 Nitin Bhas
Chief of Strategy & Insights, the lead analyst for Roaming & Wholesale Strategies, Kaleido Intelligence
Nitin is Chief of Strategy & Insights and the lead analyst for Roaming & Wholesale Strategies at Kaleido Intelligence. He brings over 10 years of experience working with operators and vendors in the mobile and digital technology industries. Nitin is specialised in research, strategy development and production of cutting-edge market intelligence reports, forecasts and consulting services. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and is frequently interviewed by the media including the BBC, CNBC and Reuters. Nitin previously worked as Head of Research with Juniper Research, leading the research team and developing more than 50 research areas in telecoms and financial services sectors. |
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 Ranganai Chaparadza
Senior Altran CapGemini Technical & Technology Consultant, Vodafone
Ranganai Chaparadza: Dr.-Ing./PhD, is a Senior Altran CapGemini Technical & Technology Consultant for Vodafone (and for other Telecommunications Network Operators as well) and Solutions Design Architect, while also supporting in the Standardization of Autonomic/Autonomous Networking in ETSI TC INT AFI WG. He is also IPv6 Forum Fellow representative in ETSI TC INT AFI WG to bring perspectives of IPv6 enablers for autonomic network setup and operation. He actively supports Network Operators in various aspects: Vendor Management and Solutions Selections on SDN/NFV and E2E Service Assurance Solutions for Telco Networks and Data Center (DC) Network Services; Business Development with Emerging ICT Technologies and Future Networks; Standardization Expert (ETSI, BBF, ITU-T, NGMN, TMF, 3GPP, IEEE, IETF, ONF, MEF); R&D; RFIs/RFQs/RFPs Processes and Solution Supplier Selection; SDN/NFV TCO (Total Cost of Ownership); Building Optimal Commercial Models for Transport SDN and NFV; Procurement Transformation in the Era of SDN/NFV; Products Innovation with SDN, NFV and AMC (Autonomic Management & Control) for Network Automation using ETSI GANA oriented Standards; ETSI 5G PoC on E2E Closed-Loop (Autonomic) Service Assurance and E2E Autonomic Security Assurance for 5G Network Slices. He is also contributor to IEEE INGR Future Networks Standardization Building Blocks (SBB) Roadmap WG, IEEE INGR Systems Optimization WG, and IEEE INGR Testbeds WG.
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 Wayne Cutler
Technical Director, Technology Department, GSMA
Wayne has been working in the telecommunications industry for over 35 years and is a Technical Director within the technology department of the GSMA with a particular focus on IMS issues, covering VoLTE, VoLTE Roaming and IMS interconnect. Wayne is also the vice chair of the 5G Joint Activity group within the GSMA which looks at all 5G network related items including the UNI for operator communication services over 5GS, 5G roaming and interconnection and network slicing. Previously, Wayne held posts at Marconi and Ericsson and holds a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol, England.
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 Muslim Elkotob
Principal Solutions Architect, Vodafone
Muslim is a Principal Solutions Architect at Vodafone with a lead role and end-to-end responsibility in the Enterprise Business Line. His works on driving innovation and standardizing architectures in the areas of SDN/NFV, Autonomics, Slicing and Security in 5G and IoT. He is an IPv6-Forum Fellow and delegate with lead roles in various SDOs including ETSI, TMForum, ITU-T and IEEE. Having a career background with vendors, service providers and R&D, he has spent the last seven years strengthening Vodafone’s role in the enterprise Value Chain as a global player with a powerful infrastructure and autonomic IT services on top.
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 Giulio Maggiore
Chairman, ETSI TC INT
Giulio Maggiore was appointed as ETSI TC INT (Core Network and Interoperability Testing) Chair in march 2008. He was ETSI TC MTS (Methods for Testing and Specifications) vice Chair from 2010 to 2012 and led GSMA Network Efficiency Task Force GSMA group from February to December 2010. Giulio was CME2G3G User Group Chairman from 2009 to 2017, and CME2G3G TSG Core Network Project manager from 1998 to 2005 and currently CME2G3G TSG Core Network Chairman since 2006. In TIM he joined Vendor Management Group in 2020 dealing with Vendor performance measurements and Vendor Rating. Previous experience in TIM: User Experience Performance within Technical Planning 2018-2020, Core Network Quality and Optimization 2008-2018, Service Layer Engineering Integration 2006-2008, Mobile Core Network Testing project manager 2000-2006. He joined CSELT, R&D Telecom Italia Group 1993-2000 dealing with research in Computer Aided Test Generation for Functional and Performance aspects. Giulio received his Master of Information Technology and Telecommunication from Politecnico of Turin, with Thesis in Computer Aided Testing Generation held in CSELT in 1992, and Bachelor’s Degree in 1991 in Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering from Politecnico of Turin with Thesis in RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana) for the HDTV transmission during Italia ’90 world championship.
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 Tayeb Ben Meriem
Vice Chairman ETSI TC INT, Orange
In his role at Orange Group as Senior Standardization Manager (OSS), Tayeb is involved in various Standards Development Organizations, serving as chair of working groups or projects for TM Forum (ZOOM, ODA, AI & DA, DLT-Blockchain PoC Leader), NGMN Alliance (5G Network Slice PoC Leader) and ETSI Vice Chair of TC INT (Chairman of “Autonomic Management & Control” WG and Chairman of “AI Testing & Certification” WG). Tayeb initially joined Orange R&D and led the first studies on WDM systems then was appointed at the Orange Network Business Division as responsible for transmission equipment policy. He was the head of the Orange’s IPv6 Skills Centre, VP of the French IPv6 Task Force and Board member of the EU IPv6 Task Force during 7 years. In 2000 he authored a book called “SDH Networks & Services” (Springer) and he is author or co-author of numerous papers and participated in various EU’s funded projects. He was also professor at the University of Paris and supervisor of PhD thesis. Tayeb gained his Telecommunications Engineering degree from (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications: ENST now IMT: Institut Mines Telecoms) of Paris and his PhD degree.
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 Cheng Li
ITU-T Q2/11 Rapporteur, CAICT
Cheng Li works in CAICT (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology), engaged in telecommunication technology study and standardization. Cheng Li has taken the leader role of technical solution and standardization of IMS interconnection between operators in China since 2018. As the rapporteur of ITU-T Q2/11, Cheng Li is responsible for organizing the development of ITU-T Recommendations of signalling protocols in telecommunication networks.
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 Michael Mild
CEO, SoftWell Performance AB
Michael Mild has been working in the IT industry since 1970. He holds a Master in Computer Science from Stockholm University. He worked for KTH 1970-1973 in research and as assistant professor to Börje Langefors, Sweden's first IT professor at KTH. After KTH Michael worked for: Honeywell Bull (1973-1975), Hewlett Packard (1976-1980), and Tandem Computers (1980-1992). Michael worked as telecom expert at Hewlett Packard 1978-1980 and at Tandem Computers' European System Support Group (ESSG) in Germany 1980-1988. Michael worked for Tandem Computers' High Performance Research Center (HPRC) in Germany 1988-1992. In 1992 Michael started SoftWell a consulting company focused on all aspects of Quality Assurance. With customers, such as Ericsson, Stockholm Stock Exchange, SEB, Handelsbanken, and the Swedish Defense. In 2004 SoftWell was transformed to SoftWell Performance with focus on an in-house developed high-end performance test tool for the telecom industry (MBC). Among the customers are Ericsson, Oracle in San Francisco, and Tele2 a telecom operator in Sweden. In 2010 Michael was asked by ETSI to write the document TR 101 577: Performance testing of distributed systems: Concepts and terminology. In 2013 TR 101 577 with some additions was approved as ITU-T Recommendation Q.3930.
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 Benoit Radier
Research Engineer, ETSI INT AFI, Orange
Benoit Radier is an architect at Orange Lab Lannion, France, in 2000. He received an electrical engineering diploma from the “Institut Supérieur de l’Electronique et du Numérique” (ISEN), Brest, and a doctoral degree in computer science from "Université Pierre et Marie Curie" (UPMC) in 2009. Since 2007, his current research activities are in the fields of Autonomic management and control and Generic Autonomic Network Architecture, He is currently delegate to the ETSI/INT/AFI.
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 Xiaojie Zhu
Vice-Chairman of SG11, China Telecom
Director of standards at Mobile Telecommunications Institute of China Telecom Research Institute, with more than 10 years’ experience in telecom SDOs, actively participating and contributing in ITU-T and CCSA. Now serving as the Vice Chair of ITU-T Study Group 11 (Signalling requirements, protocols, test specifications and combating counterfeit products), Chairman of SG11 Working Party 1 (Signalling requirements and protocols for emerging telecommunications networks), and Acting Rapporteur of ITU-T SG11 Q3 (Signalling requirements and protocols for emergency telecommunications). Now leading and taking part in some internal research projects related to network evolution and 4G/5G applications within China Telecom. Main technical areas include VoLTE/ViLTE, EPS Fallback/VoNR, 5G/B5G/6G technologies, future network, SDN/NFV, etc.
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