Rob Heldenbrand is a Senior Solution Architect in the Communications and Media Solutions (CMS) organization of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Rob has been with HPE for 30 years providing telecommunication solutions for mobile operators where his responsibilities have ranged from software design, software architecture, requirements gathering, standards compliance, customer engagements, capacity modelling, and security aspects of HPE’s legacy network products and 5G products. Rob has been an HPE delegate to telecommunication standards bodies such as TR45.2, 3GPP2, OMA, 3GPP Working Group 5, and currently serves as HPE’s delegate to 3GPP Working Group 3.

Uwe Pecis has over 20 years of experience within HPE’s telecommunications businesses. He has held numerous roles in both sales and deliver covering the entire telecommunications portfolio offered by HPE. His passion for innovation is clear, and he has played a key part in the development of a number of HPE solutions that are designed to enable zero touch operations using OSS solutions, influencing HPE’s contribution to TMF standardization.

Declan O’Boyle is a Wireless Solution Architect in the Network and Custom Logic Group of Intel. Since 2012, he has been demonstrating the viability and value of virtualization for the Radio Access Network. Working in collaboration with service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers, he is developing flexible solutions that address the various next generation RAN deployments. Declan received an Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast and worked as design and systems engineer in Tellabs and other start-up telecoms companies prior to joining Intel in 2009.

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At Strategy Analytics Sue Rudd, Director Networks and Service Platforms, focuses on new opportunities for SDN/NFV, 5G, Network Slicing, Edge Services, Video Delivery Optimization and Telco Cloud as well as Service Assurance, SON for HetNets, Small Cells and Wi-Fi /Mobile Interoperability etc.