The Secret Ingredients of a Robust 5G Network

Much has been discussed about building 5G networks, but an equally critical part of the planning is maintaining them and ensuring a reliable, robust, and secure service; even more now, in the era of cloud-native, edge, and slicing. This webinar will address key challenges telecom service providers are facing on business process optimisation, reducing OPEX, maximising retention, and growing top-line revenue, through best-practice sharing from leading ecosystem players including MNOs, vendors, and analysts.

Join us on October 27th as we delve into key topics including:
Applying network trust and transparency to real-world conditions
Best practice in increasing operational efficiency
Ensuring service adoption and success by building and retaining network and customer trust 
Identifying the root cause of network failures and deriving actionable conclusions
 
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Speakers
Yves Bellego
Director, Network Strategy
Orange
Yves Bellégo began his career in 1988 in IT engineering. In 1991, he joined the research centre of France Telecom, where he worked on the standardization of GSM. He accompanied the phases of 2G, 3G and 4G deployment and expansion with various positions in radio engineering within France Telecom, Nortel and Orange. In the 2000’s he was director of spectrum strategy and planning in Orange, and chaired the spectrum groups of the GSMA and NGMN. He is currently director, network strategy at Orange Group.

Kimmo Pentikäinen
Vice President, Business Development
Elisa Corporation
Kimmo Pentikäinen is developing new business and leading technology transformations in Elisa Corporation. Boston Consulting Group ranked the company in 2020 globally 3rd highest-return telecom company. The market leader in Finland with the highest mobile data usage per capita in the world. His current main focus is establishing 5G business with new services, pioneering with several first in the world solutions, including 12K video, telepathology, robotics, remote control of heavy machines, 8K live 360 drone broadcasting, 3D model cloud streaming.
Kimmo’s extensive experience and knowledge over a range of fields is based on his earlier leadership in the company. He was leading the transformation to utilise AI in internal processes as mobile network operations and customer interactions. As a past startup entrepreneur, he has established for Elisa Corporation a strong startup ecosystem, the company negotiates with 600+ startups a year and has 130+ startup partnerships. While head of research, he created a network of 1400+ scientists around the world. During his responsibility for technology strategy, the company started high growth on cost efficiency as maintaining a steady increase in revenues.

Edoardo Rizzi
Senior Vice President of Product Management and Marketing
Empirix
Edoardo Rizzi joined Empirix as SVP of Product Management and Marketing in 2019 after holding various leadership roles at Viavi/JDSU, Trendium, and Tektronix Communications. His most recent role before his appointment was as founder of vivoo inc., a cloud-native application development company in the industrial IoT space.
Edoardo has more than 20 years of experience driving strategy development and execution, product innovation, and go-to-market, and has been directly involved in managing the opportunities and challenges related to technology evolutions such as 3G, 4G/LTE, and cloud native.This makes him well suited to drive growth and lead Empirix through the industry’s next chapter,5G.