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26 - 27  November 2024

Shangri-La, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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2024 Agenda

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08:00
  1. 60 mins
    • Networking & Registration
09:00
  1. Conference room
    30 mins
    • Main stage
10:50
  1. Networking break
    Exhibition Hall
    40 mins
    • Networking & Registration
11:30
  1. Conference room
    15 mins
    • Main stage
    We are in a pivotal period for the telecom industry. It needs to reinvent itself to improve its profitability, carbon footprint, rural coverage and market cross-fertilization. This session will aim to lay the foundations for the opportunity for towercos to play a major role in this transformation process.
11:45
  1. Conference room
    45 mins
    • Main stage
    - What is driving carrier consolidation around the world? - How do networks evolve following a merger and do they prompt new 5G, fibre, and digital transformation investments? - Following a merger how ...
12:30
  1. Conference room
    15 mins
    • Main stage
    The Product Showcase is a unique snapshot on C-level executives from leading towercos as they appraise and evaluate how technology can impact their businesses, as well as an opportunity to hear from t ...
12:45
  1. Networking lunch
    Exhibition Hall
    90 mins
    • Networking & Registration
14:15
  1. Breakout rooms (choose preferred session for location)
    60 mins
    • Breakouts

    This year’s breakout agenda features a variety of Working Groups, Country Spotlight and Industry roundtable sessions. Exclusive to towercos and their technology providers, our working group sessions are curated unite senior audiences on the technically driven topics which matter most.

    Our special country roundtables highlight seven key APAC markets – Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines – and the issues and opportunities that will help instil tower growth as a result of maximising their market’s connectivity potential.

    Our industry roundtables concentrate on several focus driven topics that are among the key talking points at the heart of site build, rollout and transactional activity across the wider APAC region

     

  2. Working Group room
    60 mins
    • Breakouts

    Some of the region’s more innovative towercos are looking at how to build sites in a way that reduces costs and maximises loading. At the same time towercos need new micro site designs that can deliver good throughput at street level. In more developing cities modernisation plans are putting new demands on infrastructure, high rises are being built, and existing structures are facing new demands. What are the latest trends around design innovation from towercos?

  3. Roundtable B
    60 mins
    • Breakouts

    - How can towercos build their national capability delivery as operations develops at scale?

    - FTTH: Why fibre-to-the-home is set to transform digital infrastructure activity in the country, through the combination of focusing on FTTH and fixed mobile convergence

    - Market consolidation: How consolidation in the country’s tower market will affect Indonesia’s need to have a rapid expansion in the number of towers to help serve the connectivity needs of a growing and young population

  4. Roundtable C
    60 mins
    • Breakouts

    - Tower design and innovations – fulfilling network densification requirements as 5G rollout becomes imminent?

    - Also, building a tower to resist against adverse weather conditions – key trends in reducing cost of build and mastering logistical challenges

    - Power backup arrangements and grid availability challenges in dealing with adverse weather conditions

  5. Roundtable D
    60 mins
    • Breakouts
  6. Roundtable E
    60 mins
    • Breakouts
  7. Roundtable F
    60 mins
    • Breakouts
  8. Roundtable G
    60 mins
    • Breakouts
15:15
  1. Networking break
    30 mins
17:40
  1. Exhibition Hall
    -1060 mins
    • Networking & Registration
08:00
  1. 75 mins
    • Digital Malaysia
09:15
  1. Conference room
    50 mins
    • Digital Malaysia
    - Market consolidation impact: what effect has tower acquisition and operator consolidation post-covid had on ASEAN countries’ ability to rollout of towers and respond to a growing, young population a ...
10:05
  1. Conference room
    40 mins
    • Digital Malaysia
    - Which alternative typologies are supporting the development of smart cities, including a look at key trends around network densification and use cases - Whether increased take-up in in-building conn ...
11:00
  1. Networking break
    Exhibition Hall
    45 mins
    • Networking & Registration
11:45
  1. Breakout rooms (choose preferred session for location)
    45 mins
    • Breakouts

    This year’s breakout agenda features a variety of Working Groups, Country Spotlight and Industry roundtable sessions. Exclusive to towercos and their technology providers, our working group sessions are curated unite senior audiences on the technically driven topics which matter most.

    Our special country roundtables highlight seven key APAC markets – Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines – and the issues and opportunities that will help instil tower growth as a result of maximising their market’s connectivity potential.

    Our industry roundtables concentrate on several focus driven topics that are among the key talking points at the heart of site build, rollout and transactional activity across the wider APAC region

  2. Working Group room
    45 mins
    • Breakouts
    Towercos are accommodating to range of customer needs and end-to-end requirements for infrastructure, creating integration across all the services MNOs require. Assessments, structural certification a ...
  3. Roundtable B
    45 mins
    • Breakouts
    - Will a slew of regulation taken place in Bangladesh result in M&A activity in the country, or will the economic environment of high interest and inflation perturb activity? - Re-establishing a tower ...
  4. Roundtable C
    45 mins
    • Breakouts
    - China’s urbanisation drive and the commercial opportunities to transition towards implementing 5G DAS in indoor areas and large-scale entertainment venues across the PRC - 5G monetisation use cases ...
  5. Roundtable D
    45 mins
    • Breakouts
    - How to best leverage the potential in small cells, fibre, and fibre backhaul to implement 5G use cases and private 5G. - The continued push on fiberisation in order for the country to hit its covera ...
  6. Roundtable E
    45 mins
    • Breakouts
  7. Breakout 2F: Industry roundtable: Predicting tomorrow’s BTS demand
    Roundtable F
    45 mins
    • Breakouts
  8. Roundtable G
    45 mins
    • Breakouts
12:30
  1. Exhibition Hall
    90 mins
    • Networking & Registration
14:00
  1. 60 mins

    This year’s breakout agenda features a variety of Working Groups, Country Spotlight and Industry roundtable sessions. Exclusive to towercos and their technology providers, our working group sessions are curated unite senior audiences on the technically driven topics which matter most.

    Our special country roundtables highlight seven key APAC markets – Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines – and the issues and opportunities that will help instil tower growth as a result of maximising their market’s connectivity potential.

    Our industry roundtables concentrate on several focus driven topics that are among the key talking points at the heart of site build, rollout and transactional activity across the wider APAC region.

  2. Conference room
    40 mins
    • Digital Malaysia
  3. Working Group room
    60 mins
    • Breakouts
    Small cells represent a market of opportunity for the region’s towercos. So how should they scale up their business with through the widespread rollout of small cells? And how can towercos diversify and enhance their revenues through fiberisation and small cells.
  4. Roundtable B
    60 mins
    • Breakouts

    - Addressing the passive infra requirements of the country in a settled towerco market landscape

    - Given recent signs of the country’s ministerial body signalling the essential importance of connectivity services in line with basic utilities, what opportunities does this present for the country’s towercos and its MNO customers? 

    - TIND policy – What real estate companies in Australia can learn from towerco rollout in new development builds?

  5. Roundtable C
    60 mins
    • Breakouts

    - Can a very mature network of MNO towers that were never shared be transformed to a tower sharing model as their priorities become re-focused towards softwarisation?

    - With many in-building solutions being installed in the country, will Japan see In-building connectivity demand really take off?

  6. Roundtable D
    60 mins
    • Breakouts
  7. Roundtable E
    60 mins
    • Breakouts
15:00
  1. Exhibition Hall
    30 mins
    • Networking & Registration
15:20
  1. -920 mins
    • Digital Malaysia
17:00
  1. Exhibition Hall
    -1020 mins
    • Networking & Registration