Big 5G Event 2022 | Informa Connect | 16 May 2022 | Austin Convention Center, 500 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Over three days, the Event will deep dive into the hottest industry topics, giving you more opportunities to connect with the industry, hear from leading experts, and discover the latest innovations and solutions that are driving 5G.

This year, our pre-day Summits will examine 6G, women in telecoms and 5G security, while across the main event, we will explore the enterprise opportunity, open & disaggregated networks, cloud, core, the most cutting-edge 5G network technologies and more across our five tracks of content.

And what’s more, we have so many network opportunities to help you reconnect with the industry and your peers, with 1-to-1 meetings, intimate roundtable sessions, speed networking and drinks receptions so you can relax and chat!

2022 Speakers

Neville Ray
President of Technology, T-Mobile

Andre Fuetsch
President - AT&T Labs and CTO, AT&T

Michael Zeto
Chief Commercial Officer, Boingo

Anh Selissen
Chief Information Officer, Texas Department of Transportation

Debika Bhattacharya
Senior Vice President, Verizon Business

Sidd Chenumolu
Vice President of Technology Development, DISH Network

Brad Hoover
Chief Information Officer, Texas A&M University System – RELLIS Campus

Sanjay Macwan
Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Vonage

Jason Inskeep
Director, 5G Center of Excellence, AT&T

Josh Arensberg
Global Head of Media & Entertainment, Verizon

Andrei Ivanov
Principle Technology Architect, Chief Technology Office, TELUS

Yasmin Karimli
Senior Director of Device Technology & Development, T-Mobile

Chris Pearson
President, 5G Americas

Dave Stehlin
Chief Executive Officer, Telecoms Industry Association

Jeff Holley
Co-Founder, BOOM! Mobile

Jake Stine
General Manager – Advanced Wireless | Strategy, Innovation & Design, AT&T

Lori Thomas
Senior Vice President Strategic Engagement & Transformation, MetTel

Nathan Sutter
Director of Network Operations and Engineering, Nex-Tech Wireless

Max Silber
Vice President of Mobility and IoT, MetTel

Grant Spellmeyer
VP of Government Affairs, UScellular

Raj Savoor
Vice President of Network Analytics & Automation, AT&T

Tobe Nzewi
Director, CCI Wireless Technology, Xplornet

Christos Kolias
Principal, Orange Silicon Valley

Beth Cohen
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, NFV/SDN Network Product Strategy, Verizon

Bernard Bureau
Vice-president of Wireless Strategy and 5G Services, TELUS

Michael Friedman
Vice President – IoT Strategy, Mastercard

Rachel Rea
SVP Operations, Boingo Wireless

Charles Stallings
Senior Manager, Innovation Product Development & Uncubation, Lumen

Ariel Topasso
Director, Data Networks Engineering, Rogers Communications

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

Simon Buckingham
CEO, Nonvoice Agency

Paul Adair
Director, Product Management, Infoblox

Layli Amiri
Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T

John Baker
SVP Business Development, Mavenir

Rohit Batra
Vice President and Head of Product - Telecom, Media & Entertainment Industries, ServiceNow

Jitin Bhandari
Chief Technology Officer, Cloud and Network Services, Nokia

Mark Bunn
Senior Vice President, SaaS Business Operations, Nokia

Ian Campbell
Chief Technology Officer - Mobility, Cisco

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

Danny Engle
Senior Account Executive, Telco & High Tech Enterprises, Precisely

Bob Everson
Senior Director of 5G Architecture, Cisco

Rick Fulwiler
Chief Solutions Architect, NETSCOUT

Gilles Garcia
Sr. Director Business Lead DCCG, AMD

Amitava Ghosh
National 6G Roadmap Working Group Chair, Next G Alliance

Iain Gillott
Founder and President, iGR

Micaela Giuhat
Green G Working Group Vice Chair, Next G Alliance

Phil Harvey
Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading

Jim Hodges
Chief Analyst, Heavy Reading

Ian Hood
Chief Strategist, Global Service Providers and Emerging Industries, Red Hat

Jeongho Jeon
Technology Working Group Vice Chair, Next G Alliance

Tanner Johnson
Principle Analyst: Data Security, Omdia

Nirlay Kundu
Distinguished Engineer, Verizon Network Planning

Ray LaChance
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ZenFi Networks

Glenn Laxdal
President & COO, Airspan

Ki-Dong Lee
Applications Working Group Chair, Next G Alliance

Randy Levensalor
Principal Architect, CableLabs

Michael Litherland
Chief Strategy Officer, QCT

Ulysses Lu
Manager of 5G Solution Business Development, QCT

Joe Madden
Founder and President, Mobile Experts

Harpinder Matharu
Senior Director DCCG Business, AMD

Mike Mathews
VP of Technology and Innovation, Oral Roberts University

Sean McDevitt
Partner, Arthur D. Little

Theresa Melvin
Chief Data Scientist, Vertica Americas

Camille Mendler
Chief Analyst, Service Provider Enterprise, Omdia

Muneyb Minhazuddin
Vice President Edge Computing, VMware

Mike Nawrocki
Managing Director, Next G Alliance

Chris Neisinger
CTO, Guavus

Viet Nguyen
Director of Technology and Public Relations, 5G Americas

Marcin Nowak
Senior Solution Manager OSS, Comarch

Michael O'Rielly
Strategic Advisor and Former US FCC Commissioner, MPORielly Consulting

Ted Pang
Senior Director, Wiwynn

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

Richard Piasentin
Chief Marketing & Chief Strategy Officer, Accedian

Hariprasad Pichai
Principal, Arthur D. Little

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

Rich Robinson
CTO, Standard Industries

Cristina Rodriguez
Vice President Network & Edge Group, Intel

Roz Roseboro
Principal Analyst, Service Provider Transformation, Omdia

Ankur Sharma
Associate VP – Product Management and Strategy, Radisys Corporation

Dashella Taylor
Director of Technology Business Unit, Fujitsu

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

Jai Thattil
Marketing Director, Service Provider Strategy, Juniper Networks

Andrew Thiessen
Spectrum Working Group Chair, Next G Alliance

Pablo Tomasi
Principal Analyst, Private Networks, Omdia

Mike Wolfe
CTO, Outdoor Wireless Networks, CommScope

Howard Wu
Global Head of Telecom/General Manager of United States, QCT

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

Kelsey Ziser
Senior Editor, Light Reading

2022 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• Ericsson

SUPER PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Amdocs
• Juniper Networks
• Netcracker
• QCT

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• AMD
• BAI Communications
• Cisco
• Kyndryl
• Netscout
• Nokia

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Accedian
• CapGemini Engineering
• Comarch
• CSG
• Fortinet
• Guavus
• HCL
• Huawei
• Infoblox
• Infovista
• IP Fusion
• Mavenir
• Noviflow
• Precisely
• Red Hat
• Samsung
• Sandvine
• ServiceNow
• Wiwynn

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Airspan
• CommScope
• Fujitsu
• Intel
• Radisys
• Vertica
• VMware
• ZenFi Networks

INTEL SUMMIT SPONSOR:
• Intel Network Builders

VIP DINNER SPONSOR:
• Kyndryl

6G SUMMIT - GOLD SPONSOR:
• Ericsson

6G SUMMIT - SILVER SPONSOR:
• Mavenir

WOMEN IN TELECOMS - BRONZE SPONSOR:
• Ericsson

SECURING 5G SUMMIT - BRONZE SPONSOR:
• Ericsson