Conference Day 1 – Introduction and Welcome

by Anita Doehler, CEO NGMN

Keynote Speeches by

• Arash Ashouriha, SVP Group Technology Innovation Deutsche Telekom and Chairman of the NGMN Board
• Laurent Leboucher, Group CTO and Senior Vice President Orange Innovation Networks

Mastering the Route to Disaggregation Session I 

Session Moderator: Gabriel Brown, Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading

Network Disaggregation, Virtualisation and Cloudification are major enablers for the digital transformation of the industry and are driving a new operating model.
What are the Key Success Factors to enable the Route to Cloud Native Implementations as well as its impact on Network Automation?

Presentations and panel discussion by:

• Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO, TELUS
• Howard Watson, Group CTO, BT
• Andrew Coward, GM, Software Networking, IBM
• Vivek Gupta, Head of Telco AI Solutions and Partnerships, Google Cloud, Google
• Panel (all Speakers)

Mastering the Route to Disaggregation Session II

Session Moderator: Stéphane Téral, Chief Analyst, LightCounting Market Research

How is the mobile industry mastering the Route to Disaggregation?
What is required to enable innovation, speed and agility in developing, deploying and operating new services?
What is the impact on operating models?
Key operators in greenfield and brownfield situations as well as vendors will discuss how to address the opportunities and challenges of disaggregated networks and what is required to achieve successful launches and operations.

• Stéphane Téral, Chief Analyst, LightCounting Market Research
  Network Disaggregation: Lessons learned so far.

Presentations with Q&A after each presentation

• Joachim Groß, Chief Architect 1&1, and

• Haider Syed, CTO Rakuten Symphony Germany
  The Network in a distributed Cloud

• David Bachmann, CEO, ng-voice
  What it takes for innovative suppliers and MNOs to work together and scale innovation

• Carlos Fernandes, Strategy & Technology Innovation, VP Lead Partner Manager, Deutsche Telekom
  Brownfield Network Operator Experience – Technology and Operating Model Impact

• Arvin Siena, VP Head of Technology Strategy and Transformation, Smart
  Key success factors for Network Disaggregation

• Aurelio Nocerino, Cloud First Network Global and Europe Go-To-Market Lead for Communications Industry, Accenture
  The path to Ecosystem Orchestrator to win the Network Disaggregation challenge

Lunch Break

Including the IPR business lunch on 5G and Patent Pools.

Presentations and panel discussion featuring:

• Thomas Rößler, Sisvel
• Laurie Fitzgerald, Avanci
• Bill Geary, Alium
• Serge Raes, Chairman NGMN IPR Plenary
• Stefan Engel-Flechsig, NGMN Alliance

Mastering the Route to Disaggregation Session II (Continued)

Session Moderator: Stéphane Téral, Chief Analyst, LightCounting Market Research

Presentations with Q&A after each presentation

• Pavan Kurapati, Head of Global Service Provider Architecture, Juniper
  Cloud Native Router – A disaggregated approach to 5G ORAN transport

• Anne Stephan, VP Mobile Network Testing, Rohde & Schwarz
  Smartly mastering the challenges of disaggregated networks

• Panel: (Joachim Gross, Haider Syed, Carlos Fernandes, Aurelio Nocerino, Anne Stephan

The Road to 6G 

Session Moderator: Camille Mendler , Chief Analyst, Omdia

What are 6G’s Drivers? Vision? How can 6G contribute to the needs of our globe by 2030?

How to ensure 6G meets market and industry requirements? What are likely to be the key use cases and technology enablers offered by 6G?

Globally recognized top speakers from all major geographies representing operators, vendors, key industrial sectors and research institutions will provide their vision for 6G and a first outlook on use cases and technology enablers.

• Verena Weber, Head of the Communication Infrastructures and Services Policy Unit, OECD
  Digital transformation and connectivity needs for our globe.

Presentations by:

• Takehiro Nakamura, Chief Technology Architect, NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
  5G Evolution & 6G powered by IOWN

• David Lister, Senior R&D Manager and Futurist, Vodafone
  6G Use Cases, Differentiation from 5G

• Javan Erfanian, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Canada
  Empowering the Digital Society and Industry Beyond 5G

• Yuhong Huang, General Manager China Mobile Research Institute
  China Mobile’s View on Roadmap of 6G

• Takki Yu, Head of Access Network Development Team, SKT
  SK Telecom’s View on B5G and 6G Evolution

• Peter Merz, VP Standards, Nokia
  Lessons Unlearnt

• Wen Tong, Huawei Fellow, CTO of Huawei Wireless, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd
  Bridging 5G to 6G

• Christian Bauer, R&D Manager Smart Factory Infrastructure, Trumpf
  5G & 6G for Industrial IoT – Challenges and Chances

• Frank Fitzek, Chair Head of the “Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks” TU Dresden
  Get in Touch with the Metaverse

• Panel: (Takehiro Nakamura, Javan Erfanian, Peter Merz, Christian Bauer, Frank Fitzek)

NETWORKING DINNER RECEPTION

Dinner Speech:

• Vincent Sun, President of Orange Key Account, Huawei Carrier BG