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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