Chief Technology Officer Forum
Title: How far can we evolve Mobile Networks - What is next?
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
12:00 – 13:00
Chair: Bryn Jones, Three UK CTO
Panelists: Fotis Karonis, CTO, EE
Brendan O'Reilly, CTO, Telefonica UK Ltd
Ed Tiedemann, EVP, Qualcomm
Wen Tong, CTO, Huawei
Abstract: CTOs are currently experiencing significant data traffic volume in their mobile networks. Capacity is becoming one of the major challenges. Mobile Networks as they are today will not be able to maintain a high Quality of Service in the future. Consequently, CTOs must evolve their networks to offer higher capacity and more reliable data services. In this forum, five CTOs from EE, O2, Three, Qualcomm and Huawei will address the question – What is next for mobile networks?
Biographies
Bryn Jones, CTO, Three UK
The Forum will be Chaired by Bryn Jones. Bryn Jones is CTO at Three in the UK and responsible for the development and deployment of the UK’s most reliable network which carries 45% of the UK’s mobile internet data. Bryn has nearly 30 years industry experience with equipment suppliers, systems integrators and operators. Bryn joined Three in 2012, prior to this he spent 11 years at Virgin Media in a number of technical and business roles helping to launch and run the world’s largest MVNO, his final role being Technical Director for the Mobile and Virgin National Broadband divisions.
Fotis Karonis, CTO, EE
Fotis is the chief technology officer for EE, responsible for the IT and network development strategy and implementation. Fotis has overseen IT since EE was formed in 2010 with the merger of Orange and T-Mobile. Prior to his role at EE, he held the role of Chief Information officer for Romtelecom. Prior to that, he worked at Athens International Airport, as director of information technology and the telecommunications business unit. In this role, Fotis planned, implemented and ensured round-the-clock integrated IT services and infrastructure to the airport that serves over 16 million passengers and five million visitors every year. Prior to this, he worked with Cap Gemini and Alcatel in France.
Brendan O'Reilly, CTO, Telefonica UK Ltd
Brendan is our Chief Technology Officer, with over 15 years experience in Mobile Telecoms. Brendan has accountability for O2 UK’s strategy, design, planning, test, delivery and operation of the entire mobile and fixed network, messaging and wifi supported by his team of more than 600 professional engineers. Working closely with key areas in the UK and Telefonica Group, Brendan is developing the high level principles needed to develop the O2 network focusing on the ever changing needs of our customers. Brendan has held a number of senior roles in the Networks Leadership Team over the past seven years, with achievements including leading the development of O2’s network share partnership with Vodafone in June 2012. He is also experienced in detailed planning and delivery of radio and transmission networks. Delivering the best experience to our customers is at the heart of how Brendan works and knows his people are key to achieve this. Brendan also has a strong focus on his people encouraging development and self-learning across all of Networks. In his spare time Brendan enjoys spending time with his family. He is a fan of all sports and is a very keen amateur baker.
Ed Tiedemann, EVP, Qualcomm
Dr. Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr. is a QUALCOMM Fellow and a Senior Vice President of Engineering at QUALCOMM. He leads QUALCOMM’s worldwide standardization and industry organization activities. Dr. Tiedemann was instrumental in the design and development of the TIA/EIA/IS-95 CDMA system, also called cdmaOne™. He led QUALCOMM’s and much of the industry’s efforts in the design and development of the third-generation cdma2000® system. For many years, he chaired the 3GPP2 physical layer working group. Dr. Tiedemann led the offline industry group on M2M convergence, which resulted in oneM2M. Dr. Tiedemann has been particularly interested in the technical issues related to handoff, power and rate control, scheduling, control of random access channels, advanced antenna techniques, location technology, and the tracking and paging of mobile users. Dr. Tiedemann holds over 200 US patents and has participated in many papers, conference lectures, and industry panels. Prior to becoming involved with terrestrial wireless communications, Dr. Tiedemann was involved with numerous commercial and military satellite systems. From 1977 to 1988, Dr. Tiedemann was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on mmWave satellite communications systems. Dr. Tiedemann holds the Ph.D. degree from MIT where he worked in the areas of queueing theory and communications networks. He holds the Master of Science degree from Purdue University where he worked on bandwidth efficient modulation. He also holds the Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech). Dr. Tiedemann is past chairman of the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech). Dr. Tiedemann currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Mobile Alliance. He is also a member of the Asian Export Art Visiting Committee at the Peabody Essex Museum. In 2008, Dr. Tiedemann received the 3G-CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Industry Leadership from the CDMA Development Group (CDG) for his “long-running contribution to CDMA development and standardization.” He received the Global IT Innovator & Leadership Award from Yonsei University in Korea in 2009, the 2010 Virginia Tech College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Service Award, and in 2014 became a member of the Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering Excellence. He has received both the Purdue University College of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Alumnus and the Purdue University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Awards. Dr. Tiedemann is General Chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, one of the IEEE Communications Society flagship conferences.
Wen Tong, CTO, Huawei
Dr. Wen Tong is the Huawei Fellow, Head of Huawei Wireless Research, CTO, Huawei Wireless. Prior to joining Huawei in March 2009, Dr. Tong was the Nortel Fellow and global Head of the Network Technology Labs at Nortel. He joined the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell Northern Research in 1995. He has pioneered fundamental technologies in wireless with 350 granted US patents. Since 2010, Dr. Tong is the vice president of Huawei wireless research. In 2011, He was appointed the Head of Communications Technologies Labs of Huawei, he spearhead to lead Huawei’s 5G wireless research and development. In 2011, Dr. Tong was elected as Huawei Fellow. In 2014, He was elected as IEEE Fellow. In 2014, he was the recipient of IEEE ComSoc’s Industry Innovation Award for “the leadership and contributions in development of 3G and 4G wireless systems”. Dr. Tong serves as Board of Director of WiFi Alliance and Board of Director of Green Touch Consortium.
Title: How far can we evolve Mobile Networks - What is next?
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
12:00 – 13:00
Chair: Bryn Jones, Three UK CTO
Panelists: Fotis Karonis, CTO, EE
Brendan O'Reilly, CTO, Telefonica UK Ltd
Ed Tiedemann, EVP, Qualcomm
Wen Tong, CTO, Huawei
Abstract: CTOs are currently experiencing significant data traffic volume in their mobile networks. Capacity is becoming one of the major challenges. Mobile Networks as they are today will not be able to maintain a high Quality of Service in the future. Consequently, CTOs must evolve their networks to offer higher capacity and more reliable data services. In this forum, five CTOs from EE, O2, Three, Qualcomm and Huawei will address the question – What is next for mobile networks?
Biographies
Bryn Jones, CTO, Three UK
The Forum will be Chaired by Bryn Jones. Bryn Jones is CTO at Three in the UK and responsible for the development and deployment of the UK’s most reliable network which carries 45% of the UK’s mobile internet data. Bryn has nearly 30 years industry experience with equipment suppliers, systems integrators and operators. Bryn joined Three in 2012, prior to this he spent 11 years at Virgin Media in a number of technical and business roles helping to launch and run the world’s largest MVNO, his final role being Technical Director for the Mobile and Virgin National Broadband divisions.
Fotis Karonis, CTO, EE
Fotis is the chief technology officer for EE, responsible for the IT and network development strategy and implementation. Fotis has overseen IT since EE was formed in 2010 with the merger of Orange and T-Mobile. Prior to his role at EE, he held the role of Chief Information officer for Romtelecom. Prior to that, he worked at Athens International Airport, as director of information technology and the telecommunications business unit. In this role, Fotis planned, implemented and ensured round-the-clock integrated IT services and infrastructure to the airport that serves over 16 million passengers and five million visitors every year. Prior to this, he worked with Cap Gemini and Alcatel in France.
Brendan O'Reilly, CTO, Telefonica UK Ltd
Brendan is our Chief Technology Officer, with over 15 years experience in Mobile Telecoms. Brendan has accountability for O2 UK’s strategy, design, planning, test, delivery and operation of the entire mobile and fixed network, messaging and wifi supported by his team of more than 600 professional engineers. Working closely with key areas in the UK and Telefonica Group, Brendan is developing the high level principles needed to develop the O2 network focusing on the ever changing needs of our customers. Brendan has held a number of senior roles in the Networks Leadership Team over the past seven years, with achievements including leading the development of O2’s network share partnership with Vodafone in June 2012. He is also experienced in detailed planning and delivery of radio and transmission networks. Delivering the best experience to our customers is at the heart of how Brendan works and knows his people are key to achieve this. Brendan also has a strong focus on his people encouraging development and self-learning across all of Networks. In his spare time Brendan enjoys spending time with his family. He is a fan of all sports and is a very keen amateur baker.
Ed Tiedemann, EVP, Qualcomm
Dr. Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr. is a QUALCOMM Fellow and a Senior Vice President of Engineering at QUALCOMM. He leads QUALCOMM’s worldwide standardization and industry organization activities. Dr. Tiedemann was instrumental in the design and development of the TIA/EIA/IS-95 CDMA system, also called cdmaOne™. He led QUALCOMM’s and much of the industry’s efforts in the design and development of the third-generation cdma2000® system. For many years, he chaired the 3GPP2 physical layer working group. Dr. Tiedemann led the offline industry group on M2M convergence, which resulted in oneM2M. Dr. Tiedemann has been particularly interested in the technical issues related to handoff, power and rate control, scheduling, control of random access channels, advanced antenna techniques, location technology, and the tracking and paging of mobile users. Dr. Tiedemann holds over 200 US patents and has participated in many papers, conference lectures, and industry panels. Prior to becoming involved with terrestrial wireless communications, Dr. Tiedemann was involved with numerous commercial and military satellite systems. From 1977 to 1988, Dr. Tiedemann was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on mmWave satellite communications systems. Dr. Tiedemann holds the Ph.D. degree from MIT where he worked in the areas of queueing theory and communications networks. He holds the Master of Science degree from Purdue University where he worked on bandwidth efficient modulation. He also holds the Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech). Dr. Tiedemann is past chairman of the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech). Dr. Tiedemann currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is on the Board of Directors of the Open Mobile Alliance. He is also a member of the Asian Export Art Visiting Committee at the Peabody Essex Museum. In 2008, Dr. Tiedemann received the 3G-CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Industry Leadership from the CDMA Development Group (CDG) for his “long-running contribution to CDMA development and standardization.” He received the Global IT Innovator & Leadership Award from Yonsei University in Korea in 2009, the 2010 Virginia Tech College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Service Award, and in 2014 became a member of the Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering Excellence. He has received both the Purdue University College of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Alumnus and the Purdue University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Awards. Dr. Tiedemann is General Chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, one of the IEEE Communications Society flagship conferences.
Wen Tong, CTO, Huawei
Dr. Wen Tong is the Huawei Fellow, Head of Huawei Wireless Research, CTO, Huawei Wireless. Prior to joining Huawei in March 2009, Dr. Tong was the Nortel Fellow and global Head of the Network Technology Labs at Nortel. He joined the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell Northern Research in 1995. He has pioneered fundamental technologies in wireless with 350 granted US patents. Since 2010, Dr. Tong is the vice president of Huawei wireless research. In 2011, He was appointed the Head of Communications Technologies Labs of Huawei, he spearhead to lead Huawei’s 5G wireless research and development. In 2011, Dr. Tong was elected as Huawei Fellow. In 2014, He was elected as IEEE Fellow. In 2014, he was the recipient of IEEE ComSoc’s Industry Innovation Award for “the leadership and contributions in development of 3G and 4G wireless systems”. Dr. Tong serves as Board of Director of WiFi Alliance and Board of Director of Green Touch Consortium.