5G Live #2: The Edge Opportunity: Leveraging New Ecosystems in a 5G World

Paul joined the GSMA in January 2017 and is responsible for the delivery of Marketing activities within the Future Networks programme. A vital programme of the GSMA’s strategic focus, delivering industry scale for IP Communications and 5G while considering Network Economic challenges for the Mobile industry as it transitions to a 5G Era.

Paul has over 20 years’ experience in the Mobile industry within operator and service provider environments across seven different countries, having launched many niche mobile propositions in these markets.

Michele Zarri is a Technical Director at the GSMA where he works on advanced technologies and 5G. Michele graduated in telecommunications engineering at University of Pisa (Italy) and completed his studies at King’s College of London (UK).

Before joining the GSMA, Michele worked for Deutsche Telekom where he accrued more than 15 years of experience in the standardisation of mobile technologies. Michele served as chairman of working groups both in 3GPP and GSMA.

Shamik Mishra is currently serving as Vice President and CTO, Connectivity at Capgemini Engineering. He has over twenty years of experience in the telecom and software industry, providing engineering R&D services, frameworks and solutions to telecom operators, network equipment providers and software firms around the world. As a global lead for 5G & Edge in Capgemini, Shamik drives connectivity industry offers in areas like virtualization, cloud native, edge computing, artificial intelligence and carrier cloud platforms. He represents Capgemini in several industry forums including Linux Foundation Edge where is a member of the technical advisory council and  serves as the co-chair of GSMA’s Operator Platform Group. He is a regular speaker at industry and academic conferences and is often covered by the industry media.

Mahdi is an entrepreneur, investor and telecommunications executive. He spent over 10 years building networks in data centres across the globe and leading high calibre teams in industries spanning telco, design and technology – Prior to founding Ori Industries, he was CEO of Sama Telecom, one of the largest carrier networks in the Middle East.

He previously founded Room One, an organisation in London that was dedicated to fostering collaboration between the technology and the arts sectors. The space hosted a number of residencies, incubation programs and numerous events in its studios and gallery rooms: it was one of the pioneering companies to introduce 5G network technologies to the digital and immersive arts world.