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Over 200 existing and potential partners and third parties joined 63 Orange/France Telecom Group participants for three days and some great business exchanges took place! 

If you were with us, thanks for coming and making it a really successful event – especially as it was just the week before holidays and not least also recognising the challenges we face in this difficult economic climate! 

 

To give a taste for what went on, here are some highlights...  We offered:

4 Global sessions to guide campers and share Orange’s strategic direction
a well resourced developer play hut providing access to relevant tools and demos
75+ sessions
38 speed dating slots and 60 1-2-1s
2 contests and a challenge; and more
a strong Industry presence represented by our 12 sponsors

 

Attendees travelled from 21 countries across the world to partner and party with us…

who were our attendees?
where did you come from?
why did you come?
who from Orange and the France Telecom Group did you have the opportunity to meet

 

 

4 Global sessions to guide campers and share Orange’s strategic direction

 

what were the Global sessions all about?

Our Global sessions outlined our strategy, gave a clear direction for how to get the best out of attending Partner Camp and reported immediate Partner Camp accomplishments. 

'It is very good to have key players of the company speaking at the stage. It gives you an idea of the importance of the partner program for Orange.' Oscar Iñiguez de la Torre Bernabeu, Editor, Weblogs SL

Our Global sessions began with the Monday morning camp orientation, followed by the Monday afternoon power packed and fast paced pow wow sharing the Orange strategy with a particular emphasis on clean and simple solutions.

Then a Tuesday afternoon mid camp update exploring market initiatives that are driving hot competition and with input from industry specialists including ACCESS, dotMobi, GSMA, Sun Microsystems, and Symbian.

We concluded with the all encompassing camp farewell on Wednesday lunchtime summarising the 3 days, including reporting the outcome of our competitions which are detailed more fully in the contests section below, and explaining next steps.

 

 

The key strategic message delivered in the pow wow centred around the requirement for products to be simple and customisable, and that technology should be hidden behind services.  Four elements of simplicity are sought and applications must:

be easy to install
be interesting
be useful
be designed for everyday life

 

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a well resourced developer play hut providing access to relevant
tools and demos

 

what went on in the developer play hut?

With 6 areas of interest in the developer play hut, there was something for everyone and the commercial opportunities were visible.

The Brand and Design Usability team explained what we are looking for from their perspective and the rest of the exhibits sought to inspire, provoke, challenge and invite interaction between you and us, and between each other.    We presented: examples of products and services that have already    been created; a special feature by our associate company,    SoftAtHome; our suite of APIs, and our new web 2.0 Djinngo    interface for building web widgets; Orange compatibility and industry testing tools; our mobile apps route to market with our team    available to help test, accredit, and sign products to    progress to launching downloadable products in our    Application Shops. Find out more about about what went on in the developer play hut

 

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75+ sessions

 

what was the focus of the sessions?

We offered over 75 sessions and these fell into 10 subject areas:

the Digital Home APIs and widgets voice services location based services other product areas

mobile multimedia devices and technology selling through Orange brand and design principles let’s open our minds

 

We provided a mix of commercial and technical sessions covering fixed line, mobile, video, Internet and converged services and products to reflect the business areas and markets we now represent. Find out more about the sessions and download the slides.

 

 

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38 speed dating slots and 60 1-2-1s

 

so what did happen in the ‘meet us’ activities of speed dating and 1-2-1s?

We met 38 companies in an intense 3+ hour session of speed dating.
Each company was allotted 3 x “4 minute” slots to present to 3 distinct groups comprised of our sponsors, Orange and Orange Partner delegates.

'If getting actual business done is the most important aspect of partner camp (and to me, it is), 1-2-1s are the most relevant portion of partner camp.' Blake Fayling, Owner, 5280 Mobile

And we managed 60 x 1-2-1s – tailored meetings placing those who applied for this ‘meet us’ opportunity in front of appropriate key decision makers from Orange and France Telecom at Partner Camp. 

A highly effective match making exercise… 

 

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2 contests and a challenge; and more

We held 2 contests and a challenge at Partner Camp: the Orange Innovation Contest the SoftAtHome Contest the Design and Usability Challenge See who were the winners of the 2 contests and the challenge   During Partner Camp, we hinted out at 2 more competitions. More information will be available soon.

 

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a strong Industry presence represented by our 12 sponsors

 

who was there? We recruited a tremendous line up of sponsors led by ACCESS who held platinum status, and with Nokia and Symbian and Sun Microsystems as joint gold sponsors.   ACCESS additionally sponsored the now legendary Tuesday night Partner Camp party and yes it is true, there was a full-sized blow-up assault course, a dual bungie cord race track, water pellets and human sized catapults to propel the water pellets the length of our playing field.

The whole event was fuelled by great cocktails – the “We” and the “Oui Oui” – the evening was a lot of fun and a real wind down after the intensive concentration of sessions!  ACCESS can be relied upon to ratchet up the fun factor at Partner Camp!   Find out more about our sponsors

 

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who were our attendees?

 

Our attendees come from a good variety of business disciplines. Have a look at the diagram below...

 

 

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where did you come from?

 

As is usually the case for Partner Camp, you came from all corners of the world representing 21 countries – thanks for going the distance with us.  It was really great to meet you!

Belgium Canada  China (PRC)  Czech Republic  Denmark  Finland  France  Germany  Ireland  Israel  Italy  Jordon  Korea  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Norway  Russia  Spain  Switzerland  United Kingdom  United States

'I thought I would only find French and British people, but in fact, it's an international event !' Christopher MANEU, Microsoft Technology Specialist, Exakis/Secteur6

 

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why did you come?

 

There are many reasons and benefits for attending Partner Camp. 

This is what you selected as most important to you…

 

 

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who from Orange and the France Telecom Group did you have the opportunity to meet?

 

3P Marketing Manager Voice Services & Enablers Architecture Developer J2EE Business Development in FT North America Call Management and Product Manager Commercial Advisor Convergence Design Manager Customer Service/Group Manager - Technocentre Data Convergence Innovation Project Controller Device Platform & OS Strategy Manager Director NExT.com Director of Partners Technology Director of Project Management & Implementation Director of Multipublication Research Director of Start-Up Programme, Orange Partner Director, Business Dev & Partnerships Director, Business Dev, Wireless Director, Business Dev, Fixed Telecom & Multimedia Director, Web 2.0 Product Marketing Head of Applications & Services Delivery Head of Business Dev Americas & ROW Head of Games Partnerships Director of Partners Technology Head of Marketing Specs for Uniq Head of New Concept Innovation Head of Technocentre Industry Relation Manager Interactive Brand Manager

'The Partner Camp is great, very well designed to do networking. Moreover, I have now a different vision of Orange, and I think is an "open" company, and bigger than I realized.' Oscar Iñiguez de la Torre Bernabeu, Editor, Weblogs SL

Information Technology Networks & Product Support for ROSI Manager Marketing Enablers Manager Partners Catalogue Manager Business Development, Strategy & Players Partner Technology Evaluation & Test Manager R&D Engineer Responsible for Anticipation of Services for Large Public Communities Responsible for Innovation & Communication for TV on Fibre Responsible for Marketing of Games Responsible for Multiplay Products - Technocentre Responsible for Orange Labs Stategic Marketing Responsible for Sociology Studies and Uses Responsible for Voice & AMEA – Technocentre Roadmap Product Manager S60 Container Manager SVP Devices Telco 2.0 Project Chief for ROSI Vice President - Marketing Operations VP Customer Experience VP Technical Alignment and 3rd Parties

 

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