Most recently Ekholm was CEO of Patricia Industries, a division within Investor AB (2015-January 15, 2017). Prior to assuming this position in 2015, he was President and CEO of Investor AB between 2005 and 2015. Previous positions also include Head of New Investments and President of Investor Growth Capital Inc. Ekholm has had various positions at Novare Kapital AB and McKinsey & Co Inc.
Most recently Ekholm was CEO of Patricia Industries, a division within Investor AB (2015-January 15, 2017). Prior to assuming this position in 2015, he was President and CEO of Investor AB between 2005 and 2015. Previous positions also include Head of New Investments and President of Investor Growth Capital Inc. Ekholm has had various positions at Novare Kapital AB and McKinsey & Co Inc.
5G Things is a new cross-industry meeting forum for all things using 5G as the fabric for innovation. Executives and leading innovators from a wide range of companies across the ecosystem met for two days and shared their ideas of how 5G can be used to its fullest potential and what can be built on 5G. Watch the sessions on-demand here.
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Mo Katibeh is the EVP-Chief Product and Platform Officer of AT&T Business. He has responsibility for the group’s portfolio-wide P&L with USD 36 billion of annual revenue as well as its cutting-edge integrated platforms, products and solutions including mobility, 5G, edge compute, IoT, SD-WAN, cybersecurity, cloud connectivity, and wholesale.
He also oversees pricing, distribution strategy, compensation, analytics and AT&T Business’s digital platforms and portals.
David brings to Atmosic over 30 years of engineering expertise with an extensive wireless background, as his past teams’ radio designs have brought billions of successful devices to market. He was on the early engineering team at Atheros, VP Analog/RF Engineering, and VP Engineering with Qualcomm following the 2011 acquisition of Atheros.
David earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and has been a Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. David is an IEEE Fellow.
Amir Rao heads solutions portfolio and technology alliances at AWS for the telecommunications vertical globally. His team focuses on solutions areas such as IoT, Digital Transformation, OSS, BSS, 5G, edge cloud, NFV core and RAN, SDWAN and so on. He is also responsible to drive strategic technology and GTM alliances with Service Providers and major technology providers across the telecom industry. Amir possesses more than 20 years of global work experience with top tier technology providers such as AWS, Motorola Solutions, Huawei, Nokia, Microsoft. He has worked across APAC, EMEA, and North America regions so understand the differences of technology adoption across various geos. Throughout his career, he has been involved in new technology introduction in global markets, such as CDMA in 2005, WIMAX in 2006, LTE in 2012, and is actively involved with 5G architectures and deployments at AWS including development of AWS Outpost and Wavelength services. Amir is well versed with the technology landscape of telecom infrastructure. He holds an electronic engineering B.Sc. degree, and a M.Sc.in management from Stanford GSB while also being a London Business School alumni.
Dr. Sarah Cooper is AWS’s GM of Outcome Driven Engineering. With 15 years experience building IoT devices and platforms, Sarah serves as Vice Chairwoman of the Internet of Things Community, a 20,000 member organization dedicated to education and information sharing amongst the IoT practitioner community. Formerly, M2Mi’s Chief Operating Officer, Sarah was named an IS 50 Most Empowering Women in Business, recognized Top 100 Wireless Technology Expert by Wireless World, a top 20 IoT Influencer by Inc. magazine and a National Academy of Engineers Frontiers of Engineering Awardee. Sarah founded and sold TE-Bio, an IoT device company, NaturalNano, an advanced nanomaterials company and conducted fundamental research at NASA and DoE. She holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Sydney and patents in advanced materials and devices.
"Ed Abbo is President and Chief Technology Officer at C3.ai, which provides an AI and IoT software platform-as-a-service to power enterprise digital transformations. Mr. Abbo leads C3.ai’s strategy and execution, including technology direction, innovation, and customer success.
Prior to C3.ai, Mr. Abbo was Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for its application products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems.
Mr. Abbo earned an M.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University. "
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People podcast. He is an Executive Fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley) and an Adjunct Professor of the University of New South Wales.
He was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. He has written Wise Guy, The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and eleven other books. Kawasaki has a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.B.A. from UCLA, and an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
Rami Avidan, CEO of Deutsche Telekom’s IoT business since July 1, 2020 joined DT already in April 2019 as SVP IoT. He pushes DT´s IoT business strongly forward to position Deutsche Telekom as the IoT orchestrator in the market. Before, Avidan was CEO of Tele2's IoT business for 6 years.
He built up the IoT business and made it one of the leading IoT mobile network operators. Prior to joining the Swedish telecommunications group, Avidan founded and subsequently held senior positions at telecommunications and security providers such as Wyless and Cryptzone.
"Nicholas Horbaczewski is the CEO and Founder of the Drone Racing League (DRL), the global, professional drone racing property. Before founding DRL in 2015, Nicholas served as the Chief Revenue Officer of Tough Mudder, which was the largest mass participation running event series in the world, that Nicholas grew to over 60 global events and USD 100 million in revenue during his time there. Prior to Tough Mudder, he developed an interest in multicopters while the Chief Information Officer of ADS, a USD 1.5 billion distributor of advanced hardware to the US government. Nicholas also co-founded Leeden Media, an entertainment company for feature-length independent films, and brings his love of production to his work at DRL.
Internationally recognized for building The Sport of The Future, Nicholas has been named EY’s 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Finalist, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 50 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs, a Crain's 40 Under 40 member, and the founder one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in the world and Cynopsis Media’s 2018 League of the Year for a Breakthrough Sport."
"Linnéa Kornehed, is the CMO and co-founder of Einride, a Swedish technology company that designs, develops, and sells driverless electrified trucks and logistical solutions to transportation companies. In 2019, Einride became the first player in the world to put an autonomous truck on a public road, when the company extended its testing activities in Sweden outside of enclosed areas, marking a new milestone in the history of road transport.
As a CMO at Einride, she is heading all marketing, communications, design and public affairs of the company. She also serves on its board of directors. Under her leadership, the Einride brand has garnered attention across the globe, from the US to the EU and China, and at stages ranging from the World Economic Forum to Slush. The company has established strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders: attracting blue-chip clients and partners, top talent on the job market and sought-after investors on the capital market.
Since its founding in 2016, Einride has constantly been acknowledged as one of the most promising startups globally: ranked by business intelligence firm CB Insights as one out of 36 companies that can change the world in 2020, and as one of TechCrunch’s 48 Top Picks in 2018. The company has also been featured by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Wired, CNN, BBC and others.
In 2020, she was awarded on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in the category of technology. "
Kiva Allgood is Head of Internet of Things at Ericsson. With more than 20 years of experience in IoT, scaling connectivity, smart cities and startups, Kiva brings a strong track record from supporting high-growth organizations in innovation and digital transformation. At Ericsson, she is responsible for scaling IoT offerings and building strategic partnerships for connectivity across industries.
Prior to joining Ericsson, Kiva was Chief Commercial Development Officer of GE Ventures, where she built high-performing commercial development and market intelligence practices within the organization. She is a frequent lecturer and mentor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University as well as the University of California's San Diego and Irvine Business School.
Kiva has won several top honors, including 2018 Business Woman of the Year Finalist for the San Diego Business Journal, and Top 50 Industrial IoT Innovators and Honoree of Women of M2M in 2016.
Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Technologies & New Businesses and Head of Segment Emerging Business, Ericsson
Åsa Tamsons is Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Technologies and New Businesses and member of Ericsson’s Executive Team. With focus on technology and innovation, Tamsons' team is responsible to drive growth in new areas for Ericsson.
They do this by identifying, developing and scaling new businesses that support Ericsson’s customers to capture the full potential of 5G, IoT and future technologies. Tamsons' team drives the Ericsson IPR and licensing, Ericsson's global IoT platform business, Global Dedicated Networks business and Small - Medium Business Solutions (SMB Solutions), and a number of other emerging businesses in incubation stage through the innovation hub Ericsson ONE.
Previous experience as partner at McKinsey & Company, where Tamsons has been serving tech, telecom and industrial companies around the world. Her expertise was focused on growth strategy and B2B sales and marketing. Åsa Tamsons holds an M.Sc. in business administration from Stockholm School of Economics
As Group CTO, Erik Ekudden is responsible for setting the direction of technology leadership for the Ericsson Group. In 2017, he was re-located to Kista, Sweden, after nearly seven years at Ericsson in Santa Clara, California.
His experience from working with technology leadership globally will influence the strategic decisions and investments in mobility, distributed cloud, artificial intelligence and IoT. This builds on his decades-long career in technology strategies and industry activities. Ekudden first joined Ericsson in 1993, working on mobile systems research. He has served as research area director and vice president of standardization.
During his career, his team created technology and multimedia functionality that are now used in today’s smartphones worldwide. This team also conducted some of the first work on virtual and augmented reality for mobile systems.
He has worked to create global mobile systems for 3G, 4G and 5G in close collaboration with customers. He holds an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
Jan Söderström is Vice President and Head of Technology Office Silicon Valley at Ericsson reporting to Ericsson Group CTO. In this capacity he drives the technology leadership work in 5G, cloud and IOT including co-creation with ecosystem partners.
He has built up the Ericsson D-15 Lab which is an end-to-end 5G test network platform for use case innovation and testing. From 2013 to 2017 Jan was driving the NFV and cloud transformation program at Ericsson.
Prior to this Jan had a decade long engagement at Ericsson Research heading the research in IP and cloud, including three years in San Jose building up the Ericsson lab there. Jan has a Ph.D. in applied physics from Chalmers University of Technology and spent his early career working with optoelectronic devices and optical networking.
Börje Ekholm assumed this role on January 16, 2017. He knows the company and the industry well after being a Board Member of Ericsson for nearly ten years (first elected 2006). Most recently Ekholm was CEO of Patricia Industries, a division within Investor AB (2015-2017).
Prior to assuming this position in 2015, he was President and CEO of Investor AB between 2005 and 2015. Previous positions also include Head of New Investments and President of Investor Growth Capital Inc. Ekholm has had various positions at Novare Kapital AB and McKinsey & Co Inc.
Börje Ekholm holds an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, as well as an M.B.A. from INSEAD, France. He is a board member of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Alibaba Group and Trimble Inc. Ekholm is also Member of the Board of Trustees of Choate Rosemary Hall and the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce New York.
Since 2017, Member of the Steering Committee of the World Economic Forum Digital Communication Governors and a member of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. Holds Honorary Doctorate at The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Jon has worked at Ericsson since 1991. In 1998, Jon started working full time with presentations and demonstrations. Jon is highly skilled in presenting 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G and explaining all of Ericsson's services and solutions. Jon is also a skilled musician playing the piano and has made several albums and toured all around the world.
Lars has been with Ericsson since 1994. He has held executive positions in R&D, Services and Sales including being Vice President Services for Market Unit South East Asia as well as Head of Operations for Region South East Asia and Oceania and Vice President Development Unit Network Functions and Cloud. Most recently Vice President, Portfolio and Demand Management including Internet of Things within Customer Group Industry and Society.
Lars has a broad experience of working with leading technologies for the core and radio network and within the services area, working close to Ericsson’s customers. Lars holds a M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden. Lars speaks Swedish and English.
Marie Hogan leads the strategic product management team responsible for the Mobile Broadband and IoT areas of 4G and 5G radio access networks at Ericsson. Her main responsibilities include driving key functionality for the ongoing 5G RAN deployments including peak rate evolution and multi-standard RAN, optimization of 5G radio access solutions and securing the enabling technologies that 5G will bring. She is also responsible for driving the new use cases supported by Cellular IoT both in 4G and 5G, including Massive IoT and URLLC.
Additionally, Marie focuses on the evolution of 4G radio access solutions both to meet the growing demands on existing LTE networks and to facilitate the co-existence with and migration to 5G. She has worked in many areas within Ericsson from product development to product management spanning 3G, 4G and 5G technologies. Marie has worked with both radio and core network solutions as well as with transport, synchronization and security solutions.
She holds a Master of Science in Technology Management and a degree in Electronic Engineering.
Niklas Heuveldop leads the Market Area North America, a organization of approximately 11,500 employees in serving Ericsson’s customers in the United States and Canada with industry-leading technology and services. Prior to this position Heuveldop was Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Technology & Emerging Business, which combines the Corporate Strategy and Technology functions, Ericsson Research, Business Innovation, Mergers & Acquisitions and Emerging Business, focused on the Internet of Things, as well as Information Technology and Ericsson’s Digital Transformation. Heuveldop has also had the position as Chief Customer Officer and Head of Group Function Sales.
He first started at Ericsson in 1993 and has served in various international assignments across the Americas and Europe, including as Head of Global Customer Unit AT&T and Head of Market Unit Central America & Caribbean. From 2001 to 2005, Heuveldop led venture capital-backed technology start-ups, first as COO at WaterCove Networks, which was acquired by Alcatel in 2003, and then as CEO at ServiceFactory, a management buyout from Swedish operator Telia.
Heuveldop holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering & Management from the Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Sweden.
Dr. Pernilla Jonsson is Head of Ericsson Consumer & Industry Lab. Through cutting edge research Consumer & IndustryLab drive Ericsson thought leadership of what connected intelligence means to people, different industries and society. Pernilla has worked with innovation, market strategy, business development for multinational companies for over 15 years. Pernilla is a board member of WASP HS, the Wallenberg foundation of AI research in the humanitarian and society context. Pernilla is an appreciated international keynote speaker for large audiences as well as in boardrooms and executive committees. Further, international media frequently interviews her on areas relating to her expertise. In 2015 she launched a book on the digitalization of the purchasing process, “The one-click revolution” which earned the honorary prize as Sweden’s “Marketing Book of the Year 2016.
Ravi Jain recently joined Facebook AI in Menlo Park. Prior to this he was Vice President of Search Science and AI at Amazon, where he led a team of scientists, engineers and product managers on making search effortless and enjoyable, using machine learning, natural language understanding, data science and systems. Previously, Ravi was VP for the machine learning platform at Amazon Alexa, and prior to that, CTO and Senior Advisor to Paul Allen at Vulcan Inc, leading technology strategy, and applied machine learning for social impact. Before that, he was at Google for ten years, leading engineering for mobile advertising, machine learning, and mobile applications and systems. He has a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Texas at Austin, is an IEEE Fellow, holds over 30 patents, and has authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers and three books.
Recognized as a leading authority on state cyber operations, Laura founded Galante Strategies in 2017 to equip governments and corporations to respond effectively to cyber and information threats. Her recent work includes directing analysis for the Ukrainian Election Task Force, developing a security framework for the Ukrainian government, and serving as an expert witness for cyber warfare claims.
A Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, Laura previously served as the Director of Global Intelligence at cybersecurity company, FireEye Inc. (formerly Mandiant). Her teams exposed Russian and Chinese military operations and authored numerous public intelligence reports. Prior to FireEye, she led a team analyzing state cyber capabilities for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
Laura has testified before the UN Security Council and regularly comments in global and industry media. She speaks frequently about the future of state conflict and security, and has given a TED talk at TED2017.
Laura holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Catholic University of America. She serves on the board of advisors of Safeguard Cyber and the board of the Northern Virginia 4-H Center. She speaks English, Italian, Spanish, and Bulgarian, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
"Thomas joined Google in November 2018 as the CEO of Google Cloud. Prior to Google, Thomas spent 22 years at Oracle, where most recently he was President of Product Development. Before that, Thomas worked at McKinsey as a business analyst and engagement manager. His nearly 30 years of experience have given him a deep knowledge of engineering, enterprise relationships, and leadership of large organizations.
Thomas' degrees include, an M.B.A. in administration and management from Stanford University as an Arjay Miller Scholar and a BSEE in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Thomas serves as a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council and Princeton University School of Engineering Advisory Council."
Vesa Jutila is Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Hatch Entertainment, responsible for strategic partnerships, content licensing and shaping the company strategy towards global success. At Hatch, Vesa has been living his dream while building the team, technology, product, brand and partnership network from scratch to become one of the industry leaders in mobile cloud gaming.
Prior to co-founding Hatch, Vesa held executive positions at Rovio Entertainment including leading the company’s business in China. Earlier career with Microsoft and Nokia in the area of mobile devices and before that with McKinsey & Company as management consultant.
Vesa is passionate about building new businesses and follows closely the latest trends in technology, gaming, entertainment and media.
Peggy Johnson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Magic Leap, a spatial computing company building the next computing platform. Ms. Johnson joined Magic Leap in August 2020 to lead the company into its next phase of growth, with a focus on expanding product market fit for the enterprise. Prior to joining Magic Leap, Ms. Johnson was Executive Vice President of Business Development at Microsoft where she was responsible for driving strategic partnerships and transactions to accelerate growth for the company and its customers. Previously, Johnson spent 24 years at Qualcomm, where she served as a member of Qualcomm’s Executive Committee. During her time at Qualcomm, Johnson held various leadership positions across engineering, sales, marketing and business development, and ran the Qualcomm Internet Services business unit. Johnson also worked as an engineer for General Electric’s Military Electronics Division early in her career.
Robin is CMO at Matterport where his responsibilities include all marketing, brand, communications and go-to-market initiatives to bring the Matterport vision to life across all channels.
Before joining Matterport, Robin was CMO at WeWork. Prior to that, Robin held leadership positions at LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Box, and works with many start-ups as an advisor and mentor.
Robin was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he also went to school.
Helen Kim is VP of Wireless Technology and IP at Maxlinear. Helen was CEO of NanoSemi until NanoSemi was acquired by Maxlinear in September 2020. She is a scientist turned entrepreneur. Since founding NanoSemi in 2014, she and her team brought a cutting-edge research into products adopted by smartphones, Wi-Fi, base stations, satellites and test and measurement industries. Her team’s machine learning based linearization solution significantly reduces carbon footprints.
Sam George is the Corporate Vice President of Azure IoT, delivering a broad portfolio of services and capabilities that help our customers and partners realize the full potential of the Internet of Things. He is responsible for Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Solution Accelerators, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Edge, Azure Digital Twins, Azure Time Series Insights, Azure Maps, Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform and Azure Industrial IoT / Open Manufacturing Platform.
Sam started his career in Microsoft as a software developer and is an avid technology enthusiast who still writes code in his spare time. Sam’s contributions during his 20-year tenure at Microsoft include a broad set of cloud and client technologies. You can follow Sam online on his IoT Blog aka.ms/SamGeorge or on Twitter at @samjgeorge.
Jason Hoffman is the Chairman and CEO of MobiledgeX, a company focusing on edge computing and founded by Deutsche Telekom. Previously he was a CTO at Ericsson AB and was responsible for their cloud and datacenter infrastructure business. His group created the world’s first hyperscale, disaggregated system and led the market in the modernization of telecom infrastructure.
Prior to Ericsson, he was the founder and CTO at Joyent, a pioneering high-performance cloud IaaS and software provider, where he ran product, engineering, and operations for a decade.
Forest Baskett joined NEA in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. Forest focuses on information technology investments and serves on the Board of Directors for several private and public companies. Some of his investments that became public companies are Atheros Communications, Audience, Data Domain, Fusion-io and Tableau Software. Prior to NEA, Forest was Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. He founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation before joining SGI.
Prior to that, he was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Baskett received a B.A. in mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Greg Papadopoulos is a Venture Partner at global venture capital firm, NEA. He joined the firm in 2010 after more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry and academia. Greg focuses on early-stage systems, software and deep/hard tech companies. Prior to NEA, he was EVP and CTO of Sun Microsystems, where he guided the company’s $2B R&D portfolio. Before Sun, Greg was an Associate Professor of EECS at MIT, where he worked on massively parallel dataflow computing architectures. He also helped found a number of companies, from video conferencing (PictureTel) to computational fluid dynamics (NASDAQ:EXA), and was an engineer with HP and Honeywell.
Greg is an active advisor for the schools of engineering at UCSD, UC Berkeley and SJSU, and is a trustee for the UCSD Foundation and the Computer History Museum. Passionate about technology and its possibilities, Greg is a relentless advocate for diversity in engineering and a supporter of open development models that stimulate communication, inclusiveness and innovation. Greg holds an undergraduate degree from UCSD and an S.M. and Ph.D. from MIT. He also a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum.
Keith Strier is Vice President, Worldwide AI Initiatives at NVIDIA with a primary focus on helping governments advance their national AI programs by harnessing the power of Accelerated Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Machines. Keith leads NVIDIA’s global public sector portfolio and AI Nations Initiative, advising government leaders on the domestic AI infrastructure needed to achieve national AI objectives. Prior to joining Nvidia, Keith was a Senior Partner at EY Consulting, and served as the founding Global AI Practice leader. Prior to EY, Keith was a Senior Partner at Deloitte Consulting and served as the first global Chief Digital Officer, driving the vision and implementation of a digital workplace for 250,000 employees. Keith has been a guest speaker at universities and industry conferences from Shanghai to Tallinn to Riyadh and has also served as a Guest Facilitator for Harvard Medical School’s Center for BioMedical Informatics for ten years. Keith has a Bachelor of Science with Honors from Cornell University, and a Law Degree from NYU School of Law.
Steve Dertien is the Chief Technology Officer reporting to PTC's CEO and manages the Office of the CTO. The Office of the CTO at PTC consists of the CTO's for Augmented and Virtual Reality, Internet of Things, Software Architecture, CAD and Product Lifecycle Management, as well as an innovation research lab and advanced development. Mr. Dertien is responsible for driving the corporate technology strategy across the PTC businesses and evangelizing our strategy with PTC’s customers and partners.
As an entrepreneur who has founded and successfully sold companies across the software spectrum, Todd helps shape the PubNub vision of revolutionizing the way people interact online. Todd most recently was CEO of Loyalize, an Audience Participation company successfully sold to Function(x) (FNCX), a Robert F.X. Sillerman company, where he designed the first-ever massively multi-user Social TV mobile and web applications licensed to companies like Viacom and Yahoo. Todd previously was founder and CTO/VP Products of CascadeWorks, a company providing Services Procurement solutions to Texas Instruments, Charles Schwab, and ABN Amro, and acquired by Elance. After working with companies like GE, SGI, and Quantum while a consultant at Price Waterhouse, Todd joined NetDynamics (sold to Sun Microsystems in 1998) to help create a truly game-changing product: the first application server built for the Internet.
"Hugo Swart is a vice president and GM of XR for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He is responsible for overseeing Qualcomm’s XR business and P&L including go-to-market, product planning and roadmap, strategy, partnerships and customer development. He spearheaded the standalone VR category in the industry with Qualcomm Technologies’ first reference design in 2016 and built Qualcomm Technologies’ XR business from ground-up. He had prior roles in Consumer IOT spearheading the use of Snapdragon in adjacent device categories such as robotics/drones, smart-displays/assistants, smart TV media boxes and others.
Swart joined Qualcomm in 2003, as a technical marketing manager in charge of promoting wireless data technologies to operators worldwide. He has held roles of increasing responsibility since that time and has led several successful R&D projects from idea inception to customer adoption in the wireless space.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, Swart served as sales engineer for Lucent Technologies and Telecom Italia.
Swart received his B.Sc. (1999) and M.Sc. (2004) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil. In addition, he received an M.B.A (2008) from San Diego State University."
"Timothy Harris, co-founder and CEO of Swift Navigation, is focused on building a world-class organization that will power the next generation of GPS-enabled autonomous vehicles and robots. A proven leader in the high-accuracy GPS industry, Tim leads teams that are excited to drive innovation and challenge each other to achieve visionary change. Prior to Swift, he worked in supply chain consulting for OR Soft Jaenicke GmbH in Halle, Germany, and in corporate finance for Emerge Digital Group, where he oversaw M&A and strategic partnerships for a digital media holding company. Tim holds a J.D. degree from Boston University and a B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley."
Neville R. Ray serves as T-Mobile’s President of Technology. Mr. Ray has more than 25 years of experience in the design, deployment and operational management of wireless networks in the United States and worldwide and is recognized for his leadership in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Ray joined T-Mobile USA (then VoiceStream) in April 2000, and was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in December 2010, and most recently to President of Technology in December 2019. He is responsible for the national management and development of the T-Mobile USA wireless network and the company’s IT services and operations. At Mr. Ray’s helm, T-Mobile has nearly tripled its LTE coverage since 2015, has launched the first nationwide 5G network and he has led his team to a string of revolutionary industry firsts.
Prior to joining T-Mobile USA, Mr. Ray served as Network Vice President for Pacific Bell Mobile Services. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance, a mobile telecommunications association of mobile operators, vendors, manufacturers and research institutes, and the Board of Governors of 5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas. Mr. Ray has served on both the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC) and Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) for the federal government.
Mr. Ray is an honors graduate of City, University of London, a member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Outside of the office, he enjoys soccer, cars (British, of course!), and spending time with his family.
"Dr. Danny Lange is VP of AI and Machine Learning at Unity. As VP of AI and Machine Learning, Danny leads Unity’s efforts around AI and ML. He joined from Uber, where he was Head of Machine Learning. At Uber, Danny led the efforts to build the world’s most versatile machine-learning platform to support Uber’s hyper growth.
Previously, Danny was General Manager of Amazon Machine Learning — an AWS product that offers machine learning as a cloud service. Before that, he was Principal Development Manager at Microsoft where he led a product team focused on large-scale machine learning for big data. Danny spent eight years on Speech Recognition Systems, first as CTO of General Magic, Inc., then through his work on General Motors OnStar Virtual Advisor, one of the largest deployments of an intelligent personal assistant until Siri. Danny started his career as a Computer Scientist at IBM Research.
Danny holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society and has several patents to his credit."
Pearly Chen is Vice President of Business Development at HTC, a smartphone industry pioneer and virtual reality industry leader. Having been at the front row seat of HTC’s foray into VR since day one as Chief of Staff to Founder/Chairwoman Cher Wang, she now leads the growth of Viveport Infinity, the world’s first hardware-agnostic VR content subscription service and manages HTC’s early-stage investment program Vive X, which has invested in more than 100 innovative startups in virtual and augmented reality since its founding in 2016. Prior to taking on the mission to positively impact humanity through new technologies, she was an investment professional at Goldman Sachs. A dynamic, high energy global citizen, multi-linguist, voracious reader, avid traveler, competitive triathlete and mother of two, she believes that everyone has the capacity to create a legacy that contributes to human progress. Putting to good use of her infectious positive energy and unique perspectives, she makes it her life’s goal to inspire and support others to thrive with their fullest potential.
Mr. Graylin is the China President at HTC, leading all aspects of the Vive/VR (VIVE.com) and the Smartphone businesses in the region. He is also currently Vice-Chairman of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA.com) with more than 300 company members, President of the USD 18 billion Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA.com) and oversees the Vive X VR Accelerators (VIVEX.co) in Beijing, Shenzhen and Tel Aviv.
Mr. Graylin was born in China and educated in the US. He received his MS in computer science from MIT and MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Mr. Graylin graduated top of his department with a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, where he had specialized in VR and AI over two decades ago. Mr. Graylin is fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
Visionary Silicon Valley technology leader who just launched his latest venture, GoodTrust, with the mission is to protect everyone's digital legacy. Steiber also just launched Einride, the autonomous electric transport company, in the US. Steiber was President of Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality at HTC, where he built Viveport which is the world’s first and only “Netflix of VR” subscription service live in more than 60 markets for all VR devices. Before joining HTC, Steiber successfully built up several international businesses in Video on Demand, YouTube MCNs and eSports, as the CEO for MTGx and Chief Digital Officer at Modern Times Group. At Google, Steiber was the Global Marketing Director of Ads, Mobile and Social Advertising and prior to this ran marketing for all Google’s products in Europe. He co-founded Scandinavia Online (AOL of Nordics) and built Xlent Strategy Consulting. Steiber is the founder of Europe's largest Women in Tech event and community. Steiber is a Future Astronaut with Virgin Galactic. Rikard has M.Sc. from SDA Bocconi. Italy and B.Sc. from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Tami Erwin is widely recognized for her strategic impact, marketing and operations focus, technical savvy, and passion for people. As CEO of Verizon Business, a USD 30+ billion business with over 26,000 employees that would be among the Fortune 100 if it was a separate entity, she and her teams deliver mission critical solutions to businesses worldwide and operate America’s most reliable wireless network and premier all-fiber network. Tami helps businesses, government, and communities connect to the global economy with intelligent edge solutions and prepare for digital transformation, innovation, and accelerated growth in the 5G era.
Currently CEO of LINKFLOW, which makes the world's first wearable 360 camera. After joining Samsung Electronics in 2002, I worked on system SW engineering and technology planning. Samsung Electronics established strategic roadmaps through cooperation with global companies such as Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Intel, and focused on establishing technology strategies and future tech. I won the grand prize at the Samsung Mobile Contest, an idea competition for wireless division in 2014, and was selected by Samsung's in-house venture program C-Lab in 2016 to carry out future food tasks and then spin-off to create a LINKFLOW corporation in 2016. I earned master's degree in computer engineering from Kyungpook National University through big data processing and parallel processing
5G will be a key enabler in scaling autonomous fleets of vehicles. With the help of 5G, businesses will be able to control, monitor, and provide good service levels with autonomous vehicles. This will be more revolutionary than going from dial up modem to fiber network. A completely new ecosystem of services and products will emerge and create cost efficiency, improved safety and sustainable transport.
Atmosic team re-architected wireless connectivity solutions from the ground up to radically reduce IoT device dependence on batteries, thereby making batteries last forever and the Internet of Things battery free – breaking the power barrier to drive widespread IoT adoption. Our extreme low-power solution, combined with energy harvesting, enables battery-free internet-of-things.
Deep learning has revolutionized AI, but it has also proven an extremely data hungry technology. Manually labelled training data is becoming prohibitively costly and time-consuming, creating a challenge to companies eager to embrace deep learning technology. Danny Lange will explain why he sees this challenge more as an opportunity. By leveraging real-time 3D video game technology to generate practically infinite amounts of synthetic training data, we can accelerate the AI evolution. He will delve into the background and benefits of interactive large-scale synthetic data generation.
"Gaming is already mainstream entertainment with mobile, casual, and social as the main growth drivers. Mobile gaming is the biggest and fastest-growing segment in gaming, fueled by billions of touch-screen natives who have never owned a game console or played games with a PC.
One of the biggest trends in the gaming industry is cloud gaming. The on-demand consumption model that happened with music and TV, is now starting to happen in gaming. 5G is the perfect technology to bring cloud gaming to the majority of gamers who spend their time with casual and mid-core mobile games.
Hatch is the world’s only “made-for-5G” cloud gaming platform that is tapping on the megatrends in gaming: mobile, casual, and social. We are already working with major operators and OEMs to offer a new and better way for people to enjoy next-generation cloud-based gaming experiences with novel social features."
Hear from Todd Greene, Founder and CEO of PubNub, as he shares industry insight on how to make applications 5G Ready. The promise of 5G and Edge is only realized when app developers are leveraging these emerging
technologies.
Unfortunately, most app developers are still building N-tiered apps that will not benefit from 5G and edge. Todd will talk about bridging this gap, and how to make it easy for apps to leverage the edge. By facilitating event-driven, realtime app development, PubNub has enabled thousands of high scale companies to deliver realtime apps that will truly benefit from 5G and Edge without requiring complex infrastructure or specialized development teams.
"Imagine a virtual workplace that automatically changes depending on what you need to do, by giving you an editing pen and a big display when you need to do video retouching, or a haptic keyboard and an extra side screen with a thesaurus when you need to write a report. Also, imagine that by 2030 it is becoming common to have a lifestyle involving working and socializing totally in virtual realms without ever physically leaving home. Further, imagine that technology could enable a full internet of senses. vision, audio, touch smell, and taste, including the ability to digitally communicate thoughts by 2030. This is part of the Ericsson Research vision we call this The Internet of Senses. The Internet of Senses will be enabled by technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), 5G, and automation.
Consumers predict that by 2030 screen-based experiences will increasingly compete with multisensory ones that will be almost inseparable from reality. Beyond visual and audio we will be able to touch, feel, and even smell and taste things digitally. In this session, Dr. Pernilla Jonsson, Head of Consumer and IndustryLab at Ericsson Research will walk us through what more than 14,000 early tech adopters and white-collar workers see and the next digital revolution. The internet of senses — a future which may be closer than you think!"
The purpose of this session is not to raise money but to get the story out to ecosystem companies and customers who may have use for your product and technology. Guy Kawasaki and Jan Söderström will be commenting on the pitches. We will focus on the offering story and the evangelizing aspects of the pitch as well as the applicability to the 5G (or 4G) business/networks.
See how 5G and science fiction converge in this conversation between AT&T Chief Product and Platform Officer, Mo Katibeh and award-winning science fiction writer and futurist Ken Liu. From virtual tourism to revolutionary work with healthcare, Mo and Ken will discuss how 5G is changing the world for good.
In this session, Mr. Harris will discuss how advances in GNSS positioning technology make it possible to deliver centimeter-level accuracy to autonomous, mobile and IoT mass-market applications. Standard GNSS delivers position at about 3-5 meters of accuracy. High-precision GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System—including GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou and QZSS) delivers accuracy at the centimeter level. Swift’s precise positioning service delivers wide-scale precision across continents with submeter accuracy. Swift’s precise positioning technology has been standardized into 3GPP version 16 and can be integrated both into Mobile Network Operator platforms and as an application programming inte
The purpose of this session is not to raise money but to get the story out to ecosystem companies and customers who may have use for your product and technology. Guy Kawasaki and Jan Söderström will be commenting on the pitches. We will focus on the offering story and the evangelizing aspects of the pitch as well as the applicability to the 5G (or 4G) business/networks.
With cutting-edge advances in mobile technology, computer vision and AI, we are now ready to fully 3D map the entire world, inside and out by using the phone that’s in the palm of your hand.
In order to unlock the true potential of 3D, without the need of expensive and hard-to-use equipment, we had to figure out ways of unlocking over a billion devices to capture, share, and collaborate in immersive 3D. That day is now here.
Today, enterprises are more digitally connected and globally dispersed. They must redefine their business processes, relying on digital data sets from newly connected products, machines, and environments. In a fireside chat with industry experts from C3.ai, PTC and Deutsche Telekom IoT. Ericsson´s Head of IoT, Kiva Allgood will explore how to create business values from connected things.
NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform is driving the pace of technology innovation from the cloud to the edge, and democratizing AI supercomputing so that every nation can be an AI nation. Check out this session to learn more about how NVIDIA is unlocking new use cases and experiences powered by 5G across every sector of the economy from auto to education.
This session will discuss the capabilities of 5G and cellular IoT and how they can pave the way for industry digitalization bringing great benefits for businesses and society. During the session, some real use case examples will be highlighted from our studio at Ericsson Headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
2020 is proving to be a global stress test, forcing leading companies to bring together their best resources not only to help society and industry recover and rebuild but also to aid the discovery of new solutions that might help the world better withstand future challenges. This new era fits together with the next phase of cloud computing, where data processing and analytics are moving toward the point of consumption, otherwise known as the edge. The convergence of 5G and edge technologies can enable businesses and telecommunications companies to transform how they operate. Bringing insights closer to where data is collected, organizations can respond with meaningful and timely actions to positively impact profit, people, and the planet. In a fireside chat, Tami Erwin, CEO of Verizon Business, and Åsa Tamsons, Ericsson’s Head of Business Area Technologies and New Businesses, will talk about how business solutions powered by 5G and the edge create value for enterprises.
Meredith Attwell Baker joined CTIA as its President and CEO in June 2014. She brings extensive experience on spectrum issues and wireless policy and a keen understanding of how government and business must work together to drive innovation.
Prior to joining CTIA, Mrs. Baker served as the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at Comcast NBC Universal where she was responsible for developing policy positions on legislative and regulatory issues and representing those positions before the U.S. Congress, the Administration and government agencies.
Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, Mrs. Baker served as a Commissioner to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) until June 2011. During her tenure, she championed a forward-looking approach to spectrum management issues as well as a flexible regulatory environment to encourage continued innovation and competition in the technology and telecommunications industries.
Prior to joining the FCC, Mrs. Baker served in the Bush Administration as the Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information as well as the Acting Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). While at NTIA, she facilitated the nation’s historic transition to digital television, which freed commercial spectrum for wireless companies; promoted market-based policies that encouraged innovation; served on delegations representing the United States at major international telecommunications conferences; and engaged in bilateral discussions with senior level officials from countries around the world to encourage investment in the United States.
Mrs. Baker and her husband Jamie reside in McLean, Virginia. She has four stepdaughters.
5G opens up an amazing opportunity for mobile operators and enterprises to digitally transform — this is at the core of the opportunity landscape.
Therefore, Ericsson is investing in portfolio bets that will support mobile operators and their enterprise customers to create agility, advance operations, and unlock intelligence — three basic parameters crucial for any industry to stay alive long term. Our latest acquisition of Cradlepoint, still subject to merger clearance, is fully aligned with our strategy to propel our customers’ businesses to success. Hear Åsa Tamsons, Ericsson’s Head of Business Area Technologies and New Businesses, talks about how enterprise businesses can be revolutionized through 5G services, followed by a fireside chat on the same theme with George Mulhern, CEO and Chairman at Cradlepoint.
Industry veterans and technology entrepreneurs Rikard Steiber, CEO GoodTrust, and Jason Hoffman, CEO MobiledgeX, discuss how businesses and the telecom industry can leverage technologies already here today, such as, 5G, XR, AI and edge computing. What should be your strategy to grow your businesses? Can you solve problems with here and now technology? How should you engage the developer community to build solutions to help your business or even the entire 5G industry to get more relevant applications developed? The future is now, the technology is here... but do you have your developer story ready? Join us!
In this fireside chat, Meredith Baker, President and CEO of CTIA, a leading voice for America’s wireless industry in Washington, D.C., has a candid conversation with Niklas Heuveldop, President and CEO of Ericsson North America, to share a Washington, D.C. insider’s perspective on 5G and the steps necessary to continue the expansion of this truly game-changing 5G Innovation Platform.
New technologies, such as AI, IoT, AR/VR, and 5G will pave the way for advances in almost all aspects of society and human endeavor. The challenge for humanity is to apply these technologies for equitable, widespread, and long-term social good, and remain imaginative and optimistic about their benefits while minimizing their unintended consequences. I will talk about three recent examples of the confluence of some of these technologies and the exciting directions they represent.
