MWC Los Angeles 2019 | GSM Association | 22 October 2019 | Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA

Intelligent Connectivity is the beginning of a new era consisting of the powerful combination of flexible, high-speed 5G networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data that delivers highly contextualized and personalized experiences when and where you want them. Los Angeles is the Within Intelligent Connectivity, we developed 4 core themes around which we will focus our content for MWC19 Los Angeles. Sort through the event themes to find the conference keynotes, track sessions, partner events, tours, and seminars that are most relevant to you.

2019 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Meredith Attwell Baker
CTIA, President & CEO

Niklas Heuveldop
Ericsson, President and Head of Market Area North America

Mats Granryd
GSMA, Director General

Kenneth R. Meyers
US Cellular, CTIA, President & CEO, Chairman

Tami Erwin
Verizon, Executive VP & Group CEO, Verizon Business

Robert M. Bakish
Viacom, President & CEO

SPEAKERS:

Dekker Dreyer
Immersive Artist and Filmmaker

Miro Salem
CEO, 3TEN8

Yossi Vardi
Event Chairman, 4YFN

Audrey Morrissey
EP The Voice, Songland (NBC), 6-Time Emmy Award Winner

Amol Phadke
Managing Director, Global Network Lead, Accenture

Ed Engles
Managing Director & Partner, Accenture

Jefferson Wang
MD, Communications, Media & Technology, Accenture Strategy

Chris Nicoll
Principal Analyst, Mobility & Wireless Networks, ACG Research

Jeff Cutler
Chief Commercial Officer, Ada Health

Tatiana Mejia
Head of AI Product Marketing & Strategy, Adobe

Todd Terrazas
President, AI LA

Damiano Coletti
VP Marketing, Airspan

Oskari Saarenmaa
CEO, Aiven

Lior Netzer
CTO, IoT & Mobile, Akamai

Thierry Maupile
EVP Strategy & Product Management, Altiostar Networks

Tamara Dull
Principal Open Source Technologist, Amazon Web Services

Steve Baker
VP, Vertical Markets, American Tower Corporation

Larry O’Reilly
CEO, ARHT Media

Andre Fuetsch
CTO, AT&T

Suja John
AVP, Firstnet Technology Planning & Architecture, AT&T

Heidi Hattendorf
Senior Director & Global Industry Lead - Telecom/Media, Automation Anywhere

Nikki Katz
Head of Digital Strategy & Emerging Experiences, Bank of America

David Allred
MD and Partner, BCG Digital Ventures Seattle

Angus Ward
CEO, BearingPoint//Beyond

Kat Yalung
Director, Bixel Exchange - Startup LAunch Tech SBDC

Russ Ernst
EVP, Products & Technology, Blancco

Dr Derek Peterson
CTO, Boingo

Mike Finley
CEO, Boingo Wireless

Dave O’Flanagan
CEO & Co-Founder, Boxever

Mary Spio
Founder & CEO, CEEK VR

Tracy Lawrence
CEO & Founder, Chewse

JL Valente
VP, Service Provider Business, Cloud Platforms & Solutions Group, Cisco

Jonathan Davidson
SVP & GM, Service Provider Business, Cisco

Michael Beesley
VP & Chief Technology Officer, Service Provider Networking, Cisco

Nancy Cam-Winget
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco

Arvind Purushotham
MD & Global Head of Venture Investing, Citi Ventures

Michael Sherwood
Director, Technology & Innovation, City of Las Vegas

Bret Greenstein
Global VP & Head of Artificial Intelligence, Cognizant

Lata Varghese
Consulting Head - Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies, Cognizant

Rui Costa
VP, Product Management & Customer Experience, Xfinity Mobile, Comcast

Andrew Gerhold
Strategic Opportunities Development, Comcast Cable Communications

Dr Karen Matthews
Researcher, Special Technology Program, Corning

Meredith Atwell Baker
President & CEO, CTIA

Joe Markowski
EVP, North America, DAZN

Amy Jo Smith
President & CEO, DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group

Phil Wilson
MD, Telecommunications Strategy & Operations, Deloitte

Sam Evans
Partner, Delta Partners

Joe Lynch
Head of Broadcast, Electronic Arts

Amy Peck
Founder & CEO, EndeavorVR

Shahid Ahmed
EQITII

COO & Co-Founder

Heather Johnson
Ericsson

VP, Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility

Niklas Heuveldop
SVP & Head of Market Area North America, Ericsson

Yvette Martinez
CEO North America, ESL

Jen Barrett
Head of Entertainment, Creative Shop, Facebook

Brendan Carr
Commissioner, FCC

Geoffrey Starks
Commissioner, FCC

Mike O’Rielly
Commissioner, FCC

Iyad Tarazi
President & CEO, Federated Wireless

Edward Parkinson
Acting CEO, First Network Responder Authority

Sandeep Kar
CSO, Fleet Complete

Ryan Brack
SVP, Technology, Fleishman Hillard

David Bloom
Senior Contributor, Media, Forbes

Robyn Ward
CEO, FounderForward

Lyric Kaplan
Associate, Privacy & Data Security Group, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein and Selz

Ibrahim AlHusseini
Founder and CEO, Full Cycle Fund

Sarah McCrary
CEO, GasBuddy

Jenny Williams
Novelist & Senior UX Writer, Google

Shruti Jain
Head of Business Development, North America, Google

Scott Casey
CTO, Greystar

Stephanie Fuhrman
MD, Global Innovation, Greystar

Laxmi Akkaraju
CSO, GSMA

Mats Granryd
Director General, GSMA

Michiel Prins
Co-Founder & Head of Product, HackerOne

Audrey Wu
VP Strategic Partnerships, Haptik

Erik Huberman
CEO & Founder, Hawke Media

Namrata Sharma
Sales Director, Head Semiconductor Market Segment, HCL

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

Pep Viladomat
CEO & Co-Founder, Heywood & Sons

Andy Purdy
Chief Security Officer, Huawei Technologies USA

Biju Nair
President & CEO, HYLA Mobile

Albert Opher
GM, IBM Global Business Services, IBM

Utpal Mangla
VP & Partner, Watson AI, Blockchain Leader, IBM

Adrian Jakobsson
SVP Strategy, RAN Portfolio, INFOVISTA

Scott Crist
CEO, Infrastructure Networks Inc.

Jason Waxman
CSO & Corporate VP, Intel

Vince Lynch
CEO, Iv.ai

Joy Marcus
Venture Partner, JVP

Paul Kolodzy
Wireless Consultant, Kolodzy Consulting

Romil Bahl
President & CEO, KORE

Seleta Reynolds
GM, LA Department of Transportation

Hope Horner
Founder & CEO, Lemonlight

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

Atte Miettinen
Group CEO, Limitless Mobile

Sam Gadodia
Co-Founder & CEO, LotusFlare

Johanne Lemay
Co-President, LYA

Marc Price
Global CTO, MATRIXX Software

Candace Worley
VP & Chief Technical Strategist, McAfee

Gary Davis
Chief Consumer Security Evangelist, McAfee

Harrison Lung
Partner, McKinsey & Company

Rashmi Misra
GM, AI Platforms, Microsoft

Lindsey Saletta
Chief Operating Officer, Misha Nonoo

Mark Lowenstein
Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem

Jason Hoffman
Chairman & CEO, MobiledgeX

Jill Cress
CMO, National Geographic

Bill McCullough
VP, Creative Director, NFL

Monica Johnson
CFO & Partner, NGP Capital

Upal Basu
Partner, NGP Capital

Mary O’Neill
VP, Security, Nokia

Bill Baver
VP, NTT Data, NTT Group

Shilpa Kolhatkar
AI & ML Business Development Lead, NVIDIA

Brendan Gill
CEO, OpenSignal

Andrea Canessa
Director, Communications Industry, Oracle

Scott Stevens
SVP, Worldwide Systems Engineering, Palo Alto Networks

Nicolette Harper
Vertical Strategy Lead, Technology & Telecoms, Pinterest

Katica Roy
CEO, Pipeline Equity

Dan Hays
Partner, PwC

Mitra Best
Lead Principal, Strategic Innovation & Technology, PWC

Jonathan Kendrick
CEO, ROKIT Mobile

Wilf Norrlinger
VP, Samsung Networks division, Samsung Electronics America

Emily Best
Founder & CEO, Seed&Spark

Tim LeBeau
Chief Commercial Officer, Seek Thermal

Marc Pegulu
VP, Wireless LoRa & IoT, Semtech

Erick Brownstein
President & CSO, SHAREABILITY

Stephen Douglas
Head of 5G Practice, Spirent Communications

Jay Richman
VP, Advertising & Marketing Technology, Spotify

Bryan Fries
VP 5G Marketing, Sprint

Bryan Fries
Vice President, 5G Strategy + Global Services, Sprint

John Saw
CTO, Sprint

Tom Flanagan
CMO, Sprockit

Wael Bayaydh
Senior Advisor to CEO, STC

Susan Welsh de Grimaldo
Director, Strategy Analytics

Glenn Lurie
CEO, Synchronoss

Mary Clark
CMO, Synchronoss

Balaji Sridharan
VP, IoT & M2M, T-Mobile

Erin Raney
Senior Director, Technology Services & Innovation, T-Mobile

Heather Nolis
Machine Learning Engineer, T-Mobile

James Ellison
Principal Technology Product Manager, T-Mobile

Mark McDiarmid
SVP, Radio Network Engineering & Development, T-Mobile

Neville Ray
CTO, T-Mobile USA

Juan Carlos Garcia
SVP Network & Technology, Telefonica

Alex Besen
Founder & CEO, The Besen Group LLC

Shelley Zalis
CEO, The Female Quotient

Cristina Ventura
Chief Catalyst Officer, The Lane Crawford Joyce Group

Kali Weissman
MD, Digital Product Strategy & Development, The Recording Academy

Joann O’Brien
VP, Ecosystems & Labs, TM Forum

Steve Wei
Founder & CEO, TOP Network

Alex Antolino
Creative Director, Typeform

Kenneth R. Meyers
President & CEO, US Cellular

Amanda Gardiner
Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Verizon

Heidi Hemmer
VP, Technology, Verizon

Nicki Palmer
SVP, Verizon

Tami Erwin
EVP & Group CEO, Verizon Business

Zeda Stone
Head of RYOT, Verizon Media

Robert Bakish
Viacom, President & CEO

Tom Gorke
Viacom Inc, EVP, Head of Distribution & Business Development

Derek Newell
Virta Health, Head of Commercial

Miguel Quiroga
Visible, CEO

Pere Perez
Visyon 360, CEO

Shekar Ayyar
VMware, EVP, Strategy and Corporate Development & GM, Telco NFV Group

Darcy Antonellis
Vubiquity, CEO

Jennifer van Dijk
Wasserman, EVP, Marketing

Chiara Tilesi
We Do It Together, Producer & Founder

Tiago Rodriguez
Wireless Broadband Alliance, GM

Rajan Mehta
WWE, CTO

2019 Sponsors and Partners

EVENT SPONSORS:
• Ericsson
• Mannapov
• Belmont Trading
• DMI
• Syniverse
• Kore

GOLD SPONSOR:
• Karix.ai

SUPPORTING SPONSORS:
• IndieGogo
• JustWorks

INVESTOR CLUB PARTNERS:
• BCG Digital Ventures
• Expert Dojo

COMMUNITY CLUB PARTNERS:
• AILA
• Alliance for SoCal Innovation
• Bixel Exchange
• Grid110
• Slamdance DIG
• Sprockit
• TREP CAMP

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• CBS Interactive Tech
• Innovators Magazine

GLOBAL PARTNER:
• Mobile World Capital Barcelona

PARTNER PROGRAMS:
• The Besen Group
• Blanco
• Cbrs
• Conduent
• Darpa
• Fierce Wireless
• James Brehm Associates
• Light Reading
• Net Cracker
• Sinch
• SVVR
• TIA

POWER HOUR PARTNERS:
• Casa System
• mGame

TECHNOLOGY TRAINING PARTNER:
• Award Solutions

IOT TALKS:
• Aiven
• Altair
• Athonet
• Avsystem
• Bics
• csg
• EMnify
• Fleet Complete
• Harrisx
• Infovista
• Kore
• Mocana

5G TALKS:
• Automation Anywhere
• HarrisX

OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Fortune
• LinkedIn
• Mobile World Live

SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
• [a]list
• agl Media Group
• America Digital
• atis
• b!T magazine
• Bright Blue Innovation
• Communications Today
• Comprar
• Connect World
• CVTA
• Convergencia Latina
• Dazeinfo
• DevEx
• Digital Agency Network
• The Digital Enterprise
• Embedded Advisor
• Enterprise Networking
• etnews
• The European Sting
• The Fast Mode
• Find Biometrics
• Flipboard
• Global Platform
• Importando
• Innovators Magazine
• Inside Towers
• Interference Technology
• iot for all
• IoT now
• IoT week
• Juniper Research
• Light Reading
• M&E Tech
• Media Buzz
• MEF
• Mobile ID World
• The Mobile Network
• My Security Marketplace
• My Security Media
• Network Telecom
• Phone World
• The Record
• sdx central
• Silicon Week
• Sim Alliance
• Smart Cities World Forums
• Soya Cincau
• STL Partners
• Telco Professionals
• Telecom Reseller
• Telecom Review
• TelecomTV
• Telecom Worldwide
• TeleSemana
• TeleTimes
• Trusted Computing Group
• Tyn
• Vanilla
• Via Satellite
• Wire19
• Wireless Dealer Magazine

WOMEN4TECH PARTNERS:
• Professional Womans Magazine
• Female Qoutient
• mbolden