The executive panel discussion with Juniper Netwoks, Metaswitch, Mavenir, HPE, Red Hat and Lenovo discusses the implications of cloud speed agility in the telco cloud for Deutsche Telekom, our partners and the whole industry:

• How we radically changed the way we build and run services

• How we transformed our vision into reality with a new disaggregated, vendor-agnostic architecture and a radical degree of automation

• How we modernized the way we are working and created a new vendor ecosystem

• Why cloudification and radical automation will deliver better services for our customers

Bejoy Pankayakshan is Chief Strategy Officer at Mavenir. In his role, Bejoy leads and orchestrates cross-functional strategic alignment of the complete product portfolio, advises on business-critical imperatives, and engages external industry experts on product and technology strategies that accelerate innovation across Mavenir. He is an accomplished product and technology leader with a record of defining business vision, driving investments and acquisitions to realize long range growth.

Bejoy Pankajakshan 2021

Bejoy Pankajakshan

Walter Goldenits has been Chief Technology Officer at Deutsche Telekom since January 2017. A graduated mathematician, Walter started his career at Mobilkom Austria, rising to Head of IT. In 2007 he became CTO at Slovenian subsidiary Si.mobil, returning to Austria again in 2008 as CTO of Telekom Austria. After the merger of Mobilkom Austria and Telekom Austria to A1 Telekom Austria, Walter was appointed CTO. From 2013 until 2016, Walter was Chief Technology and IT Officer of Magyar Telekom.

Walter Goldenits 2021

Walter Goldenits

Tony Bailey, VPE EMEA at HPE, has an in-depth knowledge of the telecommunications industry, having worked at BT, Nortel, Vodafone and Brightstar during his career. Tony has a broad range of experience across areas such as channel management, technical pre-sales, product management and in various business leadership roles. Tony has been working for HPE since November 2019.

Tony Bailey 2021

Tony Bailey

Christoph Hilz leads the Voice & Messaging organization at Deutsche Telekom, including the engineering, validation, planning and operation responsibilities for all fixed and mobile platforms in this area. Over his more than 20 years with Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile, Hilz has held leadership roles in various areas including routing, switching & security. Most recently, Christoph has focused on the cloudification and automation of Deutsche Telekom´s voice and messaging infrastructure. 

Christoph Hilz 2021

Christoph Hilz

Tribe Head Voice & Messaging Deutsche Telekom AG

Rami Rahim is CEO of Juniper Networks and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Rami began his Juniper career in early 1997, working on Juniper's M40 core router. He most recently served as EVP and GM of the Juniper Development and Innovationorganization, overseeing the company's entire product and technology portfolio. Other previous leadership positions include EVP and GM of Platform Systems Division, SVP of the Edge and Aggregation Business Unit (EABU), and VP and GM of EABU.

Rami Rahim 2021

Rami Rahim

Martin Lund joined Metaswitch in 2015 as CEO. Lund is leading Metaswitch into its next phase of growth, building on the momentum in its solutions for mobile, fixed-line, business, and core networks. Lund joined Metaswitch from Cadence Design Systems from roles as SVP and GM of the company's IP Group. Prior to that, he held several management positions at Broadcom, including SVP and GM of the Network Switching Business. He previously held various engineering leadership roles at Intel.

Martin Lund 2021

Martin Lund

Chris Wright is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Red Hat, focussing on incubating emerging technologies and developing forward-looking perspectives on innovations like AI, cloud and edge computing, distributed storage, software-defined networking and network functions virtualization, containers, automation and continuous delivery, and distributed ledgers. Wright has 25 years experience as a software engineer in telco and within high-availability and distributed systems.

Chris Wright 2021

Chris Wright

Charles Ferland is Vice President and General Manager at Lenovo, leading the strategy, product development and go-to-market definition for the DCG Edge & Telco segment. Charles’ team is developing, optimizing and supporting Telco solutions ready to be deployed in NFV and 5G infrastructures. 

Chris Wright

Sessions where Chris Wright takes part

Automation in practice: Cloud speed agility in Telco Cloud (including Q&A)