Astha has 15 years of experience in Telecommunications and Consulting spanning Business Strategy, CX & Digital Transformation, Value Creation and B2X growth acceleration. She is currently responsible for driving digital & AI powered marketing, sales & service solutions for the Communications & Media industry in the ASIAM region (Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Middle East, India, SE Asia).

Astha holds a MBA degree from Narsee Monjee (a premier B-School in Mumbai) & a Bachelor of Economics (Honors) from Delhi University.

Christophe Bianchi graduated with a Master of Science and a Doctorate in electronics, as well as an MBA in economics and entrepreneurship from Imperial College. Christophe Bianchi combines technical and business acumen that has led him to hold multiple management positions within international software companies during his 35+ year-long career.

Christophe Bianchi joined Ansys in 2019 with the mission of strengthening Ansys' presence and pursuing its strategic development in the European market. To achieve this, he works closely with a team distributed across the continent and coordinates cross-functional projects.

Carsten Brinkschulte is CEO and co-founder of Dryad Networks. Dryad provides ultra-early detection of wildfires as well as health and growth-monitoring of forests using solar-powered gas sensors in a large-scale IoT sensor network. Dryad aims to reduce unwanted wildfires, which cause up to 20% of global CO2 emissions and have a devastating impact on biodiversity. By 2030, Dryad aims to prevent 3.9m hectares of forest from burning, preventing 1.7bn tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Matt is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon, the serverless WebAssembly company in the cloud. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide, and Krustlet. He has written and co-written many books, including “Learning Helm” and “Go in Practice.” He is a co-creator of the “Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes” series. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy.

Aaron Chaisson is the Vice President of Edge and Telecom Solutions Marketing at Dell Technologies. In this role Aaron and his team are responsible for driving Dell Technology’s strategic messaging and marketing direction as we strive to help enterprise organizations and communications service providers capitalize on the emerging opportunities at the edge, driven by a confluence of technologies including IoT, AI, 5G, cloud native container and serverless application design and open/disaggregated compute architectures. Over the past 21 years, Aaron has held a variety of leadership roles at EMC and Dell Technologies in organizations including Training & Education, Pre-Sales and Specialty Pre-sales focusing on virtualization and cloud technologies and most recently building and running Dell Technologies Portfolio Messaging and High Value Workload Marketing organizations.

Panch Chandrasekaran is Director, 5G Carrier Infrastructure Segment, at Arm where he leads, plans, and executes 5G wireless infrastructure segment strategy. He is a business strategist and execution-focused leader with a track record of success and deep expertise in product management and business development for hardware and software products for wireless infrastructure, intelligent edge, and cloud environments.

Bev Crair leads the combined Compute and Capacity teams or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as Senior Vice President. Prior to coming to Oracle, she was the Vice President responsible for all product development for Lenovo's Data Center Group. Bev specializes in organizational design, development and dynamics with a focus on building high performance teams, business strategy and planning, new technology development and implementation.

Megan Damon is a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She’s a computer scientist with more than ten years experience, achieving a master’s degree and beyond. She’s got a strong interest in research and model development, specializing in high performance computing and operational development and has made multiple contributions to conferences and journals.

Jeff Denworth is CMO and co-founder of Vast Data, a leading provider of universal storage. He has previously served as senior vice president of marketing at Ctera Networks and vice president of marketing at DDN Storage. Jeff joined Vast Data in 2016.

Sam Factor is the co-founder of WalterPicks, a rising star in fantasy sports predictions. Sam and his co-founder developed WalterPicks using artificial intelligence to deliver superior fantasy player recommendations. He left is position as a high school math teacher to lead WalterPicks.

Charles Fan is co-founder and CEO of MemVerge. Prior to MemVerge, Charles was the CTO of Cheetah Mobile leading its global technology teams, and an SVP/GM at VMware, founding the storage business unit that developed the Virtual SAN product. Charles also worked at EMC and was the founder of the EMC China R&D Center. Charles joined EMC via the acquisition of Rainfinity, where he was a co-founder and CTO. Charles received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union.

Rajesh Gadiyar leads telco and edge architecture at NVIDIA. He is focused on developing technologies for building virtualized 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) in the cloud. He works with communications service providers (CoSPs) to modernize their networks using cloud native technologies.

Before joining NVIDIA in 2022, Rajesh was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Network Platforms Group at Intel. He led the architecture and product development efforts to accelerate cloud native network applications in 5G infrastructure, edge clouds, video processing and AI in Networking and delivered many generations of network server platforms.

Andrew Gillies is the co-founder and CTO of Urban Machine. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Toronto and PhD in Biomechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Andrew is a serial entrepreneur, co-founding several companies before Urban Machine, including consumer robotics and mass-market consumer hardware/software products.

Andrew is passionate about impact-driven businesses and discovering tech solutions to global challenges. His vast experience with entrepreneurship, executing engineering vision, and successfully leading highly cross-functional teams has won Andrew many accolades. When not developing and improving robotics, Gillies is an outdoor enthusiast with a pension for adventure and building cool stuff.

DeTsion (TJ) Gonen has more than 20 years of cyber security and executive experience, and is now the Head of Cloud Security at Check Point Security Software Technologies where he leads cloud innovation, as well as the go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining Check Point, TJ was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Protego Labs, the leading start-up for serverless security, which was acquired by Check Point in 2019.

Anna Giralt Gris (Barcelona, 1978) holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication. She has filmed in countries such as Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, has collaborated with television documentary programmes 30minuts and Sense Ficció and her documentaries have been recognised and selected at national and international festivals.

Also interested in the intersection between technology and narrative, she works as a consultant and lecturer in the area of new narratives in several universities, including the University of Barcelona, the Ramon Llull and the Pompeu Fabra. She creates new media and interactive media projects that have been included in festivals such as SXSW and is a member of the ARTIFICIO collective, which researches the impact of artificial intelligence on the arts.

Catherine is Head of Business Development and Partner Management for Private networks for Cellnex in Europe. Catherine has over nine years´ experience working with industries and private networks across Europe. With extensive experience over the last 20 plus years in telecom and cloud services for mobile interworking, she has held senior positions at Cable & Wireless and BT in the USA and UK. In her journey, she brings a passion for bridging the digital divide and transforming businesses with 5G.

Wajeeha Hamid is a Product Manager for OSM at Canonical. She is responsible for product-market engineering and marketing collateral as well as shaping the message across our suite of products, with a particular focus on telco network technologies and network equipment providers. Before that, she worked as a technical lead with Dell focusing on the NFV infrastructure layer.

Adrian “AJ” Herrera is Chief Marketing Officer at Varnish Software. He brings 20+ years of experience helping to establish and grow innovative software, cloud, storage and services to the M&E and enterprise markets. His role as CMO for Varnish Software encompasses partner marketing, advertising, creative direction, branding, product marketing and communications with the objective of maintaining Varnish Software’s position as a leading provider of high-performance caching, content delivery and edge computing software.

Jonathan is Senior Director of Solutions Marketing at Ribbon Communications, where he focuses on optical networking and domain orchestration solutions. Jonathan joined Ribbon from ECI where he held the same position. In notable prior roles, Jonathan was VP Architecture Marketing at Nortel Networks, and VP Business Development at Xtellus, an optical switching startup that was sold successfully. He served on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions and the Multiservice Switching Forum.

Jonathan’s career journey has taken him from Canada, to the United States, and currently Israel, where he makes Jerusalem his home.

Matt Hurst, Senior Director Global XaaS Solutions at Ribbon, is a highly experienced professional with over 25 years in the industry.

Matt’s intimate knowledge of Enterprise network architectures and the evolving drive to Mobile and Cloud technologies enables him to support customers on their migration journey from traditional premises based platforms to cloud based SaaS solutions.

Matt is a trusted advisor who collaborates extensively within the Ribbon partner community.

Arno is the CTO of Communication Service Provider at Canonical. He leads a Service Provider Field Engineering team focused on SP Cloud and Edge evolutions around the globe. His team of highly skilled Service Provider focused resources engage with Service Providers continuously to facilitate technological evolution through Thought Leadership, Solution Architecture and advanced Cloud deliveries and engineering.

Zac Imel, Ph.D. is co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Lyssn.io. He is a psychologist by training and has been a professor and Director of Clinical Training for the Counseling Psychology PhD program at the University of Utah. He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications, and PI or Co-I of projects funded by the US National Institutes on Drug Abuse, Mental Health, and Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, as well as the National Science Foundation, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Brian David Johnson is a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University and a Futurist and Fellow at Frost & Sullivan. He works with governments, militaries, trade organizations, and startups to help them envision their future. He has over 30 patents and is the author of a number of books of fiction and nonfiction. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal and Slate to IEEE Computer and Successful Farming, and he appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, PBS, Fox News, and the Discovery Channel. He has directed two feature films, and is an illustrator and commissioned painter.

Abby Kearns is a leading innovator in cloud computing. She holds deep experience in defining standards, delivering stack automation and integrating cloud solutions and most recently was the CTO of Puppet.

Certified Project Manager (PMP) with demonstrated experience in the telecommunications industry. Skilled in Radio Networks with high focus in 5G and innovation, enjoying to work within international teams. Interested as well in wider areas as aviation, radionavigation and satellites services. Guided each and every day by the motivation to make things happen.

Jahan Mantin is the co-founder of Project Inkblot, a team of designers and futurists who partner with companies to build equitable products, services and content using their proprietary methodology, Design for Diversity™(D4D). Jahan began her career in advertising and marketing at Time Out New York and later as the Associate Editor for Beyond Race Magazine. Jahan earned a B.A. in Communications and Culture from Clark University and is the recipient of the Kate Spade and Company Fellowship at the New Museum Incubator, NEW INC. She is a proud native New Yorker and currently resides in Brooklyn.

Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering at MIT and a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT. She leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT and Chief Scientist for Steinwurf, which she has co-founded. She obtained three Bachelors degrees, as well as her M.S. and Sc.D, all from MIT.

Frank Miller has over 25 years in the global ICT industry as principal engineer, strategist, and technology executive with experience in access, transport, cloud, voice, video, and wireless. Mr. Miller is a globally recognized leader and innovator with prior leadership roles in telecom, academia and fortune 500 companies.

Before joining Varnish Software, Frank was the Global Head for Platforms, Connectivity and Unified Communications for Vodafone Group, Chief Architect at CenturyLink, CTO EMEA for Ciena and Global CTO (Cable Industry) for Huawei. Frank sat on various customer and technology advisory boards at CableLabs, Calix, Wind River and Cisco and helped drive development of various access technologies from DOCSIS 3.1 to federated cloud platforms for virtualized service delivery. He is also a regular presenter at key global events such as CableLabs, SCTE, TMForum, MPLS / SDN World Congress and Angacom.

Mr. Miller holds an Executive MBA with distinction from Hult/Ashridge International Business School from London and Shanghai. Frank also attended Executive Training at Dartmouth University at Tuck and graduated from US Navy Dive School in Coronado, CA.

Carl has spent many years solving for automation and orchestration. He started building customer service platforms for ISPs back when people used dial-up for their online activities. He then moved on to focus on making multi-vendor networks programmable through model-driven architectures. He is now the CTO and co-founder at Avassa, spending his days obsessing over how to deliver a distributed edge control plane that developers and platform teams love.

Fernando Murias is the current Chairman & CEO at Digital Global Systems. Prior to this, they were with Charity Works DC and before that, they were the Chairman of the Greater Washington Sports Alliance Foundation from August 2002 to December 2016. Fernando was also with PwC for 16 years in various leadership roles from 1997 to 2013. Fernando has been a leader in the tax management and accounting field for many years and has been instrumental in improving performance and processes for various organizations. Fernando is a highly respected figure in the business community and has received numerous awards and accolades for their work. Fernando is a dedicated philanthropist and has been involved in various charitable organizations throughout their career. Fernando is a strong advocate for using sports to promote education, fitness, and character for our youth.

Fernando Murias earned a BS in Accounting & Economics from the University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business. Fernando also holds an Accounting & Economics degree from the University of Maryland College Park.

Bob Rogers is a leading figure in the nascent world of Artificial Intelligence, and as well as being the Co-founder of Oii he is also PhD, Expert in Residence for AI at UCSF Smarter Health and was Chief Data Scientist in the Data Center Group at Intel as well as co-founder and Chief Scientist at Apixio, a Healthcare AI company. Bob’s mission is to put powerful analytics and AI tools in the hands of all decision makers.

Bob began his career as an astrophysicist, developing computer models of physical processes near supermassive black holes. He co-authored the books, Artificial Neural Networks: Forecasting Time Series and “De-mystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare“. He is a member of the Board of Advisors to the Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science. He received his BA in physics at UC Berkeley and his PhD in physics at Harvard.

Cristina Rodriguez is Vice President in the Network & Edge Group, General Manager of the group's Wireless Access Network Division (WAND), and General Manager of the Austin Design Center at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel’s efforts to provide innovative wireless access solutions in both traditional and cloud native networks, enabling the RAN of the future by bringing together 5G, and the build out of the Edge and Artificial Intelligence. Rodriguez has full PnL ownership, responsible for strategy and business plans, technical product marketing, roadmaps, product definition, forecasting, customer relationships, investment decisions and GTM.

Cristina has more than 20 years experience in the networking industry. Her vast experience covers startups through large corporations, like Intel. Her educational background is in electrical engineering and computer science.

Kumaran Siva is a Corporate Vice President responsible for the Software & Systems Business Development inside the Server Business Unit at AMD based in Santa Clara, California. In this role, he is responsible for strategic business development and product management of AMD's software and systems solutions for AMD EPYC™ processors. Prior to this role, Kumaran managed the Cloud Business group responsible for the hyperscale business.

Kumaran has a broad background in processors and networking having worked at Inphi, Broadcom, ARM, and PMC-Sierra. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a master's degree from Harvard University.

Durgesh Srivastava, is Senior Director in HW engineering organization at Nvidia. He represents NVIDIA in the UCIe board. Durgesh is a Silicon industry veteran and well-rounded systems engineer. He has depth in silicon architecture with breadth in Linux kernel memory management for heterogeneous data center infrastructure. At NVIDIA, Durgesh is driving ARM SoC architecture for Cloud and Enterprise applications.

Prior to joining NVIDIA, Durgesh was at Intel Corp for 24 years and worked on Itanium, multiple generations of Xeon, Automotive, and Data Center Products. Durgesh holds 26 patents related to silicon, systems and SW.

Dr. Ryan Stauffer is a Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory. He studies air pollution and long-term records of balloon-borne ozone and water vapor profile data, and the links among the profiles, meteorology, climate, and near-surface pollution. He serves as the Principal Investigator for the Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ) tropical ozonesonde network Dr. Stauffer has also participated in numerous field campaigns focused on near-surface air quality and pollution.

Michael Schill currently serves as the Community Director for the Open Compute Project Foundation. In this role, Michael works closely with all OCP members, focusing on dozens of active projects, sub-projects and workstreams within the greater community led by volunteers from a variety of industry verticals. Passionate about making connections with members of the OCP community, Michael is an ardent and eager supporter of a more open, innovative and collaborative future.

He first joined the OCP in 2015 as an intern while finishing his degree from Sewanee, The University of the South. Prior to his current role at OCP, Michael helped found the Orbit Community Program at Protocol Labs and also has spent time as a track, football and strength coach.

Craig Theriac is VP of product management at Scale Computing. In this role, Craig has been helping to lead the product management team at Scale Computing for over 10 years. In this role he oversees the roadmap for Scale Computing Platform including the award-winning products SC//HyperCore, SC//Fleet Manager, SC//Hardware and Platform//Cloud Unity. Prior to Scale Computing, Craig was the CEO and founder of FitQuake, Inc., a management software start-up designed to automate the back office operations for small businesses in the health and fitness industry. Prior to taking the entrepreneurial path, Craig held several positions at regional and national public accounting firms working as a CPA specializing in small business accounting and taxes. Craig attended the Indiana University Kelley School of Business where he studied Finance, Accounting and International Studies.

Jess Wade is a British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory of Imperial College London. Her research investigates polymer-based organic light emitting diodes. Jess is an ardent advocate for tackling systemic biases in the scientific community.

Mahesh is a Senior Fellow at AMD where he is leading Server Systems Architecture for EPYC products. He has more than 20 years of experience leading IO technologies from conception, pathfinding, standards development, and leading engineering teams delivering many generations of server products.

Yue Wang is the Head Advanced Network Research at Samsung Research UK, where she leads the research on cutting edge 5G and 6G network technologies such as system architecture, AI-native networks and O-RAN.

Yue is widely recognised for her extensive technical expertise, strategic and thought leadership in 5G, 6G, and AI within the telecommunication industry. In addition to her role at Samsung, she is also the Chair of UKTIN AI Expert Working Group, and leads a group of highly respected experts analysing telco AI’s forward-looking opportunities and challenges across technological, business, economical, and societal aspects. She has been project manager of large scale (19 partners, 8M EURO) H2020 project, is an inventor of numerous patents, and a frequent speaker in conferences, having recently presented in events such as MWC and TMF DTW.

Rebecca is the VP of Hardware Systems Engineering at Cloudflare leading the team that delivers >18% of the world’s Internet traffic. Rebecca is the OCP Chair, is on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 2020 technology list, and is on Business Insider's Cloudverse100. In her "spare" time, she is the lead singer of the funk and soul band, Sinister Dexter. She has two amazing little boys, and loves to run .

Jeff Wittich is the chief product officer at Ampere. Jeff has extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor industry in roles ranging from product and process development to business strategy to marketing. Prior to joining Ampere, he worked at Intel for 15 years where he was responsible for the Cloud Service Provider Platform business and the product development team responsible for 5 generations of Xeon processors.

Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna is Vice President for Global Privacy for the Washington DC-based Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit present in Brussels, Tel Aviv, Singapore and Nairobi, where she leads the work on global privacy and data protection developments. She is also an associated researcher for the LSTS Center of Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a guest lecturer for Maastricht University’s European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity. Dr. Zanfir-Fortuna is a member of the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly and was a member of the Executive Committee of ACM's Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FaccT) Conference (2021-2022). She has experience in working for the European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels, dealing with enforcement, litigation and policy matters, and contributed to the work of the Article 29 Working Party. She holds a PhD in law with a thesis on the rights of the data subject from the perspective of their adjudication in civil law, and an LLM in Human Rights. She published a comprehensive volume on the rights of the data subjects in 2015 (Protectia datelor personale. Drepturile persoanei vizate", C.H. Beck, Bucharest, 2015), and is one of the co-authors of "GDPR: A commentary", Oxford University Press, 2020.