Intel® Network Builders Summit at The Big 5G Event

Cristina Rodriguez

Cristina Rodriguez is vice president in the Network & Edge Group, general manager of the group's Wireless Access Network Division (WAND), and general manager of the Austin Design Center at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel’s efforts to provide innovative wireless access solutions in both traditional and cloud native networks, enabling the RAN of the future by bringing together 5G, the build out of the Edge and Artificial Intelligence. Rodriguez has full PnL ownership, responsible for strategy and business plans, technical product marketing, roadmaps, product definition, forecasting, customer relationships, investment decisions and GTM.

Rodriguez joined Intel in 2014 with the acquisition of LSI Corp.'s Axxia Networking Business from Avago Technologies Ltd., where she led and carried out software strategy. In her first Intel role as senior director of software for WAND, Rodriguez managed the division's worldwide software engineering and product development efforts. She also led the successful integration of the Axxia team into Intel and aligned the team's focus with Intel's networking business. Since joining Intel in 2014, her team has been recognized multiple times with Intel’s highest honor, the Intel Achievement Award, for their contribution to the company’s 5G leadership efforts.

Before her tenure at LSI and Avago, Rodriguez spent seven years holding leadership roles in software development at Agere Systems Inc. and its parent company, Lucent Technologies Inc. Earlier in her career, she worked at Zilog Inc. and at two startup ventures.

Rodriguez earned her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría in Havana, Cuba; her master's degree in computer science from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Madrid, Spain; and completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University. Rodriguez is also a member of the Intel Latinx Leadership Council.

Vice President Network & Edge Group, General Manager Wireless Access Network Division, Intel

Matteo Fioriani

Cloud RAN Strategic Product Manager, Ericsson

Geoff Hollingworth

Geoff has been in the mobile communications industry for more than 30 years, beginning his career with Ericsson in 1991 and with 2G. Throughout his journey in telecom and cloud, he’s been a software engineer and led research and development, business development, network rollouts, consulting, marketing campaigns and strategic communications for his teams.

He has been embedded in AT&T, helping to catapult their Silicon Valley innovation initiatives and delivered the world’s first live global mobile sports channel with the Volvo Ocean Race Round the World Race.

Geoff also served as chief marketing officer for MobiledgeX, a startup founded by Deutsche Telekom, focusing on the mobile edge computing space.

At his core, Geoff is a software engineer with his First Class Honors bachelor’s degree in computing science. He received the computing science prize of excellence from Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom, with his first experience at the European Organization of Nuclear Research (CERN) writing accelerator beam control software.

Geoff is currently based in Dallas, Texas.

Chief Marketing Officer, Rakuten Symphony

Cristina Rodriguez

Cristina Rodriguez is vice president in the Network & Edge Group, general manager of the group's Wireless Access Network Division (WAND), and general manager of the Austin Design Center at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel’s efforts to provide innovative wireless access solutions in both traditional and cloud native networks, enabling the RAN of the future by bringing together 5G, the build out of the Edge and Artificial Intelligence. Rodriguez has full PnL ownership, responsible for strategy and business plans, technical product marketing, roadmaps, product definition, forecasting, customer relationships, investment decisions and GTM.

Rodriguez joined Intel in 2014 with the acquisition of LSI Corp.'s Axxia Networking Business from Avago Technologies Ltd., where she led and carried out software strategy. In her first Intel role as senior director of software for WAND, Rodriguez managed the division's worldwide software engineering and product development efforts. She also led the successful integration of the Axxia team into Intel and aligned the team's focus with Intel's networking business. Since joining Intel in 2014, her team has been recognized multiple times with Intel’s highest honor, the Intel Achievement Award, for their contribution to the company’s 5G leadership efforts.

Before her tenure at LSI and Avago, Rodriguez spent seven years holding leadership roles in software development at Agere Systems Inc. and its parent company, Lucent Technologies Inc. Earlier in her career, she worked at Zilog Inc. and at two startup ventures.

Rodriguez earned her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría in Havana, Cuba; her master's degree in computer science from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Madrid, Spain; and completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University. Rodriguez is also a member of the Intel Latinx Leadership Council.

Vice President Network & Edge Group, General Manager Wireless Access Network Division, Intel

Miguel Carames

Miguel Carames is currently an Executive Director of Cloud Technology planning at Verizon. Leading a team of engineers responsible for planning, engineering and design of the Verizon Cloud Infrastructure, Multi-Access Edge Compute, Service Orchestration and Emerging Technologies. Prior to this role, Miguel had planning responsibilities for Verizon's wireless core network including the Evolved Packet Core (EPC), 5G Core (5GC) as well as a number of critical services including the wireless enterprise portfolio, private networks, public safety core, messaging, and OSS/BSS evolution. Miguel has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has worked in R&D in 3G (UMTS), 4G (WiMAX and LTE) and now 5G. Prior to Verizon, Miguel worked at Motorola for nine years.

Miguel holds a Masters in Telecommunications by the Polytechnical University of Valencia (Spain) and an MBA by the Jack Welch Management Institute. Miguel has been an active participant and speaker in multiple industry forums and conferences including GSMA, IEEE, Big5G, TelecomTV and so on. Miguel has been awarded 30+ patents and has filed 20+ more.

Executive Director of Cloud Technology, Verizon

Kaustubh Joshi

Kaustubh “KJ” Joshi is a Director at AT&T Labs responsible for Wireless Network Services planning and innovation. His expertise is in Open RAN, AI/ML based network optimization and analytics-based services, and edge cloud. He was one of the pioneers in AT&T’s industry leading network function virtualization initiative. KJ has led the creation and commercial deployment of systems for online optimization for distributed network clouds, high performance data planes for network functions, and RAN optimization in AT&T’s wired and wireless networks. Currently, KJ helps drive AT&T’s strategy and architecture on Open RAN and Cloud RAN, and serves on the TSC of the O-RAN Alliance, leading its work on cloudification and orchestration. KJ maintains strong ties to the academic community, authoring over 100+ technical papers/patents and having served as TPC chair of leading IEEE systems and networking conferences such as DSN. KJ holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

Director, AT&T Labs

Alex Quach

Alexander (Alex) D. Quach is a vice president of the Data Platforms Group and general manager of the Wireline and Core Network Division (WCND) within the Network Platforms Group at Intel Corporation. As part of the Intel Data Platforms Group, he is responsible for driving Intel’s business across service provider wireline access networks (broadband, cable) as well as the wireless core networks. WCND is specifically focused on the industry transition to virtualized and cloud native solutions along with the 5G next generation core to edge network.

Quach was a marketing manager for test and measurement products at Tektronix Inc. before joining Intel® in 1997 as a product marketing engineer for desktop products. He was responsible for promoting the growth of Intel's wireless connectivity business in multiple market segments, including machine-to-machine communication, the automotive sector, low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking and client connectivity. Prior to that, Quach led Intel's wireless connectivity solutions business within the Client Computing Group, where he focused on mobile client platforms based on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, wireless gigabit (WiGig) and cellular technologies. Earlier in his Intel career, as director of wireless marketing for the company's mobile wireless business unit, he led marketing for Intel's WiMAX product portfolio. Quach also spent several years as a customer marketing manager in the service provider group.

Quach has dual bachelor’s degrees in physics and psychology and an MBA from the University of Washington

Vice President and General Manager, Wireline and Core, Network Division, Intel

Fatih Nar

In his role of chief architect for telco partner solutions, Fatih has been involved over several years in Kubernetes and OpenStack communities, influencing development and ecosystem cultivation, including for workloads specific to telecom, media, and entertainment needs. Prior to joining Red Hat, Fatih held roles at Google, Verizon Wireless, Canonical Ubuntu, and Ericsson. He holds an MSc degree in information technology and a BSc degree in electronics engineering.

Chief Architect for Telco Partner Solutions, Red Hat

Ken Gold

Ken has a diverse background in the telecommunications industry spanning more than 30 years. He is currently focused on developing cloud-native service assurance solutions to address the unique challenges that service providers face in reducing operations costs while at the same time delivering on the promise of 5G service innovation and improved quality of experience.

Prior to joining EXFO, Ken held leadership roles in Product Development, Solutions Marketing and Product Line Management with Nortel, Harris Broadcast, ADTRAN and Accedian Networks, focused on optical transport and Carrier Ethernet service assurance and performance monitoring.

Ken holds a Batchelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University at Kingston Ontario.

Director of Solutions Strategy, EXFO

Alex Quach

Alexander (Alex) D. Quach is a vice president of the Data Platforms Group and general manager of the Wireline and Core Network Division (WCND) within the Network Platforms Group at Intel Corporation. As part of the Intel Data Platforms Group, he is responsible for driving Intel’s business across service provider wireline access networks (broadband, cable) as well as the wireless core networks. WCND is specifically focused on the industry transition to virtualized and cloud native solutions along with the 5G next generation core to edge network.

Quach was a marketing manager for test and measurement products at Tektronix Inc. before joining Intel® in 1997 as a product marketing engineer for desktop products. He was responsible for promoting the growth of Intel's wireless connectivity business in multiple market segments, including machine-to-machine communication, the automotive sector, low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking and client connectivity. Prior to that, Quach led Intel's wireless connectivity solutions business within the Client Computing Group, where he focused on mobile client platforms based on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, wireless gigabit (WiGig) and cellular technologies. Earlier in his Intel career, as director of wireless marketing for the company's mobile wireless business unit, he led marketing for Intel's WiMAX product portfolio. Quach also spent several years as a customer marketing manager in the service provider group.

Quach has dual bachelor’s degrees in physics and psychology and an MBA from the University of Washington

Vice President and General Manager, Wireline and Core, Network Division, Intel

Anders Askerup

Anders Askerup is a Distinguished Technologist in Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Communication and Media Solution business.

Anders is currently assigned as a principal architect to the HPE 5G Core project, which is responsible for defining and building a service based architecture with AUSF, UDM, UDSF and UDR 5G Network Functions.

Anders is HPE’s delegate to the 3rd Generation Partnership Project and attend core network and system architecture working groups.

Anders is also currently chairing an ad-hoc group of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) responsible for ATSC3.0 and 5G Harmonization.

Anders is an SBI, MAP and DIAMETER protocol expert and has written numerous contributions to the 3GPP stage 2 and stage 3 protocol and interface specifications involving the 5G Core Network Functions, HLR, HSS, AAA and other network elements.

Distinguished Technologist, Communications and Technology Group, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

John Baker

SVP, Ecosystem Business Development, Mavenir

Mark Burgbacher

Mark Burgbacher is the Vice President and Industry Principal for TMT & RPCG for HCL CloudSMART.

Mark drives industry solutions and consulting services related to continuous cloud modernization in a Cloud 3.0 environment. His primary focus is on the Telco, Media, Technology (TMT) / Retail and CPG (RCPG) customer segments with the HCL CloudSMART program offerings of Adaptive Cloud Consulting, Application Modernization, SAP on Cloud, Data on Cloud, 5G/Edge Cloud and Adaptive Cloud Services.

Mark is strategic thinker with in-depth technology expertise in 5G/Edge, Cloud, and As a Service, technologies. He is passionate about technology and has successfully developed next-generation technology growth programs within systems integrator and service provider environments.

VP - Industry Principal - Telco, Media, Technology (TMT) / Retail and CPG (RCPG), HCL

Prakash Kartha

Prakash leads the Edge Services segment within the Network Platforms Group in Intel, where he and team are building critical technology solutions to accelerate the next wave of Edge Computing. Prakash bring years of experience driving IoT and cloud end-user applications to the Network Edge, in partnership with the ecosystem.

Segment Director, Edge Services, Network Platforms Group, Intel

Caroline Y. Chan

Caroline Y. Chan is vice president in the Network and Edge Group and general manager of the group’s Network Business Incubator Division at Intel Corporation. She is responsible for driving new services running across the network infrastructure, working closely with network service cloud service providers and enterprises. Chan and her team will lead pathfinding of advanced technology solutions that are enabled and accelerated by 5G capabilities such as AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Data Analytics, Immersive Media, Cloud gaming, and others.

Chan was previously VP and GM of Intel 5G Infrastructure Division and had overall responsibility for Intel’s global network infrastructure strategy and solution development related to 5th-generation wireless technology. Chan and her team identified and developed use cases that incorporate the Internet of Things, innovation in wireless technologies and deployment models, such as mobile edge computing and alternative spectrums that will enable new service providers and enterprise networks.

Since joining Intel in 2009, Chan has worked closely with telecommunications vendors, operators and application developers to advance strategy and marketing in virtual RAN, mini Cloud-RAN and mobile edge computing technologies. Before leading the 5G infrastructure division, she spent six years as director of wireless technology and strategy. In that position, Chan oversaw server CPU extension into Intel’s wireless infrastructure business, a role that encompassed investment strategy, CPU adoption and modification, marketing, and business development.

Before joining Intel, Chan had a 15-year career at Nortel Networks Corp., culminating in her role as director of 4G wireless product management.

She serves as an independent director on EnerSys Inc. (NYSE: ENS) board. In addition, Chan serves on the board of the Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP) and CBRS Alliance. She is also an advisory board member for Advisory Council for Rural Edge Solutions (ACRES) and 5G Open Innovation (5GOI) Lab. Her contributions in the area of virtualized wireless radio access networks earned Chan an Intel Achievement Award in 2016. Chan was elected to be among the top 25 movers and shakers in the telecom industry 2018 by Fierce Telecom and among the top 5G 100 most influential individuals charting the course for the next generation of global communications in 2020 by Light Reading.

Chan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, respectively.

Vice President, Network and Edge Group, General Manager, Network Business Incubator Division, Intel

Sandro Tavares

Sandro joined Dell Technologies in January 2021, leading the team responsible for the marketing activities for the telecommunications market. He brings more than 20 years of international experience in the telecoms industry, with most of these years spent at Nokia, where he has served in sales and marketing positions, working in Brazil, Argentina, Finland, and the U.S. His last role at Nokia was Head of Mobile Networks Marketing, a position in which he led a global team focused on developing the 5G market and promoting Nokia's solutions in this domain.

Sandro is a sought-after industry speaker presenting such industry developments as NFV, Cloud, 5G, and Open RAN. He has also published opinion articles in several specialized media outlets. His technical interest topics include 5G, Open RAN, Cloud RAN, NFV, Data Center Infrastructure, and VoLTE/VoWiFi. In October 2020, Sandro was nominated a "Rising Star" by Fierce Wireless, a recognition for executives making a strong contribution to the wireless industry's development.

Sandro holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidade de Brasilia and an Executive MBA from Fundacao Dom Cabral in Brazil.

Director, Telecom Solutions Marketing, Dell Technologies

Krithika Moorti

Krithika Moorti, heads the Edge Video Division at Intel and is responsible for leading video workloads such as Cloud Gaming, CDN, Immersive Media, Metaverse video and Cloud graphics infrastructure. She has over 15 years of experience in the Telco network infrastructure space. She is extremely passionate about the media and entertainment space and through her current work is striving to position Visual Cloud as one of the next major innovation cycles that will transform how we experience and interpret the world.

Global Head - Edge Video Division, Edge & Cloud Video Division, Intel

Muneyb Minhazuddin

Muneyb has overall responsibility for product, go to market, growth and profitability of VMware Edge Compute Solutions spanning across Enterprise and Telco segments. He has been with VMware for 9 years, he spent his first 5 years with VMware in the field building and scaling GTM for SDDC, EUC and Cloud solutions. And the last 4 years driving GTM strategy, positioning & messaging, growth and profitability of Cloud, Workspace and Security solutions.

Muneyb has more than 23 years of IT experience having previously held positions at Apple, CSIRO and before VMware as the CTO for Avaya. He started his career with a very strong technical background filing 33 international technology patents and developing industry standards for ITU, ATM Forum, IEEE and IETF. He quickly evolved to a business savvy professional who built several new differentiating global products and solutions growing them to billion-dollar businesses.

Muneyb holds a Master of Engineering in Telecommunications and a Master of Business Administration.

Vice President Edge Computing, VMWare

Gloria Nogales

Gloria Nogales is part of the Intel® Network Builders program and is responsible for directing the team to conceive, plan and execute on strategic enabling initiatives to support business objectives across the broad and well diversified global ecosystem. She and her team work closely with key customers and leading partners to accelerate the industry transition to virtualized and cloud native solutions along with the 5G next generation networks.

Prior to this position, Gloria held a variety of leadership positions at Intel and other leading companies such as Vodafone and Cisco. Gloria is passionate about technology innovation and resides in Silicon Valley. She holds executive education from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, an MBA in Technology Management from Golden Gate University in San Francisco and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Intel® Network Builders, Software Ecosystem Director, Intel

Sven Freudenfeld

Sven Freudenfeld is the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Lanner’s Telecom Applications Business Unit. Sven possesses 30 years of experience in telecommunications, network computing, product management and business development.

Prior to assuming this position in Lanner, Sven had taken several managerial positions in global business developments for Noviflow, LEI Technology (a subsidiary of Lanner in Canada) and Kontron, and had greatly contributed in the cloud, media and telecom market segments. He was fundamental in accelerating the adoption for P4 and OpenFlow based packet forwarding technology, virtual CPE/SD-WAN, and Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture (ATCA) technology in the service provider market. Prior to his tenure at Kontron, Sven had held several engineering positions: Network Engineering at Deutsche Telekom, System Architect at Abewa GMBH, Systems Engineering at Nortel and Test Engineering at Sanmina-SCI.

Chief Technology Officer, Lanner

Christos Kolias

Christos Kolias is a Principal and an Orange Expert at Orange Silicon Valley, leading programs and startup partnerships for emerging networks projects. He is a co-founder of NFV and the ETSI group and had led the formation of the ONF's Wireless & Mobile working group of which he was its first chair. He has been a frequent speaker on NFV, SDN, Edge Computing, SD-WAN and IoT. Christos holds a PhD in computer science from UCLA where he studied under Prof. L. Kleinrock.

Principal, Orange

Manish Mangal

Accomplished telecom industry veteran with 20 years of professional experience. Held various leadership roles in Fortune 100 companies leading technology initiatives from incubation to operationalization that transformed businesses and increased enterprise value.

Driven corporate-wide technology initiatives through cross functional leadership, robust planning and astute execution.

Expert in leading large and global teams, developing end to end technology solutions, and creating / managing strategic partnerships that directly improve enterprise value.

Excellent leadership and management abilities, acknowledged and awarded to deliver superior results in the midst of fast moving changes.

Skilled in analyzing industry trends, assessing threats & opportunities and developing fact-based actionable plans targeted towards business owners and CEOs to increase enterprise value and fulfill company's business missions.

Global Business Head - 5G & Network Services, Tech Mahindra

Gary Gibson

Gary Gibson is VSBLTY’s Chief Technology Officer with more than 20 years of innovation-driven new product development across cloud, mobile, telecommunications and IoT. He leads global multi-disciplinary teams delivering IoT based in-store retail digital Ad tech and smart-city security platforms using artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision at scale. Driving product development with a philosophy of relentless innovation and improvement on behalf of customers, he has been awarded 12 Patents, and created technologies used by billions of people every day.

Chief Technology Officer, VSBILTY

Kaitki Agarwal

Kaitki Agarwal is the co-founder, President, and CTO at A5G Networks. A5G Networks is an emerging leader in converged 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi autonomous core system for secure edge and distributed Networks.

Before A5G Networks, Kaitki co-founded Parallel Wireless in 2012. Kaitki was the Chief Product Officer at Parallel Wireless and led product and operations. She led the disruption of the traditional RAN market with the open RAN movement. She established global operations in the US, India, UK, and Israel and grew the team to 600+.

Before founding Parallel Wireless, Kaitki was at Starent Networks/Cisco where she led the multimedia team and architecture for various packet gateways, VoLTE products, led customer engagements with several customer wins.

She created a culture of innovation and has 50+ patents pending and granted. Kaitki has a strong track record of innovation and leading disruptions in the end-to-end telecom networks for RAN, Voice, and packet core.

Kaitki holds an MBA from Babson College, Product Strategy from Kellogg, and a BS in computer science from IIT Roorkee.

As women in technology leader, Kaitki is driving several initiatives for women via forbeswomen and women in tech forums. She recently got nominated by the government of India and the British high commissioner for SheIs – 75 women in STEAM, a book that will showcase women role models for youth, make visible the leadership of women, and generate interest in the SDGs

Founder, President and CTO, A5G Networks, Inc.

Prakash Kartha

Prakash leads the Edge Services segment within the Network Platforms Group in Intel, where he and team are building critical technology solutions to accelerate the next wave of Edge Computing. Prakash bring years of experience driving IoT and cloud end-user applications to the Network Edge, in partnership with the ecosystem.

Segment Director, Edge Services, Network Platforms Group, Intel

Rodrigo Calderon

Rodrigo is a passionate entrepreneur focused on the tech IoT industry. He is co-founder and former CEO of Energetika Tech, an Energy IoT Management company with more than 10 years in the market, ranked Top 3 in Mexico. He is also co-founder of Radar App Security, the 1st collaborative security platform in the World with +15,000 cameras in the network. In addition, Rodrigo co-founded R2 Call Center, a service center with more than +800 employees.

Selected Top 10 entrepreneurs of the year CNN-Expansion (2012)

Selected Future Mexican Leader by LIDERES (2014)

Selected 30 Promises in their 30s by Forbes (2016)

Co-Founder, Radar

Farooq Khan

Farooq Khan is Founder and CEO of Exium, a cloud-native networking and security company that helps global corporations securely connect their users, locations and devices to their applications with high performance. Prior to that he was the Founder and CEO of PHAZR, a 5G RAN start-up that developed and commercialized World’s first 5G Millimeter wave systems. Farooq Khan is also the former President of Samsung R&D, and the visionary behind 5G and the Space Internet technology rolled out by companies like SpaceX. Farooq’s credentials are varied and include a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and qualifications from MIT and Harvard Business School.

CEO, Exium

Mehran Hadipour

Mehran Hadipour leads alliances at Robin, Now part of Rakuten Symphony Globally and is responsible for Robin’s Industry Partnerships and Alliance strategy. A respected industry veteran, who is passionate about driving business success through alliances and win-win partnerships, Mehran brings to the table 30 years of experience in executing and driving change at major infrastructure and Enterprise software players such as EMC and IBM as well as at several Silicon Valley-based startups and high technology firms.

VP Global Business Development & Alliances, Robin.io

Keate Despain

Keate Despain is head of the Intel® Network Builders program within the Network Platforms Group at Intel. He has been leading this team for two years. Keate has been working in the Communications industry ecosystem in and out of Intel for over 20 years. His experience includes IOT client, Telecom servers, middleware, and real-time operating system product management. He has worked with the communication ecosystem partners across the globe, including expatriate assignments in China, for over seven years. Keate has an MBA from Arizona State University and resides in Oregon, USA.

Intel® Network Builders Director, Network Platforms Group, Intel

Jorge Gomez

Jorge Gomez serves an Associate Director within Accenture’s Cloud First Networks organization, leading enterprise IT, industry OT and edge network offerings and innovation activities.

Working with colleagues across the world, Jorge leads some of Accenture’s network transformation engagements, driving innovation, strategic advisory and engineering initiatives that help accelerate the adoption of nascent technologies such as 5G, private wireless and edge at Accenture’s wide breadth of clients across industries.

Jorge obtained his B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tec de Monterrey and lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two dogs.

Network Offering Associate Director, Accenture

Fatih Nar

In his role of chief architect for telco partner solutions, Fatih has been involved over several years in Kubernetes and OpenStack communities, influencing development and ecosystem cultivation, including for workloads specific to telecom, media, and entertainment needs. Prior to joining Red Hat, Fatih held roles at Google, Verizon Wireless, Canonical Ubuntu, and Ericsson. He holds an MSc degree in information technology and a BSc degree in electronics engineering.

Chief Architect for Telco Partner Solutions, Red Hat

Subhankar Pal

Subhankar Pal is Senior Director and global Innovation leader for Intelligent Networks program in Capgemini Engineering. He has close to 22 years of experience in commutation industry. His responsibilities include technology product incubation, product strategy and roadmap development, consulting & service offer definition for telecommunication and related markets. His interest areas include advanced network automation using cloud native principles and machine learning for 5G and beyond networks. Prior to joining Capgemini, he worked at Nokia Networks and C-DOT. Subhankar has extensive experience in speaking at international conferences and presenting technical papers in various forums. He has several blogs and whitepapers published in international journals and event proceedings.

Senior Director, Innovation, Capgemini

Lakshmi Mandyam

Lakshmi Mandyam - serves as the VP, Service Provider Product Mgmt & Partner Ecosystem for the Telco Edge Cloud BU. Prior to VMware, she has held various management positions in the Industry including at Arm where she was the VP of Automotive and the Director of Server Systems and Ecosystems where she led ARM’s initiatives on Servers and Networking infrastructure. Prior to ARM, Lakshmi worked in engineering, marketing, and management roles at various companies, including Freescale Semiconductor and ColdWatt, building technology for enterprise applications. She has a BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin.

Vice President, Service Provider Product Mgmt & Partner Ecosystem for the Telco Edge Cloud BU, VMWare