Speakers

Samuel is an experienced telecom professional with track record in telecom strategy, architecture, technology, design and consultancy. He has held engineering and management positions in MNOs, vendors and consultancies. He successfully led a massive end to end network roll-out of a start-up mobile operator in Africa whose subscriber base is...

David Chambers is Founder and Senior Analyst at ThinkSmallCell.com, an independent website which has tracked the evolution of small cells from their early femtocell origins. With both an engineering and marketing background, and a career spanning product management and marketing for several large telecom vendors, he has gained insight and...

Mike Conradi is a specialist communications and technology lawyer. He is listed in the Chambers & Partners guide, which says that “[Mike] produces punchy and straightforward answers – he’s direct and commercial, and gets to the point quickly”. He is rated as one of the world’s leading telecoms lawyers (at www.expertguides.com) and is the...

Nicola Crawford is a Fellow and non-Executive Director of the Institute of Risk Management, a Certified Practicing Risk Manager (CPRM), Director Risk and Governance for I-Risk Europe Ltd.  ERM Advisory Board Member Gras Savoye Turkey Nicola is a results-driven enterprise risk and change management professional with more than 18 years of...

Max Croot has extensive experience in the M2M industry and leads KPN’s activities in the UK, responsible for integrated M2M, RFID and Big Data solutions. Max previously set up and ran his own asset tracking business in Eastern Europe before joining Vodafone and later, Aeris to run key parts of their M2M operations. Before coming into M2M, Max...

John joined Deloitte late in 2013 after founding, building and selling his own IT risk and compliance business. He has a patent filed and has deployed his mobile recording compliance and analytics inventions to over 100 Financial Services organisations globally. John was inventing unified communications and IT Policy based solutions back in 2005...

Martin Geddes is a consultant on emerging telecoms business models and technologies. He is a network performance scientist, working with partners to commercialise recent fundamental breakthroughs in applied mathematics. He is also co-founder and Executive Director of the Hypervoice Consortium, a new industry association for value-added voice...

  Tom works closely with SevOne Sales and Engineering teams to ensure we address our customer’s requirements for Infrastructure and Service Performance Management as their network environments increase in scale, scope and complexity.  Tom has worked extensively within the OSS sector across Fixed, Mobile and Managed Service Providers for over ...

Jon Herd brings 10 years of industry experience to bear on understanding and solving real technical and business challenges facing every digital business today, delivering data at scale to global users. Currently leading the Solution Engineering activities for Limelight Networks in EMEA and responsible for solutions that address the challenges of...

Tony Lavender has extensive expertise in telecoms strategy, technology and regulation. He has advised many telecoms organisations on a variety of business and regulatory issues and particularly on industry transformation arising from convergence. Having worked for an operator, a regulator, as an analyst and as a consultant Tony understands and is...

Andrew has spent twenty three years in deployment of networks around the globe, within Operations & Technical Senior Management roles. He has rolled out wireless and fibre networks in emerging and mature markets, offering business & programme leadership with specific Director/C level skills in large international business with budgets up ...

Doug has extensive senior management experience in several international companies in the Information, Communication and Technology sector.   His work history includes being VP Global Accounts EMEA for UUNET, President of Global Enterprise Markets for Cable and Wireless, VP and Managing Director EMEA and Asia for IPASS, and VP and Managing...

Jon Magson is the Business Development Director at ByBox Field Support. Jon is an expert in all things Supply Chain with over 20 years’ experience in the industry designing, delivering and managing supply chain solutions for the likes of Vodafone, Fujitsu, and BMW.  Jon has an excellent understanding of the supply chain issues which Telecoms...

Nora is currently working as the Senior Expert of the CRM Team of the Marketing Europe division at Deutsche Telekom Group Headquarter, responsible for exploring improvement potentials in the 14 national companies and supporting them in enhancing their customer understanding and developing innovative solutions in customer base management and...

Madhusudhan’s key focus is to enhance the service capabilities and customer-facing activities organization for the company across the globe. Madhusudhan is responsible for supporting Global Carrier (Voice and Data) & Enterprise Services (Network and Managed) operations including Service Delivery, Service Assurance, Service Management, Field...

Terry has been in the industry for more than thirty years. He has held engineering and strategic management positions with mobile and fixed operators. He was a strategy consultant and lead analyst in the Wireless Networks and Spectrum research programmes with Analysys Mason.  Terry’s research interests lie in wireless access technologies, wireless ...

Dan spent twenty years developing networking architecture, technology, standards, and products at IBM Networking Systems in North Carolina, IBM Research Zurich in Switzerland, Hewlett Packard Labs in Palo Alto, and Bay Networks in Santa Clara, Cal., where he was vice president of the Bay Architecture Lab. When Nortel bought Bay Networks, Dan...

Prabhu Ramachandran has over 14 years of experience at Zoho Corporation creating WebNMS based products and solutions for the Telecom market. He directly supervises strategic areas of WebNMS such as product development, customer support and professional services for telecom network management products and M2M based remote management products.   ...

Andy Reid is currently architect for BT’s project on network functions virtualisation. He is has been particularly concerned with removing packet performance bottlenecks in hypervisors and is now concerned with the operations and management on virtualised network functions and their supporting infrastructure platform. Andy has a long history in...

Perry Romano has been involved with Telecommunications Network Management for the past 20 years. He received an MBA from University of New Haven and also holds a Bachelors and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College.    He started his career journey in engineering, designing radar systems for military applications. ...