Final program
Tuesday May 4 2021 Dharmalingam, Ericsson acting head of network solutions ANZ James Evans, TPG Telecom GM wire less transmission network Yago Lopez and Telstra KEYNOTES network executive Ash Hunter 9.00 Minister for Communications, Urban 5.10 Close Infrastructure, Cities & the Arts Paul Fletcher 9.25 Vocus Group chief operating of icer Ellie Sweeney 9.50 Ericsson ANZ MD Emilio Romeo Wednesday May 5 2021 Harnessing the potential of 5G 10.15 Symbio CEO Rene Sugo KEYNOTES 10.40 Refreshments 9.00 Shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland 9.25 ACMA chair Nerida O’Loughlin PLENARY 9.50 NBN CEO Stephen Rue 11.00 Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin (video) 10.15 Telstra CEO Andy Penn (video) 11.20 Commscope VP, service provider sales, ANZ & 10.40 Refreshments chief technology of icer, APAC Joshua Eum: Evolution path of HFC PLENARY 11.40 Nokia managing director, Oceania Anna Wills: 11.00 Cisco managing director, service provider Delivering Australia’s critical networks ANZ Karen Negus 12.00 Deloitte’s Network Centre of Excellence Amrit Singh Transformation ‐ We are all in this together and Pedro Sanguinho 11.20 TPG group executive legal and external affairs Adoption of advanced wireless technologies in a Trent Czinner post COVID world 11.40 Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton 12.20 VMWare director of technology, 12.00 ADTRAN regional chief technology of icer, APAC Australia and New Zealand Sean Kopelke Anthony Camilleri The Australian telco frontier: the opportunity OpenSync: See customers to innovate, monetise and grow like you’ve never seen them before 12.40 CSG senior vice president 12.20 ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin Ian Watterson 12.40 Mavenir vice president, sales - North Asia & ANZ 5G & the Digital Marketplace: The Dereck Quinlan New Australian Telecoms Business Model 1.00 Lunch including the CommsDay Hall of Fame
1.00 Lunch including the CommsDay Special 1.50 Vocus GM gov’t & special projects Michael Ackland Recognition Awards for COVID‐19 responses 2.10 Aussie Broadband CEO Phil Britt 2.30 Over The Wire CEO Michael Omeros 2.00 Accedian chief technologist & director of 2.50 F-Secure chief research of icer Mikko Hyppönen, solutions engineering APAC Chia Tan Fighting Online Crime Assuring the 5G Service 3.10 In inera Sr. director Experience with Performance Analytics solutions marketing Tim Doiron (live from US) 2.20 DGIT CEO Greg Tilton & FiberconX director, The magic of Nyquist sub‐carriers – customer and product experience Michael Edwards delivering innovation in optical networks 2.40 Swoop CEO Alex West 3.25 Option of refreshments outside 3.00 Cradlepoint MD Asia Paci ic Gavin Wilson 3.30 NNN Co CEO Rob Zagarella Are applications driving 5G, or does 5G drive the applications? CLOSING KEYNOTES 3.20 Maser/ Ligman Evolve Australia global technical 3.50 Imediate Consulting’s Bob James director & managing director Trevor Leighton 5G reaches half the population: where to from Rolling out 5G – Should cities have more control? here? 3.40 Refreshments 4.10 Delta Partners’ Zia Bhadiar Complimentary or competing: 5G, Leosats, NBN 4.00 HyperOne founder Bevan Slattery rural and more? 4.25 AMTA chair Dan Lloyd introduces the new CEO 4.30 CLOSE 4.30 The Great 5G Panel with Telstra, Optus, TPG, Ericsson, Nokia and VMWare Panellists include: Optus director, network planning, access & quality Kent Wu, Nokia Oceania CTO Rob Joyce, VMWare Telco Solutions Architect APJC Arul