2. nfv & carrier sdn 2017 sponsorship prospectus

WESTIN DENVER DOWNTOWN | DENVER, CO TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 & 15, 2017

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November 14th & 15th, 2017 Westin Denver Downtown | Denver, CO

Light Reading’s NFV-SDN event tracks the heartbeat of the virtualization movement, featuring the most up-to-date information on network deployments, service successes, operations challenges and standards/

open source dilemmas.

This year’s show will combine Light Reading’s Carrier NFV & SDN event with KNect365’s Carrier Network Virtualization, providing an unrivaled platform for networking and knowledge sharing. The show unites the virtualization community for this comprehensive three-day NFV & SDN event for the carrier community.

NFV & Carrier SDN will feature the industry’s thought leaders from across service provider segments – telecom, CLEC, cable, OTT – meeting in Denver to track the progress of notable industry trends including:

●● Progress in deploying SD-WANs, vCPE and on-demand services

●● Orchestration developments, including process automation, open source efforts and API definition

●● Evolution of carrier and vendor ecosystems

●● The growing role of open source and the role of vendors in open source distribution

●● Advances in business processes, including interoperability and interconnection

●● Movement to Agile operations and Dev-Ops processes

●● Optical network evolution – to 400G and beyond

●● Security in the virtualization era



2016 KEY EVENT STATISTICSThe merging of Light Reading’s Carrier NFV & SDN event with KNect365’s Carrier Network Virtualization will create an incredible opportunity for sponsors and attendees to attend one of the largest carrier NFV events. 2016 shows included:

650+ Attendees

50% Service Provider Attendance

55+ Service Provider Organizations Represented

50% Director Level+

Both Light Reading’s Carrier NFV & SDN event with KNect365’s Carrier Network Virtualization attracted a highly qualified audience of executives:

●● CIO, Zayo

●● CTO, Blackfoot Telephone

●● CTO, Global Capacity

●● CFO & SVP Business Development, National Cable Television Cooperative

●● Senior Vice President, Global Service Delivery, Gtt Communications

●● Vice President, CenturyLink

●● Vice President, Marketing, Xo Communications

●● Vice President, Commercial Engineering, Charter Communications

●● Vice President, Product Management, Charter Communications

●● Vice President, Product Management, Nitel

●● Vice President, Cloud, Swisscom

●● Vice President, Consumer & Networks Scouting, BT

●● Vice President, Innovation Scouting, BT

●● Vice President, Information Technology, Logix Communications

●● Vice President, Tranzact & Service, Zayo

●● Vice President, Technology, Broadview Networks Inc.

●● Vice President, Service Delivery, First Communications

●● Head Of Network Virtualization Strategy & Technology, Telefonica S.A.

●● Head Of Strategic Intelligence, Deutsche Telekom

●● Head Of Fixed Access Centre Of Excellence, Vodafone

●● Principal Cybersecurity Architect, T-Mobile Usa

●● Principal Data Scientist, AT&T

●● Principal RAN Engineer, AT&T

●● Principal Engineer, Comcast

●● Principal Technology Expert, Telstra

●● Principal Engineer, NW Services & Cloud Enablement, Tata Communications



Carol Wilson Editor-at-Large LIGHT READING

Carol Wilson is Editor-at-Large for Light Reading, where she covers broadband service providers and plans content for global events. She has covered the telecom industry for 31 years, including 14 years at Telephony, eight of those as editor-in-chief. She was also a founding editor of Inter@ctive Week and founding editor-in-chief of The Net Economy, both for Ziff-Davis Media, and also founded a news and information web-site, Broadband Edge. Prior to covering telecom, Wilson wrote about higher education, business, politics, the arts and sports for newsletter and newspaper compa-nies. Her work has been recognized by the Computer Press Association, the American Society of Business Press Editors, the Jesse H. Neal Awards of the American Business Media and the North Carolina Women’s Press Association.

Sterling Perrin Principal Analyst HEAVY READING

Sterling Perrin has more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications as an industry ana-lyst and journalist. His coverage area at Heavy Reading is optical networking, including packet-optical trans-port. He also authors Heavy Reading’s Packet-Enabled Optical Networking Market Tracker and Next-Gen Core Packet-Optical Market Tracker. Sterling joined Heavy Reading after five years at IDC, where he served as lead optical networks analyst, responsible for the firm’s opti-cal networking subscription research and custom con-sulting activities.

Jim Hodges Principal Analyst Core Network Evolution and Security HEAVY READING

Jim Hodges leads Heavy Reading’s research on the im-pact of NFV on the control plane and application layers at the core and edge. This includes the evolution path of SIP applications, unified communications (UC), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), session border control-lers (SBCs), Diameter signaling controllers (DSCs), pol-icy controllers and WebRTC. Jim is also focused on the network and subscriber impact of big data and analyt-ics. He authors Heavy Reading’s NFV and SDN Market Trackers. Other areas of research coverage include Sub-scriber Data Management (SDM) and fixed-line TDM re-placement. Jim joined Heavy Reading from Nortel Net-works, where he tracked the VoIP and application server market landscape and was a key contributor to the de-velopment of Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN) stan-dards. Additional technical experience was gained with Bell Canada, where he performed IN and SS7 network planning, numbering administration, technical model forecast creation and definition of regulatory-based in-terconnection models.

Roz Roseboro Senior Analyst, Telco Data Center HEAVY READING

Roz Roseboro has nearly 20 years of experience in market research, marketing and prod-uct management. She focuses on how innovation and change are impacting the compute, network and stor-age infrastructure domains, with particular emphasis on trends such as virtualization, componentization and convergence. Roz joined Heavy Reading following eight years at OSS Observer and Analysys Mason, where she most recently managed its Middle East and Africa re-gional program, and prior to that, its Infrastructure Solu-tions and Communications Service Provider programs. She spent five years at RHK, where she ran the Switch-ing and Routing and Business Communication Services programs. Prior to becoming an analyst, she worked at Motorola on IT product development and radio and mo-bile phone product management.

Event Hosts



2016 featured speakers from Light Reading’s Carrier NFV & SDN event with KNect365’s Carrier Network Virtualization:

Paul BolandSENIOR MANAGER,

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTVERIZON ENTERPRISE

SOLUTIONS

Margaret ChiosiFORMER DISTINGUISHED

NETWORK ARCHITECTAT&T

Andrew DuganGROUP VICE PRESIDENT & INTERIM LEADER, GLOBAL

TECHNOLOGY & ITLEVEL 3

COMMUNICATIONS

Travis EwertSENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,

GLOBAL NETWORK SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS

Bill LongVICE PRESIDENT,

INTERCONNECTION PRODUCT MANAGEMENTS

EQUINIX

Bill WalkerDIRECTOR, IT ARCHITECTURE

CENTURYLINK

Ray WatsonVICE PRESIDENT GLOBAL

TECHNOLOGYMasergy

Tom TofighPRINCIPAL MEMBER,

TECHNICAL STAFF AT&T

Bryan LarishCHIEF IT & NETWORKS

ARCHITECTVERIZON

Bill SnowVICE PRESIDENT,

ENGINEERINGON.LAB

Ravinder ShergillPRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY

ARCHITECTTELUS

David ArtuñedoCEO, ONLIFE NETWORKS

(TELEFÓNICA INTRAPRENEUR STARTUP), NETWORK

INNOVATIONTELEFONICA

Faraz ShafiqSMBA DIRECTOR, GLOBAL

IOT PRACTICE, STRATEGY & ANALYTICSVERIZON

Don ClarkePRINCIPAL ARCHITECT,

NETWORK TECHNOLOGIESCABLELABS

Sam AldrinARCHITECTGOOGLE

Javan ErfanianDISTINGUISHED MEMBER,

TECHNICAL STAFFBELL CANADA

Stavros Hilaris VICE PRESIDENT, MEDIA

AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

PCCW GLOBAL



SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES DIAMOND

$45,000

SUPER PLATINUM

$40,000 PLATINUM

$35,000 GOLD

$18,000 DEMO $6,000

Maximum Number of Sponsors per Level EXCLUSIVE 2 4 16 �

Thought Leadership & Business Development

Number of Speaking Positions (per package) 3 3 3 1 N/A

Speaking Opportunity Keynote or Standalone Speaker Position

Keynote DAY 1

(20 min)

Keynote DAY 2

(15 min)

10 min (in afternoon

breakout sessions)

N/A N/A

Number of Panelist Positions 2 2 2 1 N/A

LRTV Executive Video Interview LRTV will produce a special 3-minute video focused on an interview with your corporate representative/speaker at the event.

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Meeting Service Dedicated meeting service including speed networking and on site introductions

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Table-top with 1 table, 2 chairs* � � � � �

Inclusion in Light Reading VIP Live Customer Invite Program Admits an unlimited number of your qualified customers to the event and 25% off for those who do not qualify for free admission

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Access to All Registrant Information Post-Event � � � � N/A

Brand Awareness

Recognition as Sponsor on Light Reading Event Page � � � � �

Recognition as Sponsor in All Event Marketing Promotions � � � � �

Recognition as Sponsor on Event Signage � � � � �

Recognition as Sponsor in Event Literature � � � � �

Complimentary Passes (value $1,095 per pass) 12 10 8 6 2

* Sponsors will be able to host any type of advertising or equipment on their tabletop as long as it fits on a 6-foot table. AV and Internet will be made available to order through the venue.



Breakfast Workshop Sponsor (limited to one sponsor each day):This is your opportunity to get dedicated one-on-one time with an elite group of service provider executives on the morning of the event.

● Exclusive breakfast to be held in a private room at the event hotel

● Guarantee of 15-20 service provider executives at the breakfast

● Breakfast panel will include Heavy Reading analyst and service provider speaker

● Sponsor will provide a speaker for panel

● Topic to be determined by sponsor and Heavy Reading analyst

● Breakfast will include hot meal, plus an array of fruit platters, pastries and beverages

● Breakfast will be promoted via highly targeted email invitations

● Includes 3 breakfast passes for your company

● Recognition as sponsor on one dedicated sign

PRICE: $30,000

Pre-Event Speaker Dinner Sponsorship (limited to 1 sponsor): Before the main event, sit down and enjoy an in-formative executive dinner with a select group of keynoters, service providers, Light Reading Editors and Heavy Reading analysts.

● Executive dinner will be held at an upscale venue in the event city

● The sponsor will be the host of the evening gala dinner lasting approx. 2 to 3 hours

● Dinner invitations will be extended to keynote speakers, as well as select service providers attendees in advance of the event

● 10-15 guest dinner attendees

● Dinner will begin with a 5-minute welcome from the sponsor

● Includes 3 dinner passes for your company


PRICE: $30,000

Day One Evening Delegate Dinner Sponsor (limited to 1 sponsor):After Day One’s activities, sit down and enjoy an in-formative executive dinner with a select group event delegates.

● Executive dinner will be held at an upscale venue in the event city

● The sponsor will be the host of the evening gala dinner lasting approx. 3 to 4 hours

● Dinner invitations will be extended to select event attendees in advance of the event

● 20-25 guest dinner attendees

● Dinner will begin with a 5-minute welcome from the sponsor

● Includes 3 dinner passes for your company


PRICE: $30,000

Lunch Sponsor (limited to 1 sponsor per day): Exclusive brand exposure during the networking lunch for all attendees.

● Signage branding the sponsor as Networking Lunch Sponsor on selected day

● 10-minute welcome address after conference sessions before the networking lunch begins

● Full buffet lunch, teas, coffees, soft drinks served for all attendees on behalf of sponsor

● Branded napkins and water bottle wraps with sponsor logo

ONE DAY PRICE: $15,000 PRICE FOR BOTH DAYS: $25,000

Badge & Lanyard Sponsor (limited to 1 sponsor):

● All attendees are issued with a badge and lanyard containing the sponsor logo

PRICE: $10,000



Video Sponsorship OpportunitiesOf all the multimedia technology available to B2B marketers today, video has the greatest power to draw in potential customers and keep them en-gaged with your message and materials.

Light Reading is excited to announce the addition of an extensive roster of high-quality video services at Light Reading Live events with added benefits guaranteed to amplify your company’s brand and messaging. Benefits will include:

Syndication to Light Reading’s online network of hundreds of thousands of global qualified deci-sion-makers: Your video will be syndicated across Light Reading’s site and newsletters, including home page exposure, which together reach an audience of 1,000,000 readers monthly. The videos also run on the associated Light Reading events page, where they are promoted to the most relevant sections of Light Reading’s database of 450,000 qualified communications decision makers, so they can discuss them on the message boards.

Thousands of guaranteed views on Light Reading: All videos are posted to Light Reading within one week of filming and guarantee a minimum 1,500 views on the site!

Social media amplification across the Internet, including guaranteed views: Video amplification across Light Reading’s YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook channels.

Unique Sponsorship OpportunitiesPanelist Video You’ve spent the money to send one of your top-tier executives. Light Reading’s award-winning video production team will create a high-quality video of the sponsor presenter’s panel presentation.

● A two- to three-minute video clip featuring your Light Reading Live panelist

● Company logo featured in video

● Video syndicated on Light Reading for a guarantee of 1,500 views in the first three months

● Video amplification across Light Reading’s YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook channels

● Ongoing access within the Light Reading TV archives

● Video featured in Light Reading TV newsletter

● License to reuse video content / Video file provided

PRICE: $3,750

Custom Executive Interview LRTV will produce a special video focused on an interview with your corporate representative/speak-er at the event.

● Three-minute video interview with LRTV







PRICE: $3,750



Customer-in-the-Spotlight InterviewA customer testimonial can do wonders for a brand, and nothing is more powerful than a video testimo-nial. Line up one of your best clients, and we’ll do the rest, including scheduling, interviewing, and filming the client at one of our Light Reading Live events.

● Customer interview to take place around or outside the conference during the event

● Edited video 90 seconds to two minutes long







PRICE: $3,750

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