| Speakers |
| 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. | |
| Basil Alwan President of IP/Optical Networks Nokia Previously President of IP Routing and Transport, Alcatel-Lucent Joined Nokia in 2016 Bachelor in Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, United States. President of IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent 2003–2016 Founder, President and CEO, TiMetra Networks 2000–2003 Vice President and General Manager, Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel) Enterprise Products Division (EPD) 1997–2000 Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, Rapid City Communications 1996–1997 Basil Alwan was President of IP Routing and Transport at Alcatel-Lucent. Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Routing and Transport revenues exceeded $5 billion across IP, Transport, Video and Cloud/Data Center technologies during his tenure. Basil joined Alcatel in 2003 through the acquisition of privately held TiMetra Networks. TiMetra was a venture-backed Silicon Valley start-up focused on service routers for IP/MPLS networks where he was founder, President and CEO. Since the acquisition Basil and the team from TiMetra have steadily grown Alcatel-Lucent’s IP routing business. The business has gained market share consistently for a decade; from entry Alcatel-Lucent attained the #2 position in service provider IP/MPLS routing with more than 400 customers in 120+ countries around the world. Born 1962, Basil is a recognized industry leader who enjoys working with entrepreneurs and sharing views on networking technology and industry evolution. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, in 1984, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. | |
| Muhammad Asif Senior Product Line Manager Nokia Muhammad Asif is a Senior Product Line Manager and Practice Lead of SDN/Nuage/NFV PS solutions. Mr. Asif has an experience of more than fifteen years in software development, system architect, design for web based network management systems and delivery innovative solutions to Nokia customers. Mr. Asif holds a Ph.D. degree from Carleton University (Canada) in computer systems and networks. Mr. Asif is an author of numerous scientific research papers and book chapters. | |
| Stephen Aubrey Manager IP PLM 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Hooman Bidgoli Product Line Manager Nokia Hooman Bidgoli - 7705/7750 Product Line Manager - Hooman has over 16 years of experience in IP/MPLS protocols and networks. He is responsible for Multicast solutions and Security on SR-OS (7705/7750) including Firewall/Nat/IPSec and router security on 7705. | |
| Bashar Bou-Diab Senior IP Routing and SDN Consulting Engineer, MENA, Nokia Networks Nokia Bashar provides technical consulting on IP & SDN network solutions; such as SDN, NFV, triple play, mobile backhaul and IP/MPLS backbones; to network service providers throughout the Middle East and North Africa. He has more than 19 years of international experience in telecommunications within research, product development, and technical consulting roles. Bashar has authored numerous papers and more than fifteen innovative patents in the field of telecommunications. Bashar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Communications and a Master’s degree in Telecommunication Innovation Management. | |
| Sybrand Brink Network Architect City of Cape Town Sybrand Brink is a telecommunications network architect with 20 years experience, including some years working for Marconi in England and Germany as manager of network architecture. He has been employed by the City of Cape Town for the past ten years as network architect on the City's Broadband network. He is currently working on a PhD in engineering. | |
| Kerem Cadirci VP Product & Innovation Sistas Turkey Kerem Cadirci is vice president product and innovation for SISTAS (Business partner of Nokia and system integrator based in Turkey). He is responsible for development and building new product and services for their customers. Kerem joined Sistas in 2008 where he served as solution engineer, architect and project manager. Kerem is a graduate of Telecom SudParis, France and holds master degree in telecommunication engineering. | |
| Andrew Chant Head of Networks Exponential-e 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 Consulting Engineer, Nuage Networks VNS Nokia After 6 years working for a network integrator designing IP/MPLS networks for strategic industries and large enterprises, I joined Nokia 2,5 years ago where I’m now focusing on SD-WAN as a Consulting Engineer in EMEA with Nuage Networks VNS Solution. | |
| Yannick Chauvel Regional PLM, NSP Nokia Yannick Chauvel joined Alcatel in 1997, since then he has been working around Network Management System from system tests, network deployment and pre-sales. Ten years ago, he has joined the IP consulting engineering team for the EMEA region with a focus on the 5620 SAM and 5780 DSC (PCRF & DRA). During this time, he has covered most of the network technology domains managed by the 5620 SAM IP/MPLS, Mobile Packet Core, Optics, SDN (Nuage) and now NFV. He’s now following the evolution of the NMS and SDN WAN controller with the NSP. | |
| Carsten Collatz Product Line Manager Nokia Carsten joined the regional PLM team for 5620 SAM/NSP in EMEA in September 2015. He is concentrating on the general IP management part of NSP including Service Fulfillment in SDN, on the NSP platform, and on NSP 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. | |
| Maria Antonia Crespo Director IP & Optical Networking Telefonica Director of IP and Optical Networking (2013-today) responsible for IP and transport network development and strategy. From 2010 to 2013 director of strategy, planning and technology of IP, NGN, Mobile core and Network security. From 1996 to 2010 in different managerial positions in Telefonica Spain, all of them related with networking and communications technology. María Antonia counts on almost 30 years of experience in telecommunications industry.Telecommunications Engineer in UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Other studies: Enterprise telecommunications management Master in UPM (2000-2002); Pre-executive Master (ESADE) 2008; Executive Program on Marketing and sales in Deusto 2008; Advanced Management Program (2014) and Executive Program (2016) in Telefonica´s University | |
| 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. | |
| 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 7X50, 7210, 7705, Product Line Manager Nokia Coming soon! | |
| 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. | |
| Spyros Economou Regional Product Line Manager 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. | |
| Oskar Egilsson Project Manager Isavia Iceland My role at Isavia are daily operations and new installations of all voice and data network related systems, this includes Cisco LAN, Nokia WAN and Voice Communications Systems (VCS). The Nokia IP/MPLS WAN-network is used as the transport infrastructure for Air Navigation Service related systems including voice and radar data. I started as a field technician with Iceland Telecom in 1997 and worked on VCS systems and VHF/HF radio installation for air-to-ground and ship-to-shore radios. Managed installation of automatic reporting system for vessels. My division was merged with Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration in 2006 and then started to focus mainly on air traffic services. Migrated to TDM network management using the 3600 Newbridge bandwidth manager. Supervised the implementation of the IP/MPLS integration in 2011 using the 7705-SAR equipment. | |
| Mike Gannon Lead Systems Engineer, EU Nokia Mike Gannon leads systems engineering and customer engagement in EMEA for the former Gainspeed organisation, recently integrated into Nokia’s Fixed Networks business. Mike is a 20 year veteran of the cable industry, having worked in technology, business development and leadership roles delivering innovation and solutions to the European cable marketplace. | |
| Gilles Geerts Networking 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. | |
| Burkard Germer IP Consulting Engineer Nokia Burkhard is IP consulting engineer for the Nokia IP Router portfolio, covering Central and Eastern Europe. He has over 20 years of experience in the communications and networking industry, working in various positions in pre-sales, technical-sales and Product Marketing at Cabletron, Infonet and Nortel before joining Alcatel-Lucent in 2008 which became Nokia in 2016. In his role he is supporting the regional sales teams in all aspects of the IPD product range. Burkhard is also heavily involved in SDN/NFV topics in the region. Burkhard holds a MSc. from the advanced technical college of Fulda. | |
| Tim Gyselings IP Sales Engineer Nokia Tim Gyselings received the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Gent University in 1995. In 2000 he obtained a PhD at the same university. In 2000 Tim joined the research department of Alcatel in Antwerp, Belgium. The technical focus of his research was on access networks and access network elements, such as BPON, GPON, EPON, WDMPON, DSL, HFC as well as IPDSLAMs and components in IPDSLAMs, including packet processing. In 2010 Tim started business development for cable operators in EMEA with focus on IP and access solutions. After a few years Tim moved to technical presales for the Alcatel-Lucent / Nokia IP product portfolio. | |
| Douglas Henderson IP Regional Product Line Manager 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. | |
| Jeff Jakab Product Line Manager Nokia An 18 year employee of Nokia, Jeff is presently hardware PLM with focus on technical marketing and strategic responsibilities within the 7750 SR, 7950 XRS, 7210 SAS and 7705 SAR product families. He presently works in the heart of Silicon Valley out of the Nokia office in Mountain View, California. | |
| Allan Jerrett Manager IP PLM 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. | |
| Taurintas Jokubauskas Regional Product Line Manager Nokia Taurintas Jokubauskas is Product Manager in Nokia’s ION Regional Business Center for EMEA. He owns a Master of Engineering in Telecommunications Networks from the Gediminas Technical University of Vilnius, Lithuania. He worked 7 years with TeliaSonera in network and service development area, before joining Siemens in 2005. In Nokia, he is currently Regional PLM for evolved packet core solutions. | |
| Sunil Khandekar Founder & CEO, Nuage Networks Nuage Networks Sunil leads the vision and direction at Nuage Networks. Sunil brings over fifteen years of experience in the communications and networking industry, including his former role as VP of business development for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), as well as VP of global product management for Alcatel Lucent’s IP Division. Sunil gained expertise in the networking startup space in his time at TiMetra Networks, where he led product management and standardization. And before that, he held a variety of product management and consulting engineering management roles with Bay and Nortel Networks in New York and Santa Clara. Sunil has co-authored and contributed to multiple IETF drafts. He is also a regular speaker at industry events and conferences. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in CIS. | |
| Ken Kutzler Vice President and General Manager of Hardware Routing, IP/Optical Networks Business Group Nokia Joined Nokia through Alcatel-Lucent acquisition in 2016 V.P. Hardware Engineering and Hardware Product Management, Alcatel-Lucent 2003-2015 Co-founder of TiMetra 2000-2003 Director of Product Management at Synoptics Networks 1999-2000 CEO of Treseq Inc. 1997-1999 Product Line Manager at Bay Networks 1992-1997 Network Analyst at Ford Motor Company 1987-1991 Ken joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2003 through the acquisition of privately held TiMetra Networks, where he was co-founder. TiMetra was a venture-backed Silicon Valley start-up focused on service routers for IP/MPLS networks. Since the acquisition, Ken and his team have steadily grown Nokia’s IP strategy and hardware portfolio. The business has gained market share consistently for a decade, attaining the #2 position in service provider IP/MPLS routing and selling into 700+ customers including the world’s top 60 service providers. Ken is a recognized industry leader who enjoys being at the forefront of IP network evolution and portfolio development. He holds a Master’s Degree of Science in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. | |
| Craig Labovitz General Manager Nokia Craig Labovitz is Nokia General Manager for the Deepfield business line. Previously, Labovitz was Co-Founder and CEO of Deepfield. Labovitz has developed the core technology, key patents, architecture and commercial strategy behind more than $1 billion in sales of large enterprise and telecom security products. His technology is deployed in more than 700 Internet Service Providers, cable operators, content providers, and mission-critical networks around the globe. Dr. Labovitz is an expert on Internet infrastructure and cloud evolution. In the 1990s, his seminal Internet research developed the foundation for Arbor Networks technology and served as a catalyst for significant changes in commercial Internet routing software implementations throughout the world. His work was recently recognized with the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in 2008. In addition to his extensive commercial product and research background, Dr. Labovitz has over a decade of operational network engineering experience, including NSFNet backbone engineering, Sprint's first Internet email infrastructure, design of the Department of Defense research network, and the first commercial aviation Internet service. Dr. Labovitz is an active participant in the global network engineering community, including service on the program committee and as the Chair of North American Network Operators Group (NANOG). Labovitz is the author of more than a dozen peer-reviewed networking research papers, journal articles and patents. His is a frequent guest on national television and radio news programs and his research is widely cited in national media articles and academic publications. Dr. Labovitz received his PhD and MSE from the University of Michigan. | |
| Karyn Lennon Director, Learning Services – IP Routing & Transport (IPRT) Business Line 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 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. | |
| Cormac Long IP Technical Consultant ESB Ireland Cormac Long has worked as an IP technical consultant for over 20 years and is the author of three books on IP Technology. He has provided design, implementation, strategic analysis and support services to several private enterprises and state organizations in both Europe and the United States. He has also acted as a security consultant to a number of European aviation authorities. His main specialties include IP/MPLS networking and IP Network Security. He is Europe’s representative on the EUTC Packet Network Working Group. Currently he is the technical lead for the design and implementation of an IP/MPLS network for ESB, the main electrical utility in Ireland. He holds a B.E. in Electronic Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications. | |
| Vyacheslav Lvin 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. | |
| Paul Mannion Market Segment Manager, Telco Edge Evolution Intel Paul Mannion has nearly 20+ years of Telco industry experience and joined Intel 2008, with prior experience at Tellabs, Silicon and Software Systems(S3). He is currently the Market Strategy leader inside Intel’s Networking Platform group. Paul is responsible for Network Edge SDN-NFV transformation with particular focus on strategies and platform evolution of the network edge with respect to 5G services and NFV.Coming soon! | |
| Pierluigi Marchesini Business Product Manager Nokia I have 30+ years’ experience in the Telecom industry acquired by holding various responsibilities in multinational companies, such as project management, sales, business development, product marketing, key account management, etc. Currently I am Business Product Manager in the XHaul / Microwave Business Line in MN BG with the responsibility of driving the GEPS strategy across the BL, MN PPS and CO GEPS, leading the cooperation with other BLs to define e2e network architecture, influencing the Roadmap and Product prioritization according to GEPS needs and priorities, supporting key deals, etc. | |
| Stefan Meinders Sales Engineer, Deepfield Business Line Nokia Stefan Meinders, Senior Consulting Engineer at Nokia Deepfield takes care of customers like Internet Service Providers, Mobile Operators, Cloud Service Providers and large enterprises. As an ISP technology & network security expert with more than 10 years of experience, Stefan develops high sophisticated solutions for customers globally. He graduated from the University of Applied Sciences - Emden/Leer - with a degree in Computer Science, Subject: Networked Automation Systems. | |
| Paul Meyers Senior Product Manager Nokia Paul Meyers is Senior Product Manager within Nokia's (and previously Alcatel and Alcatel-Lucent's) IP Division since 2005. Before joining this team, he was active within Alcatel for several years (starting from 1994) as Supply Chain project engineer looking into advanced planning systems and reverse logistics and from 2000 on 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. | |
| Janne Mikola Development Manager Telia Company Janne Mikola is the Chief Architect and Product Owner for Telia SD-WAN service, which launched commercially in seven countries in March 2017. Janne has been part of the service’s development starting from the very beginning including concept creation and customer need validation. Since then he has taken care of technical side of development including platform design and implementation but also e.g. Customer Portal development, while also taking part in building new ways of working in virtualized, software-defined and automated world. Coming soon! | |
| 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. | |
| Erik Neel Head R&D ION-Routing Antwerp Nokia Based in Antwerp, Erik is the site lead for the ION-routing R&D activities. He also leads the QA team on that site. After spending several years abroad doing R&D work close to customers, he moved back to Belgium to work on building IP routers, at that time for Alcatel-Lucent. In 2003, when Alcatel-Lucent acquired the Silicon valley based startup Timetra he joined that team. And as you can see, he still is part of that great team. | |
| 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. | |
| Jon Ortiz De Zarate Iberia Network Managing Director Accenture As the Iberia Network Managing Director, I oversee our business in Spain, Portugal and Israel around Network Strategy & Engineering, Network Operations, Service Fulfillment & Assurance and OSS. Since joining Accenture in 2000, I’ve hold a number of leadership positions related to Network Transformation and Management, including network deployment (4G, FTTH or network virtualization programs), engineering (focused on broadband access, MPLS, VPLS and more recently SD-WAN), network operations (network operating models, B2B operations digital transformation) and OSS. Accountable for some of Accenture’s Network client relationships, I am proud to have built my career serving clients in the Telecommunications industry globally and in the Iberia region. I’ve been fortunate to work with Tier 1 Service Providers in Europe, South America, South East Asia and Africa on large-scale transformation projects, and enjoyed growing personally and professionally through the amazing business challenges our industry has faced over the years. | |
| Hamid Ould-Brahim Senior Product Line Manager, D.M.T.S Nokia Hamid Ould-Brahim is Product Manager in the IP/Optical Networks at Nokia focusing on Carrier Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies developed under the Network Services Platform (NSP). Hamid has over 25 years of industry experience in telecommunications. Hamid is a Nokia Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS), and was also previously awarded DMTS by Nortel, and Rockstar Consortium. He architected and led a number of Internet related technologies and was a member of the first IETF industry design team that architected the concept of Provider-based VPNs. Hamid holds over 130 patents worldwide that cover a wide spectrum of technologies such as BGP, MPLS, GMPLS, VPNS, Ethernet Virtual Private LAN, IEEE 8021ah, Optical VPNs, and MPLS traffic engineering. He edited and co-authored several IETF RFC standards and contributions in both IETF, OIF, MEF and ITU-T. Hamid played a leadership role in the development of IP-based layer-1 VPNs and co-chaired successfully a routing area Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Working Group. Hamid was a key technical driver for the unprecedented sale of Nortel patents for $4.5B to a consortium of top industry companies such as Apple and Microsoft. Hamid has been a presenter at a number of IP related conferences and a member of technical selection committee of IP and Optical international conference for several years. | |
| Roberto Oya Luengo Nuage Product Line Manager Nokia Product Line Manager in Nuage Networks since 2016, in charge of hardware and networking features for overlay and underlay. Consulting Engineer in NA based in Mountain View (CA) since 2012, previously in EMEA (based in Madrid) since December 2006, including two years in Mexico (2008 and 2009, whole CALA support). Great experience in IP/MPLS solutions for the main European and Latin American Service Providers and a regular speaker at Alcatel-Lucent and industry conferences. Systems Engineer in Riverstone Networks and Lucent Technologies in South Europe, focused in IP/MPLS/VPLS, in 2005 and 2006. Data Presales Engineer for Iberia (mainly Telefonica) for Nortel Networks during 2000-2004. System Engineer/Project Manager in Telefónica Sistemas and TSIP between 1998-2000, based in LATAM for more than two years in several countries (mainly in Venezuela and Puerto Rico). Telecommunication Engineer in Alcala University in Madrid (final thesis done in Linkoping University, Sweden, between 1997 and 1998), and Marketing in UAM University (Madrid). Preferred hobbies: Mountain and road bike, running, mountaineering and hiking, triathlon, kite surfing and love traveling (with a good book!) | |
| 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. | |
| 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). | |
| Anand Raj NSP Product Manager Nokia Anand Raj is a product manager on the Carrier SDN controller platform (NSP) at Nokia. He’s and expert in IP/MPLS networking and centralized path computation algorithms. He has more than 20 years of experience in the data networking industry. He started out his career designing call control software on ATM switches and subsequently spent many years supporting and designing Wide Area Networks consisting of both IP and ATM for a variety of large scale customers. He was one of the key founders of the Alcatel-Lucent Service Router Certification program where he wrote and taught IP courseware in the areas of MPLS, QoS, Services and Triple Play. He has also contributed to the NRS I (Alcatel-Lucent Network Routing Specialist I Self Study Guide). | |
| Carl Rajsic Product Manager Nokia Carl Rajsic is a Product Manager in Nokia’s SAR and SR product groups within the IP/Optical Networks Division. Carl has over 20 years of engineering and product management experience in the area of networking and data communications systems and solutions. In his current role, Carl has responsibility for strategy, roadmap, and feature definition associated with Nokia’s new wireless LTE/WLAN capable 7705 SAR-Hm router, providing wireless connectivity solutions to vertical industry network operators. He joined Nokia through the 2015 acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent where he held product management, development and software design management roles. Carl holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo. | |
| Wouter Reynders IP Consulting Engineer Nokia Wouter Reynders is IP consulting engineer for the Nokia IP Router portfolio, covering EMEA. In this role, Wouter interacts with customers and jointly creates IP solutions and architectures. He interworks with technical sales and provides design guidelines for optimal usage of the IP service architectures and associated platforms in customer networks. Recently his focus is on modern WAN SDN technologies such as Network Telemetry, BGP-LS, PCEP, Segment Routing and others. Wouter has over 10 years of IP/MPLS networking experience, in the past also in the role of New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineer. He holds Alcatel-Lucent SRA (#9) certificate and has a master in Engineering in computer science. | |
| Darren Richards IP Regional Product Line Manager Nokia Darren is a Regional Product Line Manager for Nuage Networks Virtualized Network Service. His current focus is on Software Defined WAN product development and has been working with this technology for the past 4 years. Darren’s principle focus is customer engagement, developing use cases which the customer can productize & subsequently deploy, feature definition & development and finally assisting with the strategy for product evolution with specific focus from within the EMEA region. 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. | |
| Dominique Schaeffer Senior Consulting Engineer Nokia Dominique is a senior consulting engineer for the Nokia IP/MPLS portfolio in EMEA where he is responsible for the introduction, design and engineering of advanced IP solutions for major EMEA operators. Since 2013, he is also fully involved in SDN technologies where he's also responsible for the introduction of Nuage Networks Virtual Service Platform. He has been working in the Telecom industry for the past 18 years on various jobs including support, professional services and CTO office, he joined the IP Consulting engineering group in 2008. Dominique owns a master in computer science and a Master of Business Administration from La Sorbonne in Paris. | |
| Patrick Schneider Product Owner Live TV Swisscom 6 years experience in IPTV, IP/MPLS network and xDSL. 16 years experience in TV Production, Broadcast Operationand Audio/Video Engineering. | |
| Kevin Shatzkamer Vice President – Service Provider Strategy & Solutions Dell EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group Kevin Shatzkamer is currently Vice President, Service Provider Strategy and Solutions at Dell Technologies with responsibility for strategy and architectural evolution of the intersection points of network infrastructure technologies, cloud and virtualization platforms, and software programmability. Mr. Shatzkamer's responsibility in these areas encompasses industry trend analysis, business strategy, and technical architecture and infrastructure evolution. Mr. Shatzkamer's ecosystem-wide, experience-centric approach to working with customers allows for the identification and exploitation of synergies between disparate organizations to derive new technology / business models for the mobile industry. Mr. Shatzkamer has nearly 20 years of industry experience and joined Dell EMC in 2016, with prior experience at Brocade (Service Provider CTO, Head of Brocade Labs) and Cisco (Distinguished Systems Engineer. Mr. Shatzkamer holds 50+ patents related to all areas of work. Mr. Shatzkamer holds a Bachelor’s of Science (University of Florida), a Master’s of Business Administration (Indiana University), and a Master’s of System Design and Management (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Mr. Shatzkamer is a regular speaker at industry forums and has published two books discussing the architectures and technologies shaping the future of the Mobile Internet, from RAN to services. Mr. Shatzkamer is also active on a number of Advisory Boards. | |
| Andres Silvestre Product and Marketing Director BT Spain Coming soon! | |
| 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). | |
| Vinai Sirkay VP, Business Development, MPC Nokia Vinai Sirkay is Vice President of Business Development, Mobile Core for Nokia. Prior to his current role, Vinai Sirkay was the CEO of Citra Systems, a startup focused on mobile carrier/operators solutions. He has also severed on the board of directors and advisory boards of numerous private high tech companies. Formerly, he was Vice President of Business Development at Ruckus Wireless and GM of the Optical BU at Ericsson. Vinai came to Ericsson through the $2.1B acquisition of Redback Networks. Vinai bring expertise from executive management and technical positions at Reliance, Vivace (acquired by Tellabs), Sentient (acquired by Cisco), Cplane , FORE Systems(acquired by Marconi), Sprint Corp, and SRI International. He has received his Bachelors of Science in EECS from The University of Iowa and a Masters of Science in EECS from the University of Kansas. He has continued to keep up with Executive Education courses at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and UPenn’s Wharton School of Business. Vinai is also the co-author of a number of issued and pending patents. | |
| Erwin Six Network Orchestration Solution Line Manager Nokia Erwin Six is creating innovative solutions for automatically orchestrating the best of Nokia's IP products, SDN (Nuage), and NFV, into an harmonized end-to-end service offering. He received a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Ghent University in 2001. After university, he joined the Research & Innovation department of Alcatel, which became part of Bell Labs in 2006. Within both research organizations he has been in different roles – researcher, technical manager, project leader and department head. His innovations were focused on a number of technical areas within the domain of telecommunication: Passive Optical Networks, Ethernet & IP Access Networks, Home network Management, Service enabled network architectures, video technologies, Software Defined Networks and Cloud/NFV. He achieved to contribute to the creation of various new Alcatel-Lucent products: e.g. 7342 GPON, 7302 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM), 5580 Home Network Manager and the 5910 Video Service Appliance, Immersive Communication and virtual Residential Gateway (vRGW). Besides this, his work had impact on different standardization activities (FSAN GPON, DSLForum,…). Erwin Six is (co-)author of around 15 papers and more than 35 patents. In 2006 he won the Alcatel Patent award. | |
| WIlliam Stoecklin Regional Product Line Manager 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 PLM 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. | |
| Roland Thienpont Director IP Product Marketing EMEA RBC 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 EMEA IP Division Business Development, Strategic Industries 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. | |
| Gunter 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 IP Product Line Manager Nokia Coming soon! | |
| Hendrik Van Hove Business Development, IP Video, EMEA Nokia Having enjoyed the several phases of the R&D lifecycle in a very wide range of different telecom products from narrowband, broadband, routing, fixed networks, immersive communications, Cloudband and Nuage Networks, Hendrik decided to look for the source of the internet, and found his passion in the Nokia Video Business Unit, where he currently has taken the role of Business Development for the IP Video products for the EMEA region. | |
| 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 Coming soon! | |
| 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. | |
| 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, SDN and NFV 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. | |
| Idris Yildirim IBB Mr. Yıldırım was born in 1980 in Düzce. He respectively graduated from Sakarya University Computer Programming (Associate Degree), Anadolu University Business Administration Undergraduate Program, and Beykent University Software Engineering Undergraduate Program.He has been working in Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality since 2005. He continues working as ibbWiFi Core System Manager and SOC (Security Operation Centre) Manager. He is married and father of 3 children. | |
