Speakers

Igal Elbaz

Senior Vice President, Wireless Network Architecture and Design

AT&T

Michael Irizarry

CTO & Executive Vice President

US Cellular

Craig Sparks

Vice President, Technology

C Spire

Jessica Rosenworcel

Commissioner

FCC

Karri Kuoppamaki

Vice President of Radio Network Technology Development and Strategy

T-Mobile USA

Narothum Saxena

Vice President, Advanced Technology and System Planning

U.S. Cellular

Preston Marshall

Technical Program Manager, Spectrum Access Technology

Google

John Kenney

Director and Principal Researcher

Toyota InfoTechnology Center

Javan Erfanian

DMTS

Bell Canada & NGMN 5G Initiative

Cameron Coursey

VP Product Development - IOT Solutions

AT&T

Kevin Crull

Chief Strategy Officer

Sprint

Caroline Chan

VP and GM, 5G Infrastructure Division, Network Platform Group

Intel

Nicola Palmer

Chief Network Engineering Officer and Head of Wireless Networks

Verizon

Abel Aberra

Senior Director, Carrier Consulting Engineering

Fortinet

Kaitki Agarwal

Co-Founder and VP of Development

Parallel Wireless

Hassan Ahmed

Chairman and CEO

Affirmed Networks

Haseeb Akhtar

Principal Solutions Consultant

Ericsson

Sinan Akkaya

Director of RAN Engineering

AT&T

Salam Akoum

Principal Member of Technical Staff

AT&T Labs

Başar Akpınar

CEO & Co-Founder

P.I. Works

David Amzallag

Group Head, Network Virtualisation, SDN & NFV

Vodafone

Chris Aniszczyk

VP of Developer Programs

Linux Foundation

Tom Anschutz

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

AT&T

Melissa Arnoldi

President, Technology Development

AT&T

Charlie Ashton

Senior Director, Business Development

Wind River

Berge Ayvazian

Principal Consultant

Wireless 20/20

Jeff Baenke

Vice President, Technology Development

U.S. Cellular

John Baker

SVP Business Development

Mavenir

Eran Bello

Corporate CMO & GM

ASOCS

Roger Billings

Global Solutions Architect

Cradlepoint

Eric Black

CTO

Pivotal Commware

Robert Blum

Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development

Intel

Bernard Borghei

Executive Vice President – Operations and Co-Founder

Vertical Bridge

Alan Breznick

Cable Video Practice/Leader

Light Reading

Michael Brobston

Director of Advanced Technology

CommScope

Hugh Brooks

Director of Product Management

Verizon Enterprise Solutions

Gabriel Brown

Principal Analyst

Heavy Reading

Ray Butler

Vice President, Wireless Network Engineering

CommScope

Cagatay Buyukkoc

Lead Member of Technical Staff

AT&T

Michael Calabrese

Representative

Dynamic Spectrum Alliance

Jason Caliento

Sr. Vice President, Network Strategy

Mobilitie

Chester Calma

Sales Technical Manager

SIGOS

Brian Cappellani

Senior Vice-President of Engineering

Sigma Systems

Bill Carter

CTO

Open Compute Project Foundation

Kumardev Chatterjee

Founder & CEO

Unmanned Life

James Childs

VP Strategy, North America

CBNL

James Crawshaw

Senior Analyst – OSS/BSS Transformation

Heavy Reading

Denise Culver

Online Research Director

Heavy Reading

Faisal Dada

Principal Architect & Director in the Communications Business

Xilinx

Khalid Danok

School of Computer Technology

George Brown College

Saurav Das

Engineering Director

ONF

Dave Duggal

Founder and CEO

EnterpriseWeb

Richard Duncan

Senior Director Systems Engineering

F5

Tuan Duong

AT&T

Murat Erkam

Senior Product Development Manager

Crown Castle

Jim Fagan

Director, Global Platforms

Telstra

James Feger

Vice President of Network Virtualization

CenturyLink

Jeff Finkelstein

Executive Director of Advanced Technologies

Cox Communications

Edward Fox III

Vice President of Network Services

MetTel

Mike Frane

Vice President for SD-WAN

Windstream

Mike Freiberger

Principle Member, Technical Staff, Optical Transport Network, Architecture, Design & Planning

Verizon

Mattias Fridström

Chief Evangelist

Telia Carrier

Ichiro Fukuda

VP, Engineering

NTT Innovation Institute

Neeraj Garg

Director, Digital Transformation

Verizon

Jan Geldmacher

President

Sprint Business

Mark Gibson

Director, Business Development

Comsearch

Iain Gillott

Founder & President

iGR

Micaela Giuhat

VP PLM

Cloud Native Core

Drew Golden

Senior Director of Product Management

Federos

Ofer Gottfried

CEO

Flash Networks

Jim Greene

Sr. Industry Marketing Manager, Network Platforms Group

Intel

Ryan Hamilton

Product Manager, Elevation

DigitalGlobe

Eyal Harari

Chief Operating Officer

Radcom

Darren Hart

Senior Solutions Consultant

Ranplan

Michael Heffner

Vice President PLM, Ensemble

ADVA Optical Networking

Rasmus Hellberg

Senior Director, Technical Marketing

Qualcomm

Kathrin Henze

NFV Program Manager

EANTC

Arianne Hinds

Principal Architect

CableLabs

Jim Hodges

Principal Analyst, Cloud & Security

Heavy Reading

James Hopson

Product Manager, Digital Enterprise

Luxoft

Jeorge Hurtarte

Product Manager

LitePoint

Kashif Hussain

Director of Marketing

Viavi Solutions

Ali Imran

Director BSON Labs

The University of Oklahoma

Derek Johnston

Director Marketing

Samsung

Aaron Jones

Regional Vice President Solutions Engineering

Calix

Lakshmi Kandadai

Senior Product Marketing Manager

A10 Networks

James Kelso

Vice President, Marketing and Business Development

Sea Street

Samuel Kroack

, Sr. Market Manager - Public Sector

Verizon

Vimal Kumar

Global Head, Network Solutions Group (NSG), Communications Media & Information Services (CMI) Business

Tata Consultancy Services

Jennifer Kyriakakis

Founder and VP Marketing

Matrixx Software

Honoré LaBourdette

Vice President Global Market Development, Telco NFV

VMware

Ray LaChance

CEO

ZenFi

Todd Landry

Corporate Vice President, Product and Market Strategy

JMA Wireless

Todd Landry

Corporate Vice President, Product and Market Strategy

JMA Wireless

Juha Lappalainen

VP, Technology Solutions

Samsung

Phill Lawson-Shanks

Chief Innovation Officer

EdgeConneX

Ray Le Maistre

Editor in Chief

Light Reading

Marc LeClerc

VP Strategy and Marketing

NoviFlow

Jon Lejardi

Senior Director, Global Solutions Architecture

NetNumber

Jaimie Lenderman

Senior Analyst

Ovum

Randy Levensalor

Leading Member, Network Virtualization Team

CableLabs

Leo Lundy

Group CTO

Imagine Communications Group

Christian Maciocco

Research Scientist

Intel

Durga Malladi

SVP, Engineering

Qualcomm

Steve Marsh

CTO, North America

Intraway Corporation

Jim McEachern

Principal Technologist

ATIS

Jim McKenna

President and CEO

Redzone Wireless

Phil Meeks

President

Spectrum Enterprise

Pascal Menezes

Chief Technology Officer

MEF

Jack Miller

CISO

Open Systems

Nermin Mohamed

VP Solutions and Marketing

Huawei

Amy Moini

SVP Marketing & Sales

QuadGen

Bob Monkman

Enterprise Segment Marketing Manager

ARM

Kevin Morgan

Chief Marketing Officer

Clearfield

Udayan Mukherjee

Intel Fellow, Network Platform Group and Chief Technologist, 5G Infrastructure Division

Intel

Vinay Narayan

Vice President

HTC VIVE

Dogu Narin

Lead, Product Management

Versa

Chris Nicoll

Principal Analyst

ACG Research

Mark Noe

Senior Director of Business Development

NetNumber

Lindsay Notwell

Senior Vice President, 5G Strategy & Global Carrier Operations

Cradlepoint

Siraj Nour ElAhmadi

Menara Networks

Magnus Ojert

Vice President, Networks Division

Samsung

Matthew Oommen

President

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited

Patrick Ostiguy

President & Chief Executive Officer

Accedian

Ozgur Oyman

Board Member/ Sr. Standardization Manager

VRIF/Intel

Jamie Panagos

Senior Director

Charter Communications

Jeni Panhorst

Sr. Director, Strategic Planning & Program Management, Network Platforms Group

Intel

Monica Paolini

Senza Fili Consulting

Satya Parimi

Group Vice President, Data and Navisite

Spectrum Enterprise

Prayson Pate

Chief Technology Officer

ADVA Optical Networking

Shailesh Patkar

Lead Systems Engineer

AT&T

Chris Pearson

President

5G Americas

Galina Pildush

WW Consulting Engineer – Service Provider Security

Palo Alto Networks

Steve Plotkin

Global Solution Architect

SevOne

Earl Pope

Principle System Architect

AT&T

Ravi Potluri

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff - Technology Architect

Verizon

Dave Pratt

Consulting Solutions Engineer

Calix

Keith Radousky

CTO Americas

Quintel Solutions

Raghu Rao

Principal Architect and Director of Strategic Marketing for Wireless Products

Xilinx

Narasimha Rao Vadrevu

Principal

VN Telecom Consultancy

John Reister

VP of Marketing and Product

Vasona Networks

Dan Rodriguez

Vice President and General Manager of the Communications Infrastructure Division, Network Platforms Group

Intel

Roz Roseboro

Principal Analyst, Cloud Infrastructure & Management

Heavy Reading

Kevin Sahim

VP, Engineering (Managed Services)

GTT

Antonella Sanguineti

Head of Transport Platforms

Ericsson

Haig Sarkissian

Principal Consultant

Wireless 20/20

Troy Saulnier

Strategy and Architecture Network Transformation

Bell Canada

Tom Sawanobori

CTO

CTIA

Eitan Schwartz

Vice President, Service Provider Line of Business, North America

RAD Data Communications, Inc.

Louis Scialabba

Senior Director of Solutions Marketing

Radware

Chetan Sharma

CEO

Chetan Sharma Consulting

Jeff Sharpe

Senior Strategic Manager, Network & Communications Product Portfolio

ADLINK

GS Sickand

VP Chief Technology Officer - Regional Carriers

Ericsson

Mari Silbey

Senior Editor, Cable/Video

Light Reading

Arvin Singh

Managing Partner Government Services

Verizon

Manish Singh

VP of Network Services Strategy & Marketing

Tech Mahindra

Tommy Siniard

CTO & Co-Founder

3-GIS

Timon Sloane

Vice President of Marketing & Ecosystem

Open Networking Foundation

Serkan Sofuoglu

Research Director

P.I. Works

Simon Stanley

Analyst at Large

Heavy Reading

Carly Stoughton

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Apstra

Mark Stukel

Account Executive

IBM

Oguz Sunay

Chief Architect, M-CORD

ONF

Oğuz Sunay

M-CORD Chief Architect

ONF

Jason Suplita

VP Americas

Ranplan

Nivi Thadasina

Senior Director of Engineering

Samsung

Jason Thibeault

Executive Director

Streaming Video Alliance

Ben Thomas

Director of 5G Mobile Business Development

Qorvo

Sarah Thomas

Director

Women in Comms

James Thomson

Solution Architect

F5 Networks

Tom Tofigh

Principal Member of Technical Staff

AT&T

Shai Tsur

Senior NFV Ecosystem Program Manager

ARM

Srilakshmi Valisammagari

Senior Technologist and Strategist

Verizon

Rajesh Vargheese

Principal, IoT Enterprise Solutions

Verizon

Mirko Voltolini

VP Technology and Architecture

Colt

Ted Wagner

Sr. Director, Interconnection Product Management

Equinix

Bill Walker

Senior Director, Strategy & Advancement

CenturyLink

Ed Warnicke

Distinguished Consulting Engineer in the Chief Technology and Architecture Office

Cisco

Glenn Wellbrock

Director, Optical Transport Network - Architecture, Design & Planning

Verizon

Vernon Wells

Service Provider Solution Architect

F5

Susan Welsh de Grimaldo

Director

Strategy Analytics

Heidi Westbrook

Director of ICP and North American Carrier Sales

Fujitsu

Mike Wolfe

Director, Network Engineering

CommScope

Rami Yaron

Co-chair, Global Marketing & Education Committee

MEF

Kelsey Ziser

Senior Editor

Light Reading