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Mansoor has 24 years experience of planning, building, optimising and operating mobile networks around the world. In 2011 Mansoor joined EE as Director of Network Integration and LTE, accountable for the technical launch of 4G as well as the Integration of the 2G/3G Orange and T-Mobile networks. From 2013 he was Director of RAN, with responsibility for all of the EE radio access networks. Mansoor was a board member of MBNL (the joint venture of EE with H3G) until 2016. At BT Mansoor was Director of the Converged Networks Research Lab from 2016 to 2018, and led deep and wide collaboration with UK Universities, innovators, and government bodies. He provided regular inputs to calls for evidence from the UK Government in relation to connectivity: ranging from 5G deployment pilots, rail connectivity and transport strategy to vertical industries. Mansoor was closely involved in the foundation of several cross-industry initiatives to accelerate innovation with disruptive technologies: in the UK, he co-founded the Scottish Innovation Partnership, and also globally with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), founding the Europe’s 1st TIP ecosystem acceleration centre in the UK. Mansoor is currently a member of the Advisory Boards of the UK5G Innovation Network, the Satellite Applications Catapult and UCL Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dept.
From September 2018 Mansoor is the CTO of Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator.
Network Slicing World Summit
You can view the full Network Slicing World Summit Agenda here: https://tmt.knect365.com/network-slicing/agenda/1
Some of our expert Speakers can also be seen at the Broadband World Forum
9am-6pm
08.30 Registration
09:00 Knect365/Chair opening
Stephane Teral, IHS Markit
09.20 Keynote Fireside Chat: The Operator Challenge
Moderator: Stephane Teral, IHS Markit
Patrick Lopez, VP Networks Innovation, Telefonica
Moinul Islam, Senior Management - Big Data, AI, & ML, Bell Canada
9.50 Movement on Network Slicing Standards: 3GPP, GSMA, ETSI NFV
Frank Mademann, Chariman 3GPP SA2, 3GPP
Michele Zarri, Technical Director, GSMA
Joan Triay, Technical Director, ETSI ISG NFV
10.30 – Network & Tea break
11.10 NTT DOCOMO – 4G – 5G Slicing – The Technical Differences
Srisakul Thakolsri, Manager, DOCOMO Euro-Labs
11.30 Network Slicing for Transport Backbone Network
Kenji Kumaki, Chief Architect and Deputy General Manager of IP Network Department, KDDI
11.50 Slicing Packet Network Enabling 5G Services
Xilinx
12.10 Network Slicing in V2X
Alexandros Kaloxylos, Assistant Professor, University of the Peloponnese
12.30 TIP: Creating an Ecosystem for End to End Network Slicing
Representative of TIP
12.50 Fireside Chat: Security through Separation – How do we achieve this?
Alexandros Kaloxylos, Assistant Professor Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of the Pelopponese
Mimi Tam, Senior Member, IEEE
13.20 Close on Tech: Chair’s Wrap up with Q&A
13.25-14.25 60 Minutes, 60 Slices (of Pizza… Lunch break)
14.25 Chair’s Intro to the Business Case
14.30 Fireside Chat: The Vertical View – Are Operators providing what the Verticals expect and need?
Moderator: Simon Fletcher, CTO, Real Wireless
Mark Roddy, Senior Researcher, Cork Institute of Technology
15.00 “The Thin Edge of the Wedge” - Unpacking the Business Drivers for Network Slicing
Mika Skarp, Founder & CTO, Cloudstreet
15.20 Campus Networks enabled by Network Slicing
Nico Bayer, Senior Project Manager, Deutsche Telekom, Chairman of NEST, GSMA
15.40 5G Use Cases and Network Slicing
Kashif Mahmood, Senior Research Scientist, Telenor
16.00 - 40 Min Network & Tea break
16.40 Netting the Spectrum: Regulator Review of Spectrum & Net Neutrality Policy
Mansoor Hanif, CTO, Ofcom
17.00 PANEL: Commercializing the Run up – Is it worth investing 4G Network Slicing before 5G?
Moderator: Prof. Thomas Magedanz, Director NGNI Software-based Networks, Fraunhofer FOKUS
Nico Bayer, Senior Project Manager, Deutsche Telekom, Chairman of NEST, GSMA
Maria Cuevas, Head of Mobile Core Networks Research, BT
Shahryar Khan, Head of Automation & Systems, Transport Networks, GSO at Telia
Kashif Mahmood, Senior Research Scientist, Telenor
17.40 Analyst Perspective – What will we see in the next year?
Sue Rudd, Director Service Provider Analysis, Strategy Analytics
You can view the full Network Slicing World Summit Agenda here: https://tmt.knect365.com/network-slicing/agenda/1
Keynote Panel 5G – What’s the Hype?
- The power of 4G – looking at the need for 5G
- Do we need to kill the hype around 5G?
- What is required from fixed networks to enable 5G?
- Is full fibre essential for 5G backhaul?
- Will copper enhancing technologies such as GFast and PON be able to deliver the 5G ‘dream’
- Unsilo’ing the vendor landscape and solutions
- Understanding what will drive users onto the network & looking for the killer 5G application