Speakers - EDGE Computing World

Announcing The Edge Computing World Europe 2021 Speaker Line Up:

Global Chief Digital Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Chief Executive Officer, OpenForum Europe

Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya)

Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

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

Kathryn Vince-Odozi

Field CTO for Energy, Dell Technologies

Ernst Stoeckl-Pukall

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

Chief Geospatial Scientist, Ordnance Survey

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

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

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

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

Jorge Velázquez Moro

Director, Digital Transformation, Sanitas

Peri Subrahmanya

Principal Engineer, Operations Platforms, Crop Science, Bayer

Chief Architect, BT

Vice President North America Research and Development, Denso International,

Board Member, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium

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 Partner, Interlace 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

Bruno Fernandez Ruiz

CTO and Co-Founder, Nexar

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

Sébastien Ziegler

President, IoT Forum

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

EdgeX Foundry Contributor and Global Product Management & Strategy, HP Inc

Director of Innovation Program & Science , Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

CEO , Dianomic,

Governing Board member , LF Edge

Data Center Facility Project Lead, Open Compute Project

Marketing Manager, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

Founder & Principal, AvidThink

Computer Scientist and Project Manager, Fraunhofer FOKUS

Offering Manager , IBM Cloud

Senior Technical Consultant, 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

CTO, Industrial Internet Consortium

Board Member, LF Edge,

VP Ecosystem, ZEDEDA

Chairman Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), ETSI

Ildikó Váncsa

Ecosystem Technical Lead, Open Infrastructure Foundation

Frédéric Desbiens

Program Manager, IoT and Edge Computing, Eclipse Foundation

Founder & Principal, Edge Computing Association

CEO, Topio Networks

Gavin Whitechurch

COO, Topio Networks

Chief Research Officer, Topio Networks

Research Director, Edge Strategies, IDC

Chief Labs Officer, Topio Networks

Edge Computing World 2020 Speakers

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

Venture Partner, NEA

Ken-ichi Murata

General Manager, Connected Cars, Toyota,

Chairman, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium

CTO, Industrial Internet 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

Hervé d’Halluin

Leader RFID United & Referent Interactive Sport Products, Decathlon

Rui Pedro Silva

Chief Product Officer, Maersk Logistics & Services

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

General Partner, Hardware Club

Prashant Tiwari

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

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)

Co-Founder & CEO, ndustrial

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

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

President & CEO, mimik

Senior Director, Transformation & R&D, Kroger

Chief Technology Officer, NetFoundry

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

Chief Commercial Officer, Veea Inc

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

Founder & CEO, Solecular

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

Ildikó Váncsa

Ecosystem Technical Lead, Open Infrastructure Foundation

Gergely Csatári

Senior Open Source Specialist, Nokia

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

Frédéric Desbiens

Program Manager, IoT and Edge Computing, Eclipse Foundation

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

Gavin Whitechurch

COO, Topio Networks

Chief Research Officer, Topio Networks

Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research

CEO & Founder, Vapor IO

Board Technology Advisor, Lynx Software,

Founder, Nebbiolo Technologies

Dr. Ganesh Sundaram

Founder & CEO, AlefEdge

CEO & Founder, Chetan Sharma Consulting

CTO & Co-Founder, EDJX

Co-Founder & CTO, Reliant

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

Chief Labs Officer, 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

Principal Hardware Architect, Azure , Microsoft,

Founding Chairman, Open19 Foundation,

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

Senior Technologist, ADLINK Technology

Joe Vander Zanden

Director, Global Alliances & Business Development, ConsenSys

Co-Founder & CEO, IndieSky

Dr. Ganesh Sundaram

Founder & CEO, AlefEdge

Executive Managing Director, GE Ventures

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

Chief Technology Officer, H&M Group

Ken-ichi Murata

General Manager, Connected Cars, Toyota,

Chairman, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium

CTO, Industrial Internet 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

Principal Hardware Architect, Azure , Microsoft,

Founding Chairman, Open19 Foundation,

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