GSMA IoT at GSMA Thrive Asia Pacific

More than 28 years of Telecommunication/SCADA working experience in oil & gas Upstream and Downstream sectors covering pipeline system and onshore & offshore crude oil/gas field production facilities. Recent project undertaken was PETRONAS mega RAPID project as Telecommunication Project Technical Authority. Project experience includes working in a large – scale local and international pipeline project, viz Malaysia’s Carigali Dulang Project development and Sudan’s Muglad Basin Oil Development Project (MBOD). Undertook the Sudan Block 3 & 7 Melut Basin project development in the Basic & Detailed Design, and execution of construction and commissioning.

Involved in various project implementation phases such as detailed design, construction and maintenance of oil and gas telecommunication network/systems. Job function covers overall Telecommunication network infrastructure planning which include in-house feasibility studies, basic and detailed engineering work, project costing, resource planning, contract strategies and contract evaluation. Project execution and supervision of system integration/composite test, pre-commissioning and commissioning of telecommunications and related systems.

Joerg Koepp is a Market Segment Manager responsible for driving the test & measurement business in the internet of things (IoT) market at Rohde & Schwarz. Joerg has enjoyed a 30+ year career in a variety of fields of telecommunication starting as a young man with the repair of electromechanical telephone switching systems. Prior to joining Rohde & Schwarz, he worked as a system architect, project leader, director of system engineering and technology manager at Siemens and Nokia Siemens Networks.

Responsible in developing business collaboration and strategic partnerships opportunities with global telcos and ICTs

Julian is the Head of Asia Pacific for the GSMA, leading a highly experienced cross functional team in

the execution of GSMA programs across the regions. He is a global telecommunications executive with over 20 years of commercial and marketing experience across Wholesale, Business, Regulatory, Policy and Digital Transformation. He has pioneered new digital partnerships and business units in mature and emerging markets across Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia with industry leaders including Vodafone, MTN and Ooredoo. As advisor to management executive teams and Boards he has extensive insight and relationships to support collaboration and delivery of industry alignment.

He has been recognised for his leadership in digital innovation, digital women, health and agriculture services with industry awards and grants.

Julian has degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Law from Australia.

Mirela Juravle heads up IoT MindSphere Business Development APAC for Siemens with focus on Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities. Living in Asia for 6 years, she was previously heading up IoT, Smart Cities and Big Data Practice for Orange Business Services APAC in charge with regional go to market execution for IoT solutions and integration services for smart buildings, smart cities, smart access control and retail.

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

Mirela has 20 years experience in IT/telecoms/IoT and digital technologies for large service providers in Asia and Europe such as Indosat Ooredoo Indonesia, Telefonica Digital London, Orange Business Services Singapore, London, Paris with successful track record in defining and Managing IoT go to market execution plans, product innovations, local and global B2B and B2B2C IoT Projects, as well as building and managing partnerships and IoT technology ecosystem providers for Smart Cities, Transportation and Automotive, Smart Utilities, Retail and Consumer Electronics.

As the principal IoT analyst in GSMA Intelligence, Sylwia leads the IoT product development. Her responsibilities range from sizing the IoT opportunity, including the role of operators, to researching and analysing IoT technologies, applications and business models. Sylwia has also moderated and presented at a number of conferences. Sylwia previously worked in telecommunications, media and technology with Pyramid Research.

Terence serves as the Market Development Director at APAC Technology team in GSMA. He drives the GSMA IoT and Mobile Connect programmes in the APAC region.. The key focus is on IoT, bigdata, eSIM, security and Mobile Connect. He actively engages the operators, innovators, and ecosystem player in order to accelerate the rollout of the Mobile IoT leveraging cellular technology across various vertical such as Smart Agriculture, Smarty City Smart Building, Smart home, environment protection, logistics and asset tracking and other consumer market, etc. Recently, he works with 18 MNOs across 11 Asia Pacific countries to setup the APAC IoT Partnership programme that aims to accelerate the Mobile IoT ecosystem development in the APAC region.

Worked for IT/Telco industry over twenty years, Terence has strong and board experiences on telecom industries experiences 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).

TOMMY WATTIMENA skills and competency is a rarity in Asia Pacific. He was the first Indonesian and youngest VP Category in UNILEVER ASIA PACIFIC, who oversee Ice Cream Business in 13 different countries and lead multi-national team. He had more than 15 years of experience running various positions at Unilever Indonesia, regional and global. His last position at Unilever was VP Ice Cream Category Asia Pacific and Kids Global. He continued his passion for mobile & digital technology when joined PT XL AXIATA Tbk as SVP, transforming the traditional telco business into mobile data. Then he joined PT SMART Tbk to led their consumer group and transformed its sales and logistic into one the most sophisticated digitized sales and logistic business, in the process disrupting the water industry by relaunched Pristine alkaline water.

He is currently the President Director at PT SIERAD PRODUCE Tbk or now being transformed into PT SREEYA SEWU INDONESIA Tbk. His leadership style is always visionary with non-orthodox methods that combine science and smart direct business approaches that are truly transformative in the contemporary era. He is a battle tested world class leading edge in Brand, Sales and Marketing with strong Big Data Science and Digital Marketing. Entrepreneurial, No Nonsenses and Disruptive by Nature, he has led many transformative journey in different companies