Cristiano Amon serves as President of Qualcomm Inc.,  the world’s largest provider of wireless chipsets and software solutions. In this role, he is responsible for the oversight of all activities related to Qualcomm’s semiconductor business. Amon also serves as a member of Qualcomm’s executive committee.

Amon served as co-president of QCT for three years and prior to this was senior vice president of product management with QCT, managing the Company’s wireless chipset portfolio. Amon joined Qualcomm in 1995 as an engineer and during this time he has held several other business and technical leadership roles at the Company.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Amon served as the chief technical officer of Vésper, a wireless operator in Brazil and held positions in NEC, Ericsson and Velocom Inc.

Amon holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from UNICAMP – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

Thomas Noren is Head of 5G Commercialization at Ericsson. He leads Ericsson group-wide initiatives around 5G to ensure 5G readiness and a strong 5G ramp-up. His areas of focus include customer use cases, portfolio alignment, pricing models, lead-customer and ecosystem partner engagements. Throughout his career Noren has worked with cutting-edge technologies. He is credited for leading Ericsson’s global success with 4G/LTE. He also initiated and introduced the award-winning Ericsson Radio System — the company’s highly modular and efficient hardware system for radio and transport networks.
Noren joined Ericsson in 1997 and has since held several executive positions in product management, R&D, and sales. Prior to joining Ericsson, Noren was a fellow at McKinsey & Company where he worked with high-tech and industrial clients. He has lived and worked in France, Japan, and the US. Noren has a M.Sc. in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

Woojune Kim is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Products and Business Strategy, Networks Business Unit at Samsung Electronics.

He has worked extensively in the telecommunications industry during the transition over the last 20 years from traditional telephony to IP and wireless networks, covering engineering and business roles, He started as a systems engineer at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs (Murray Hill), working on the first ATM PON/FTTH networks.

In 1999, he joined Samsung and helped develop the first commercial CDMA2000 3G system in the world. Later he joined Airvana Inc, Boston, where he became Vice President of Technology and CTO of Femtocells. In this role, he led marketing and development teams to develop new and innovative wireless products related to 4G LTE RAN, smallcells, and security and access gateways.

Since 2011 he has been with Samsung Networks, working in various roles, including Head of Global Product Management and Technical Sales, and Regional GM for North American Networks business. More recently he has focused on bringing the advanced 5G mmWave technology developed by Samsung’s R&D teams into commercial deployments including the first 5G trials in the world.

He obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea.

Carl Pei is a co-founder at OnePlus. Raised in Sweden, Carl built and currently oversees the global business of OnePlus. 

Founded in 2013, the team at OnePlus was determined to build a better smartphone. Taking an internet centric approach to the business, the OnePlus mission remains to “share the best technology with the world.”

OnePlus has launched 7 flagship smartphones to date, and has found success across the world. Their debut smartphone, the OnePlus One, was hailed by TIME as the ‘phone of dreams’. OnePlus is currently the number one premium smartphone brand in India, and number four premium smartphone brand in Western Europe. Their latest product, OnePlus 6, has been ranked ‘Best Smartphone in the World’ by Business Insider.

Before co-founding OnePlus, Carl has been running different online content, community, and e-commerce ventures since the age of 12. Carl enjoys chocolate and ice cream, as well as chocolate ice cream.

Co-Founder and CEO David Cole was a believer in fully-immersive media before there was such a thing. As a kid projecting 3D movies on a blanket of mist in his front yard and filmed holograms in his family's laundry room.

Now with three decades of experience in digital imaging, and stereoscopic research and development, David holds seven patents and has co-authored almost 30 more pending patents in the virtual reality space. A world David embraced as EVP of Research and Development, and Member of the Board of Directors for a division of Kodak where he developed virtual reality display technology and the first consumer stereoscopic 3D shutter glasses.

Today, through a relentless push for more and more immersive innovations, David makes sure NextVR remains at the forefront, and then some, of delivering fully-immersive live VR sports and entertainment experiences.

Erin Chapple is the Corporate Vice President of the Program Management team within Azure responsible for the technology at the foundation of all Windows-based products: Windows Kernel, Hypervisor and Containers, Storage and Server Experience and the Linux Kernel. Erin is the Product leader for Windows Server and in this role she partners across the ecosystem to jointly innovate and deliver the silicon, hardware, systems and solutions necessary for the Windows Server business. She is also the Product leader for Always Connected PCs, partnering with silicon and device partners to bring this new category of devices to market. Erin joined Microsoft in 1998 as a Program Manager on the Small Business Server. Since then, she has contributed to over 15 operating system releases in various Program Manager leadership positions. Building communities and supporting women is as core to her as operating systems. She was a founding member of the Women’s Leadership Council within what is now the Cloud + AI division, a group that is seen as a model for women’s communities within Microsoft. In 2012 Erin’s peers at Microsoft presented her with the “Leadership Advocacy Award for Women.” Following this, Chapple turned her focus to leading Life Without Lines, the community focused on bringing the executive technical women together. Erin earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering minoring in environmental engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She earned her master’s degree in applied behavioral science from Bastyr University where she focused on coaching and consulting in organization as part of the Leadership Institute of Seattle. Erin lives in Seattle with her husband and son where they are looking forward to Seattle getting a hockey team to reduce the regular commute to Vancouver to watch the Canucks. She can be followed at twitter.com/erinchapple

In 2016, Ziyu Shen joined Geely Group as Vice President of Geely Automobile Research Institute, in addition to his role as ECARX Chairman & CEO. With a focus on the technology areas of intelligent digital cockpit and autonomous driving, ECARX sets its goals to establish a leading position to overcome the technology generation gap and develop a global technology platform. ECARX also aims to establish its reputation as an international Chinese player that provides the best intelligent mobility in the world and drives the entire Chinese auto industry to a world-class level.

Suresh Venkatarayalu is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Safety & Productivity Solutions (SPS). Suresh is responsible for driving New Product Introduction, Innovation, Technology Roadmaps, Mid-segment Offerings, Internet of Things, and fueling Breakthrough Initiatives.
Most recently, he was VP & Chief Technology Officer, Automation & Control Solutions (ACS) leading global technology and engineering organization fueling growth & innovation. Prior to leading technology agenda for ACS, Suresh was President, Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS), leading more than 50% of Honeywell’s global technology design centers across India, China, and Czech Republic.
Suresh has 23 years of technology & IT leadership experience, beginning his career in the aerospace industry with India’s Aeronautical Development Agency. At Honeywell, he contributed to number of avionics products & platforms in Aerospace; strategically applied his business and technical expertise across businesses turning IT into a transformational growth driver; managed technology development and engineering driving and impacting Honeywell businesses and their customers globally
He received Honeywell’s 2009 Senior Leadership Award and the 2011 Aerospace Leadership Award for his outstanding and exceptional contributions to the organization. A graduate in Computer Science Engineering from Bharathidasan University (India), he has completed his post-graduation in General Management from IIM (Indian Institute of Management), Kozhikode (India).

Philip’s background has been deep-rooted in ERP and Ecommerce technologies since the mid 1990’s giving him exceptionally strong business acumen.  As a consultant in the 1990’s - 2000’s - he most often served as a Chief Architect or CTO, engineering software products and integrated ecommerce platforms for many small, medium, and large (Fortune) companies transitioning their global businesses online.  After successfully selling his company in 2009, he joined Fossil Group where his responsibilities included digital transformation across Fossil Group’s portfolio of brands helping the company grow from $1B in revenue to over $3.5B in revenue in just the 3 years. Following this success, Philip became CTO of Fossil Group tasked with driving world-class innovation and technology where his efforts included incubating and “rebooting” Fossil’s 15-year-old smartwatch / wearable technology division quickly becoming one of the largest smartwatch companies in the world. In 2018, Philip joined Amazon Web Services as the Worldwide Tech Leader for Retail (a.k.a. AWS Retail CTO) where his responsibilities include driving innovative solutions for AWS Retail & Ecommerce customers worldwide and developing the AWS Retail (technical) vision, strategic plan, and product roadmap.  Innovative retail solutions involve the full stack of AWS products/services such as Machine Learning, IOT, AR/VR, and Blockchain, in addition to all of the existing highly scalable AWS cloud services. AWS customers include Amazon.com, Amazon Go, Amazon Books, and Amazon Fresh as well as the thousands of AWS retail / ecommerce companies in over 200 countries. To learn more about AWS Retail visit https://aws.amazon.com/retail

Alex Katouzian currently serves as senior vice president and general manager of the mobile business unit at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. In this role, Katouzian is responsible for the profit and loss of the mobile BU, which includes 3 separate business lines – Mobile Handset Solutions; Industrial IoT / Smart Cities / Modem Technologies; and Mobile Compute products for Windows On SnapDragon, Chrome, Android and Headmounted Displays – including all product management, roadmap and tech planning, program management, finance/opex, strategy, BU operations, and engineering execution groups.   
 
Katouzian brings nearly 30 years of experience to Qualcomm. Prior to joining the company, he held various management positions at Brooktree Corp, and Conexant Systems developing complete chipsets, software and system solutions for multimedia, graphics, consumer electronics, and cellular handset. 
 
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego emphasis on Semiconductor Physics

Manu is the Vice President, Xiaomi and Managing Director of Xiaomi India. He spearheads Xiaomi’s business in India. He started Xiaomi’s operations in India in 2014, and is responsible for all functions based in the country. He is responsible for driving the India team to a raging success in such a short time.
He started his career with McKinsey & Company as an engagement manager and went on to co-found a leading e-commerce portal called Jabong.com in 2012. At Jabong, he was responsible for driving sales and marketing for the company. Manu, along with the other cofounders were responsible for revolutionizing the Fashion e-commerce industry in India.
He graduated from IIT Delhi in 2003 where he got a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He received his post graduate degree in business management from IIM Calcutta in 2007. Manu is a doting father, loving husband, amateur cartoonist, passionate marketer a dreamer. He is passionate about new ideas and finds inspirations in everyday routines. All his spare time is dedicated in babysitting his son Jordan and spending time with his wife.

Awards and Recognitions:
• Asia One’s Most Influential Indians Under 50, 2017
• LinkedIn Power Profile: August 2017, August 2016
• Fortune 40 Under 40: March 2018, March 2017, March 2016, March 2015
• The Economic Times 40 under 40: September 2016
• GQ India Most Influential Young Indian: September 2015
• Business Today’s India Top Executives Under 40: June 2015

Patrick founded Moor Insights & Strategy based on in his real-world world technology experiences with the understanding of what he wasn’t getting from analysts and consultants. Four years later, Patrick is consistently ranked in the top echelon of all technology industry analysts in terms of “power” (via ARInsights) and is consistently top ranked in “press citations” (via Apollo Research). Moorhead is a contributor for both Forbes and CIO. He is a broad-based analyst covering a wide variety of topics including the software-defined datacenter and the Internet of Things (IoT), and Patrick is a deep expert in client computing and semiconductors. He has 25 years of experience including 15 years of executive experience at high tech companies leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.

Moorhead has been recognized in publications like The Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Recode, USA Today, Barron’s, Marketwatch, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, PCMag, ZDNet, CNET, PC World, EE Times, CRN, ABC, BBC, San Jose Mercury News, Austin American Statesman, and many more.

Before Patrick started the firm, he spent over 20 years as a high-tech strategy, product and marketing executive who has addressed the personal computer, mobility, graphics, and server ecosystems. Unlike other service firms, Moorhead held executive positions leading strategy, marketing, and product groups. He is grounded in reality as he has led the planning and execution and had to live with the outcomes.

Patrick departed AMD in 2011 where he served as Corporate Vice President and Corporate Fellow in the strategy group. There, he developed long-term strategies for mobile computing devices and personal computers. Moorhead also served in his 11 years at AMD leading product management, business planning, product marketing, regional marketing, channel marketing, and corporate marketing. Moorhead also worked at Compaq Computer Corp. during their run-up to the #1 market share leader position in personal computers. Patrick also served as an executive at AltaVista E-commerce during their search leadership reign, pioneering cost per click e-commerce models.

Moorhead also has significant board experience. He served as an executive board member of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the American Electronics Association (AEA) and chaired the board of the St. David’s Medical Center for five years, designated by Thomson Reuters as one of the 100 Top Hospitals in America.

Mr. Gao graduated from the Changchun Institute of Posts and Telecommunications with a major in telecommunications engineering and received a doctorate degree in business administration from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Mr. Gao served as Deputy Director General of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Posts and Telecommunications Administration, Deputy General Manager and General Manager of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Telecom Company, General Manager of China Telecom Jiangsu branch. He is also a Vice President of China Telecommunications Corporation. Mr. Gao has extensive experience in management and telecommunications industry.

Ed Chan is the senior vice president of Network Infrastructure Planning for Verizon, a position he has held since 2013. Ed is responsible for the strategic technology evolution of the Verizon wireless and wireline networks where he oversees long-term planning to meet future traffic demand.

Previously, Ed was vice president of Core Network Infrastructure Planning, where he directed strategy of the core network infrastructure including the optical long haul transport, packet core MPLS/IP, voice/VoIP, video/CDN and advanced network architecture such as SDN.

Prior to that, Ed was vice president of National Network Operations for Verizon Wireless, responsible for the operation of centralized national network infrastructure including the backbone IP network and commercial data systems. He also had responsibility for the Network Operations Center and technical Network Repair Bureau, which supports both consumer and enterprise customers.

Ed started his career as an engineering intern in the Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems wireless lab in 1992. Since then he has held positions of increasing responsibility, including direction of network engineering, operations and performance for southern New Jersey, Delaware and central and eastern Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia; network implementation supporting new products and services; and oversight of the convergence of legacy wireless data networks into a common network for data and voice communications.

Ed earned his master’s degree in Management of Technology from the University of Pennsylvania, and he holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University.

Mr. Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990.  He is now SVP and General Manager of the 5G Laboratories in NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Mr. Nakamura has been engaged in the standardization activities for the W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced and 5G at ARIB in Japan since 1997. He has been the Acting Chairman of Strategy & Planning Committee of 5G Mobile Communications Promotion Forum(5GMF) in Japan since October 2014.

Mr. Nakamura has also been contributing to standardization activities in 3GPP since1999, including as a contributor to 3GPP TSG-RAN as chairman from April 2009 to March 2013.

He is also very active in standardization of C-V2X/Connected Car in ARIB and ITS Info-communications Forum in Japan. He is now a leader of Cellular System Application Task Group of ITS Info-communications Forum.

As Vice President, Vendor Strategy and 5G Technologies, Dr. Abdurazak is responsible for E2E 5G technology steering from innovation via standardization towards commercial readiness. In his role as a VP for vendor strategy, he is also responsible for the development of vendor strategy and governance.

He joined Deutsche Telekom Group in April 2018 from Huawei Technologies. In his latest role at Huawei, Abdurazak was serving as a Vice President of 5G Europe responsible for the development of Huawei’s 5G product and market strategies in Europe.

Prior to joining Huawei in 2012, Dr. Abdurazak was lead consultant responsible for the Network and Infrastructure Competence Center at Altran Germany, at the time parent company of Arthur D. Little (ADL).

Abdurazak holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany and he was a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh.

As Vice President, Vendor Strategy and 5G Technologies, Dr. Abdurazak is responsible for E2E 5G technology steering from innovation via standardization towards commercial readiness.

Kirill was born in 1978. He graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance in 2000. From 2000 to 2007, Kirill held several management positions in FMCG companies in Russia and Ukraine. Prior to his appointment in May 2016 to the position of Chief Sales and Service Officer at MTS, Kirill Dmitriev worked as Director of Moscow macro-region of MTS PJSC from 2014. From 2011, he headed MTS North-West macro-region. In 2009-2011, Kirill headed the Western Territorial Department of MTS Ukraine.

Channa Seneviratne is the Executive Director – Network and Infrastructure Engineering. Channa is responsible for the development, resilience and operation of our fixed, wireless and transport networks.  

Channa has over 30 years of experience in Telecommunications networks having worked in both Operations and Engineering across both fixed and wireless technologies.  During his time in Telstra, Channa has played key engineering design, support and operational roles as Telstra moved from being a start up in wireless through the evolutions of 2G, CDMA, 3G, 4G and now into readiness for 5G. More recently Channa led the launch of the world’s first commercial gigabit LTE network, the activation of Australia’s largest IoT footprint through our Cat M1 technology and the launch of our 5G Innovation Centre.

Channa has a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Queensland.

Away from work Channa enjoys travel, sport, wildlife photography and spending time with his wife and two young daughters.

Charles-Henri Morin is Vice President, Connected Objects Technologies of Orange. He is responsible for the company’s technical expertise in embedded OS, software, chipsets, connectivity and network services of the group’s connected devices sold in Orange EMEA.

Charles-Henri manages an international team working alongside Orange’s global technology and ecosystem partners to secure interoperability of new technologies found in today’s connected devices with the group’s network in 28 countries.

Under his leadership, Orange has become a global leader to bring the latest cellular and technological advancements to the Orange footprint to advance both voice, data and low power wide area connectivity to millions of customers.

Prior to that, he held different positions in the wireless industry and served as a consultant at Wavestone.

Charles-Henri is a graduate of Télécom ParisTech and speaks fluent French and English.

Mr. Jin-Hyo Park is currently serving as CTO, Executive Vice President and Head of the ICT R&D Center at SK Telecom. In this role, Mr. Park leads the development of next generation 5G communications technologies as well as the latest advanced technologies in media, security, data analytics and autonomous driving.

Having been at SK Telecom since 1997, Mr. Park has had a variety of roles in his 20+ years including managing R&D strategy and successfully overseeing the commercialization of WCDMA and HSDPA/HSUPA networks. As leading the Access Network Lab, he is also credited with helping SK Telecom to be the first to commercialize LTE in Korea and the world’s first multi-carrier/HD Voice(VoLTE). For the last 5 years when he served as Senior Vice President and the Head of Network R&D Center, he has actively contributed to world-leading LTE-A, 5G, connected car, quantum cryptography communications technologies.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Information & Communications Engineering from Korea University

Val Elbert is a core member of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practice at The Boston Consulting Group, and leads that practice’s global commercial topic in M&A strategy and postmerger integration. He works with leading telecom and technology companies on growth strategy in fixed and mobile telecommunications, deep operational improvements, organizational transformation and change management, and client enablement. Val leads BCG’s relationship with a major telecommunications company. He has also worked with many BCG clients on commercial excellence in consumer products, including CRM, cross-sell, and digital for global TMT companies.

Prior to BCG, Val was a Director of Product at Verizon - leading commercial launch of new VoIP and WiFi products.  He was awarded 2 patents for technology innovation in wireless and cloud services. 

Val holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, Masters of Engineering and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University.