Speakers List
Meet the speakers who will take the stage for WBA’s Wireless Global Congress events in 2024. Interested in speaking at any of our events this year? Click here to contact our Events team directly, or click here to register your interest.
Wireless Global Congress EMEA (Paris) 2024 Speakers
Dr. Amina Boubendir
Head of Research & Standardization, Airbus Defence and Space
Al Jenkins
Co-Chair, Connected Communities Forum (CCF), and Strategist for Broadband Telecommunications
Andrea Calcagno
President, CEO & Co-Founder, Cloud4Wi
Andrew Spivey
Principal Analyst, ABI Research
Bob El-Hawary
Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Cognitive Systems Corp.
Brian Shields
VP of Software Engineering, Boingo Wireless
Bruno Tomas
CTO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
Christian Gabetta
Managing Director, Heights Telecom
Christian Gilby
Sr. Director of Product Marketing, AI-Native Networking, Juniper Networks
Christopher Hols
Senior Product Owner of Inflight & Connectivity Services, Deutsche Telekom
Darryl Clarke
CEO, Encapto
Dr. Derek Peterson
CTO, Boingo Wireless
Dean Bubley
Founder & Director, Disruptive Analysis Ltd.
Doriana Guiducci
Spectrum Expert, European Communications Office
Eric McLaughlin
Vice President, Client Computing Group, General Manager Wireless Solutions Group, Intel Corporation
Giovanni Guerri
CEO, Guglielmo
Hiroshi Kiji
EVP, Wire and Wireless Co.,Ltd. (Wi2)
Ivan Muccini
VP Product, Cloud4Wi
LI Li, Thomas
Chief Scientist, World WLAN Application Alliance (WAA)
Manish Gangey
Executive President - Product Strategy, HFCL Limited
Marc Merlini
Business Development Director, JCDecaux Link
Maria Cuevas
Networks Research Director, BT
Matt Hughes
Product Director, BT/EE
Matt MacPherson
Wireless CTO, Cisco
Maureen Gallagher
Vice President of Marketing, Wi-Fi Alliance
Metin Taskin
Co-CEO and Founder, Airties
Mittal Parekh
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Technical Marketing and Influencer Marketing, RUCKUS Networks
Naoto Komatsu
CTO, Wire and Wireless Co.,Ltd. (Wi2)
Pramod Gummaraj
Founder & CEO, Aprecomm
Rida Zouaoui
Head of New Business Strategy, Orange
Sean Sealey
CEO, Fuzion Technologies
Shrinath Keskar
Vice President - Global Sales and Business Development, Morse Micro
Steve Andrews
TMT Chairman/NED, Board Advisor & Investor
Steve Namaseevayum
Vice President - Memberships & Industry Engagements, WBA
Tiago Rodrigues
CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
Other Wireless Global Congress Speakers of 2024
Al Jenkins
Co-Chair, Connected Communities Forum (CCF), and Strategist for Broadband Telecommunications
Andy Penley
Group CTO, Boldyn Networks
Bart Giordano
President - Networking, Intelligent Cellular & Security (NICS), Ruckus Networks
Bernard Herscovici
Founder & CEO, NetExperience
Betty Cockrell
Director Service Provider Products, Single Digits, Inc.
Carlos Lei
CEO, Uplink
Eran Dor
VP Products, Pavlov Media
GS Sickand
VP Wireless Engineering, Cox Communications
Gagan Mittal
Senior Vice President Products, Alethea Communications
George Hechtman
Principal, Hechtman Venture Development
Greta Byrum
Principal, Broadband & Digital Equity, HR&A Advisors
Himanshu Tyagi
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Ms. M. Revathi
Joint Wireless Advisor, Wireless Planning & Coordination (WPC) Wing, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications Government of India
Huw Rees
VP Business Development, NetExperience
Jack Raynor
Co-Chair, Open Converged Wireless Project Group, Telecom Infra Project
James Allison
Manager of Planning, Capitol Corridors
Jenni Dettman
VP Marketing, RouteThis
JR Wilson
Chairman, WBA, and Vice President Tower Strategy & Roaming, AT&T
Kevin Robinson
President & CEO, Wi-Fi Alliance
Malcolm Smith
CTO Advisor - Wireless, Cisco
Manish Gangey
Executive President - Product Strategy, HFCL Limited
Manish Malhotra
Assistant Vice President, Fiber Broadband Product Management and Development, AT&T
Manoj Tandon
Director Projects - Operations and Maintenance, RailTel
Mark Grayson
Cisco Fellow, Cisco
Mark Krischer
Principal Wireless Architect, Cisco
Mark Miller
Co-Founder & President, Cutting Edge Telecommunications
Mike Finley
CEO, Boingo Wireless
Mittal Parekh
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Technical Marketing and Influencer Marketing, RUCKUS Networks
Dr. Necati Canpolat
Senior Staff Architect, Intel
Paul Lai
CEO, AsiaRF
Prakash Guda
VP, Product & Marketing, Morse Micro
Presanna Chamala
Sales Director, Alethea Communications
Rajat Ghai
Vice President - Xfinity Wi-Fi Engineering, Comcast
Reza Jafari
CEO and Chairman, e-Development International
Ricky Taft
Senior Lead Product Manager, Broadband Devices, Cox Communications
Rizwan Makhani
Business Solution Architect, Marriott International
Robert Grosz
President and COO, WorldVue
Robert Stacey
Chair - 802.11 Work Group, IEEE
Russ Keveryn
Senior Vice President of Sales, RouteThis
Sanjiv Verma
VP Asia-Pacific, RUCKUS Networks at CommScope
Sarath Kumar
Chief Technology Officer, ACT FIBERNET
Sarper Gokturk
Vice President of Innovation, Airties
Scott Stinson
Head of Customer Solutions - Americas, Airties
Seemab Kadri
Director - Strategic Partnerships and Marketing, Intel Corporation
Sudeep Bose
Senior Director Product Management, Synamedia
Suja John
Assistant Vice President - Global Intercarrier and Private Network Services, AT&T
Tim Race
Director of Customer Success, Shasta Cloud
TV Ramachandran
President and CEO, Broadband India Forum
Shri Vivek Narayan
DDG (DS), DoT Ministry of Communications
Vince Aragona
President and CEO, Neo Network Development
Zac Freeman
VP of Marketing & Sales, Newracom
