Industry Thought-Leaders and Contributors

Per Lindgren

Per Lindgren

Per Lindgren is CTO of Net Insight and is a founding member of the company, he is also heading the 5G Sync team. He spearheaded...
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Michel Fridman

Michal Fridman

Michal Fridman, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, joined RADCOM in July 2016. A senior marketing and business leader with over 20 years of...
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Renuka Bhalerao - Connectivity Ecosystem Programs at Meta

Renuka Bhalerao

Renuka Bhalerao leads the Mobile and RAN ecosystems effort at Meta, Inc. She is part of the Meta Connectivity team focused on defining and building...
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Jyoti Sharma - Senior Manager, Network Planning, Verizon and 5GAA Alternate Board Member (Verizon)

Jyoti Sharma

Jyoti Sharma is a Senior Manager- Network Planning in the Technology, Architecture and Planning team at Verizon. In this role Jyoti is responsible for defining...
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Viavi CTO - Sameh Y

Sameh Yamany

Dr. Sameh Yamany is Chief Technology Officer for VIAVI Solutions where he drives technology innovation and execution for the company. He is the former CEO...
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Daniel Campion - Sitenna

Daniel Campion

Daniel Campion is the CEO of Sitenna which provides software that helps telecom companies find new locations to deploy towers and antennae. Sitenna is a...
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Aayush Bhatnagar - SVP at JIO

Aayush Bhatnagar

Aayush leads the technology research and development organization at Jio. As part of this role, he leads new product and platform initiatives including the 5G...
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Johannes Springer - Lead 5G Automotive Program Deutsche Telekom AG and Director General, 5GAA

Dr. Johannes Springer

Johannes Springer is responsible for the 5G Automotive Program at Deutsche Telekom. In 1998. Johannes joined Deutsche Telekom Group in various management positions. He worked...
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Chris Johnson - Head of Nokia’s Enterprise Business

Chris Johnson

Chris heads-up Nokia's global Enterprise business, with a focus on Sales and Delivery to Transportation, Energy, Manufacturing, Logistics, Public Sector, and other key segments around...
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Matt Trifiro - CMO Vapor.io

Matt Trifiro

Matt Trifiro is the chief marketing officer of Vapor IO where he leads the company’s global marketing, branding and communications efforts. He is a noted...
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Luc Jansseune Valeo

Luc Jansseune

Engineer, active in the automotive industry for more than 30 years at different 1st tier suppliers for embedded systems, and ten years working on automotive...
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Markus Kümmerle

Markus Kümmerle is responsible for the 5G Network Exposure Program at Deutsche Telekom. In 1995 Markus joined debis Systemhaus, at the time a subsidiary of...
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Thorsten Schmitt

Thorsten is a computer scientist with a background in embedded systems, autonomous robotics, computer vision, and AI. He has been with BMW for almost 20...
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Rupesh Chokshi - VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCT STRATEGY & INNOVATION, AT&T

Rupesh Chokshi

Rupesh Chokshi is a seasoned business leader focused on growth and transformation in global communications and technology. He is responsible for the Product Strategy &...
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Dr. Claudius Noack - IT Consultant at Lufthansa Industry Solutions

Dr. Claudius Noack

Dr. Claudius Noack worked for a long time in research and development at a medical technology company during his studies in media technology, which led...
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Michael J. Zeto III

Zeto is a seasoned technology executive and telecom operator with a successful track record of leading high-growth initiatives for Fortune 100 brands and emerging businesses....
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Josh Kerns

Josh Kerns is a Murrow and Emmy award-winning journalist currently serving as Communications Director for the 5G Open Innovation Lab in Bellevue, WA. A technology...
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Peter Lee

Leading standards development for smart secure sustainable Communities, Digital & Transport innovations. Current projects include 5G infrastructure, national data and AI strategies, digital twins, Future...
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Nick Wiggin

Nick is leading public and private sector engagement for the Digital Connectivity Infrastructure Accelerator (DCIA) programme, to support roll-out of telco-enabled infrastructure. Plus industry engagement...
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Steve Ballantyne

Steve Ballantyne is a Co-founder and VP of Sales at Spry Fox Networks (SFN), which develop products and solutions for wireless networks. He drives the...
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John Carse Rakuten CISO

John Carse

John Carse is Chief Information Security Officer for Rakuten Symphony and Rakuten Mobile, where he also leads IT Engineering & Operations. John’s more than three...
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Prasad Rajamohan - IBM

Prasad Rajamohan

Prasad is a technology solutions and digital transformation expert in industrial manufacturing. A thought leader in evangelizing innovative technologies such as AI, Edge, IIoT, Blockchain,...
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Ravi Sinha - Jio and SCF

Ravi Sinha

Ravi Sinha is working with the world’s fastest-growing telco brand Reliance Jio as the Director of 5G Product and Technology Development. He is a versatile...
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Vassilis Seferidis

Vassilis is CEO and Founder of Zeetta Networks an innovative spin-out company offering Open Networking solutions that monitor, optimise and automate the operations of complex...
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Neil McRae, MD and Chief Architect at British Telecom

Neil McRae

Neil, named after the first man to walk upon the moon, has over twenty years working in the technology arena. Neil joined BT in 2011...
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Amr M. Elgazzar

Founder & CEO of ConsultixWireless and an RF test expert with a track record of developing avant-garde instruments for propagation studies, interference analysis, coverage monitoring and...
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William Wong - ADRF

William Wong

William Wong is the DAS Engineering Manager at ADRF Technologies, Inc., in charge of overseeing customer training and technical support of ADRF’s equipment for challenging...
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Broc Jenkins - Surecall

Broc Jenkins

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Pramod Mallipatna - Fledge.io

Pramodh Mallipatna

Pramodh Mallipatna is the founder and CEO of fledge.io, a San Francisco-based startup focused on simplifying multi-cloud and edge application infrastructuremanagement. Prior to this, he...
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Alan OnGo Alliance

Alan Ewing

Alan Ewing is the Executive Director of the OnGo Alliance, an industry consortium of more than 185 wireless and telecom organizations who believe that LTE...
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Hitendra Sonny

Hitendra Sonny Soni

Sonny is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of Sales, BD, and Marketing experience in Data Center and Cloud Networking, Converged Infrastructures, and...
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Kalyan Sundar - Keysight

Kalyan Sundhar

Kalyan Sundhar has over 25 years of experience in the industry, leading multi-national teams that develop products for Operators, Network Equipment Manufacturers as well as...
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Jio - Peter

Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Currently working as a Chief Architect/Vice President at Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd. (JPL) Bangalore. Previously. worked in IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), Wipro...
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Pramod Misra - Vodafone Idea

Pramod Misra

Pramod Misra is a well-known expert in data science and machine learning in the Telecom domain. Currently, he is working as Lead Data Scientist with...
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Desmond Yuen - Intel

Desmond Yuen

Desmond Yuen is a Global Account Manager at Intel. He is the author of “Intel’s SL Architecture: Designing Portable Applications.” A senior member of IEEE,...
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Kishore Jethanandani

Kishore Jethanandani

Kishore Jethanandani is Content Strategist and Editor at KAIROS Pulse. He is resident of San Francisco city and specializes in communicating complex context to a...
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Amdocs - Karpura

Karpura Suryadevara

Karpura Suryadevara is Amdocs’ director of emerging technologies, responsible for leading emerging technology initiatives in the company’s network division. He has more than 20 years...
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Arnab Das | Capgemini

Arnab Das

Arnab Das is the business head for Capgemini Engineering Advanced Connectivity CoE. As part of this portfolio, Arnab leads a team that is focused on...
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Amdocs - Vikram Prasad

Vikram Prasad

Vikram Prasad is head of program and client solutions, responsible for mobile technical solutions and services for Amdocs Open Network. He is also responsible for...
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Dan Pitt

Dan Pitt

Dan Pitt has been a leading voice of the Open Networking movement since its inception. He served as executive director of ONF from 2011-2016, launching...
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Anritsu - Adnan K

Adnan Khan

Adnan Khan has spent over twenty years of his career in the wireless industry working with operators, chipset vendors, network infrastructure vendors, consumer electronics/handset manufacturers,...
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Arana networks - Sriram

Sriram Rupanagunta

Sriram Rupanagunta  is a co-founder at Aarna Networks, Inc, and heads their engineering team.  Aarna Networks provides commercial distribution of ONAP. Prior to Aarna, Sriram...
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Nokia - Ben C

Ben Cheung, Ph.D

Author of 5 books including: 32 Innovation Factors and The Four Elements of Thinking. His book, Renewable Energies in 90 minutes, can be found in...
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