Speakers List
Meet the speakers who will take the stage for WBA’s Wireless Global Congress events in 2025. Interested in speaking at any of our events this year? Click here to contact our Events team directly, or click here to register your interest.
Wireless Global Congress Americas (Dallas) 2025 Speakers
Al Jenkins
Co-Chair, Connected Communities Forum (CCF), and Strategist for Broadband Telecommunications
Andrea Calcagno
President, CEO & Co-Founder, Cloud4Wi
Bruno Tomas
CTO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
Chetan Sharma
CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
Dan Thygesen
SVP Product Partnerships & Growth. GM - Wholesale & Innovation MVNx & Partner Brands, T-Mobile
Dave Stehlin
CEO, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
Dr. Derek Peterson
CTO, Boingo Wireless
Dean Bubley
Founder & Director, Disruptive Analysis Ltd.
Diego Turi Oliveira
IT Manager, Itaú Unibanco
Eben Albertyn
CTO, Boost Mobile
Elad Nafshi
Executive Vice President, Chief Network Officer, Comcast Cable
Eric McLaughlin
Vice President, Client Computing Group, General Manager Wireless Solutions Group, Intel Corporation
Giovanni Guerri
CEO, Guglielmo
Huw Rees
VP Business Development, NetExperience
Irvind Ghai
Vice President, Silicon Labs
Jason Bawcom
VP Systems Engineering, RUCKUS Networks
Jeff Bratcher
Deputy Executive Director – Office of Operations and Chief Technology Officer, FirstNet Authority
Joey Padden
VP of Network Architecture, Helium
JR Wilson
Chairman, WBA, and Vice President Tower Strategy & Roaming, AT&T
Karim Taga
Managing Partner, Head of Global Functional Practices, Arthur D. Little
Lori Thomas
SVP, Strategic Engagement & Transformation, MetTel
Malcolm Smith
CTO Advisor - Wireless, Cisco
Mario Di Dio
GM of Network, Helium
Mark Austin
VP Data Science, AT&T
Mark Grayson
Cisco Fellow, Cisco
Matt MacPherson
Wireless CTO, Cisco
Matthias Budde
SVP Strategy, AT&T
Maureen Gallagher
Vice President of Marketing, Wi-Fi Alliance
Metin Taskin
Co-CEO and Founder, Airties
Mike Finley
CEO, Boingo Wireless
Mittal Parekh
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Technical Marketing and Influencer Marketing, RUCKUS Networks
Nate Edwards
Executive Vice President, Network Services and Business Transformation, Altice USA
Dr. Necati Canpolat
Senior Staff Architect, Intel
Nicolai Schattgen
Founder & CEO, Match-Maker Ventures
Paul Lai
CEO, AsiaRF
Rajat Ghai
Vice President - Xfinity Wi-Fi Engineering, Comcast
Robert Lamb
Global VP, Sales & SVP Partnerships & Strategy, Aprecomm
Robert Stacey
Chair 802.11 WG, IEEE
Sarper Gokturk
VP of Innovations, Airties
Stephen Bye
President and CEO, Ookla
Steve Andrews
TMT Chairman/NED, Board Advisor & Investor
Steve Namaseevayum
Vice President - Memberships & Industry Engagements, WBA
Stewart Goumans
Director of Community and Customer Engagement, Ekahau
T.J. Forner
Sr. SP Account Manager, Commscope-RUCKUS
Tiago Rodrigues
President & CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
Vaseem Kazia
Product Manager - Wi-Fi, Silicon Labs
Vijay Venkateswaran
Head of Strategy and Business Development, C3Spectra
Yigal Elbaz
SVP, Technology & Network Services, Network Chief Technology Officer, AT&T
Wireless Global Congress EMEA (Paris) 2024 Speakers
Dr. Amina Boubendir
Head of Research & Standardization, Airbus Defence and Space
Andrew Spivey
Principal Analyst, ABI Research
Bob El-Hawary
Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Cognitive Systems Corp.
Brian Shields
VP of Software Engineering, Boingo Wireless
Christian Gabetta
Managing Director, Heights Telecom
Christian Gilby
Sr. Director of Product Marketing, AI-Native Networking, Juniper Networks
Christopher Hols
Senior Product Owner of Inflight & Connectivity Services, Deutsche Telekom
Darryl Clarke
CEO, Encapto
Doriana Guiducci
Spectrum Expert, European Communications Office
Hiroshi Kiji
EVP, Wire and Wireless Co.,Ltd. (Wi2)
Ivan Muccini
VP Product, Cloud4Wi
LI Li, Thomas
Chief Scientist, World WLAN Application Alliance (WAA)
Manish Gangey
Executive President - Product Strategy, HFCL Limited
Marc Merlini
Business Development Director, JCDecaux Link
Maria Cuevas
Networks Research Director, BT
Maureen Gallagher
Vice President of Marketing, Wi-Fi Alliance
Other Wireless Global Congress Speakers of 2024
Andy Penley
Group CTO, Boldyn Networks
Bart Giordano
President - Networking, Intelligent Cellular & Security (NICS), Ruckus Networks
Bernard Herscovici
Founder & CEO, NetExperience
Betty Cockrell
Director Service Provider Products, Single Digits, Inc.
Carlos Lei
CEO, Uplink
Eran Dor
VP Products, Pavlov Media
GS Sickand
VP Wireless Engineering, Cox Communications
Gagan Mittal
Senior Vice President Products, Alethea Communications
George Hechtman
Principal, Hechtman Venture Development
Greta Byrum
Principal, Broadband & Digital Equity, HR&A Advisors
Himanshu Tyagi
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Ms. M. Revathi
Joint Wireless Advisor, Wireless Planning & Coordination (WPC) Wing, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications Government of India
Jack Raynor
Co-Chair, Open Converged Wireless Project Group, Telecom Infra Project
James Allison
Manager of Planning, Capitol Corridors
Jenni Dettman
VP Marketing, RouteThis
Manish Gangey
Executive President - Product Strategy, HFCL Limited
Manish Malhotra
Assistant Vice President, Fiber Broadband Product Management and Development, AT&T
Manoj Tandon
Director Projects - Operations and Maintenance, RailTel
Reza Jafari
CEO and Chairman, e-Development International
Seemab Kadri
Director - Strategic Partnerships and Marketing, Intel Corporation
Suja John
Assistant Vice President - Global Intercarrier and Private Network Services, AT&T
