Frankfurt Program Agenda

Please click on each day below to see the full agenda for the Working Sessions and Conference Programme.

Mon 30th
Tues 1st
Wed 2nd
Thu 3rd

09:00

Opening Address
JR Wilson, AT&T and Chairman of WBA

09:10

Welcome to Frankfurt
(City CIO or business leader)

THEME

Vision 2030 – the road ahead for wireless operators for the next decade

Impacts for Carriers, Enterprises and Cities. Moderator: Steve Andrews

09:20

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Deutsche Telekom

09:35

TBC
Matthew MacPherson – Wireless CTO, Cisco

09:50

TBC
Sponsor – Diamond or platinum (sponsr 3)

10:05

Operators Panel Discussion:
TBC

10:45 – Coffee Break (30 mins)

THEME

Enterprise Wireless– Innovation, Operation & Disruptive Growth

TBC

11:15

Sponsor 4 – diamond/platinum
TBC

11:30

TBC
Huawei

11:45

TBC
Sponsor 6 – diamond/platinum

12:00

Awards Opening Remarks
Tiago Rodrigues, GM WBA.

THEME

WBA Roadmap 2019/ 2020 – 20 years of Wi-Fi.

TBC

12:00

Awards Opening Remarks
Tiago Rodrigues, GM WBA.

12:15

WBA Annual Industry Awards
WBA

13:00 – Networking Lunch (60 mins)

Wireless Carrier Track (14:00 – 18:00)
TBC

Wi-Fi Evolution & Monetization
Moderator: TBC

14:00

Sponsor – gold
TBC

14:20

Sponsor – gold
TBC

14:40

Sponsor – gold
TBC

15:00

WBA Guest Speaker
TBC

15:15

Panel Discussion:
Ben Toner (Carnegie), Colleen LeCount (Mobolize), Dan Klaeren (Syniverse)

15:20 – Coffee-Break (30 minutes)

IoT : powering the next generation revenue opportunities
Moderator: TBC

15:50

Sponsor – gold
TBC

16:10

Guest Speaker
TBC

17:10

Panel Discussion:
Chris Beg (Cognitive), Metin Taskin (Airties), David Stevenson (Assia)

Enterprise Wireless Track (14:00 – 18:00)
MARQUIS D

Guest Wi-Fi – The ultimate experience and enterprises businesses advantages
Moderator: Randall Schwartz (Wireless 2020)

14:00

Trends in Guest Wi-Fi
David Reeder, VP Global Business Development

14:20

OpenRoaming: Revolutionizing Guest Access
Mark Grayson, Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Cisco

14:40

Creating a Security Culture
Chris Greco, VP Business Development, Symantec

15:00

Panel Discussion:
David Reeder (Accuris), Mark Grayson (Cisco), Paul Mikkelsen (Aptilo), Chris Greco (Symantec)

15:45 – Coffee-Break (30 minutes)

Opportunities and challenges for neutral host: Always best connected.
Moderator: Chris Elliott (Gaviota Partners)

16:20

Design & Build Challenges of Neutral Host Networks
Ziad Akl-Chedid, iBwave, Technical Product Manager

16:40

Neutral host in the 5G era
Kishore Raja, VP Engineering, Boingo Wireless

17:00

Presentation from Bluehive
Jon Morris, Principle, Bluehive Network

17:20

Panel Discussion:
Ziad Akl-Chedid (iBwave), Kishore Raja (Boingo), Jon Morris (Bluehive)

18:00 – Drinks & Networking Reception