Layer123 Reunion: Intelligent Network Automation Congress 2022 | LAYER123 (Is part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC group) | 25 April 2022 | Meliá Castilla, C. del Poeta Joan Maragall, 43, 28020 Madrid, Spain

Helping Communications Service Providers transform their services into cloud intelligent networks

As a neutral third party, Layer123 presents a balanced and unbiased perspective that exposes the real-world considerations and innovations evident throughout the entire ecosystem.

This congress will examine the strategies of various sectors in the telecoms industry with the aim to achieve the vision of overhauling manually intensive operational frameworks to realize the benefits of the Cloud model.

Traditional Communication Service Providers need to evolve into Digital Service Providers to survive the onslaught of Cloud Service Providers entering the market.

The key to this evolution is modularly automating the Radio Access Network from orchestration layer to abstraction point using improved tech like AI/ML.

Traditional business structures do not lend themselves to the new procurement and operations models network automation entails nor to the integration of disparate components.

2022 Speakers

Stefan Walraven
Co-Founder & CEO, Inmanta

Dr Diego R. Lopez
Senior Technology Expert, Telefónica

Diego Mari Moreton
Manager Connectivity Technologies & Ecosystems, Meta Connectivity

Juan Manuel Caro Bernat
Operational Transformation Director, Telefónica

Roy Chua
Founder & Principal, AvidThink

Rabi Abdel
Principal Consultant, Telecoms, Amazon Web Services

Dawane Maurice Young
Division Vice President/Director, Platforms and Applications, Verizon

Marc Cohn
Principal Technology Strategist, MEF

Jean-Francois Bouquier
Transport and SDN network architect, Vodafone

Jose Antonio Ordonez Lucena
Technology, Innovation & Standards Group, Telefónica/ETSI

Shahar Steiff
AVP New Technology, PCCW Global

Dr Cliff Grossner
VP Market Intelligence, Open Compute Project Foundation

Dr Mark Mortensen
Principal Analyst, ACG Research

Benoit Claise
Data Communication Intelligent Operations & Management CTO, Huawei

Roy Rubenstein
Consultant, LightCounting

Ricard Vilalta
Senior Researcher, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)

Juan Pedro Fernandez Palacios
Head of Unit Transport Networks, Telefónica

Anand R. Prasad
Partner, Deloitte

Dr. Muslim Elkotob
Principal Solutions Architect, Vodafone

Pascal Menezes
CTO, MEF Forum

Javier Benitez
Senior Network Architect, Colt

Claudio Scola
Senior Director, Head of Products and Solutions - EMEA, Lumen Technologies

Oscar Gonzalez de Dios
Expert in technology and planning of Transport and IP networks, Telefónica

Daniele Mancuso
Chief Product Manager, Sparkle

Wolfgang Fleischer
Head of Network Function Virtualization, A1 Telekom

Mehmet Toy
Ass.Fellow, Buiness Product Engineering, Verizon

Nico Walters
VP- Innovation & Information, CMC Networks

Stephane Teral
Chief Analyst, LightCounting

Nurit Sprecher
Head of Management, Virtualization and Application Enablement Standardization, Nokia/ ETSI

Uwe Rauschenbach
Senior Standardization Specialist/Rapporteur of ZSM002, Nokia Bell Labs/ETSI

Per Kangru
Technologist, CTO Office, Viavi Solutions

Luc-Yves Pagal Vinette
Senior Consultant for Service Orchestration & Network Automation, Nokia Bell Labs

Pedro Henrique Gomes
Senior Researcher/Rapporteur of ZSM009. Ericsson/ETSI

Ishan Vaishnavi
Research Topic Lead/Rapporteur of ZSM009, Motorola Mobility/ETSI

Magnus Buhrgard
Open Source and Standardization Manager/Rapporteur of ZSM011, Ericsson/ETSI

Jing Ping
Security Solutions Architect /Rapporteur of ZSM010, Nokia Bell Labs/ETSI

Henry Yu
Engineer & Researcher, ETSI ZSM

Hakon Lonsethagen
Senior Research Scientist, Telenor

Alfonso Carrillo Aspiazu
Senior Edge Solutions Architect, Open Nebula Project

Millad Farahani
Research Director, Layer123

Johanne Mayer
Founder and DIrector, NaaS Compass

Sudhir Kunnath
Founder & CEO, HyperBlox

Poonkuzhali Elango
Senior Specialist Standardization, Nokia

Alla Goldner
Director of Technology, Strategy & Standardization, Amdocs

Ron Porter
Head of Product Marketing, Amdocs

Hugo Vaughan
Technical Lead, TM Forum

Amir Zmora
CEO, flexiWAN

Aamer Akhter
Director of Product Management-SASE Security, VMware SASE

Anand Srinivas
Office of the CTO, Service Provider & Edge Business Unit, VMware SASE

Victor Lopez
NSP Product Manager, Nokia

Sergio Gonzalez Diaz
Senior Researcher, Atos

Francisco Javier Ramón Salguero
Head of Network Virtualization/ETSI OSM Chairman, Telefónica

Arturo Mayoral Lopez de Lerma
Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure, Technology and Ecosystems, Meta

Joan Garcia
Senior Manager, Packet & Platform Architecture, Colt

Frank Morales
VP Market, BU Connectivity, Orange Business Services

Marcus Hjortsberg
Head, EMEAR Service Provider Automation and Orchestration, Cisco

Stefano Testa
Director Sales: SD-WAN EMEAR, Cisco

Pedro Garcia Parra
Chief, Strategy on Autonomous Networks

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS:

Michael McPhail
CTO, Mora Telematika Indonesia

Justin Dustzadeh
CTO, Equinix

Bob Titus
CTO, Netcracker

Colin Bannon
CTO, BT Global

2022 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Amdocs
• Huawei

SILVER SPONSOR:
• VMWare

BRONZE SPONSOR:
• Inmanta
• Cisco

AWARDS SPONSOR:
• AsiaInfo Technologies

ASSOCIATION LUNCH SPONSOR:
• The Open Compute Project

HOST PARTNER:
• Telefónica

OPEN SOURCE PARTNER:
• FlexiWAN

CLOUD NATIVE SOLUTIONS PARTNER:
• HyperBlox

ASSOCIATION PARTNERS:
• ETSI
• MEF
• TM Forum