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GSC Forum – April 2023

25-27 April 2023, Athens, Greece

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DAY 1 – Tuesday, 25 April 2023

OTEGLOBE Welcome & Company Presentation

SPEAKER
Mr George Nikoloudis, Director, OTEGLOBE
TOPIC

Global Wholesale Market Updates

  • Outlook & trends
  • Mergers & acquisition
  • Future of Wholesale Telecom Industry
PRESENTER
Mr Julian Watson, Principal Analyst Wholesale Telecoms, Omdia
TOPIC

How to Battle the Premium Rate Fraudsters

  • Status of fraud within Telecom
  • How the fraudsters exploit our trust
  • How to determine threats
  • Global fraud scenarios – top 3/4/5 Fraud types & method
  • Describe IRSF, Wangiri, PBX/IPBX, Roaming fraud
  • How to detect & stop traffic towards misused premium rate numbers
  • What measures to take to avoid fraud
  • How fraudsters get financial benefits
  • Why police reporting is important
PRESENTER
Mr Endre Syvertsen, Sr Product Manager, Telenor Linx
Mr Nashim Mullick, Sr Fraud Prevention Manager, PCCW Global
TOPIC

Introducing the International Telecoms Risk Forum

  • Discussion of how a collaboration between the ITRF & the GSC could benefit carrier communities
  • Collaboration & reciprocal support
PRESENTER
Mr Laurie Beagle, FCICM Managing Director, ITRF
TOPIC

General Risks Workstream Update

PRESENTER
Mr Paul Fedarb, Sr Manager, GW Voice & B2C, BT / GSC Council
TOPIC

Insight into BCE roaming

  • Introduction to BCE Roaming
  • Explanation of BCE Agreements
  • Obtaining a holistic view of Intercarrier and Roaming businesses
PRESENTER
Mr Jon Fowler, Senior Product Manager, CSG International

DAY 2 – Wednesday, 26 April 2023

TOPIC

Call Line Identification (CLI) Spoofing

PRESENTER
Mr Michalis Kostakis, Senior Engineer, OTEGLOBE
TOPIC

A2P Market Overview & Trends

PRESENTER
Mr Simon Dodsworth, VP, Voice Trading, Arelion / GSC Council
TOPIC

A2P Messaging Fraud

  • A walk through A2P fraud incident
  • A2P fraud types and ways to detect them
  • A2P SMS Fraud Prevention Guidelines
  • Fraud prevention / solution for Voice OTP fraud, int’l A2P SMS
PRESENTER
Mr Endre Syvertsen, Sr Product Manager, Telenor Linx
Mr Nashim Mullick, Sr Fraud Prevention Manager, PCCW Global
TOPIC

Wholesale Revenue Assurance Evolution

PRESENTER
Ms Zainab Khan, Disputes Manager, Telenor Linx
TOPIC

Wholesale Self-Service Experience – Digital First

FACILITATOR
ZIRA
TOPIC

MEF Introduction & Collaboration

PRESENTER
Ms Suzy Menneret, Mobile Ecosystem Forum
TOPIC

Evolution of B2B Billing

  • With new technology enabled and looking outwards to partners & customers, enablement of B2B billing for future & new use cases
PRESENTER
Mr Subrat Saurabh, Director Business Consulting, Subex

DAY 3 - Thursday, 27 April 2023

TOPIC

AR Insurance & Accounting Treatment for Bad Debts

  • Bad Debt policy
  • Fraud dispute provisioning in books
  • AR Insurance a means to increasing business in high-risk territory
PRESENTER
Mr Karunesh Kumar, AVP & Global Head Collections, TATA Communications
TOPIC

Traffic Corridor - Bringing Retail & Wholesale Market Together

MODERATOR
Mr Muhammad Asad Khan, Global Head of Presales, ICT Tomia
TOPIC

Commercial Challenges in Telecom Traditional Services

PRESENTER
Ms Le Thi Hien Chief, Carrier Business Div, VNPT International
TOPIC

P2A and Revenue Assurance Controls

PRESENTER
Ms Yvonne Tsui, Head, Global Finance Ops, Telstra
TOPIC

New Challenges in OBR/OBP

PRESENTER
Ms Inne Michiels, Financial Customer Operations Manager, BICS
TOPIC

Fraud Prevention Update

PRESENTER
Ms Marie Dagousset, Dispute Manager, Orange
TOPIC

The Challenges of Number Portability

  • Numbering plans
  • Number portability
  • Invoicing based on the numbering plan or the real network data
  • OBR + Number portability
PRESENTER
Ms Charlotte Avebäck, Head of Carrier Resolutions Arelion
TOPIC

Vendor Panel: Pricelist Automation Challenges

  • Journey from manual to automatic import of pricelists
  • Shift to OBR formatted rate offerings
  • Challenges in OBR based rate-sheets
  • System readiness to handle these challenges
  • Observations on manual workload
MODERATOR
Ms Zainab Khan, Disputes Manager, Telenor Linx