Quantumverse OpensWelcome
7:00 - 8:00 am
Breakfast
8:00 - 8:30 am
Quantumverse: Frontiers of Emergent Intelligence (State of the Union)
Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
8:30 - 9:00 am
Engineering the Nervous System of Physical AI
John Saw CTO, T-Mobile
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
9:00 - 9:30 am
Silicon at the Edge of Intelligence
Kedar Kondap SVP & GM - Compute & Gaming, Qualcomm
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
9:30 - 10:15 am
Break
10:15 - 10:45 am
Networking Supercycle: From Carrying the AI Economy to Capturing Its Value
Masum Mir SVP/GM Provider Mobility, Cisco
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
10:45 - 11:15 am
Revenue Before Radio: Building the 6G Intelligent Fabric
Mathias Riback Head of Advanced Technology, Ericsson
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
11:15 - 11:45 am
Enterprise AI Diffusion
Manish Mangal President - Americas Communications Business, Tech Mahindra
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
11:45 - 1:15 pm
Lunch
Afternoon Sessions
1:15 - 2:10 pm
The Diffusion Frontier: Enterprise AI Beyond the POC
Brandon Johnson SVP - AI & Automation, Assurant
Julie Averill (Moderator) Former CIO, lululemon
Barak Turovsky EVP and Head of Consumer AI, Paramount
Sam Browd Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Seattle Children's Hospital
Sabra Schneider CIO, City of Bellevue
Closing the Loop: AI, Automation, and the New Economics of Operations
Andrew De La Torre SVP - Technology, Infrastructure Industries, Oracle
Ewan Duncan (Moderator) Senior Partner - TMT, McKinsey
Alok Shah VP - Strategy and Marketing, Samsung Electronics America
Sean Schneyer Chief Telecom Architect, Everpure
Rob McDonald Vice President and CBE, Amdocs
2:10 - 3:05 pm
Frontiers of NTN Economy: Delivering Universal Connectivity and more
Jeff Giard Vice President - Strategic Partnerships, T-Mobile
Derek Long (Moderator) SVP - Telecommunications, Cambridge Consultants
David Goldman Vice President - Satellite Policy, SpaceX
Kris Rydberg Chief Business Officer, Viridian Space Corporation
Silicon, Signal, Service: Monetizing the AI-Native Network
Ankur Kapoor Chief Network Officer, T-Mobile
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
Shawn Hakl SVP, AT&T Business
Ronnie Vasishta SVP - Telecoms, Nvidia
Tejas Rao Global Network Practice Lead, Accenture
Udayan Mukherjee CTO - RAN & Core, Nokia
3:05 - 3:45 pm
Networking
3:45 - 4:35 pm
Quantum's Next Frontier: From Theory to Production
Manish Kumar Singh Co-Founder and CPO, memQ
Lori Salow Marshall (Moderator) Founding Managing Partner, The Quantum Links Group
Sabitha Krishnamurthy Quantum Lead, Cisco
Maik Hassel VP - Products, Photonic, Inc.
Per Greisen President and Head of Protein Design, BioMap
Emergent Intelligence: From Models to Machines
Alan Cohen Operating Partner, DCVC
Jim Brisimitzis (Moderator) Founder, Khasm Labs
Rishabh Agarwal CEO and Co-Founder, Peer Robotics
AJ Meyer CEO and Founder, Pickle Robot
Vik Pavate CEO and Co-Founder, Tacta Systems
4:35 - 5:30 pm
Investing in the Quantumverse
Brian Modoff Advisory Partner, Summit Partners
Glenn Lurie (Moderator) General Partner, Stormbreaker
Ashmeet Sidana Founder and Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital
Ben Eidelson Co-Founder and Partner, Stepchange Ventures
Brian Wilcove Managing Partner , America's Frontier Fund
5:35 - 6:10 pm
Architecting Networks for the Agentic Era
Yago Tenorio CTO & SVP - Technology Development, Verizon
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
6:15 - 8:00 pm
Networking Reception
Chill, Network, and form partnerships for Life
* - Agenda subject to change
New Future OpensWelcome
8:00 - 8:30 am
Quantumverse: Postcards from the Future
Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
8:30 - 9:00 am
Quantum Leaps – A Decade of Innovation and Disruption
Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
9:00 - 9:30 am
Dominating the 5G Era
Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
9:30 - 10:00 am
6G - Charting the course for beyond 5G
Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
10:30 - 11:00 am
5G Monetization
Agenda ,
11:00 - 11:30 am
5G - Industrial Automation and Enterprise Opportunities
Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
11:30 - 12:00 pm
Quantum Leaps: Scaling Smart Manufacturing
Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
11:15 - 12:00 pm
AI – Closing the Feedback Loop
Ken Denman General Partner, Sway Ventures
The Age of Telemedicine – Rethinking Healthcare
Agenda ,
12:00 - 12:45 pm
Cybersecurity: New Frontiers, New Challenges
Agenda ,
Building Resilient Supply Chains: JIT to JIC
Biju Nair President - Global Connected Living, Assurant
12:45 - 1:00 pm
Break
1:00 - 1:30 pm
Policy and Competition in the 5G Era
Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
1:30 - 2:00 pm
Roundtables
1:30 - 2:00 pm
5G Innovation
Agenda ,
Acceleration of Enterprise Opportunities
Agenda ,
2:00 - 2:30 pm