Speakers - EDGE Computing World

Edge Computing World 2021 Speakers & Judges

Vice President of Strategy & R&D, UPS

VP of Technology, AWS

Leandro Balbinot

SVP Global Technology, McDonalds

Nancy J. Shemwell

Chief Operating Officer, Rural Cloud Initiative

Lourdes Charles

Assistant Vice President of Product Marketing Management, AT&T

CIO, City of Philadelphia

Chief Operating Officer, Mayo Clinic Platform, Mayo Clinic

Dr. Christophe St. Luce

Director of Information Technology, City of Venice, Florida

Principal, Emerging Conservation Technology, The Nature Conservancy

Ange Johnson de Wet

Head of Transformation Programme Compliance and Governance, Lloyds Banking Group

Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Riot Games

VP of Technology (Engineering and Analytics), Taco Bell

Jennifer Gill Didoni

Head of Cloud Portfolio, Vodafone Business

Principal Engineer, Immersive Devices and Services , T-Mobile

Vice President of Emerging Technology & 5G, Zscaler

Cloud Technical Architect / Cyber Security Leader,, Walgreens

Group Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Vedanta

Prashant Tiwari

GM & Executive Director, Intelligent Connected Systems (ICS) Division, Toyota

VP, Managed Services, Comcast Business

Stephen Spellicy

Vice President, Service Provider Marketing, Enablement & Business Development — Service Provider & Edge BU (SEBU), VMWare

Chairman, Autonomy Fellow , The Autonomy Institute

Chief Product Officer & Genera Manager, Mobile Robotics, Berkshire Grey

Global Head of Quantitative and Analytical Solutions, BP

Narendran Rajan

Leading Edge AI & Vision, Samsara

Innovation Director, EDF

EVP of Global Health Strategy, Ram Global,

Senior Analyst covering AI and Analytics, Chilmark Research

Founder & CEO, DoubleMe

Karsten Russell-Wood

Chief Marketing & Experience Officer, Equum Medical

Global Director of Industry Partnerships, Iconics, Mitsibushi Electronics

Vice President North America Research and Development, Denso International,

Board Member, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium

Head of Industry Solutions, Americas, here

Enterprise Architecture and Strategy Manager, Chevron

Sundeep Reddy Mallu

SVP Analytics, Gramener

Vice President, IoT Edge Devices & Solutions, Brambles

Senior Vice President, Siemens

Global Strategist, Retail & Industry Solutions , HP Inc

Senior Vice President Edge Portfolio & Solutions Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies

Chief Commercial Officer, Veea ,

VP Distributed Edge OCTO, VMware

Cofounder/Chairman, CommStar Space Communications

HP Fellow & VP Chief Technologist, Advanced Compute & Solutions HP, Inc, HP Inc

Founder & Principal Analyst, nScreen Media

Co-Founder & Chief Development Officer, Brainchip,

SDN Product Strategist, Verizon

Savi Venkatachalapathy

AWS Wavelength GTM Specialist, AWS

CEO & Founder, Vapor IO

Founder & CEO, Synadia Communcations Inc

CTO & Co-Founder, Pratexo

VP of Solutions and Partner, Reliant

VP of Product Management, Scale Computing

SVP, Marketing, Veea

Strategy Lead, Siemens

Senior Solutions Architect for IoT, AWS

AWS Local Zones Specialist, AWS

Board Member, LF Edge,

VP Ecosystem, ZEDEDA

Jeremy Roberson

Technical Director and AI Inference Software Architect, Flex Logix

Ildikó Váncsa

Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem, Open Infrastructure Foundation

Senior Vice President and Co-Founder, Flex Logix

CTO, Industrial Internet Consortium

Paul Butterworth

Head of Product Management, AWS Panorama, AWS

Senior Consultant Product Manager, Dell Technologies

Marketing Manager for Industrial Edge Ecosystems, Siemens

CEO & Co - Founder, Edgeworx

President, Asia Pacific & Japan and Global Digital Cities, Dell Technologies

Michael Fiedler

Team Lead Application Center, SIMATIC System Support, Siemens

Julian Chesterfield

Founder and CEO, Sunlight

CTO, Nearby Computing SL

Co-Founder & CTO, Tensor Networks

Frédéric Desbiens

Program Manager, IoT and Edge Computing, Eclipse Foundation

VP & GM Retail & Industry Solutions Global Business Unit, HP Inc.

Sigit Priyanggoro

Senior Product Manager, AWS

Venky Swaminathan

CTO and Co-founder , Rural Cloud Initiative

Dr. Ingo Simonis

Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Open Geospatial Consortium

Managing Partner, Ventures, Momenta Partners

CEO/Co-Founder, Dori AI

Chair, ETSI MEC,

Senior Manager Standards and Research, Intel Corporation

CEO, Nota Incorporated

Jose Bolanos MD

CEO, Nimbus-T Global inc

CEO, Ekkono Solutions

Managing Partner, Interlace Ventures

VP Worldwide Sales, BrainChip

Committee Leader, Omlox

Senior Technologist, ADLINK Technology

Chief Strategy Officer, Eurotech

Senior Director Software Engineering, NetFoundry

Senior Strategic Advisor, DataShapes

Senior Solutions Architect – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Specialist, AWS

Eva Schönleitner

Mahesh Makhijani

VP of Marketing & Business Development, GrAI Matter Labs

Chief Commercial Officer, Veea Inc

Alex Lennox-Miller

Senior Analyst, Chilmark Research

Brett Rudenstein

VP of Sales Engineering, Vantiq

Chief Technology Officer, NetFoundry

Michel Chabroux

Senior Director, Product Management, WindRiver

Dr. Azihem Sefidon

Director Research Head of Cloud Systems and Platforms, Ericsson

Principal Outposts Specialist, AWS

Hunaid Shakkarwala

Senior Technical Product Manager for Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, AWS

CEO, Strategy of Things

Strategic Account Executive, Schneider Electric

Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies

Group Product Manager, Google Cloud

Founder & Principal, AvidThink

Manager, DoD/IC Specialist Solutions Architect, Federal Division, , Red Hat

Matthew Northam

Product Director, Sunlight.io

CTO & Co-Founder, Avassa

Editor, Edge IR

Data Center Facility Project Lead, Open Compute Project

Principal Go-To-Market Specialist for Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, AWS

Principal Technology Strategist, Spirent Communications

Open19 Fellow, Linux Foundation,

Senior Director, Research and Innovation, InterDigital

Senior Director of Product Management, Scale Computing

Sébastien Ziegler

President, IoT Forum

Maemalynn Meanor

Senior Public Relations Manager, The Linux Foundation

Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research

Technical Expert, ETSI

CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium

Prabhakar Chitrapu

Chair, Small Cell Forum

Antonio de la Oliva

Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

María Angeles Barba

New Trends, Wayra – Open Innovation Telefónica

Carlos J. Bernardos

Vice-President, 5TONIC

Carlos Ruisanchez

Scouter & Dealflow Manager, Wayra – Open Innovation Telefónica

Director, Global Solution Architecture, Equinix

President & CEO, mimik

Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya)

Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Candice Rodriguez

Co-Founder, Edge Industry Review

Coordinator, EMPOWER

Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Dell Technologies

Director, Living Edge Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, Open Edge Computing Initiative

Venture Partner, NEA

General Partner, Hardware Club

Vice President, IoT Apps and Cloud Services, Veea

Chairman & CEO, DataShapes

Gergely Csatári

Senior Open Source Specialist, Nokia

CEO, Topio Networks

Gavin Whitechurch

Co-Founder & Head of Edge Practice, Topio Networks

Chief Research Officer, Tolaga Research

Vice President, Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Services, IDC

Co-Founder & CTO, Reliant

Co-Founder, Topio Networks

Speakers Edge Computing World Europe March 2021:

Global Chief Digital Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Chief Executive Officer, OpenForum Europe

Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi

SVP Strategy and Technology Innovation, Deutsche Telekom

Head of Unit Internet of Things, European Commission

Muhammad Soliman

MoP Modernization Program Strategy Realization Office Lead, Ministry of Petroleum, Egypt

Chief Technology Officer, Z-Tech & Global Vice President, Innovation, Anheuser-Busch InBev

Ernst Stoeckl-Pukall

Head of Division Digitisation, Industrie 4.0, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany

Kathryn Vince-Odozi

Field CTO for Energy, Dell Technologies

Réza Malekzadeh

General Partner, Partech

Director General for Innovation and Digital Economy, Government of Catalonia

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Edge Computing, IBM

Founder & CEO, Edge Impulse

Chief Geospatial Scientist, Ordnance Survey

Veit Hammerstingl

Product Owner Edge Platform, BMW

Chief Technology Officer, FiWare Foundation

Alexandre Harmand

Head of Core & Service Platforms, Telefonica

Alexandra Pinto

Founder - CEO, Hoursec

Errol Koolmeister

Head of AI Engineering, H&M Group

Head Edge & Networks Standards, Vodafone Group

Jorge Velázquez Moro

Director, Digital Transformation, Sanitas

Head of VC investments - Disruptive Tech & Innovation, European Investment Fund

Peri Subrahmanya

Principal Engineer, Operations Platforms, Crop Science, Bayer

Chief Architect, BT

Dr Mehmet Sanlialp

Factory Automation Industry Manager F&B / CPG, Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV

VP Sales DACH & Eastern Europe/Russia, SUSE

Partner, Hoxton Ventures

Managing Director, Momenta Partners

CTO, Edge Impluse

CEO, One Tech Inc

Philip Griffiths

Vice President and GM, Europe, Middle East and Africa, NetFoundry

CTO and Director Network Cloud, IBM

Pierluca Chiodelli

Vice President Engineering Technology & Edge Portfolio Product Management and Customer Operations , Dell Technologies

Jean-Marc Bonnefous

Board Director, Bonseyes

Chief Experience Officer, Edge Impulse

Founder & CEO, NodeWeaver

Evan Achillopoulos

CTO, Founder, Acromove Inc.

Project Manager, ONE Tech

Director of Community, SUSE

Global Head of Center of Excellence, SUSE

User Success Engineer, Edge Impulse

Strategy Offering Manager for 5G/Edge, IBM

Abhinivesh Jain

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS), 5G-Edge Solution Architect, Wipro

Dr. Andrey Krendzel

Principal Researcher, Huawei Technologies

Ecosystem Advocate, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Arpit Joshipura

General Manager, Edge & Networking, Linux Foundation

Cloud Technical Evangelist, OpenNebula

Director, Living Edge Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, Open Edge Computing Initiative

CEO , Dianomic,

Governing Board member , LF Edge

Marketing Manager, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

Computer Scientist and Project Manager, Fraunhofer FOKUS

Offering Manager , IBM Cloud

Engineering Technologist, Edge Solutions Group, Dell Technologies

Leader EMEA 5G Solutions, Spirent Communications

group leader - IT architectures for digital production at FhG IPA, Fraunhofer IPA

Senior Researcher, Fraunhofer FOKUS

Dr. Alexander Willner

Head of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) , Fraunhofer FOKUS

Dr. Georgios Karagianni

AIOTI WG Standardisation co-chair and Huawei Principal Strategist in Standardisation and Industry development, AIOTI, working for Huawei Technologies Dusseldorf GMBH

Dr. Dominik Rohrmus

CTO, Labs Network Industrie 4.0 e.V.

Aurelien Lequertier

User Success Engineering, Edge Impulse Inc

Chairman Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), ETSI

Founder & Principal, Edge Computing Association

Bruno Fernandez Ruiz

CTO and Co-Founder, Nexar

Co-Founder, Topio Networks

Edge Computing World 2020 Speakers

Prashant Tiwari

GM & Executive Director, Intelligent Connected Systems (ICS) Division, Toyota

Chief Commercial Officer, Veea Inc

Chief Technology Officer, H&M Group

General Manager, Americas, Rakuten Mobile

Chief Digital Officer, GE Healthcare

Chief Development Officer & Chief Technology Officer, Digital Solutions & Analytics , Boeing

Vice President & General Manager – Azure Edge Devices, Microsoft, Microsoft

Ken-ichi Murata

General Manager, Connected Cars, Toyota,

Chairman, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium

Shivkumar Krishnan

Global Head of Engineering, Stores Technology, Gap Inc

Head, Global Ecommerce, Forever 21

Global Head of Product Incubation Engineering, Equinix

Marketing Committee Chair, AVCC

Co-Founder & CEO, Latent AI

Vera Serdiukova

AI Product Manager - Edge AI/ML, LG Electronics

Founder and CEO, ClearBlade Inc

Rui Pedro Silva

Chief Product Officer, Maersk Logistics & Services

Hervé d’Halluin

Leader RFID United & Referent Interactive Sport Products, Decathlon

Arungalai Anbarasu

Chief Technology Officer, Waygate Technologies, Baker Hughes

Director & Head - AR & AR, Verizon

Founding Managing Director, Radiant Tech Ventures

Nicolas Chaillan

Chief Software Officer, US Air Force

Executive Leader of Digital, Data and Analytics Services, Charles Schwaab

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

VP Technology Transformation, Kroger

Research Lead, Rakuten Mobile, Inc

Chief Technology Officer, FogHorn

Investment Director, Intel Capital

Managing Director, Walden International

Project Manager Public Wi-Fi System, County of San Mateo

Founder & CEO, Drishti

Naveen Sangeneni

Chief Technology Officer, Coros, Mercedes-Benz

Chief Technology Officer, International Transportation Innovation Center (ITIC),

Adjunct Professor, Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR)

Chief Technology Officer, mimik Inc

Chairman, Walden International,

Founding Managing Partner, WRVI Capital,

CEO, Cadence Design Systems

Vice President, IoT Apps and Cloud Services, Veea

Shellye Archambeau

Member of the Board, Verizon, Nordstrom, Roper Technologies, & Okta

Jonathan Seelig

Co-Founder & CEO, Ridge

Kevin O’Donovan

, Technology Evangelist

COO, Valley Christian Schools

Director of Product - New Growth, Edge Cloud Platforms, Cox Communications

Pierre Yves Hadengue

Chief IoT Officer, owner of the Enki Platform, Leroy Merlin

Muhammad Rehman

VP, Head of Product - Content/Video Delivery, Cloud Security & Edge Computing, Verizon Media

Principal Group Program Manager, Azure Edge Devices, Microsoft, Microsoft

Founder and CEO, Core Analysis,

(previously Global VP, Network Innovation, Telefonica Group)

Vice President, Hyundai

Senior IoT Applications Engineer, Linde

V K Cody Bumgardner

Division Chief for Pathology Informatics, University of Kentucky

Chief Technology Officer, Eurotech

Co-Founder & CEO, ndustrial

Executive Director New Growth At, Cox Communications

David Shacochis

Vice President and Field CTO for Enterprise Technology, Lumen

Farah Papaioannou

Board Member, Eclipse Foundation,

2019 Winner, Edge Woman of the Year

Senior Director, Transformation & R&D, Kroger

Obinna Ilochonwu

Industrial IoT Architect, Schlumberger

Managing Director of Bare Metal, Equinix,

Chairman, Open 19 Foundation

Chief Cloud Architect, American Express

Chairman Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), ETSI

President & COO, WellAware.us

Ian Schmertzler

President, Dispel.io

Karthik Krishnan

Business Development Manager, ADAS and Autonomous Solutions, MSC Software a Hexagon Company

Chief Strategy Officer, SVP Strategy & Corporate Development, Wind River

Co-Founder and CEO, Zynstra, an NCR company

SVP of Product, Stackpath

Chairman & CEO, DataShapes

Mahaveer Vedalaveni

Product Management Leader, IBM

Co-Founder, IIoT-World.com

Senior Marketing Manager, Lumen

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Practice Director – 5G Edge, , Wipro

Business Development Manager, Wyld Networks

Dr. Steve Liang

Founder and CTO, SensorUp,

Rogers IoT Research Chair Professor, University of Calgary

Abhinivesh Jain

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS), Wipro Limited

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Manager, Telecom Argentina

Chair of the Technical Steering Committee , Akraino,

Enterprise Architect, Arm

Co-Founder & CEO, Reality AI

CEO & Founder, Edgevana

Founder & Managing Partner, Smart Connections

Antonio Pellegrino

Founder & CEO, Mutable

Muralidhar Goparaju

Founder & CEO, Amberflux

Chief Operatring Officer, Stream Analyze AB

Co-Founder & CEO, EDJX,

CEO, Zella DC (previously Zellabox)

President & Founder, EdgePresence

Mouli Narayanan

Founder & CEO, Zeblok Computational

Founder & Managing Director, Orsay Consulting

Anders Hardebring

CEO & CO-Founder, imagimob

CEO, Stream Analyze

Founder & CEO, Chooch AI

Wipro Fellow, Chief Technologist, Cloud & Infrastructure, Wipro

Sr. Analyst & CBDO, IIoT World

Product Architect - Edge Computing, TTTech Industrial

Chairman, The Initiative for Open Authentication

Adrian Cockcroft

VP Cloud Architecture Strategy, Amazon Web Services

George Percivall

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Engineer, Open Geospatial Consortium

Cloud Architect, Chick-fil-A

CTO, IOTech System

Christian González

Cloud Engineer, OpenNebula

Haridhar Kalvala

System Software Engineer, Intel Corporation,

Representative, OpenStack Foundation

Sanjay Mukherjee

System Software Engineer, Intel Corporation,

Represrentative, OpenStack Foundation

Chief Research Officer, Tolaga Research

Board Technology Advisor, Lynx Software,

Founder, Nebbiolo Technologies

Dr. Ganesh Sundaram

Founder & CEO, AlefEdge

CEO & Founder, Chetan Sharma Consulting

CTO & Co-Founder, EDJX

Juergen Schmerder

Director, Experience AI , Mercedes-Benz

Roman Shaposhnik

Governing Board Member and leader of Project EVE, LF Edge,

Co-founder, VP Product and Strategy, ZEDEDA Inc

Managing Director - Head of Data Engineering, CPP Investments

Associate Director, HPE Pathfinder

Senior Product Manager, Amazon Web Services

Chief Technology Officer, City of San Leandro

Senior Director Analyst – Cloud Technology and Economics, Gartner

Co-Founder, Topio Networks

Benoît Jeanson

Project Manager, RTE France

, Jacksonville Energy Authority

CoFounder & CoChair, State of the Edge,

Vice President, Strategy and Business Line Management, Stratus Technologies

Edge Computing World Inaugural Speakers

Adrian Cockcroft

VP Cloud Architecture Strategy, Amazon Web Services

Steve Jurvetson

CoFounder, Future Ventures

VP, Commercial Partnerships, Americas, Hatch (Rovio Entertainment Ltd.)

Lead Enterprise Architect and Chief Technologist, Chick-fil-A

Maryanna Saenko

Co-Founder, Future Ventures

Member of the Board of Directors, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium

Director of Product Management, ABB

President & CEO, MobileedgeX

Kate Mitselmakher

CEO, Founder & General Partner, Bloccelerate VC

CTO & EVP of Engineering, MobiledgeX

Chairman & Founder, Convergence Partners

CEO & Portfolio Manager, Axiomada

VP, Market Development, EDJX

Gabriele Baldoni

Technologist, ADLINK Technology

Geoff Hollingworth

CMO, MobileedgeX

Sree Chadalavada

Managing Partner, Gartner

Jonathan Schildkraut

Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, CyrusOne

Brian Karstetter

Senior Director Product & Strategy, Packet

CEO & Co-Founder, EAN Corporation

Chief Health Advisor, Rymedi & Remedichain

Joe Vander Zanden

Director, Global Alliances & Business Development, ConsenSys

Co-Founder & CEO, IndieSky

Dr. Ganesh Sundaram

Founder & CEO, AlefEdge

CEO / Founder, Signum Growth Capital

Director in the Future Infrastructure Group, CableLabs

Co-Founder and President, Anchorage

Chairman, Telecom Council

Senior Vice President, Core Network & Technology Solutions, CenturyLink

VP & Principal Analyst, Edge Compute, Forrester Research

Advisor, SingularityNET

Co-Founder & CTO, Boxbot

CEO & Founder, 0chain

Alicia Ferratusco

Founder & CEO, Starfish Mission

Developer Evangelist, Hedera Hashgraph

Chetan Venkatesh

CEO & Co-Founder, Macrometa

Founding Partner, StarChain Ventures

Radhika Iyengar-Emens

Managing Partner & Founder, DoubleNova Group

Jumbi Edulbehram

VP Global Cloud Services, Avigilon

Innovation Evangelist & Strategic Advisor, Silicon Valley Innovation Center

Senior Director of Enterprise Content, HTC Vive Studios

Christos Kolias

Principal (Co-founder, NFV), Orange

Network Infrastucture, Uber Elevate

CEO & Co-Founder, UPMEM

Founder & CEO, Open Foundation

CEO & Co-Founder, Armada Chain

Lead Technologist, Open Source, VMware

President and CEO, Federated Wireless

Founder & CEO, NGD Systems

Senior Product Manager, Amazon Web Services

Pierre-Damien Vaujour

Co-Founder, Loft Orbital

CEO, SIMBA Chain

Editor, Edge Computing Association

Founder & CTO, ArcBlock

Vandana Mansharamani

Security Product Manager, SAP

CEO, Brighten Ai

Executive Director, Strategy and Corporate Development for Wi-Tronix LLC, Wi-Tronix (US leading provider for Autonomous Heavy Rail)

Founder & CEO, Zenlayer

Head of Platforms and Partnerships, IoT BU, Cisco

Todd Papaioannou

AI Ethic Expert, Independent

Co-Founder & CTO, Mousebelt Accelerator

VP, Head of Global Business Development, Orbs

CEO, Near Protocol

Nigel Newby-House

VP, Wireless Product Planning, HTC

Balaji Ethirajulu

Chair, Marketing Committee, LF Edge (Linux Foundation)

Vishy Gopalakrishnan

Vice President, Ecosystem & Innovation, AT&T

Vice President, Future Infrastructure Group, Office of the CTO, CableLabs

Co-Founder & CTO, Gatik

Randy Levensalor

Principal Architect, CableLabs

Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Niantic (creators of Pokemon Go)

Developer Relations and Communities Lead, ZEDEDA

Rags Srinivasan

Representative, Kinetic Edge Alliance

Principal Analyst, Mobile Experts

Enterprise Blockchain Architect, Tata Consulting

Founder & Principal Analyst, Edge Research Group

Jean Marc Frangos

Advisor, Fujitsu Open Innovation Gateway

Founding Partner, Xona Partners

Founder & Chairman, Infrastructure Masons

Managing Partner & Co-Founder, YGC

Our Thanks to the Edge Computing World Advisory Board

CTO, Industrial Internet Consortium

Open19 Fellow, Linux Foundation,

Chief Technology Officer, H&M Group

Ken-ichi Murata

General Manager, Connected Cars, Toyota,

Chairman, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium

Farah Papaioannou

Board Member, Eclipse Foundation,

2019 Winner, Edge Woman of the Year

Chairman Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), ETSI

Founder & Managing Partner, Smart Connections

VP, Commercial Partnerships, Americas, Hatch (Rovio Entertainment Ltd.)

Director of Product Management, ABB

Board Technology Advisor, Lynx Software,

Founder, Nebbiolo Technologies

Managing Director - Head of Data Engineering, CPP Investments

Senior Product Manager, Amazon Web Services

VP, Platform Strategy & Edge Services, Equinix

Partner Program Manager, Kinetic Edge Alliance

Vice President, Strategy and Business Line Management, Stratus Technologies