27th April: Open RAN World - Day 1Wednesday, 27 April 2022

9:00am - 9:10am10 mins

Chair’s Opening Remarks and Analyst Intro

Roberto Kompany - Principal Analyst, Omdia

9:10am - 9:30am20 mins

Service Provider Address | Lessons Learnt from Early Deployments

Petr Ledl - VP, Head of Network Trials and Integration Lab, Deutsche Telekom

9:30am - 9:50am20 mins

Sponsor Address | Unlocking Open RAN Opportunities

John Baker - SVP, Ecosystem Business Development, Mavenir

9:50am - 10:20am30 mins

Panel Discussion | Redefining the RAN Market Ecosystem

Roberto Kompany - Principal Analyst, Omdia
Terje Jensen - SVP Network Architecture, Telenor Group
Balram Sharma - Chief Operating & Revenue Officer – Access Solutions, Sterlite Technologies Limited
Richard Piasentin - Chief Marketing & Chief Strategy Officer, Accedian

10:20am - 10:40am20 mins

Sponsor Address | The Role of Private 5G in Connecting IIOT with AI at the Edge in Smart Manufacturing

Gilad Garon - CEO, ASOCS

10:40am - 11:40am60 mins

Networking and Refreshment Break

11:40am - 12:00pm20 mins

Service Provider Address | The Transition to Open RAN

12:00pm - 12:20pm20 mins

Sponsor Address | O-RAN O-Cloud Resource Exhaustion Security Test

Vlad Laslău - Senior Technical Product Manager, Keysight Technologies

12:20pm - 12:50pm30 mins

Panel Discussion | Will Open RAN Ever Be Truly Open?

Roberto Kompany - Principal Analyst, Omdia
Timo Jokiaho - Chief Technologist, Global Telco Ecosystem, Red Hat
Anthony Clarkson - Technical Director, EMEA & India, Precision Optical Transceivers
Khurram Qayam - Technical Sales Lead, Open RAN Centre of Excellence, NEC

12:50pm - 1:10pm20 mins

Sponsor Address | Intelligent Flexible RAN Platforms

Cristina Rodriguez - Vice President Network & Edge Group, General Manager Wireless Access Network Division, Intel

1:10pm - 2:10pm60 mins

Networking and Refreshment Break

2:10pm - 2:30pm20 mins

Service Provider Address | Open RAN Use Cases for Service Differentiation

Arjun Parekh - Senior Manager, Self-Learning Networks Research, BT

2:30pm - 2:50pm20 mins

Sponsor Address | Future Proofing Open RAN

Josef Gramsamer - Director Product Management & Business Development, Rosenberger

2:50pm - 3:10pm20 mins

Sponsor Address | Virtualisation meets Open RAN: New Solutions for Real Life Networks

Stefano Cantarelli - EVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Mavenir

3:10pm - 3:50pm40 mins

Networking and Refreshment Break

3:50pm - 4:10pm20 mins

Sponsor Address | Open RAN and its part in accelerating Edge monetisation

Michael McGroarty - Business Development Manager, VMware

4:10pm - 4:50pm40 mins

Panel Discussion | Empowering digital sovereignty: Towards an ecosystem for open 5G campus networks

Thomas Magedanz - Head of NGNI, Fraunhofer FOKUS
Andreas Mueller - Chief Expert and Industrial 5G / 6G Lead, Robert Bosch GmbH
Ansgar Bergmann - Project Manager - Technology & Innovation, STILL, KION GROUP AG

4:50pm - 5:00pm10 mins

Chair's Closing Remarks

Roberto Kompany - Principal Analyst, Omdia

5:00pm - 7:00pm120 mins

Open RAN World Drinks Reception