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Simon Torrance
CEO, STL Partners; Founder, Telco 2.0 Initiative.
Simons company specializes inbusiness model innovationfor the Telco, Media and Technology (TMT) sector. In May 2006 they set up the Telco 2.0Initiative (www.telco2.net), a global research, advisory and executive brainstorming programme to catalyse change in the industry.
The Telco 2.0Initiative is supported by the mobile industry (via a partnership with the GSM Association), and the fixed industry (via the Broadband Stakeholder Group).
It has run recent programmes on Voice & Messaging 2.0, Telcos Role in the Advertising Value Chain, and is currently running a global research programme on Future Broadband Business Models. As well as the well-knownTelco 2.0 Executive Brainstormseries of events, Telco 2.0 runs one of the most widely read blogs in the sector - www.telco2.net/blog.
Simon's earlier career was in advertising, corporate identity and marketing consulting with various WPP and Omnicom companies. He has an MA in History fromCambridgeUniversity. |
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Thami Msimango, CTO, Telkom South Africa |
| Absolutely Brilliant!! If only all ICT summits were as well organized and value adding. Thank you for inviting me, I appreciate it so much. |
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Dan Elron, Managing Partner, Accenture |
| Hopefully there will be more events like this one to move us on to the smart, 21C enabled world - increasing carrier collaboration and openness. |
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Sebastiano Tevarotto, VP & GM Communications, Media & Entertainment Business, HP |
| I am really positive about this conference as we have common interests emerging and I’m very grateful to [Identity Events] for organizing the first one. |
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