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GSC Forum – June 2025

3-5 June 2025
Prague, Czech Republic.

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DAY 1 – Tuesday, 3 June 2025

TOPIC

An Updated Picture on Sustainability in Telecom​

One year progress update on developments including missed and achieved targets, new initiatives, technologies and legistration.

PRESENTER
Harry Huang, Product Manager, Telarix
TOPIC

Unlock Digital Commerce with Operator Carrier Billing

How Telenor-Linx enables connections between carriers and global digital giants Google and App Store with direct operaor billing service.

PRESENTER
Nisar Bashir, CFO,
Telenor Linx
TOPIC

Why Billing and Revenue Assurance Teams are Seeking Active Testing

Key drivers behind the growing demand for active testing by Billing and RA teams, covering the following points:

  • Fraud, dispute, and Quality of Service (QoS) drivers
  • The importance and implementation of ongoing proactive testing
  • The role and benefits of ad-hoc testing
PRESENTER
Finn Kornbo, Executive Director, Product Mgt, CSG International
CARRIER DISCUSSION PANEL

Maximizing Efficiency in Carrier Settlements

A panel to discuss various regulatory, system, process and people challenges facing B2C communities and the various strategies, best practices and ideas on how we can all learn from each others experience/solutions. This session is designed to be interactive between panel members and the wider delegate audience.

MODERATOR
Paul Fedarb, Sr Manager, GW Voice & B2C, BT | GSC Council
WORKSHOP

Bridging the Gap: Customer Portals & Billing Standardisation

FACILITATOR
Inne Michiels, Financial Customer Operations Manager, BICS

DAY 2 – Wednesday, 4 June 2025

TOPIC

New Fraud Threats and Advanced Mitigation Strategies

The first half of the session will focus on emerging fraud cases and advanced detection and prevention strategies, including AI-driven fraud detection, cross-industry collaboration, and regulatory measures.


The second half will be conducted in a workshop style, engaging all participants to share insights covering Fraudulent A2P messages.

PRESENTERS
Endre Syvertsen, Customer Success & Fraud Prevention Specialist, Telenor Linx
Nashim Mullick, Senior Fraud Product Manager, PCCW Global
TOPIC

AI-Driven Invoice Parsing: Converting Unstructured Data into Usable Insights

  • Limitations of traditional processing – Handling diverse invoice layouts, OCR weaknesses, and manual workflows.
  • How AI/ML transforms data extraction – Applying NLP and deep learning for accurate and efficient processing.
  • Optimizing accuracy & workflow automation – Confidence scoring, anomaly detection, and ERP system integration.
PRESENTER
Maria Munoz, Product Manager, Linxa
CARRIER DISCUSSION PANEL

Fraud Dispute Management

Panelists will explore effective contract clauses that help prevent fraud disputes. The discussion will cover strategies and best practices to minimize disputes and reduce the time spent on them. An open discussion on defining fraud, when a Police Report is necessary, and sharing experiences and requirements for filing Police Reports. Additionally, new technologies and methods to ensure quick fraud updates would be explored, whether to replace the need for Police Reports.

MODERATOR
Debs Mallick, AVP RA & Business Control, PCCW Global | GSC Council
WORKSHOP

Using AI to Drive Efficiency in Back Office Operations

  • Assessing Customer Credit Risks
  • Fraud Detection
  • Revenue Assurance & Leakage Prevention
  • AI in Regulatory Compliance & Data Governance
FACILITATOR
Mealy Khun, Head of Billing & Disputes, Orange Wholesale

DAY 3 - Thursday, 5 June 2025

TOPIC

Billing & Settlement Automation

How to implement small but impactful improvements to our current processes. Whilst changes aren’t feasible to overhaul the entire end-to-end process within our companies, we can still make meaningful changes that yield significant results.

PRESENTER
Virginia Burgueño Luque, Senior Mgr, Business Analysis & Monitoring Global Wholesale, Telefónica
TOPIC

Wholesale Billing in the 5G Era: Preparing for New Traffic Patterns & Settlement Models

  • How 5G-driven use cases (IoT, private networks, edge computing) are impacting wholesale interconnect billing.
  • Adapting interconnect agreements to accommodate ultra-low latency and dynamic traffic flows.
PRESENTER
Arjun Ishan, Senior Consultant, Subex
TOPIC

Zero Netting Unlocked

PRESENTER
ZIRA Group
TOPIC

Rise of Voice Incremental Billing in Whole Telecoms

PRESENTER
Orange Wholesale
TOPIC

Anti-Fraud & Number Intelligence

PRESENTER
TMT ID
WORKSHOP

Carrier Billing Models

  • Billing Models
  • Rounding Rules
  • A2P vs. Voice
  • Pricelists vs. Bilateral Agreements
  • Billing Discrepancies
  • Signaling Billing
CO-FACILITATORS
Debs Mallick, AVP RA & Business Control, PCCW Global | GSC Council
Melanie Gaskin, Global Wholesale Voice Functional Specialist, BT
WORKSHOP

Numbering Plan

PRESENTER
Endre Syvertsen,
Customer Success & 
Fraud Prevention Specialist,
Telenor Linx | GSC Council

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