Speakers List
We would like to extend a warm WBA welcome to all of our Wireless Global Congress speakers in 2026! These executives bring expertise and insights that demonstrate thought leadership and share the innovation happening in our industry today! We believe our upcoming events will offer some valuable opportunities, so if you’re interested in speaking at any of our events click here to contact our Events team directly, or click here to register your interest.
Wireless Global Congress Americas (Dallas) 2026 Speakers
Bruno Tomas
CTO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
Bradley Kalgovas
Senior Manager, Detecon
Chip LaCorte
Head of Distribution Strategy and Strategic Partnerships, AT&T
David Hand
Operations Manager, Granite Communication and Security LLC
Dr. Derek Peterson
CTO, Boingo Wireless
Derek Underwood
Vice President - Sales, The Americas, Cambium Networks
Diego Turi Oliveira
IT Manager, Itaú Unibanco
Diwakar Kasibhotla
CTO, Eleven Software
Elad Nafshi
Executive Vice President, Chief Network Officer, Comcast Cable
George Hechtman
Principal, Hechtman Venture Development
Hannah Greenberg
CEO, Eleven Software
Irvind Ghai
Vice President, Silicon Labs
Jack Raynor
President, NetExperience
Jeff Platon
Vice President of Marketing, Wi-Fi Alliance
Jennifer Yates
Assistant Vice President - Inventive Science, Network and Service Automation, AT&T
Josh Goodell
VP, Broadband and Converged Product Development, AT&T
JR Wilson
Chief of Networks & Spectrum, AST SpaceMobile
Marc Charney
Senior Principal Consulting Engineer, HPE
Matt MacPherson
Wireless CTO, Cisco
Metin Taskin
CEO and Co-Founder, Airties
Mittal Parekh
Senior Director of Product and Solutions Marketing for Campus and Branch Networks, HPE
Dr. Necati Canpolat
Senior Staff Architect, Intel
Paul Lai
CEO & Founder, AsiaRF Co., Ltd.
Philip Powell
Regional Director BEAD Funding, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Robert Stacey
Chair 802.11 WG, IEEE
Ruth Brown
Senior Principal Analyst, Mobile Networks, Omdia GTM Telecom Insights and Advisory
Ryan Granchalek
Senior Director & General Manager, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Products, Intel Corporation
Sarper Gokturk
VP of Innovations, Airties
Shawn Bausman
Associate Director – Inbuilding Solutions, AT&T
Sri Gundavelli
Technologist, Enterprise Wireless CTO Team, Cisco
Steve Namaseevayum
Vice President - Memberships & Industry Engagements, WBA
Taylor Swanson
Advisor, IronWiFi
Tiago Rodrigues
President & CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
Tim Fell
VP, Network Technology & Services DevOps, Telus
Troy Martin
Director Product Marketing, Ookla
Vaseem Kazia
Product Manager, Silicon Labs
Vijay Venkateswaran
Head of Strategy and Business Development, C3Spectra
Yigal Elbaz
SVP, Network CTO, AT&T
Wireless Global Congress APAC (Tokyo) 2026 Speakers
Bruno Tomas
CTO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
David Coleman
Director of Wireless - Office of the CTO , Extreme Networks
Dr. Derek Peterson
CTO, Boingo Wireless
Dean Bubley
Founder & Director, Disruptive Analysis Ltd.
Gino Corleto
Industry Solutions Architect, Cisco
Greg White
Distinguished Technologist, CableLabs
Henry Huang
CEO, Browan Communications
Dr. Hideaki Goto
Associate Professor, Cyberscience Center of Tohoku University
Hiroshi Kiji
EVP, Wire and Wireless Co.,Ltd. (Wi2)
Hiroyuki Harada
Principal Network Engineer, Sapporo Gakuin University
Howard Buzick
Co-Founder and SVP Business Development, American Bandwidth
Jeongmin Noh
Team Leader, Home Device & WiFi under CTO, LG U+
John Lancaster-Lennox
Executive Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific, Airties
Jun Yamaguchi
Representative Director, Cityroam Association
Katsumi Takano
Director General, Bureau of Digital Services, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Kenichi Tsuchido
Sr. Manager of IoT Sensoring Department, NTT East
Manabu Miyasaka
Vice Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Mark Grayson
Cisco Fellow, Cisco
Mittal Parekh
Senior Director of Product and Solutions Marketing for Campus and Branch Networks, HPE
Dr. Necati Canpolat
Senior Staff Architect, Intel
Paul Lai
CEO & Founder, AsiaRF Co., Ltd.
Steve Namaseevayum
Vice President - Memberships & Industry Engagements, WBA
Stuart Strickland
HPE Fellow & Vice President, Wireless CTO, HPE
Tiago Rodrigues
President & CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
Yoshikazu Oishi
VP Country Manager, Japan, Morse Micro
Wireless Global Congress EMEA (Paris) 2024 Speakers
Andrew Spivey
Principal Analyst, ABI Research
Maria Cuevas
Networks Research Director, BT
Other Wireless Global Congress Speakers of 2024
Himanshu Tyagi
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Jack Raynor
President, NetExperience
James Allison
Manager of Planning, Capitol Corridors
Jenni Dettman
VP Marketing, RouteThis
Manoj Tandon
Director Projects - Operations and Maintenance, RailTel
