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Key Sessions
Nicola Palmer
Service Provider Fireside Chat – Answering the BIG 5G Questions! What are the top takeaways from ‘year 1’ of the launch of 5G?
Verizon
Raj Yavatkar
Super Platinum Keynote – Building agile 5G networks for scalability and tailored end user services
Juniper Networks
John Smee
Super Platinum Keynote – 5G & AI: The Ingredients Fueling Tomorrow’s Technology Innovations
Qualcomm
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9:00am - 10:00am60 mins
Breakfast Briefing: Beyond infrastructure: applications and skills
Beyond infrastructure: Applications and skills
  • Paul Scanlan - CTO, Carrier Network Business Unit, Huawei Technologies
  • Mohamed Madkour - VP Wireless Networks Marketing & Solutions, Huawei Technologies
  • Will Townsend - Senior Analyst, Networking Practice, Moor Insights & Strategy
  • Jim Hodges - Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading
10:10am - 10:15am5 mins
The BIG 5G Keynotes
Welcome Back to the BIG 5G Event
  • Mike Dano - Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading
10:15am - 10:40am25 mins
The BIG 5G Keynotes
Service Provider Fireside Chat – Answering the BIG 5G Questions! What are the top takeaways from ‘year 1’ of the launch of 5G?
  • Nicola Palmer - Chief Product Development Officer, Verizon
  • Sean McDevitt - Partner, Arthur D. Little
10:40am - 11:00am20 mins
The BIG 5G Keynotes
Super Platinum Keynote – Building agile 5G networks for scalability and tailored end user services
  • Raj Yavatkar - Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Juniper Networks
11:00am - 11:45am45 mins
The BIG 5G Keynotes
*45 MINUTE NETWORKING BREAK*
    11:45am - 12:20pm35 mins
    The BIG 5G Keynotes
    Keynote panel discussion: The multibillion-dollar question – How will carriers monetize 5G?
    • Mishka Dehghan - Vice President, Strategy, Product, & Solutions Engineering, T-Mobile
    • Masum Mir - VP, Product Management, Mobility and Automation, Cisco
    • Peter Linder - Head of 5G Marketing, North America, Ericsson
    • Evan Kirchheimer - Vice President, Service Provider and Communications, Omdia
    12:20pm - 12:40pm20 mins
    The BIG 5G Keynotes
    Super Platinum Keynote – 5G & AI: The Ingredients Fueling Tomorrow’s Technology Innovations
    • John Smee - Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm
    12:40pm - 1:00pm20 mins
    The BIG 5G Keynotes
    Service Provider Fireside Chat – What does 5G mean for cablecos?
    • Chris Bastian - CTO and SVP of Engineering, SCTE/ISBE
    • Tom Williams - CTO, Schurz Communications
    • Alan Breznick - Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading
    1:00pm - 1:40pm40 mins
    The BIG 5G Keynotes
    *40 MINUTE NETWORKING BREAK*
      1:40pm - 2:00pm20 mins
      5G Applications and Next Gen Innovation Track
      Platinum Presentation – 5G Early Deployments: Lessons leant and what's next?
      • Harpinder Matharu - Senior Director, Wired and Wireless Group, Xilinx
      1:40pm - 2:00pm20 mins
      Cloud Native and Network Transformation Track
      Service Provider Presentation – Boingo’s virtualized and converged core strategy
      • Derek Peterson - CTO, Boingo Wireless
      1:40pm - 2:00pm20 mins
      RAN Evolution Track
      Platinum Presentation – Overcoming the key challenges carriers are facing when deploying next gen RAN
      • John Baker - Senior Vice President, Business Development, Mavenir
      2:00pm - 2:35pm35 mins
      5G Applications and Next Gen Innovation Track
      Panel Discussion: Using industry-tailored edge applications to monetize network investments
      • Stephen Mellor - CTO, Industrial Internet Consortium
      • Nirlay Kundu - Distinguished Engineer, Verizon
      • Tymoteusz Wrona - Head of Telecommunications, Presales & Product Management, Comarch
      • Shubh Agarwal - SVP, Strategic Marketing, Metaswitch
      • Berge Ayvazian - Senior Analyst and Consultant, Wireless 20/20
      2:00pm - 2:35pm35 mins
      Cloud Native and Network Transformation Track
      Panel Discussion: Modernizing OSS/BSS to Support 5G Applications & Services
      • Shawn Draper - Vice President of Network Service Fulfillment, Engineering and Field Services, CenturyLink
      • Ahmad Ali - Senior Technology Alliances Consultant, Blue Prism
      • Chris Neisinger - Field CTO, Guavus a Thales Company
      • Val Vaduva - CTO, Enghouse Networks
      • James Crawshaw - Principal Analyst, Service Provider Operations and IT, Omdia
      2:00pm - 2:35pm35 mins
      RAN Evolution Track
      Panel Discussion: The Migration to 5G Standalone
      • Miguel Carames - Director of Network Planning, Verizon Wireless
      • Reza Arefi - Vice President, GSA
      • Gilles Garcia - Senior Director, Wired and Wireless Group, Xilinx
      • Alejandro Holcman - SVP, Corporate Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies
      • Gabriel Brown - Principal Analyst, Mobile Networks & 5G, Heavy Reading
      2:35pm - 3:00pm25 mins
      5G Applications and Next Gen Innovation Track
      *25 MINUTE NETWORKING BREAK*
        2:35pm - 3:00pm25 mins
        Cloud Native and Network Transformation Track
        *25 MINUTE NETWORKING BREAK*
          2:35pm - 3:00pm25 mins
          RAN Evolution Track
          *25 MINUTE NETWORKING BREAK*
            3:00pm - 3:15pm15 mins
            5G Applications and Next Gen Innovation Track
            Enterprise Fireside Chat: The Road Forward to 5G on the Farm
            • Dan Leibfried - Director, Automation & Autonomy, Intelligent Solutions Group, John Deere
            • Emil Olbrich - President, PrimeLime LLC
            3:00pm - 3:15pm15 mins
            Cloud Native and Network Transformation Track
            Gold Presentation – The Cloud Native Paradigm of 5G
            • Sameh Naguib - Director, Sales Consulting, Oracle Communications, Oracle Communications
            3:00pm - 3:15pm15 mins
            RAN Evolution Track
            Service Provider Presentation – How can we accelerate the deployment of 5G Open RAN across the US?
            • Prabhakar Chitrapu - Chair, Small Cell Forum
            3:15pm - 3:50pm35 mins
            5G Applications and Next Gen Innovation Track
            Panel Discussion: Private and hybrid networks transformative role in the automotive supply chain
            • Anand Shah - Director, Technology Strategy and Architecture, Verizon
            • Thomas Magedanz - Director, NGNI Software Based Networks, Fraunhofer FOKUS
            • Steve Bell - Principal Analyst, Informa Tech Automotive Group
            3:15pm - 3:50pm35 mins
            Cloud Native and Network Transformation Track
            Panel Discussion: SD-WAN vs SD-Branch – How (and where) the demands of the enterprise will be met
            • Muslim Elkotob - Principal Solutions Architect, Vodafone
            • Marcelo Oliveira - VP of New Commercial Products, Frontier
            • Todd Kiehn - VP of Product Management – Managed Services, GTT
            • Satish Madiraju - Director Products and Solutions, Fortinet
            • Jennifer Pigg Clark - Principal Analyst, Cloud Infrastructure and Edge Computing, Heavy Reading
            3:15pm - 3:50pm35 mins
            RAN Evolution Track
            Panel Discussion: Making the Most of CBRS
            • Mark Lowenstein - Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem
            • Shahed Mazumder - Principal Strategist, Technology Strategy, CableLabs
            • Michael Zeto - Senior Vice President, Global Strategy and Emerging Businesses, Boingo Wireless
            • Patrick Henkle - Director Software Systems, JMA Wireless
            • Xiaoxia Zhang - Principal Engineer, Qualcomm
            • Alan Breznick - Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading
            3:50pm - 4:50pm60 mins
            Close of Conference Day Two
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