WCNC’17 Industry Forum Schedule
Monday March 20, 2017
Ballroom A: Hyatt Regency Embarcadero

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WiFi Networks: Session Chair – Rich Bahr
10:50-11:10am: Hybrid-Fiber-Wireless Networks - The Future of Gigabit Access. Brian Hinman, President, CEO, and Co-Founder, Mimosa.
11:10-11:30am:  The Wi-Fi rEvolution: Sundar Sankaran, VP of Engineering, Ruckus Wireless.
11:30-11:50am: SONiQ: Open Platform for Whole Home Wi-Fi Coverage. James Chen, Senior Director of Marketing, Quantenna.
11:50-12:10am: In-Home Wi-Fi Performance Monitoring and Management: Ensuring QoS across Managed and Unmanaged Devices. Metin Taskin, CTO, AirTies.
 
5G and What It Will Enable: Session Chair – Steven Weber
2:40-3:00pm: The Network of the Future. Thing Big. Think Faster. Santiago Tenorio, Head of Network Strategy & Architecture, Vodafone
3:00-3:20pm:  5G Wireless Communication: Enabler for 4th Generation Industrial Revolutions. Byung Yi, Executive Vice President and CTO, Interdigital.
3:20-3:40pm: On the Evolution of NFV/SDN for 5G, Udayan Mukherjee, Fellow, Intel.
3:40-4:00pm: Building a Verizon 5G Over-the-Air Communications Link, James Kimery, Director of Marketing for SDR and Wireless Research initiatives, National Instruments.
 
New Wireless Paradigms: Session Chair – Lingjia Liu
4:20-4:40pm: Use Cases for Next Generation Wireless Systems, Dragan Samardzija, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Nokia Bell Labs.
4:40-5:00pm: Secure, Robust and Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks for the IoT, Xiaolin Lu, Fellow and Kilby Innovation Center Director, Texas Instruments
5:00-5:20pm: The Impact of New Spectrum on Design and Test, Satish Dhanasekaran, Vice President and General Manager - Wireless Devices and Operators, Keysight Technologies.