This is a selection of some of the talks that have been given at RAG meetings. We are grateful to the presenters for allowing us to share their content.
Joseph Nderitu gave the keynote presentation at RAG Johannesburg 2019, talking with great power and humour about the need to preserve integrity in the face of corruption. The lecture drew upon the incident in April 2019 when Joseph, who was then employed as Head of RAFM at Vodacom Tanzania, was … [continue]
Gjurgjica ‘Gina’ Pesheva of Deutsche Telekom was both the host and a keynote speaker at RAG Bonn 2019, where she talked about the reasons her award-winning team had expanded the scope of their work beyond the limits of traditional revenue assurance. Their vision is to ‘put business assurance in the … [continue]
Arnd Baranowski is the CEO of Oculeus, who are research partners of the University of Kassel’s Professor Bernhard Sick. Both gentlemen gave an exciting joint presentation at RAG Bonn 2019 which was about exploiting the capabilities of SIP and machine learning in order to prevent fraud. The innovative new methods … [continue]
Geoff Ibbett of RAG and Symmetry Solutions spoke at RAG Johannesburg 2019 about the catalogue of leakage points that he maintains on behalf of the industry, and the leakage coverage survey which is based upon that catalogue. The slide pack includes examples of the coverage results for five real telcos, … [continue]
Ashwin Menon of Subex is one of the most popular recurring speakers at RAG conferences. His presentation at RAG Bahrain 2019 covered the hot topic of using artificial intelligence to automatically identify anomalies that may represent revenue leakages or avoidable costs. You can take a look at Ashwin’s slide pack … [continue]
Adil Bertal is a Senior Key Account Manager (KAM) at SIGOS, specialists in automated end-to-end testing. Adil was a speaker at RAG Bahrain 2019, where he talked about the use of active and hybrid testing techniques for revenue assurance. His presentation included examples of the kinds of errors found by … [continue]
John Haraburda (pictured) and Ayad Alqadi of iconectiv spoke at RAG Bahrain 2019 about the subject of “Actual Intelligence”, by which they mean the use of actionable and precise information that is obtained from sources outside of the telco. Take a look at the kind of information that is available … [continue]
TEOCO are leaders in using network data to improve the making of decisions by telcos, and Jacob Howell is responsible for the research and development of their business analytics solutions. Jacob was one of the speakers at RAG Bahrain 2019, where he talked about the massive surge in networked computing … [continue]
Daniel Udochi is the General Manager responsible for Risk, Ethics and Compliance Management at MTN Sudan. He came to RAG Bahrain 2019 to speak about the psychology of risk management, and to share his experience with affecting how his colleagues think about risk. Daniel’s presentation was full of insights drawn … [continue]
Customers hold telcos responsible for protecting the data stored on devices that are connected to the telco’s network, even though the device was manufactured by a different business. How can we begin to assess the scale of the risk now being driven by the use of a wide range of … [continue]
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