Hannover Messe 2023 – GSMA Digital Industries

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.

Samita Chakrabarti works as a Standards Architect at Technology Strategy, HQ Network Planning, Verizon. She leads Industrial IoT standards vertical; she is Verizon’s lead technical delegate at 5G-ACIA and GSMA IoT Manufacturing. Her primary work interest areas are 5G Private networks, Industrial 5G/IoT services, TSN, architecture and standards evolution with Edge computing and AI. She has worked in the Networking Industry for many years in various R&D roles from Software development to Technology Architecture, Standards and Strategic Innovations. Before joining Verizon, she worked at Ericsson developing end-to-end architecture for IoT edge in Enterprise Networks. Samita co-chaired IETF 6lo Working group from 2013 to 2018 and currently co-chairing IOT-Directorate group at IETF. She holds a MS in Computer Science from State University in New York at Albany, USA.

As a part of Industrial IoT, Software and Communication team within the Manufacturing  Technology pillar at Omdia, Anna focuses on Industrial Communication and Industrial IoT. In the Industrial Communication research, Anna provides insights into the development of the established and emerging industrial communication standards  and analyses their implementation in industrial applications in process and discrete manufacturing. The IIoT research describes the market trends in industrial digitalization including digital maturity, industrial edge computing, the evolution of industrial automation, autonomous operations, and predictive maintenance.

Ms. Ahrens joined Omdia in January 2019 with more than 10 years of experience in the electronic components’ industry, including roles in forecasting, market intelligence, business development, and product management for display devices. Previously, she worked at Samsung Semiconductors Europe. Ms. Ahrens holds a Bachelor of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies from the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. She is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and is fluent in German, English, and Russian.

Olivier is a resilient entrepreneur and intrapreneur with 20+ years of experience in Telecom. He has co-founded three startups, the last one being Firecell, providing Private 5G Networks for enterprises. Olivier was also VP of Sales and Marketing at Europe-based Telecom Operator Orange. His expertise centers around Business Development, Product development, Innovation, and start-up acceleration. Olivier holds an MBA from ESCP Business School.

Since joining the GSMA from Orange and Vodafone, Adrian has built a substantial portfolio of commercial services to improve and support the global mobile ecosystem.

GSMA Services help operators, device manufacturers and service providers do business together more effectively, ultimately leading to better customer experiences. Some services are based on the accurate and comprehensive collated TAC data we gather, while others rely on us acting as a data exchange for the common good. We also offer services which underpin important interoperable backend functions, ensuring the mobile ecosystem runs smoothly, such as VoLTE testing and remote SIM provisioning. Currently, our products are grouped around: Device Information, Fraud & Security, Network & Interconnect, eSIM and Blockchain & Roaming.

Jirka Klaue studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. He founded and lead a software company active in the telecommunication market for several years. After 10 years as a resercher at EADS Ottobrunn he joined the Airbus IT department in Hamburg as a Technology Specialist. Jirka is (co-)author of 50 research papers on wireless sensor networks, multimedia communications and wireless localization technology. Currently, he is working on the connected factory in Airbus on wireless connectivity and localization technologies.