Before you jump into today's parade of innovation from startups and vendors, your MatchMaker meetings, and the Exhibitors, we will set the stage for what's in store for the current booming market of telecom innovation.
Executive Roundtable on Edge Compute A new set of time-sensitive applications and workloads are being pushed to the periphery of the network - from VR and IoT to AI. This requires a change to how services are delivered - essentially a cloud platform at the edge. Join our expert from Ericsson's Edge Gravity to talk about how the network will be changing to accommodate new content providers, service providers, topology, and applications. Mark Thiele, Executive Director Edge Computing at Edge Gravity by Ericsson
Executive Roundtable on the Small Business Opportunity Operators are always looking for Value-Added Services to broaden revenue streams and increase loyalty. This roundtable will talk about the opportunities and gaps that operators have in serving the SMB niche. Join our expert from vCita who will share case studies and dive into the different ways to serve the SMB market at scale. Itzik Levy, CEO at vCita
Executive Roundtable on the Role of Open Source in Telecom Waist deep in the digital evolution of communications networks, the importance of open source is becoming increasingly important to reach full benefit of the transformation. This transition means a move to two new worlds simultaneously - open source community innovation and software. Join our expert to collectively discuss how to most effectively make this transition, talk through lessons the market is learning from production deployments, uncover tactics to better function in these new environments, and dive into use cases seeing the most success. . Larry Baird, VP at Lumina Networks
Executive Roundtable on Smart Cities China Mobile has deployed NB-IoT networks in many cities in China supporting a range of use cases, including smart parking, smart metering, and agricultural applications. As part of their "Big Connectivity strategy", China Mobile will also provide LTE-M connectivity. Join our expert from China Mobile to hear some of their lessons-learned from being on the cutting edge of the smart cities revolution. Daniel Zhao, Director at China Mobile Executive Roundtable on Robocalls “Robocalls” have been the number one consumer complaint area in telecommunications for years. The industry has responded with a wave of technological and legal approaches, most notably call analytics, blocking tools and the new “SHAKEN/STIR” call authentication. But is it enough? Can lessons from big data and AI help tackle this problem? Kelley Drye partner Steve Augustino will lead a lively discussion of how the communications industry can fix this problem. Steve Augustino, Partner at Kelley Drye & Warren