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Wiktor Barcicki is a Senior Director in Etisalat International responsible for Technology Economics. He works directly with Etisalat companies across the region to optimize the Capex and Opex deployment. He also supports other Etisalat International all teams working at the intersection of...

Currently VP Wireline Networks & Infrastructure in Orange Labs, Gilles has an engineering background and has graduated in both telecommunication and computer science. He has held different position at operations for Orange in France, and was head of the production & maintenance of networks...

Luk Bruynseels is Vice President of Engineering of Telenet, the leading converged connected entertainment provider in Belgium spanning over 2 million fixed and nearly 3 million mobile customers and accounting for EUR 2.5 billion of annualized revenue. He, together with his team, is responsible of...

Fabrizio Campanale drives the Video and In-Home connectivity platforms for Sunrise-UPC. With his team he manages the local video infrastructure, serving over 1.5 million of TV users and leads the deployment of new products in the Entertainment and In-Home connectivity domain. As part of the Liberty ...

Bruno Cornaglia is Fixed Access Senior Manager in Vodafone Group managing all access technologies (copper, fiber and now also coax) by driving innovation and access network evolution for all the operators of the group. Main recent goals reached are the launch of NG-PON2 trial in Spain during 2015...

Filip De Greve is Product Marketing Manager for the Fixed Networks division at Nokia. In that role, he is focused on market strategy and go-to-market for both copper and fiber based access solutions. Filip previously held various roles in technical consultancy, project management and customer...

Jeff Finkelstein is the Chief Access Scientist at Cox Communications in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been a key member of the engineering organization at Cox since 2002 and led the team responsible for the deployment of DOCSIS technologies, from DOCSIS 1.0 to DOCSIS 3.0. His current responsibilities...

Simon Fisher is Principal Architect for Access Networks in BT Technology with a key focus on the application and opportunity for Disaggregation and Software Defined Networks. Simon started his career in 1987 working for STC and then Nortel designing SDH equipment for the London City Fibre...

Nicolas Fortineau is Product Director of Connectivity Platforms at Liberty Global and his work involves redefining the meaning of connectivity. His product portfolio reaches over 10 million households across 7 countries for residential and SoHo customers. Customer-centric at heart, Nicolas uses the ...

Vincent Garnier is the Director General of the FTTH Council Europe since July 2020. Vincent brings to this position 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, in Marketing and Business Development in EMEA and Asia for BtoB companies. Most recently he was Marketing Director...

Marcin Grochoci?ski is a Technology and Innovation Director at INEA - one of the leaders of open access networks in Poland. As an infrastructure operator under Fiberhost brand the company focuses on enabling access for service providers to the open access Fiber-To-The-Home network at the bit stream ...

Alessandro Gropelli is ETNO?s Director of Strategy and Communications. In this role, he is also Deputy to the Director General. He joined ETNO in 2013 and he is an expert of tech and telecoms policy. Alessandro is also a Member of the Board of GeSI, the Global e-Sustainability Initiative. Prior to...

Keith Hayes is the CEO of IMMCO Inc. He brings with him over two decades of engineering experience in network operations, with previous stints at Adelphia Communications and nearly a decade as SVP of Network Operations at Charter Communications. As a former chairman of the SCTE (Society of Cable...

Jan Hruska graduated in Computer Science at Charles University in Prague in 1994. After 8 years in management consulting, he moved to Telefónica O2 Czech Republic. Within his 15 years with Telefónica, and later O2 Czech Republic, Jan went through many positions, mainly Fixed-Mobile convergence...

Chief Executive of UK based analyst house Point Topic Oliver has been involved in online environments for more than 30 years.  He joined Point Topic as the COO in 2004 and moved to CEO in 2007.    Starting with internet projects in the mid-80s running bulletin boards, through building some of the...

Eric began his telecoms career in the Irish market, starting with dial-up service provision and network management before moving on to design, build and deploy unbundled copper DSL services, next-gen business fiber and backbone optical networks - gaining over 18 years of experience in Access...

Ronan brings over 25 years? experience in the telecom industry. With firsthand experience deploying next-generation optical and copper networks, IPTV platforms, and microwave radio networks, he holds an unusually broad understanding of the challenges faced by today?s operators, incumbent and...

Israel Madiedo is Director, Innovation & Technology at izzi (Televisa Group). With over 28 years in the Telecommunications Industry, Mr. Madiedo has participated in a wide number of international projects, both in fixed and wireless networks, covering an array of positions in...

Yogesh Malik recently became CTIO of the operator Tele2, heading the group?s IT, network and technology efforts. Before that, Yogesh served as VEON?s Group CTO and a member of VEON's executive board. Prior to joining VEON, he was the CEO of Telenor India (Uninor), following a number of senior...

Senior technology executive with more than 20 years of Telco experience and 15 years in management roles in the Telco industry working in areas of NT&IT Development and Operations in central and eastern EU. Previous experiences include working for an ISP, being an IP/MPLS & IPTV operations...

David Martin has specialised on NFV, SDN and telco cloud at STL Partners, writing numerous reports on these topics, including on the 5G mobile core, open RAN and Microsoft’s strategy for the telecoms industry. He is a telecoms analyst of over 20 years’ experience and, in addition to STL...

Bill McFarland is the CTO of Plume. He leads projects in data science, optimization, standards, intellectual property, and regulatory matters. Previously VP of Technology at Qualcomm, and the CTO of Atheros Communications, Bill holds over 80 patents and has authored over 35 technical papers. He...

Graeme Millar is a senior leader and strategist, with an excellent track record of successful delivery in a variety of countries, technologies and corporate structures.  After graduating in Natural Sciences, and gaining a post-graduate engineering degree from Cambridge University, he began a career ...

Roland Montagne joined IDATE in 1998 and he is now Principle Analyst Broadband & FTTx as well as Director Networks & Smart Territories Business Unit. In his position, he is responsible of IDATE Consulting and Research activities covering Broadband / FTTx fields. Mr Montagne played a leading ...

Oyovwe Okorodudu is the EMEA Assistant Vice President for EMEA Carrier Business of HGC Global Communications based out of London.  He is responsible for EMEA carrier data and evolving digital business development and strategic. This includes managing, developing and executing business...

Elena Panova is a Sales and Marketing Director responsible for the Residential segment in A1 Macedonia, which is a convergent operator offering all mobile and fix telecommunications services, as well as ICT. She is responsible for developing and executing marketing and sales strategies for all...

Ana heads the Fixed Networks Fiber marketing activities in Nokia. She built up extensive international telecom experience, with positions in sales, pre-sales and R&D in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and India. Ana has a master?s degree in Information and Computer Science from the University ...

Sebastian is an industry expert with long-term working experience in the sector of network and smart home technology. He worked as market development manager, project engineer and technical consultant at Zyxel for more than ten years. In 2016, Sebastian joined devolo and now acts as Director...

Sean Robertson is a Product Marketing Manager for ADTRAN, a company that empowers communications service providers around the world to manage and scale services that connect people, places and things to advance human progress. He is a seasoned SaaS marketer with a passion for building and bringing...

Kurt Rodgers has over 20 years’ experience in the fixed and mobile broadband industry in Europe and New Zealand.  He has a passion for new technology and how it will change and improve our lives. Part engineer, part storyteller, Kurt likes to take the complexity out of emerging technology and...

Livia Rosu has been the Chair of the Marketing Working Group and Member of the Board of Directors for HomeGrid Forum for six years. The Forum supports the deployment and innovation of  G.hn , the world-renowned Gigabit networking technology based on ITU-T standard and design, providing an essential ...

Dr. Kumar Sivarajan is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tejas Networks and is responsible for setting the technology and product direction of the company. He has nearly three decades of experience in the field of telecommunications. Dr. Kumar was the first chairperson of the governing ...

Mike has over 20 years experience working specifically with Customer Premise Equipment.  He joined Verizon in 2005 and his focus has been premise architecture with Wi-Fi and Service Assurance as additional fields of interest.   His current position as Associate Fellow has Mike focused on the prpl...

Emel Uzun Suba? is currently working in Türk Telekom as Network Architecture & Quality Assurance Director. She is responsible for planning Türk Telekom?s network architecture and its quality assurance. Her responsibility in this role includes all of the mobile and fixed network domains from...

Leo-Geert has over 20 years' experience in various technical managerial roles, predominantly in telecom organisations. He joined Liberty Global in 2001 and moved to Ziggo in 2014 where he became CTO in 2016. Vodafone and Ziggo merged in 2017. Leo-Geert now is responsible for the Fixed networks...