Best Practice Conference 2008

Denver, Colorado, USA    15-19 September 2008

This year’s Best Practices Conference featured Keynote Speakers, Tom Stanton, the CEO of ADTRAN; Rod Naphan, VP of Product and Strategic Planning, Fujitsu; and Amador Lucero, VP of Network Operations, Qwest. The entire program of Executive Panels and high quality speakers provided insights about continuous process improvement.

Program contributors included representatives from Alcatel-Lucent, Aricent, AT&T, BIZPHYX, Cisco Systems, EMBARQ Logistics, Fujitsu, Hutton Communications, Infosys, Intel, Juniper Networks, KMM Telecommunications, Motorola, Netcom Africa, Nortel, Orion Registrar, Qwest, Sun Microsystems, Symmetricom, Tata Consultancy, TCS, Telcordia, Tellabs, Telmar, TELUS, tii Network Technologies, Ulticom, and Verizon, and others.

The ninth annual QuEST Forum Best Practices Conference offered information about enhancing quality in production, distribution and service for telecommunications. Process-excellence leaders, supply chain experts, and telecom senior management staff, engineers, IT professionals, and customer service and network services managers were among the presenters and attendees. The focus of the conference and the workshops the day before was effective implementation of the TL 9000 quality standards developed by QuEST Forum.

QuEST Forum conference sponsors included AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, ADTRAN, Cisco, Draka, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Nortel, Orion Registrar, Inc., tii Network Technologies, Tellabs, TÜV SÜD America Inc., and Walker. (Please visit our Conference Sponsor page for a complete listing.) Element sponsorships for the conference included BIZPHYX, Inc., Dynis LLC, IncrediTek, Inc., KGP Telecommunications, Inc., and Teltech Communications. Sponsors found this was a great way to enhance visibility among the 200 industry decision-makers who attended the Best Practices Conference. Plan to become a BPC Sponsor at the next conference.