Speakers

• ORAN and Its Application to Public and NPN

Arda Akman has 25 years of research and development experience in telecommunications, especially in wireless networks. In his current position as Director of Wireless Access in Netsia, he is leading the development of 5G products with focus on network slicing and RAN intelligence. He has also led the development of 4G macro base station covering radio resource management, SON and FCAPS.

• Industrial IoT Session: 5G URLLC, TSC and IoT

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• Commercial 5G Deployment and Disruptive Business

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• Operator Keynote #3: Disruptive Model – Operator Perspective
• Commercial 5G Deployment and Disruptive Business

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• Industrial IoT Session: 5G URLLC, TSC and IoT

As Product Manager for Komatsu’s FrontRunner Autonomous Haulage System, David Haukeness works with Komatsu’s mining  customers around the globe to understand how customers use autonomous solutions to transform their business.

• ORAN and Its Application to Public and NPN

Dr. Jin Yang is a Fellow at Verizon Communications Inc., responsible for wireless technology and strategy. She is leading next generation wireless network architecture and technologies, including 5G-NR, Evolved LTE, Internet of Things (IoT), Intelligent Autonomous Self-Organizing Network and virtulized network.

Founder and Chair of World Economic Forum

• ORAN and Its Application to Public and NPN

Senior technologist driving the O-RAN RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), within Nokia’s 5G Cloud Solution Architecture team.

• Industrial IoT Session: 5G URLLC, TSC and IoT

Ellis Lindsay leads the manufacturing and technology strategies within Nokia’s Enterprise business group. In this role, Ellis determines how to create business value with network, cloud, and automation solutions, while defining technology direction for the portfolio. Ellis holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

• Keynote from Asst. Director, White House office of Science and Technology

Dr. Burger is responsible for the telecommunications and cybersecurity portfolio in OSTP. Prior to his detail at OSTP, he was on detail to the Federal Communications Commission as its Chief Technology Officer. He is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University and Assistant Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House.

• Opening Keynote: Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Frank H. P. Fitzek is a Professor and head of the “Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks” at TU Dresden coordinating the 5G Lab Germany. He is the spokesman of the DFG Cluster of Excellence CeTI.

• ORAN and Its Application to Public and NPN

Howard Thomas is a Principal Scientist in the Chief Technology Office of Viavi Solutions. He is a telecommunications consultant with more than 30 years’ experience in the mobile radio business.

• Industry Analyst Panel

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John Smee is Senior VP of Engineering and Global Head of Wireless Research at Qualcomm. He oversees all 5G/6G and Wi-Fi R&D projects including systems design, standards contributions, and advanced radio, hardware, and software research testbeds and technology trials with industry partners. He joined Qualcomm in 2000, holds over 175 U.S. Patents, and has focused on the innovation and commercial launches of wireless communications across 5G NR, 4G LTE, 3G CDMA, and IEEE 802.11.

• Operator Keynote #2: Disruptive Model – Operator Perspective

Sangmin leads the FC division that plans and develops 5G services including B2C and B2B, as well as digital transformation technologies of the company.

• Operator Keynote #1: Role of 5G in Industrials – Operator Perspective

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• Regulator view on Private Networks

Masayuki Matsui is the counselor for communications policy at the Embassy of Japan in the United States. He covers ICT and digital policy issues including 5G, AI, IoT, cybersecurity and privacy. He has long-term experience in telecommunications policy, especially privacy, consumer protection and network resiliency at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and　Communications in Japan. He received a BA in law from the University of Tokyo and a Masters of Public Policy from Columbia University.

Mikael Höök joined Ericsson in 1994 and has held various positions targeting the research and standardization of 2G, 3G, 4G and now 5G. He is currently Research Area Director for Radio-research within Ericsson Research and based in Kista, Stockholm. The responsibility covers research on air-interface design, advanced signal processing, multi-antenna systems, radio network performance and propagation.

• Commercial 5G Deployment and Disruptive Business

Michael (Mike) Murphy is CTO for Nokia, North and South America. He is responsible for aligning Nokia’s product roadmap with the needs of customers in the United States, Canada and Latin America.

Norman Abramson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii. He has served as Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor and Chair of Information Science and Director of the ALOHA Network at UH. Abramson received an A.B. in physics from Harvard College in 1953, an M.A. in physics from UCLA in 1955, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1958. He has been a member of the faculty at Stanford, and a visiting member of the faculty at Berkeley, Harvard and MIT.

• Industrial IoT Session: 5G URLLC, TSC and IoT

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• Industrial IoT Session: 5G URLLC, TSC and IoT

Patrick Marsch is part of the Digital Rail organization in Deutsche Bahn and responsible for the connectivity and Cloud infrastructure for future digitalized rail operations. Related to this role, he is currently also rapporteur of an ongoing ETSI study item on the Future Rail Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) system architecture.

Peter Vetter is President of Bell Labs Core Research and Bell Labs Fellow. He leads an eminent global research organization with the mission to create game changing innovations that define the future of networks and insure portfolio leadership for Nokia’s core business.

• Regulator view on Private Networks

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• Commercial 5G Deployment and Disruptive Business

Philippe Lucas is Executive Vice President, Customer Equipment & Partnerships of Orange. He has overall responsibility for the Group’s portfolio of devices in 27 markets.

Under his leadership, he is accelerating the Group’s innovation in consumer mobile & IoT by developing business and partnerships with a broad range of incumbents and new technology partners to drive Orange products and digital services worldwide.   

• ORAN and Its Application to Public and NPN

Rittwik Jana is a Director of Inventive Science at AT&T Labs Research. His research interests span architecting the disaggregated RAN intelligent controller in O-RAN, service composition of VNFs using TOSCA, model driven control loop and automation in ONAP, networked video streaming and cellular networks and systems. He is currently the chair of the requirements and software architecture committee of the O-RAN Software Community (OSC).

• Commercial 5G Deployment and Disruptive Business

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• 5G Evolution

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• Operator Keynote #4: 5G Deployment – Operator Perspective

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Shinji Fukui is Executive Officer of technology development in Industrial Automation sector of OMRON, where he leads innovations of automation for manufacturing using the latest technologies such as AI, Robotics and IOT. His focus is the edge side of computing, one of the latest activities is implementing machine learning and embedded database into machine controller.

• Wrap-up and Closing Remarks

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• 5G Evolution

Mr. Tang, Chief 5G Scientist of OPPO, started his career in 2000. He joined 3GPP standardization activities in 2005 and is one of the key contributors of TD-LTE global standards.

Theodore S. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor at New York University (NYU) and holds faculty appointments in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, the Courant Computer Science Department, and the NYU Langone School of Medicine. He founded NYU WIRELESS, a multidisciplinary research center, and the wireless research centers at the University of Texas Austin (WNCG) and Virginia Tech (MPRG).

• Regulator view on Private Networks

Head of international spectrum affairs and utilization concepts in the Federal Network Agency, Germany. After a university degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany, Mr. Ewers has been working continuously since 1992 in the area of national and international spectrum regulation on different levels.

• Keynote: Industrial IoT driven by 5G Networks

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Tommi is passionate about developing mobile broadband networks and seeing his customers thrive as
they deliver ever better mobile customer experience and create the Internet of Things.  As the head of Nokia’s Mobile Networks Business Group, Tommi is shaping not only our industry, but society itself by bringing 5G to the market.

• Commercial 5G Deployment and Disruptive Business

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