Big 5G Event 2020 | Informa PLC | 22 September 2020 | Virtual event

Bringing together work from across 5G World, Omdia, the 5G Exchange, Light Reading and Telecoms.com, the 5G 100 is a comprehensive overview of the biggest influencers in the 5G universe, encompassing those who have the voices to cut through the industry noise and have the power to say where 5G could go next.

2020 Speakers

Neville Ray
President of Technology, T-Mobile

Nicola Palmer
Chief Product Development Officer, Verizon

Igal Elbaz
Senior Vice President, Wireless & Access Technology, AT&T

Bernard Bureau
Vice President, Network and Architecture Strategy, TELUS

Ivo Rook
Senior Vice President of Internet of Things, Sprint

Raheel Khalid
Chief Engineer, XR Edge, Verizon

Derek Peterson
CTO, Boingo Wireless

Tareq Amin
Executive Vice President and CTO, Rakuten Mobile, Inc.

Chris Pearson
President, 5G Americas

Mireille Helou
Chief Executive Officer, Orange Silicon Valley

Mishka Dehghan
Vice President, Strategy, Product, & Solutions Engineering, T-Mobile

Mathew Oommen
President, Reliance Jio

Edward Fox
CTO, MetTel

Gordon Mansfield
Vice President of Mobility and Access Architecture, AT&T

Dan Leibfried
Director, Automation & Autonomy, Intelligent Solutions Group, John Deere

Michael Zeto
Senior Vice President, Global Strategy and Emerging Businesses, Boingo Wireless

Sanjay Macwan
CISO & SVP, Engineering & Networks, Vonage

Kristan Kline
Principal Network Strategy, Chief Digital Office, Kaiser Permanente

Mark Jen
CTO and Co-Founder, Common Networks

Anand Shah
Director, Technology Strategy and Architecture, Verizon

Jim Brisimitzis
Founder and General Partner, 5G Open Innovation Lab

Chris Sharp
Chief Technology Officer, Digital Realty

Mark Rewers
Director of IT, American Dream Meadowlands

Rob Mello
Head of Strategy and Transformation, Americas, Orange Business Services

Tom Williams
CTO, Schurz Communications

Prabhakar Chitrapu
Chair, Small Cell Forum

Jennifer Andreoli-Fang
Distinguished Technologist, CableLabs

Kevin McBride
Principal Architect, SDN & NFV Technologies, CenturyLink

Muslim Elkotob
Principal Solutions Architect, Vodafone

Antonio Pellegrino
CEO, Mutable

Chris Bastian
CTO and SVP of Engineering, SCTE/ISBE

Stephen Mellor
CTO, Industrial Internet Consortium

Max Silber
Vice President of Mobility, MetTel

Dirck Schou
Chief Executive Officer, Taqtile

John Isch
Practice Director – Connectivity Solutions, Orange Business Services

Thomas Magedanz
Director, NGNI Software Based Networks, Fraunhofer FOKUS

Cheryl Keeler
Vice President, Business, T-Mobile

Miguel Carames
Director of Network Planning, Verizon Wireless

Mark Gilmour
VP, Mobile Connectivity Solutions, Colt Technology Services

Amy LaFebre
Director of Technology and Commercial Data Systems, Verizon

Paul Adair
Principal Product Manager, Infoblox

Shubh Agarwal
SVP, Strategic Marketing, Metaswitch

Jose Aguilar
General Director of Policy and Regulation, MTC

Imran Akbar
VP and GM, New Business, Samsung Networks, Samsung Electronics America

Jorge Alberto Tello
Core Network Specialist, Entel Peru

Ahmad Ali
Senior Technology Alliances Consultant, Blue Prism

Reza Arefi
Vice President, GSA

Berge Ayvazian
Senior Analyst and Consultant, Wireless 20/20

John Baker
Senior Vice President, Business Development, Mavenir

Steve Bell
Principal Analyst, Informa Tech Automotive Group

Sanjay Bhatia
VP, Solutions Marketing & Strategy, Ribbon Communications

Alberto Boaventura
Technology Consultant, Oi Brazil

Alan Breznick
Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Gabriel Brown
Principal Analyst, Mobile Networks & 5G, Heavy Reading

Jeff Brown
Director, Global Field Marketing, Calix

Jack Burton
Principal, Broadband Success Partners

Becky Carr
Chief Marketing Officer, Masergy

Caroline Chan
Vice President and General Manager, Network Business Incubator Division, Intel

Michael Clegg
VP & GM for 5G, Embedded and IOT, Super Micro Computer Inc.

Jeff Clemow
VP Strategic and Channel Sales N Telit

James Crawshaw
Principal Analyst, Service Provider Operations and IT, Omdia

Roel Cueva
Chief IT PMO, Bitel Peru

Tim Danks
VP Risk Management & Partner Relations, Huawei Technologies

Mike Dano
Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading

Matt Davis
Founder and Principal Analyst, Independence Research

Michael Dennis
Global Business Development Leader, Cloud Security, Cisco

Shawn Draper
Vice President of Network Service Fulfillment, Engineering and Field Services, CenturyLink

Bob Everson
Senior Director, 5G Architecture, Cisco

James Feger
General Manager - Service Providers, F5

Ariel Fernandez Alvarado
President, Catel

Gilles Garcia
Senior Director, Wired and Wireless Group, Xilinx

Adam Gould
SVP of Product Management, Inseego

Phil Harvey
US News Editor, Light Reading

Mika Heikkinen
Head of Product Line, Transport, Ericsson

Patrick Henkle
Director Software Systems, JMA Wireless

Fernando Hernandez Sanchez
Telecommunications Deptartment Manager, URSEC

Niklas Heuveldop
President and CEO, Ericsson North America, Ericsson

Jim Hodges
Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading

Alejandro Holcman
SVP, Corporate Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies

Javier Juarez Mojica
Commissioner, Federal Telecommunications Institute Mexico (IFT)

Hugh Kelly
Vice President of Marketing, Volta Networks

Adnan Khan
Senior Manager – Wireless and Wireline Market Development, Anritsu

Todd Kiehn
VP of Product Management – Managed Services, GTT

John Kimmins
Security Strategy Director, Palindrome Technologies

Evan Kirchheimer
Vice President, Service Provider and Communications, Omdia

Nirlay Kundu
Distinguished Engineer, Verizon

Victoria Lamberth
Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer, ZenFi Networks

Peter Linder
Head of 5G Marketing, North America, Ericsson

Sunil Lingayat
Cybersecurity Senior Executive

Ari Lopes
Senior Manager: Americas, Omdia

Mark Lowenstein
Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem

Satish Madiraju
Director Products and Solutions, Fortinet

Mohamed Madkour
VP Wireless Networks Marketing & Solutions, Huawei Technologies

Gerardo Mantilla
Regulatory Project Director, Artifex Consulting

Harpinder Matharu
Senior Director, Wired and Wireless Group, Xilinx

Shahed Mazumder
Principal Strategist, Technology Strategy, CableLabs

Sean McDevitt
Partner, Arthur D. Little

Rakshit Mehta
Telco Industry Platform Leader, IBM

Sanjay Mewada
Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Affirmed Networks

Masum Mir
VP, Product Management, Mobility and Automation, Cisco

Joe Mocerino
Principal Solutions Architect, Fujitsu

Gustavo Morais
Digital Director, Sky Brazil

Sameh Naguib
Director, Sales Consulting, Oracle Communications, Oracle Communications

Narendra Narang
Chief Account Technologist, Telco, Red Hat

Chris Neisinger
Field CTO, Guavus a Thales Company

T. Sean Obrey
Global Head of Sales for Telco, Family & IoT, Avast

Emil Olbrich
President, PrimeLime LLC

Marcelo Oliveira
VP of New Commercial Products, Frontier

Jose Otero
Vice President: Latin America & Caribbean, 5G Americas

Nilo Pasquali
Superintendent of Planning and Regulation, ANATEL

Sterling Perrin
Principal Analyst, Optical Networking & Transport, Heavy Reading

Richard Piasentin
Chief Strategy & Chief Marketing Officer, Accedian

Jennifer Pigg Clark
Principal Analyst, Cloud Infrastructure and Edge Computing, Heavy Reading

Constantine Polychronopoulos
Vice President, 5G & Telco Cloud, Juniper Networks

Marc Price
CTO, MATRIXX Software

Shaji Ravindra Nathan
Vice President, Product Marketing, IP Infusion

Jacob Reeb
VP of Wireless and Digital Services, Cambridge Consultants

Sharon Rozov
Strategic Marketing, RAD

Sue Rudd
Director, Service Provider Analytics, Strategy Analytics

Paul Scanlan
CTO, Carrier Network Business Unit, Huawei Technologies

Jyoti Sharma
Manager - Technology, Strategy, Architecture & Planning, Verizon

Gabriel Sidhom
VP - Technology Strategy & Development, Orange Silicon Valley

John Smee
Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm

Ashley Stephenson
CTO, Corero Network Security

Wen Temitim
Vice President, Edge Cloud, Juniper Networks

Nivi Thadasina
Vice President of Engineering, Samsung Networks, Samsung Electronics America

Peter Thermos
CEO, Palindrome Technologies

Will Townsend
Senior Analyst, Networking Practice, Moor Insights & Strategy

Val Vaduva
CTO, Enghouse Networks

Srilakshmi Valisammagari
Senior Technical Manager - Security Products, Verizon

Alexandre Vargha
Project Leader: Connected Services, Volvo

Andrew Vaz
Vice President, Product Line Management, Juniper Networks

Brian Washburn
Practice Leader, Network Transformation & Cloud, Omdia

Mike Woster
Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Operating Officer, The Linux Foundation

Tymoteusz Wrona
Head of Telecommunications, Presales & Product Management, Comarch

Raj Yavatkar
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Juniper Networks

Xiaoxia Zhang
Principal Engineer, Qualcomm

2020 Sponsors and Exhibitors

DIAMONDO SPONSOR:
• Cisco
• Intel

SUPER PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Ericson
• Juniper
• Qualcomm

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Mavenir
• Huawei
• Xilinx

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Accedian
• Comarch
• F5
• Fortinet
• Fujitsu
• Guavus
• IBM
• Infoblox
• Inseego
• IPinfusion
• Oracle
• RAD
• Redhat
• ribbon
• Samsung
• SuperMICR
• Volta Networks

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Affirmed
• Anritsu
• Avast
• BluePrism
• Calix
• Cambridge Consultants
• Cisco Umbrella
• Corero
• Enghouse Networks
• JMA Wireless
• MATRIXX Software
• Metaswitch
• Telit

SECURITY FOCUS DAY GOLD SPONSORS:
• Palindrome Technologies

EXHIBITORS:
• Accedian
• Affirmed Networks
• Amdocs
• Apis Training
• Avast
• BAE Systems
• Blue Prism
• Cisco
• Corero
• Enghouse Networks
• Ericsson
• ETS- Lindgren
• F5
• Forsk
• Fortinet
• Fujitsu
• Global Knowledge
• Guavus
• Huawei
• IBM
• Infoblox
• INSEEGO
• IP Infusion
• JMA Wireless
• Juniper Networks
• Metaswitch
• Omnisci
• RAD Data Communications
• Red Hat
• Samsung Networks
• Siradel
• Super Micro Computer, Inc.
• Volta Networks
• Xilinx