Telecoms: transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and the internet.

Cloud Communications

Cloud: BS term used to hype stuff up (just like the word digital)

Communications: what PR people do

Cloud Communications = #BSPR

$2.2T

$260B

Brown-Nosed Middle

Manager!

Market chatter is monopolized by weak-minded marketing people (#WMP)

NFV SDN

Digital

Tripe

Internet

Of Things

Mobile Everything, WebRTC

SERVICES

No. We tried a similar service in our market and it failed, and we’re never ever

going to try again

What do you think of this service idea?

No. It will not work in our market. Because I’m a 50 year old guy who understands all my customers better

than they know themselves.

What do you think of this service idea?

No. We have a similar service launched, and are not going to experiment

in trying to make it better or address other

customer segments.

What do you think of this service idea?

No. It must be delivered through our preferred SI or NEP, who will copy / kill

the service immediately.

What do you think of this service idea?

No. We’re waiting on annual budgets to be confirmed, sometime

in the next 6-12 months.

What do you think of this service idea?

No. You must work through our digital

group who we all hate and ignore as they’re

parasites on our business.

What do you think of this service idea?

The Web has won, so let’s get with the program

BUT no ‘black and white’ thinking!There’s space for both,

Telecom reaches 6B+ people

$150B

•  Find a problem or need that is poorly served in your life that you think can be solved / served much better

•  Hack a good enough solution to the core of that problem / need using pervasive technology

•  Focus on your customers and refine the solution given their usage (first) and feedback (second)

•  Build a company to dominate your region and enjoy making people happy

•  Not just programmers, product and design people as well.–  Team diversity is important for winning

•  Students: showcase talent to innovative companies

•  Businesses: copy Uber before someone else does and starts disrupting your business

•  Developers: create new services in hours, its the best and most fun 2 days of training you’ll get this year

•  $60k in prizes. So you have fun, free food, meet cool people, hack, and a good chance at winning some cash

Building a $150B Ecosystem

Tweecommand by Enis Getmez, Alkin Kaz, Can Erdogan, Ege Mert Ozenir and Alperen Kitapci who won $500. The team used Twitter APIs to control a PC and print something from the printer by sending Tweets. They were

young team(15 years old each) and put in a lot of effort.

Rent Reminder by Selin and Lee, a service for renters and landlords. Selin is a CX designer at NAB and Lee is a IT Graduate at Telstra. They are getting married in

November 2016. They’ve had this idea for a while but they started developing 13th June 2015 and finished 14th June 2015 – 24 Hours worth is what you see

Sri Lanka Winner: Car Park M-pay System by Sajith Udayanga, Sandun Maduranga, and Shivika Pussewela, who won the $1k Sri Lanka prize. An innovative solution for easy car

parking through mobile.

TADCall Team (Lisbon) of Afonso Oliveira, Joao Trindade, Simon Exposito, Alexandre Goncalves, Bruno Macedo who won $1k. Their hack was regain control of your mobile phone. Control who can call you, at what time and how frequently. With our solution you can create discardable phone numbers to different aspects of your life. Separate

you work calls from you personal time.

Hack ‘Samaritan’ by Charles Solar and Jiang Shuyang used Matrix and Flowroute resources, for a platform independent app which allows users to post requests for help “I got a flat tire!”” or “My computer crashed!” and allows others to call / text /

video chat with them to solve their problem. .

•  #DigitalTripe – weak-minded marketing overuse of the word Digital

•  #BABS – Bay Area BS

•  #WMP – weak-minded marketing people

•  #BSPR (aka cloud communications) – for those too scared / prejudice to say telecoms