Key Sessions

Josh Goodell

Host Operator Opening Keynote: Emergence of 5G and the Edge

AT&T

Mike Frane

Fireside Chat with a Service Provider: ROI of uCPE: Does It Add Up?

Windstream Enterprise

Gunnar Peters

Fireside Chat with a Service Provider: Creating New Products and Services

Spectrum Enterprise

Jason Brummal

Service Provider Breakout Keynote: Concrete Steps to a Cloud Native Deployment: A Provider’s Perspective

Verizon

Kishore Raja

Service Provider Breakout Keynote: Virtualization in the 5G Convergence World

Boingo Wireless

Conference Day 1Wednesday, 16 September 2020

8:00am - 9:15am75 mins

Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:15am - 9:20am5 mins

Welcome

Phil Harvey - US Bureau Chief, Light Reading

9:20am - 9:40am20 mins

Host Operator Opening Keynote: Emergence of 5G and the Edge

Josh Goodell - Vice President, Edge Solutions, AT&T

9:40am - 10:00am20 mins

Diamond Keynote: Huawei

Tim Danks - VP Risk Management & Partner Relations, Huawei

10:00am - 10:45am45 mins

Keynote Panel: NFV & SDN Clearing the Cloud-Native Hurdle

Phil Harvey - US Bureau Chief, Light Reading
Ofer Weill - Director of Product Marketing, Drivenets
Bryce Mitchell - Director of NFV, Cloud, Innovation Labs & Support Networks, Telus
Vasile Nedelcu - Global Service Portfolio Director - MS IT & ADM Portfolio and Offering, Ericsson
Bill Lambertson - Global Director, Cloud Strategy & Industry Solutions, IBM
Paul Ruelas - Director of Network Products, Masergy Communications

10:45am - 11:05am20 mins

VNFs and VNS Testing, Certification, and Onboarding

Rodrigo Beyer - Head of Portfolio & Offering, business area managed services, Ericsson

11:05am - 11:25am20 mins

Coffee Break

11:25am - 11:40am15 mins

Fireside Chat with a Service Provider: Creating New Products and Services

Gunnar Peters - Senior Director, Emerging Network Products, Spectrum Enterprise
Phil Harvey - US Bureau Chief, Light Reading

11:40am - 11:55am15 mins

Sponsor Keynote: Netscout

Richard Fulwiler - Chief Solutions Architect, Netscout

11:55am - 12:40pm45 mins

Lightning Talks: The Importance of NFV & SDN to 5G Strategies

Phil Harvey - US Bureau Chief, Light Reading
Kazi Ahmed - Director of Technology, Verizon Wireless
Mike Heffner - Vice President Product Line Management Edge Cloud, ADVA
Mike Capuano - CMO, Pluribus Networks
Josh Goodell - Vice President, Edge Solutions, AT&T
Alfred Rodriguez - Business Director Wired And Wireless Group, Xilinx

12:40pm - 2:00pm80 mins

Lunch, Networking and Tabletop Displays

2:00pm - 2:15pm15 mins

Virtualization Business Models & ROI

The Future Telco: From Virtualisation to Cloudification of Network

Vineet Anshuman - SME- Next-generation Networks Practice, TCTS

2:00pm - 2:15pm15 mins

Network Cloudification: Deconstruction & Development

Disaggregation at scale - building Telco networks like hyperscalers

Ofer Weill - Director of Product Marketing, Drivenets

2:15pm - 2:30pm15 mins

Virtualization Business Models & ROI

Heavy Reading Research Presentation

Sterling Perrin - Principal Analyst, Optical Networking & Transport, Heavy Reading

2:15pm - 2:30pm15 mins

Network Cloudification: Deconstruction & Development

Heavy Reading Research Presentation

Jim Hodges - Chief Analyst, Cloud & Security, Heavy Reading

2:30pm - 3:15pm45 mins

Virtualization Business Models & ROI

Lightning Talk - WAN OFF: SD-WAN, a Longterm Business Model for Virtualized Services, or just a One-Off?

Sterling Perrin - Principal Analyst, Optical Networking & Transport, Heavy Reading
Wadah Ely - GM of the Networks & Cloud Connectivity, Bell Canada
Scott Irwin - Sr. Director of SD-WAN, Frontier Communications
John Isch - Practice Director - Network and Voice Center of Excellence, Orange Business Services
Rami Yaron - Co-chair, Marketing and Education Committee, MEF
Scott Arnett - Director, Major Accounts, Fortinet

2:30pm - 3:15pm45 mins

Network Cloudification: Deconstruction & Development

Lightning Talk: Telco-Cloud Strategy - Pick a Cloud - Any Cloud

Jim Hodges - Chief Analyst, Cloud & Security, Heavy Reading
Rajat Jain - Senior Solutions Architect, Mirantis
Prajakta Joshi - Senior Product Manager and Telco Networking Lead, Google Cloud
Bejoy Pankajakshan - EVP, Chief Strategy Officer, Mavenir
Sanjay Srinivasan - Vice President and Chief Architect, Vonage

3:15pm - 3:30pm15 mins

Virtualization Business Models & ROI

Fireside Chat: Has Virtualization Made it's Return Yet?

Rupesh Chokshi - Assistant Vice President, Edge Solutions Product Marketing Management, AT&T Business
Sterling Perrin - Principal Analyst, Optical Networking & Transport, Heavy Reading

3:15pm - 3:30pm15 mins

Network Cloudification: Deconstruction & Development

uCPE: the platform is the killer app

Prayson Pate - Chief Technology Officer of Edge Cloud, ADVA

3:30pm - 3:45pm15 mins

Virtualization Business Models & ROI

Fireside Chat with a Service Provider: ROI of uCPE: Does It Add Up?

Mike Frane - Vice President of Product Management for SD-WAN, Windstream Enterprise
Sterling Perrin - Principal Analyst, Optical Networking & Transport, Heavy Reading

3:30pm - 3:45pm15 mins

Network Cloudification: Deconstruction & Development

Service Provider Breakout Keynote: Concrete Steps to a Cloud Native Deployment: A Provider’s Perspective

Jason Brummal - Associate Fellow, Verizon

3:45pm - 4:00pm15 mins

Coffee Break & Tabletop Displays

4:00pm - 4:15pm15 mins

Service Provider Breakout Keynote: Virtualization in the 5G Convergence World

Kishore Raja - Vice President, Engineering Strategic Programs, Boingo Wireless

4:15pm - 5:00pm45 mins

Breakout Panel: The Business of Security - Risk vs. Return Management Strategies

Jim Hodges - Chief Analyst, Cloud & Security, Heavy Reading
Michael Dennis - Business Development Leader, Cisco Cloud Security, Cisco
Edward Fox - CTO, MetTel
Kevin McBride - Principal Architect, SDN & NFV Technologies, CenturyLink
Gary Sockrider - Director, Security Technologists, NETSCOUT
Awanish Verma - Director Marketing NFV , Acceleration Wired & Wireless Group, Xilinx

5:00pm - 6:00pm60 mins

IBM Happy Hour - Networking Reception & Tabletop Displays