Speakers
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Avnish Chauhan
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Bernardo Lucas
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Carlos Marques
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Carlos Martins
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Gabriel Chiriacescu
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Pramod Ranjane
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Stephen Ornadel
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Steve Brooks
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Vincent Robertson
Technical Customer Manager, New Products & Solutions, GSMA Services
Since joining GSMA from Samsung in January 2022, Vinny has taken responsibility for masterminding how GSMA’s newer and more complex services, can be ingested within our customers’ businesses. Whilst the world of wholesale roaming is relatively new, Vinny brings his excellent hands-on communication and organisation skills to coordinate multiple product, technical and operational teams. He is currently focused on GSMA’s eBusiness Network Accelerator offering which enables carriers and MVNOs to join the Telco network and experience first-hand the value of GSMA’s blockchain applications in the wholesale roaming negotiation and settlement arena.
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Tony Poulos
The Host
Tony has a strong telecom BSS knowledge in billing, revenue assurance, managed services, payments and mobile content delivery. In June 2011, Tony was recognized as one of the 25 most influential people in the telecom software industry.
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Shamit Bhat
Interoperability Solutions Director
GSMA
Shamit is responsible for the development and building of GSMA’s new blockchain network for the entire Telco ecosystem. This global intra-telecom network will enable companies to exchange information, secure agreements for services, agree transactions, fulfil services and settle fees in a secure and immutable way.
Shamit is also responsible for GSMA’s Internet Group, the newly created GSMA Internet Group Distributed Ledger Taskforce (DLT) and Blockchain for Wholesale Roaming (BWR) Group which has been leading the effort for launching GSMA’s blockchain network beginning with wholesale roaming use case.
Shamit has a Professional Education in Blockchain – Disruptive Technology from M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a MBA in Finance from Leeds University Business School, and a BE in Information Technology from Mumbai University.
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Miguel Carames
SVP - Roaming & Network Services
Mobileum
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Jean Michel Henrard
Founder and CEO
Dust Mobile
Passionate about innovation that significantly improves everyone's life and privacy. Committed to the entrepreneurial adventure for greater security through pioneering cyber defence systems, particularly for mobile, IoT and M2M communications.
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Sunil Joshi
Head of Roaming
EE/BT Group
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Tobias Engel
Senior Security Researcher
GSMK Cryptophone
He is responsible for MNO Security Assessments at GSMK in Berlin. For more than eight years, Tobias and his team have supported mobile network operators all over the world in making their networks more secure and protecting their subscriber's privacy. His in-depth expertise in SS7, Diameter, SIP, SMS and GTP technologies allowed him to be among the first to raise public awareness of the threat of insecure signalling protocols.
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Tarinder Pal Singh
Senior Director
Protiviti
Tarinder is a Regional Director for RAFM and Telecom solutions for Protiviti Middle East and India. He has been helping clients solve their business problems through advising Transformation Strategy, Risk Management, and Governance interventions that enable businesses to optimize cost, enhance revenue, improve customer experience, or manage business risks.
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Krystle Singleton
Head of Product Management for Fraud & Revenue Assurance Platforms
Dish Wireless
Krystle Singleton is the Head of Product Management for Fraud and Revenue Assurance Platforms at Dish Wireless. Based in Denver, Colorado, USA, she specializes in risk mitigation for complex business ventures. Before Dish, she helped build the fraud and payment platforms for Visible, Verizon’s prepaid wireless startup. With a background in actuarial sciences, she has a passion for mathematics, statistics and risk theory; which allows her to build best-in-class risk protection for Dish and our customers alike.
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Muhammad Moqeet
Senior Cyber Security Professional
Omantel
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Isabella Silveira
Group Head of Roaming, Carrier, and Messaging
Sky UK
Isabella is the Group Head of Roaming, Carrier, and Messaging for Sky Mobile UK/IE with over 11 years of experience working in Telecoms, leading wholesale teams both from an MNO and MVNO perspective.
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Gilbert Relou
Head of Consultancy
Kaleido Intelligence
The global market for mobile communication is where much of Gilbert’s 20+ years of experience in international (data) communication has been focused at—often described as an evangelist by motivating change, introducing new ideas, and creating partnerships. At KPN and iBasis he has been a driving force in building relationships with dozens of mobile network operators and solution providers globally. Focused on innovation, leading a Business Development team to enable roaming and data connectivity with interoperability between technologies. In 2022 Gilbert joined Kaleido Intelligence, a specialist consulting and market research firm across the roaming & connectivity sector and known for its Vendor Hub source of roaming vendors worldwide. In a world of digital transformation with Telco moving to Cloud with a new open 5G ecosystem enabling devices (IoT) and collaboration tools to be globally connected it is important to understand the technology and to oversee the bigger picture. Hybrid models emerge with arbitrage telco solutions as important enablers for global coverage. The new revenue potential for networks to guarantee Cloud and IoT access in a secure and sustainable way.
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Nikolas Evangelopoulos
SVP, E&E Business
Mobileum
Nikolas Evangelopoulos leads the Commercial Team of the Engagement and Experience Business Unit. He has been working in the telecommunication industry since 2016, holding various roles in Mobileum and Niometrics before its acquisition. Before joining Niometrics, Nikolas had a management consulting career at EY, helping enterprises across multiple sectors to implement data analytics solutions. Nikolas holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the National University of Athens.
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Igor Troskin
Architect Vehicle Care Services
Audi
Igor has worked at Audi for 8 years and for the last three years as Head Architect of Mobile Connectivity Platform. He came to Audi from NW Consulting and worked on several NW global rollouts with Telus, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile.
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Mohamed Temsamani
Director Revenue Management
INWI
Mr. Temsamani has over 23 years of experience in the telecom sector, responsible for various areas ensuring revenue.
He contributed to launching too (2) operators in morocco : (Meditel ‘’actually Orange’’ + Wana Corporate)
His mission was the establishment & Build of structures, staff recruitment and the start of the activity.
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Aakash Gumbeer
General Manager, Risk and Compliance
MTN Zambia
Executive Management with over 15 years International professional experience. Exposure to various industries- Telecoms, ICT, Retail/FMCG, Fintech and Digital (Social Media, VoD, PayTV, App development, Payment & settlement Platforms, others).
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Rui Carmo
Principal Architect
Microsoft
Rui Carmo is a Principal Architect in Azure for Operators, leading projects on 5G networking, hybrid cloud infrastructure and advanced analytics worldwide. He has over twenty-five years' experience in the telecommunications industry and has spent the last decade working in cloud-native approaches to enterprise architecture and advanced analytics.
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João Ricardo Moreira
Board Member
NOS
João Ricardo Moreira is a Board Member of NOS Comunicações, responsible for the Centre for Business Transformation, a NOS unit whose mission is to support the digital transformation processes of public entities and companies in Portugal. With over 20 years' experience (in marketing, sales and strategic planning), he has in-depth knowledge of the business reality, with a clear vision of the challenges facing large, medium and small companies. He has been an active promoter of open innovation processes. He has a degree in Economics from Faculdade de Economia do Porto, with an MBA from INSEAD.