2025 Agenda
Quantumverse OpensWelcome
7:00 - 8:00 am
Breakfast
8:00 - 8:30 am
Quantumverse 2030: Transcendence (State of the Union)
Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
8:30 - 9:00 am
Next Wave of Mobile Innovations – Use Cases and Roadmap
Magnus Ewerbring CTO - Asia Pacific, Ericsson
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
9:00 - 9:30 am
Quantumverse Infrastructure 2030: A Digital Blueprint
Yigal Elbaz SVP and Network CTO, AT&T
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
9:30 - 10:00 am
Intelligent Machines: Accelerating the Quantumverse
Masum Mir SVP/GM Provider Mobility, Cisco
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
10:00 - 10:30 am
Break
10:30 - 11:00 am
Elevating the ICT Stack Beyond Limits
Jitin Bhandari CTO - Cloud and Network Services, Nokia
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
11:00 - 11:30 am
Transcending Brand Identity with Personality Engineering
Gil Rosen CMO, Amdocs
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
11:30 - 12:00 pm
Challenger to Champion: Competition and Global Leadership
Mike Sievert CEO, President & Board Director, T-Mobile
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
12:00 - 12:10 pm
Special Presentation
12:10 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
Afternoon Sessions
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Deep tech innovation in the real world (Cove)
John Guiney COO, Rivada Space Networks
Aashu Virmani (Moderator) SVP, Cambridge Consultants
Rob Spalding CEO, Sempre, Brig Gen, USAF (Ret.)
Sridhar Solur CEO, Kenmore and DieHard
Rod Randall Cofounder and Chairman, MagLev Aero
Transcending Space: The Final Frontier (Marina)
Alind Saxena President & Executive Director - Mobility & Tech, L&T Technology Services
Jeff Giard (Moderator) Vice President - Strategic Partnerships, T-Mobile
Parth Trivedi CEO and Co-Founder, Skylo Technologies
Rob Kikta CoFounder & Head of Wireless Systems, Halo.one
Jeff Ahmet Director - Partnerships and Integration, SpaceX
2:30 - 3:25 pm
Quantumverse: Empowering the Enterprise Renaissance (Cove)
Shanker Trivedi SVP - Enterprise Business, Nvidia
Ken Denman (Moderator) General Partner, Sway Ventures
Julie Averill EVP & CIO, lululemon
Uli Homann CVP - Cloud + AI Engineering, Microsoft
Amir Banifatemi Chief Responsible AI Officer, Cognizant
DNA of AI: Building blocks of a transformative world (Marina)
Ankur Kapoor Chief Network Officer, T-Mobile
Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
Brian Shepherd President and CEO, CSG
Srini Kalapala SVP and Chief Product Dev Officer, Verizon Communications
Manish Mangal President - Americas Communications Business, Tech Mahindra
Patrick Lopez Global Telecom Field CTO, Pure Storage
3:25 - 4:05 pm
Networking
4:05 - 4:55 pm
Building a Resilient 6G Roadmap (Cove)
Seizo Onoe Director, ITU
Mischa Dohler (Moderator) VP - Emerging Technologies, Ericsson
Amit Bhardwaj SVP - National RAN & Device Engineering, Boost Mobile (Echostar Company)
Asha Keddy VP - Global Technology Standards, Cisco
Thomas Mueller CTO, Wipro Engineering
Humans+Robots: The New Frontier for Enterprise and Society (Marina)
Biju Nair President - Global Connected Living, Assurant
Jim Brisimitzis (Moderator) Founder, Khasm Labs
John Meehan Pediatric Surgeon - Robotic Surgery, Seattle Children's Hospital
Kent Gilson CTO, Revobots
Dinesh Narayanan CoFounder, General Robotics
4:55 - 5:30 pm
Investing in Quantumverse (Cove)
Vinay Nair Founder and CEO, Tifin
Dina Bass (Moderator) Technology Reporter, Bloomberg
Heather Redman Managing Partner, Flying Fish
Orlagh Neary Founder and CEO, Quantum Links
5:35 - 6:15 pm
Applied AI: Verizon 2030
Sowmyanarayan Sampath EVP & CEO, Verizon Consumer
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
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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
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12:00 - 12:45 pm
Cybersecurity: New Frontiers, New Challenges
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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
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Acceleration of Enterprise Opportunities
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2:00 - 2:30 pm