Accessibility

Speakers for 2011

Carriers

• Krish Prabhu, President & CEO, AT&T Labs, USA
• Malcolm Lorang, CTO, MetroPCS, USA
• Paul Feldmann, Executive Director of Engineering, Carolina West Wireless, USA
• Stephen Bye, CTO, Sprint, USA
• Philip Junker, Executive Director – Strategic Alliances, Verizon, USA
• Jennifer Fitzmaurice, Director, Antenna Systems Group, AT&T, USA
• Bill Ingram, Senior Vice President Strategy, Cricket Communications, USA
• Glenn Wellbrock, Director of Backbone Network Design, Verizon Wireless, USA
• Anthony Lacavera, Chairman, WIND Mobile/Globalive, Canada
• Alex Brisbourne, Group COO & President, KORE Systems Group, USA
• Masaaki Meada, President & CEO, NTT DoCoMo Inc.
• Tommy Ljunngren, VP, Teliasonera
• Balan Nair, Group CTO, Liberty Global Inc
• John Schmitt, Vice President of Business Development, FiberLight, USA
  
• Rob Riordan, Executive Vice President, Cellcom, USA
• Piotr Muszyski, COO, Orange Poland
• Abhi Ingle, VP- Advanced Mobile Solutions, AT&T Business
  
• Glenn Ishihara, President, Cleartalk, USA
• Addiel Lopez, Founder & Managing Partner, Sling Broadband, USA
• Erik Neitzel, DMTS, Technology Development Group, U.S. Cellular, USA
• Craig Neimeyer, Founder & CEO, Nth Air, USA
• Solyman Ashrafi, Staff VP of LTE, MetroPCS, USA
• Rick Vergin, CEO, Mosaic Telecom, USA
• John Curtis, CEO, Stelera Wireless, USA
• Ken Geisheimer, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, LTE, U.S.Cellular, USA
• Fredrik Akerlind, Head of Sales Region America, Telenor Connexion, USA
• Raul Mangalindan, Senior Audit Manager, Bell Mobility, Canada
• Marcio Avillez, VP of Network Operations, iPass
• Dean Hardy, CTO, Manitoba NetSet, Canada

Handset Providers

• Mark Pecen, VP Advanced Technology, RIM, USA
• Shirook Ali, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Advanced Technology, RIM, USA
• Asokan Thiyagarajan, Director – Platforms & Technology Strategy, Samsung Telecommunications, USA
• Leon Bian, Director, Global Enterprise Mobile Solutions, LG Electronics, USA
• Peter Karlsson, Head of Network Technology Lab, Technology Office,  Sony Ericsson, USA

Content Providers

• Jack Weixel, Head of Service Provider Markets, Google, USA
• Johan Huffman, CEO, Real Content Group, USA

Government Regulators

• Emil Olbrich, NIST, USA
• Andy Seybold, Vice Chair, APCO Broadband Committee, USA
• Richard Mirgon, Past President, APCO International, USA

Associations

• Chris Pearson, President, 4G Americas, USA
• Vicki Livingstone, Head of Communications, 4G Americas, USA
• Steve Berry, President & CEO, Rural Cellular Association, USA
• Ronald Dibelka, National Exchange Carrier Association, USA
• Philipp Diebert, Executive Programme Manager, NGMN Alliance, Germany
• Stephen Hayes, 3GPP TSG SA
• Joe Lawrence, VP of Marketing and Public Relations, CDMA Development Group (CDG)

Analysts

• Monica Paolini, President, Senza Fili Consulting, USA
• Harry Wang, Director of Mobile & Health Research, Parks Associates, USA
• Philip Redman, CEO, Gartner, USA
• Stephane Teral, Principal Analyst, Infonetics Research, USA
• John Jackson, VP of Research, CCS Insight, USA
• Berge Ayvazian, Senior Consultant, Heavy Reading, USA
• Jim Gunn, Principal Analyst, JGunn Research, USA
• Mike Thelander, Director Tariff & Revenue Strategies, Signals Research, USA
• Frank Bernhard, Research Director, Deloitte Consulting, USA
• Susan Welsh de Grimaldo, Director, Strategy Analytics, USA
• Masud Kibria, President, NextG Advisors, USA
• Jim Baker, CEO, Xenventure, USA
• Mark Lowenstein, Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem, USA
• Alex Besen, Founder & CEO, The Besen Group, USA
• Mike Roberts, Principal Analyst & Head of Americas, Informa Telecoms & Media, USA
• Keith Mallinson, WiseHarbor, UK/USA
• Haig Sarkissian, Founder & Principal Consultant, Wireless 20/20, USA
• John Jackson, VP of Research, CCS Insight
• John Byrne, Research Director, Wireless Infrastructure, IDC
• Thomas Wehmeier, Principal Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media, UK
• Karim Taga, Managing Director, Arthur Little, Austria
• Roger Kay, President, Endpoint Technologies Associates Inc

Finance / Law

• Brian Modoff, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank, USA
• Sandeep Gupta, VP, Barclays Capital, USA (tbc)

Academics

• Michael Calabrese, Director, Wireless Future Program & Senior Research Fellow OTI, New America Foundation, USA

Editors

• Tracy Ford, Executive Editor, RCR Wireless, USA

M2M Providers

• Jay Olearain, VP, nPhase, USA

Device Sector

• Carl Rodrigues, President & CEO, SOTI Inc
• Ryan Grant, President & COO, ARC
  

Vendor Companies

• Ken Wirth, President, E2E Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
• Ed Elkin, Director, IMS Solution Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
• Tom Jasny, VP, Wireless & Broadband Network Systems, Samsung Electronics
• Michael Coyne, VP, Strategy for Mobile Broadband Solutions and Principal Solutions Architect ,Ericsson, USA
• Stuart Benington, Director, Global Portfolio Planning, Tellabs
• Manish Singh, CTO, Radisys, USA
  
• John Wick, SVP of Network, Syniverse Technologies
• Mohamed Madkour, Head of Wireless Product Line Marketing, Huawei
• Madan Jagernauth, Vice President, Wireless Marketing and Product Management, Huawei
• Jonathan Morgan, Senior Director – Product Marketing, Cisco, USA
• Chris Osika, Senior Director, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco
• Rasmus Hellberg, Director, Technical Marketing, Qualcomm, USA
• Payam Mavedatt, EVP, Product Management, Taqua
• Mikko Disini, Director of Product Marketing, Bytemobile
• Rafael Andrade, Applications Engineer and Solutions Architect, JDSU, USA
• Zach Lovell, Product Line Manager - Network Protocol Test, JDSU, USA
• Thomas Neubauer, Managing Director, Symena, USA
• Joe Fried, VP Business Development, Traffix Systems, USA
• Arif Ansari, CTO, Reverb Networks
• Rance Poehler, President, Panasonic Solutions Company
• Ronen Guri, Business Development and Solution Manager for Application Awareness, Wholesale and Mobile Backhaul Services, RAD Data Communications
• Jason Claybrook, VP of Commercial Business Development , ZTE, USA
• Prof Shahram G Niri, Director of Global LTE/SAE Strategy & Solution, NEC EMEA
• Bill Payne, CTO, Nokia Siemens Networks
• Chris Ebert, Head of Network Systems Strategic Product Management, Nokia Siemens Networks
• Rick Mostaert, Head of Small Cell Product Management, Nokia Siemens Networks
  
• Marc Price, Vice President of Technology, CTO Americas, Openet
• Andreas Roessler, Technology Manager, Rohde & Schwarz, USA Inc
• Dr Irina Cotanis, Principal, Ascom
• Robert Duncan, Director of Strategy and Product Management, Transaction Network Services
• Johan Valentin, Cellmax, USA
• Norman Fekrat, Vice President & Partner, Telecom Network Solutions, IBM Global Business Services
• Munish Chhabra, Director - Business Development, Aricent
• Jean-Louis Carrara, Vice President Business Development, North American Telecommunications Business Unit, Gemalto