The CC-Enterprise Summit 2022 in Berlin took place on 22nd & 23rd of June 2022 in -person and was the digital transformation event. With this new initiative, CC is further contributing to the telco and enterprise industries’ healthy growth and building bridges between Telcos and Enterprises to manage digital transformation faster and swiftly. We brought together more than 150+ different stakeholders such as Telcos, ICT and executives in charge of managing global and regional networks for B2B Enterprises to get together, discuss and share intelligence while learning from industry experts about the latest market trends, best practices, business models, technological solutions and deployment of right platforms that help Enterprises to implement seamlessly, successful and profitable digital transformation strategies.
We all are on new territory and it is vital to identify and adopt best practice all over. The Summit addressed industry relevant latest topics and trends related to digital transformation as well as SASE, security, IoT, Cloud Data, 5G, AI and other intertwined network topics.
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Rolf is a customer-oriented, international leader in telecommunications with a focus on transformation and innovation management. His experience of 20 years within Deutsche Telekom is based on a strong track record in B2B and B2C business and a focus on marketing, international sales, global wholesale, pricing, portfolio management and strategy.
Emmanuel Rochas is the CEO of Orange International Carriers where he is responsible for managing international connectivity and transmission for wholesale services in Roaming; Messaging; Voice; Bandwidth; IP and Content Distribution; Security and Anti-Fraud
He brings to the role rich experience and expertise gained from previous positions within the Orange Group and from working for the French government.
After joining Orange in 2006, Emmanuel Rochas held various posts of responsibility. He was Head of Group Strategy from 2010–2014 and he later oversaw the deployment and maintenance of the Orange mobile and fixed networks at regional level.
Emmanuel Rochas participated previously in the creation of the Home line of business where he was responsible for business modelling and business performance.
Emmanuel Rochas is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and of Telecom ParisTech.
Based at Lago di Como in Italy, VSC provides strategic advisory services in M&A, Business Development & Media for the telecommunication industry. Over the last 25 years, Erik developed extensive expertise and deep domain knowledge working at major telecom companies. His international career includes senior & executive level positions. Over the years, Erik has been a regular speaker & moderator at major international telecom conferences.
Amir Zmora is CEO & Co-founder of flexiWAN, the world’s first Open Source SD-WAN & SASE. Before starting flexiWAN, Amir was CEO & Co-founder of SwitchRTC, a Real-time, interactive WebRTC based video CDN and B2B/B2C collaboration solution acquired by YouNow. Among his previous positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for the Technology Business Unit of RADVISION, an Avaya company.
20 years of experience selling and delivering Service Desk solutions. Solution Architect of Service Desk implementation and migration projects. Supports presales activities by understanding customer requirements, planning solutions and writing proposals. Leads delivery teams and can take part in customization. Earlier worked in several fields of Information Technology with a good understanding of IT systems and experiences in application software development, networking, databases, etc. Main strength is system approach.
Nassia is a Digital Transformation Technologist with 27 years of experience helping global organisations develop and grow, in the IT, Telco and IoT sectors.
Having run global organisation and manager diverse technical and commercial teams for over 25 years, Nassia founder Apiro Data in 2018. Apiro Data is an End2End IoT solutions and platform company, enabling deployment, data collection, processing and visualisation to manage and monitor connected devices. Apiro Data’s Vision is to enable IoT engagement on any channel at any time by any vendor.
Nassia helps businesses commercialise their digital transformation to drive operational efficiency and increase revenue through creative technology solutions with IoT, AI and Cloud services.
Alessandro has 30 years of experience in telecoms and ICT, with particular skill in innovation and transformation. He covers the Italian market for Cambridge MC.
Alessandro carved out his career at Telecom Italia before moving to Telemedia International (TMI) where he was responsible for the design and implementation of the global backbone network and management of OPEX budgets. His input created OPEX savings of tens of millions (Euros).
Alessandro has also been a Director at Telecom Italia Sparkle, the subsidiary delivering international wholesale and corporate services. He was involved in a continuous network architecture review as well as innovative voice, roaming and messaging services.
Alessandro has served as Chairman of the Technical/IMS Group, the i3 forum and a member of the Steering Committee. He produces resources to provide international carriers with best practice guidelines for IP migration.
Alessandro lives in Rome and is interested in history, plays tennis and enjoys international travel.
Carsten Schiefner has worked professionally with the Internet since 1996, especially with the DNS. His focus is on technical and non-technical aspects such as Internet policies, the interactions of the Internet with politics, society and the economy, and the service concept with new basic technologies. From 1996 to 2002, he was responsible for the external relations of Internet Service Provider TCP / IP and Primus Telecommunications. From 2002 to 2004 he was in the same position at RIPE NCC in Amsterdam. Carsten Schiefner then represented Deutsche Telekom as International Coordination Consultant and Telnic as "Registrar Relations and Policy Director" at Telnic. Carsten Schiefner has been a member of ICANN meetings since 1999 and has also been a member of DENIC's eGovernment Board since 1998.
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After joining Expereo 11 years ago and setting up the first international Expereo office in Singapore back in 2008, Sander now works out of the HQ in Amsterdam as the Chief Commercial Officer. His team is spread out globally across 5 offices. Before joining Expereo Sander worked out of Australia for BT Global Services and Infonet Services Corp. His telecom career started in 1997 with Unisource Business Services and AT&T Unisource in Europe. Nice to know fact: before Sander went into telecom he was a helicopter pilot.
Erik Kreifeldt tracks the global network services market, maintaining industry relationships to exchange data and provide analysis to help clients make successful business decisions. After covering networks for more than 20 years, Erik draws inspiration from the profound-yet-underappreciated work of maintaining infrastructure essential for global commerce.
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Sunil David has 27 years of experience in the IT and Telecom industry and is the Regional Director ( IOT ) for AT&T India , and is based in Chennai . He is responsible for building the IOT strategy for the India and the ASEAN regions and working with various internal stakeholders to ensure successful execution , working on building a robust partner ecosystem for AT&T in the entire IOT value chain (Devices, Platforms and Applications ) and also working on a number of Marketing initiatives to help enhance the AT&T brand in the IOT space.
In March 2021 , Sunil was bestowed with the “ Indian Achievers Award “ for year 2020-21 for Outstanding Professional Achievement and Contribution in Nation Building conferred by the Indian Achievers Forum , a 20 year old Govt of India recognized body that promotes achievements which inspire Businesses and Communities.
On 7th Feb 2020, Sunil was awarded as “ India’s Fastest Growing Leaders 2019-20- Pride of the Nation ” at the 13th edition of the Asian Business and Social Forum at Bangkok to recognize Asia’s greatest brands and leaders by an International media house Asia One Magazine part of UWG Holdings.
Sunil was recognized by the World Marketing Congress in Nov 2017 as one of the 50 Most Influential Digital Marketing Leaders across India .
For two years in a row, Sep 2018 and Sep 2019 , Sunil was honored with the “ Eminent Jury Member “ award at the Asian Business and Social Forum -2018 and 2019 : India’s Greatest Brand and Leaders 2017-18 and 2018-19 , Pride of India series organized by Asia One Magazine part of UWG Holdings.
Sunil has spoken at more than 100 Industry forums in India and abroad (including virtual events) organized by leading industry bodies like COAI, CII, IAMAI , Cyber Media, NASSCOM , ASSOCHAM ,Geospatial , IET , Singex , Konnect Worldwide etc ) and Educational institutions including IIM Shillong, IIT Delhi , IIT Madras, SITM Pune, in the past 3 years on topics related to IOT , AI , Cyber Security , Digital Transformation etc . Sunil has also written articles related to Smart Cities, Use of IOT in Shipping industry , Digital Transformation , Disruptive Technologies, 5G, IOT Security for leading B2B publications from ADI Media and CIO Review that has a wide circulation amongst the CIO community in India.
Max Roettgermann is responsible for the portfolio of DDoS Defense products & services for Deutsche Telekom and its subsidiaries and has worked within the IP & Peering team since 2009.
Max was part of the European research project ETICS (Economics and Technologies for Inter-Carrier Services), which contributed to the objective "Network of the Future".
Max joined the Deutsche Telekom group in 2001 and has held various positions within the company, including Head of Order and Project Management in the trade fair and event management department. Here he took responsibility for the IT services at several leading exhibitions at Messe Düsseldorf and the annual shareholder meetings for major German stock corporations.
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Gergana Kakrinska supports German companies reaching their sustainability and energy goals. Therefore, leveraging IoT and cloud technologies is a key success factor to provide a value through services. Passionate about digitization of the energy sector, Gergana obtained her Master's in Electrical Engineering from TU München and gained her work experience in Asia, Eastern and Central Europe.
Daniel Burke is the SD-WAN Product Manager for Lumen EMEA, responsible for go-to-market strategy, sales enablement and operational performance.
Daniel has over 10 years of product management experience in the telecoms industry, including bringing new products to market, product development, customer support and pre-sales. Prior to Lumen, he held a variety of positions with equipment vendors and service providers for networking technologies including Voice and Unified Communications.
Daniel believes that SASE, SD-WAN and NFV solutions are key to providing the network visibility and agility that enables customers to meet their digital business goals.
Marc Cohn is Principal Technology Strategist at Spirent. He is responsible for qualifying opportunities that leverage Spirent’s testing/assurance core competencies in SD-WAN, SASE, Telco Cloud, and other open networking initiatives.
Marc created and lead the MEF SD-WAN Certification Program, working closely with MEF. He was appointed Co-Chair of the MEF Certification Committee (2019-20), and established and led the MEF Security Test and Certification Incubation Group which led to the MEF’s first security certification. Marc also authors the MEF SD-WAN Insider Blog on AvidThink.
Recognised as a thought leader for the open SDN/NFV movement, he has held senior leadership roles in the Open Networking Foundation, ETSI NFV ISG, and open source networking projects: Linux Foundation OPEN-O (Executive Director), OpenDaylight (Silver Level Board Representative), and PNDA.
Prior to joining Spirent, Marc held senior executive roles for innovative NFV/SDN market leaders such as EnterpriseWeb, the Linux Foundation, ClearPath Networks, among others.
Marc also served as Editor for the industry's most important SDN/NFV publications including the original ONF SDN White Paper, NFV Insider Blog (SDxCentral) on behalf of the ETSI NFV ISG leadership and the Linux Foundation Harmonization White Paper.
Marc earned a MS EE degree from the University of Southern California, where he was a Hughes Fellow, and also received the first Computer Engineering degree granted by the University of Missouri.
Jeremy Villalobos is the Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of GoldConnect. With more than 15 years of experience in the Telecom and Data Center industry, Jeremy has served in several key capacities for various organizations building and succeeding new business units in USA and Latin America, including construction of new top tier Data Centers, deployment of multiple cloud computing platforms and new strategic network infrastructure expansion in the region. Today, he also serves in the Board of Advisor of Stetson University in the Graduate Disruptive Leadership Program. Jeremy holds an EMBA in International Business and Operation Management from Florida Atlantic University.
Andreas Bandel is the Area Director DACH and EE for CATO Networks, the pioneer of the convergence of networking and security into the cloud (SASE).
He has more than 15 years of experience in the ICT market with leading cloud solutions in the enterprise applications, cyber security and managed services sector.
Andreas passion is to help his customers delivering real business benefits with a next generation secure networking architecture that eliminates the complexity, costs, and risks associated with legacy IT approaches based on disjointed point solutions.
Before joining CATO Networks, Andreas Bandel successfully built up the DACH region at various startups in the technology sector and founded his own company.
Dawane is Director, Platforms and Applications for Verizon Partner Solutions, the global wholesale division of the Verizon organization. He is a 25+ year Telecommunications veteran who has held business development, marketing, operations and sales management roles. Dawane currently leads a team that delivers Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Application and Platform solution opportunities to global businesses. Dawane’s team helps to market and identify emerging sales strategies associated with technology shifts and develop new monetization models to address the rapidly growing ‘as a service’ market. Dawane holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communications from James Madison University.
Charmond leads DCConnect Global on business development activities in the region, focusing on establishing an ecosystem of Data Centre partnerships and alliances while engaging in thelarge-scale digital transformation’s consultation for carriers and service providers. He expanded DCConnect Global beyond Hong Kong into regional countries with plans to cater to the SDN, Cloud and Data Centre connectivity markets.
Before DCConnect Global, Charmond served in senior management roles managing product strategy and business development within telecommunication carriers and vendor sectors, covering APAC with renowned companies and conglomerates. His experience spans various technology solutions such as SDN and blockchains, focusing on future-proofing business operations through digital transformation and the introduction of automated DCI and Cloud Connectivity solutions for Data Centres, wholesales and retail markets.
Steffen is managing partner at I/P/B/ Internet Provider Berlin with over 20 years of leadership experience in ISP, Colocation and IXP business.
He founded I/P/B/ in 1997 during his studies of industrial engineering and management.
For six years he was member of the board of directors at BCIX, Berlin’s leading Internet Exchange.
I/P/B/ is 100% family-owned and operating the CarrierColo® data centers in Berlin with No.1 ranking for carrier density in East Germany.
The customers are worldwide leading IT business and Telco industries.
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Saurabh Verma heads the ICT and Digital Transformation for the MEA region. In his role, he is spearheading the ICT team and is responsible for managing the syndicated research and consulting engagements for the ICT practice. Saurabh comes with 14+ years of research, consulting, and IT sourcing advisory experience.
He has got significant experience in the ICT industry, especially in strategy consulting and market research. Saurabh’s expertise lies in opportunity assessment, competitive intelligence and benchmarking, go to market and new market entry, diversification strategies, business model analysis and evaluation, end consumer analysis of technologies, portfolio development and pricing, location assessment, and vendor evaluation for IT sourcing.
Over the past decade, Saurabh has been a regular at various ICT conferences across the region. He has been a speaker and panel moderator at several conferences in the MEA region. Additionally, he has closely worked with both IT and Telecommunication companies on their business strategies and various other strategic and tactical engagements.
In this previous roles, he has held project delivery, consultant, and business development roles at GlobalData, IDC, IBM, Tholons Consulting, and other firms in the UAE and India.
Saurabh holds an MBA in Finance from the ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad, and a Bachelors in Commerce from Christ Church College.
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Jens Leuchters is the managing director at NewTelco GmbH, where Jens is responsible for sales as well as product development. Jens develops the strategy for the SME market entry, as well as the digitization of internal business processes.
Jens has been in ICT since 1993 and started his career in internal IT at BT. Since 2003 he has been responsible for international management functions, including Interoute (GTT) and NTT.
As Regional Manager starting from 2003, Jens built the carrier business at Interoute. Next to this he was driving the enterprise GTM as well as the integration & migration of the acquired hosting provider PSI-Net in the DACH region. In 2009 he took over the management of the Japanese NTT Communication for CEE as Region General Manager. In 2016, Jens took over the SVP Network Services position in NTT Europe, where he pushed ahead with the transformation of the corporate network to SDWAN solutions and transferred the European Network BU into a global network factory.
Jens lives in the area around Frankfurt and is a passionate scuba diver and classic car fan.
Passionate about new technologies and innovation, with over 25 years of international experience and successful track record in different management positions across Europe, within large organizations as Telefonica Group, Colt Telecom, Vodafone Group, EU Commission. Over 25 years telecoms experience, part of the founding team of Unsere Grüne Glasfaser Gmbh, a JV between Telefónica group and Allianz, responsible to accelerate the Digitalization of Germany in Rural and Semi-rural Areas.
Have an Executive MBA in Oxford B. University and a B.A in International Business Administration by Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Also experienced with Startups for the development of technological solutions for Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults based on AI and ML.
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Paolo has over 20 years of experience and multi-domain knowledge about network architectures, security assessments and implementation of complex-heterogeneous infrastructures (implementation & maintenance). He co-founded SecurityGen- a startup focused on telecom cybersecurity with three global industry leaders. He leads the Global Operations function for SecurityGen and is in charge of effective delivery, project implementations, customer support, and relationships.
Before co-founding SecurityGen, he was Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Positive Technologies. Paolo joined Positive Technologies in 2012 as Technical Account Manager and has subsequently held numerous leadership positions within the organization. A renowned expert in his field, Paolo has actively led business forums focused on identifying, developing and implementing cyber-security solutions for the telecommunications industry.
Before joining Positive Technologies, Paolo worked in the Industrial‐CS security space and has led the delivery of one of the most extensive European private network, located in Italy, based on DWDM technology - a project that lasted three years and covered over 14.000km of F.O
Paolo holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Telecommunications, a Master's degree in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from Sapienza Università di Roma, and a SCCISP Certification (Smart Cities & Critical Infrastructure Security Professional) from the IoT Security Institute in Italy.
Experienced Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry in International environment.
Strong business development professional skilled in Sales, General Management & Finance.
Strong believer in building and maintaining long lasting partnerships.
Huda is a Computer Engineer holding a degree of B.A. electrical and computer engineering from Muscat, Oman and master of science information and communication technology business management from Paris , France, having a strong experience of 14 years in telecommunication , currently holds the position of Senior Manager capacity and submarine cables at Omantel responsible of Capacity and submarine sales and procurement enthusiastically , infrastructure expansion and business partnership.
Huda is an ambitious worker and she is the first Omani woman working in the field of submarine business.
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