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Agenda for Monday, 2 June 2008

 

Workshop attire is casual dress

Value in Membership; Convergence in Services, Wireless Media,

and Entertainment  

Pre-Conference Workshops

Track 1:  Jump Starting into TL 9000

Moderator:  Sue Clancy, BIZPHYX

2:00 - 3:30

Jump Start: Preparing for Your Organizations TL 9000 Journey

 

Jump Starting a TL 9000 Initiative: Tools, Tips and What it Takes to be Successful. Looking to Jump Start your TL 9000 program? Gotten started, but need a boost? We can help! Includes presentations from experts who offer practical guidance on how to implement TL 9000.

3:30 - 3:45

Break

3:45 - 5:00

Testimonials, Tips & Tools, Basic Registration, Measurement Repository and Web Operations Systems

5:00 - 5:15

Question & Answer Session

Track 2: New Member Orientation

Moderator:  Art Morrical

2:00 - 3:30

New Member Introduction to the QuEST Forum: Making the most of your membership

Presenter: Jennifer Simcox, BIZPHYX

 

What is QuEST Forum all about? Join us for a new member orientation of the QuEST Forum.

3:30 - 3:45

Break

3:45 - 4:15

QuEST Forum Website ? Where is it?

Presenter: Richard Morrow, University of Texas at Dallas 

 

Where in the World Wide Web are we? Join us for an overall QuEST Forum tour including the TL 9000 site.

4:15 - 4:30

Break

4:30 - 5:15

Using the Standard Outage Template System (SOTS)

Presenter: Belle Kipping, Cisco

 

Discuss the use of the newly revised R4.0 template for reporting outages by service providers to their suppliers and by suppliers to analyze and produce their processed outage measurement data.

 

 

 Agenda for Tuesday, 3 June 2008 

 

Conference attire is business casual

Value in Membership; Convergence in Services, Wireless Media,

and Entertainment  

 

8:00 - 5:00

Registration

8:00 - 9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome

Mr. Brendan Pelan, Americas Region Chair and Senior Quality Leader, Verizon Communications

9:15 - 9:50

Keynote: TL 9000 -

A Destination or a Journey?

Mr. Pierre Cyr, VP Global Quality & Customer Satisfaction, Alcatel-Lucent

9:50 -10:25

 

Continued FTTP Deployment and Quality Improvements

 

Mr. Michael Daigle, VP Network Planning, Verizon Communications

10:25 -10:55

Break - Please visit our exhibitor booths

10:55 -11:30

 

Leveraging Six Sigma to Enhance TELUS Operations

 

Mr. Andrew Nuanes, VP Customer Solutions Delivery - Alberta, TELUS

11:30 -12:30

 

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Quality in a Converged Environment

 

Mr. Jim Engman, Head of Major Accounts Canada, Nokia Siemens Networks

Mr. Fraser Pajak, VP National Network

Assurance, TELUS

Mr. Josh Shipman, VP Business Development, ReachView Technologies

12:30-12:45 Question & Answer Session Moderator: Mr. Fraser Pajak, VP National Network Assurance, TELUS

12:45 - 1:45

Lunch

1:45 - 2:40

 

State of QuEST Forum

 

Mr. Ron Ostrowski, QuEST Forum Chair of the Board and Executive Strategic Operations US Service Provider, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Mr. Don Pickens, QuEST Forum Chief

Operating Officer

2:40 - 3:15

ESD Trends in a Converged World

Ted Dangelmayer, President & CEO, Dangelmayer Associates

3:15 - 3:45

Break - Please visit our exhibitor booths

3:45 - 4:20

 

Trainer/Consultant Perspective of TL 9000 Certification in the Convergence Era

 

Ms. Karen Rawson, Senior Consultant,

SAI Global

4:20 - 5:00

Vendor Scorecard Evolution:

A Partnership

Mr. Tony Bell, Director Network Integrity and Network Risk Management, TELUS

Mr. Bob Marble, Canadian Country Manager Customer Service, Juniper Networks

5:00 Adjourn Mr. Brendan Pelan, Americas Region Chair and Senior Quality Leader, Verizon Communications

Special Invitation: Join QuEST Forum for a spectacular evening of networking at Spruce Meadows!

 

Our Networking Dinner will be held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.  Tuesday evening. Registration is required. The cost is $50 USD per attendee.  Meet in the hotel lobby at 6:15 pm.

 

 


Agenda for Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Conference attire is business casual

Value in Membership; Convergence in Services, Wireless Media,

and Entertainment  

 

8:00 - 5:00

Registration

8:00 - 9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:10

Welcome

Mr. Brendan Pelan, Americas Region Chair and Senior Quality Leader, Verizon Communications

9:10 - 9:55

 

Keynote: Convergence: People...People...People...

 

Mr. Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO - TELUS

9:55 - 10:30

 

TL 9000 Implications for Service Assurance and Next Generation Service Management

 

Mr. Josh Shipman, VP Business Development, ReachView Technologies

10:30 - 11:00

Break - Please visit our exhibitor booths

11:00 - 11:35

 

Managing Change Management - Applying ITIL to a Living Network

 

Mr. Greg Schaal, Sevice Development Manager, TELUS

11:35 - 12:10

 

Performance Data Report Enhancements

 

Mr. Ken Koffman, Global Corporate Quality Officer - Big Band Networks

12:10 - 1:15

Lunch

1:15 - 1:50

Converged Access Networks Over IP/Ethernet

 Joe Manuele, Managing Director America's International and EMEA, ADTRAN, Inc.

1:50 - 2:25

Governance and How it Relates to Data and IT networks

Ms. Fariba Anderson, Managing Partner, Manta Group

2:25 - 3:00

Tying Together the Generations and Technology - Building Bridges

Don Irvine, Director of Product Development,

QuEST Forum

3:00 - 3:30

Break - Please visit our exhibitor booths

3:30 - 4:05

 

Convergence: The Broadband Challenge

 

Mr. Kevin Calhoun, Director, Global Quality, Environmental & Training, Corning, Inc.

4:05 - 4:20 Adjourn

Mr. Fraser Pajak, VP National Network

Assurance, TELUS

 

 

 

Work Groups

Agenda for Thursday-Friday, 5-6 June 2008

 

Work Group attire is business casual

 

  

Thursday, 5 June 2008

 

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Oversight

GlobalComm

TBE

 

Friday, 6 June 2008

 

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

IGQ