Released: July 12, 2021

FCC ANNOUNCES OPEN RAN SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE AGENDA

The Federal Communications Commission announces the agenda for its two-day Open Radio Access Network Solutions Showcase (Showcase) scheduled for July 14-15, 2021.  The Showcase will include presentations from over 30 vendors whose interoperable, open interface, standards-based 5G network equipment and services will be ready and available for purchase and installation by January 1, 2022, if not sooner.

The Showcase will feature opening remarks from Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.  It will also include welcoming remarks from Amit Mital, Senior Director for Cyber & Emerging Technology, National Security Council, and Special Assistant to the President; and Evelyn Remaley, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, and Acting National Telecommunications & Information Administration Administrator.  It will include two fire-side lessons learned chats during lunch time with carriers that have deployed Open Radio Access Networks solutions.  Commissioners Nathan Simington and Geoffrey Starks will also provide brief remarks. 

The tentative agenda is as follows:

Day 1 – July 14, 2021
9:30am	Opening Remarks
- Jessica Rosenworcel, Acting Chairwoman, FCC

9:45am	Welcoming Remarks
- Amit Mital, Senior Director for Cyber & Emerging Technology, NSC and Special Assistant to the President

9:50am	Overview of Open RAN
- Mariam Sorond, Chief Research & Development Officer, CableLabs

10:25am	Session 1:  Hardware Manufacturers and Equipment Suppliers
- Peadar Forbes, Marketing & Applications Director, Analog Devices
- Olli Andersson, SVP, Americas, Benetel
- Ramesh Patat, Director of Systems Engineering, Blue Danube
- Joe Marsella, VP, Routing & Switching Product Line Management, Ciena Corp.
- Paul Challoner, VP, Network Product Solutions, Ericsson
- Richard Colter, Head of Marketing, Fujitsu Network Communications
- Dan Picker, CTO, Inseego

12:20pm	Remarks by Commissioner Nathan Simington

12:25pm	Lunchtime Fireside Chat
- Monisha Ghosh, Research Professor, University of Chicago
- Stephen Bye, EVP and CCO, DISH

12:55pm	Remarks by Commissioner Geoffrey Starks

1:00pm	Session 2:  Hardware Manufacturers and Equipment Suppliers (continued)
- Bob Everson, Senior Director of 5G Architecture, CISCO
- Rahul Chandra, VP, Global 5G Business Development, NEC Corp. 
- Michael Murphy, CTO Americas, Nokia
- Brian Deutsch, CEO, Pivotal Commware
- Rajesh Gangadhar, CTO, Access Solutions, Sterlite Technologies Limited
- Liam Madden, EVP and GM, Wired & Wireless Group, Xilinx

2:35pm	Session 3:  Cloud Providers and Software Innovators
- Prem Sankar Gopannan, VP, Product Architecture & Software Engineering, Cohere
- Rakesh Misra, Director, Research and Development Engineering, VMware
- Tim O’Shea, CTO, Deepsig
- Jeff Edlund, CTO, Communications Media & Solutions, Hewlett Packard
- Mehran Hadipour, VP, Business Development & Tech Alliances, Robin
- Raja Ijaz Haider, President/Principal Consultant & Shawaz Ahmad, GIS & Design Consultant, SIT Digital International Inc.

Day 2 – July 15, 2021
9:30am	Welcoming Remarks
- Evelyn Remaley, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, and Acting NTIA Administrator 

9:45am	Session 4:  Mobile Operator Network and Systems Integrator
- Sarvesh Sharma, Network Architect – Americas, Dell Technologies
- Marisa Viveros, VP, Strategy & Offerings, Telecom, Media & Entertainment Industry, IBM

10:20am	Session 5:  End-to-End Open RAN Solutions
- Abel Mayal, SVP, Technology & Marketing, Airspan 
- Anil Bhandari, VP, Product Management, Altiostar
- Matt Melester, SVP, Office of the CTO, CommScope
- Stephen Bye, EVP, CCO, DISH
- Ishwar Parulkar, Technology Executive, Amazon Web Services
- Todd Landry, VP, Product & Market Strategy, JMA Wireless

12:15pm	Lunchtime Fireside Chat
- Andy Thiessen, Head of 5G/xG Engagement, MITRE
- Santiago Tenorio, Director of Networks, Vodafone Group
12:50pm	Session 6:  End-to-End Open RAN Solutions (continued)
- Steve Papa, CEO & Chairman, Parallel Wireless
- Chip Damato, EVP, Inland Cellular
- Constantine Polychronopoulos, VP, 5G and Cloud Networking, Juniper Networks
- John Baker, SVP, Business Development, Mavenir Systems
- Ganesh Shenbagaraman, Head of Integrated Products & Ecosystems, Radisys
- Azita Arvani, General Manager, Rakuten Mobile Americas
- Alok Shah, VP, Strategy and Business Development & Marketing, Samsung

2:50pm	Closing Remarks

The Open RAN Solutions Showcase will be available via webcast with open captioning on the Commission’s website at www.fcc.gov/live.  Reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request.  Include a description of the accommodation you will need and tell us how to contact you if we need more information.  Make your request as early as possible.  Last minute requests will be accepted but may be impossible to fill.  Send an e-mail to: FCC504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice).

The Showcase and participation by any company or organization is not an endorsement by the FCC or its leadership of any product or service discussed at the event.  Additional information about the event can be found on the event webpage at https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/events/2021/07/open-ran-solutions-showcase-day-1.



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