential people in the telecom software industry.
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Valeska Doria Medina
Sub Manager of Revenue Assurance and Fraud
Viva Bolivia
Valeska leads a team of specialists and analysts responsible for the control, monitoring and optimization of platforms for the prevention of fraud and risk mitigation of the company in Bolivia.
Valeska has an experience of more than 7 years in Telecommunications, by profession Engineer with several courses in risk, fraud and revenue assurance, as well as a master's degree in business and finance.
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