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New technologies such as AI, cloud, IoT and next-gen mobile are driving forces behind digital transformation and are creating continuous disruption in every global industry. 

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With billions of IoT sensors sending small data volumes in massive numbers, the demand for cost-efficient and secure connectivity is critical. Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) is a wireless technology that best meets the needs of non-mission-critical applications for its extended coverage, low transmission rate, long battery life, and cost savings in operations.

LoRaWAN® is the LPWAN standard that grew the most in recent years and is expected to scale even faster in the post-pandemic scenario as network operators increase coverage in relevant countries and the ecosystem matures in different verticals. Through its groundbreaking, secure, and cost-efficient wireless connectivity, the LoRa Alliance® enables simplified management, ease of deployment, and scalability. Its flexibility sparks business opportunities and a fast return on investment.

Key Takeaways:

• An analysis of the LPWAN market with key trends and forecasts (2022-2025).
• The role of the LoRa Alliance® in promoting the LoRaWAN® standard across the globe.
• LoRaWAN®’s ecosystem and long-range capabilities that enable use cases to scale.
• LoRaWAN® driving global technology transformation and addressing current and future challenges.

Future of Massive IoT and the Role of LoRaWAN

ICT mega trends, including the future of connectivity (e.g., 5G, internet of things), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), 3D engines, low-code and no-code applications platforms, virtual mainstreaming, and blockchain, are shaping digital transformation and virtual worlds such as the metaverse. During the next decade, various forms of extended reality-enabling devices will increasingly serve as the interaction layer for millions of users between their digital and physical lives, functioning as the primary gateways to access a wider virtual space.
 
During this interactive Think Tank, you will discover:

• What are the main growth drivers and restraints in the VR/AR-MR market?
• Did the pandemic help accelerate the usage of VR/AR-MR experiences?
• Why will the metaverse increasingly act as a growth catalyst for VR/AR-MR adoption?
• What prominent use cases and verticals are expected to benefit from VR/AR-MR technologies?

Growth Opportunities in Digital Transformation and Virtual Worlds

To stay competitive in an increasingly dynamic marketplace, telecom operators will need the agility to constantly adapt their solutions offerings and business models based on shifting customer and competitor trends. It is increasingly evident that resale partnerships with nimble cloud services providers can enable greater flexibility than UCaaS solutions built on service provider networks.

The Think Tank will provide two opposing yet complementary perspectives on the future role of telecom operators and service providers in the evolving cloud communications value chain. Leading analysts will discuss the pros and cons of different service provider models and support their findings with data from Frost & Sullivan’s extensive customer and supply-side research.

Finding the Key to Success in the Evolving Cloud Communications Value Chain

While AI adoption is on the rise, technology vendors service providers will need to censure their value proposition is backed by a growth strategy that is well aligned with the transformative trends,emerging customer expectations and shifting ecosystem dynamics. This session focusses on sharing the industry trends growth opportunities and success factors in one of the most exciting technology segments today of Artificial Intelligence.

Growing AI Solutions & Services Business: Understanding Key Considerations

The session will cover Knowing Metaverse, Market Landscape and Business opportunities in Metaverse.

Growth Opportunities in Metaverse Market

With the rapidly evolving threat landscape, it is critical for organizations to ensure that appropriate technology enablers are in place to enhance their Cybersecurity posture. However, organizations struggle to identify the right technologies/solutions and to communicate the benefits of these solutions into clear and concise business case. The presentation will look at some of these issues and how these hurdles may be overcome so that the right message is conveyed to key decision makers and to the Boardroom.

Justifying Cybersecurity Investments in an Evolving Threat Landscape

Telcos can provide value-added services and expand service offerings within the financial services sector by leveraging next-gen technology in mobile and wireless services. By joining forces, they will have immediate access to the latest state-of-the-art technology stack, enabling them to expand faster into new markets and reach new customer segments with mobile financial services and telco assurance products, as well as data monetization to drive digital innovation.

Discussions will focus on the market trends and growth opportunities of telecommunication service providers in Southeast Asia's financial services industry.

You will also learn how:
1. Mobile financial services address the unbanked population in SEA.
2. Telco assurance products enable access to insurance services.
3. Enterprise mobility management services are increasing in demand to track ATMs and connected devices in the financial services industry.
4. 5G technology can address bottlenecks in varying financial services (e.g., back-end processes, front desk, and security) and usher in the use of the Internet-of-Things in the industry.

Growth Opportunities for Telcos in the Financial Services Industry

Join Frost & Sullivan for a lively and interactive dialog about the experiences of organizations that have implemented digital transformation in their organization the right way. Best practices, cautionary case studies, and an actionable roadmap will be shared across multiple organizational functions, including finance, sales and marketing, human resources and information technology. Adopting a user-centric design mentality and an agile methodology are the first steps in successfully completing a digital transformation journey, regardless of the size or ambition of the project (indeed, smaller, incremental changes could adequately prepare the organization for much larger digital endeavors).

Digital or Demise—How to Embrace and Implement Digital Transformation

AI can deliver significant benefits for organizations, economies, and society. However, deploying AI is a journey as organizations explore relevant technologies and use cases that create maximum ROI. In this Think Tank, Frost & Sullivan will share insights on the AI readiness and adoption maturity of global organizations. It will also discuss the emerging growth opportunities for ICT vendors and services providers.

AI Readiness for the Future of Businesses

With the acceleration of digital initiatives, cloud adoption, and workforce mobility, the traditional approach of enabling access and backhauling traffic to one data center location can no longer meet the fast-changing business needs of today’s digital world. Nowadays, users, applications, data, and workloads are everywhere. To optimize business continuity and address evolving security challenges, organizations need to transform their networking and security architecture to allow secure access and optimal connectivity for users, devices, and applications. The transformation helps reduce or eliminate their dependence on traditional WAN and appliance-based security architecture for a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), better performance, and user experience. 

However, there is a lot of confusion, doubt and misconception about secure access service edge (SASE) among Asia Pacific organizations. A small study by Frost & Sullivan showed that most customers are still confused and do not fully understanding SASE. Thirty-six percent of them said that SASE is just another term for cloud-delivered security services, while 19% of them have a better understanding that SASE is a cloud-based architecture that offers network and security services to protect users, applications and data, regardless of locations. 

Many indicated that they have been using SASE and are planning to use it in the next few years. Though this may not be a full SASE model, it also indicates that organizations in APAC are willing to use the SASE concept and are ready to transition to this new architecture.

SASE – The Lessons Learnt from Organizations in Asia Pacific

As cybersecurity becomes more complex, companies recognize that it is becoming more important. How do the changes and trends in the industry affect your business?

A modern approach is necessary to address the evolving, higher-risk environment created by digital acceleration. Companies must invest in the right technologies to secure a digital workforce and client base.

By identifying key risks in the market, you can understand emerging technologies and approaches like XDR, secured cloud, and zero trust that may help your organization better prepare for the future. Join us to find out how cybersecurity trends can affect your organization's security posture and plan how you can protect and prepare your business.

Opportunities and Trends in Australian Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Trends Affecting Southeast Asian Organizations

Companies have increasingly moved to the cloud to embrace the digital transformation journey over the past few years. COVID-19 further accelerated this transformation due to the shift to remote working, which forced companies to become even more dependent on cloud services. 

Cloud computing is growing in the business environment, with a variety of cloud models and services used in different verticals. The stronger migration to the cloud has enabled businesses to embrace the digital transformation journey, helping them transform and simplify their IT infrastructure and operation, which drives greater business outcomes. Container technologies and serverless computing are changing the overall application development strategies because they enable organizations to flexibly design, develop, test and launch their applications in the market, enhancing the customer experience. 

However, new technologies also require new approaches to application security. Traditional monolithic application architecture is no longer adequate.

A Frost & Sullivan expert and three key industry players will discuss cloud security challenges and CWP solutions.

CISO Insights: Cloud Security Challenges & CWP Solutions

Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates are an integral and essential component of the security architecture in organizations of all sizes. With the rise in digital communication, businesses use many certificates for different use cases and with varying validity periods. As a result, enterprises struggle to maintain a massive volume of certificates for users, devices, and applications every day. Dealing with multiple certificate authorities for each use case adds further complexity for security teams. 

In this session, Frost & Sullivan has brought together three industry experts from the TLS certificate market to discuss the key issues organizations face with TLS certificate implementation.

Insights for CISOs: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Certificates

With the growing volume of cyberattacks and heightened adoption of digital transformation initiatives by businesses, a reactive detect-and-respond strategy is no longer sufficient to safeguard enterprises against complex attacks. In the absence of fool-proof security, organizations now have the option of limiting damage by leveraging isolation. 

Cybersecurity failure is among the top four critical threats to the world in a survey by the World Economic Forum. Confirming the WEF's prediction, cyberattacks have become increasingly frequent, pervasive, and sophisticated. The concept of Security by Isolation aims to reduce the impact of cyberattacks by physically separating a user's system, OS, browser, or email from their local machine or the enterprise server. As a result, even if the security of one of the systems is compromised, the impact does not percolate to the rest of the infrastructure.

For this session, Frost & Sullivan has brought together two industry experts from the web isolation marketplace to discuss web isolation technologies’ what, why, when, and how.

Insights for CISOs: Web Isolation Technology

The war in Ukraine changed geopolitics in Europe and the NATO alliance faster than anyone could have imagined. Sanctions, flight bans, technology sales bans, asset seizures, the inability to use the SWIFT system have been used to apply pressure on the Russian government. One aspect of the war that is under reported is the cybersecurity dimension and if sanctions and technology sales bans will drive new waves of ransomware attacks and cyber economic espionage as a means to fuel the continued modernisation of the Russian economy. Cybersecurity executives from Finland, Slovakia, and Israel have come together with Frost & Sullivan to discuss the potential cybersecurity implications of the largest war in Europe since World War 2 and offer well balanced opinions on the use Russian cybersecurity products in a world that has changed dramatically since February 24th, 2022.

Insights for CISOs: Cybersecurity implications of the war in Ukraine

Significant changes are taking place in Indonesia, creating business opportunities and challenges. Businesses must assess these shifts and recalibrate market strategies in light of these transformations. Moreover, digital transformation and sustainability must be considered across industry segments.

This Think Tank will focus on Indonesia's outlook for 2022, highlighting key factors shaping the market and discussing its ramifications.

Transformation 2022: What's in it for Indonesia?

Fraud Detection and Prevention (FDP) platforms have evolved from rules based systems to far more sophisticated technology offerings that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) with algorithms that analyze 2,000+ different variable combinations in the background to continuously verify that a banking or retail customer account is being accessed and used by the legitimate user. While anti-fraud programs of the past created a frustrating customer experience, these modern platforms are enabling organizations to reduce fraud, increase profits, and measurably improve the customer journey.

This session will address several issues in an interactive panel discussion format including:
• How is it possible to improve the user experience and enhance security with fraud detection and prevention platforms? 
• How can organizations detect social engineering and automation in digital channels before a transaction takes place?
• How can fraud detection and prevention platforms identify and stop new types of fraud before they become a problem?
• As new regulations arise, how can organizations that want to use fraud detection and prevention platforms ensure they remain compliant?
• Is it possible for these technologies to reduce the burden of anti-fraud departments and the security teams that support them? 
• What should be top of mind for C-level executives when they begin their search for a potential partner in the fraud detection and prevention space?

Insights for CISOs: Fraud Detection and Prevention Platforms

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