Photo review of Day One of the Telecom Application Developer Summit, 21-22 November 2013, Bangkok.

1. TADS
Day
One

2. Opening Keynote. ‘Operators Need New Telecom Applications and Services to Survive!’
from Suresh Sidhu, COO Celcom
Suresh got TADSummit off to a great start with a frank review of the importance and
challenges of telcos and app developers working together.

3. Audience listening intently to the Opening Keynote from Suresh Sidhu, COO Celcom

4. Opening Keynote Panel with (l-r) Loai Garelnabi, Vice President/Digital Technology
Etisalat Group; Mark White, CEO Locatrix; Suresh Sidhu, COO Celcom; Maarten
Ectors, Cloud Strategy Director Ubuntu/Canonical; and Jose de Castro, CTO Tropo.
Jose captivating the audience (as usual) – and his logo nicely placed.

5. Coffee Break Networking and Demos
A unique mix of developers, telcos and vendors

6. Telecom Summit. TELCO CASE STUDY: Practical Experiences of Re-Inventing
Telephony. Dragana Linfield, Director of Future Communications, Etisalat Group Digital
Services
Dragana shows how Etisalat can innovate fast with Telecom APIs!

7. Telecom Summit. CASE STUDIES: Building Vibrant and Local Market Focused
Application Developer Communities in Emerging Markets
Dinesh Saparamadu, CEO hSenid Mobile
Dinesh had much interest on how he built app dev success in emerging markets

8. Telecom Summit Chair: Andy Abramson, Founder of Comunicano. An open and frank
discussion as Telcos shared what they learned in working with developers. Panelists: (r-l)
Dragana Linfield, Director of Future Communications at Etisalat Group Digital Services, Dinesh
Saparamadu, CEO hSenid Mobile; Mark Windle, Head of Marketing at OpenCloud; Normandes
José Moreira Junior, Head of Service Development, Algar Telecom

9. Developer Summit. JuJu Mobicents Charms: A Revolution in Deploying Telecom
Applications. Maarten Ectors, Senior Cloud Strategist at Ubuntu/Canonical.
Maarten kicked off the Dev Summit with a powerful DevOps demo.

10. Developer Summit. When JavaScript meets Telco : helping web developers build telco
applications. Philippe Sultan, Co-founder and CTO, Apidaze
Philippe shows how easy APIdaze has made Telecom APIs for enterprise developers.

11. Developer Summit. Demonstration of Building and Running Telecom Applications
on Telecom APIs. Jose de Castro, CTO Tropo.
Jose gave some great live demos with live coding – high risk and fantastic demos!

12. Lunch time networking at the Sponsors’ Tables

13. Telecom Summit. Building a successful telecom application ecosystem:
Huawei's plan for success. Mac Taylor, Senior Consultant, Huawei
Mac sets out a compelling vision of the future with telecom app developers.

14. Mac explains the Telecom Application Developer Manifesto

15. Telecom Summit. Panel Discussion: How do we replicate success?
(r-l) Rajgopal Sunder, Vice President - Value Added Services at Bakrie Telecom; Dinesh
Saparamadu, CEO hSenid Mobile; and Mac Taylor, Senior Consultant, Huawei
A lively discussion with the people driving change in our industry!

16. Telecom Summit. Panel Discussion: How do we replicate success?
The audience discussion was quite intense!

17. And the discussions continued in the Coffee Break Networking and Demos

18. 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!

19. Developer Summit. Mobile subscriber availability alert service
Albert Ho, Technical Director, Kalsym
Albert is a Telecom Application Developer and he’s building great apps!

20. At the end of a long day a chance to relax with a drink