Dean Bubley (@disruptivedean) is the Founder of Disruptive Analysis, an independent technology industry analyst and consulting firm. An analyst & futurist with over 25 years’ experience, he specialises in wireless, mobile, and telecoms fields. He is one of the leading market observers covering network infrastructure & software, service provider business models, voice/video communications and telecoms policy.

He is known as a contrarian and visionary, often with challenging opinions that go against industry consensus. His present focus is on 4G/5G/Wi-Fi network technology, NFV/SDN, the “future of voice and video”, mobile broadband, developer platforms and contextual communications. He also advises on trends in telco service creation & monetisation, mobile devices, IoT, applications ecosystems, broad futurism and telecoms regulation/spectrum policy.

He provides clients with advice and analytical opinion on topics such as business model validation, technology innovation and go-to-market strategies, “addressable market sizing,” planning and due diligence. His clients include many of the world’s leading telecom operators, vendors, regulators and industry associations.

Mr. Bubley was formerly an equity analyst, covering communications stocks with Granville Baird, the UK arm of US-based investment bank Robert W. Baird. Prior to that, he spent eight years at UK research firm Datamonitor, where he co-founded the company’s Technology business, managed the Internet & Networking area and custom consulting operations, with roles of Chief Analyst & Director of Consulting.

He holds a BA in Physics from Keble College, Oxford University.

Website: www.deanbubley.com  Blog: http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com

Wen-Chung Guo has served as a commissioner of the National Communications Commission (NCC) since August 2016. He has made significant contributions in the areas of deregulation and rate-rebalancing of telecommunications since 1994. Prior to his current position at NCC, he was an associate professor of economics at National Taipei University. More recently, his work has encompassed price regulation, the digital divide, and spectrum auctions in Taiwan.

Wen-Chung’s primary areas of research include Internet economics, telecommunications, media economics, and financial economics. His academic research has been published in various international economic journals, such as Journal of Industrial Economics, Economic Theory, and Journal of Media Economics, among others.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Ph.D. of Economics at National Taiwan University.

Sachin Gupta is the head of New Street Capital Asia – a specialist TMT advisory business. Prior to this, he was the head of Asian telecoms and ASEAN equity research at Nomura, where his team was ranked #1 in various market surveys including Institutional Investor. He also worked at Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan covering telecoms and other sectors. He graduated from UNSW in Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics & Finance (HONS) and is a CFA charterholder.

Dr. Heikki Kokkinen is the founder and CEO of Fairspectrum. Fairspectrum has offices in Finland and in the US. Fairspectrum provides commercial TVWS geolocation database service in the United Kingdom. The 2.3 GHz Program Making and Special Events (PMSE) spectrum management system of the Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands has been developed by Fairspectrum. Fairspectrum won the Collaborative Spectrum Sharing Prize of the European Commission in 2016. Fairspectrum applied to become Spectrum Access System (SAS) Administrator in the United States in 2017.

Heikki holds a doctoral degree in Computer Science, an academic entrepreneur degree from Aalto School of Business, licentiate degree in telecommunications and industrial economics, and Master’s degree in electronics. Heikki is devoted to marketing, research and development, financing, system integration, piloting and deploying of spectrum sharing technologies.

Masanori Kondo is the Deputy Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) since February 2015. Before he joined APT, he had been working at Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan for about 25 years and built his career as an expert on international affairs in the field of information and communication technology (ICT), including senior director for International Economic Affairs, senior director for International Cooperation Affairs, and Assistant Director General for International Affairs etc.

He holds a B.A. in Economics from Keio University and MSc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. He also served as visiting scholar in several universities in Japan and U.S.A including Keio University (2013) and Harvard University (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2004).

Wing K. Lee is the CEO of YTL Communications Sdn Bhd, the communications arms of YTL Corporation Berhad, Malaysia’s leading infrastructure conglomerate with businesses serving 12 million customers across 3 continents.

YTL Communications envisions using mobile Internet to help leapfrog Malaysia into an innovation-led economy. In November 2010, the company commercially launched “Yes”, a 4G mobile Internet service with a nationwide footprint to help the country close the digital divide. Globally recognized by the likes of IDC and Wall Street Journal; the “Yes” network was awarded the World’s Best New Service at the renowned Broadband World Forum in 2011 and Frost and Sullivan recognized the company as Asia Pacific’s Most Innovation Service Provider in 2012.

As the CEO of the company, Wing maximizes his expertise in innovation and deep understanding of Internet technologies to deliver affordable, world-class services that improve the way people in Malaysia live, learn, work and play.

Prior to joining YTL Communications, Wing held a distinguished career in the United States, having served as Chief Architect in the Long Distance business of Sprint, led Enterprise Architecture to launch the first nationwide wireless data network in America (Sprint PCS), and subsequently headed up Sprint’s corporate innovation program. Wing has twenty-two U.S. Patents and was recognized as the Asian American Engineer of the Year in 2002 during the U.S. National Engineers Week.

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Wing has also completed the Executive Program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Russell Lundberg is a Telecoms Executive having over 30 years’ experience with Fixed and Mobile Operators around the world. Russell specializes in Network Implementation, Operations, RAN Development, Cost Containment, Software Development, and Team Building. He eagerly reads as much as he can about 5G development with great enjoyment.

His company, Bangkok Beach Telecom, has provided technical and business consulting services to telecoms in Southeast Asia, Asia-Pacific and around the world since 2007.

Russell blogs at Bangkok Beach Telecom, where he helps Technologists develop satisfying and rewarding Telecoms careers.

Russell received his BS Physics from California State University – Long Beach in 1991. He lives with his wife in Bangkok, Thailand.

Based in Singapore, Marc is in charge of the development of Sigfox Operators across Asia, having concluded agreements expanding Sigfox mass IOT services in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, while working on further expansion in the region.

Before joining Sigfox, Marc has spent 20 years in Asia in various senior sales & product management positions, in particular as VP Business Development with BTI (a Juniper business unit focusing on Cloud & Data Center Interconnect Services), and earlier as the head of sales for British Telecom (BT) carrier business; in an earlier assignment, he headed BT’s Asia Pacific data product group, in charge of the development of Concert Network Services portfolio across Asia. He had held as well senior positions in corporate development in France with Level 3 Communications, an IP, fibre optic and data center service provider and with BT Tymnet a global managed network service provider.

An engineer with a degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) in Paris, he started his carrier with Alcatel divisions in France and the USA.

Allan Rasmussen is the managing director of Yozzo, a telecom and broadcasting consulting firm, operating out of Bangkok, Thailand since 2005. Prior to that, various executive positions within ICT, and broadcasting.

His expertise includes the development and execution of growth strategies for MNOs, MVNOs and OTT service providers internationally, as well as market insights, trends and opportunities, new business models and strategies for investment firms, regulators and device manufactures.

He is a MVNE/MVNO specialist, with hands-on experience from operations in both competitive and greenfield markets.

Allan is also a member of the Directors committee, Computer Engineering at the Engineering Institute of Thailand under H.M. The King’s Patronage. Thailand’s Cloud Computing, App and Service Standard Committee, and Vice President, Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties, Southeast Asia.

James manages Asia ex Japan Research and APAC Telecom research based in Singapore. His fundamental research has been recognized through top tier rankings in II and Asia Money, while his stock picking abilities have been recognized by top tier rankings in the Asian Wall Street Journal’s Best on the Street awards.

He has been covering Emerging Markets since 1996, and has been based in Asia since 1998. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, he managed investment portfolios focused on the Asian Telecom, Media, and Internet sectors for eight years at Citadel Investment Group, Oaktree Capital, and Millennium Partners based in Hong Kong and Singapore. James has also provided consulting services to Starhub, a listed Singapore Telecom/Pay TV operator and Kong.com, a listed Chinese Internet company.

Prior to that he covered regional Telecom and Media names for Credit Suisse First Boston, based in Bangkok. His first role based in Asia involved private equity advisory in ASEAN. Post University he spent four years with IBM, serving as a Global Account Manager in the IBM Telecom & Media Group, covering Time Warner, based in New York.

James received an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in Political Science from Marist College. He has been a guest lecturer for Duke University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Born in Jakarta on April 1, 1970. After graduating with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Heru continued his studies and received his Master of Science in Communication and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, and also took an Executive Program in Graduate School for Business at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Beside formal education, Heru followed some courses and training about spectrum management, interconnection, mastering the Internet, and regulation about telecommunication, broadcasting, and online media.

After 10 years working for some telco company in Indonesia and other countries, he was elected as Commissioner of Indonesian Telecommunication Regulatory Authority in 2006 and reelected for a second term in 2009 until May 2012.

He is the Executive Director for Indonesian ICT Institute and lecturer in some University. He is involved in some ICT research in Indonesia such as spectrum management, cloud computing, m-commerce, cyber security, and big data including social media.

Remus Tan is a Senior Advisor on Mobility Networks and Architecture in Ciena. He is a member of the APAC CTO organization and is based in Singapore. One of his responsibilities include helping Ciena develop their strategy on Gigabit LTE, 5G and mobility products portfolio.

Remus represents Ciena and contributes in the following standards organizations: ITU-T Study Group 13, IEEE 1914 Next Generation Fronthaul Interface Working Group and NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks). He is also well versed with various 3GPP mobile specifications as well as those mobility-related RFCs in IETF.

Remus has more than 18 years of experience in the telecommunication industry and has worked on both L0/L1/L2/MPLS transport technologies and mobile packet core technologies; including deep involvement in the architectural design of production EPC networks on 3GPP Policy Control, QoS Management and Diameter Signaling. Prior to Ciena, Remus works for Oracle and is involved deeply on NFV technologies for various signaling products within Oracle’s Communications Business Unit.

Dr. Patrick TSIE serves as Senior Director – Technical Marketing of Qualcomm International Inc for more than 15 years. He is responsible for promoting the advanced wireless technologies and Qualcomm product solution in South East Asia region. Patrick also leads a team to provide advice & consultancy for the technical engineering solutions to the regional operators. Patrick has vast experience to work with both carriers and device manufacturers on developing solutions for the regional needs.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Patrick worked for Hutchison Telecom (HK) Ltd, and was responsible for the cellular network projects.

Patrick received his Ph.D. degree in Mobile Communication from the King’s College London.

Jennifer A. Warren is Vice President, Technology Policy & Regulation, in Lockheed Martin’s Government and Regulatory Affairs. She is responsible for managing the development and implementation of corporate regulatory and associated policy strategies affecting business interests, including in the areas of commercial space, cybersecurity, spectrum, emerging technologies, as well as FAA and FCC licensing. She is also responsible for the engagement with the International Telecommunications Union and other relevant intergovernmental organizations addressing ICT regulatory policy issues.

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin in 1996, she served in various capacities at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, including Senior Legal Advisor, International Bureau and Assistant Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. In 1990-91, Ms. Warren worked for the European Commission in Brussels, and prior to that in its offices in Washington, DC.

Ms. Warren is a graduate of Georgetown University (B.S. in Languages) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.). She is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Warren holds leadership positions in several professional and civic organizations.