Testimonials

What Our Delegates Say

It was my pleasure to attend the Mobile Number Portability Forum which was held in Dubai on 11-12 Feb 2013. We had greatly time listening & receiving very useful informations about MNP and sharing experiences with others friends

Manager/Segment Marketing
Etisalat

The NP forum provided a forum to network with people and fully understand best practices adopted as presented by various speakers. It was well organized by Tavess, well attended with top industry professionals on hand to assist with questions/queries.

Technical Manager
Globacom Nigeria

We thank you for the initiative to host the MNP Forum at such a time as this. For us in Nigeria, it is timely as we plan to launch in Q1 of 2013, the topical areas covered were insightful and direct. The forum was able to provide broad, rich and global perspectives of the number portability from the operators, consumers and the regulatory angles. Kudos to the Tavess team for excellent and progressive forum.

Information Support Manager
Globacom Nigeria

Thanks a lot to give us this gold opportunities about this important issue. Looking for more communication in future. Again thank you so much for your care.

Consumers Products Development Manager
Sudatel

Please accept my congratulations on very successful and well managed event. It was well produced. I really enjoyed it after a long time. Reasonable number of speakers, good participation from solution providers, very meaningful discussions and sufficient time to express, were the main features, I must appreciate.

Director RA and Fraud Management
Mobilink (GSM)

Tavess RA/FMP was a great conference, well organized. Lots of good topics and presentations packed with case studies and insights. I enjoyed meeting with a diverse crowd of people that demonstrated professionalism and enthusiasm with real passion. Looking forward for upcoming events.

Revenue Assurance Specialist
Canar Telecommunication Company

For a newcomer in the Telecom and more specifically, RAFM conference space, Tavess has shown a good understanding of the issues driving the industry and the people who desire a forum to meet, share, learn and network.
The successful composition of speakers and panelists, the relevant but diverse topics and the highly interactive sessions till the last presentation have all created very high expectations for TAVESS' 2013 RAFM forum.

Principal Consultant
Telecom Advisory Services

Tavess produced a great event. Well organised, great venue and some strong speaker content made the event well worth attending.

CEO
AssuringBusiness

Even though this was an inaugural event it was very well attended and excellently organised. Cloudmark enjoyed participating in this event and is very likely to continue to do so.

Senior Director
Cloudmark

This event brought together a diverse group of professionals focused on a specific set of business challenges. It was a great opportunity to share practices and experiences.

Chief Technology Officer
Wavenet

Mobile Beat is one of its kind events in the country bringing together diverse and eclectic group of people from across the mobile value chain with their latest offerings, applications,business models, innovations and ideas...

Co-founder & Executive Director
Paymate

A great forum to meet decision makers and professionals to exchange and share opinions. Well organized and very good attention paid to the relevant topics. The amount of preparation work that went into the meetings was good, and I’d like to congratulate Tavess for doing an excellent job.

Vice President, Product Management
IMImobile

We at Stay In Touch (SINT) Mobile are proud to have been associated with Tavess for the last 2 years. Their networking events have provided an excellent platform for a budding company like ours to interact with industry experts and understand market requirements to fine tune ourselves accordingly. It is a unique service that they provide, driven by passionate individuals. We look forward to our continued association with Tavess as we grow along with them.

Vice President
SINT Mobile

Managed Events

A dedicated division within Tavess offering clients a full-service event production, sales, marketing and project management solution in alignment with the overall corporate marketing plan. The event, driven by the client's marketing goals, is planned and executed by a dedicated team at Tavess, with combined experience of over six decades, to ensure the desired results and exclusive benefits that no other event could bring about.

Why managed events?

Corporates and associations often look for a platform to market and promote their offerings to their target audience. Events provide such marketing platforms to raise awareness, build brand, generate leads and network one-on-one with your target audience. Tavess' managed events take this to the next level by putting the client in the driving seat where the goals and desired exclusive benefits are set by the client. Tavess' team thereafter works in close co-ordination with the client to produce, sell, market, manage the project and run the show.

Managed event is a great tool for clients looking to expand in a new market or geography, raise awareness of new products and product updates, reinforce brand and benefits before existing customers, acquire new customers and achieve broader marketing objectives.

To learn more about Tavess managed events, please contact us at managedevents@tavess.com

About Tavess

The Team Why Attend Why Sponsor Past Sponsors

Tavess Conferences bring together telecoms ecosystems to enable highest quality knowledge exchange on emerging business and technology issues faced by telcos in the rapidly evolving telcommunications segments.

Via a mix of rich content and networking opportunities at each event, Tavess provides a support system for thought leaders and decision makers at telcos and solution providers to spur business and technology advancements.

The Team

Smita



Smita Shrivastava
Founder & CEO


Smita has over 13 years of experience in marketing and engineering roles in telecoms industry. At Tavess, she leads the mission and vision of providing learning and networking platform for professionals in emerging domains in telecoms industry.

As a telecoms professional herself, she experienced the need for continual learning in order to keep abreast with the ever evolving telecommunications industry, and that laid the foundation for Tavess. A firm believer in evidence based decisions, Smita is a hands-on leader with a passion for telecoms technologies and markets.

Smita has been key contributor in technical, marketing and product management capacities at HelloSoft (now Imagination Technologies), Brocade Communications and Ricochet. Prior to Tavess, she was responsible for corporate and product marketing at HelloSoft.

Smita holds an MBA from INSEAD, France, MS from University of California at Santa Cruz, USA, and Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India.

Katrin



Katrin Peränen
Head, Conference Production

Katrin began her career in conference production in the 1990s whilst working for the President of Estonia and the IDAB. She organised a number of high level, large scale security conferences (200-600 participants) and workshops in Tallinn and Riga for the Office of the President of Estonia, the IDAB, Baltic Foreign and Defence ministries as well as local NGOs.

In 1998, she joined IIR’s Telecoms & Technology division in London and started specialising in the production of both large scale and niche events for the telecoms industry. During her time at IIR, she gained extensive experience in the production of established as well as brand new events.

Katrin has produced 70+ international conferences in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America on a wide range of technical and commercial issues facing the communications industry. Her employers have included established conference companies and associations as well as specialised consultancies.

Katrin holds a Bachelors Degree in International Affairs & Economics from Vesalius College (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and a Masters Degree in War Studies from King's College London.


Why Attend

Quality Events:

  • Built upon decades of telcoms and events industry experience
  • Thoroughly researched events that capture the pulse of the telecoms segments
  • Focused on "getting questions answered"
  • Well balanced with telcos, industry experts and solution providers under one roof

At the event..

  • Gain insights from operator case studies and lessons learned
  • Question directly and learn from the subject matter experts
  • Engage in round-tables and interactive panel discussions
  • Enable solutions providers to understand your specific needs
  • Build awareness of the latest products and solutions, and how they support your initiatives
  • Network with key decision-makers from across the ecosystem
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Why Sponsor

Tavess sponsorship and marketing teams work closely with sponsors and exhibitors to maximize value delivered via branding in all pre- and post-event marketing that reaches hundreds of thousands of targeted audience.

At the event..

Sponsoring Tavess events enable you to:

  • Showcase your solutions to the right audience
  • Connect with key decision makers at events reputed to be well attended by senior level executives and decision makers
  • Hold exclusive one-on-one meetings with existing and potential customers
  • Generate qualified leads and build prospects
  • Establish and strengthen thought leadership via presenting your subject matter expertise before target audience

In essence, an apt platform for your business advancements...

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