Standardization and APIs: The Critical Enablers of Wholesale IoT Market Development
At the recent MEF Connects Wholesale 2025 Andrew Parkin-White of TecFutures joined MEF’s Nassia Skoulikariti and an all-star panel to discuss the importance of standardization and APIs the development of the wholesale IoT market. Here, Andrew shares his five key themes that emerged during the course of the discussion.The global IoT market is experiencing exponential growth, but this growth is not uniform but characterized by increasing complexity and diversification across multiple industry verticals.
Insights from the MEF Leadership Forum in Cape Town
MEF Programme Director Anzelle Robertson shares an overview of last week’s MEF Leadership Forum Africa in Cape Town, where industry leaders, innovators, and stakeholders met to explore the evolving challenges facing Africa’s telecommunications landscape. On 13 November 2024, Cape Town hosted the Mobile Ecosystem Forum Leadership Forum, a vibrant gathering of industry leaders and innovators to explore the evolving mobile and telecommunications landscape across Africa.
MEF Leadership Forum Canada – The Fast Track to Innovation, Collaboration and Fighting Fraud
At the MEF Leadership Forum Canada 2024 in Toronto, Tina Donaldson, VP of Strategy for netnumber, expert providers of phone number intelligence data, delivered key insights on messaging innovation and trust in mobile services. Her presentation covered some of the critical industry resources reducing messaging fraud in the U.S. and Canada, as well as the current development of a first-of-its-kind tool that will give the industry a major leg up against bad actors in texting.
MEF Leadership Forum Indonesia – The Evolving Digital Landscape in Asia Pacific
MEF and Telin recently collaborated to deliver the first-ever MEF Leadership Forum Indonesia, aimed at empowering businesses in the region to embrace digital transformation.In their keynote address, Fajrin Rasyid – Director of Digital Business, Telkom Indonesia explored the changing expectations of today’s customer, what they are looking for in a digital experience, and how trust, innovation and sustainability are paramount in the digital future.
MEF Leadership Forum Canada – Business Intelligence and Monitoring in a Multi-Channel Network
In a multichannel world striving to become omnichannel, how can we protect the network? What feedback loops are in place, and can they be improved? How will existing processes to know your customer, know your traffic, and know your customer’s customer scale in the RCS and OTT world? Leaders from Proofpoint, Enea, Aegis, and Bandwidth discuss.
MEF Leadership Forum Indonesia – Securing Networks, Applications, and Protecting Consumers
An expert panel with representatives from TELIN, Boku Inc, netnumber, PT. Bank Jasa Jakarta (Bank Saqu), ENEA AB and Akamai delves deep into the critical components that form a comprehensive shield against fraud and cyber threats. How can organisations implement robust identity validation across different levels to effectively combat the ever-present dangers of smishing, phishing, and spam. The panel explores the challenges and solutions within the cybersecurity landscape, the threats to networks, applications and consumers.
MEF Leadership Forum Canada – The Future of Connected Customer Conversations
The MEF Leadership Forum Canada explored the transformative power of AI and the crucial significance of trust and transparency in business messaging. In her keynote, Ruth Zive, CMO of LivePerson, will explore AI’s transformative power in telecommunications. She will discuss the current focus on improving customer conversations, high expectations around AI, and how to address growing skepticism
MEF Leadership Forum Indonesia – Available on Demand Now
Last week, MEF and Telin collaborated and delivered our first-ever events in Indonesia, aimed at empowering businesses in the region to embrace digital transformation. Earlier this week we published a selection of photos from the 2-day event and the entire show is available to watch on demand now. The inaugural MEF Leadership Forum Indonesia consisted of a full-day conference
The Role of AI in Traffic Compliance
MEF recently hosted a webinar examining the role of AI in digital marketing. Host Anzelle Robertson, Programme Director of DCB, Content & Advertising at MEF, shares her highlights. Our recent webinar titled “The Role of AI in Traffic Compliance” aimed to shed light on the evolving intersection of artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and compliance within the telecommunications and content advertising sectors and featured industry expert speakers Christopher Henseler of Mesh Ads and Jamil Gaith of Mobibox.
MEF Connects Wholesale: Positioning for Success in IoT for Wholesale Providers
At the recent MEF Connects Wholesale event in July 2024, TecFutures Co-Founder, Andrew Parkin-White, gave a presentation on the challenges and opportunities associated with the evolving IoT wholesale market. Here he shares the key takeaways. The IoT market is continually evolving and understanding its trajectory over the next eight to ten years is essential for developing effective wholesale strategies.
