Photo review of TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit) 21-22 November 2013, Day Two

1. TADS
Day Two

2. Telecom Summit. Juju Mobicents Charms: Deploy, Integrate and Scale Telecom
Applications in Seconds. Launch New Services Daily.
Maarten Ectors, Cloud Strategy Director at Ubuntu/Canonical
Maarten kicked off Day Two with an innovative telco crowd-funding idea.

3. Developer Summit. Investor Round Table (l-r). Chair: Andy Abramson, Founder of
Comunicano. Panelists: Jose de Castro, CTO Tropo; Mark White, CEO Locatrix; Luis
Borges Quina, founder and COO APIDAZE; and Ivelin Ivanov founder of Mobicents and
CEO Telestax;
5 world class entrepreneurs share their experiences in raising cash for telecom
application development. Its in my opinion one of the hardest industries to raise
capital, and these guys have all done it and in many cases are in the process of raising

4. Telecom Summit. The API Driven Telco. Ross Garrett, Director Product Marketing.
Layer 7 Technologies a CA Technologies company.
Ross gave an inspirational presentation on the software-defined telco, demonstrating
Layer 7’s leadership in API management and their understanding of what APIs mean to
telcos across all their business.

5. Telecom Summit. TELCO CASE STUDY: Experiences in Building Telecom Applications
within the Telco. Naoki Uchida, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) Director NTT Cyber Solutions Labs
Uchida-san shared a proven model of internal innovation, its a template for all telcos.

6. Developer Summit. Straight from the "Horse's Mouth." Simple, Practical Advice on
using WebRTC in your Applications
Dan Burnett, Editor WebRTC Spec and Author of The WebRTC Book
Dan giving the best WebRTC tutorial on the planet!

7. Coffee Break Networking and Demos
The discussions were now much more intense as they focused on projects and

8. MasterClass: WebRTC Implementation Experiences. Chair: Andy Abramson, Founder
of Comunicano. Panel includes (r-l) Dan Burnett, Editor WebRTC Spec and Author of
The WebRTC Book. Jose de Castro, CTO Tropo. Jean Deruelle co-founder and
General Manager EMEA Telestax; Philippe Sultan, Co-founder and CTO, Apidaze.
A wealth of practical WebRTC experience was shared helping developers fast-track
their work on WebRTC

9. Telecom Summit. Beyond the phone call: How WebRTC helps developers fit
communications into specific use-cases. Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis
Dean opened people’s eyes to the wealth of value untapped in communications.

10. Lunch time networking at the Sponsors’ Tables. The discussions had moved on to how
to work together. The whole of the TAD ecosystem was present for the first time.

11. Developer Summit. The Future of Telecom App Development. (l-r) Maarten
Ectors, Senior Cloud Strategist at Ubuntu/Canonical; Amit Bhayani founder and GM
APAC of Telestax; Philippe Sultan, Co-founder and CTO, Apidaze; Christophe
Coutelle, Marketing Operations Director for Huawei Core Network; Jose de
Castro, CTO Tropo; Charlie Crighton, Program Director, Sentinel Product
Development, OpenCloud.

12. Telecom Summit. The Future of Voice. Ross Garrett, Director Product Marketing.
Layer 7 Technologies a CA Technologies company; Dan Burnett, Editor WebRTC Spec
and Author of The WebRTC Book; Dean Bubley, Founder and Director, Disruptive
Analysis; Luis Borges Quina, founder and COO APIDAZE; Martin Geddes, Founder &
CEO Martin Geddes Consulting Ltd.; Dragana Linfield, Director of Future
Communications at Etisalat Group Digital Services..
This panel can only be described as a laugh a minute – insightful and entertaining

13. Telecom Summit. The Future of Voice was Chaired by John Tanner, Global
Technology Editor, Telecom Asia.
Thanks to John for an excellent job in running such an unruly panel!

14. Closing Plenary. Telecom Application Developers Manifesto, Alan Quayle
There is much work to do to make the Manifesto a reality!

15. Closing Plenary. Panel Discussion (l-r) Chair: Andy Abramson, Founder of
Comunicano; Dinesh Saparamadu, CEO hSenid Mobile; Loai Garelnabi, Vice President
/ Digital Technology at Etisalat Group; Mark White, CEO Locatrix; Maarten
Ectors, Senior Cloud Strategist at Ubuntu/Canonical; Ivelin Ivanov founder of
Mobicents and CEO Telestax; Jose de Castro, CTO Tropo.
An intense discussion to wrap up the conference as you’ll see on the faces on the next
slides, telecom application development has immense opportunities and challenges

16. The Closing Thoughts session clearly set out the challenges and opportunities faced in
Telecom Application Development, the faces show the intensity of that discussion

17. The Closing Thoughts session clearly set out the challenges and opportunities faced in
Telecom Application Development, the faces show the intensity of that discussion

18. Prize draw for a NEXUS 10 32GB tablet kept everyone there to the end 

19. And the lucky winner was Tong Lau from Smartone, who also won earlier that day a
signed copy of Dan Burnet’s The WebRTC Book – we was on a roll
Developer Summit. Tools to Develop a Healthy Telecom Applications Ecosystem
Christophe Coutelle, Marketing Operations Director for Huawei Core Network
Christophe gave a great demo of real-world telecom applications!

20. See you in:
Madrid, 6 and 7th June 2014, for TADHack
Istanbul, 12 and 13th November 2014, for TADSummit

21. Thanks to Adrena Chia (Event Organizer) and her local Thailand team (l-r) Kiatisak
Nithitheerakant and Chatchanin Getgaew

22. Thanks to Adrena Chia and
Marie Chan
the Singapore part of
Adrena’s Team