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Catalyst Session: Accelerating tomorrow’s networks: Seamless connectivity for limitless experiences

Wednesday, 20 September 2023
1:30 pm - 2:55 pm

Location: Innovation Arena Stage

CATALYST PRESENTATIONS
Unite with the brightest and best to drive groundbreaking innovation and impactful business outcomes

Catalyst projects connect the collective power of the brightest minds and most influential industry figures to co-create solutions to the industry’s biggest challenges.

SESSION MODERATOR
Yvonne Kuimba, Head of AI & Data, TM Forum

1:30 pm – 1:42 pm
Intent-driven autonomous networks – Phase III

Jörg Niemöller, Expert of Analytics and Customer Experience, Ericsson
Kevin McDonnell, Senior Director, Intelligent Automation, Huawei 
Massimo Banzi, Standards Manager, Telecom Italia 

1:45 pm – 1:57 pm
Building customer trust through a multi-network assurance platform- Phase III
Adrian Marcu, Associate Partner, IBM
Jithu Raghavendran, Vice President of Digital Telco Transformation Solutions, MYCOM OSI
Sandeep Chowdhury, Senior Director, SAP Telecommunications Business Unit

2:00 pm – 2:12 pm
Evaluation of autonomous network service experience for the cloud network
Chun Liu, Expert, Huawei 

2:15 pm – 2:27 pm
Atlas: telco autonomous operations for verticals – Phase II
Bin (David) Wang, Pre-sales director, Nokia
Zhang Ke, Senior project manager, TMF AI Operations Project Co-Chair, China Telecom

2:30 pm – 2:42 pm
Open SATCOM management
Amina Boubendir, Head of Research and Standardization, Airbus
Ashok Rajmitra, Head of Architecture, OneWeb
David Villegas, Senior Manager, Digital Architecture, SES

2:45 pm – 2:57 pm
Experience guaranteed connectivity
Andrew Baldock, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Juniper
Milind Bhagwat, Principal Enterprise Architect, BT
Tolga Özel, Program Management, Mobility Ecosystem, Togg

Speakers

Amina Boubendir

Head of Research and Standardization Airbus Defence and Space
Airbus Defence and Space

Andrew Baldock

Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Juniper

Ashok Rajmithra

Head of Architecture
OneWeb

Bin (David) Wang

Pre-sales director
Nokia

Chun Liu

expert
Huawei

David Villegas

Senior Manager, Digital Architecture
SES

Jithu Raghavendran

Vice President
MYCOM OSI

Jörg Niemoller

Expert of Analytics and Customer Experience
Ericsson

Kevin McDonnell

Senior Director, Intelligent Automation
Huawei

Massimo Banzi

Standards Manager
Telecom Italia

Milind Bhagwat

Principal Enterprise Architect
BT Group

Sandeep Chowdhury

Senior Director Telecommunications
SAP

Tolga Özel

Mobility Ecosystem
Togg

Yvonne Kuimba

Head of AI & Data
TM Forum

Zhang Ke

Senior Project Manager, TMF AI Operations (AIOps) Project Co-Chair