Sarah Thomas, Director, Women In Comms
Sarah Thomas’s love affair with communications began in 2003 when she bought – and bedazzled – her first cellphone, a pink RAZR. She joined the editorial staff at Light Reading in 2010 and has been covering mobile technologies ever since. She got her start covering telecom in 2007 at Telephony, later Connected Planet. Her non-telecom work experience includes a brief foray into public relations at Fleishman-Hillard and a hodge-podge of internships, including at Ingram’s (Kansas City’s business magazine), American Spa magazine and the tweens’ quiz bible, QuizFest, in NYC.

Jiang Xue, Vice President, Carrier IT Marketing & Solution Sales, Huawei
Experienced business professional with more than 17 years experience in ICT sales, marketing, project management . In-depth knowledge in the ICT environment d in regard to technology, IT infrastructure, applications, services and solutions.

Gabriel Brown, Principal Analyst - Wireless Data Services & LTE, Heavy Reading
Gabriel covers the mobile network system architecture, including evolution of the RAN, the mobile core, and service-layer platforms and applications. Key technologies in his coverage area include LTE Advanced, small cells, Evolved Packet Core, carrier Wi-Fi and software-centric networking technologies such as NFV, SDN and service chaining. Gabriel has covered mobile networking since 1998 through published research, live events, operator surveys and custom consulting.

Emmanuel Bidet, VP, Convergent Networks Control, Orange
Emmanuel Bidet is currently in charge of the core network within Orange Labs Networks.

Emmanuel has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry. In his previous positions, Emmanuel was responsible for new services development and deployment for Orange France from 2012 to 2016 and before this in charge of Orange networks operations in France from 2008 to 2012.