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Mr. Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990.  He is now Chief Standardization Officer, 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 Task Group of ITS Info-communications Forum.

Phupa Akavipat is Acting Chief Enterprise Business Officer at Advanced Info Service Plc (AIS), he is driving strategies and leading Enterprise commercial business P&L. Driving fundamental changes as such organization structure, capability & capacity, sales transformation, products & services expansion, and future ecosystem for business. Transforming business by collaborating with clients and technology partners through digital transformation in various corporate industries to accelerate business disruptive by leveraging latest innovations and 5G technology to foster Thailand’s digital economy. He joined AIS in July 2022 as Head of Enterprise Line of Business and Delivery Business Unit. Prior to this, he had been working with Microsoft for more than 24 years. He started his career at Microsoft as Support Engineer and had worked in various roles in different organizations. His last position was as CTO & Director – Customer Success Unit, a group of subject matter expert in designing, implementing, supporting solutions to help customers get real business value from their investment on Cloud technology. He also took the lead on Microsoft Azure Base Camp online channel, a video series and showed that focus on Microsoft Azure and Cloud development practices for Thai IT Pros and Thai Developers.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mahidol University.

MSc Telecoms Engineering and Executive MBA, fluent in Spanish (native) and English and able to communicate in French. 20+ years in the Telecommunications sector, 11+ years in diverse Director positions in both domestic and international environments. Proven experience in developing new businesses and organisations. Used to lead technology-based strategy and innovation initiatives. Strong business vision and focus. Motivated by new challenges. Experience in working as freelance. Now Director General of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

Julian, Head of Asia Pacific at GSMA, drives collaborative efforts between the mobile industry, policymakers, and ecosystems to advance digital economies. With 20+ years of global experience in Wholesale, Business, Regulatory, Policy, and Digital Transformation, he’s a pioneer in forging digital partnerships and units. His fervor lies in mobile tech as the cornerstone of economic resilience, sparking dialogues for sustainable, inclusive digital nations.

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).

Christina is the Lead Analyst for IoT and Enterprise at GSMA Intelligence, GSMA. She produces focused market reports and studies on mobile networks and technologies (5G, IoT, AI, cloud and private networks) enabling the digital transformation of enterprises. In the past, Christina worked in IoT market research, analysis and technical/commercial due diligence with analyst houses in the UK and in Germany, and in open innovation and foresight for consumer electronics R&D in the UK. Christina holds a degree in mechanical engineering, with a specialisation in industrial engineering, from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and is an MBA candidate at Imperial College Business School.

Dr PS Tang had being serving as a Steering Committee member of GTI since 2012.

Dr PS Tang have contributed in the harmonising of the WiMAX 2.X standard to TD-LTE when he was the Founding Director of Packet One Network Malaysia.

Dr PS Tang have being promoting dedicated Private LTE after he became the Managing Director of  Arete M Pte Ltd to provide Mission Critical Communication with low and consistent latency for mobile robotic control and with toal isolation form the internet and public network.

Lately, Dr PS Tang have taken up the leadership role in pushing GTI to provide advisory services to assist operator members and vendors in using their successful reference deployments to promote to other countries to increase 5G monetisation.

Diogo Granate is a Partner at Kearney in the Middle East and is part of the Communications, Media & Technology practice. For the past 20 years he has been advising leading mobile operators all over Asia on tackling its most critical challenges. He is passionate about technology and the rapid transformation of the telecom industry. Diogo holds an MBA from INSEAD in France/Singapore.

Alexander Wilhelm Kirchner, Director Business Development, Enterprise Campus Edge Solutions, Nokia.

With 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Alexander has developed deep expertise and insight into technologies that will be at the heart of the Fourth Industrial Revolution such as 5G, digitalization, artificial intelligence (AI), private enterprise networks, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and cloud computing.

Alexander loves pioneering with enterprise customers when developing business opportunities together that can make a difference and inspire others. Based in Munich, Germany, he heads the Enterprise Campus Edge Solutions Business Center, which drives business and market development, solution propositions and technical sales remote support.

Sandeep Sharma is VP and Global Head of portfolio 5G/RAN/ORAN at Tech Mahindra and is part of Network Services Leadership Team. His set of responsibilities includes focusing on leading and creating solutions in 5G and ORAN domain.

He is a strong experienced leader with a successful track record in leading teams in Product Management, Network Planning and Pre-sales. Sandeep possess a strong reputation for the ability to incubate new and emerging technologies in blue, red and brown ocean markets.

In 20+ years of experience, Sandeep has established his credentials both in domestic market and Global markets. It helps in positioning the key initiatives in highly competitive markets, with a focus on building long term customers and business partner relationships through consultative approach. His area of interests includes technology evolution strategy around ORAN, 6G RAN and Quantum computing.

Sandeep holds an Engineering degree, and MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, India

An experienced Telco & ICT business leader with 27+ years’ experience in Product, Business Development, Client Management, Pre-sales, Engineering, and Sales Operations. Wai Kiat works in Telkomsel and holds the role of Vice President, Enterprise Product Management & Development. He is responsible for Enterprise Product P&L, Strategy, Portfolio Management, Development, and Partner Ecosystem to drive digitalisation for Indonesia businesses through Telkomsel Enterprise Mobility Connectivity, Platform and Services.

Prior to Telkomsel, Wai Kiat has been with Singtel for 12 years and with Hewlett Packard for 13 years. Wai Kiat holds a Bachelor & Master Degree in Engineering in NUS, participated and represented Singapore in the European Southeast Asian University Network exchange program in the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He obtained his MBA from Manchester Business School.