Light Reading Network Next 2024 | Informa PLC | 21 May 2024 | Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, 500 W Las Colinas Blvd., Irving, TX 75039, USA

This is where key industry players will unite to discuss, debate and discover the future of telecoms in North America. Building on the success of Big 5G 2023 in Austin, plus Informa’s decade-long legacy of high-quality US telecoms events, Light Reading Network X Americas is a fresh view on the market. Join us to be part of the conversations shaping the next generation of connectivity.

2024 Speakers

Eben Albertyn
Chief Technology Officer, DISH Network

Mike Finley
CEO, Boingo Wireless

John Keib
Chief Technology and Product Officer, Google Fiber

Shirley Bloomfield
CEO, NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association

Sam Tabbara
CEO, Paradise Mobile

Phillip Coleman
AVP Product Management and Development, AT&T

Chad Wilkerson
Director, Sustainability and Infrastructure Sourcing, T-Mobile

Claude Aiken
Chief Strategy Officer, Nextlink Internet

Blair Day
Senior Vice President of Network and Product Engineering, WOWInc

Crystal Dowds
VP Architecture, Engineering and Technology (AET), Lumen Technologies

Richard Bernhardt
Vice President, Spectrum and Industry, WISPA

Zac Cronauer
Vice President of Professional Services for Core Telecom, Tillman FiberCo

Josh Arensberg
Global Head of Media & Entertainment, Verizon

Jonathan Van
Executive Vice President, Element8

Art Maria
Global Consulting Leader for Specialized Networks and Private 5G, AT&T

Brian Daly
AT&T Fellow, AVP Wireless Technology & Standards, AT&T

Martina Klingvall
Founder & CEO, Telness

Khamis Abulgubein
Associate Director, Product Management IoT Platform, Verizon

Femi Adeyemi
Head of the Wireless Business Unit & Chief Wireless Solutions Architect, Fujitsu

Dalia Adib
Consulting Director & CCO, STL

Berge Ayvazian
Partner, Senior Analyst/Consultant, Wireless 20/20

Ryan Bailey
Chief Executive Officer, CNI

Alp Basol
Senior Director Strategy & Innovation, AT&T

Erin Benal
Senior Broadband Program Coordinator, Texas Broadband Development Office

Brian Beutler
CEO, Alianza

Gagandeep Bhatti
Vice Chair of the Green G Working Group, Next G Alliance

Chet Bojarski
Board Member & Past President, ACP North Texas at Association of Continuity Professionals, North Texas Chapter

Jason Bothe
Vice President - Global Manager of Connectivity Services, Moody's Corporation

Gabriel Brown
Senior Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading

Ruth Brown
Principal Analyst – Mobile Networks, Heavy Reading

Bernard Bureau
VP Wireless Strategy & Services, Telus

Mr Leighton Carroll
Chief Executive Officer, Galtronics

Pavan Challa
Senior Director Product Management, Verizon

Paul Challoner
Chief Technology Officer, Global Customer Unit AT&T, Ericsson North America

Thomas Chamberlain
Director of Sales, XIUS Corporation

Mahesh Chapalamadugu
Distinguished Engineer, Verizon

Sidd Chenumolu
Vice President Product Management, VMware by Broadcom, Software Defined Edge, VMware by Broadcom

Daniel Christenson
Sr Technology Leader with IT Infrastructure, Kubota Tractor Corporation

Ravi Chunduru
Associate Fellow Network Function Virtualisation, Verizon

Sophie Claude
Vice President Home Services, Orange Group

Josue Coaguila
IT Manager, Nestle

Joshua Copeland
MS, Cybersecurity Management, Tulane University

Poppy Coutinho
Senior Manager, Product & Tech, T-Mobile

Joe Cutrell
Director, Strategy & Innovation – Healthcare Solutions, AT&T

Mike Dano
Editorial Director, Light Reading

Christian Dassy
Network Architect, INXBIT INC

Alan Davidson
Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information & Administrator for NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Bronner Davis
VP Operations, ElektraFi

Kevin Dundon
Chief Strategy Officer, Alianza

Muslim Elkotob
Principal Solutions Architect, Vodafone

Nelson Englert-Yang
Industry Analyst, ABI Research

Bob Everson
Senior Director, Provider Mobility, Cisco Systems

Alzbieta Fellenbaum
Principal Analyst, Omdia

Thomas Fuerst
Senior Manager, 5G Technology Marketing, Verizon

Rick Fulwiler
CTO Office, NETSCOUT

Pratik Gandhi
5G Mobility Lead – USA Carriers & Service Provider, Fortinet

Jeff Gasper
CEO, Southern Tier Network

Mike Geller
Distinguished Engineer, Radware

Omer Geva
VP Business Development, RADCOM

Amitava Ghosh
Chair of the 6G Roadmap Working Group, Next G Alliance

Jeremiah Ginn
Founder, Attentive Networks

Jason Gintert
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, WAN Dynamics, a Nitel Company

Josh Goodell
Vice President Broadband Product Development, AT&T

Zac Grant
VP Enterprise Solutions, MetTel

Jaydee Griffith
Chief Technologist, Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Anil Guntupalli
Vice President Technology Strategy, Product Engineering, Architecture and Network Planning, Verizon

Jennifer Harris
Federal Program Officer, Texas, NTIA

Jim Hodges
Research Director, Heavy Reading

Joe Hoffman
Principal Analyst, Omdia

Kevin Inman
Senior Director DevOps SRE, Fannie Mae

Andrei Ivanov
Principal Technology Architect, Telus

Ravindra Jarral
Vice President, DISH Network

Eugina Jordan
Chief Marketing Officer, Telecom Infra Project (TIP)

Bhushan Joshi
Chair of the Green G Working Group, Next G Alliance

Deepak Kakadia
CEO/Founder, NetAnalytics

Derek Khlopin
Deputy Associate Administrator for Spectrum Planning and Policy, NTIA

Jeff Kohler
Co-Founder & Chief Development Officer, Rise Broadband

Sankalp Kohli
Associate Director Product Development - Wireless Network APIs, Verizon

Joe Krystofik
Head of Product Planning, AI/ML Network Software, Fujitsu

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

David Levi
CEO, Ethernity Networks

Erin LIao
Head of End-to-End 5G Systems, Ericsson

Emil Liedtke
Senior Director Wholesale Partnerships & Innovation, T-Mobile

Karen Lowe
Sr. Client Director, Digital Transformation Strategy & Business Development, T-Mobile

Joe Madden
Founder and President, Mobile Experts

Thomas Magedanz
University Professor at TU Berlin, HoD at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Advisor at Uniberg, Fraunhofer FOKUS

Wojtek Makowski
Vice President CPE Ecosystem, Orange Group

Joshua Markham
Associate Director Head of IoT DevRel & Emerging Technologies, Verizon

Daniel Massey
Director, FutureG Advanced Component Development & Prototypes, Department of Defense

Leah McLean
VP, Cybersecurity Specialist, Mastercard Data & Services

Oscar Miranda
Co- Founder, Wholesomegrub

Mihir Mistry
Senior Global Director, PWC

Denis Murphy
Software Networking, IBM

Sanil Nambiar
Program director - Software Networking Portfolio, IBM

Brian Nguyen
Director of IT Infrastructure, Spawglass

Alex Ochoa
CTO, Gigabit Fiber

Raed Omar
CEO, North Texas Leadership Development Academy

Stephanie Ormston
Assistant Vice President, Digital Services Integration, AT&T

Godstime Osa
Senior DEI Program Manager, Frontier Communications

Ahmed Osman
Senior Director, RAN Technology & Strategy, UScellular

Chris Pearson
President, 5G Americas

Sterling Perrin
Senior Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading

Hans Raj Nahata
Network Technology Strategy & Planning Director, Verizon

Venki Ramaswamy
Chief Technologist for NextG, MITRE Labs

Raghu Rao
AMD Fellow, AMD

Taki Remtulla
Co-Founder & CTO, Abilita

Randall Rene
Director - Telecommunications Industry Solutions, Esri

Roz Roseboro
Principal Analyst: Telco AI and Analytics, Omdia

Jason Savard
AVP- Product Development Enginee, AT&T

Narothum Saxena
Vice President, Technology Strategy and Architecture, UScellular

Biswajit Sharma
SVP – AI, SaaS and North America, Tecnotree

Jake Simon
Chief Network Officer, Cityside Fiber

Arvin Singh
Head of Global 5G Solutions Engineering, Verizon

Tomasz Staszek
Head of BSS Consulting, Comarch

Michael Thelander
President and Founder, Signal Research Group

Andrew Thiessen
Chair of the Spectrum Working Group, Next G Alliance

Craig Thomas
CEO, Broadband Forum

Lori Thomas
SVP Strategic Engagement and Transformation, MetTel

Pablo Tomasi
Principal Analyst, Private Networks, Omdia

Sibel Tombaz
Head of Product Line Cloud and Purpose-Built 5G RAN, Ericsson

Mitch Tseng
Research Consultant, ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan)

Guy Turgeon
Senior Industry Principal, Red Hat

Brian Vair
Broadband Program Supervisor, Texas Broadband Development Office

John Valdez
Vice President, Network Architecture, Frontier Communications

Raghu Valisammagari
Distinguished Engineer - NaaS/SASE/MEC/ Architect, Verizon

Srilakshmi Valisammagari
Senior Technologist & Strategist - SDN/NFV Innovations, Verizon

Umashankar Velusamy
Associate Director - Cloud, Verizon

Awanish Verma
Director–Technical Marketing, AECG, AMD

Brian Vu
Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions Architect, U.S. General Services Administration

Tiffany West
Director of Business Development & Senior Solutions Architect, Independent Consultant

Wendy Wheat
Senior Director Systems Architecture, T-Mobile

David Young
Vice President - Technology and Solutions, ATIS and Managing Director, Next G Alliance

Zlatko Zahirovic
Chief Technology Officer, Paradise Mobile

20242 Speakers

SUPER PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Ericsson

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Alianza
• AMD
• Netscout Systems

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Cisco Systems Inc.
• Comarch
• Fujitsu
• IBM
• Radcom
• Radware
• VMware
• XIUS

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Ethernity Networks
• Fortinet
• Red Hat

FOCUS DAY SILVER SPONSORS:
• ESRI
• Galtronics
• Tecnotree

ROUNDTABLE SPONSORS:
• Comviva Technologies
• Cambridge Consultants