| Speakers |
| Yaron Aboodaga Product Manager, CloudBand Business Unit Nokia Yaron is a Product Manager in Nokia’s CloudBand Business Unit, he is responsible for CloudBand Infrastructure Software (CBIS) that is part of the CloudBand NFV platform. His role includes collecting requirements from customers and VNF vendors and translating them into features in CBIS, turning it into an optimized solution from software and hardware aspects. Yaron has more than 15 years of experience in the Telco and Networking industry, working with Tier 1 customers across the globe. Yaron’s past positions as a Solution Architect and a Network Architects team leader give him the knowledge and understanding of service providers needs from NFV platforms. | |
| Mustapha Aissaoui Product Line Manager, IP Routing & Packet Core, IP/Optical Networks (ION) Nokia Mustapha Aissaoui is a Product Manager in the Service Router Product Group of the IP/Optical Networks at Nokia. He holds an Electrical Engineering Diploma from Polytechnic School of Algiers and a MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa. Mustapha Aissaoui is an active participant of the IETF PWE3, L2VPN, MPLS, PCE, and SPRING working groups. He is a co-author and a major contributor to many drafts in these working groups. | |
| Muhammad Asif Product Line Manager Nokia Muhammad Asif is a Product Line Manager for IP & Nuage Professional Services. Mr. Asif has an experience of more than fifteen years in software development and system architect design for web based network management systems. Mr. Asif holds a Ph.D. degree from Carleton University (Canada) in computer systems and networks. Mr. Asif is leading a workshop “IP-LTE Monitoring and troubleshooting” along with Reza Rokui and Stephen Strong. The workshop will focus on discussing the available tools for monitoring and troubleshooting the IP based RAN/LTE network. | |
| Steve Aubrey Product Manager Nokia Stephen has worked in the Telecommunications industry for over 23 years within the area of Network & Service Management and Mobile Data Analytics. Currently Product Manager & Team leader for the IP and Optical Networks Division focused on Network Management across IP, Optics and SDN with the special focus on Agile WAN Service Delivery & Optimization. Stephen holds a honors bachelors degree in computer engineering from Cardiff University. | |
| Thierry Bassani Lead Engineer, Data Networks Swiss Railways, SBB Thierry Bassani is forty-six and has been working in the IP networking sector for the last twenty-two years. After graduating as an Engineer in electricity at EPFL in 1993, he started his career in 1994 at the Swiss Federal Office of Informatics and Telecommunications as an IP Engineer. Between 1999 and 2001, he worked for Ascom in pre-sales engineering. In August 2001 he moved to Swiss Railways in the business unit Telecommunication first as Plattform Manager responsible for the Life Cycle of the former Nortel WAN network. Then, in 2005, he became a Senior IP Engineer where he took the lead for the design of the actual Cisco IP network. From 2010 to 2015 he was a Team Leader Engineering for data networks and in February 2016 became a Lead Engineer of data networks where he is presently focusing on the Datacom-NG project. | |
| Andres Belloni Director of Product Line Management for Nokia 5620 SAM Nokia Andres Belloni leads Platform and Common Applications Product Management for Nokia 5620 SAM. In this role Andres is responsible for defining and managing the lifecycle of 5620 SAM’s software foundation and network management applications that allow service providers to efficiently manage IP, Optical and next generation SDN/NFV networks. Mr. Belloni has an extensive career in telecommunications specializing in network and service management for TDM, ATM, IP and Optical networks. He has been responsible for product design, product strategy and product line management of Element, Network and Service Management Systems in Newbridge Networks and Alcatel-Lucent. Mr. Belloni holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University Of Buenos Aires, Argentina and an Executive MBA from Queens University in Canada. | |
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| Nigel Bennett NMS IP Routing & Transport Product Line Manager Nokia Nigel is responsible for regional product line management for the 5620 SAM in the EMEA region. Nigel has spent the last 20 years in network management starting out with Newbridge Networks before becoming Alcatel, Alcatel-Lucent and now Nokia. He has been involved with the 5620 SAM since its early days and has been responsible for promoting and championing the 5620 SAM in the EMEA region. Prior to this Nigel worked for Mitel Telecom, again working on network management products. Nigel started his communications career in the Royal Air Force working on a number of communications and RADAR systems around the world. | |
| Alex Berwanger Product Manager, IP/Routing RBC, EMEA Nokia Alex Berwanger is Product Manager for 5620 SAM with a focus on Management of Optical Networks working in the EMEA Regional Business Center at Nokia and is based in Nuremberg, Germany. He has over 20 years of experience in the communications and networking industry and has a strong background in optical networks and network management solutions. Alex holds a graduate degree (Diplom- Ingenieur) in the field of Communication Engineering from the Technical University of Ulm. | |
| Dr. Steven Blair Dr Steven Blair, Institute for Energy and Environment, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering University of Strathclyde Steven Blair received the MEng degree in Computer and Electronic Systems, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. He is presently a Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde. His research involves power system protection, fault current limitation, communications, power quality, and real-time simulation. | |
| Jon Bovre System Expert NetNordic Jon Harald Bovre is an experienced electronic engineer and has worked with many different projects related to oil/gas, ship automation/simulation and ship surveillance. For many years he has been working with computer networks from different vendors, at different service providers and industrial environment. A few projects he has been involved in are: LAN/WAN at different harbour authorities in Singapore, Dover, Dubai, service provider upgrade from ATM to MPLS, several projects involving IPv6 implementation, and he has also worked with networks in different utility providers. | |
| 0 | Andrew Chant Head of Networks Exponential-e Limited Andrew has been at Exponential-e since 2005 and heads of the team responsible for the design and operation of the core network. The team, part of the Engineering department within Exponential-e is also responsible for the R&D and introduction of new technologies to the network and development of network based services. |
| Nicolas Charpentier IP System Engineer Nokia Joined ALU/Nokia after 6 year working for a network integrator designing IP networks for large enterprise and strategic industries. Focusing on Service Provider and Alternate in France since. | |
| Carsten Collatz Regional Product Manager EMEA Nokia Carsten joined the regional PLM team for 5620 SAM in EMEA in September 2016. He is concentrating on the general IP management part of SAM, on the SAM platform, and on SAM managing the Evolved Packet Core. Before, Carsten had been working for 6 years in the Global PLM team on the topics of Linux introduction, virtualization and supporting the Wireless Management PLM team. Carsten is with the company since 1985 in various roles in R&D and PLM. He is located in Germany. | |
| James Cumming Product Line Manager, Virtualisation/VSR Nokia James Cumming is the Product Line Manager for Virtualisation and the Virtualised Service Router (VSR) within Nokia’s IP and Optical Networks Division. He has an extensive background in the Internet Service Provider industry beginning in 1997. He has worked as the lead Network Architect in a number of global service providers leading the efforts in network integration, product and service development as well as end-to-end network architecture across all technologies. He has a particular passion for the virtualisation area as his background combines networking, systems and operations which all collide in this exciting period for the industry. He holds a B.Sc. Hons. degree in Computer Science from the University of Kent. James is based in London, England. | |
| Rafa De Fermin Senior Vice President IP Routing and Transport, EMEA RBC Nokia Rafael de Fermín joined Alcatel in 1993. Since then, he has been involved in several responsibilities in the company, while living in the UK, the US, Belgium and Spain. In August 2013, he was appointed to lead the IP Routing and Transport Division in EMEA, and as such is in charge of all Alcatel-Lucent’s IP and Optics business in the region. Prior to this position, Rafael led the Global Customer Delivery and Presales teams for the same regional scope. Before that, Rafael spent five years working for the Access Business Division in Alcatel, in charge of the Regional Support Centres for different geographies (including Europe, Middle East, Africa, India and Latin America). He held pre- and post-sales responsibilities for the Division in those geographies. His earlier jobs with Alcatel include General Management of the Fixed Networks Division for Iberia, and several positions in R&D and PLM, within the Access Products Division. | |
| Bruno De Troch Product Line Manager, EMEA Nokia Bruno has over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry and joined the Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) Product Line Management team in EMEA in April 2014. His focus is on Service Provider core, edge and aggregation networks and solutions. Prior to his current role he was a Technical Lead at Juniper Networks for 14 years, providing guidance to carriers and large enterprises on how to deploy and optimize their IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet networks. He holds an MSc in Telecommunications from the Military Academy in Brussels and made it to Captain in charge of the Belgian Armed Forces’ country-wide data network before leaving and joining BT Belgium as a Design Engineer. He is based in Antwerp, Belgium. | |
| Bram De Valck IP Sales Engineer, Vertical Markets Nokia Bram De Valck develops business for the Nokia IP Routing division, focussed on Critical Infrastructure Networks (Utilities, Transportation, Defense, Government, Oil&Gas...). He is accountable for the benelux customers within the EMEA region where his team is operational. In this role Bram’s technical, communication and business skills help him evangelising industry customers to deploy their mission critical network using the Nokia IP/MPLS platforms. His technical knowhow and +7 years of experience in network design and protocols helps architecting green field or migration scenarios. His first job within Alcatel-Lucent as a IP Network Design Engineer, designing and validating IP network solutions, gave him a deep technical understanding of network technologies and architectures which he relies on to formulate his advice and guidance. Bram holds a Master degree of Engineering in Telecommunications (graduated at University of Ghent). | |
| Daniel Derksen Manager IP Product Line Manager Nokia At Nokia, Daniel Derksen is responsible for regional product line management for IP Routing in EMEA. He has 17+ years experience in the IP industry and has a strong background in (core) IP/MPLS routing, aggregation/backhaul and residential and business edge services. Daniel holds a bachelor's degree in computer science. | |
| Alp Dibirdi IP Product Manager Nokia Alp has over 18 years of experience in telecom industry. He joined Alcatel in mid 1998 and worked as a System Engineer, NW Architect, ATM Product Line Product Manager and now IP Product Manager. In his current role, he leads IP/MPLS, Ethernet, Services, OAM and Traffic Management features on 7705 Service Aggregation Router product family. He is recognized as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in 2010 for his sustained outstanding technical contribution to Alcatel-Lucent by Bell Labs. He holds a BS in Mathematics from Middle East Technical University. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| Siegfried Droogmans Business Development Consultant Nokia Siegfried (Ziggy) Droogmans is a Consulting Engineer in the Network Solutions and Consulting team of the IP and Optics division within Nokia. In this role, he works out and provides design guidelines based upon best practices and customer requirements with a special focus on L2 services, EVPN and DC Fabrics. For this, he interworks with Nokia technical sales as well as technical experts in leading EMEA service providers. Currently based in Antwerp, Belgium, Ziggy has more than 17 years of experience working on Enterprise and Provider IP/MPLS networks throughout the world. He has been part of the Alcatel-Lucent¹s IP Division for the last 13 years in a consulting and new product introduction role. Prior to that, he held positions as integration engineer building up experience with a variety of IP products and vendors. Ziggy has a master degree in Electronics and is CCIE (#16110) and Alcatel-Lucent SRA (#15) certified. | |
| Spyros Economou Regional Product Line Manager, EPC and Telco Cloud Product Portfolio Nokia Spyros Economou is a regional Product Line Manager at Nokia for EPC and Telco cloud product portfolio. Spyros holds BSc and MSc Degrees from University of Leeds as well a Master degree in Data Communications from Brunel University. He is a registered engineer and has more than 15 years of experience as a solution manager and senior packet core engineer in Nokia as well as a Unix System Engineer and Presales Engineer in different vendors. | |
| Pierre-Andre Foriel Senior Network Consultant Nokia Pierre-André Foriel is Senior Network Consultant in Nokia’s ION Regional Business Center for EMEA. He owns a Ph.D and Master of Engineering in Telecommunications Networks from the University of Nice, France. He worked 5 years with IBM in system design and R&D, and then occupied different positions with Nortel Networks in pre-sales support and consulting engineering for 8 years, before joining Alcatel-Lucent in 2006. In Nokia, he is currently Regional PLM for Security Gateway solution, as well as Consulting Engineer for virtualized evolved packet core solutions. | |
| Diego Garcia Del Rio Senior Product Manager at Nuage Networks Nokia Diego Garcia del Rio is a Senior Product Manager at Nuage Networks. He is in charge of defining the datapath features for the VRS, the BGP control plane and the hardware strategy within the Nuage VSP (Virtual Services Platform) and is involved with overall definition of Alcatel-Lucent IP Division’s cloud solution and strategy. He is deeply involved in pushing Nuage forward in both the XLE space as well as its colocation use-cases where “classic” service providers are benefiting from the flexibility of VSP to provide new and more dynamic services. He Joined Alcatel in 2004 and has been involved with IP and mobile networking ever since. His past roles include working within the Network Design and Engineering teams in EMEA and CALA, supporting and designing multiple network solutions for customers, encompassing from the first mobile backhaul deployment of 7705 in EMEA to a Triple Play network in Italy. In 2009 he joined the IP division’s product management team in Mountain View, California in a dual role as consulting engineer and product management. In early 2012 he joined the Nuage team, as its first member of the Product management team, to which he brings his experience with cloud providers and virtualization technologies. Diego holds a Electrical Engineering degree from ITBA (Buenos Aires Institute of Techonology). | |
| Gilles Geerts IP Consulting Engineer Nokia Gilles Geerts is Consulting Engineer in the Network Solutions and Consulting team at Nokia, EMEA region. In this role, he provides design guidelines based upon best practices and customer requirements with a special focus on Carrier Wi-Fi, IP/MPLS architectures and next-gen Business Services. For this, he interworks with Nokia technical sales as well as technical experts in leading EMEA service providers. Currently based in Antwerp, Belgium, Gilles has more than 17 years of experience working on Enterprise and Provider IP/MPLS networks throughout the world. He has been part of the Alcatel-Lucent¹s IP Division for the last 13 years in a consulting and new product introduction role. Prior to that, he held positions as QA/integration engineer for an Alcatel IP Core router project. He holds Alcatel-Lucent SRA (#28) certificate and has a master degree in electro-mechanics. | |
| Chadie Ghadie Nuage Networks Business Development Manager Nokia Chadie is a business development manager at Nuage Networks with a focus on partnerships. Chadie has over 16 years of experience within the networking and communications industry. He joined Alcatel in 2000 and has held many roles including software design, pre-sales engineer, solution architecture and PLM. With over 4 years experience is SDN, he has a focus on the Nuage Networks channel program, go to market strategy and enablement. In his current role, Chadie works closely with partners like Accenture to help define and promote next generation network solutions for enterprises and service providers alike. Chadie is based out of Ottawa, Canada. | |
| 0 | Patrice Haldemann Project Manager Swissgrid Patrice Haldemann spent 30 years with a major Telecom Operator in Switzerland. He exercised different positions in Research, Development und Operations Departments. In 2007 he took over the overall responsibility for the fix and then the mobile networks. In 2011 he joined Swissgrid as a general Program Manager responsible for a share deal involving the asset transfer of the major highest voltage Transport Companies in Switzerland. Since 2013 he has lead several infrastructure projects within Swissgrid. |
| Wim Henderickx Direct Consulting Engineering & Product Line Manager EMEA Nokia Mr.Wim Henderickx is Director Network Consulting Engineering – Technology in the IP Division at Alcatel-Lucent, based in Belgium. Mr. Henderickx provides senior level consulting on advanced IP solutions such as Cloud Networking (SDN/NFV), Triple Play, network routing, mobile and the enterprise to service providers throughout EMEA. He is also actively engaged in assessing and defining future technologies that will help shape communications networks and services of tomorrow. He has over 20 years’ experience in the communications and networking industry, and is a regular speaker at technical conferences all over the world. He is active in IETF, BBF and Openstack. Mr. Henderickx holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Data Communications and a Masters degree in Economy and is a Bellabs Fellow. | |
| Douglas Henderson Regional Product Line Manager, IP/Optics Nokia Douglas Henderson is a regional PLM within the IP/Optical Division of Nokia primarily covering Nuage VCS for service provider DC environments as well as Hybrid Access solutions. Douglas has nearly 20 years worth of experience within the networking industry and has worked in various post sales support and pre-sales consulting positions. He has previously held positions with Alcatel-Lucent, Ascend Communications and Bay Networks. He holds a BEng (hons) in micro-electronics from Glasgow Caledonian University. | |
| Rudy Hoebeke Vice President, Product Management – IP Routing & Mobile Packet Core Nokia Rudy Hoebeke is Vice President of Product Management for Nokia’s IP Service Routing and Mobile Packet Core portfolio.He has over 15 years of experience in the communications and networking industry, in the areas of engineering, network design, technology & product strategy and product management. Formerly, Rudy was Vice President of Product Management for IP Service Routing and Mobile Packet Core in Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Division. He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brussels (VUB) and a Masters in Business Administration from the Vlerick Leuven-Gent Business School. Rudy is based in Mountain View, California. | |
| Allan Jerrett Manager IP Product Line Manager Nokia Allan Jerrett leads Product Management for Nokia’s Mobile Core portfolio for the EMEA region. In this role, Allan works with leading EMEA mobile service providers to develop new creative solutions that offer differentiated new service offerings and/or significant operational improvements. Nokia is driving innovation in Evolved Packet Core with new developments in Network Function Virtualization, Telco Cloud, hybrid cellular and wifi access networks, mobile business services and service chaining architectures. Prior to this role Allan has an extensive career in telecommunications with specialization in policy management systems, network and service management, network engineering and wireless data communications. Allan has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. | |
| Phillippe Jeurissen IP Consulting Engineer Nokia Philippe Jeurissen is a Consulting Engineer in the Network Solutions and Consulting Team of the IP and Optics division within Nokia. He focuses on the data center and cloud network design world with the Nuage Networks VSP product line. He is a strong believer of the OpenStack Project for next gen datacenters and application deployments. Based in Antwerp, Philippe has been helping large service providers and enterprises in the EMEA region to move into the brave new world of network virtualization and software defined networking for more than 3 years now. | |
| Amar Joshi Principal Director Accenture Amar Joshi is a Principal Director in Accenture’s Network Practice. Amar is a CCIE and one of the leads for Accenture’s Network Transformation and SDN capabilities. Amar has more than 18 years of experience in Enterprise and Service Provider IP Networks. Amar has designed solutions with newer SDN technologies. Specializing in Network Architecture and Design Amar has led several projects involving large scale network transformations, network designs / architectures and network migrations. Amar is one of the SMEs for network technology and has also conducted workshop for clients showcasing networking trends | |
| Michael Kloecker Head of Strategy – Railway Solutions Nokia Michael Klöcker is working in the Global Railway Solution team as part of the Global Enterprise and Public Sector Business Unit and is responsible for strategic positioning of the current GSM-R solutions as well as for future evolution of the railway communication systems. In his role he closely interacts with the customers around the globe to identify requirements, analyses the market needs and strongly interacts with the Nokia product business lines on product and solution definition and further evolution. Additionally, he is representing Nokia in relevant ERA and UIC bodies and conferences, with special focus on the standardization of the next generation railway telecommunication system. He has been developed his knowledge on communication technologies starting with R&D activities in the early 90’ within Siemens, continuing with various roles in product and solution management for mobile networks. Since 2006 he focused on the railway segments. Michael holds a Master Degree in Computer Science and is currently based in Munich/Germany. | |
| Jean Luc Kriker IP/MPLS Subject Matter Expert Nokia | |
| Karyn Lennon Training and Certification Leader Nokia Karyn Lennon leads the Learning Services function for Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks Business Group. In her role, Karyn is responsible for setting the strategic direction and development of Nokia’s Optical educational services which includes the Nokia Optical Networks Certification Program. In addition to the Optical program, Karyn directs both Nokia’s flagship IP/MPLS certification program, the Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program which has over 14,000 individuals participating globally and the Nuage Networks Virtuoso Certification Program (NN-VCP). Prior to her role in Learning Services, Karyn held various PLM and Marketing positions at Newbridge Networks and Alcatel-Lucent. Karyn received her Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa. | |
| Benoit Leridon Regional IPR Business Development Manager Nokia Benoit Leridon is a regional IPR Business Development Manager at Nokia, responsible for Transport, Energy and public sector in EMEA. In his role he is deeply involved in customer projects in the pre-sales phase, to understand customer applications and requirements in order to define the proper solution for the evolution of their network infrastructures. Benoit has 25 years of telecom pre-sales background covering enterprise and carrier markets for data, and voice solutions, and has joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2010 after holding different pre-sales management positions in companies such as Wellfleet, Bay Networks and Nortel. | |
| Samuel Liu Director, Product Line Management Nokia Dr. Samuel Liu is a Director of Product Line Management in Nokia, IP and Optical Networks Business Group, working on optics and IPoDWDM strategy/roadmap across all router product families as well as managing a router platform. Previously, he was a Director of Product Line Management in Juniper Networks, pioneered 100G coherent packet optical products for core and edge routers. Dr. Liu was also responsible for a new core router product platform in Juniper. He has been working in Networking/Telecom industry for 20 years. Before Juniper, Dr. Liu held different product line management, product marketing, product planning, engineering management and system architect positions at Huawei USA, Tellabs and several packet optical start-up companies. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in optoelectronics engineering at Zhejiang University in China. Additionally, he held several US patents and is a frequent panel speaker in the industry. He served as the organizer for OFC Service Provider Summit and Market Watch between 2010 and 2015. | |
| Slav Lvin Nuage Product Line Manager Nokia Slav joined the ATM division of Alcatel (then Newbridge) in 1997, with focus on QoS and ATM. Since then he held several positions in Design and PLM with a focus in protocol implementation and Network Management. Four yeas ago Slav moved to California and joined Nuage team first as VSAP designer, then VSAP PLM. He holds a McS in Physics from the University of St. Petersburg, Russia and is holder of several telecom patents. He has been a speaker at numerous conferences on topics like Cloud Computing and Data Centers and is author of publications on these topics. | |
| Brian Mackenzie Service Router Certification IP/MPLS Subject Matter Expert Nokia I spent 22 yrs in the Canadian Military as a communications technician. Retired in May 2000 and joined Newbridge which was bought by Alcatel. I started instructing the 7750 SR from release 1. I currently hold Service Router Architect certification #19 and Nuage Networks Data Center Professional certification #1. I spent 14 years in the ALU University and now I’m currently employed in the Service Router Certification group. | |
| Andreas Maeder Senior Radio Researcher Nokia Dr. Andreas Maeder is a Senior Radio Researcher in NOKIA Bell Labs with 15 years of experience in research and standardization. Currently, he is leading 5G RAN Architecture standardization and related research for 3GPP in NOKIA Bell Labs. Andreas received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. From 2008 to 2015, Dr. Maeder was affiliated with NEC Laboratories Europe, where he was working on next generation mobile networks, including air interface design for IEEE 802.16m and LTE-Advanced, and system architecture, virtualization, and cloudification of mobile network end-to-end functional components. Dr. Maeder contributed to the standardization of IEEE 802.16m on WirelessMAN-Advanced and IEEE 802.16p on M2M communications, to 3GPP RAN groups, and to the 3GPP System Architecture working group. He is author of numerous standard contributions, conference papers, journal articles, book chapters and patents. | |
| Simeone Mastropietro Project Manager Telecom Italia After graduating with laude in Electronic Engineering in 2000, he worked 6 months for Co.Ri.Tel (Consorzio di Ricerca sulle Telecomunicazioni) in the European Aquila Project. At the end of 2000 he joined TIM, formerly Telecom Italia, as Network Engineer within the IP Core department, becoming focal point for routing, traffic-engineering and transport of voice and mobile services. In 2012 he took the responsibility for the IP Core testing activities and in 2014 he became the PM for NGCN (Next Generation Core Network). He had also several collaborations with TIM abroad subsidiaries, both in Europe and South America. | |
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| Paul Meyers Senior Regional Product Manager Nokia Paul is Senior Regional Product Manager with Alcatel-Lucent's IP Division since 2005. Last years his focus has been on metro aggregation and mobile backhaul. Before joining this team, he was active within Alcatel-Lucent for several years (starting from 1994) as Supply Chain project engineer looking into advanced planning systems and reverse logistics and later as Marketing Manager and Business Consultant for data products (ATM & IP). Paul holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louvain (KUL) and a Masters degree in Economics. He is based in Antwerp, Belgium. | |
| Steve Morin Director of Product Management for Application Assurance and DEM Nokia Steve Morin is Director of Product Management for Application Assurance and Dynamic Experience Management in the Nokia IP/Optical Networks (ION) business group. He has over 25 years of experience in the networking and data communications industry, within the areas of engineering, technology & product strategy and product management. In his current role, Steve has responsibility for the network and service architecture for internet application management in Nokia ION products and solutions. Steve holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and is a licensed Professional Engineer. | |
| Mattia Musella IP Sales Engineer, Vertical Markets Nokia Mattia Musella is currently focusing on the Nokia IPR Strategic Industries division to deliver technical business development activities. He is engaged to provide consultancy and business development activities on the technical architectures and solutions for the EMEA customers under his coverage. In the past 9 years Mattia has been working with several others technology firms to promote IPR solutions with a focus on Data Center and Cloud environments. Mattia holds a Degree in Telecommunications Engineer at Rome University of TorVergata and several IT certifications. In his spare time Mattia is a passionate diver and plays football in a local non professional team. | |
| Ben Nevin-Jenkins Chief Video Architect Nokia Ben Niven-Jenkins is Chief Video Architect in Nokia’s ION Business Unit. Ben is responsible for the design of all Nokia’s video products including Nokia’s Network Video Recorder (Cloud DVR), Content Distribution Network (CDN) and video optimization, advertising insertion and video personalization products. Ben is an active member in the IETF community where Ben has co-authored 6 RFCs, sits on the IETF’s routing directorate, is the expert reviewer for the CDN Interconnection Media Type and was chair of the IETF’s Layer 3 VPN working group for 3 years. Prior to Nokia, Ben was Chief Video Designer at BT. Ben is based in London and has a degree in Software Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England. | |
| Sasa Nijemcevic Vice President and General Manager, Network and Service Management Business Unit Nokia Drawing on over 19 years of experience in the network management domain, Sasa Nijemcevic is currently the Vice President and General Manager, Network and Service Management Business Unit at Nokia. Previously, Sasa has led R&D teams for IP/MPLS network management, wireless network management, and fixed/wireless policy management. He was instrumental in driving the success of Alcatel-Lucent's unified network management platform across the IP, Optical, microwave and wireless product portfolios. Sasa has a Master's degree in Telecommunications and Computer Science from the University of Zagreb. | |
| Avinash Pai Software Product Manager Nokia Avinash is 7210 Software Product Manager and is part of the IPD product management team. In the current role he is responsible for the 7210 software features. He has been with the 7210 team right from its inception. Previous to it, he has been associated with networking in various roles in engineering for about 10 years. He is based in Bangalore, India. | |
| Vaibhav Parmar Managing Director, Infrastructure Services Accenture Vaibhav Parmar is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Infrastructure Services organization, focused on network technology consulting and services. He is the global lead for Accenture’s network services practice for the Resources operating group, covering the utilities, energy, mining, chemicals and natural resources industries. He has worked on projects globally involving complex networks, wireless technologies, mobile applications and devices, and carrier systems integration. His experiences include strategy development and assessments, design and implementation, business case development, mobility enablement and applications, technology and product development, and network operations and management. Vaibhav has spoken at industry conferences such as DistribuTECH, UTC Telecom, CTIA Wireless, WiMAX Forum, and TeleManagement Forum, and participates in industry groups such as IEEE, Utilities Telecom Council and WiMAX Forum. Vaibhav holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta USA. He resides in Raleigh USA. | |
| Jorge Rabadan Senior Product Line Manager Nokia Jorge Rabadan is a Senior Product Line Manager at Nokia’s ION Business Unit, responsible for the development of Layer-2, EVPN and Data Center Gateway technologies in the 7x50 product family. Jorge is an active member in the IETF community, contributing and co-authoring several drafts in the BESS working group, and he is a regular speaker at Nokia and industry conferences. Currently based in Mountain View (CA), Jorge has more than 18 years of experience working on Enterprise and Service Provider IP/MPLS networks around the globe. He has been part of the former Alcatel-Lucent's IP Division for the last 10 years and prior to that, Jorge held different positions at Riverstone Networks and Nortel Networks. Jorge has a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Valladolid (EUP, Spain). | |
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| Darren Richards Nokia Darren Richards is a Regional Product Line Manager for Nuage Networks Virtualized Network Service, with more than 25 years of experience within the telecommunications industry. Prior to working at Nokia, Darren spent a number of years working in a design role for Virgin-Media (formally ntl:) and also within a design and support role for Ericsson. This resulted in exposure across a broad range of technologies and market segments worldwide. The formative years of his career were spent studying communications in the Royal Air Force. Darren is currently based in the UK and has been part of the IP and Optical Network Division for the last 8 years. | |
| Reza Rokui Director, 5620 SAM Product Management Nokia Reza Rokui is 5620 SAM Director of product management responsible for support of all SR products in areas of Services, Routing, Policy and OAM features in SAM. He is also responsible for support of Nokia Evolved Packet Core (EPC) including MME, MG and PCRF in 562 SAM. He was one of the architects of 5650 Control Plane Assurance Manager (CPAM) route analytics, which delivers real-time visualization, surveillance and troubleshooting for IP/MPLS networks and IGP, BGP, MPLS and L2/L3 services. He was also responsible for 7701 Control Plane Assurance Appliance (CPAA), which is the control plane of 5650 CPAM. He also worked at Nortel Network and Prior Data Sciences (SPAR Aerospace) where he was responsible for International Space Station Robotic Work Station (RWS) software design. Reza holds a Ph.D. degree in Control and Robotics from Concordia University in Canada and a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. He possesses over 18 years of experience in telecommunication industry with track record in software engineering, research and development and product management with a diverse background. | |
| Rotem Salomonovitch Chief Strategy Officer Nokia Rotem Salomonovitch is the Chief Strategy Officer for Nuage. He is responsible for defining Nuage’s SD-WAN product architecture and strategy. Prior to his existing role, Rotem has held various roles in product management, CTO and strategy leading various product initiatives. Rotem has over 17 years Telecom industry experience, mostly working for global network operators where he was responsible for architecting and operating global IP/MPLS networks. | |
| Saurabh Sandhir VP, Product Management, Nuage Networks Nokia Saurabh Sandhir leads the Product Management team at Nuage Networks. Saurabh brings over 16 years of experience leading cross-functional engineering, product management and marketing teams focused on networking software products. Most recently, Saurabh was Head of Technology Strategy, CTO office at Ericsson. Prior to his role at Ericsson, Saurabh held a variety of leadership roles during his 13 year tenure at Juniper Networks. He was the head of the NFV platform product line for both engineering and product management functions. Saurabh also headed the Network Programmability (Junos SDK) product line at Juniper and the development of the industry’s first network API toolkit for developers. This group was also instrumental in defining the marketing blueprint for the introduction of software products in a thus so far hardware centric industry. Saurabh played key roles in building Juniper’s SDN partner and channel programs and defining the SDN architecture/strategy leading to the acquisition of Contrail Systems. Saurabh has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, a Masters in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley. | |
| Dave Sargent IP Sales Engineer, Vertical Markets Nokia Dave Sargent is a regional Business Development Manager at Nokia, responsible for Global Enterprise and Public Sector. In this role he provides technical support and product / technology knowledge to the internal sales as well as working closely with customers to define solutions and to understand their specific requirements to meet their current and future needs. Dave has over 15 years of product and technology experience covering the former TDM and ATM portfolios from Newbridge networks as well as detailed knowledge on the 7705 SAR. Dave also provides technical support for the synchronization solution across the IP portfolio. | |
| 0 | Roberto Sarsa Business Development Professional Nokia This session gives an insight in the partner ecosystem around the Nuage Networks solution. It will cover how integrations are done with OpenStack distributions, with Firewall and ADC solutions and how it programs 3rd party VTEPs. Finally it will give a quick introduction to how users can integrate Nuage Networks in the VMware vRealize toolsuite. |
| 0 | Thierry Sens Director, Transportation Market Segment Nokia Thierry Sens is currently marketing director for Nokia's Transportation Market Segment. He has a broad experience and expertise in telecommunication systems & infrastructure, communication applications and customer interaction solutions for large enterprises, businesses and verticals. Prior to this, he worked for Alcatel-Lucent in France as business developer and marketing director for vertical markets and communication products, as well as channel marketing manager and product manager of network access products for CS Telecom and Philips. |
| Adam Simpson Product Manager, ION IP Routing Nokia Adam is a senior product manager with Alcatel-Lucent. He is based in Ottawa, Canada. Adam is responsible for IP routing strategy and architecture with a focus on BGP and L3 VPNs. Adam has also taken a lead role in the planning and development of Alcatel-Lucent's VSR product line, which represents an extension of 7x50 router technology into the domain of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). | |
| Antonio Soldati Senior Manager Telecom Italia Antonio Soldati has been working in the Telecommunications industry for 25 years, and since 2014 he is the head of IP Core & Transport Engineering. A former navy officer and electrical engineer, he has direct experience in all technical aspects of production, from R&D to field deployment. NGCN (Next Generation Core Network) is one of the most promising projects he and his staff are dealing with at the moment. | |
| Nuno Sousa Project Manager Engineer in Communications, Navigation and Surveillance NAV Portugal Nuno Sousa has been working as Project Manager at NAV, the Air Traffic Controller in Portugal, since 2010. He has been managing the implementation of several Telecom projects including: Voice and Data Networks between national airports for Air Traffic Control, WAM Surveillance systems in Porto, Lisbon and Madeira Islands areas, teleconference systems between all national airports, VHF ground stations in Madeira Islands and Lisbon areas, and recording systems in all national airports. He also provided consultancy services for the Mozambique airports, namely in Maputo. Previously, he worked in FTTH projects for major national Service providers. | |
| William Stoecklin Regional Product Line Manager, ION Regional Business Center, EMEA Nokia William Stoecklin is Regional Product Line Manager in the IP/Optical Networks Regional Business Center for EMEA, where he is supporting 7750 SR Mobile Gateway (SGW/PGW/GGSN); Flexi NS (MME/SGSN) and vEPC solution for EMEA projects. Before he occupied different positions at Alcatel-Lucent in wireless R&D, pre-sales mobile network design and end-to-end mobile network architect. | |
| Piotr Stpiczynski Product Line Manager IP Transformation Nokia Piotr Stpiczynski is a Product Line Manager responsible for IP Transformation in ION business group. In his 10 plus years of experience in network transformation and software development he helped many companies to achieve their business objectives when executed transformation programs. Extensively experienced in product, programs and delivery teams management as well in business development and consulting. | |
| Stephen Strong Senior Network Architect Nokia Stephen has been performing network design and engineering for over 20 years and holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree. In this time, he has worked for both carriers and vendors in various aspects of design and engineering. In his current role as Senior Network Architect in the Global Network Engineering, IP/Optical Networks division, Stephen has been specializing in Ethernet OAM and Statistics collection. | |
| Roland Thienpont Nokia Roland has over 25 years of experience within the networking and data communications industry, in the areas of engineering, technology and product strategy and product management. He joined Alcatel in 1986 to take R&D and product management responsibilities in the area of signaling protocols (ISDN, analogue lines and trunk signaling) for Alcatel's voice switch S1240. For the last 10 years he has the role of IP product management for Alcatel's IP/MPLS Service Router and Ethernet Services Switch products for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He is focused on the Multi-Service Edge (MSE), Triple Play (BNG), with special interest in video, security and network function virtualization (NFV). Roland holds a MSc. in Electronic Engineering with a specialization in Telecommunications from the University of Antwerp and an Alcatel International Master in Management. | |
| Nicolas Tikhomiroff IP Sales Engineer, Vertical Markets Nokia Nicolas Tikhomiroff is part of the Strategic Industries (power utilities, transportation and public sector markets) business development team for Nokia’s IP Division in EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa). In this position he is helping customers to evolve their critical telecom infrastructure to IP based multiservice, reliable, flexible and future proof networks relying on IP/MPLS and LTE packet core technologies. He has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications networking industry, holding network engineering, product management and presales positions at Global One, Nortel Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia. | |
| Phil Tilley Head of CloudBand and NFV Product Marketing, Applications and Analytics Nokia Phil is Senior Product Marketing Director NFV and CloudBand solutions at Nokia. He is responsible for the positioning and promotion of Nokia Cloud and NFV solutions including the CloudBand product line. He has been active in evangelizing the shift to NFV since before the ETSI ISG was formed and it was called vTelco. Phil has a BSc in Engineering from University College of North Wales and has over 20 years engineering and marketing experience and has always been an evangelist for the latest telecoms technologies. Phil was also the Global marketing Co-Chair for the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) where he worked with vendors and service provider members to increase awareness and adoption of Carrier Ethernet and launched CE2.0 and was a founder of the 3rd network and LSO initiatives.He is also a keen sportsman spending a lot of spare time training for triathlons and chairman of Monmouth Triclub, in addition his passion for sailing has lead him to become selected as Chairman of selectors for UK Youth sailing. | |
| Arto Urataipale Head of Business Defined Networking Sonera, Part of Telia Company Arto has almost 30 years of experience in telecommunications industry. He has been in various managerial positions in Telia Company (previously TeliaSonera). Currently he is the head of the Business Defined Networking start-up in Sonera (part of Telia Company in Finland). Before his current assignment he had global product responsibility of Business Networking and Security product area in the company. Arto is one of the main contributors in Sonera’s business networking success story. He has MSc in Telecommunications from Tampere University of Technology. | |
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| Gunter van de Velde van de Velde Product Line Manager Nokia Gunter Van de Velde, CCIE No.3741 is a Product Line Manager at Alcatel-Lucent for Service Chaining and SP Routing technologies. Gunter is a networking technology veteran with more as 20 years of experience with the implementation, architecture and operation of technologies involving Routing, IPv6 and network services. Gunter has been the lead design architect for the EU sponsored 6NET project, making it the first (2001-2002) international IPv6 backbone network. Gunter is a frequent speaker at industry events sharing his experience about Routing, SDN and IPv6 technology. He is an active contributor at IETF and RIPE, author of 6 IETF RFC's and owns a few technology patents. He has also been technical reviewer of the Cisco press book "Deploying IPv6 Networks" and co-author of “An IPv6 Deployment Guide” from the 6net consortium. Gunter is since June 2010 the founding chair of the Belgian IPv6 Task-Force, and since September 2011 is a chair at IETF for the OPSEC (OPerational SECurity) working group. Starting since May 2013 Gunter is the secretary of IETF Operational Directorate. Gunter holds a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Antwerp. | |
| Thierry van de Velde Consulting Technology Specialist, IP & Optical Networking Nokia Thierry Van de Velde is Consulting Technology Specialist in Nokia’s IP & Optical Networking business group. He is supporting the IP Mobile Core in the EMEA region. His track record of 22 years in telecoms led him from Operators to Vendors, and from Voice to Mobile Data. His current focus is on the evolution of the IP Mobile Core towards Network Function Virtualization, Cloudification, Internet of Things and 5G. He holds a Masters in engineering from Brussels University, a degree in business administration from Solvay Business School and a number of patents in the Mobile Internet space. | |
| Dominique Verhulst Director IP Business Vertical Markets Nokia Dominique Verhulst currently heads up the business development activities for Nokia’s IP Division in EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa), specifically addressing Transportation, Energy & Public Sector markets. In this position he is helping companies to evolve their critical telecoms infrastructure to modern and future proof infrastructures enabling improved operational efficiency and cost reductions. He has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications networking industry, holding senior sales and marketing positions at Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Newbridge Networks, Ungermann-Bass and Motorola. | |
| Jonas Vermeulen Nuage Regional Product Line Manager Nokia | |
| Alvaro Villegas Video Innovation Architect Nokia Álvaro Nunez Villegas is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Nokia (formerly Alcatel-Lucent) in Madrid, Spain. He received a six-year telecommunications engineering degree at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. For the last ten years he has worked as Video Innovation Architect, with focus on disruptive solutions and technologies for the provision of multimedia services on Internet Protocol (IP) and hybrid networks. His prior professional experience, always in the digital video field, was developed in Telefónica Research & Development (R&D), ONO (digital cable operator), Motorola, and Nagravision. | |
| Sanjay Wadhwa Sr. Director, Product Management, ION Nokia Sanjay has over 15 years of experience in data communications and IP networking industry. He joined Alcaltel-Lucent in 2010, prior to which he held executive roles in Engineering and Product Management at Fore Systems, Unisphere Networks, and Juniper Networks. At Nokia (via Alcatel-Lucent acquisition), he leads product management activities focused on residential broadband, carrier WIFI, home virtualization and NFV. He has a Masters in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering from University of Kentucky, and has completed an executive program in management from MIT, Sloan school of management. He is based in Mountain View, California. | |
| Glenn Warnock Curriculum Architect ION Learning Services Nokia Glenn has a long career in telecommunications consulting and training. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, he worked on network design and security for a wide variety of companies and government departments in Ottawa. These included Prior Data Sciences, AT&T Canada and Apple as well as eight years as professor in the Computer Studies department at Algonquin College. Glenn joined Alcatel in 2006 to lead the design and development of content for the Service Router Certification (SRC) program, and in the last 18 months the design and development of the Nuage Networks Virtuoso Certification Program (NN-VCP). Glenn has authored two books; Alcatel-Lucent Network Routing Specialist II (NRS II) Self-Study Guide: Preparing for the NRS II Certification Exams and Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing Architect (SRA) Self-Study Guide: Preparing for the BGP, VPRN and Multicast Exams. | |
| Sven Wisotzky Senior Network Consulant, IP/Routing Regional Business Center, EMEA Nokia Sven Wisotzky is Senior Network Consultant working in the Nokia ION Regional Business Center for EMEA. He has over 20 years of experience in the communications and networking industry. He started his career in the area of engineering and product design for high-available real-time solutions in Alcatel SEL. In 2004 he has joined the Alcatel IP Division, working in the areas of product support, training, integration, technical sales, network and solution design and consultancy. He has a strong background on network management, OSS/BSS integration, performance monitoring and OAM. He holds the academic title of Diplom-Ingenieur (BA) in the field of Technical Computer Science from the Berufsakademie Berlin. This degree is equivalent to a Master’s degree. Sven is based in the metropolitan area of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. | |
| Johan Witters IP Regional Product Line Manager, Business Services Evolution Nokia Johan joined the research division of Alcatel in 1992, with focus on QoS and ATM. Since then he held several positions with an end-to-end solution focus in voice-data convergence. He also worked as marketer in the IP division, being responsible for consultancy on IP and Ethernet business data services and Cloud services. He was also IP Business manager in EMEA. Currently, he is part of the regional IP PLM team with the focus on the evolution of business services including SDN and NFV. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Antwerp, Belgium and is holder of several telecom patents. He has been a speaker at numerous conferences on topics like VPN, IP, Carrier Ethernet and Business Services and is author of publications on these topics. For years, he is active as MEF ambassador and has presented many times on behalf of the MEF. He is MEF EMEA marketing co-chair as well as Benelux marketing co-chair. | |
