Mr. Boucher is General Manager of ENCQOR Innovation, an initiative providing pre-commercial access to 5G for innovators in Canada.

Previously, he was responsible for research and innovation at the Ericsson Center in Montreal for more than 25 years, involved in various technologies and their applications in various fields such as transport, smart grids, digital transformation, health and sustainable development among other things.

Mr. Boucher has served and still sits on various boards of directors of NPOs involved in innovation. He graduated from École Polytechnique de Montréal in electrical and computer engineering.

Mikko Karvonen is Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at Immersal (part of Hexagon), which has been part of the Startup 5G cohort since its inception. He is also a founding member of the Open AR Cloud initiative.

He has over 20 years of experience in Web technologies, client and server-side programming, mobile apps, and integrations, especially in startup environments. He holds an M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Helsinki.

April is a digital transformation expert, board member, published author, industry thought-leader and C-suite advisor. She has been with Microsoft for over 4 years and is the General Manager of the US Microsoft Technology Centers where she leads a team of more than 100+ architects and is accountable for 15 state-of-the-art technology innovation centers and industry centers-of-excellence across the country. In this role, she leads an organization chartered with scope and influence to help global enterprise leaders from all industries to transform into digital businesses and create enhanced customer experiences.

A career spanning more than 30 years in global leadership, April has been the catalyst for driving change, direction, and developing enterprise-wide global strategies for digital transformation and innovation for many Fortune 500 companies. April received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an Executive Certification in Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, she possesses an M.S. in Engineering Management from George Washington University and a B.S. in Global Business from the University of Maryland. She is an adjunct professor for the executive MBA program at Drexel University’s Lebow College of Business where she teaches a course on Digital Transformation.

Will Townsend is a frequent Forbes contributor and advises some of the largest networking and telecommunications companies in the world. His more than thirty years of experience spans tenures spent with iconic companies such as Dell & Hewlett-Packard, serving in several senior level roles including sales, marketing, product management, and business development.

Presently, Mr. Townsend manages the networking infrastructure and security practices for Moor Insights & Strategy, an analyst firm regarded as a leader in the technology sector based on principal and founder Patrick Moorhead’s #1 ranking by ARInsights.

Nematolah Kashanian is a 20+ year industry veteran of the wireless software development and architecture industry. Holding 4 patents in the wireless space, he has consulted for all major wireless carriers, MVNOs, and device manufacturers, working in their product development, software architecture, and innovation spaces.

Over his 20-year career, he managed the development of R&D projects for Intel, Qualcomm, ESPN, HP, Verizon Wireless, and others. in 2020 Nematolah founded Multicasting.io as its Chief Innovation Officer, where he leads the design and development of its Real-Time multiangle UGC video platform and venue technology. Multicasting has a close working relationship with Ericsson, Amazon, Google, Orange 5G Labs, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless & their 5G Labs, and Comcast where its technology is used in Wells Fargo Arena.

John is the Managing Director of Slalom Strategy and Founder of Slalom Element laboratories where he helps companies understand what’s possible, imagine a better future, and build a better tomorrow for all. He has been pivotal in bringing some of the biggest consumer mobility, telecommunications and entertainment products to market and has transformed customer experiences in profound ways.  John is a futurist and brings a wealth of experience, creativity and inspiration to technology, product and  strategy development.

John is also the Owner and Founder of Árvore De Luz – a startup corporation that is bringing a fresh perspective to organic and sustainable farming.

Established, cultivated, centralized and led teams across Business Development, Business Operations, and Strategy, with footprint in the North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia

Unified Business Development teams globally, with updated focus on the execution of high impact partnerships across Telecommunications, OEM, OTT, Infrastructure, Product, CSR, and Trust & Safety to drive adoption, usage, retention, brand lift and product excellence across ByteDance's suite of applications

Executed and launched hundreds of partnerships around the world, establishing new standards for impact on user growth, retention, infrastructure, brand lift and technology, with particular focus on 5G innovation, Connected TV, and enhanced Content Delivery Network partnerships

Introduced and formalized Business Operations and Strategy teams globally, to identify new opportunities, develop first-of-kind initiatives, scope project requirements, and consolidate internal / external consensus, leveraging deep data integrations to drive highest level business intelligence and ROI

Oversee global team of project managers with focus on the application of regional expertise to global initiatives

Tom came to Verizon 17 years ago from the software startup world. Since 2010, Tom has been designing national-scale network and system architectures to virtualize the network, and launch new products and services for Verizon customers.

Now with Verizon’s 5G network and 5G Edge computing platforms, Tom leads programs to build real-world proof-of-concept solutions, mainly for Industry 4.0, professional sports and entertainment. He frequently consults with development teams bringing applications to Verizon’s 5G Labs.

Jan Söderström is Vice President and Head of Advanced Technology and Industry U.S. based in Silicon Valley California and 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-fifteen Lab network platform for use case innovation and testing.

Jan is also engaged in the quest for American leadership in 5G and 6G – he serves as the Vice chair of the NextG Alliance and as a board member of ATIS. Jan is also a member of the Board of Trustees for University of California Merced
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 PhD in Applied Physics from Chalmers University of Technology and spent his early career working with optoelectronic devices and optical networking.

Jasmeet Sethi is the Head of Ericsson ConsumerLab based in Sweden. Jasmeet oversees a team of senior researchers and analysts at Ericsson Research that assist functions like technology research, product development groups, marketing, and sales to gather signals, uncover consumer insights and evaluate key trends that impact Ericsson and its customers future direction and strategy. Jasmeet has been responsible for building the consumer narrative around 5G technology and its impact on consumer business. He has also been responsible for conceptualizing the Ericsson Startup5G program, a 5G innovation ecosystem accelerator involving 50+ global startups and over 10 communication service providers. Jasmeet has over 16 years of experience in insights and analytics domain providing businesses actionable insights to inform and shape business decisions that help them achieve their key performance goals and inspire forward looking innovation.

Prior to Ericsson, Jasmeet worked as a Consulting Manager at Analysys Mason(India) managing custom projects for telecoms operators and vendors, which include providing strategic advisory and undertaking market assessment work. Jasmeet holds a MBA and a Bachelors of Engineering degree from India.