Andrew has over twenty-five years experience in telecommunications and networking, and has held executive management positions in Brocade, Juniper, Carrier IQ and Unisphere in network engineering, product management, strategy, sales and marketing. Prior to joining IBM, Andrew was CEO of Lumina Networks, an open source networking vendor, focused on SDN solutions.

Andrew Coward 2022

Andrew Coward

Dr. Diego Lopez joined Telefonica in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert, and is currently heading Technology Exploration activities within the GCTIO Unit. He is focused on applied research in network infrastructures, with a special emphasis on automation, new architectures, and security. Diego chairs the ETSI ISGs ZSM (on network automation) and PDL (on distribute ledger technologies).

Dr. Diego Lopez 2022

Dr. Diego Lopez

Kirsi spent most of her career in telecoms, developing software-based businesses, telecom operations, and technologies. With a strong technology and operations background, she has succeeded with new businesses, launching go-to-markets and increasing value for Elisa’s customers. Today, her team is combining AI/ML, network engineering and software to implement world class automation software for telco network operators.

Kirsi Valtari 2022

Kirsi Valtari

Thomas van Briel is a telecommunications executive experienced in driving business and technology transformation. His background include software development, strategy, business steering and architecture. He is currently responsible for technology strategy & architecture for DT Technik (Germany) and DT network automation.

Thomas van Briel 2022

Thomas van Briel

SVP Technology Architecture & Strategy DT Technik

Industry collaboration to drive network automation

Dominik Schnieders is Head of Edge Computing and Innovation Lead at Deutsche Telekom focusing on the enablement of latency-critical application in telecommunication networks. On an interim basis, he also leads Campus Networks. Previously, he was the program manager for the development and rollout of Narrowband-IoT and headed the product development of an IoT platform. Before joining Deutsche Telekom in 2014, Dominik worked 16 years in the automotive industry for BMW where he held different management positions. Dominik holds a M.Sc. in electrical engineering as well as in industrial engineering from the Technical University of Munich.

Dominik Schnieders 2022

Dominik Schnieders

Head of Edge Computing Deutsche Telekom AG

Franz is Vice President Core Network and Services at Deutsche Telekom Group Technology. In his role he is in charge to drive the development of innovative and efficient network architectures for DT in the areas of core network and service enabling, covering both fixed and mobile networks. Prior to this role, Franz held various management positions in the area of mobile core network and mobile network architecture in DT headquarters. Besides other tasks, he was deeply involved in definition, standardisation and introduction of 4G.

Franz Seiser2022

Franz Seiser

Gerard Lyne is Strategic Communications Manager, Technology & Innovation, Deutsche Telekom and in his role drives strategic communications in the technology and innovation area of Deutsche Telekom, focusing on topics like access disaggregation, edge computing,5G solutions including E2E 5G network slicing and 5G private and campus networks.

Gerard Lyne 2022

Gerard Lyne

Strategic Communications Manager, Technology & Innovation Deutsche Telekom AG

Peter Fintl is Director Technology & Innovationa at Capgemini Engineering. Combined with the capabilities of the rest of the Group, Capgemini Engineering helps clients to accelerate their journey towards Intelligent Industry. Capgemini Engineering has more than 52,000 engineer and scientist team members in over 30 countries.
Peter Fintl is an electronics / communications engineer and business economist. He has worked in the global technology industry for more than 20 years in the areas of research & development.  He has spent over 6 years of that in China.

Peter Fintl 2022

Peter Fintl

Director Technology, Capgemini Engineering

Andreas Gladisch received the Dipl.-Ing. Degree in Theoretical Electro-techniques from the Technical University of Ilmenau and the PhD in Optical Communication from Humboldt University Berlin.
He joined Deutsche Telekom in 1991, where he hold different positions dealing with optical networks, network architecture, network strategy and network-economics. From 2011 to 2016, he was in charge of the Innovation field "Convergent Networks” at Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories, which concentrated on fixed mobile convergence and on convergence of IT
and networks. Since 2017 he is responsible for topic “Emerging technologies” which is one domain of DTs headquarters function on ”Strategy, Technology and Innovation”.
Dr. Gladisch is member of ITG and IEEE, has authored or co-authored more than 110 national and international technical conference or journal papers and holds several patents. He currently co-chair of mmWave project group of Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP).

Andreas Gladisch 2022

Andreas Gladisch

Philipp Landgraf is Head of Technology at Holo-Light, a company creating the most powerful streaming platform for AR/VR. He’s the technical lead for XRnow and responsible for the ISAR SDK, a tool for developers to stream entire XR apps. Philipp has a master’s degree in physics from the Technical University Munich and is an expert in XR software development as well as cloud and edge computing.

Philipp Landgraf 2022

Philipp Landgraf

Cornelius Hellge is head of the Multimedia Communications Group at Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, Germany. He studied Media Technology at Technical University of Ilmenau and received the Dr.-Ing. degree with distinction from the Technical University of Berlin in 2013. His current research interest are new media formats for mixed reality, the new video codec VVC, and the evolution of the 5G standard.

Dr. Helge Cornelius 2022

Dr. Cornelius Hellge

Since 2003, Petr been working on different positions in Technology organizations of Deutsche Telekom AG and T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s. His primary responsibility is to identify, prototyping, and evaluate future mobile network technologies and related concepts (mainly 5G, LTE-A/Pro, Managed connectivity and advanced QoS mechanisms). Petr  is currently strongly focused on future disaggregated RAN architectures. He is also Deutsche Telekom alternate board member of the O-RAN ALLIANCE. Petr received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Czech Technical University in Prague.

Petr Lédl 2022

Petr Ledl

VP, Head of Network Trials & Integration Lab

As Group CTO, Abdurazak is responsible for Deutsche Telekom’s Technology Strategy, Architecture & Innovation and Strategic Vendor Management. In addition, Abdurazak is in charge of Services & Platforms at Deutsche Telekom Technik. Prior to this, Abdu served as SVP Technology Architecture & Innovation and group chief architect. He joined Deutsche Telekom in April 2018 from Huawei Technologies where he served as Vice President of 5G Europe. Abdurazak holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.

Dr. Abdurazak Mudesir 2022

Dr. Abdurazak Mudesir


Pasi Toivanen is Vice President and Head of Edge Cloud Platforms at Nokia where he is responsible for driving the development of Nokia’s O-RAN and Cloud RAN technologies. In this role he established an Edge Cloud partnering ecosystem across Nokia’s global businesses as well as through partnerships with international Cloud companies to drive innovation and position Nokia as global leader. An impactful, proven industry leader with over 20 years of experience, Pasi is also responsible for Nokia’s Edge Cloud portfolio, which includes AirFrame datacenters, Radio Cloud Platform (RCP), Nokia Edge Automation tool (NEAT), Fronthaul Gateway (FHGW) and Service Enablement Platform (SEP). 
An enthusiastic senior leader, Pasi is well-versed in establishing new organizations, business models and driving organizational transformation. He is passionate about delivering customer success, innovation and building unique solutions with the latest technology and services. 
Pasi joined Nokia in 1998 and has held various senior roles across the Program, Portfolio and Partner divisions. Pasi has also held senior roles at Juniper Networks and at Ericsson, where he was Global Head, IP solutions and Global Head of Service Delivery. In his career he has worked in a number of countries away from his native Finland including China, Germany and the United Kingdom. 
In his spare time, Pasi has a passion for motorcycling and good wine but is careful not to pursue these interests at the same time. 

Pasi Toivanen 2022

Pasi Toivanen

VP and Head of Edge Cloud Platforms Nokia

As President of Reliance Jio, Mathew Oommen leads Network, Strategy, and Service Platforms enabling India’s digital transformation to affordable and scalable broadband connectivity for the creation and adoption of digital services leveraging cloud centric open source platforms disaggregating hardware, software and services. Mr. Oommen is a member of the board of directors for the GSMA, O-RAN Alliance, Netradyne, and Airspan.

Mathew Oommen 2022

Mathew Oommen

President & Board of Directors, Reliance Jio

Cristina Rodriguez is vice president and general manager of the Wireless Access Network Division (WAND) at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel's efforts to provide innovative network custom solutions, with a focus on 5G wireless access technology. Rodriguez is responsible for strategy, roadmaps, product definition, forecasting, investment decisions and profit and loss for the business. 
Rodriguez earned her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría in Havana, Cuba and her master's degree in computer science from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Madrid, Spain.

Cristina Rodriguez – 2022

Cristina Rodriguez

VP Wireless Access Network Division Intel Corporation

Carsten Rossenhövel is CTO and Co-Founder  of EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center) a test lab specialized in telecommunication technologies. Based in Berlin, Germany, EANTC offers vendor-neutral network testing services for manufacturers, service providers, and enterprise customers.

In this role, Carsten has over 20 years of experience in telecommunication networks testing and is responsible for EANTC's business development and marketing. His technical areas of expertise include Network Functions Virtualization and transport network solutions.

Carsten Rossenhoevel 2022

Carsten Rossenhoevel

Gergely Mihalka is a telecommunication executive, who has spent 20 years in the telecom industry, focusing on product development. Possessing deep expertise in software development, he has spent years in a software company working on SaaS products. He is currently responsible at DTAG for driving cloud transformation and automation for the NT domain with an emphasis on automation and AI/ML.

Gergely Mihalka 2022

Gergely Mihalka

Business Owner Cloud Transformation and Automation

Kirsi Valtari

Sessions where Kirsi Valtari takes part

Industry collaboration to drive network automation

vRAN Power Optimization, Magaged Latency with L4S, Access 4.0, i14y Lab ecosystem, Driving Network Automation