Venue
Novotel London West
Novotel London West, 1 Shortlands Hammersmith International Ctre, London W6 8DR, UK

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Event Date Tue Apr 16 BST - Wed Apr 17 BST (8 months ago)
In your timezone (EST): Mon Apr 15 7:00pm - Tue Apr 16 7:00pm
Location Novotel London West
1 Shortlands Hammersmith International Ctre, London W6 8DR, UK
Region EMEA
Details

Bringing together the worlds leading telco execs to discuss the strategic & commercial priorities in today’s digital world & the considerations for the future of the network. Join 550+ individuals at the leading event focused on network automation & AI

What you can expect:
• 600+ senior executive decision makers comprising 35%+ CSPs
• 10+ hours of networking over two jam packed event days
• 100+ inspirational speakers including leading CTOs
• Executive-Level networking with CSP Roundtables & Leaders in Tech Dinner
• Awards & Networking Party rewarding innovation in network automation & AI
• Expo featuring tech Demos, customer meetings & artisan barista coffee

Speakers

2024 Speakers

Howard Watson
Group CTO / Chief Security & Networks Officer, BT Group

Greg McCall
Chief Networks Officer, BT

Laurent Leboucher
Group CTO & SVP Innovation Networks, Orange

Tony Geheran
COO, TELUS

Thomas Hundt
Group Chief Strategy & Technology Officer, Axiata

José Pedro Nascimento
CTO, Altice Portugal

Mallik Rao
Chief Technology & Information Officer, Telefonica Germany

Tanja Richter
Chief Network Officer, Vodafone Germany

Madhukiran Medithe
Chief Data & AI Officer, Rakuten Mobile

Andrea Donà
Chief Network Officer, Vodafone UK

Iain Milligan
CNO, Three UK

Usman Javaid
Chief Products & Marketing Officer, Orange Business

Suzanne Tracy
CTO, SIRO

Colin Bannon
Chief Technology Officer, BT Global

Madalina Suceveanu
Managing Director- Mobile and Cloud, Liberty Global

Thomas van Briel
SVP Architecture & Strategy, Deutsche Telekom

Adam Koeppe
SVP Technology Strategy, Architecture & Planning, Verizon Wireless

Antonietta Mastroianni
Chief Digital & IT Officer, Proximus

Terje Jensen
SVP, Head of Network and Cloud Technology Strategy, Telenor

Mark Duesener
EVP Mobile Networks and Services, Swisscom

Sami Komulainen
Executive Vice President Production, Elisa

Remco Helwerda
Visionary Advisor, Technology Office, KPN (Technology Office)

Jaime Tatis
Chief Insights Officer, TELUS

Philippe Ensarguet
VP Software Engineering, Orange

Dr. Pål Grønsund
Chief Cloud Platform Architect, Vice Chair, ETSI OSM

Kirsty Bright
Director, Mobile Core Network Strategy, Liberty Global

Petrit Nahi
Senior Member of Technical Staff, CTO Office, Rakuten Mobile

Lester Thomas
Digital & IT Head of New Technologies and Innovation and Distinguished Engineer, Vodafone

Mikael Schachne
CRO Enterprise, BICS

Yoshihiro Nakajima
Director Network Virtualisation Platform, Chair, ETSI ISG NFV

Suzana Grujev
VP Mobile Access Strategy, Liberty Global

Jerone Verbruggen
Director of Architecture, IT strategy and program management, Proximus

Alexis Koalla
Director Operations Strategy and Transformation, Orange

Joan Garcia
Head of Packet Network and Platform Architecture, Colt Technology Services

Sara Jones
Mobile Operations Director, BT Group

Tanel Sarri
CTO, Tele2

Peter Arbitter
SVP Magenta API Capability Exposure, Deutsche Telekom

Neil Geary
Director Technical Strategy & Architecture, Virgin Media O2

Carlos Medina Gonzalez
Head of Mass Market, Channels & Digital Enablers Architecture, GCTIO Office, Telefónica

Diego Olerni
Principal Cloud Architect, Vodafone Group

Maria Rigou
Director of Transformation – Strategy & Transformation, Colt

Fahim Sabir
Director, Network on Demand, Colt

Dr. Sab Sabesan
Mobile Core Director, BT Group

Rudolf Strijkers
Lead Architect Network & Infrastructure IT, Swisscom

Bastien Bianchi
Director Core Network and Transmission Solutions, Orange Belgium & Luxembourg

Mabel Pous Fenollar
Global Head of Digital and Zero Touch Operations, Vodafone

Ahmed Hafez
VP Technology Strategy, Deutsche Telekom

Yuvraj Tandon
Head of UK Network Operations & Network Operation Centres, Vodafone

Juan Manuel Caro
Director Autonomous Network and JV´s Technology, Telefónica

Shabeer Puthukkudi
Director, Mobile systems development, BT Group

Shahryar Khan
Director & Head of Mobile Packet Core, Telia Group

Simona Marinova
Solutions Architect, Bell Canada

Maya Ormazabal Herrero
Environment and Human Rights Director, Telefonica

Hrvoje Jerkovic
Core Network Director, Three UK

Francesca Serravalle
Head of Infrastructure & Energy, Vodafone UK

Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita
VP AI and special projects, Elisa Corporation

Juan Francisco Redondo
Head of RAN Strategy and Architecture, Three UK

Viraj Abhayawardhana
Director- Network Strategy, Liberty Global

Lukas Leuthold
Enterprise Architect, Swisscom

Joe Cumello
Senior Vice President, GM, Blue Planet, a division of Ciena

Gabriele Di Piazza
Vice President, Product Management, Alliances and Architectures, Blue Planet, a division of Ciena

Rick Hamilton
CEO, Infovista

Ned Taleb
CEO and Founder, Reailize

Oleg Volpin
President, Europe and Network divisions, Amdocs

Sam Keys-Toyer
Head of Business and Portfolio Development, Managed Services Networks, Ericsson

Ron Porter
Head of 5G, Network & OSS Product Marketing, Amdocs

Carla Penedo
Director of Offer Development & Innovation, Celfocus

Senthil Kumar Dhandapani
Global Client Strategy Director, VMware by Broadcom

Ignacio Gonzalez
Business Development Manager, Red Hat

Mike Thompson
Global Network Automation Practice Leader, Nokia

Susan White
Head of Strategy and Portfolio Marketing, Netcracker

Atul Purohit
Head of Technology, Cloud & Network Services, EMEA, Nokia

Vivek Chadha
SVP & Global Head of Telco Cloud, Rakuten Symphony

Sanil Nambiar
Program director, portfolio strategy, IBM

Dr. Erol Hepsaydir
VP Business Development and Solutions, P.I. Works

Matthew Twomey
Head of Marketing, Anritsu Service Assurance

Rami Amit
CTO, Radcom

Michał Oporowski
Senior Presales Consultant, Comarch

Arpit Joshipura
GM Networking & Orchestration + Edge/IOT, Linux Foundation

Henry Calvert
Head of Network, GSMA

Patrick Kelly
Founder, Partner, and Principal Analyst, Appledore Research Group

Dean Bubley
Founder & Director, Disruptive Analysys

Robert Curran
Consulting Analyst, Appledore Research

Camille Mendler
Chief Analyst, Omdia

Roy Chua
Founder and Principal, AvidThink

Ray Le Maistre
Editorial Director, Telecom TV

Emma Buckland
Principal Analyst, STL Partners

Andrew Collinson
Founder & Principal, Connective Insight

Adaora Okeleke
Principal Analyst, Analysys Mason

Phil Laidler
MD Consulting, STL Partners

Justin Van der Lande
Research Director, Analysys Mason

Charlotte Patrick
Independent Analyst, Consult

Kris Szaniawski
Research Director, Service Provider Access, Software and Transformation, Omdia

Christopher Silberberg
Research Manager, EMEA Telecommunications Insights, IDC

Simon Sherrington
Research Director, Analysys Mason

Christian Maitre
Founder (Former Deputy CIO, Orange Group), Caspera-Lab

Anita Döhler
CEO, NGMN

Mark Gilmour
Chief Technology Officer, ConnectiviTree (Europe) AG

Sunil Khandekar
Chief Enterprise Development Officer, MEF

Malik Saadi
Vice President, Strategic Technologies, ABI Research

Monica Paolini
Founder & Principal, Senza Fili

Francis Haysom
Partner and Principal Analyst, Appledore Research

Caroline Chappell
Research Director, Analysys Mason

Tim Hatt
Head of Research and Consulting, GSMA Intelligence

Miriam Sabapathy
Strategy Consultant, STL Partners

Marina Koytcheva
Research director, STL Partners

Annie Turner
Editor, Mobile Europe

Christoforos Sarantopoulos
Senior Analyst, Omdia

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• BluePlanet

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Amdocs
• Infovista

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Celfocus
• Ericsson
• Huawei
• Nokia
• Vmware

SILVER SPONSORS:
• IBM
• Netcracker
• Pi Works
• Rakuten Symphony
• Reailize
• Red Hat

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Anritsu
• Comarch
• GitLab
• Radcom
• SES