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Jon Alexander
Jon Alexander

Alexander manages Level 3's global content delivery network (CDN) and its Vyvx broadcast solution, which he integrated into a single business unit to better align with the company's global strategy. Alexander has been instrumental in building international and domestic partnerships that have drawn broadcasters, professional sports organizations, cable MSOs, OTT and gaming companies and global enterprises. Alexander earned an MA and a MEng from the University of Cambridge.

Luana Alexe
Luana Alexe

Luana Alexe is responsible for innovation and product development for digital video services (IPTV, satellite, Web, iOS, Android) at Slovak Telekom. In this role she is focused on issues such as content monetization and new revenue generation, new feature development, user experience and UIs, integration with third party partners and overall  roadmap development and delivery. Prior to this role, she was a senior product manager at Telekom Romania, where she designed and managed the annual digital TV services roadmap, deployed the first multi-screen solution and the first satellite HD service in Romania, along with a range of other responsibilities in the area of product development. Alexe has also previously held various roles in brand management and marketing.

Tom Anschutz
Tom Anschutz

In his role as a network architect, Anschutz is instrumental in the development of AT&T's software-centric network, and in advancing the key technologies that support it, including SDN and NFV. He is the editor and chief contributor to AT&T's Domain 2.0 Vision white paper that describes a large transformative initiative to improve public networking and cloud computing. He led the teams responsible for developing data center and access target architectures for AT&T. Anschutz also developed a number of Broadband Forum technical reports that enable business services on broadband access.

Chris Antlitz
Chris Antlitz

Chris Antlitz is a senior analyst in TBR's Telecom Practice. Chris oversees and contributes to the Telecom Practice's syndicated research portfolio and custom project work. He leverages over nine years of analytical experience to lead the Telecom Practice's research agenda as well as provide critical insight and analysis to syndicated and project work.

Antlitz focuses on telecom vendors, telecom operators, cable operators, webscale, ICT infrastructure, telecom infrastructure services, network applications, converged media platforms, network functions virtualization (NFV), software-defined networking (SDN), carrier cloud, digital transformation, 5G, connected devices, Internet of Things (IoT), operator capex and opex, telecom industry economics and business models.

Michael Archer
Michael Archer

Michael Archer brings more than 20 years of telecom industry experience to his role of Chief Strategist of Mobile Business Unit at Akamai Technologies, where he defines the strategies that enable Mobile Network Operators to improve the subscriber experience, optimize network utilization and monetize mobile network assets. During his career he has worked on a range of technologies including transport networks, broadband access, mobile packet core, policy control and IP application service delivery in senior roles at Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia). MobiTV and Avvasi Inc.

Thomas Aschenbrenner
Thomas Aschenbrenner

Aschenbrenner is a senior manager for product management, business development and sales. He is also leading the introduction, go-to-market and sales of new technologies in software and IT. With a background in IT, consulting, cloud and IT-transformation, Aschenbrenner is focusing on standardization, scalability and digitalization of products, processes, services and development of new channels. He is also leading the sales and marketing of T-System's Open Telekom Cloud initiative.

Vishal Augustine
Vishal Augustine

Vishal Augustine has 16 years of hands-on experience in BSS/OSS domain of ICT, playing different roles such as solution architect, business Consultant, Technical Director, Technical Program Management etc. He has worked with different telcos across the globe and actively engaged with C-Level, D-Level and Practitioners. The opinions expressed are based on personal experience, and not necessarily a representation of Huawei.

Craig Bachmann
Craig Bachmann

Bachmann leads the TM Forum's IoE and Open Digital Business Program that collaboratively develops enabling technology, architectures, security, privacy and ecosystem best practices as well as open APIs, and toolkits for Industry digital ecosystem and application areas. Those areas include the Internet of Things, Smart City, Smart Energy and Digital Health. He has supported strategic transformation programs within a number of Industries including cable, telecom, energy/utilities, and government.

Omar Baldonado
Omar Baldonado

Omar Baldonado is part of Facebook's networking software team, responsible for large-scale software systems that model, automate, monitor, and control Facebook's network. The network domains include Facebook's data centers; global transport and IP backbones; edge points-of-presence; and Connectivity Labs initiatives. The team also works on open networking systems, driving a set of disaggregated and fully open network hardware and software through the Open Compute Project (OCP) and projects such as FBOSS. A veteran of multiple startups, Baldonado has been developing networking software for over 20 years. He is the co-lead of the OCP networking project and on the board of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF.)

Eric Barrett
Eric Barrett

Barrett is a network product leader with nearly 20 years of experience driving innovations in enterprise networking. Eric designed some of the first commercial MPLS and VPLS services to reach the market. Today, he is instrumental in CenturyLink's strategy to leverage virtualization technology and software-defined networking in the development of innovative new IT solutions for business customers.

Mark Bartolomeo
Mark Bartolomeo

Bartolomeo is responsible for Verizon's IoT product strategy and the delivery of smart city, smart grid, healthcare, precision agriculture and intelligent transportation solutions. Prior to his current position, he was global vice president, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, deploying Verizon's wireless, global IP networks and advanced M2M, cloud, and security technology platforms. He also served as vice president, for Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Transportation, Telematics and Energy Vertical industry markets.

Jim Battenberg
Jim Battenberg

Battenberg is a seasoned product and marketing executive. During his nearly 20 years in the high-tech industry, his primary roles – spanning from startups to Fortune 50 companies – have centered around identifying and entering new markets, as well as developing and launching products while deepening relationships in the ecosystems that surround them. He has led product marketing, product management, strategic planning, revenue marketing and corporate communications. Prior to joining CenturyLink, he was the Lead Cloud Product Marketeer at Rackspace where he championed the launch of many cloud products and was instrumental to the overall growth of their cloud portfolio.

Battenberg's time in "the cloud" dates back to the late 90s when the shared hosting, dedicated hosting and ASP markets first began implementing the core concepts of multi-tenancy and SaaS. He holds both a BBA in Finance and an MBA in International Marketing from the University of Houston.  

Jared Baumann
Jared Baumann

Jared Baumann is Manager, Consumer Fiber Market Development and Deployment for C Spire. He is responsible for managing the operator's home services business. Previously Baumann was Product Manager for B2B Solutions at C Spire Business Solutions, where he led development of products and solutions for both the business and government sectors. He also has previous management experience in IT and mobile security as a former manager of enterprise structure at FNC Inc., a leading mortgage technology company, and as a private telecommunications industry consultant.

Steve Bell
Steve Bell

Steve's coverage at Heavy Reading includes the Internet of Things (IoT) and related technologies, focusing on the evolution of the mobile Internet and its impact on digital life. Steve joins Heavy Reading with more than two decades of experience as a strategy, marketing and technology advisor, analyst, speaker and commentator on the mobile Internet and the emerging IoT space. He previously worked with Motorola in Germany, the U.K. and the U.S., where he led technology roadmapping, strategy, product and business development teams that developed 2G, 3G and 4G cellular devices for the global market. In addition, Steve is an entrepreneur who has founded two companies: KeySo Global LLC, an analysis and advisory firm specializing in strategy, marketing and innovation, with a focus on mobile technology; and My City Tag LLC, a digital city services platform with an initial market focus on parking. Steve holds a First Class B.A. Honors degree in Business from Kingston University, England.

Alex Berriman
Alex Berriman

Alex Berriman's role at PCCW Global as an eSports & VR Specialist is to focus on the areas of Video Gaming, eSports, Media Delivery and Virtual Reality, and how PCCW Global's connectivity can support these industries. Having a background in Sports Management and Sports Content Acquisition, Berriman joined PCCW Global to bring a new perspective on the telecoms business and how best to approach new developing markets in the space of eSports, OTT, online streaming and new media delivery.

Daniela Biscarini
Daniela Biscarini

Daniela Biscarini has been with the Telecom Italia Group since 1996, before which she worked in marketing roles with various FMCG companies. Since then, she has held several roles in TIM's marketing and customer relationship management teams within the Consumer Mobile division. More recently, she has been dealing with the development of offerings related to digital entertainment. 

Eric Black
Eric Black

Eric Black is the CTO of NBC Sports Group Digital, where he manages all IP-delivered platforms including its numerous websites, applications and connected devices. He also oversees Playmaker Media, a separate business which provides live streaming and VOD solutions. Over a 20-year career Black has been recognized with six Emmy awards, and the Edward R. Murrow Award for 9/11 coverage in 2004.

Thierry Bonhomme
Thierry Bonhomme

Thierry Bonhomme was appointed CEO of Orange Business Services in May 2013 and since March 1  2016 is also Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Orange. Thierry is responsible for business growth for the enterprise services division of Orange Group across France and international markets. He also drives the new Orange vision to support the digital transformation for our enterprise customers. Thierry has spent more than 30 years with the Orange Group in various leadership roles. Prior to his current role, Thierry was Executive Vice President of Networks, Carriers and Research & Development and in charge of R&D within the Orange Group. Previously he was responsible for the enterprise sales channel for the Orange Group in France. Thierry returned to FT Group in 1990 as a Director of technical management for the Grenoble and Marseille regional areas after a brief stint of two years with Idate. His first role at Orange involved field work in networks, transmission and switching. Thierry completed his engineering degree at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST) in Paris.

Thomas Breitbach
Thomas Breitbach

In collaboration with a team of cybersecurity experts, Breitbach is active in monitoring and responding to cyber attacks against Deutsche Telekom as well as its customers. Breitbach has more than 20 years of experience in IT and telecommunications security within Deutsche Telekom AG. He has a background as researcher and developer of distributed systems and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. 

Alan Breznick
Alan Breznick

Alan Breznick is a business editor and research analyst who has tracked the cable, broadband and video markets like an over-bred bloodhound for more than 20 years. As a senior analyst at Heavy Reading for six years, Alan authored numerous reports, columns, white papers and case studies, moderated dozens of webinars and organized and hosted more than 15 -- count 'em -- regional conferences on cable, broadband and IPTV technology topics.

Before that, he was the founding editor of Light Reading Cable, transforming a monthly newsletter into a daily website. Prior to joining Light Reading, Alan was a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence.

He is based in the Toronto area, though is New York born and bred. Just ask, and he will take you on a power-walking tour of Manhattan, pointing out the tourist hotspots and the places that make up his personal timeline: the bench where he smoked his first pipe; the alley where he won his first fist fight. That kind of thing.

Don Briscoe
Don Briscoe

Briscoe led the team responsible for Sprint's SD-WAN business case approval and SD-WAN commercialization. He has more than 30 years of industry experience and has worked for Sprint for more than 20 years. Briscoe received his MBA in marketing from Indiana University.

Anette Bronder
Anette Bronder

Bronder is a Member of the Board of Management of T-Systems International and is responsible for the Digital Division. The Digital Division, which was launched in 2015, supports companies in implementing their digitization strategies. Prior to T-Systems, she was Director of Group Technology Enterprise Solutions at Vodafone Group Services. She began her professional career at Hewlett-Packard, where she held several management positions, including Director of Professional Services for Central and Eastern Europe and Director of HP Consulting Deutschland. Bronder has a degree in business and social sciences with a major in political science from the University of Stuttgart. 

Ariella Brown
Ariella Brown

As a professional blogger, Ariella Brown writes about analytics, marketing, branding, social media, big data, and the impact of the internet on education and society, among other topics. She holds a PhD in English and has years of experience as a writing instructor. Through her business, Write Way Productions, she offers writing, editing, marketing, ad design, and social media services. Her site is http://writewaypro.weebly.com/

Gabriel Brown
Gabriel Brown

Gabriel Brown's coverage at Heavy Reading focuses on wireless data networking technologies, including 3G/HSPA, WiMax, and LTE, with a specific focus on how these technologies impact the wider mobile Internet services market. He has covered the wireless data industry since 1998, previously as Chief Analyst of the monthly Unstrung Insider, published by Heavy Reading's parent company Light Reading. Before moving to Heavy Reading, Brown was additionally responsible for the overall editorial planning of Light Reading's entire line of Insider research newsletters. Prior to joining Unstrung, Brown was the editor of IP Wireline and Wireless Week at London's Euromoney Institutional Investor. He often presents research findings at industry events and is regularly consulted by wireless networking technology leaders. He is based in the U.K.

Jeff Brown
Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown is responsible for product development, product management and all marketing functions for Windstream's wholesale business unit, and is also actively involved in Windstream's SDN and NFV efforts. Prior to joining Windstream in 2013, Jeff held leadership positions working in the service provider and cable MSO space, including VP-level roles at Covad and Sprint.

David Butler
David Butler

David Butler has 25 years of experience in the communication and broadcasting industries, from analogue and RF design to network infrastructure and virtualization. He has worked on ETSI and IEEE standards as well as industry working groups, such as the DVB and EBU. He is currently working on software defined networking for automated TV production over IP networks.

Fernando García Calvo
Fernando García Calvo

Fernando García Calvo leads the product and UX team at Telefónica, tasked with designing and evolving the operators portfolio of TV and Video products in the LATAM market across all of its operations. This covers Telefónica's lineup for IPTV, DTH, CATV and OTT. García  has more than 18 years experience in the telecommunications industry, having worked in a variety of roles in the area of  Video/TV services. These include technical roles as well as marketing, strategy, product design and big data.  He studied telecommunications engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and has been with Telefonica since 1995.

Bill Carter
Bill Carter

Prior to being named as OCP's CTO, Carter held a position on the Foundation's incubation committee.  He has 35 years of experience in a variety of architecture, engineering, and product management roles.  Carter has led server and workstation design and validation teams, provided consulting services to data center operators around the globe, and is a respected subject matter expert on product design, data center design, energy efficiency, and operations optimization.  Bill brings broad industry experience and technical depth to the foundation and has provided vision and leadership to the open hardware community.

Elisabetta Castiglioni
Elisabetta Castiglioni

In her role as Ai digital's CEO, Castiglioni brings many years of leadership experience from various international senior management positions in the technology, media and telco industries. She was CEO of the global media business in Siemens until 2011. Earlier in her career she worked in London for MCI Business, now Verizon Business, as EMEA director of product marketing. She also oversaw the rollout of MCI's network expansion in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Castiglioni was a member of the Telekom Austria Group's supervisory board from 2013 to 2016. She holds a PhD in Business Administration (summa cum laude) from Munich Technical University and an MBA from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. 

Lisa Caywood
Lisa Caywood

Caywood is responsible for building a strong community of support for the project by bringing together developers, users, IT services providers and members to build, promote and implement innovative and relevant open-source SDN solutions. She has been involved with the SDN movement since 2011 and with the OpenDaylight Project as an employee of Brocade, a founding member, since 2013. At Brocade, she initiated outbound marketing for the company's SDN strategy, and launched the company's OpenDaylight-based controller. Prior to Brocade, she served in a variety of data center and security marketing and communications roles at Cisco, with previous experience in the enterprise software and semiconductor sectors. Caywood holds a B.A. in Asian Studies and English from Tufts University.

Caroline Chappell
Caroline Chappell

Caroline Chappell leads Heavy Reading's research into service provider cloud adoption for internal IT, enterprise service delivery and network functions virtualization (NFV) purposes. She also covers technologies that support telco application development and delivery and customer experience management. She is currently tracking the impact of SDN and NFV on telecom organizations and has a major interest in the new architectures and management systems needed for operating SDN and NFV-based networks. Caroline has over 20 years' experience of researching and writing about the ICT industry for global analyst firms and her work synthesizes a broad understanding of ICT innovation with a deep knowledge of telecom market dynamics.

Anthony Christie
Anthony Christie

Anthony Christie is chief marketing officer for Level 3 Communications, responsible for worldwide marketing, product management and customer experience. Christie has previously held several roles at Global Crossing, including chief technology and information officer, and chief marketing officer; as well as key positions with AT&T Solutions and with AT&T's Asia Pacific International Operations Division.

Jim Clarke
Jim Clarke

Clarke is responsible for leading Telstra's global portfolio of products and associated pricing strategy, and driving the company's international marketing activity. Previously the head of global wholesale for Telstra, he is based in Hong Kong and has more than 16 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, four of those with Telstra in Asia. Clarke's time in wholesale saw him develop the relationships of existing customers, expand into new territories as well as increase new business and drive double digit growth. Previously, Clarke spent four years at WorldCom International in London where he managed the international wholesale pricing team for WorldCom's EMEA business.

Marc Cohn
Marc Cohn

Marc Cohn is Vice President of Network Strategy for The Linux Foundation based in Silicon Valley. He is the Executive Director of the OPEN-O Project, which recently merged into the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP). Cohn has been a major contributor to the software-defined networking (SDN) community, as the Market Area Director for the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). In 2016, he was appointed the third ONF Fellow. He also served as the sole Silver Member representative for the OpenDaylight Board of Directors, where he was elected Treasurer. Cohn was formerly an advisor to the Chairman of the ETSI Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) ISG on communications and edits the ETSI NFV leadership Blog, and NFV Insider series on SDxCentral. Prior to joining the Linux Foundation, Cohn was Senior Vice President Marketing at ClearPath Networks, and was the outbound face for Ciena's SDN strategy.

Dan Cooper
Dan Cooper

Dan Cooper serves as vice president of critical infrastructure for Time Warner Cable. In this role, he is responsible for managing mission critical facilities, from planning to design and operational standards. Cooper's recent focus has been the development and implementation of a corporate critical infrastructure strategy to consolidate and improve reliability across Time Warner Cable's critical facility portfolio. For the past four years, Cooper has also served as Chairman of SCTE's EMS Energy Management Subcommittee (EMS) and in 2012 became a member of SCTE's Engineering Committee. 

Peter Coppens
Peter Coppens

Coppens is responsible for aligning Colt's data network product portfolio to customer demand in Europe. His career spans nearly 20 years in the telecom sector. Prior to Colt, he worked at Alcatel-Lucent and Global One. Coppens has been active at Colt for more than 16 years in various senior positions. Based in Benelux, he is responsible for pricing, business development and product marketing and management. Coppens graduated from the Free University of Brussels as a Civil Engineer in Electrical Engineering, with specialization in Photonics and Optical Communications.

Elizabeth Miller Coyne
Elizabeth Miller Coyne

Elizabeth Miller Coyne began her career on the small stage of a Western Pennsylvania mall in 1980 in the role of a Jawa next to one of Darth Vader's stunt men during the "Empire Strikes Back" mall tour. Upon her graduation from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in English Writing, she quickly earned a MA in Creative Writing from Hollins University, and then made the jump to light speed to Carnegie Mellon University's alumni magazine where she covered robots and more robots, and occasionally interviewed movie stars and Hollywood producers.

After a two-year stint in Singapore as editor of a new age healthcare magazine, and reporter for the German Press Agency, she landed in Chicago in the late 90s. There she fell in with a rough crowd of telecom reporters at Telephony Magazine, and an even rougher crowed at The Net Economy where dance-offs were a common amongst the competitive editors who stalked the virtual water cooler.

Fast forward 10 years (sans Tardis), and a successful and exciting career in PR for Connect2 Communications and TM Forum, she is managing editor of Light Reading's New IP community site where she takes on the hottest topic to hit the sector since deregulation – the management and orchestration of IP networks. Most recently she was appointed as a Solar System Ambassador, a program sponsored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., an operating division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a lead research and development center for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She looks forward to hearing from you.

James Crawshaw
James Crawshaw

James Crawshaw is a contributing analyst to Heavy Reading's Insider reports series. He has more than 15 years of experience as an analyst covering technology and telecom companies for investment banks and industry research firms. He previously worked as a fund manager and a management consultant in industry.

Michael Crimp
Michael Crimp

Michael Crimp is the CEO of IBC. In this role he is responsible for leading the IBC team and ensuring that IBC is a success for all stakeholders. With 24 years experience in the industry, he has an extensive background in publishing and events. He holds an MBA from Leicester Business School specializing in marketing and business strategy. 

Andrew Crouch
Andrew Crouch

Andrew Crouch is regional president of EMEA and GAM division for Level 3 Communications, responsible for overall business results of the region including sales, marketing and operations. His oversight also includes the GAM (Global Accounts Management) division, which includes sales and support across all regions for enterprise and carrier customers in the global accounts program. Crouch joined Level 3 in 2001 as senior vice president of the cable and ISP channel group and has since held a variety of positions within marketing, product and commercial leadership.

Gerardo Dada
Gerardo Dada

Gerardo Dada is Vice President of Product Marketing and Strategy for SolarWinds' database and applications business globally. Dada is a technologist who has been at the center of the Web, mobile, social and cloud revolutions at companies such as Rackspace, Microsoft, Motorola, Vignette and Bazaarvoice. He has been involved with many database technologies, from dBase to BTrieve to SQL Server and NoSQL to DBaaS in the cloud.

Devin Davis
Devin Davis

Devin has more than 15 years in enterprise technology marketing and communications. In that time, he's marketed a spectrum of technologies including big data, IoT, software development platforms, security and small business tech. He has spent the past several years working in cloud and  developer-centric software products. He's worked with businesses from tiny start-ups to Fortune 500 companies including Avaya, GoDaddy, Hitachi Data Systems, Plantronics, SAP, and many more. Devin started his career as a newspaper reporter and was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine.

John Delaney
John Delaney

John Delaney heads IDC's European mobility research, covering the market for mobile services and networks. Key themes of John's research include mobile service development & marketing, mobile network technology and mobile operator strategies.

A well regarded industry commentator and analyst, John is a frequent contributor to the news media, and is a regular speaker at industry events.

John has been working in the ICT research & consulting industry since 1984, and he joined IDC in 2008. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from The University of Warwick, UK.

Samir Desai
Samir Desai

Samir Desai is Director of Product Management and leads the managed services portfolio at GTT. He is also responsible for next generation enterprise WAN solutions, including software-defined networking,  cloud connectivity and security services on the GTT global network. Samir has over 15 years of wide-ranging product development and marketing management experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining GTT, Samir spent nine years at Level 3 Communications where he managed their security, IPVPN and managed network services. Samir holds an MSc in Data Communications from Brunel University in London. 

Carlos Domingo
Carlos Domingo

Domingo leads the new business and innovation area for du including digital services, ICT, video and media services, IoT, M2M and smart cities, analytics and big data. Prior to du, he was director of product development and innovation at Telefónica Digital and the CEO of Telefónica R&D. He is an investor in several startups in the TMT industry as well as a board member of several ventures. 

Robert Dube
Robert Dube

Since October 2014, Robert Dube has managed RTL Interactive's video-on-demand service.  In his role he is responsible for all video on demand activities of the TV content of the Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, Germany's most successful private television broadcaster. Prior to that, Robert has held many positions in the VoD space, including maxdome and Amazon Instant Video. 

Andrew Dugan
Andrew Dugan

Andrew Dugan is responsible for global network technology, architecture, engineering, systems and security at Level 3 Communications. Dugan joined Level 3 in 1998 and has 30 years of experience leading technology teams and in building telecommunications networks, switching platforms and services platforms. Prior to joining Level 3, Dugan held leadership positions at MCIWorldcom and AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he designed and built transport network support systems, enhanced voice services platforms and architecting next-generation voice switching networks. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado as well as an M.S. Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.  

Jacques Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc

Jacques Dutronc has been with Eutelsat almost from the launch of the company, holding various positions in both technical and operational fields over the years. Currently he is the Chief Development & Innovation Officer, using his considerable experience to help design satellites for the Eutelsat fleet. He also leads the Innovation branch of the group and is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Satellite Communications.

Igal Elbaz
Igal Elbaz

Elbaz is in charge of the Ecosystem and Innovation (E&I) organization at AT&T, whose charter is to sharpen AT&T's focus on innovation both internally and externally, with an emphasis on speed, agility, and to work with external ecosystems such as venture capital firms, start-ups, and developers. His organization is responsible for operating the global AT&T Foundry network where a combination of design thinking, open collaboration and agile development can bring ideas to life rapidly. He is also responsible for one of the world's largest crowd-sourced employee innovation programs, The Innovation Pipeline (TIP.)

David Eurin
David Eurin

David Eurin joined Liquid Telecom in 2013. He is responsible for leading the formulation of the commercial strategy in his role as Group Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to Liquid he was a Partner and Head of Africa at Analysys Mason, a management consultancy specialising in TMT.  David has extensive experience in the fixed and mobile telecommunications industry, gained in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa where he advised senior management teams on strategic, regulatory, financial and commercial issues. He has a MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs (France), a MSc from the University of British Columbia (Canada), as well as an engineering degree from ParisTech (France). David was born in France and now lives in London.

Travis Ewert
Travis Ewert

Travis Ewert oversees the development of SDN Control Automation for network and service activation, management and programmable networking as tied to data/analytics and extended to the customer for dynamic service enablement. He also oversees software development of OSS platforms and network applications (UCC, CDN, IP-Video and NFV). Prior to his current role, Travis spent more than 20 years in technology, engineering, IT/development, operations and marketing leadership capacities.

Jim Fagan
Jim Fagan

Jim Fagan leads the Cloud Practice at Telstra. Based in Hong Kong, Jim joined Telstra from Pacnet, where he held the position of President, Managed Services responsible for the overall financial management and pricing structure of the company's services division. Prior to Pacnet, Jim worked at Rackspace as Managing Director of Asia Pacific, overseeing the management, strategy and growth of the company's Asia Pacific operations. Jim brings with him more than 15 years' experience in product and financial management.

Thierry Fautier
Thierry Fautier

Thierry Fautier is the current President of the Ultra HD Forum, the global organization responsible for defining industry best practices for UHD technologies. Fautier is also currently leading the commercial requirements for ABR Multicast within the Digital Video Broadcasting project (DVB) and is vice president of video strategy at Harmonic, responsible for the long term strategy of Harmonic's video business. He previously held various positions at Philips in research, engineering and marketing, and was instrumental in the companies development of MPEG technology and the first MPEG-2 STB SOC solutions.

Daniel Feldman
Daniel Feldman

Feldman is a director on the product and new business Innovation - IoT team where he leads the smart communities product development. He is responsible for delivering solutions that leverage Verizon's platform elements, including telematics, cloud, security, professional services, wireline and wireless networks.  Feldman joined Verizon in 2006 and has held various positions there including area vice president of sales, Verizon Enterprise Solutions and group vice president-sales, at Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group. 

Scott Ferguson
Scott Ferguson

Prior to joining Enterprise Cloud News, he was director of audience development for InformationWeek, where he oversaw the publications' newsletters, editorial content, email and content marketing initiatives. Before that, he served as editor-in-chief of eWEEK, overseeing both the website and the print edition of the magazine. For more than a decade, Scott has covered the IT enterprise industry with a focus on cloud computing, datacenter technologies, virtualization, IoT and microprocessors, as well as PCs and mobile. Before covering tech, he was a staff writer at the Asbury Park Press and the Herald News, both located in New Jersey. Scott has degrees in journalism and history from William Paterson University, and is based in Greater New York.

Andrew Ferrone
Andrew Ferrone

Andrew Ferrone is responsible for all pay TV deals including over-the-top multichannel services, managed network services, and co-branded device deals for Roku. Most recently, he led consumer product management at RealD, a licensor of 3D technologies. Ferrone started his career at Videoguide, the leading licensor of interactive program guides for TVs and DVRs, which was acquired by Gemstar-TV Guide and then bought by Macrovision, currently called Rovi.

Matthew Finnie
Matthew Finnie

Matthew Finnie is the Chief Technology Officer and one of the founders at pan-European service provider Interoute, Europe's largest cloud services provider built on Europe's largest network infrastructure covering 60,000km of lit fibre. Matthew has innovated Interoute from the ground to cloud from the digital optical platform, core MPLS Ethernet switch routing, Europe's largest SIP interconnect platform to their combined networking and computing platform Virtual Data Centre, giving Matthew a warts n' all view on getting technology platforms to work at scale. Matthew trained as an electrical and electronic engineer, starting life in semi-conductor design, founding several internet start-ups through the early days of VOIP to find himself at Interoute.

Vito Forlenza
Vito Forlenza

Vito Forlenza leads Comcast's TV Everywhere (TVE) initiative by guiding implementation on partners' TVE offerings and shaping content strategy for Comcast's Xfinity TVE platforms. He has been instrumental to the addition of live streaming networks available on Comcat's Xfinity TV Go app. In various roles at Comcast, Forlenza  has shaped the cross-platform offering for sporting events, such as the Olympic Games, March Madness, the FIFA World Cup, NFL Draft and The Masters. He joined Comcast as a member of Comcast Interactive Media, where he managed the Xfinity.com Sports Channel. He previously served in editorial and product roles at the Associated Press and Fox Interactive Media. 

Mike Frane
Mike Frane

Frane is responsible for Windstream's SD-WAN strategy. Frane joined EarthLink in 2008, and he's overseen the launch and lifecycle of products including LTE wireless, Ethernet and MPLS IPsec access elements, secure Wi-Fi analytics, application performance optimization, IPsec VPN, and unified communications services. He also led the company's portal and hybrid networking strategy. More recently, Frane and his team launched EarthLink's SD-WAN offering prior to EarthLink becoming a division of Windstream. He has a BS in genetics and cellular biology from the University of Minnesota and was involved in gene therapy research at the Institute of Human Genetics before entering the telecommunications industry as a business analyst for an investment firm based in the Pacific Northwest.

Joseph Franell
Joseph Franell

Joseph Franell is the Chief Executive Officer of Eastern Oregon Telecom (EOT), a rural competitive telephone company and Internet service provider serving residents and businesses in the Hermiston/Pendleton area of Northeastern Oregon.  EOT is currently providing residential and commercial Gigabit services in four of the communities in its service area. 

Prior to coming to work at EOT, Franell was the Director of Information Technology for the city of Ashland, Oregon, where he was responsible for the Ashland Fiber Network, a municipally-owned and operated broadband telecommunications company. During his tenure there, Ashland was selected as one of the Intelligent Communities Forum Smart 21 Communities for 2007 and 2008, because of its innovative and visionary use of broadband technologies.

In 2009, Franell was appointed by the Governor of Oregon to the Oregon Broadband Advisory Council (OBAC) on which he has served as the chairman for the past five years.  The OBAC's mandate is to advise the legislature and Governor's office on matters pertaining to broadband in the State, and to specifically promote the adoption and utilization of broadband for economic development, e-government, tele-health/tele-medicine, education, public safety, and tribal lands.

Franell is a ten year veteran of the US Army, is happily married, and has one daughter.

Niilo Fredrikson
Niilo Fredrikson

Niilo Fredrikson joined Comptel in 2016 as EVP and Head of the Intelligent Data business unit. Prior to his position at Comptel, he was hired in 2006 by Microsoft, where he held several management positions. His last position with Microsoft was Director of Partner Marketing for Office 365 and Skype for Business. Fredrikson was as an entrepreneur from 1999 to 2005. 

Chip Freund
Chip Freund

Freund leads the global marketing efforts CenturyLink's data center colocation business. Freund joined CenturyLink in 2013. Prior to CenturyLink, he served as a product marketing director for Verizon supporting a variety of service and solution portfolios, including managed network and security services, managed mobility, and integrated solutions. In his 15 years with Verizon, he held a variety of roles including sales engineering and product marketing. He holds a MBA from John Carroll University and a BA in Computer Science and Biology from Wittenberg University.

Jennifer Fritzsche
Jennifer Fritzsche

Jennifer Fritzsche is a Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities where she has focused on the Telecommunication Services and Tower sectors since 1999. Jennifer started in telecom equity research in 1996 with EVEREN Securities, where she was promoted to senior analyst after serving two years as an associate analyst on the telecom research team. In 2000, she tied for second in the "Best Up and Comers" category in Institutional Investor's annual vote. In 2006, Forbes magazine recognized Jennifer as one of the top ten stock pickers from a universe of 4,500 sell-side analysts across all industry sectors. In May 2011, Jennifer was recognized as the No. 1 earnings estimator for wireless telecommunication services by Financial Times/StarMine, a leading provider of objective ratings of equity securities analysts. Jennifer was recognized by StarMine and received the 2014 No. 3 stock picker ranking for the diversified telecom services sector. In June 2017 Jennifer was again ranked the No. 3 stock picker in the diversified telecommunication services sector in the Thomson Reuters' StarMine analyst awards. Jennifer makes numerous media appearances and has often been a guest on Bloomberg and CNBC. She also speaks at many of the industry and trade conferences and often is asked to participate in many Washington, D.C. regulatory telecom seminars and events. Jennifer earned a BA in history from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where she graduated summa cum laude.

Andre Fuetsch
Andre Fuetsch

Fuetsch is responsible for delivering the architecture and design of AT&T's future networking evolution. He leads a team of over 2,000 engineers and computer scientists working on programs encompassing both the business and market customer segments. Since joining AT&T in 1995, Fuetsch has supported and led several organizations responsible for information technology, systems and network architecture, planning and engineering, and software systems development, where he holds six patents in the field of network traffic optimization and relational database design. 

Gino Galassi
Gino Galassi

Galassi is a senior digital video industry and technology expert. He has driven over 10 digital video start-ups supporting the world's largest operators by designing their video technology and service architectures to catch the exponentially growing IP video market opportunity. He is part of the Accenture Products and Platforms leadership team, driving Accenture Video Solution (AVS) product strategy and engineering. 

Davide Gandino
Davide Gandino

Davide Gandino is OTT & Cloud Processing & Delivery Manager at Sky Italia. His role is focused on the various OTT services the company offers as well as CDNs, virtual and physical infrastructure for Sky Italia's technology department. Gandino has extensive telecom industry experience, with 8+ years in telecoms both in Italy and abroad. 

Stephan Gatien
Stephan Gatien

Gatien is the General Manager of Telecommunications Business at SAP, where he is the leader of a team across five continents. In this role, he helps telcos transform into digital service providers and become key actors of the digital economy.

Michael Gatzke
Michael Gatzke

Michael Gatzke serves as Vice President of Video Subscription Services for Comcast Cable.  In this role he manages the Xfinity TV subscription business including product planning, new product development, subscriber acquisition, package and pricing, and strategic development of new partnerships and business models for video subscriptions including Cloud DVR, Stream TV and Xfinity on Campus.

Ibrahim Gedeon
Ibrahim Gedeon

Gedeon is responsible for all technology development and strategy, security, service and network architecture, service delivery and operational support systems, as well as service and network convergence and network infrastructure strategies and evolution for Telus. He has held leadership roles and chaired many events in the IEEE and received the IEEE Canada's Outstanding Canadian Engineer Award in 2001. He serves on the board of the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions and the Institute for Communication Technology Management. He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut and a Master's in Electronics Engineering from Carleton University. In 2010, Ibrahim received a Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of British Columbia. 

Mazin Gilbert
Mazin Gilbert

Gilbert leads the Intelligent Systems and Platform Research organization for AT&T Labs. His areas of focus include software-defined networking, control loop automation, effortless customer experience, business intelligence and data analytics and management platforms. He has over 25 years of R&D experience from working at British Telecom, BBC, and AT&T and in academia at Rutgers University, Liverpool University, and Princeton University. Gilbert has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and an MBA for Executives from the Wharton Business School.

Keith Goldberg
Keith Goldberg

Keith Goldberg is responsible for managing all contribution and distribution transmission for Fox Networks Group (FNG). His team supports strategic development across 21st Century Fox global properties with a focus on enhanced solutions for linear and digital platforms. Groups supported include Fox Entertainment, Fox Sports, the 14 Regional Sports Networks as well as international properties within APAC, EMEA and LATAM.

Carlos Goncalves
Carlos Goncalves

Goncalves is a R&D Engineer on the 5G Networks team at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany. He works in the areas of NFV and carrier-cloud operation and management, developing technologies and tools for the design, deployment, operation and management of cloud-native virtualized network functions. He has been participating in open-source projects, such as OpenStack and OPNFV. He received his Master of Science degree in Computers and Telematics Engineering from the University of Aveiro, and prior to joining NEC he was a R&D Engineer in the Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal.

Andy Gottlieb
Andy Gottlieb

A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, Gottlieb co-founded Talari Networks and served as its first CEO after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was vice president of marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks. He also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the switching systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's vice president of marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Barry Graham
Barry Graham

Graham has 20 years of experience in the ever-changing communications industry. He has held senior positions with large corporations such as Motorola, where he lead its GSM Infrastructure product management team, through startup companies such as location intelligence specialist Arieso, where he was part of the executive team prior to its acquisition. At the TM Forum, Graham has been instrumental in driving the vision for the digital ecosystem that was launched at TM Live! 2015. Graham is currently focused on leading the TM Forum's Agile IT program that's designed to look at the digital operations center of the future.

Paul Greendyk
Paul Greendyk

Paul Greendyk is responsible for the architecture, design, and delivery of advanced Mobile Core network functions and Network Services applications, and end-to-end services across Consumer, Enterprise, Internet of Things, and Government services. He is also leading significant components of AT&T's Domain 2.0 Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) strategic initiatives. Greendyk is responsible for the virtualization of the Mobile Core and Network Services as part of AT&T's overall strategy to move away from appliance based network platforms to virtualized, software based network functions and applications.

Greendyk's responsibilities and accomplishments during his 29 year career at AT&T include: AT&T's Mobility Evolved Packet Core Design and Development, AT&T's IP/MPLS Core Network Design & Development,  Strategic Operations and Reliability Planning, Network Architecture Planning, Network Quality and Reliability Planning, Internet Services Technology and Operations Planning, Transport & Switching Technology and Operations Planning, and Data Network Synchronization Design.

Carl Grivner
Carl Grivner

Grivner was named Chief Executive Officer of Colt in January 2016. He joined Colt having spent three years in Singapore as CEO of Pacnet, directing the global strategy of one of Asia's leading end-to-end communications service providers. Prior to that, Grivner was CEO of XO Communications, a US network provider, for eight years where he played a key role in transforming the business from a local exchange carrier to a national carrier. He brings over 25 years of international executive and leadership experience including 12 years' operating at the level of Chief Executive Officer at major telecommunications companies in North and Central America, Europe and Asia.

Pål Grønsund
Pål Grønsund

Grønsund joined Telenor ASA in 2007 now holding a senior research scientist position, mainly focusing on NFV, SDN, Orchestration and Hybrid Clouds. He has experience with radio access and core network technologies including 3GPP, WiMAX, WiFi, cognitive radio technologies and Cloud-RAN. He has been working on virtualization of network and IT functions since 2008 and since 2013 has been fully focused on NFV and SDN while working in research, technology strategy and technology execution divisions. As a researcher, he has been involved in several EU funded research projects. He is vice chair in the ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) project and has standardization experience in ETSI NFV ISG and ETSI RRS (Reconfigurable Radio Systems). Grønsund holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo (Norway) on Cognitive Radio and has been a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Electrical Engineering at UCLA.

Dennis Gu
Dennis Gu

Dennis Gu is the Chief Architect of Cloud Computing solution of Huawei Technology, in charge of the architectural design and technical planning of FusionSphere Cloud OS, Huawei FusionCloud Private cloud , Telco NFVI cloud solution and B2B Public cloud solution. He joined Huawei Technology in 1998, also served as Chief Architecture of Huawei Mobile Softwitch product and IP Multimedia Sub-system(IMS) solution, which ranked No.1 in the Telecom industry on both technology competence and market share,  and won National Science and Technology Award of China in year 2012. He owns 30 + authorized technical innovation patents.

Kerstin Günther
Kerstin Günther

In 2012, Deutsche Telekom appointed Günther as its Senior Vice President Technology Europe, with responsibility for Technology, IT and the Technical Service in all 12 countries of Deutsche Telekom's Europe Board area. She was named Managing Director Deutsche Telekom Pan Net in April 2015. Günther joined the Deutsche Telekom Group in 1991 and since then has held various management positions. She is member of the board of directors of several companies of the Deutsche Telekom group in Europe. She was Senior Vice President Planning Technology for Deutsche Telekom Germany, Senior Vice President Service and Demand Management at T-Home. 

Shawn Hakl
Shawn Hakl

Hakl is a leader in Verizon's Product and New Business Innovation organization.  He is responsible for the security, IP networking and managed services products that Verizon delivers to enterprise, small/medium business, wholesale and partner customers. He has global responsibility for SDN and NFV, managed and professional services, security operations, private IP, Ethernet and public IP solutions. Hakl has also held leadership roles in Verizon's Global Operations, Sales Engineering and Information Technology organizations.  Prior to joining Verizon, he held positions in IT, strategy and product management at various communications companies around the world.

Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart

At Cox, Hart is responsible for providing overall leadership, strategic and operational direction to the planning and development of an integrated technological platform. Hart, who assumed his roles at Cox in 2011, is also charged with aligning the technology strategy with overall business objectives. Prior to Cox, Hart was CIO at Clearwire where he was responsible for the company's Information Technology, Enterprise Network Deployment Planning Office and Business Process Management functions. Before Clearwire, Hart was Chief Information Officer for Level 3 Communications from 2005 to 2009.  At Level 3, he led a large technology team and was responsible for IT, which included the process integration of eight companies acquired by Level 3, improving the processes for the sales and operational functions, and creating several innovative people leadership programs specifically geared toward IT professionals. He began his professional career at SBC Communications. He earned a bachelor-of-science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tulsa and an MBA in Finance with Honors from Notre Dame.

Fran Heeran
Fran Heeran

Fran Heeran is Head of Network Virtualization, SDN and NFV at Vodafone Group. Fran is leading the group-wide, operations-driven, transformation for Network virtualisation, SDN and NFV. Fran has over 20 years' experience in the software industry and has spent the past 15 years in the telecommunications sector. He has served in senior technology and business leadership roles in a number globally renowned organizations including Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia and NEC. Fran has worked closely with some of the largest global service providers and has been a contributor to standards organisations including GMSA and OMA.

Prior to his current role, Fran was the Senior Vice President and General Manager at Netcracker , a division of NEC corporation where he led the SDN/NFV business unit. Fran was also Senior Vice President and General Manager and Alcatel-Lucent (and subsequently Nokia) where he led the Communications and Collaboration business as well as the charging and policy business. Fran has also held senior business, technology and strategy positions at Aepona (acquired by Intel) and Valista where he was CTO and Senior Vice President of Product Management.

Alex Henthorn-Iwane
Alex Henthorn-Iwane

Henthorn-Iwane has more than 20 years of experience bringing new technologies in networking, security and software to global markets. He leads the global marketing strategy for Kentik. Prior to joining Kentik, Henthorn-Iwane was Vice President of Marketing at QualiSystems, where he oversaw worldwide marketing of DevOps cloud orchestration software for hybrid IT infrastructure, and Vice President of Marketing for Packet Design. He has held product management roles at CoSine Communications, Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies, and Livingston Enterprises.

Andy Hicks
Andy Hicks

Hicks is leading IDC's Telco 2025 research practice, which covers the transformation of infrastructures, service portfolios, competitive environments, business models, and organizations at communications service providers (CSPs.) He speaks frequently to telecommunications and enterprise audiences on ICT convergence, digital transformation, organizational change, and platform and partner ecosystems. Hick's background in telecoms research is in the technology and services needs of CSPs as an industry vertical. He has also written on mobility, emerging markets telecommunications, and enterprise services. Hicks taught language and literature at Columbia University, where he earned an MA and PhD in Russian literature. He also holds an AB in Russian studies from Amherst College.

Paul Higgs
Paul Higgs

Paul leads research projects into media related virtual reality for Huawei. He has over 20 years in the media and communications industries with an emphasis on new technology innovation and implementation, especially in the internet and computing domains. Huawei is a founding member of the VR Industry Forum in which Paul presently serves as an officer and the treasurer.

Sarah Hill
Sarah Hill

Sarah is the CEO & Chief Storyteller for StoryUP VR, an immersive media company.  A national Edward R. Murrow, NAB Service to America and 12 time mid-America Emmy award-winning Storyteller, Sarah's reporting has taken her team around the globe capturing VR stories about the human spirit in the Amazon, UAE, Congo, Haiti and Zambia. In 2015, Sarah built a program called "Honor Everywhere", that uses Virtual Reality to allow aging World War II Veterans the opportunity to see their WWII memorial. Sarah is a former interactive news anchor for the NBC & CBS affiliates in mid-Missouri. Her team at KOMU-TV pioneered the use of multi-way video chat during a newscast. She's covered the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia and produced documentaries in Vietnam and Guatemala on the world's mobility problem. Most recently, her team produced VR documentaries from the Amazon and eastern Congo about energy poverty. 

Jamie Hindaugh
Jamie Hindaugh

Jamie Hindaugh joined BT Sport in 2012 as the Chief Operating Officer to build the infrastructure, broadcast chain and operating model for its launch. The BT Sport offering has since been expanded to 13 channel outlets delivering Champions League and Europa League coverage, as well as the launch of Europe's first 4K UHD sports channel. Prior to this role, Hindaugh held multiple roles at the BBC, including Head of Production, where he was responsible for the BBC's multiplatform coverage of the Olympics, Paralympics and other key national events in 2012.

John Hoffman
John Hoffman

Hoffman oversees various lines of business, including the GSMA's portfolio of trade shows and conferences, its online, print and broadcast media properties, industry research services and a range of network-managed services. He brings more than 25 years of experience to the GSMA. Prior to GSMA, Hoffman was CEO and director of fastmobile, Inc., a supplier of software-based network operator solutions. Before fastmobile, he was the president, CEO and director of Roamware, Inc., a global provider of voice and data roaming solutions. In addition, he has held executive level positions at several mobile telecommunications companies including BellSouth, Pocket Communications and SONOFON.

Ian Hood
Ian Hood

Hood brings more than more than 30 years of engineering, business, and telecommunications industry experience to his position at Red Hat. Hood serves as a strategic advisor to the Red Hat community of customers and partners, and aids their business transformations using open source technologies. Prior to Red Hat, Hood was responsible for global service provider architecture at Cisco, leading its SDN/NFV portfolio vision and business transformation strategy.

Joseph Hopkins
Joseph Hopkins

Hopkins brings more than 14 years of finance, mergers and acquisitions, executive management and technical experience to Verizon. Prior to joining Verizon, Hopkins served as head of channel sales and strategic partnerships at iStreamPlanet where he developed and managed partnerships with companies such as Google, YouTube, AT&T and the United States Olympic Committee. His experience spans across all areas of the content lifecycle from production through distribution, and includes his current role in bringing innovative over-the-top (OTT) solutions to IP-connected devices for users around the world. 

Rick Hornby
Rick Hornby

Hornby is responsible for network cloud NFV/SDN architecture and planning for the Verizon wireless core networks and wireline voice applications. He has held various roles at Verizon since joining the telco in 2006. Prior to Verizon, Hornby worked as a principal engineer at Vodafone. He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MBA in accounting and finance. 

Rick Hubbard
Rick Hubbard

Hubbard is responsible for core network business product management including Mobility, VPN, VoIP, Ethernet, Internet Access and small business core networking solutions and collaboration. Previously, he led a team responsible for developing, negotiating, and contracting for complex network sourcing opportunities as well as creating new business additions to existing network sourcing accounts. He also has experience in business services across sales, sales management, business planning, distribution strategy and sales operations. Hubbard led the field marketing and AT&T Connected Communities organizations during the launch of AT&T U-Verse services. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Decision Sciences/Information Systems and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from George Mason University.

Joseph Hundah
Joseph Hundah

Joseph Hundah is the Chief Executive Officer for Econet Media Group. With over 20 years' experience both on the continent and around the globe, Hundah has held executive roles across various disciplines and industries including FMCG and broadcasting. Previous roles include senior positions at South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Multichoice Group and Modern Times Group. 

Matthew Huntington
Matthew Huntington

Matthew leads the design, development and delivery of Freesat's future technology roadmap, whilst also ensuring the smooth running of existing services. Previously Vice President of Product Marketing for NAGRA, Matthew was responsible for managing the company's product strategy and positioning.  He has more than 18 years of experience in developing solutions, services and products for digital and interactive television, starting with video-on-demand trials in the early '90s.

Aamir Hussain
Aamir Hussain

Hussain leads the product development and technology organization at CenturyLink. Hussain and his team are responsible for design and delivery of next generation products, services and technologies critical to achieving CenturyLink's strategic growth priorities. He has a diverse background in data, security, voice, video and wireless technologies. Prior to joining CenturyLink in 2014, he held senior leadership roles at Liberty Global, Covad, TELUS and Qwest. Hussain sits on several startup and non-profit boards, is technical advisor to technology companies and holds 11 patents in telecommunications.

John Isch
John Isch

With more than 25 years in the telecom industry, Isch started his career at MCI Telecommunications (now Verizon) before moving in 2001 to Orange Business Services, a global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations. He has worked in various operations and presales technical capacities covering a wide array of data networking, voice and Internet solutions. He is well versed in networking technologies, including SDN/NFV, SD WAN, IP, MPLS, SIP, among others.

Janice Janik
Janice Janik

Janice Janik has been responsible for the multiplatform growth of and content distribution for Smithsonian Channel since its inception and initial launch in September 2007. The Smithsonian Channel, a joint venture between Showtime and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. has secured distribution with all of the top MVPDs. Prior to her current position, she developed a significant record of achievements and broad business experience in the telecommunications industry from her 15 years at Showtime Networks.

Joe Jensen
Joe Jensen

Technology development across the telecom, cable, publishing and broadcast properties at Block Communications. Jensen is responsible for the operations of the telecom sector for Block Communications.

Kishore Jethanandani
Kishore Jethanandani

Kishore Jethanandani has been a technology business writer in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 12 years. His current focus is on software-driven telecom, analytics, and the Internet of Things. His forte is writing on technology architecture and its impact on business efficiency and solutions design. He has worked for numerous clients in the technology industry besides publications.

Dan Jones
Dan Jones

Dan is to hats what Will.I.Am is to ridiculous eyewear. Fedora, trilby, tam-o-shanter -- all have graced the Jones pate during his career as the go-to purveyor of mobile essentials.

But hey, Dan is so much more than 4G maps and state-of-the-art headgear. Before joining the Light Reading team in 2002 he was an award-winning cult hit on Broadway (with four 'Toni' awards, two 'Emma' gongs and a 'Brian' to his name) with his one-man show, "Dan Sings the Show Tunes."

His perfectly crafted blogs, falling under the "Jonestown" banner, have been compared to the works of Chekhov. But only by Dan.

He lives in Brooklyn with cats.

Darrell Jordan-Smith
Darrell Jordan-Smith

Jordan-Smith leads a team of industry sales experts at Red Hat who work closely with information and communications technology (ICT) clients to develop architectures for next generation networks.  For over 12 years Jordan-Smith worked for SunOracle and was vice president of the communications media and entertainment business. Before his current position, Jordan-Smith had career stops at AT&T, Lucent, Novell and NCD, where he set up and managed some of Europe's sales and services organizations. He received an MBA from the University of Strathclyde and his bachelor degree in computing science from the University of Glasgow.

Arpit Joshipura
Arpit Joshipura

Joshipura's primary role at the Linux Foundation is to help harmonize the open source networking ecosystem with the goal of rapidly increasing deployments as open source networking goes mainstream. Prior to the Linux Foundation, he was instrumental in leading major industry disruptions across enterprises, carriers and cloud architectures, including IP, broadband, optical, mobile, routing, switching, security, data center networking, L4-7, cloud, disaggregation, SDN/NFV and open networking. He has served as CMO/VP in startups and larger enterprises such as Prevoty, Dell/Force10, Ericsson/Redback, ONI/CIENA and BNR/Nortel leading strategy, product management, marketing, engineering, and technology standards functions

Hank Kafka
Hank Kafka

Kafka is currently responsible for driving AT&T's advanced access technologies, including wireless technologies such as 5G and wireline technologies such as passive optical networks. His responsibilities also include network analytics and AT&T's contributions to global standards. Kafka has over 30 years of experience in telecommunications, focused on identifying key emerging technologies, shaping them to meet customer and service provider needs, and moving them from the lab into the network. 

Ian Charles Kahan
Ian Charles Kahan

Kahan is focused is on the future of the telecommunications industry, involving network-, compute- and core function virtualization and their operational implications in the context of legacy transformations to 4G, 5G and software-defined everything. He also has expertise in data network communications and infrastructure cost reduction strategies including the journey to the cloud. Kahan joined Accenture in 2007. Upon arriving, he focused on complex infrastructure transformation and change programs. Prior to his current role, Kahan was responsible for the network transformation business in German speaking countries. He graduated as Diplom-Informatiker from the Technische Universität München (TUM) with a focus on theoretical computability and efficient algorithms.

Mo Katibeh
Mo Katibeh

As the leader of the Advanced Solutions group, Katibeh oversees product development and marketing for AT&T's emerging growth services, which include security, cloud, WiFi, Big Data, and public safety. Previously, he was vice president of global technology planning and project management at A&T. Katibeh has one patent and others pending. He holds a bachelor's degree in business with majors in International Business, Marketing and Philosophy from Oklahoma State University and graduated with an Executive MBA from the University of Texas, Dallas. 

Shen Ke
Shen Ke

Shen Ke helped establish a laboratory to study Big Data inventory management. He is also the author of the published white paper "Research on Big Data Platform and Key Technologies for Inventory Management of Carriers"

Mobeen Khan
Mobeen Khan

Khan is charged with formulating the carrier's long-term industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) portfolio, partnership and product management strategies. He had 15 years of experience in technology marketing, business development and operations and strategy before joining AT&T. Khan holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, in addition to an MS in Communications Engineering and a BS in Computer Engineering, both from Rutgers University

Aditya Kishore
Aditya Kishore

Aditya Kishore is the Principal Analyst at Diametric Analysis, a consultancy focused on analysing the disruptive impact of Internet distribution on the video and telecom sectors, and developing the necessary strategies and technology solutions required to drive profitability. He can be reached at ak@diametricanalysis.com

Aditya Kishore
Aditya Kishore

Aditya Kishore is Practice Leader, Video Transformation, at Telco Transformation and the Light Reading group. He is focused on the evolution requirements for the telecom industry, with a specific concentration on emerging video services and their network impact. Kishore has spent more than 20 years in the Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) sector. His experience includes television production, web media, advertising and market research and analysis. He is based in the UK.

Andrey Kolodyuk
Andrey Kolodyuk

Andrey Kolodyuk is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has founded and built more than ten companies in IT, telecom, internet and media sector together generating more than $1 billion in revenue. He started Divan.TV in 2008, an early streaming video service for Russian and Ukranian audiences. It is now available in 200 countries, and on most devices including iOS, Android and a range of smart TVs. 

Tim Kridel
Tim Kridel

Tim Kridel has covered telecom since 1998 for a variety of publications and analyst firms, including Wireless Review, The Net Economy and Heavy Reading. For a deeper dive into his past and present, visit www.timkridel.com

Clara Mai Kunstmann
Clara Mai Kunstmann

Clara has worked with digital media for more than 20 years. As Head of OTT Development at TDC Group for brands like TV-service provider YouSee and VOD-store Blockbuster, Clara has built a department from 15 developers and designers to 60, in the last four years. The team works solely within an agile and innovative paradigm that secures rapid product and application development for more than 1.5 million customers. 

Mike LaJoie
Mike LaJoie

Mike LaJoie spent 22 years at Time Warner Cable before retiring in December 2014. Prior to retiring, he served as CTO at Time Warner Cable for 12 years and also held the title of executive vice president. He also served in the same capacity for TWC's Entertainment division. Among other posts during his career at Time Warner, he was vice president of corporate development of Time Warner Entertainment (TWE) and president of TWE's broadband applications development group.

In 2015, LaJoie joined Big Data vendor Guavus as member of its board of directors and was also named chairman of the board. He is also on the board of advisors of SD-WAN startup Viptela, as well as a board member for several other emerging technology vendors. 

Danessa Lambdin
Danessa Lambdin

Lambdin currently leads AT&T's cyber security business. She is responsible for driving growth and profitability for the AT&T security portfolio, consisting of network, premise, cloud and mobile security products, threat management and consulting. She leads a large team consisting of sales,product, marketing, and consulting leaders. Lambdin is a veteran of the mobility industry with more than 20 years of experience. Her tenure with AT&T includes leadership positions in operations, marketing, product management, and platform transformation. She specializes in large integration initiatives, playing a critical role in mergers and acquisitions and focusing on the end-to-end customer experience. A native of Oklahoma, Lambdin earned her undergraduate degree in Science from the University of Central Oklahoma. 

Gahn Lane
Gahn Lane

Gahn Lane joined CenturyLink as VP, Software Industry. Gahn's career includes direct as well as channel and vertical sales leadership with Nortel Networks, and most recently with The Westcon Group, where he led both service provider and vertical market sales.

Marvin Lange
Marvin Lange

Marvin Lange is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of maxdome GmbH. Previously he headed the commercial segment of the online video library as Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director. Before joining the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, he was in charge of finances and business analytics at Gameforge AG, a leading developer and publisher of online games and held various commercial positions at Bertelsmann AG for 8 years prior to that.   

Philippe Laplane
Philippe Laplane

Laplane is in charge of IT Infrastructure, VDI, cloud IaaS and PaaS line of business in Orange Business Services, which includes 1,400 employees in France and abroad, from pre-sales to delivery. In 2015, Cloudwatt, which is a French cloud service provider, was included into Laplane's scope of activities. Laplane has more than 25 years of experience in the IT and telecom industry with a strong focus in the B-to-B market. He graduated from both Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom Paris Tech.

Vasyl Latsanych
Vasyl Latsanych

Vasyl Latsanych was appointed MTS Vice President for Marketing in September 2011. Between March and September 2011 he served as General Director of MTS Ukraine. Over the 2005-11 period, Latsanych worked as Marketing Director of MTS Ukraine. He joined the marketing department of MTS Ukraine in 2001. Latsanych graduated from Higher State University n.a. N. Lysenko (Lviv, Ukraine) in 1995. In 2010, Vasyl Latsanych became co-chairman of the Telecommunications Committee under the US Chamber of Commerce.

Ray Le Maistre
Ray Le Maistre

Don't be fooled by the weird cod-French surname: Ray's as British as corned beef and bad teeth, despite affecting a sheen of Continental sophistication by his constant references to fancy-dan "proper" coffee. He's even trained as a barista, for god's sake.

Ray joined Light Reading in 2002 shortly after being shown the door and a very long corridor at Total Telecom. He has been in technology journalism since 1988, having worked at Computer Weekly, Communications WeekInternational and Communications International.

A slave to fashion, Ray is never seen in the same outfit twice. When not trawling the malls of Epsom, U.K., for the latest in skinny jeans and what-have-you, Ray is often to be heard banging on about SPIT (Service Provider Information Technology), which is also known as TATRTCA (The Acronym That Refuses To Catch On).

As a soccer nut, Ray likes nothing better than cheap jibes about Manchester United. If you bump into him at a trade show, be sure to make some remark about prawn-sandwich-eating supporters or similar – he'll love it!

Alex Leadbeater
Alex Leadbeater

Leadbeater is a seasoned engineer in telecommunications and has been working for British Telecoms for over 15 years in various roles. He currently holds the position of Senior  regulatory Compliance and Future Technical Specialist. He's involved in various standardization groups in 3GPP and ETSI and is currently the Vice Chair of the ETSI NFV Security group.

Janice Lee
Janice Lee

Ms. Janice Lee is Managing Director of PCCW Media Group in charge of the Company's media businesses including its pay-TV and new media businesses of now TV and MOOV digital music service. She has over 20 years of experience in media and consumer businesses, including STAR TV, a regional role at Warner Bros' Consumer Products division, and Hong Kong Telecom's Interactive Multimedia Business Unit.

Jongmin Lee
Jongmin Lee

Jongmin Lee is the manager of SK Telecom's Broadband and Media Lab, which is part of the Corporate R&D center. He is responsible for the development of media technology. The current focus for his team is in the area of immersive media technologies, such as VR, AR and 360-degree video, particularly live streaming of 360-degree video in very high quality with very low latency.

Yohann Leroy
Yohann Leroy

Yohann Leroy is Eutelsat's Deputy CEO, Chief Technical Officer and Secretary of the Executive Committee. Yohann joined Eutelsat in 2010 as Director of Strategy before assuming the role of Director of Engineering in 2013 and Chief Technical Officer in 2014. An engineer of the École des Mines and graduate of the École Polytechnique, he was technical advisor for Industry and Information Technology in the office of the French Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010. This followed four years as head of the industrial development department at the Île de France regional division for industry, research and the environment.

Jeff Lewis
Jeff Lewis

Lewis is responsible for driving, growing and evolving Comcast Business's portfolio of data products, services and solutions for SMB, mid-market and enterprise customers. He has a proven track record of execution and leadership across virtually the entire span of carrier-based data, video, wireless and voice services. Lewis has held various executive positions since joining Comcast in 2008. Prior to Comcast, Lewis worked for AT&T and Bell South.

Trevor Linney
Trevor Linney

Linney is a chartered engineer with extensive knowledge of access networks, including xDSL and fiber technologies.He has worked on broadband-related services for BT since 2005 and performed graduate work for the telephone company for three years before becoming an employee. Prior to his current post, which he has held since November 2012, he was a UK Access Architect for the company.

Victoria Lonker
Victoria Lonker

Lonker is responsible for the evolving suite of virtualized network functions that will be realized with the advent of software defined networking.  She is also responsible for the Intelligent Cloud Control platform, which provides customers analytics on cloud performance and cost in order to optimize the placement of their workloads in public clouds. With more than 29 years of business development, management, engineering, sales, marketing and financial leadership to the communications and IT industry,  Lonker was previously responsible for carrier and network product strategy at Verizon for the U.S., LatAm and Canada. Prior to these product management roles, she was a finance director for pricing and contract management for Verizon Enterprise Solutions. Lonker has a master of engineering administration in industrial and systems engineering and a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering, both from Virginia Tech.

Diego R. Lopez
Diego R. Lopez

Diego Lopez joined Telefonica I+D in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert on network infrastructures and services. He is currently in charge of the Technology Exploration activities within the Transversal Projects and Innovation Unit. He joined Telefónica in 2011 after several years in the academic sector. During this period he was appointed as member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Infrastructures by the European Commission, and as member of Internet2 MACE.

Diego is currently focused on identifying and evaluating new opportunities in technologies applicable to network infrastructures, and the coordination of national and international collaboration activities. His current interests are related to network infrastructural services, new network architectures, and network programmability and virtualization.

Juan Carlos Lopez Vives
Juan Carlos Lopez Vives

Lopez-Vives has overall responsibility for the B2B, multinational and wholesale business units, as well as global roaming. Lopez-Vives joined Telefónica in 2004 and in 2005 he was appointed CEO of Telefónica Data and General Director of the Telefónica Spain Corporate Unit. In 2007 he was appointed CEO of Telefónica solutions and marketing, pre-sales and post-sales as the director of the enterprise business unit. In 2010, Lopez-Vives was named as head of the global multinational unit of Telefónica. He was also a member of the Telefónica Europe Executive Committee. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and a Master's Degree in Business Management (PADE) from IESE Business School.

Mohamed Madkour
Mohamed Madkour

Dr. Madkour manages the company's global wireless branding and demand generation function. He also serves as an advisor for Huawei's wireless solutions strategy. Beside Huawei, Madkour has held a number of senior positions in telecom industry as well as academia during his 20 plus years of experience including Ericsson, Artel Inc. and Alexandria University

Manish Malhotra
Manish Malhotra

Malhotra is responsible for product management of AT&T's global VPN, Secure Cloud and SD-WAN services as well as expanding global access footprint. His team is also responsible for the development, market launch, and ongoing life-cycle management of these services. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University and attended Leadership Development Program at London Business School.

Ron Marquardt
Ron Marquardt

Marquardt is responsible for Sprint's long-term technology strategy and architecture, the industry relationships and investments enabling Sprint's innovation and ecosystem development goals, as well as the company's advocacy in US and global industry forums and standards bodies. He also represents Sprint at speaking engagements, in press and analyst interviews, and as needed with regulatory bodies and other industry stakeholders. Prior to Sprint, he was VP of Technology Development at Clearwire Corporation and was also CTO at Covad Communications where he led teams responsible for the engineering and network planning of VoIP, wireless, and broadband services across the United States. Dr. Marquardt has an S.B. in physics from MIT, an M.S. and Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Ingo Marten
Ingo Marten

Ingo Marten is a senior vice president of cross industry and market development at T-Systems, the IT networking business of Germany's Deutsche Telekom. He has held managerial responsibilities at Deutsche Telekom for more than 20 years in areas including sales and marketing and business development. He is currently focused on Deutsche Telekom's B2B activities and specializes in the field of the industrial Internet and Internet of Things. Marten has a Masters Degree from Brunel University in London.

Klaus Martiny
Klaus Martiny

Klaus has been part of the international key projects team at Deutsche Telekom since 2008 focusing on the NGMN Alliance, TM Forum and ETSI NFV ISG where he's been Vice Chair of the Network Operator council since 2014. Klaus is responsible for steering standardization operations (automation), strategic programs focused on OSS Evolution, Network and service management projects and the setup and Optimization of the European Operations Organization.

Prior to DT, Klaus was Vice President of Continuous Improvement of Operations for T-Mobile International and head of operations for E-Plus a former German Network Operator he was also a team leader of the radio interface validation for GSM in DETECON.

Rita Marty
Rita Marty

Marty is currently responsible for Mobility and Cloud Security in support AT&T's transformation to software-enabled architecture. She  has 15 years of experience and has held various positions in AT&T. Marty is also responsible for developing the security architecture and framework for Mobility, Network Virtualization based on the User Defined Network (UDNC), and Emerging Services including Connected Car, Digital Life, U-Verse, etc. She served as a member of the CTO Technology Council that was chartered to provide technology thought leadership for AT&T and the partner community that makes up AT&T Technology Ecosystem. She led strategic initiatives to accelerate innovation through internal rapid development efforts and focused industry collaborations.

Brannan Matherson
Brannan Matherson

At CenturyLink, Matherson's areas of focus include business strategy, product management, sales enablement, go-to-market, tracking performance and alignment of the business. Previously, he led the product and marketing strategy at ElasticBox. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at Microsoft related to its Azure cloud. 

Dimitris Mavrakis
Dimitris Mavrakis

Mavrakis manages ABI Research's telco network coverage, including telco cloud platforms, digital transformation and mobile network infrastructure. Research topics include AI and machine learning technologies, telco software and applications, network operating systems, SDN, NFV, LTE diversity, and 5G. Prior to joining ABI Research, he  was a Principal Analyst with Ovum, covering telco network infrastructure and leading research in SDN and NFV. Prior to Ovum, Mavrakis was a Senior and Principal Analyst for Informa Telecoms & Media. He holds a PhD in mobile communications and a Master of Science degree in satellite communications, both from the University of Surrey.

James McQuivey
James McQuivey

McQuivey covers chief marketing officers and media technology. His consumer models identify the ways consumers have embraced digital experiences and platforms, and his strategy models help companies prepare to serve those consumers. He spends the majority of his consulting time with consumer media and consumer electronics companies that are at the forefront of dealing with digital disruption. Previously at Forrester, James served as a vice president and research director, running Consumer Technographics North America, Forrester's consumer research effort. 

Neil J. McRae
Neil J. McRae

Neil runs BT Group's technology strategy, including fixed, mobile, TV and IT & systems and is leading BT's 5G and programmable networks programs. He was appointed BT Group Chief Architect in 2016, after . McRae has built several networks and datacenters from the ground up as well as contributing and creating open software for networking and routing back in 1992. Previously, he led BT's network strategy and architecture for several years, held senior technology roles at Cable & Wireless and Colt, and was a non-executive director for the London Internet Exchange for 16 years.

Chris McReynolds
Chris McReynolds

Chris McReynolds is responsible for the ethernet, cloud and transport services globally and has been with Level 3 for eight years in various product management and corporate strategy roles.

Karl Mehta
Karl Mehta

Karl Mehta has over 20 years of experience in founding, building, and funding technology companies in the US and international markets. He is currently Founder & CEO of EdCast Inc., a next-generation knowledge platform company, and former venture partner at Menlo Ventures. He also is the Founder of Code for India, which is a nonprofit organization founded in Silicon Valley. Karl also served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, selected by the Obama administration during the inaugural 2012-13 term.

Chris Menier
Chris Menier

Menier has spent the last 15 plus years as a sales executive with a focus on the cable and telecommunications vertical. Prior to joining Guavus, he led sales initiatives at Netezza, which was acquired by IBM, NexTone Communications, which was bought by Genband, KMC Telecom Holdings, Inc., and helped found Exit 18, Inc., creating an ISP serving Southwest Florida. Menier studied computer engineering at the University of Iowa.

Narayan Menon
Narayan Menon

At XCellAir, Menon develops and evangelizes the technology strategy and roadmap, and leads product development. Prior to XCellAir, he drove research and development for InterDigital, leading elite teams to innovate and implement next-generation wireless solutions – including the inception and early development of the XCellAir product. Menon has over 25 years of experience in the wireless field, holding leadership roles at Siemens Mobile Networks, Omnipoint Technologies and Hughes Network Systems in the development of TDMA, GSM/GPRS and 3G systems.

Robin Mersh
Robin Mersh

Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum Chief Executive Officer, joined the Broadband Forum as Chief Operating Officer in July 2006, and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in July 2010. Robin has held leadership positions in the telecommunications industry for over 18 years. Robin has worked in business development and alliance management for various OSS software companies in the United States, mainly in network and service provisioning and activation, where he negotiated and managed several large OEM agreements. He is originally from Cambridge in the UK. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London in 1992. 

Tyler Middleton
Tyler Middleton

Middleton is responsible for CenturyLink's operational and financial performance in the state of Minnesota.  During his 30 years of professional experience in the information technology and telecommunications industries, Middleton has held positions at Wang Laboratories, MCI and Qwest Communications.  He joined CenturyLink during the acquisition of Qwest Communications in 2010.

Middleton is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, with a degree in Business Administration and Computer Science.

Maureen Moore
Maureen Moore

Moore is responsible for the creation and execution of an overall customer experience strategy for all services — cable TV, internet, wireless, and local/long distance phone — as well as all customer touch points. During her 19-year career with GCI, Moore has served in several capacities for the company, including being part of the GCI team that launched cable modem service in 1998, which expanded services throughout Alaska. Born and raised in Alaska, she holds a degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University.

Andrew Morawski
Andrew Morawski

Andrew Morawski was recently appointed as President of the Americas region, as well as the Country Chairman for Vodafone US. He is responsible for the compliance, governance and integration of all Vodafone entities that operate in the Americas. He also oversees Vodafone's Global Enterprise customers headquartered in the region and serves as President and Chairman of the Vodafone Americas Foundation. He joined Vodafone in 2012 as Head of Internet of Things (IoT) in the Americas. His key area of focus was the application of IoT technologies to enable creative new business models to drive growth in both established and emerging markets. Prior to Vodafone, he was the Managing Director for the Americas at Cable & Wireless Worldwide. That followed more than ten years at Telstra where he held multiple roles, including President and CEO of Telstra Inc, leading the Americas region for Telstra International. Morawski has also held senior management roles at companies such as Nortel, Prism Communications and Nynex Meridian Systems. 

Martin Morgan
Martin Morgan

With almost 30 years' experience in mobile BSS, Martin has worked in mobile telecoms software since the early days of the industry. As such, it's a surprise he's not gone totally bald. He's run the marketing departments of four BSS firms and has served on the boards of software companies and trade associations.

Brian Morris
Brian Morris

Brian Morris is Vice President and General Manager of Tata Communications Global Media & Entertainment Services (GMES) business, focused on providing next generation managed services that drive efficient production, management and distribution of digital media assets globally. Previously he worked at Cisco, Scientific Atlanta and Siemens in a variety of worldwide roles including R&D, Operations, Product Management and Global Business Development and Sales.

Iain Morris
Iain Morris

Iain Morris joined Light Reading as News Editor at the start of 2015 -- and we mean, right at the start. His friends and family were still singing Auld Lang Syne as Iain started sourcing New Year's Eve UK mobile network congestion statistics.

Prior to boosting Light Reading's UK-based editorial team numbers (he is based in London, south of the river), Iain was a successful freelance writer and editor who had been covering the telecoms sector for the past 15 years. His work has appeared in publications including The Economist (classy!) and The Observer, besides a variety of trade and business journals. He was previously the lead telecoms analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit, and before that worked as a features editor at Telecommunications magazine. Iain started out in telecoms as an editor at consulting and market-research company Analysys (now Analysys Mason).

Douglas Nassaur
Douglas Nassaur

Nassaur leads research, architecture and standards initiatives at AT&T. He drives strategy, architecture and standards efforts to advance the deployment of container-based applications at scale, cloud native computing and the Internet of Things across the industry. Nassaur represents AT&T at the Open Container Initiative (OCI), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Fog Consortium (OpenFog). As part of his responsibilities, he leads efforts to align proof-of-concept (POC) and development initiatives with architecture to achieve strategic goals leading innovation across technology architecture, technology development and operations organizations. Nassaur leads the Target State Architecture and Governance Board, Northbound API Governance Board, the Cloud Computing Center of Excellence and the Cloud Native Computing Center of Excellence.

George Nazi
George Nazi

Nazi is responsible for all aspects of Accenture's network practice, including defining the go-to-market approach, shaping the strategy, and designing and executing on all network offerings.

Prior to Accenture, he served as the executive vice president of Alcatel-Lucent and president of Global Customer Delivery (GCD) managing a workforce of more than 40,000 professionals. Earlier, Nazi was at BT serving as the president of networks and IT Infrastructure globally. He has also held executive positions at WorldCom and Level 3. Nazi received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science 

Thomas Neubauer
Thomas Neubauer

Thomas is Vice President of Business Development & Innovations for TEOCO. Thomas was the founder and Managing Director of Symena, acquired by AIRCOM in April 2012. AIRCOM was subsequently acquired by TEOCO in December 2013. Thomas Neubauer has more than eleven years of experience with automatic cell planning (ACP) and mathematical optimization. His experience has been applied to GSM, WCDMA, CDMA, WiMAX and LTE network design and operations. Thomas' academic background is in smart antennas and MIMO systems. He holds a Ph.D. in telecommunications engineering from the Vienna University of Technology.

Jim Newkirk
Jim Newkirk

Newkirk oversees the development of CenturyLink's cloud management platform. He brings almost 30 years of experience in the software industry. Prior to CenturyLink, he held senior leadership roles at Microsoft, Caradigm (a GE/Microsoft Joint Venture) and ThoughtWorks.

Randolph Nikutta
Randolph Nikutta

Dr. Randolph Nikutta started his career at Deutsche Telekom in 1996 at a R&D subsidiary.

Since April 2005 he has been assigned to Telekom Innovation Laboratories. He is responsible for the project field "Interactive High End Media" dealing with IPTV and convergent/multi-screen  TV, TV Apps and TV Companion services and also more mid- to long-term related innovation topics like virtual set-top boxes, cloud TV and virtualization of TV services using SDN and NFV architectures. Development activities are directly product related in close co-operation with business units, as well as more future oriented proof of concept service implementations.

Fernando (Fred) Oliveira
Fernando (Fred) Oliveira

Oliveira is currently working on SDN and NFV architecture for Verizon's network cloud platform.

He joined Verizon in 2011 through the acquisition of CloudSwitch where he was chief architect and led technology architecture and direction.  Prior to joining CloudSwitch, Oliveira held senior  positions at EMC, Conley Corp, Stratus Computer, Apple Computer and Kendall Square Research. Oliveira has a bachelor in science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Connecticut and holds 23 patents in the areas of virtualization, system software and storage.

Olivier Ondet
Olivier Ondet

Olivier joined Orange Labs in 1998 as a developer for MPEG4 technologies. He went on to manage the 3G services standardization team and then the "Devices and LiveBox" programme. In 2006, he joined the Orange Group's regulation directorate to steer negotiations with the regulator concerning interconnection, net-neutrality and Orange network access charges for the newcomer on the French mobile market. In 2011, Olivier joined Orange Business Services, to manage Marketing and Customer Experience for Orange Applications for Business, whose 2,700 employees support more than 10,000 companies and institutions in three areas: customer experience, big data and connected objects. In addition to these responsibilities, at the end of 2015 he was handed the direction of the Datavenue B2B programme, which encompasses Orange's ambition for the Internet of Things and big data. Olivier is an Engineer from the Corps des Mines and a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique in theoretical physics (1994) and Télécom ParisTech.

Roman P. Pacewicz
Roman P. Pacewicz

Pacewicz is leading the team responsible for the transformation of the AT&T Business value proposition through the creation and development of the next generation services platform, Network on Demand. Additionally, his team is responsible for product prioritization, positioning, pricing, and experience integration across the entire AT&T Business Solutions portfolio.

Prior to his current role, he was Senior Vice President of Marketing & Global Strategy. Pacewicz has also served as the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Application Services and as Senior Vice President of Regional Marketing. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and a MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. 

Laurent Paillassot
Laurent Paillassot

Laurent Paillassot began his career in 1989 at La Compagnie Bancaire (Paribas group). In 1997 he moved on to Mitchell Madison Group, an American strategy consulting firm specializing in the financial field. In 2000, he joined the Caisse d'Épargne group, where he was the director of distribution and partnerships at the Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Épargne, then became CEO of Caisse d'Épargne Financement. From 2005 to 2007, he also was Chairman and CEO of GE Money Bank in France, a subsidiary of General Electric Consumer Finance. In 2007, Laurent Paillassot was appointed Deputy CEO of LCL (Le Crédit Lyonnais) and then CEO Delegate in May 2011.

Laurent Paillassot holds an engineering degree from the Ponts et Chaussées (1989) and he received his MBA from the Institut européen d'administration des affaires (INSEAD) (1996).

Pam Parisian
Pam Parisian

Parisian is responsible for the development and support of the primary platforms that enable AT&T's strategic Mobility and Business Solutions businesses.  She also is responsible for the AT&T Global End-User Experience, including desktop, midrange and mainframe operations. Parisian is known for her experience and expertise in merger integration activities, including the BellSouth Cellular and SBC Wireless, AT&T and Cingular Wireless, and AT&T and DirecTV mergers. She previously served as chief information officer for Mobility, Business and Home Solutions, where she oversaw IT strategy, software delivery, and production operations for systems that support consumer and enterprise wireless, wireline, U-verse video, high speed internet, and wholesale lines of business.

Jim Parker
Jim Parker

With more than 15 years of experience in the wireless industry, Parker is working to increase the presence of Huawei wireless, mobile broadband and IoT solutions in the United States.  Prior to Huawei, he held positions at AT&T, Samsung and NEC Americal. Parker is vice president of the Texas State Wireless Association, as well as a member of the Small Cells Forum and the Wireless Innovation Forum.

Rashik Parmar
Rashik Parmar

Rashik is the leader of the European and Asia Pacific Cloud Advisor team, an IBM Distinguished Engineer and previously President of IBM's Academy of Technology. During his more than 30 years of practical experience in IBM, he has worked for financial, retail and manufacturing clients on IT transformation projects of all sizes. Overall, he specializes in ensuring the technical success of complex IT projects that transform business models. He is currently advising clients on their cloud innovation roadmap from a technology and business perspective. 

Larry Peterson
Larry Peterson

Peterson came to ON.Lab from Princeton, where he was the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab Consortium. He served as chair of the CS Department from 2003-2009. In 2007, Peterson co-founded CoBlitz LLC to commercialize CDN technology developed on PlanetLab. CoBlitz was acquired by Veriue Inc. in 2010, and subsequently by Akamai in 2012. Peterson is co-author of the best-selling networking textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach." He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, the 2010 recipient of the IEEE Kobayahi Computer and Communication Award, and the 2013 recipient of the ACM SIGCOMM Award. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University.

Lev Petukhov
Lev Petukhov

Lev Petukhov is a media executive with more than 10 years' experience in the Russian market. He has run numerous digital projects at NTV PLUS, a major Russian DTH operator including the development of several apps and multiscreen services for NTV PLUS customers. His team played a major role in the development of an advanced highlights production system, which currently provides video content for all the top sport websites in Russia; and was responsible for the launch of the first Russian online broadcasting PPV-service with live matches from most leading European football leagues.

Trent Pham
Trent Pham

Pham is responsible for the organization's security service strategy, development and life cycle management.  He joined Windstream in 2016 and has 20 years of security product management experience with communication service providers, security service provider and startups. He also taught information technology at the University of Denver's Information and Communications Technology Graduate Program.  Pham received an MBA from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business, a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and holds a CISSP certification.

Ben Pietrabella
Ben Pietrabella

Ben Pietrabella is a Global Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience in enterprise communications, telecommunications, IT products, and solutions. He has significant knowledge and experience in enterprise architecture, product management, product development, and Integration for telecommunications as well as multi-vertical enterprise application solutions. Prior to joining Xura, Pietrabella held leadership roles as Vice President of Deployment Architecture at Pitney Bowes. He also led solution integration and development teams at Alcatel-Lucent and AT&T Bell Labs.

Carl Piva
Carl Piva

Carl is VP Strategic Programs at TM Forum. He is now leading the Smart City Forum with the vision to provide the business and technology blueprint for a scalable and sustainable smart city. Carl has been working for 20 years in the IT and communications industries and has a background in consultancy and global software organizations. Carl holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University.

Jason Porter
Jason Porter

Jason Porter currently leads AT&T's cyber security business.  He is responsible for driving growth and profitability for the AT&T Security portfolio, consisting of network, premise, cloud and mobile security products, threat management and consulting.  He leads a large team consisting of Sales, Product, Marketing and Consulting leaders.

Since joining AT&T in 2002, Jason has held various leadership positions in Engineering, Strategy, Operations and Marketing spanning consumer and business.  He maintains a track record of successfully introducing and maturing emerging technologies and business units as well as transforming businesses.

Previously, Jason Porter was Vice President of DevOps for AT&T Partner Solutions where he was responsible for driving profitability and growth of the AT&T Partner Exchange channel.  He and his team launched over 25 products, reduced cycle times by 75% and transformed the user experience to earn one of the highest Net Promoter Scores in the industry.

Prior to that role, Jason Porter was AVP, Business Development for AT&T Business Solutions, responsible for evaluating and forming strategic cloud partnerships to extend AT&T's market share, develop differentiating features and scale the As a Service business.

Jason also was the AVP of Mobility Service Operations for AT&T Global Network Operations.  He was responsible for the health, maintenance and growth of voice and data services for over 80 million worldwide wireless subscribers.  In this role, Jason successfully introduced products and services such as the 3G MicroCell, Location Based Services, and devices including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Kindle.

Prior to his role in AT&T Mobility, Jason was Director of U-verse Operations, responsible for crafting and executing a strategy to introduce a first ever technology and grow it to a scalable solution.  He created and executed an "Incubation Center" concept founded in the end-to-end customer experience, maximizing rapid learning and establishing operational discipline in a nascent environment.  Jason's leadership in U-verse resulted in numerous patents, awards, and enabled the growth of the first million U-verse customers.

Jason holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from The United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Regis University.  He served in the Army as an Armor Officer, leading a Tank Platoon and a Mortar Platoon.  He and his wife, Tiffany, have three children and currently reside in Frisco, Texas.

Jarred Potts
Jarred Potts - Jarrett Potts

Potts has been in the IT infrastructure industry for more than 25 years starting with Colorado Memory Systems and HP where he was a network and product support analyst. At IBM, he spent 20 years supporting, selling and marketing the IBM storage hardware and software portfolio. At Huawei, he is part of a new global integrated Data Center Sales and Marketing team that covers the complete enterprise Data Center portfolio.

John Quinn
John Quinn

John  Quinn is the CTO of the Digicel group, responsible for the fiber deployment across the operators footprint in the Caribbean and Pacific, and for the company's media & entertainment business. It has grown from a standing start two years ago, into a $100m+ business, passing over half a million homes and picking up more than 120,000 customers. Quinn has 25 years' experience in ICT and telecommunications, having worked for many Tier I providers such as Vodafone, Telefonica and UPC/Liberty Global.

Larry Rau
Larry Rau

Rau's job at Verizon includes developing technology to connect things to the network. It also includes hiring a range of developers with embedded experience, to cloud infrastructure and to distributed Internet services. He previously was CTO, consumer solutions, for Sun Microsystems.

Christopher W. Rice
Christopher W. Rice

Chris Rice, Senior Vice President of AT&T Labs, Domain 2.0 Architecture and Design, is responsible for delivering the architecture and design of AT&T's software-centric network. This transformation uses software-defined networking and network functions virtualization to deliver products and services to the customer. Prior to this role, Chris was the Vice President of AT&T Labs, leading the research and advanced development for the software-centric network. Since joining AT&T in 1995, Chris has contributed expertise and focus on wireless and broadband communication systems. He worked on satellite and broadband data communication systems. He also led development efforts for a digital radio-based, pico-cellular basestation, which provided in-building, mobile voice communication on standard cellular phones.

Rob Rich
Rob Rich

Rich is Managing Director of the TM Forum's Transformation Research Center, and TM Forum Insights Group, the Forum's market research arm. In this position, he is responsible for all facets of the TRC and Insights, and is a regular contributor to the Research portfolio. Rich has more than 15 years experience in market research and consulting, including two years as an independent consultant, 11 years as Executive Vice President of Communications & Networking Research & Consulting for the Yankee Group, and two years as Director of Communications Equipment and Services at Dataquest.

Chris Richter
Chris Richter

Richter is responsible for the company's Global Managed and Professional Security Services line of business. He leads a team of professionals tasked with ensuring achievement of revenue and margin targets, R&D and investment objectives, operational excellence, strategic objectives, and customer satisfaction. Prior to Level 3, he served as vice president of Managed Security Services at CenturyLink.

George Rigby
George Rigby

Rigby has helped enterprise clients achieve their IT transformation goals for over 15 years. During this period, he has held a variety of senior consultative roles gaining a wealth of experience working across both industry and technology sectors, from financial services to telecom and media. As Senior Director, Solutions, Rigby draws on these experiences to advise enterprise clients on Digital Transformation, translating their business goals into tangible IT managed service solutions.

Phil Ritter
Phil Ritter

Ritter has held roles of increasing responsibility through the development and deployment of all four generations of digital cellular voice and data networks, ultimately holding the role of director for planning, wireless core networks at Verizon where he was part of the leadership team designing Verizon's LTE network. He also led the development of the LTE Data core network.  More recently, Ritter led the development of Verizon's first fully virtualized platform supporting the mobile private network platform.  He originally joined PacTel Cellular as a network engineer for its AMPS network in Los Angeles, which later became part of Verizon. Ritter has a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of California at Irvine.

Gil Rosen
Gil Rosen

Rosen is responsible for the consumer and business segments as well as leading overall product management and strategy for the company. Before Bezeq, he was the founder and CEO of a digital MVNO, IMMMR, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. Prior to that, Rose was the VP of New Media at the strategic innovation arm of DT, T-Labs, where he helped launch several marketing solutions, such as Tolino Tab, as well as other media and TV projects. Before joining DT, Rosen was VP Innovation & Digital Services at Amdocs and the Head of AT&T's first International Innovation Center (Foundry) in Israel. In this role Gil was responsible for the setup of the new innovation center and the creation of a new hybrid R&D and partnership model that led to the successful launch of several innovative projects for AT&T. Rosen is a specialist in telecom, Internet, mobile, B2B and B2C services with more than 15 years' experience in setting up and leading global communications and start-up ventures.

Scott Rosenberg
Scott Rosenberg

Rosenberg leads advertising strategy and sales, partnering with content and consumer brands to market to the Roku audience. Prior to Roku, Scott was CEO of Umami, a venture-backed companion TV startup. Earlier in his career, he held senior product, sales and engineering roles at Gemstar/Rovi, BlackArrow, ReplayTV and Intel. 

Stefan Rupp
Stefan Rupp

Stefan Rupp is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Digital Officer of Swisscom Event & Media Solutions AG, an event production company which specializes in event production for entertainment and sports. In his role, Rupp is responsible for overseeing the growth, structure, and development of the company; and for supervising and expanding on the financial turnaround of the business. Rupp has spent more than 23 years in sports and concert event production in Europe, focused on marketing and technical innovation. 

Jim Sabey
Jim Sabey

Sabey is an IT and networking professional with more than 21 years in the international telecommunications and cloud computing industries. He specialized in BT's SD-WAN, networking, application performance management, and cloud computing solutions. He is driven to educate his peers on new, emerging technologies both internally within BT and externally.  Sabey is also passionate about understanding his client's business drivers to design, apply and deliver the appropriate solutions to meet and exceed expectations.

Fahim Sabir
Fahim Sabir

Sabir is responsible for Colt's delivery of next generation connectivity service platforms, specializing in SDN and NFV technologies. He has almost two decades experience in telecoms, managed IT and network services, and cloud computing, focusing on the architecture, development and operation of complex platforms, with a keen interest in orchestration, automation and interoperability.

Adam Saenger
Adam Saenger

Adam Saenger is Vice President, Global Product Development & Management for Level 3 Communications, with responsibility for leading all aspects of Level 3's global solutions development in addition to lifecycle product management responsibility for the company's Customer Interaction Strategy and Adaptive Network Control Solutions.  Prior to his current role, Mr. Saenger spent 16 years in various marketing executive leadership positions at TW Telecom, which included directing the product management and development departments where he played a critical role defining the Company's Internet, Ethernet, Managed Services and Intelligent Network Strategies.

Mark Sage
Mark Sage

Mark Sage is the Executive Director of the AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA), the global member-based organization focusing on accelerating adoption of Augmented Reality in the enterprise. Prior to this, he has worked as a consultant for several technology companies and as a business mentor for start-ups. Sage was also chair of operations for the Tizen Association, and spent several years working in a variety of roles at Orange earlier in his career. 

Bjørn Taale Sandberg
Bjørn Taale Sandberg

Bjørn Taale Sandberg joined Telenor in 2000 and is Senior Vice President and Head of Telenor Research. Previously, he served as CEO of AeroMobile Ltd, based in the UK, Chief Marketing Officer in Telenor Pakistan and Head of Strategy for Telenor Mobile Communications. Sandberg has a Master in Computer Science from the University of Oslo and a Master of Management from the Norwegian Business School (BI). Telenor Research is Telenor's internal scientific research unit. The unit works with Telenor's 13 subsidiaries and external academic and industry organizations on research into regulatory, competition, customer, technology and organizational development issues relevant to Telenor and the industry. Telenor Research publishes regularly in scientific journals and functions as an advisor to the top management.

Brian Santo
Brian Santo

At Light Reading, Santo is focused on the test & measurement and components sectors. Prior to Light Reading, he spent more than nine years at video and broadband industry publication CED, where he was editor-in-chief. He previously worked as an analyst at SNL Kagan, as Technology Editor of Cable World and held various editorial roles at Electronic Engineering Times, IEEE Spectrum and Electronic News. 

Sorabh Saxena
Sorabh Saxena

Saxena is leading the transformation of IT and AT&T's evolution to a software-based company. He leads the delivery of AT&T's Integrated Cloud, APIs, Data, Business Function and other software platforms. Additionally, he manages delivery and production support for the software defined network. Saxena and his organization are responsible for technology solutions and architecture for all IT projects, AT&T Operation Support Systems (OSS) and software driven business transformation programs. He manages more than 11,000 resources, and his organization is playing a critical role in AT&T's workforce development and skills pivot by providing technology training. He is also tasked with leading cultural transformation initiatives enabling AT&T's evolution to a software and cloud-based company.

Saxena began his career with AT&T (Bell Labs) in 1995 as a systems engineer working on and managing business support systems for all functions and aspects of the software delivery lifecycle. He has owned the full lifecycle of software product development including business, client andiUser relationships.

He holds a Bachelors in Electronics and Communications from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, and a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland at Baltimore.

Dan Schinasi
Dan Schinasi

Dan Schinasi is the UHD Alliance's U.S. Promotions Working Group Chairperson. He has more than 20 years of work experience in the electronics industry, with extensive knowledge and experience in display technology including direct and projection displays with a focus on marketing next generation technology and features such as internet connected TVs, networked TVs, 3D television and 4K UHD TV. 

Randy Schrock
Randy Schrock

Schrock is a technology sector executive with extensive and diversified experience in operations, partnership and strategy management specializing in all aspects of professional and managed service delivery. Prior to his current role at BT, Schrock previously was the vice president of corporate alliances for BT-INS. He managed partnerships with Cisco, Microsoft, Polycom, and other UC/voice/video vendors. Before joining BT, he worked with INS, Immedient and other firms in the technology professional and managed services space.  

Claudio Scola
Claudio Scola

At Level 3, Scola is leading the product marketing team for Hybrid WAN, VPN, Internet, Ethernet, Transport, CDN, APM and cloud connectivity. He is responsible for driving the go to market strategy through regional sales and marketing. Scola is also an active and certified member of MEF, where he regularly speaks at industry events promoting the adoption of Lifecycle Service Orchestration which brings dynamic flexibility and agility to network services. In 2016 he won an Active Contributor award from the MEF. 

Michael E. Serrano
Michael E. Serrano

Serrano has over 20 years of experience in the communications industry. He is currently responsible for Service Provider Marketing at NetScout. He began his career at PacBell (now part of AT&T) where he designed service plans for the business market and where he was responsible for demand analysis and modeling. His career continued with Lucent technologies where he brought to market the first mobile data service technology. At Alloptic, he was responsible for marketing the industry's first EPON access solution and bringing to market the first RFOG solution. At O3B Networks, Serrano headed up marketing bringing to market the first MEO-based constellation of satellites for serving internet service to the other 3 billion on the planet. He also worked at Cisco, where he helped to define MediaNet (Videoscape) and the network technology transformation for cable operators.

Faraz Shafiq
Faraz Shafiq

Shafiq is the global IoT practice leader responsible for Verizon's enterprise IoT (Internet of Things) strategy, analytics and enablement. Shafiq's responsibilities include leading the long term IoT portfolio strategy, analytics, customer experience, professional services and IoT go-to-market. Prior to Verizon, Shafiq was the lead for AT&T IoT product development and management. He also led AT&T's Big Data advertising vertical with focus on the Big Data strategy and operations for the targeted marketing. He started off as a principal engineer for network engineering and played key roles in evolving AT&T's network infrastructure to 4G and setting the stage for NFV/SDN. Shafiq holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He also teaches Data Science and Strategy as well as Applied Innovation as a part time instructor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Fadi Shanaah
Fadi Shanaah

Shanaah is responsible for planning, managing and developing the business of strategic verticals -- including smart cities and healthcare -- for Orange Business Services in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. He leads the business development activities of Orange's applications for its business portfolio in the MEA region with a focus on digital transformation, IoT, big data and master system integration.

Phil Skipper
Phil Skipper

Skipper is responsible for developing Vodafone's IoT solutions and capabilities on a global basis. Skipper, who joined Vodafone in 2013, has experience in a broad range of industries including defense, FMCG and media. Prior to joining Vodafone, he was responsible for markets and portfolio within the Siemens Infrastructure & Cities organization. Before that, Skipper held the position of Director Electro Mobility for Siemens and has worked for a number of well-known blue chip organizations including Landis + Gyr and Mars in the UK, US and Switzerland.

Steve Sklar
Steve Sklar

Steve Sklar has worked in the video and communications industry since 1988. In his current role, he oversees the company's OTT and TV Everywhere initiatives and content strategy for all video products at CenturyLink. Previously he led CenturyLink's Video Strategy and development group, and prior to that held senior roles at Cablevision Systems Corporation, Insight Communications, Starz and HBO.

Nader Sobhan
Nader Sobhan

Nader Sobhan is the Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for iflix. Prior to joining iflix, Sobhan was the founder of Iktomi, a digital design and film production company with operations in Dubai, Barcelona and Bangkok. Sobhan also formerly led strategic planning for the major digital platforms at MBC, the largest private media company in MENA.

Niklas Sonkin
Niklas Sonkin

Niklas Sonkin joined Tele2 in 2009 as executive vice president and market area director for central Europe. Named chief operating officer during a management reshuffle in October 2015, he is also acting chief technology and information officer and overseeing shared operations for the Tele2 Group. He has previously held senior roles at companies including Wataniya Telecom and TeliaSonera.

Matt Stagg
Matt Stagg

Matt Stagg is Head of Mobile Video & Content at EE. He is responsible for content technology in the mobile arena for EE, which is now owned by BT. He looks at new and emerging technologies such as LTE Broadcast and edge computing in the mobile network, but also user behavior and barriers to adoption of new mobile content and services. He is also the chair of the Mobile Video Alliance, and involved with the LTE Broadcast Alliance.

Joe Stanganelli
Joe Stanganelli

Joe Stanganelli is founder and principal of Beacon Hill Law, a Boston-based general practice law firm.  His expertise on legal topics has been sought for several major publications, including U.S. News and World Report and Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine.

Joe is also a technology writer, communications consultant, and produced playwright.  In his free time he enjoys playing bridge poorly and spending time with his zero cats. Follow Joe on Twitter at @JoeStanganelli.

Mats Svardh
Mats Svardh

Mats Svardh is in charge of Group networks and IT infrastructure for TeliaSonera. His responsibilities include steering the operator's strategy on 5G, SDN and NFV as well as the overhaul of its back-office systems. Svardh has been in his current role since March 2014. Before that he worked as global director of terminal products and technology for UK-headquartered Vodafone.

Ihab Tarazi
Ihab Tarazi

Ihab Tarazi is responsible for Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) network operations, platform strategy, leading the next generation technology and innovation function and contributing to the company's cloud initiatives. He joined Equinix in 2013 from Verizon, where he was Vice President of Enterprise Network Services. There, he was responsible for product management, strategy, technology and development for Verizon network products. During his tenure at Verizon, Mr. Tarazi led planning and technology development for Verizon's global IP network connecting customers in over 150 countries. He also led the design and development of next-generation optical and submarine cable systems driving many industry innovations in 100G optical technology globally.

Mallik Tatipamula
Mallik Tatipamula

Tatipamula works closely with service providers around the world on their next-generation network deployments. He has over 20 years of industry experience in telecom and networking technologies, and has worked on various aspects of research and development, business administration, architecture and standards, technical marketing, product management, outbound marketing, product strategy, and business development. Prior to F5, he was the head of packet technologies research at Ericsson. He has also held leadership positions at Juniper Networks, Cisco, Motorola and Nortel. He has a Ph.D in Information Science and Technology, from the University of Tokyo, Japan and Master's from Indian Institute of Technology.  Tatipamula has been a speaker or presenter at leading industry conferences such as CTIA, MWC, and IEEE.

Dan Templin
Dan Templin

Templin is the Senior Vice President of Mediacom Business Solutions, President of Mediacom's CLEC holdings and Senior Vice President of OnMedia, Mediacom's media sales division. He joined the company in 2008 as Group Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Product Development. Templin has more than 25 years in the cable and telecommunications industries.

Stéphane Téral
Stéphane Téral

Téral joined Infonetics Research, now IHS Markit, in 2006 and specializes in next-generation mobile infrastructure including 5G, cloud and quantum networking, programmable core networks and service provider digital transformation. He also tracks overall telecom economics and forecasts service provider capex, opex and revenue, as well as outsourced and managed services. Previously, Téral was with analyst firm RHK, where he developed their European optical coverage and helped carriers migrate from PSTN to next-generation networks. Prior to RHK, Téral was an engineer and project manager with Alcatel. Téral was a McGowan Scholar at the McLaren School of Business, University of San Francisco, US, where he received his MBA, and has an Engineering Degree in Telecommunications from Télécom SudParis , France.

Peter Terhune
Peter Terhune

Terhune is responsible for developing complex technical solutions for prospective customers, existing customers, ISV and consulting partners. He is a Salesforce MVP as well as a certified sales cloud consultant by Salesforce. Prior to his seven-year career at Conga, he held roles at Disaboom.com and nGenera Corporation.

Jason Thibeault
Jason Thibeault

Jason Thibeault is the Executive Director of the Streaming Video Alliance, a global consortium of companies dedicated to helping shape the future of online video. In this role, Jason manages, grows, and evangelizes the organization. Prior to this, Jason held various marketing, product management, and technical services roles over 8 years at Limelight Networks, one of the world's leading content delivery networks. He is a published author and holds numerous technical patents. You can follow him on Twitter at @_jasonthibeault.

Sarah Thomas
Sarah Thomas

Sarah Thomas's love affair with communications began in 2003 when she bought her first cellphone, a pink RAZR, which she duly "bedazzled" with the help of superglue and her dad.

She joined the editorial staff at Light Reading in 2010 and has been covering mobile technologies ever since. Sarah got her start covering telecom in 2007 at Telephony, later Connected Planet, may it rest in peace. Her non-telecom work experience includes a brief foray into public relations at Fleishman-Hillard (her cussin' upset the clients) and a hodge-podge of internships, including spells at Ingram's (Kansas City's business magazine), American Spa magazine (where she was Chief Hot-Tub Correspondent), and the tweens' quiz bible, QuizFest, in NYC.

As Editorial Operations Director, a role she took on in January 2015, Sarah is responsible for the day-to-day management of the non-news content elements on Light Reading.

Sarah received her Bachelor's in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She lives in Chicago with her 3DTV, her iPad and a drawer full of smartphone cords.

Away from the world of telecom journalism, Sarah likes to dabble in monster truck racing, becoming part of Team Bigfoot in 2009.

Gao Tongqing
Gao Tongqing

Gao graduated from the Changchun Institute of Posts and Telecommunications with a major in telecommunications engineering and received a doctorate degree in business administration from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He served as Deputy Director General of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Posts and Telecommunications Administration, Deputy General Manager and General Manager of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Telecom Company and General Manager of China Telecom Jiangsu branch. He is also a Vice President of China Telecommunications Corporation. Gao has extensive experience in management and the telecommunications industry.

Joan Triay
Joan Triay

Triay is a research and standardization specialist at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, in Munich, Germany, which he joined in 2012. He is currently involved in standardization and research activities spanning different areas such as network virtualization, mobile communication networks, and 5G-network management. In the ETSI NFV, Triay is serving as the technical manager after previously serving as the assistant technical manager. He joined the ETSI NFV from the very beginning in 2013 and has been participating actively in developing the NFV concepts and standards. Before joining NTT DOCOMO, he was in charge of managing the research activities at i2CAT Foundation, in Barcelona, Spain. Prior to that, he also held different research positions in the academia community including visiting researcher positions in USA and UK. Triay holds a Ph.D. in Telematics Engineering (Computer Networks) (2011) from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain.

Arnaud Vamparys
Arnaud Vamparys

Vamparys is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (X-Mines). In 1995 he joined mobile operator ltineris. He held a number of positions in France, in the Netherlands and in Spain, in the mobile, Internet and business markets.  He was the chief of engineering of Dutchtone in the Netherlands from 1998 to 2000. From 2000 to 2003, Vamparys was CTIO for  the Spanish ISP. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Vice President of Products and Service Development for Orange Business Services (France Telecom, Transpac and Equant) creating the Orange Business Livebox router. In 2007, he became Orange Labs Mass Market Vice President.

Ildiko Vancsa
Ildiko Vancsa

Vancsa started her journey with virtualization during her university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modeling and optimization. She got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013. She was a member of the Ceilometer and Aodh core teams, and now she drives NFV-related feature development activities in projects such as Nova and Cinder. Beyond her code and documentation contributions, Vancsa is also very passionate about onboarding and training activities, which is one of her focus areas within the OpenStack Foundation.

Sudhanshu Vats
Sudhanshu Vats

Sudhanshu Vats is Group CEO, Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd., and responsible for all its lines of business, including the digital entertainment service VOOT. Under Vats' leadership the group has grown from 6 to 36 channels and opened up 3 more lines of business leading to a 30X growth in revenue. Prior to Viacom 18 Media, Vats spent 20 years at Hindustan Unilever (Unilever India) and BP India in a variety of roles. He is also currently Chairman of the National Media and Entertainment Committee of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), Vice President of the IBF (Indian Broadcasting Foundation) and Director on the Board of BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council).

Radhika Venkatraman
Radhika Venkatraman

Venkatraman is responsible for supporting new network technology and all the operating systems for network products offered to consumer, enterprise and wholesale customers on a global basis. These systems provide automation of major functions like inventory management, engineering and construction, service and infrastructure provisioning, service assurance, surveillance and work process optimization. Venkatraman has more than 17 years of expertise in telecommunications and technology and has held several leadership positions in Verizon, including vice president and executive director. 

Pascal Viginier
Pascal Viginier

After joining Orange in 1981, Viginier has been the CIO of the Orange Group since 2010. He leads Orange's IT strategy, ensures its governance and, through its teams, supports the Orange and Orange Business Services countries to provide a sustainable information system open to innovation for both internal and external solutions. Since 2016, he has led the digital transformation at Orange to adopt a software culture across all areas. During his career at Orange, Viginier has held various operational, IT and commercial positions. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole nationale suprieure des Telecommunications, as well as the Institut dAdministration des Entreprises.

Chris Volinsky
Chris Volinsky

Volinsky leads the Big Data research platform with a focus on the field of statistics and data analytics. He joined AT&T in 1997 and has expertise in large-scale data analytics recommender systems, social networks, statistical computation and anomaly detection. Volinsky's research at AT&T focuses on large scale data mining including recommender systems, social networks, statistical computation and anomaly detection. In 2009, Volinsky was a member of the seven-person, four-country team, BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos, that won the $1 million Netflix Prize, an open competition for improving Netflix's online recommendation system. Volinsky got his PhD in statistics from the University of Washington in 1997.

Mirko Voltolini
Mirko Voltolini

Voltolini is responsible for leading the effort to architect and develop the Colt network and product portfolio to deliver an online digital customer experience where customers order, design and manage their network services on demand. He is responsible for the strategy, architecture and development of the network technologies enabling Colt software-defined on demand network, the IT orchestration and monitoring capabilities and the management of the on demand product portfolio. Voltolini joined Colt in 2002 and has held several senior roles in the technical development and engineering areas. Prior to joining Colt he worked at GTS/Ebone, Italtel and ICT Consulting, an independent telecom consultancy company. Voltolini holds an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico of Milan. 

Mitch Wagner
Mitch Wagner

San Diego-based Mitch Wagner is many things. As well as being "our guy" on the West Coast (of the US, not Scotland, or anywhere else with indifferent meteorological conditions), he's a husband (to his wife), dissatisfied Democrat, American (so he could be President some day), nonobservant Jew, and science fiction fan. Not necessarily in that order.

He's also one half of a special duo, along with Minnie, who is the co-habitor of the West Coast Bureau and Light Reading's primary chewer of sticks, though she is not the only one on the team who regularly munches on bark.

Wagner, whose previous positions include Editor-in-Chief at Internet Evolution and Executive Editor at InformationWeek, will be responsible for tracking and reporting on developments in Silicon Valley and other US West Coast hotspots of communications technology innovation.

Beats: Software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), IP networking, and colored foods (such as 'green rice').

Bill Walker
Bill Walker

Walker's technical expertise is in capacity management, service level management, and systems, network, and infrastructure architecture. He also has a strong background in Solaris, Linux and Unix based systems, as well as cloud systems architecture, virtualization and server systems architecture.  He has extensive experience in multiple industries, including telecommunications, energy, retail, banking and finance, government and public sector, and healthcare.   Prior to CenturyLink, Walker was with Huawei, where he led the IoT, Smart City, and Carrier IT initiatives, and was an early supporter of SDN and NFV efforts. He also worked in the CTO office at Huawei, designing SDN Federation and emerging security solutions for carriers. 

Robert Walker
Robert Walker

Walker has worked in the telecoms industry for 35 years primarily in product, project and program management roles. He has led and delivered a significant number of transformation programs including technology, cost and organizational design focused projects. He successfully delivered the UK's first rate-adaptive broadband product for BT from concept to market in five quarters utilizing agile techniques and was a founder of its first corporate incubator, Brightstar. Walker has most recently been leading the delivery of the TM Forum Digital Maturity Model. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Association for Project Management and The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

John Ward
John Ward

John A. Ward II is Senior Vice President, Content Operations for DirecTV (under the AT&T Entertainment Group). He oversees the on-air operations for AT&T Entertainment, including the Audience Network. He also oversees the Sports Operations group, responsible for the delivery of more than 100,000 events per year to out-of-market subscribers. Previously Ward held a variety of positions at FOX Sports Productions, supervising all studio production for FOX's NFL, MLB, and NASCAR coverage. He also launched two new FOX sports networks – Speed and Fuel TV – and has won 11 Sports Emmys for his work in sports broadcasting.

James Warner
James Warner

Warner is the past president and CEO of the TM Forum and a Distinguished Fellow. During his tenure there, he helped create, launch and manage several programs including business process optimization (eTOM), catalyst proof of concept demonstrations and helped guide the Forum's move into the smart, digital services space. Currently, he advises CSPs on their digital transformations, including new service development and improving the customer experience. He is a pioneer in leveraging cloud and platform-based business models to drive market and revenue growth for communications providers.

Julian Watson
Julian Watson

At IHS Markit, Watson is responsible for analyzing IoT technologies, applications and business models. Prior to that, he was Director of Operators research with IHS Technology's mobile and telecom team. In this role he developed analysis of operators' bundling business models, emerging markets footprint strategies and M&A opportunities. He also undertook custom research for operators, equipment vendors and regulatory authorities on issues such quad play strategies, VoIP and fixed broadband market segmentation. Watson has a BA in Politics and Russian from the University of Leeds. He is based in London, United Kingdom.

Ray Watson
Ray Watson

Ray Watson is VP of Global Technology at Masergy. He brings over 17 years of expertise in IT strategy, application solution design and next-generation network architectures. Ray has enabled numerous global enterprises to transform their IT infrastructures to improve business outcomes. Ray is an industry thought leader in IT transformation and a frequent speaker on topics such as hybrid networking, SDN, NFV, cloud connectivity and advanced security. Prior to joining Masergy, Ray worked at Airband Communications and Broadwing Communications.

Jeff Webb
Jeff Webb

Jeff Webb is Principal Streaming Architect at Sky, one of the leading commercial TV operators in Europe. He is responsible for the strategy and architecture of the company's live streaming services and driving them forward. Critical areas of focus for him are the protection and scalability of the streaming platform and providing customers with an excellent streaming experience.

Carl Weinschenk
Carl Weinschenk

Weinschenk is a freelance telecommunications, IT and energy journalist. Among his other clients, Weinschenk contributes on an almost daily basis to www.itbusinessedge.com and is the Managing Editor of Energy Manager Today. He also runs a music site, The Daily Music Break as a hobby.

Simon West
Simon West

Simon West leads global marketing and communications for Cyxtera, responsible for all aspects of the company's global marketing efforts including brand management, communications, field, channel and product marketing. He has spent his career marketing business-to-business technology solutions, and played a key role in three of the largest transactions in the cloud and infrastructure services sector, most recently as CMO of Virtustream, a leading enterprise-class cloud provider, acquired by EMC in 2015 for $1.2 billion. Prior to joining Virtustream, he served as CMO for SoftLayer Technologies. Prior to SoftLayer, West served as CMO for Terremark, where he executed a comprehensive brand relaunch. Previously, he spent 11 years with Data Return, where he was part of the initial startup team and played an instrumental role in taking the company through foundational business planning, product definition and systems development, through the planning and execution of an IPO and the successful sale of the business.

Ron Westfall
Ron Westfall

Westfall is responsible for tracking the evolution and key developments within the global service provider infrastructure and service enablement ecosystem markets, including back-office, infrastructure, regulatory, revenue management, and digital ecosystem issues. He brings over 15 years of analytical experience to the overall service provider infrastructure and service enablement ecosystem markets, including specialization in service billing, service creation, regulatory developments, network/content security, service assurance, service fulfillment, OSS/BSS and telecom infrastructure technologies in general. This includes working with operators, equipment systems and software vendors in areas such as mobile integration, M2M networking and customer experience management.

Jennifer Whalen
Jennifer Whalen

Jennifer Whalen has more than 25 years of writing and editing experience, with 15 years of that as a trade journalist. During her career, she's covered telecommunications, cable TV, broadband engineering, utilities, human resources, intellectual property, logistics, enterprise architecture, and numerous other topics. 

Amy Wheelus
Amy Wheelus

Wheelus leads AT&T's Integrated Cloud platform development, delivery lifecycle and tenant care, D2 integrated system design and engineering as well as integrated system testing and cloud security. She has held a variety of leadership positions within AT&T's Technology & Operations organization.  A few of her many contributions to AT&T include leading teams that helped: deliver the first virtualized network functions and services on a network cloud using AT&Ts industry leading ECOMP platform; expand AT&T's VoLTE (voice over LTE) service; plan and deliver AT&T's Ultra Long Haul Transport network; construct over 1 million square feet of web hosting data centers; and modernize AT&T's central office infrastructure.  

Carol Wilson
Carol Wilson

After a quarter of a century covering telecom, what Carol doesn't know about the industry can't even be Googled. Carol's CV, which is available as a partwork, includes spells at TelephonyInteractive Week and The Net Economy. She was also the founding of a telecom news website, BroadbandEdge. Prior to covering telecom, she covered higher education, business, politics, the arts, and sports for publications in North Carolina and Wisconsin. [Ed note: Is there such as thing as the arts in Wisconsin, technically speaking?]

Now working for Light Reading from her home aviary with faithful dog Sunny as her executive assistant and personal trainer, Carol welcomes feedback from her readers, particularly if they shout "Go Heels!" in her face at any given trade show.

In her current role, Carol is the link between the editorial team and other parts of the UBM Tech organization, including events. As part of her brief, she will be the Dean of the soon-to-be-launched Light Reading University, so if you were wondering about the outfit, now you know.

Zhang Yu
Zhang Yu

Dr. Zhang got both his bachelor's and doctor's degrees from the Electronic Engineering Department of Tsinghua Univ. in 2002 and 2007 respectively. Dr. Zhang was the architect of Huawei FusionSphere OpenStack. Before joining Huawei, Dr. Zhang worked for IBM Research as a research scientist.

Gong Yuqing
Gong Yuqing

Yuqing joined Huawei in 2005, and has served as the chief engineer of the North African Network Solution Dept, the deputy representative of the Morocco Rep. Office and Carrier BG Data Center Marketing Director. He received his bachelor degree from Xi`an University of Posts & Telecommunications. 

Michele Zarri
Michele Zarri

Zarri is a technical director in GSMA where he works on advanced technologies and IMS services. He graduated in telecommunications engineering at University of Pisa (in Italy) and completed his studies at King's College of London. Prior joining the GSMA Zarri worked for Deutsche Telekom where he accrued more than 15 years of experience in standardization of mobile technologies. He has served as chairman of working groups in both 3GPP and GSMA.

Matt Zelesko
Matt Zelesko

Zelesko leads teams responsible for the delivery of Comcast's advanced video experiences, including the X1 platform and the Xfinity TV applications for consumer devices. He previously was Time Warner Cable's Senior Vice President of Technology, where he was responsible for technology strategy and product development across all video products, all Time Warner Cable web properties, and the set of converged services that enabled the video and web experiences.

Michael Zeto
Michael Zeto

In his current job at AT&T, Zeto is responsible for the teams that drive the strategy, product development, business development and go to market for AT&T's Smarter Cities business unit. Prior to that, he was a Director of Strategy at AT&T in the Mobile & Business Solutions organization. In this role, Zeto focused on technology related, organic and in-organic emerging growth opportunities for AT&T in the areas of IOT, Big Data, consumer engagement and cloud technologies. Before AT&T, Zeto was the co-founder and CEO of Proximus Mobility. He is an Industry Fellow with the Georgia Research Alliance. Zeto co-chairs the Mobility Task Force and the Mobility Leadership Council for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

Zou Zhilei
Zou Zhilei

As president of Huawei's Carrier Business Group, Zou oversees the group's strategic direction, operations, and development. He leads the business group as it strives to become a leading strategic partner for telecom operators. Prior to this position, he held various leadership roles within the company. From July 2013 to early 2014, Zou served as president for global sales and services at Huawei's Enterprise BG. From 2010 to 2013, he was president of Huawei North Africa, supervising the company's business across 22 countries in the region. Since he joined Huawei in 1998, Zou has overseen the management of multiple Chinese and international Huawei offices, including Shenyang, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Xian, Guangzhou, and Indonesia.

Guy Zibi
Guy Zibi

Guy Zibi is Principal Analyst with Xalam Analytics, the Africa and Middle East (AME) Research unit of Heavy Reading, focused on AME ICT and enterprise markets. Guy has more than a decade-long experience in researching and analyzing the business of technology in developed and developing economies around the world. He was previously Co-Founder and Managing Director with AfricaNext Investment Research, an Africa-focused telecom equity research firm, where he led financial analysis on African technology assets and managed projects around carrier due diligence, wholesale capacity markets and new carrier models.

Guy is widely recognized as a foremost expert in TMT markets in growth economies. In prior years, Guy was Head of Pyramid Research's Global Consulting Practice and Director of EMEA Research. In those roles, Guy managed a team of consultants tasked with developing and executing the company's research into new technologies and innovative business models at a global level (cloud, OTT, VoIP, enterprise, infrastructure bandwidth, mobile profitability in emerging markets). He also acted as the lead consultant for due diligence projects in Africa/Middle East on the buy and lending sides, spearheading financial and operational due diligence projects on the operations of fiber, mobile, fixed and Internet services providers in emerging markets.

Kelsey Kusterer Ziser
Kelsey Kusterer Ziser

Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Senior Editor, Light Reading, studied journalism and mass communication with a second major of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her interest in the telecom world started with a PR position at Connect2 Communications where she worked with a variety of clients focused on communications network infrastructure, including switches, routers, SBCs, data center equipment and systems. Her drive for communicating the impact of new technology translated into a communications position at the FREEDM Systems Center, a smart grid research lab at N.C. State University. While at FREEDM, Kelsey orchestrated the center's webinar program which crossed multiple college campuses and covered research projects like cybersecurity in the smart grid, the center's smart solid-state transformer, fault isolation devices and distributed energy storage devices.

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