MWC 2019 Seminar RCS Business Messaging: Intelligently Transforming Consumer Experiences

Jill has played a leadership role in helping RCS Business Messaging gain global traction from a standing start, engaging the industry via regular events and building an international ecosystem that has seen over 79 global network launches and approximately 286 million monthly active users around the world. She has also worked closely with multiple brands helping them to use RCS as a platform to communicate with their customers. Jill is also working closely with mobile operators in the move towards the 5G era.

Frank Nawabi is the Co-Founder and Head of Business Development of Tenor (Google), the world’s largest & fastest growing mobile GIF search engine — with more than 12 billion monthly searches and 300 million monthly users. Along with top-downloaded mobile apps, Tenor powers GIF sharing for leading mobile services like Facebook Messenger, Twitter, WhatsApp, and LINE. Tenor was acquired by Google in March, 2018. Prior to Tenor, Frank was Co-Founder and VP of Business Development at Redux (acquired by Crunchyroll).

Matthew Whalley is the co-founder of Ilex Content Strategies, a global marketing consultancy.

Ilex supports Technology and Telecoms companies with Public Relations, Marketing Content and Sales Enablement. It supports the development of Channel Partner Programmes, Lead Generation campaigns and Offline and Online Engagement.

Ilex serves start-ups through to billion-dollar businesses in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Our clients include Global Carriers and Mobile Operators, Experts in Programmable Networking, DRaaS and BaaS providers, Artificial Intelligence specialists and a whole range of innovators in B2B technology.

Matthew was the editor of Capacity magazine and the European Technology Content Director at global PR firm Edelman.

His business development skills and entrepreneurial spirit have allowed him to create a content marketing business from the ground up and see it succeed as a thriving global business,

John is an experienced IT leader who focuses on where technology can improve business performance from concepts to delivery. He is passionate about digital innovation and has driven a number of new global first.

With the advances in customer-facing systems and mobile technology, he believes that IT can now be a true enabler. He is also a believer that there are many options and an incredible number of ways IT can bring value, but selecting the right one which delivers most value is key.

His is a great believer in ‘looking after the staff (as we do at Virgin Trains) and they will look after the customers’. This ethic has a significant influence on the solutions that are implemented for our colleagues, ensuring that the solutions are intuitive and show the relevant information at the right time.

He now has overall responsibility for ‘change’ within Virgin Trains and believes that one of the key aspects for successful project delivery is getting the right innovation process. If you can capture the imagination of your stakeholders using your vision, you are half way to success.

Petja has been responsible for NG Communications within Deutsche Telekom’s Global Headquarter Services since August 2009. In this role, he is responsible for driving innovation & proposition design for fixed and mobile communication services, delivering these products to the 15 national companies of DT.

Since joining DT in 2000, Petja has held several leading positions at DT and T-Mobile Deutschland in the area of Marketing and Product Management.

Before joining Deutsche Telekom, Petja accompanied the advent of the Internet as a strategy consultant to local Telco carriers and led a start-up creating multimedia product & company presentations.

Gustavo is fervently passionate about entrepreneurship, focused on creating value for companies and undertaking revolutionary ideas to create disruptive solutions.

Broxel is a leading company in the Mexican financial market, that combines Gustavo’s three passions: Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship.

Josh Wigginton is Vice President of Product Management at Interop Technologies. In this role, he leads the product management team in defining new products and services based on market, industry and customer demand. His team is responsible for managing all aspects of the product lifecycle – from the initial business case to product delivery and ongoing support and roadmaps. Josh and his team are responsible for orchestrating key product launch initiatives to ensure a successful rollout by sales, marketing, and operations. Prior to joining Interop, Josh worked in Product Marketing at SmartDisk Corporation and held positions at Sony Corporation and NuGenesis Advertising.