MEFCast: The Global Telecom Agenda

In this episode, you will hear from Nicholas Rossman, Director of Programmes – MEF, Bill LaRuffa, VP Commercial Sales & Strategic Partnerships – SOMOS, Roddy Lindsay, Founder & CEO – TexterID and Mark Wert, Strategic Account Director – Hiya . The discussion explores how digital identity is evolving beyond the traditional phone number and how brands can establish secure, verifiable, and consistent interactions across digital channels.

In this episode, you will hear from Caitlin O’Neill, Director, Messaging Product Development – Canadian Telecommunications Association, John Bruner, CEO – Aegis Mobile, Stefan Heller, Chief Revenue Officer – The Campaign Registry and Stephanie Lashley, VP, Messaging Strategic Alliances & Infrastructure – Bandwidth. The discussion discusses the operational, fragmentation, and deliverability challenges affecting the global expansion of business messaging.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum Canada 2026, you will hear from Nicholas Rossman, Director of Programmes – Mobile Ecosystem Forum, Catalin Bedea, VP, Product Management – netnumber, Nima Golchini, Head of PreSales Americas – ENEA, Omar Mansour, Head of Solution Architect, Canada & EU – Transunion and Tracey Cash, Senior Director of Messaging, North America – Sinch. The discussion explores how increasingly sophisticated fraud tactics, including brand impersonation, synthetic identities, and generative AI, are challenging traditional fraud prevention protocols such as KYC and KYT.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum Canada 2026, you will hear from Caitlin O’Neill, Director, Messaging Product Development – Canadian Telecommunications Association, Stacy Rampersad, Strategic Account Executive – IC Group, Antonio Deruvo, Telecom Account Manager Expert – Infobip. The discussion explores the future of mobile messaging, comparing the reliability of traditional SMS with the richer, more interactive capabilities of RCS.

In this episode of MEF CPaas Evolution Summit 2026, you will hear from Nick Millward, Advisor , MEF and Pinder Takhar, CMO & Co-Founder, Lyberate. The discussion explores how AI is transforming messaging and customer engagement, from automation and personalised experiences to the growing role of AI agents, and the opportunities and challenges ahead.

In this episode of MEF CPaas Evolution Summit 2026, you will hear from Nick Millward, Advisor – MEF, Brian D’Arcy , Director of Global Telecom Business Development – Infobip, Eugenio Pradas, Senior Vice President Strategic Business Development – BTS, Fabio Garrido, Head GTM & Partnerships – Sinch, and John Waters, Chief Commercial Officer – Phonovation. The discussion explores how AI, rich messaging, enterprise adoption and new revenue models are shaping the future growth of the CPaaS industry.

In this episode of MEF CPaas Evolution Summit 2026, you will hear from Nick Millward, Advisor of MEF and Eli Katz, CEO & Founder –of XConnect. The discussion explores how number intelligence can combat fraud, spoofing, and poor data to improve CPaaS performance and protect trusted communications.

In this episode of MEF CPaas Evolution Summit 2026, you will hear from Matija Razem, Chief Commercial Telecom Officer of Infobip. The discussion explores CPaaS strategy from Infobip's perspective, examining how leading platforms are navigating growth, evolving communication channels, and changing enterprise demand.

In this episode of MEF CPaas Evolution Summit 2026, you will hear from Emer Lawn, Managing Director of Starcom Ireland. The session explores how AI is transforming people, workflows and creativity across the communications and advertising industry, drawing on practical lessons from Publicis on preparing for an agentic future.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum Nordics 2026, you will hear from Gerrit-Jan Konijnenberg, Director Strategic Development Maritime of Telenor, Johan Gustafsson, EVP Communications & Sustainability of Tele2, Åsa Lenhoff, Head of Responsible Business, Compliance & Sustainability of Telenor, Lena De Geer, Senior Sustainability Development Lead of Telia. The discussion explores how telecom operators can strengthen digital safety, combat fraud and abuse, build trust across the mobile ecosystem, and translate ESG commitments into practical initiatives that deliver measurable real-world impact.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum Nordics 2026, you will hear from John Bruner, CEO, Aegis Mobile and Paul Eccles, VP Business Development, Aegis Mobile.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum Nordics 2026, you will hear from Simeon Coney , Strategic Partnerships ofGoogle, Marco Lafrentz, VP Business & Market Development of netnumber and John Bruner, CEO of Aegis Mobile. The discussion explores how Sender ID registration in the United States has improved trust, reduced fraud, and shaped messaging best practices, while examining what these lessons could mean for the development of messaging frameworks in the Nordics.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum USA 2026, you will hear from Dario Betti, CEO of MEF and Brad Herrmann, CEO of Text-Em-All. The discussion explores what CSPs need to do now to create sustainable growth, differentiate their offerings, and capitalize on emerging opportunities in AI, identity, messaging, and enterprise services.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum USA 2026, you will hear from Matt Ekram, Advisor and Catalin Badea, VP Product Management – Netnumber. This discussion explores why Number Intelligence is essential to enabling RCS and Network APIs at scale, helping enterprises and CPaaS providers navigate fragmented standards, complex connectivity, and uneven coverage across the global mobile ecosystem.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum USA 2026, you will hear from Matt Ekram, Advisor – MEF, Alicia Murphy, Mobile Product Manager – Cable Bahamas and Ron Willet, VP & GM – ClearSky Technologies. The discussion explores how Caribbean carriers can reclaim and grow A2P messaging revenues as value increasingly shifts to OTT players, examining the challenges of tightening margins, fragmented traffic control, and strategies for monetizing messaging more effectively.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum USA 2026, you will hear from Brien Jones-Lantzy, Head of Compliance, Spam and Fraud Mitigation – Vonage, Chris Hutson, Senior Sales Director, CPaaS – ENEA, James Lapic, Co-Founder – Zipwhip, Kim McKibben, Director Operator Relations for North America – Sinch, and Stephanie Lashley, VP, Messaging Strategic Alliances & Infrastructure – Bandwidth. The discussion explores how operators, platforms, and brands can work together to maintain trust, security, and performance as RCS scales across enterprise use cases in the U.S. It will examine key challenges around identity verification, fraud prevention, ecosystem governance, and shared responsibility — as well as the critical issues that must be addressed to enable secure and sustainable commercial growth for RCS.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum USA 2026, you will hear from Matt Ekram, Advisor – MEF, Brian Stafford, CEO – Native Messaging, Eddie de Curtis, Co-Founder – Shush, Mark Harvey, Chief Identity Officer – XConnect and Sarah Girardi, VP Compliance – Ez Texting. The discussion explores how U.S. operators are translating investments in RCS, network APIs, AI-driven capabilities and trust frameworks into enterprise adoption, commercial growth and new revenue opportunities, alongside evolving go-to-market strategies and ecosystem partnerships

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum USA 2026, you will hear from Dario Betti, CEO – MEF, Ariel Reid, VP of Customer Experience – GCH, Ayshe Alp, Director of Product – The Campaign Registry, and Melissa Atkinstall , VP of Product – Aegis Mobile. The discussion explores how the 10DLC and short code registration ecosystem is strengthening consumer protection, preserving brand trust, and ensuring long-term channel integrity, while also addressing the growing need for predictability, consistency, and operational efficiency as enterprises scale A2P messaging.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum USA 2026, you will hear from Matt Ekram, Advisor – MEF, Alicia Miller, Head of Growth – Aduna and Marcelo Frizzo, VP North America Sales & Partnerships – Infobip. The discussion will explore how U.S. telcos can transition from API trials to fully monetized ecosystems, covering commercial deployment models, high-value use cases like fraud and identity, advanced capabilities such as quality-on-demand and device intelligence, as well as developer engagement and revenue-sharing strategies.

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum India 2026, you will hear from Pallavi Kudtarkar, Executive Director – Globe Teleservices, Dwarkanath Gopinath, Head of Messaging and VAS – Vodafone Idea, Mark Harvey, Chief Identity Officer – XConnect, Himanshu Brijwasi, Senior Account Manager – Orange and Shikha Gupta, Vice President, Global Business – Airtel. The discussion will explore how enterprise needs are reshaping MNO network and service strategies, particularly through technologies like 5G, while highlighting the challenge of balancing operational efficiency with continued innovation in enterprise engagement. It will examine co-creation models where operators collaborate with enterprises and partners such as Microsoft and Ericsson to drive digital transformation, and conclude with a forward-looking view on how enterprise-driven approaches will shape next-generation telecom services, business models, and customer experiences.