Presentation given at Nexterday North 9-10 November 2015, Helsinki on Telecom Application Development

3. Telecoms: transmission of
information, as words, sounds, or
images, usually over great distances,
in the form of electromagnetic
signals, as by telegraph, telephone,
radio, television, and the internet.

4. Cloud Communications
Cloud: BS term used to hype stuff up
(just like the word digital)
Communications: what PR people do
Cloud Communications = #BSPR

9. $2.2T

11. $260B

14. Brown-
Nosed
Middle
Manager!

15. Market chatter is monopolized by
weak-minded marketing people (#WMP)

16. NFV
SDN
Digital
Tripe
Internet
Of Things
Mobile
Everything,
WebRTC

17. SERVICES

18. No. We tried a
similar service in our
market and it failed,
and we’re never ever
going to try again
What do you think of this service idea?

19. No. It will not work in
our market. Because
I’m a 50 year old guy
who understands all
my customers better
than they know
themselves.
What do you think of this service idea?

20. No. We have a similar
service launched, and are
not going to experiment
in trying to make it better
or address other
customer segments.
What do you think of this service idea?

21. No. It must be
delivered through our
preferred SI or NEP,
who will copy / kill
the service
immediately.
What do you think of this service idea?

22. No. We’re waiting on
annual budgets to be
confirmed, sometime
in the next 6-12
months.
What do you think of this service idea?

23. No. You must work
through our digital
group who we all hate
and ignore as they’re
parasites on our
business.
What do you think of this service idea?

26. The Web has won,
so let’s get with the program

27. BUT no ‘black and white’ thinking!
There’s space for both,
Telecom reaches 6B+ people

32. $150B

63. • Find a problem or need that is poorly served in your life
that you think can be solved / served much better
• Hack a good enough solution to the core of that
problem / need using pervasive technology
• Focus on your customers and refine the solution given
their usage (first) and feedback (second)
• Build a company to dominate your region and enjoy
making people happy

66. • Not just programmers, product and design people as well.
– Team diversity is important for winning
• Students: showcase talent to innovative companies
• Businesses: copy Uber before someone else does and starts
disrupting your business
• Developers: create new services in hours, its the best and
most fun 2 days of training you’ll get this year
• $60k in prizes. So you have fun, free food, meet cool people,
hack, and a good chance at winning some cash

67. Building a $150B Ecosystem

69. Tweecommand by Enis Getmez, Alkin Kaz, Can Erdogan, Ege Mert Ozenir
and Alperen Kitapci who won $500. The team used Twitter APIs to control
a PC and print something from the printer by sending Tweets. They were
young team(15 years old each) and put in a lot of effort.

70. Rent Reminder by Selin and Lee, a service for renters and landlords. Selin is a CX
designer at NAB and Lee is a IT Graduate at Telstra. They are getting married in
November 2016. They’ve had this idea for a while but they started developing 13th
June 2015 and finished 14th June 2015 – 24 Hours worth is what you see

71. Sri Lanka Winner: Car Park M-pay System by Sajith Udayanga, Sandun Maduranga, and
Shivika Pussewela, who won the $1k Sri Lanka prize. An innovative solution for easy car
parking through mobile.

72. TADCall Team (Lisbon) of Afonso Oliveira, Joao Trindade, Simon Exposito, Alexandre
Goncalves, Bruno Macedo who won $1k. Their hack was regain control of your mobile
phone. Control who can call you, at what time and how frequently. With our solution
you can create discardable phone numbers to different aspects of your life. Separate
you work calls from you personal time.

73. Hack ‘Samaritan’ by Charles Solar and Jiang Shuyang used Matrix and Flowroute
resources, for a platform independent app which allows users to post requests for
help “I got a flat tire!”” or “My computer crashed!” and allows others to call / text /
video chat with them to solve their problem. .

74. • #DigitalTripe – weak-minded marketing overuse of the
word Digital
• #BABS – Bay Area BS
• #WMP – weak-minded marketing people
• #BSPR (aka cloud communications) – for those too
scared / prejudice to say telecoms