Speakers

Alastair Westgarth is the CEO of Loon, an independent business within Alphabet that is working to bring internet access to unserved and underserved communities around the world via a network of balloons operating on the edge of space.

Andrea Goldsmith is the Stephen Harris professor in the School of Engineering and a professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She co-founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Plume WiFi and of Quantenna (QTNA), and she currently serves on the Corporate or Technical Advisory Boards of Crown Castle Inc. (CCI), Sequans (SQNS), Quantenna (QTNA) and Cohere.

Balazs Bertenyi received an M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications in 1998 at the Technical University of Budapest.

Balazs has over 20 years of experience in the field, he joined Nokia in 1998 and started to work on circuit switched mobile switching.
In 1999 he joined the research group on IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and soon started to work in 3GPP standardization on IMS architecture.

• Operator Keynote #4 Mr. Bill Stone, VP, Verizon

Vice President Radio Access and Virtualization Technology Planning, Bill reports to Ed Chan. Bill and his team are responsible for the strategy and planning for the Verizon Wireless radio access network and the virtualization of the wireless EPC and IMS networks.

• Non Terrestrial Networks

Mr. Dallas Brooks is the Director, Raspet Flight Research Laboratory at Mississippi State University and the Associate Director of the ASSURE FAA UAS Center of Excellence.  As the Raspet Director, he is responsible for MSU’s broad spectrum of government and commercial manned and unmanned aviation research, development, test and engineering programs. 

SB HAPS

Ulrich heads the Standardization activities for Nokia. He is responsible for global and regional standardization and technical regulation as spectrum. The team is part of the Nokia BellLabs CTO group. Ulrich is board member of the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA). He also is a VP and Executive Committee member of the Global Mobile Supplier Association (GSA).

Edmund Yeh is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University.  He was previously Assistant and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Statistics at Yale University.

• Non Terrestrial Networks

Prof. Giuseppe Loianno is an assistant professor at the New York University and director of the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab (https://wp.nyu.edu/arpl/) working on autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles. Prior to NYU he was a lecturer, research scientist, and team leader at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania.

SKT

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.

As Head of 5GX Labs, Mr. Park is responsible for the research, development and commercialization of 5G network and next-generation communications technologies in SK Telecom. He also performs a role as a decision maker with a leading 5G technology management function.

Dr. K. Halkiotis has joined Deutsche Telekom Group Technology in 2013 as Vice President in Mobile Access. His primary function wasto definethe strategy, architecture, innovation and blueprints for Mobile Access Networks in Deutsche Telekom Group.As of the beginning of 2016 he is also responsible for the architecture of the fixed networks within Deutsche Telekom Group Technology.

• Regulator Keynote #5 – Commissioner Michael O’Rielly (FCC)

Michael O’Rielly was nominated for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission by President Barack Obama and was sworn into office in November 2013.  In January 2015, he was confirmed and sworn into office for a second term, which extends until June 30, 2019.

Michael Thelander is the CEO and Founder of Signals Research Group (SRG), a US-based research consultancy that offers thought-leading field rsearch and consulting services on the wireless telecomunications industry.

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.

• Industry Analyst Panel: Moderator (Jason Elliott)

Senza Fili provides advisory support on wireless technologies and services. At Senza Fili we have in-depth expertise in financial modeling, market forecasts and research, strategy, business plan support, and due diligence. Our client base is international and spans the entire value chain: clients include wireline, fixed wireless, and mobile operators, enterprises and other vertical players, vendors, system integrators, investors, regulators, and industry associations.

IDC

• Industry Analyst Panel: Moderator (Jason Elliott)

Patrick Filkins is a Senior Research Analyst with IDC’s Network Infrastructure group covering IoT and Mobile Networks. In his role covering Edge IoT Infrastructure, he is responsible for market and technology trends, forecasts and competitive analysis related to IoT network edge, gateways, and protocol strategies, including the emerging LPWAN domain.

Huawei

Dr. Peiying Zhu is an Huawei Fellow and IEEE Fellow. She is currently leading 5G wireless system research in Huawei. The focus of her research is advanced wireless access technologies with more than 200 granted patents.

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.

• Non Terrestrial Networks

Salvatore Candido is a Principal Engineer at Alphabet, and currently serves as Loon’s Chief Technology Officer.

• Machine Learning and Deep Learning for 5G / B5G – Tim O-Shea – Title: Enhancing 5G+ RAN Performance with Machine Learning

Siddharth Garg received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, and a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

• Industry Analyst Panel: Moderator (Jason Elliott)

Stefan Pongratz is an analyst at the Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data center IT industries.

With 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including 23 years in Silicon Valley, Stéphane is regarded as one of the top analysts in his field, having been the trusted advisor at some of the world’s largest telecom providers and manufacturers.

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).