1:00-6:00 pm PT | October 18, 2019 

Quadrus Conference Center | 2400 Sand Hill Rd #204, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Mayfield and GSMA are teaming together to host the Silicon Valley Telco Cloud Investor Summit to explore new opportunities in scouting and investments in telecommunications as their industry transitions to cloud-based architecture, including virtualization of core functions.

We see market potential. Today, VMware estimates that only 5% of the telecommunications industry is virtualized.

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Audience

• GSMA will bring the most significant leaders of the Telco industry who are part of the "Innovation Leadership Group," including 25 mobile operators, 10 of which do not have presence in Silicon Valley
• Participants will include mobile operator innovation leadership and c-suite executives representing innovation programs, M&A, corporate venture funds and product teams.

Why Now?

• Rakuten just launched the first cloud-native telecommunications network in January, which has driven a blueprint of the future of telecommunications, especially for the global enterprise.
• In the US, large scale enterprises like Amazon and FedEx are trialing private network systems.
• With the DoJ requiring Dish to become the 4th mobile operator in the US, Dish will likely look to these new greenfield cloud-native telecommunications infrastructure models.

1:00-1:30pm Arrivals & Registration

1:30-2:15pm State of the Market - An Investor POV

• Gamiel Gran, VP Business Development, Mayfield (Moderator)
• Michael Droesch, VP, Cloud Infrastructure, Bessemer Venture Partners
• David Shim, SVP, Corporate Strategy & Innovation, Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center
  
• Stein Lundby, Head, Corporate Technology Strategy, Qualcomm
• Azita Arvani, Board Director, Former Head of Innovation & Partner Management, Nokia

2:15-3:15pm Telco Cloud Investment Priorities

• Mark Silva, CEO, Kite (Moderator)
• Paresh Modi, Group Head, Business Development & Innovation, Vodafone
• Guy Horowitz, Partner, Deutsch Telekom Capital Partners
• Deep Nishar, Senior Managing Partner, Softbank Investment Advisors
• Mireille Helou, CEO, Orange Silicon Valley
• Lisa Gao, President, China Mobile Research US
• Mark Sherman, Managing Director, Telstra Ventures

3:15-3:30pm Break

3:30-4:10pm GSMA 100: Visions of the Future (Infrastructure)

• Stein Lundby, Head, Corporate Technology Strategy, Qualcomm (Moderator)
• Ashraf Dahod, CEO, Altiostar (ORAN, Qualcomm, Rakuten)
• Ido Susan, CEO, DriveNets (Routers, Bessemer, Samsung)
• Kelly Ahuja, CEO, Versa Networks (SD-WAN, Mayfield)
• Dr. Jai Menon, Chief Scientist, Fungible (Data Center, Mayfield Samsung)

4:10-4:50pm GSMA 100: Visions of the Future (Software)

• Gamiel Gran, VP Business Development, Mayfield (Moderator)
• Ankur Singla, CEO, Volterra (Edge, Mayfield, Khosla)
• David Erickson, CEO, Forward Networks (Network Modelling, a16z)
• Hassan Ahmed, CEO, Affirmed Networks (NFV, Bessemer, Vodaone, DT, Qualcomm)

4:50-5:30pm Voice of the Customer: A CIO View

• Stuart Evans, Distinguished Professor, CMU (Moderator)
• Yuvi Kochar, President, CTO Roundtable of DC & Managing Director, Kochar Consulting
• Mallik Tatipamula, CTO, Group Function Technologies & Architectures, Ericsson
• Mark Settle, CIO, Okta (Former)

5:00-6:30pm Networking Reception

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