Panel: ICT Technology Globalization, Opportunities and Risks

Mr Ari Kynäslahti has a long career working at Nokia. He joined Nokia in the beginning of 1995.
In Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks he has worked in many manager positions, for example as Head of Mobile Networks Product Management, Head of LTE Product Management, Head of Global Radio Sales and Head of WCDMA Product Management as well as multiple positions in R&D and Business Development.

Junyi Li is a Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm. He was a key inventor of Flash-OFDM, arguably the first commercially deployed OFDMA-based mobile broadband wireless communications system.

Colin is currently the chairman of the board of the 5G Infrastructure Association. He has detailed knowledge and experience of the telecommunications industry having worked directly or indirectly with many of the major players over a 28-year period. The roles have included software developer, technical consultant, technical marketing, standardization and management. In addition to line manager roles, he has participated extensively in standardization activities at ETSI, ITU-T and 3GPP, including

Mr. Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. He is now Chief Technology Architect in NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar is responsible for Reliance Jio’s mobile network and leads the network strategy, design, and transformation towards making Jio’s mobile network fully converged, programable and future ready. Over past one year, he has successfully led world’s fastest 5G network creation with nearly 1 Mn 5G cells live.

Mr. Jaydee Griffith is the Chief Technologist for the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund

Karri manages T-Mobile’s long-term network technology strategy, roadmap and associated development, including spearheading the development and evolution of the next generation wireless network and device platform related technologies.
With a focus on technology development especially related to Radio Access Network, Karri is responsible for identifying worldwide trends in telecommunications and applying them to T-Mobile’s network plan.