40 interactive roundtables connect you with experts, potential partners and your most important peers
Hosted by a moderator, roundtable discussion groups bring together a cross section of the tower industry supply chain to share ideas, expertise, and challenges around specified topics or markets. Each roundtable will assemble up to 20 executives and will last an hour. With two roundtable sessions scheduled on each day, participants will have the opportunity to join four roundtables during the course of the event.
Confirmed roundtable topics and moderators
Country focus: Australia & New Zealand
Tom Andrews, Managing Director, Aird Towers
Country focus: China #1
Guo Fang, VP of Infrastructure and Development, Miteno
Country focus: China #2
Hu Gang, GM of Finance & Administration, Guodong Networks
Country focus: Indonesia
Kingston Pang, Managing Director, Redpeak Advisers
Country focus: India
Sachin Gupta, Managing Director, New Street Capital Asia
Country focus: Sri Lanka
Mohan Villavarayan, Managing Director, edotco Sri Lanka
Country focus: Bangladesh
Rahul Chaudhary, Managing Director, edotco Bangladesh
Country focus: Cambodia
Phillip Wong, Managing Director, edotco Cambodia
Country focus: Pakistan
Arif Hussain, Country Managing Director, edotco Pakistan
Shah Faisal S. Khattak, Head of Infrastructure Development, Telenor Pakistan
Country focus: Vietnam
Wai Khee Yap, Group CEO, OCK Group
In-building solutions (IBS): market evolution and lessons learned from Japan and Vietnam
Atsushi Tanaka, Director Representative, JTOWER
CFO Forum
Thivanka Rangala, CFO, edotco Group
Tower monetisation: charting your strategic sale and/or IPO path
Kingston Pang, Managing Director, Redpeak Advisers
Lessons learned on reducing cost of towerco financing
Sander Hamersma, Managing Director, Head of TMT Asia Pacific, Mizuho Bank
Funding and financing your business growth: one towerco’s journey
David Higate, Managing Director, Omnix
Pricing considerations and common pitfalls to avoid with your commercial negotiations
Simon McFadden, GM Sales, Product & Business Development, Broadcast Australia
Regulators and towercos: a necessary dialogue to connect the next billion
Mario Maniewicz, Deputy Director, Radiocommunication Bureau, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Regulatory challenges in India’s tower industry and the ways forward
Tilak Raj (TR) Dua, Director General, TAIPA
Operational and management excellence to successful tower monetisation
Charles Green, Executive Chairman, Helios Towers Africa
Building a holistic towerco catalog: RAN sharing and alternative solutions
Subhash Devan, COO, Naza Communications
Business diversification: do towercos want to be ESCOs?
Ir Nalini Subramaniam, Director of Engineering edotco Group
PT Pawar, Head of Energy Management, edotco Group
Tower maintenance: standards and best practices in China
Liu Wendong, VP, Beijing Rui Lan Zuo Yue (RLZY)
How towercos and MNOs can prepare for 5G
Chuan Wei Lim, Partner, Analysys Mason
Successful green deployments in the tower sector
Sushil Kumar Chaturvedi, Director & CEO, Ascend Telecom Infrastructure
Accelerating build-to-suit, construction and colocation
Spencer Crawford-White, Chief Technical Officer, Delmec
Strengthening structures versus optimising equipment
Spencer Crawford-White, Chief Technical Officer, Delmec
Case studies on reducing OPEX costs at bad-grid and off-grid sites
Elena Gatcheva, VP Strategic Partnerships, METKA IPS
Additional provisional roundtable topics
Country focus: Thailand
Country focus: Myanmar
General Counsel Forum
CTO Forum
Negotiating smart MLAs
Reducing total cost of ownership
Energy management excellence
Operational best practices
To suggest a topic for discussion or enquire about hosting a session, please contact Christie Liu, Head of Asia.