2023 Agenda




Quantumverse OpensWelcome

8:00 - 8:45 pm

Quantumverse: Pixels of Disruption

Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting

8:45 - 9:15 am

5G Roadmap: Planning for the Coming Decade

Ed Chan SVP & CTO, Verizon

Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting

9:15 - 9:45 am

Scaling 5G Monetization

Shimie Hortig Group President, Americas, Amdocs

Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting

9:45 - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 - 11:00 am

DNA of AI: Building blocks of a transformative world

Andy Markus SVP & Chief Data Officer, AT&T

Ina Fried (Moderator) Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios

Durga Malladi SVP & GM - Technology Planning, Qualcomm

11:00 - 11:30 am

AI: Shaping the Mobile Ecosystem

Elena Fersman Head of AI Accelerator, Ericsson

Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting

11:30 - 12:00 pm

Chronicles from the 5G Frontier

Ulf Ewaldsson President - Technology, T-Mobile

Chetan Sharma (Moderator) CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch

Afternoon Sessions
1:30 - 2:30 pm

AI and Automation in the Enterprise (iOS Room)

Shanker Trivedi SVP - Enterprise Business, Nvidia

Aashu Virmani (Moderator) VP and Global Head C4E, Cyient

Shaun McCarthy President, North America, Nokia

Caroline Chan VP & GM - 5G Infrastructure, Intel

Terry Williams SVP & CIO, Costco Wholesale


Cybersecurity in Quantumverse (Android Room)

Jeff Simon SVP & Chief Security Officer, T-Mobile

Cristin Flynn (Moderator) Former General Counsel - Cybersecurity, Microsoft

Jonny LeRoy CTO, Grainger

Patrick Massey Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

William Bartholomew Principal Security Strategist, Microsoft

2:30 - 3:25 pm

Making Sustainability Economically Viable (iOS Room)

Brandon Johnson SVP - AI & Automation, Assurant

Jesse Noffsinger (Moderator) Partner, McKinsey

Frank Meehan Chief Product Officer, OpenESG

Ashu Suvarna Head - Sustainability, Hitachi America Ltd.

Anand Chandrasekher CEO and Co-Founder, Aira Technologies


The Golden Age of Healthcare (Android Room)

Mani Prakash VP - Enterprise R&D, Medtronic

Ina Fried (Moderator) Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios

Tueng Shen Associate Dean, School of Medicine & College of Engineering, University of Washington

Daniel Donoho Neurosurgeon, Children's National Hospital

Andy Hickl CTO, Allen Institute

3:25 - 4:05 pm

Networking

4:05 - 5:05 pm

AI and Automation in Networks and Operations (iOS Room)

Azita Arvani CEO - Americas, Rakuten Symphony

Marwan Fawaz (Moderator) Former Executive Advisor, Google

Justin Reilly CEO, Wavelo

Mazin Gilbert Executive - Telecommunications, Google

Ron Marquardt VP - Advanced Technologies and Innovation, T-Mobile


Industrial Metaverse: Catalyst for Change and Productivity (Android Room)

Mischa Dohler VP - Emerging Technologies, Ericsson

Jim Brisimitzis (Moderator) Founder, 5G Open Innovation Lab

Kevin Cramer Executive - Azure+, Microsoft

Vishal Shah GM - XR & Metaverse, Lenovo

Udiyan Padmanabhan CEO and Co-Founder, YDrive

5:05 - 6:00 pm

Investing in Quantumverse (iOS Room)

Jonathan Heiliger General Partner, Vertex Ventures

Jeff Bradley (Moderator) Startup Advisor and former SVP, AT&T

Paul Kedrosky General Partner, SK Ventures

Glenn Lurie General Partner, Stormbreaker

Austin Guyette Partner, Voyager Capital

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Networking Reception

Chill, Network, and form partnerships for Life



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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

Networking