Open RAN Global Forum 2024

Event Speakers

Julie Kub

Telecommunications Engineering, Analysis, and Modeling Division Chief

NTIA- ITS

Francisco Pignatelli

Head of Open RAN

Vodafone

Bernard Bureau

Vice-president of Wireless Strategy and Services

Telus

Sadayuki Abeta

Chief Open RAN

NTT DOCOMO, INC.

Nicolas Kourtellis

Head of the Systems AI Lab (SAIL)

Telefonica Scientific Research

Michael Irizarry

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

UScellular

Juan Carlos Garcia

Senior Technology and Innovation Advisor

Independant advisor

Lincoln Lavoie

Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies

University of New Hampshire- InterOperability Laboratory

Randy Cox

VP Product Managemnt

Wind River

Sean Kinney

Editor in Chief

RCR Wireless News

Kelly Hill

Executive Editor

RCR Wireless News

David Debrecht

Vice President of Wireless R&D

CableLabs

Alla Goldner

Consulting

Network technology and strategy leadership and consulting

Ammar Khalid

Technical Product Line Manager

VIAVI Solutions Inc.

Rick Mostaert

Vice President of Product Management, RAN

Mavenir

Catherine Sbeglia Nin

Managing Editor

RCR Wireless News

Sarat Puthenpura

Chief Architect, Open Radio Access Network

Linux Foundation | Open Networking Foundation

Anil Kollipara

Vice President of Product Management, ATA - Test & Automation

Spirent

Owen O’Donnell

TeraVM Marketing Manager

VIAVI Solutions Inc.

Adam Smith

Marketing

LitePoint

Ganesh Shenbagaraman

Head of Standards, Regulatory Affairs & Ecosystems

Radisys

Michele Polese

Research Assistant Professor Open RAN, O-RAN, 5G/6G wireless networks

Northeastern University

Michael Thelander

President and Founder

Signals Research Group

Prakash Desai

Senior Director - Product Management, Intelligent Cloud

Wind River

Saurabh Mittal

VP Networks

Bharti Airtel Limited

Matteo Fiorani

Head of Distributed Unit and Infrastructure

Ericsson

Luigi Tarlazzi

CommScope

Robert Soni

VP RAN Technology

AT&T

Sinan Akkaya

Director of Radio Access Network Engineering & Operations

AT&T

Bruno Tomas

CTO

Wireless Broadband Alliance

Chih-Lin I

Chair

O-RAN Alliance And Future 5G/6G SIG

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