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Event Review

Innovator Interview: Amandine Le Pape and Matthew Hodgson, The Matrix.org Foundation and Element

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Amandine Le Pape, COO & co-founder at Element; Co-founder at The Matrix.org Foundation; and Matthew Hodgson, CEO/CTO and co-founder Element, Technical Co-founder at Matrix.org It’s always fun to catch up with Amandine and Matthew. They’ve been making the news recently with their acquisition of Gitter. I kicked off with asking about their darkest times 🙂 … Continue reading Innovator Interview: Amandine Le Pape and Matthew Hodgson, The Matrix.org Foundation and Element →

Event Review

CPaaS is dead, Long live CPaaS, Filipe LeitĂŁo, 8X8

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CPaaS is dead, Long live CPaaS, Filipe LeitĂŁo, EMEA Solutions Engineer, 8X8. In this presentation Filipe covers: Brief history of CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) since VAS (Value Add Service) times. It’s not about winning the developer anymore. Or viewed another way, how everyone tries to be what Twilio was 5 years ago. Be … Continue reading CPaaS is dead, Long live CPaaS, Filipe LeitĂŁo, 8X8 →

Event Review

Innovator Interview: Erlend Prestgard, Working Group Two

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Erlend Prestgard, CEO and co-founder at Working Group Two. You can read more about the background and questions asked below the video in this weblog. Overall, this interview provides a nice introduction to WG2’s proposition, differentiation, and go-to-market. A related presentation to this interview is The challenges of creating a multi sided marketplace platform for telecom … Continue reading Innovator Interview: Erlend Prestgard, Working Group Two →

Event Review

The Future of Conversational Messaging Isn’t Social, It’s Digital, Paul Sweeney

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The Future of Conversational Messaging Isn’t Social, It’s Digital – Access, Control, and the Power of Permissions; Paul Sweeney, EVP Product at Webio. It’s great Paul is back to share his insights on conversational messaging. For all businesses looking at WhatsApp as a communications channel, Paul highlights the importance of joined-up thinking around the customer … Continue reading The Future of Conversational Messaging Isn’t Social, It’s Digital, Paul Sweeney →

Event Review, Telco Focused

Programmable Telecoms inside a Telco by Jesus Cruz Manjavacas

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Programmable Telecoms inside a Telco, by Jesus Cruz Manjavacas, VAS Development Expert at PLAY. Below are the video and slides, followed by my summary of the presentation. If you have any questions for Jesus ask in the comments or contact him directly. Video and Slides Slideshare is having difficulties today, here’s a direct link to Jesus’s slides. … Continue reading Programmable Telecoms inside a Telco by Jesus Cruz Manjavacas →

Event Review

Innovator Interview: Simon Woodhead, CEO Simwood

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Innovator Interview: Simon Woodhead, CEO Simwood. You can read the background to the interview and questions asked below the embedded video. Apologies for the length of this interview, time flew-by, it was great fun and insightful. Simon’s created an impressive technology company against the ‘regulatory odds’ with Simwood. With a focus common to other TADSummit … Continue reading Innovator Interview: Simon Woodhead, CEO Simwood →

Event Review

Summary of TADSummit EMEA Americas Week 1 (2-6th Nov)

This weblog summarises the presentations given during TADSummit EMEA Americas Week 1. Thank you to all the presenters and our sponsors: Automat Berlin, GoContact, Radisys, and Sangoma for making TADSummit possible. The week kicked off with an Invited Keynote: Engaging Developers Steven Goodwin, Award-winning CTO, author, keynote speaker, and developer. I can not recommend more highly spending the time to listen to … Continue reading Summary of TADSummit EMEA Americas Week 1 (2-6th Nov) →

Event Review

Radisys Keynote: Gamifying the User’s Journey, Adnan Saleem

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Gamifying the User’s Journey and the CSPs Service Offering, Adnan Saleem, CTO Software and Cloud Solutions. This is a great presentation, demo and Q&A, all within 23 mins, well done Adnan! xanax Telecom operators and numerous industry verticals lack creative engagement with their digital-savvy customer base. The next-generation AI-based applications can enable operators to offer … Continue reading Radisys Keynote: Gamifying the User’s Journey, Adnan Saleem →

Event Review

Open Banking…Energy…Telecom, Miles Cheetham

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Open Banking…Energy…Telecom, Miles Cheetham, Developing the data infrastructure to help deliver a net-zero future. Last year Miles gave an excellent presentation at TADSummit EMEA 2019 on challenges and opportunities facing the banking industry, while he was Head of Propositions at OPEN BANKING. In this presentation he reviews the success of open banking, with 273 new providers (think … Continue reading Open Banking…Energy…Telecom, Miles Cheetham →

Event Review, Sponsors

Keynote: A Random Walk down Communications as a Service Street by Jim Machi, Sangoma

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Firstly, thank you to Sangoma for sponsoring TADSummit EMEA Americas this year. Without their support TADSummit can not happen. If you see value in what TADSummit does, please support us by sponsoring. Thank you. Jim’s short keynote presentation (12 minutes) sets out a vision for the mid-market in programmable communications. As well as some interesting … Continue reading Keynote: A Random Walk down Communications as a Service Street by Jim Machi, Sangoma →