Topic: On the Path to the 5G Transformation

Serge Willenegger, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

In less than two decades, cellular communication has transformed society and the way people interact with one another; it is well on its way to transform how everything interacts with everything else with profound consequences on most industries, economies and work flows. On the path to 5G, one innovation at a time, the cellular industry will transform everything again… including itself. We will be covering some of the major technology and industry shifts which have been and will be occurring in coming years in relation to the 5G industrial transformation.

Serge Willenegger

Senior Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Topic: Mobile Edge Computing

Mr. Michael McNerney, Vice President of Software Solutions and Network Security, Supermicro

Redefining The Edge will be a key factor for companies looking to meet the performance requirements and deliver compelling and profitable 5G services. 5G enables a new level of innovation and service, more than tripling the number of devices on the network, 10X the throughput and significant reduction in latency making real-time interactive applications and gaming a reality.  An unexpected challenge for 5G is the equally high performance required on the back-end application infrastructure, the apps.  Instead of a brute force upgrade to the entire back-end there is potential to shift to a new Intelligent Edge to scale performance and security.  The edge has an opportunity to step up, leveraging Pull Technologies, pulling the compute/storage from Cloud to Edge and supporting the Push Application needs (E.g. Autonomous vehicles, IoT, …) pushing support for the explosion of devices and real-time interactivity.

Michael McNerney

Vice President of Software Solutions and Network Security, Supermicro

Michael McNerney is Vice President of Software Solutions and Network Security at Supermicro.  Mr. McNerney is responsible for the strategy and development of in-house and 3^rd party software offerings based on the Supermicro Infrastructure including the development and sales of targeted total solutions that deliver a turn-key pre-defined and pre-tested hardware, software and service offerings.  Areas of focus software defined storage solutions: Openstack CEPH and Lustre and cloud solutions based on various Openstack distributions.  Prior to joining Supermicro, he was at HP where he was responsible for HP’s $600 million dollar enterprise software management infrastructure business and spent time in corporate strategy responsible for CPU strategy.  McNerney started his career as a software engineer working for Rockwell International, Tandem and Cadence and held roles in systems engineering and sales. McNerney received his Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Topic: 5G - NR Challenge in High Band

Dr. Fumio Watanabe, Chairman, KDDI Research Inc.

“5G” mobile networks are required to cope with diverse requirements for not only enhanced mobile broadband but also massive-machine type communication and ultra-reliable/low latency communication.  How to use higher frequency bands to provide better services with reasonable CAPEX and OPEX would be one of the key challenge for operators.  This talk will examine two typical approaches.  It will also cover system level field trials at 28GHz band and several application PoC with partners.

Fumio Watanabe

Chairman of KDDI Research Inc.

CTO of UQ Communications Inc. 

President of KDDI Foundation

Dr. Watanabe has 40 years of experience in research and development of satellite and mobile communication systems including IMT-2000, IMT-Advanced, WiMAX and 5G.  He has been active for a long time in international standardization of mobile communication systems in ITU-R. 

He joined KDD in 1980.  He was an Executive Director, General Manager of KDDI from 2006 responsible for mobile radio access networks and R&D activities. He is now the Chairman of KDDI Research Inc. He is also CTO of UQ Communications Inc. and the President of KDDI Foundation.

He received Piero Fanti International Prize in 1989, the R & D Awards of Radio Systems in 1991, the meritorious Awards on ITU activities in 2001, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education in 2010, and Maejima memorial Awards in 2013, respectively. He is the chairman of Broadband Wireless Access Committee in ARIB. He is a Fellow of IEIEC.

Tareq Amin

Senior Vice President, Technology Development and Automation, Reliance Jio

Mr. Tareq Amin serves as Senior Vice President of Technology Development and Automation for Reliance Jio. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Technology Development and Automation organization, including innovation, development and operations. This organization leads software development, systems engineering, next-generation access networks, technical operations, and R&D.

Under his leadership, he drove end-to-end network design and deployment to meet coverage, capacity, and performance needs of India’s largest green field LTE TDD network, supporting industry leading data connectivity and innovative services such as VoLTE/HD Voice and eMBMS. Today the company is delivering product innovation faster than ever before.

His passion for technology and in-depth knowledge of industry trends in networks, products, and devices led to the timely executions of strategic organizational initiatives. These initiatives included emerging technologies such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), IoT, SON, CEM, Big Data Analytics, Converged LTE/WiFi Packet Core and Small Cells.

Prior to joining Reliance Jio in 2013, Tareq served as Vice President of Carrier Solutions for Huawei, where he led the company’s strategy for all major technologies and solution innovations. Having also served As Senior Director of National Planning & Performance at T-Mobile, Tareq managed all budget allocation of capacity, performance, and software development related expenditures across USA markets. Over the years, he has successfully led large and small organizations through business transformations with innovation and automation as driving factors. He has over 18 years in the telecommunications industry with extensive experience in LTE-FD, LTE-TD, Small Cells, VoLTE, Spectrum Management, WiFi, SON, Smart Antennas, HetNet Cloud and NFV Core, WiMAX, and CDMA. 

Tareq serves as a Board Member of the Small Cell Forum, which strives for wide-scale adoption of small cells and the acceleration in the delivery of integrated HetNets.

A graduate of Portland State University in Oregon with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Physics

Topic: The Role of Standards in 5G and Wireless Innovation

Mr. Luis Jorge Romero, Director General, ETSI

Standardization is fundamental to innovation. If innovation is the ability to transform ideas into money, in a replicable manner at an affordable cost, then standardization is paramount to this process. From GSM to LTE and now already progressing towards 5G, ETSI has been a key contributor as a founding partner in 3GPP. And ETSI adds some more components, such as Network Functions Virtualization or Multiaccess Edge Computing. 5G addressing more than just people, ETSI is developing the services layer standard of the Internet of Things (IoT) as founding partner of oneM2M. Everything following our ‘security by design’ motto. You are all invited to join!

Luis Jorge Romero

Director General of ETSI

Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of ETSI, has more than 20-years’ experience in the telecommunications sector.  At ETSI he has initiated a global standardization partnership for Machine to Machine communications, oneM2M, has overseen the rapid development of ETSI’s Industry Specification Group on Network Functions Virtualization, and has driven the implementation of the ETSI Long Term Strategy, an ambitious plan to prepare the institute for the future. He is now positioning the institute to take a leading role in 5G standardization through the 3GPP global partnership project and through initiatives such as ETSI’s Multi-access Edge Computing, Millimetre Wave Transmission and Network Functions Virtualization groups. Previously he has held diverse Director positions in Spain, Morocco and Mexico, predominantly with Telefonica. As Global Director for International Roaming and Standards, and Director of Innovation and Standards, he oversaw Telefonica's participation in global standardization activities, and participated directly in the work of the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance and in the GSM Association (GSMA). Before joining ETSI in July 2011, he held the position of Director General of Innosoft and was also a partner and board member of Madrid-based Innology Ventures.

Topic: The Vision on Edge Intelligence and the Roadmap to 5G

Dr. Seppo Hämäläinen, Head of Sales for End to End 5G, Greater China, Nokia

In his presentation, Seppo will discuss about the current status and expected roadmap of 5G. 5G status and plans are discussed in different regions and in 3GPP standardization. 5G development will be presented for radio network as well for the network architecture. An internal part of 5G network architecture will be Multi-access Edge Computing and intelligent edge. Multi-access Edge Computing is an inherent and a necessary component of 5G enabling short latency and related applications and use cases. In this presentation Multi-access Edge Computing and edge intelligence, and its evolution will be discussed

Seppo Hämäläinen

Head of Sales for E2E 5G, Greater China, Nokia 

Seppo Hämäläinen is Head of Sales for E2E 5G in Nokia Greater China. He received an MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Information Technology at Lappeenranta University of Technology in 1994 and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Information technology at Jyväskylä University in 2003. Seppo was working in Nokia in various research and research management positions during 1993 to 2013. From 2002 to 2005 he led Nokia Research Center in China. In 2013 he joined Ooredoo group in Qatar as director for radio network automation and tools. In 2016 Seppo re-joined Nokia in Beijing in his current role as Head of Sales for E2E 5G. He is author or co-author of over 50 scientific journal and conference papers and book chapters, and 22 independent patents.

Topic: 5G Architecture to Enable Diverse Applications

Mr. Javan Erfanian, Distinguished Member of Technology, Bell Mobility, Canada; Co-Lead, NGMN 5G initiative

This talk will discuss and explore the path to 5G particularly from the perspective of how the next-generation architecture and operation must be shaped to enable a wide range of applications. In this, the use case requirements, the realities and challenges are highlighted, while the talk aims to set the stage for further insight provided by subsequent presentations in this session.

Javan Erfanian

Distinguished Member of Technology, Bell Mobility, Canada

Javan Erfanianis Distinguished Member of Technology at Bell Mobility, Canada, and primes end to end wireless technology strategic direction. He has been the Co-Lead of NGMN 5G initiative, the Chief Editor of the NGMN 5G White Paper, and the Lead of the NGMN Verticals Requirements initiative. He is currently the Vice Chair of NGMN 5G Board Committee. Javan studied at the Universities of Calgary and Toronto in Canada, with research publications and many citations. He has taught many academic courses. Javan was a recipient of IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, an author and editor of IEEE Communications Society Wireless Engineering Book of  Knowledge, and an IEEE Comsoc Distinguished Speaker for many years. He has been a friend of 5G initiative in Taiwan, and a regular contributor, for the past few years.

Topic: 5G Densify Network Using Licensed & Unlicensed Bands

Dr. Ali Sadri, Senior Director, mmWave Standards and Advanced Technology, Intel

Wireless mesh distribution is the foundation for future network densification. While Fiber is not accessible everywhere the wireless mesh distribution network may provide Fiber extension footprint for many technologies that require higher throughput connectivity and lower latency. Using both licensed and unlicensed bands can deliver much needed FWA leveraging the mesh network. In this presentation we outline a cost effective and easy to deploy architecture to deliver multi Gbps connectivity everywhere.

Ali Sadri

Senior director of mmWave standards and advanced technology, Intel Corp

Dr. Ali Sadri is a senior director of mmWave standards and advanced technology at Intel Corp. Sadri has more than 25 years of experience in academia and industry, beginning as a visiting professor at Duke University, Sr. Scientist at IBM, and later joining Intel Corp. His expertise is in wireless communications theory, channel modeling, power control, beamforming and adaptive modulation techniques. He holds more than 100 issued and pending patent applications in communications and wireless technologies. After successfully leading the WiGig Alliance and creating the first commercialized 60 GHz wireless standards, Sadri is extending the mmWave technology beyond WPAN. His current responsibilities include advanced technology development and prototyping of the future mmWave systems. Those systems include the next-generation WiGig technology for access and backhaul as well as the next-generation mmWave capable cellular systems (5G).

Topic: Intel Drone Light Shows

Ms. Natalie Cheung, General Manager, Drone Light Shows, Intel

Intel is looking at new opportunities with drones. One instance of this is using drones as controlled flying lights that can creates a new night time entertainment – drone light shows. Intel is creating a new way of storytelling, by painting the night sky with 3D animations that can be used for entertainment, digital fireworks, even branding in the sky.

Natalie Cheung

General Manager, Drone Light Shows, Intel

Natalie Cheung is the General Manager of Intel Drone Light Shows. Most recently, Natalie led the Intel powered drone lightshow at the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival - an outdoor flying light show with 300 synchronized Shooting Star drones illuminated the night sky above center stage. She has spearheaded other past drone lightshows, such as Lady Gaga’s 2017 Super Bowl Halftime Performance and the “Starbright Holidays – An Intel Collaboration” in conjunction with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, where Disney sent 300 drones into the air every night over Orlando, Fl., to create a holiday-themed light show in the night sky throughout winter 2016. She was the product manager on the Yuneec Typhoon H with Intel RealSense Technology UAV which received Best of CES 2016 awards and accolades.  Before assuming her current role, Natalie was the Research Analyst for Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. Cheung joined Intel in 2011.  She earned a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Topic: The Challenge and Proposition of mmWave in 5G

Dr. Kei Sakaguchi, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

This talk firstly introduces latest mmWave technologies ready for 5G by referring to several mmWave related projects. Then it identifies five use cases appropriate for mmWave in 5G scenarios, and clarifies challenges to be solved including problems of CAPEX to deploy mmWave basestations and of non-ideal backhaul networks. Lastly it introduces new solutions to solve the problems by combining mmWave with SDN and/or MEC. It also touches with mmWave V2V/V2X as a future application of mmWave enabled 5G.

Kei Sakaguchi

Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Prof. Kei Sakaguchi received the M.E. degree in Information Processing from Tokyo Institute Technology in 1998, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Institute Technology in 2006. Currently, he is working at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan as a Professor and at the same time he is a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer HHI in Germany. He received the Outstanding Paper Awards from SDR Forum and IEICE in 2004 and 2005 respectively, and three Best Paper Awards from IEICE communication society in 2012, 2013, and 2015. He also received the Tutorial Paper Award from IEICE communication society in 2006. He served as a TPC co-chair in the IEEE 5G Summit in 2016, a General co-chair in the IEEE WDN-5G in 2017, and a Industrial Workshop co-chair in the IEEE Globecom in 2017. His current research interests are in 5G cellular networks, millimeter-wave communications, and wireless energy transmission. He is a member of IEICE and IEEE.