Joint Community Forum: Advancing Manufacturing with Private Networks across APAC and Europe

Hakim Achouri joined Airbus 5 years ago as a Telecom Expert for Digital Aviation. Member of the Airbus 5G Strategy Group, 6G for Aviation working group and Chairing the Digital Industries forum at GSMA.

His work consists in building the strategic roadmap and designing a worldwide architecture towards a 5G connected Factory and the future of Connected Aircraft. Building data & user centric solutions for factory 4.0 digitalization, Aircraft remote predictive maintenance and future of passenger connectivity.

Mirela Juravle is leading APJ Business Development IoT and Robotics in AWS with focus on Public Sector Smart Cities, Power & Utilities, Sustainability. In Asia for 7 years, she was previously heading up Industrial IoT APAC Business Development for Siemens, driving go to market for Industry & Manufacturing.

She is passionate about the difference that IoT and digital technologies can bring to people’s lives, business, communities and cities.

Mirela has 20 years experience in IoT and digital solutions in APAC, Europe and LATAM for Siemens, Indosat Ooredoo Indonesia, Telefonica Digital London, Orange Business Services Global with successful track record in leading IoT solutions portfolio and go to market for business model innovation, connected products and operational efficiency, as well as building and managing partnerships and IoT technology ecosystem providers for Smart Cities, Industry, Utilities, Transport, Automotive, Consumer Electronics.

Jo Gilbert is a Technical Director at the GSMA. She leads the GSMA Digital Industries activities which brings together mobile network operators, enterprises, and the wider ecosystem to connect the benefits of 5G in the industrial sector.  With a career spanning 20 years in the telecom sector, Jo has supported organisations to harness new and emerging technologies such as identity, IoT, big data, artificial intelligence and 5G. She holds a Master of Informatics, and Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Chris is a senior member of the GSMA Services team who is based in Hong Kong and is our regional lead for all our product groupings, including the most recently added new Blockchain and Roaming services.  His engagement includes speaking and meeting with operators, OEMs and regulators.

Chris also takes core responsibility for our eSIM Services product grouping which includes GSMA eSIM Discovery, the industry-endorsed, seamless and interoperable remote activation method for eSIMs.

Terence serves as the Market Development Director at APAC Technology team in GSMA. The key focus is on 5G, IoT, eSIM. He establishes the APAC IoT partnership programme and the APAC 5G Industry Community that accelerates the 5G and IoT ecosystem development and innovation in the APAC region. The IoT partnership programme accumulates 60+ MNOs, 500+ innovators and ecosystem members in 20+ APAC countries, jointly drive the digital transformation in various sector including manufacturing, transportation, logistics & port, healthcare, smarty city, agriculture and environment protection etc.

Worked for IT/Telco industry for over twenty years, Terence has strong and broad experiences in telecom industries on infrastructure, product development and management, consultancy, sales and marketing. He has worked for multinational companies such as Fujitsu, Nokia, and served as the architect, consultant, product lead and pre-sales head of BSS/OSS in the Asia region.

Terence has Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic Engineering) in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Master of Business Administration (Information Technology Management) in Hong Kong Polytechnics University, previously certified as Project Management Professional (Project Management Institute).

Trained in information and communication engineering at Zhejiang University of China, Ender has more than 15 years of experience in communication engineering and emerging technology. Since 2014, Ender has been building Hiverlab, an emerging tech company that drives digital transformation in Asia.

Hiverlab enables next-generation human-machine interactions. With proprietary off-the-shelf products and modularized solutions, Hiverlab democratize the implementation & interoperability of a wide range of emerging technologies. Company’s lead product Spatialwork is an AI powered no-code / low-code product to create Spatial Digital Twins for real-world systems, with use cases across industries.

Huawei SPO Lab’s mission is to research how Telco’s will do business in 5+ years’ time looking at innovations in business models, processes and ecosystems.

David role Huawei SPO Lab’s is to lead in building industry ecosystem partnerships for digital innovation “go-to-market” solutions

David’s Bio

• 30+ years in corporate innovation, international expansion, M&A, investment banking, and venture capital.
• 11 years in Silicon Valley from 2006 to 2017 and now back in Dublin, Ireland
• Has advised over 400 companies on expansion and innovation strategy, supported €200 m in sales, €125 m in funds raised and $400 m in M&A deals
• Head of Ecosystem Research Huawei SPO Lab – Digital Transformation and New Digital Services
• FirstCapital (Investment Bank), Managing Director, set up Silicon Valley and Dublin offices and led Corporate Development
• US Market Access Centre (Global Incubator in Silicon Valley), Corporate Development Lead, founder of TechMatch program
• Enterprise Ireland (Dept. of State & VC), SVP Telecoms, Silicon Valley Office
• Previously international marketing and communications for global public and private companies
• More details at   https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidivorsmith

With over 20+years of demonstrated experience in data & digital transformation, Malini is the Head of Digital Demand Creation at the Malaysian Communication & Multimedia Commission.

She oversees a diverse portfolio of innovative work ranging from conceptualisation of strategies to development and execution of initiatives and positioning them with strong advocacy/marketing strategies . She is also responsible for the execution of various 5G initiatives within key economic such as O&G, Smart City, Healthcare, Transport and Manufacturing.

She graduated with a 1st Class Hon in Business Statistics from University Putra Malaysia.

Alfredo Serret is currently the Global Lead for Internet of Things at Telefonica Tech, leading a wide array of categories from Platforms and Connectivity to Smart Mobility, Smart Cities or Smart Industry solutions. He also serves as Chairman of the Board at Geprom, an Industry 4.0 company acquired by Telefonica to accelerate market development.

Alfredo is a long running veteran executive at Telefonica with 20+ years in the company with an extensive experience at both global and local digital roles across the Group, including Business Development, Finance and Strategy in the Enterprise and Consumer segment. He is also an Active start up advisor and Angel Investor.

Prior to leading WM5G, Robert held senior general management and strategy positions at O2, T-Mobile and Orange. At O2, Robert led the company’s new business portfolio where he launched and scaled a number of new businesses in sectors including WiFi, internet of things, payments, messaging, data analytics, advertising and fintech. Robert also led O2’s start-up accelerator.