Featured Speakers & Panelists
Kuntal Chowdhury
AI-RAN and 6G Developer Relations, NVIDIA
Kuntal Chowdhury is the 6G developer relations manager and technical evangelist at NVIDIA. In this role, he drives the relationship with the ecosystem of developers and early adopters of platform and tools offered by NVIDIA to foster a thriving research community towards 6G. Prior to this, he was the founder of BlueFusion, Inc., an innovative sensor fusion and AI startup. Most recently, Kuntal was responsible for building products and solutions at Mavenir using cutting-edge big data analytics, AI/ML-based applications for network automation, and Edge AI applications for 5G enterprise and IoT segments. Before that, Mr. Chowdhury co-founded Altiostar, a vRAN pioneer and was an early employee of Starent Networks, a 3GPP network core innovator. He is a telecommunication industry veteran with decades of experience in various roles such as product management, systems engineering, marketing, business development, standards, and strategy. Prior to Mavenir, Mr. Chowdhury held a strategic role at Cisco Systems where he defined and drove Cisco’s mobile internet strategy. He has contributed to leading standards organizations such as 3GPP, WiMAX, and IETF, authoring numerous technical standards. He also held engineering positions at Nortel and Motorola where he led systems engineering and RF optimization for large-scale deployments of cellular networks around the world. Kuntal has over 50 granted patents and many filed patent applications.
Jinfeng Du
Department Head, Radio Systems USA, Nokia
Jinfeng received his Bachelor degree from USTC, China, and his Master, Licentiate, and PhD degrees from KTH, Sweden, all in Electrical Engineering. Before joining Bell Labs in NJ, Jinfeng spent two years at MIT as a postdoctoral researcher. Jinfeng’s research interests are in the general area of wireless communications, especially in communication theory, multi-user information theory, radio systems design and evaluation, millimeter wave propagation and channel modeling. Our department in Radio Systems Research Lab is to develop novel, superior, and disruptive technologies for wireless communication and sensing focusing on the physical and medium access layers, radio resource management, and system design. We are devoted to establishing fundamentals as well as to developing game-changing, high-impact technologies and concepts for radio connectivity in an ever-widening range of frequency bands.
Ari Fitzgerald
Partner, Hogan Lovells
Ari Fitzgerald provides strategic, legal, and policy advice on a wide range of communications and spectrum policy issues to some of the world’s largest and most dynamic communications network operators and equipment manufacturers, as well as a diverse assortment of industry trade associations and investors. He especially enjoys helping to bring new and innovative communications-related products and services to market. In recognition of his path-breaking contributions to the wireless industry, he is one of only three attorneys to have ever been inducted into the Wireless History Foundation’s Wireless Hall of Fame. Ari had a distinguished career in government before joining Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) as a partner in 2001. He was a legal advisor to former FCC Chairman Bill Kennard, as well as deputy chief of the FCC’s International Bureau. He also worked as a legal advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, where he advised the White House, executive branch agencies, and the U.S. attorney general on constitutional and federal statutory interpretation matters. Ari currently serves on the board of directors of Crown Castle International, a large, publicly owned operator of towers and other communications infrastructure, and on the advisory board of several private technology companies and policy advocacy organizations. He also serves on the board of several nonprofit entities, including the Yale Law School Fund, secretary of the Multicultural Media and Telecommunications Council, and as president of the Duke Ellington Fund. Ari graduated with an A.B. from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1984; served as a Henry Luce Scholar in the Philippines from 1984 to 1985 and graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1990.
Ali Khayrallah
Senior Technical Advisor, Ericsson Inc.
Ali Khayrallah is senior technical advisor with the AdvancedTechnology Group at Ericsson in Santa Clara, CA. He has been with Ericsson invarious research positions, in Santa Clara, CA, where he led a team shaping future wireless technology, and earlier in Research Triangle Park, NC. His current focus is on 6G, and he has contributed to the development of 5G, 4G, 3G, Bluetooth, mobile satellite, land mobile radio etc. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware. He received a Ph.D. and an M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.Eng. from the American University of Beirut. He holds 120+ patents and received the Ericsson inventor of the year award.
Ed Knapp
CTO, American Tower Corporation
Ed Knapp is American Tower’s Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for leading the company’s global innovation program, technology investments and strategy. Prior to joining American Tower in 2017, Mr. Knapp served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm. He joined Qualcomm after its acquisition of Flarion Technologies. Prior to that he served as the Chief Technology Officer of PacketVideo Corporation, co-founded NextWave Telecom, Inc. and served as its Chief Technology Officer, and was Executive Director of Technical Services for Bell Atlantic/NYNEX Mobile (Verizon Wireless). Mr. Knapp serves on the Board of Directors of AST SpaceMobile and the Center for Automotive Research, as well as the Rutgers University Industry Advisory Board. Mr. Knapp currently has five granted U.S. patents and one pending application. He earned an M.B.A. from Columbia University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University (NYU) in New York and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Stony Brook University.
Ozge Koymen
Vice President of Technology, Qualcomm
Ozge Koymen is a Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. where he has been since 2006. He has led the 5G/6G millimeter-wave program within Qualcomm R&D since early 2015, from early conceptual evaluation to commercial deployment. His previous areas as a technical contributor includes Wireless Backhaul, Small Cells, LTE-D, LTE and UMB. Prior to Qualcomm, he was a member of Flarion Technologies developing a pioneering OFDMA cellular system,Flash-OFDM, during 2003-2006. His earlier work experience includes full-time and consulting work for Impinj, Inc (2000-2003) and TRW (1996-2000). He received the B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1997 and 2003, respectively.
Chris Monroe
Professor of ECE and Physics, Duke University; co-Founder and Chief Scientist, IonQ
Christopher Monroe is the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at Duke University. He is also the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of IonQ, Inc., the first public quantum computing company. Monroe has pioneered nearly all aspects of atom-based quantum computers and simulators, from demonstrations of the first quantum gate, monolithic semiconductor-chip ion trap, and photonic interconnects between physically separated qubits; to the design, fabrication, and use of full-stack ion trap quantum computer systems in both university and industrial settings. He is a key architect of the US National Quantum Initiative, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, the UK Institute of Physics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Arielle Roth
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Arielle Roth was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information on July 30, 2025. In this role, she serves as Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Executive Branch agency principally responsible for advising the President on communications, broadband, and internet policy. Prior to joining NTIA, Roth spent nearly a decade shaping federal communications and broadband policy, holding senior roles on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission. She most recently served as Policy Director for Telecommunications on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation under Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX), and previously as Legislative Counsel to former Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO). At the FCC, Roth served as Wireline Legal Advisor to former Commissioner Michael O’Rielly and as Legal Advisor to the Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau. Earlier in her career, she was a Legal Fellow with the Hudson Institute’s Center for the Economics of the Internet. Roth holds degrees from the University of Toronto and McGill University Faculty of Law. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Yaakov, and their six children.
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