Agenda

President,  FTTH Council Asia-Pacific

Director General,  Bureau of Economic Information of Wuhan

President,  YOFC

Chief of Research,  China Academy of Information and Communications Technology

Chief Scientist Optical Fibre,  YOFC
Presently Raadjkoermar Matai is the Chief Scientist Optical Fibre of YOFC and represents the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific as Vice President. He received his BS degree in Chemical Engineering in the Netherlands in 1984. He started his Optical Fibre carrier in Philips Optical Fibre in Netherlands, Eindhoven in 1985. Since 1992, he has worked in YOFC in various positions; such as Technical manager, Production Manager, Technology Director, Deputy General Manager and Chief Scientist. Between 2012-2015 he also worked at Sterlite as General Manager of the Process and Quality Department. During his career he has been involved in numerous product and process development projects related to single mode, multi-mode and Specialty optical fibres, e.g. low attenuation product series, low PMD single mode & specialty fibres, large size preforms (up to 214 mm), G.652, G.653, G.654 ultra-low loss, G.656 and G.657 product series, etc.

Chief Scientist Optical Fibre,  YOFC
Presently Raadjkoermar Matai is the Chief Scientist Optical Fibre of YOFC and represents the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific as Vice President. He received his BS degree in Chemical Engineering in the Netherlands in 1984. He started his Optical Fibre carrier in Philips Optical Fibre in Netherlands, Eindhoven in 1985. Since 1992, he has worked in YOFC in various positions; such as Technical manager, Production Manager, Technology Director, Deputy General Manager and Chief Scientist. Between 2012-2015 he also worked at Sterlite as General Manager of the Process and Quality Department. During his career he has been involved in numerous product and process development projects related to single mode, multi-mode and Specialty optical fibres, e.g. low attenuation product series, low PMD single mode & specialty fibres, large size preforms (up to 214 mm), G.652, G.653, G.654 ultra-low loss, G.656 and G.657 product series, etc.

Chief Scientist Optical Fibre,  YOFC
Presently Raadjkoermar Matai is the Chief Scientist Optical Fibre of YOFC and represents the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific as Vice President. He received his BS degree in Chemical Engineering in the Netherlands in 1984. He started his Optical Fibre carrier in Philips Optical Fibre in Netherlands, Eindhoven in 1985. Since 1992, he has worked in YOFC in various positions; such as Technical manager, Production Manager, Technology Director, Deputy General Manager and Chief Scientist. Between 2012-2015 he also worked at Sterlite as General Manager of the Process and Quality Department. During his career he has been involved in numerous product and process development projects related to single mode, multi-mode and Specialty optical fibres, e.g. low attenuation product series, low PMD single mode & specialty fibres, large size preforms (up to 214 mm), G.652, G.653, G.654 ultra-low loss, G.656 and G.657 product series, etc.

Country Head Connectivity,  Google India
Gulzar Azad is an Internet and Telecom veteran whose 19 years of career has been dedicated to mobile technologies and bridging the digital divide, working with Indian startups, operators and global corporations. Gulzar joined Google India in 2006 as the founding member of the partner technology and business team launching the first set of Mobile Product partnerships for Search, Ads, YouTube, Android in India and APAC. In 2013, he began working on Railways WiFi, a partnership initiative between Google and Indian Railways to bring high-speed Internet access to 100's of millions of people visiting train stations across 400 cities and towns in India. His initiative with the Indian government on Railways WiFi was instrumental in the Google Station product being extended to other parts of the world including Mexico, Indonesia and Nigeria. More recently, Gulzar established the first carrier partnership for Google's next generation data (4G/5G) packet core platform and led the launch of Google's first Smart City connectivity project in India. Prior to joining Google, Gulzar drove a series of early engineering innovations in mobile messaging, commerce and served as the architect of India's first SMS gateway and location-based mobile service. Gulzar is a computer applications graduate from DAVV - Indore University (1999) and completed his PG Executive Management Program from IIM-B (the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) in 2005-06. In 2013-14 Gulzar completed the Advanced Project Management Executive Program from Stanford University in the US.

Professorate Senior Engineer, Director of Division of Optical Communications,  China Mobile Group Design Institute
Gao Junshi is a CIC Senior Member with 25 years of experience in optical transmission network engineering design
and planning. He is the Editor of multiple standards for the Chinese national telecommunication industry.

Director of Network Tech Research Department and Professor-level Senior Engineer,  China Unicom Research Institute
Wang Guangquan is a professor-level senior engineer of China Unicom, focusing on the research, planning and design of telecommunication networks. He has won the second place in the National Science and Technology Progress Awards, and more than 30 other national awards and ministry/province awards in China. He is now the Director of Network Technology Research Department of Network Technology Research Institute, China United Network.

CTO,  MyRepublic Indonesia
Puneet Garg is a versatile technology leader with over 25+ years of experience in the field of Telecommunication and
Internet. He has handled various leadership roles as CTO, CIO and Directors with leading telecom companies in Asia
and India markets. Setup two green field network and operations in the emerging markets of Asia.
Currently he is the CTO and Operations Director of MyRepublic Indonesia a leading Fiber to Home ISP. Bringing in
the digital transformation of business and network operations for telco light operations. Expanding network by
leveraging partnership and own build in top 10 cities of Indonesia with over 1 M home passes.
Prior to MyRep he was the Technology and Operations Director – CTO & CIO of Indosatm2, Indosat Ooredoo Indonesia. He realized the FTTH vision of Indosat by operationalizing one of the best FTTH network of Indonesia.
He harnessed his leadership skills while working with Bharti Airtel a leading Integrated telecom service provider
by building and operationalization of over 5.5 Mn line network and over 3.3 Mn customer base. He cherished
to launch industry first TD LTE in 2.3 Ghz, IPTV and Wifi Hotspot for offloading in India.
He is Electronics and Communications graduate from Allahabad University, India and have over 22 years of rich
experience in sales & marketing, pre-sales and consulting services in Network Operations, and IP & Broadband services of Telecom Industry. He has deep understanding of emerging market trends and technologies and taking them to market for revenue generating services and he strives to leverage technology to its fullest potential.

Principal Analyst,  IDATE DigiWorld

Roland Montagne joined IDATE in 1998 and he is now Principle Analyst. In his position he is responsible of IDATE Consulting and Research activities covering Broadband and FTTx fields. Mr Montagne played a leading role in previous IDATE International studies. He has carried out several studies dealing with European Broadband roll out as annual Surveys on Broadband Access for the DGInfSo. Since 2004, Roland Montagne is leading FTTx works at IDATE and is also the project leader, twice a year, for the FTTH Council Europe European FTTH projects panorama (16^th edition in 2018). He also achieved a major study for the French Government on scenarios for deploying Very High Broadband networks in France (cost model and Government options). Roland Montagne also carried out several strategic analyses focused on US and Asian developing FTTH markets. He has been involved on FTTH cost model analysis for the United Kingdom as well as best practice study looking at fibre indoor deployments as well as ducts sharing. Recently, He was also leading a study on the potential of NGPON technologies as well as maturity of active wholesale for developing FTTH markets. Since 2013, on yearly bases, Roland is conducting FTTH projects Panorama for Latin America FTTH Chapter (14 countries covered), FTTH Council APAC (14 countries studied/5^th edition), FTTH Council MENA (19 countries covered), and leading an annual worldwide FTTx watch service proposed by IDATE and covering more than 70 countries (10^th edition). In 2017, Roland conducted the second FTTH Panorama for Africa (FTTH Council Africa).

Roland Montagne in his position of Director Business Development is also responsible for IDATE DigiWorld commercial strategy.

Roland Montagne is a Telecommunications Engineer (ENST Paris, 1994) and received a Master on Electronics (University Paris 6, 1994). He also worked for AT&T Bell laboratories (USA) as Engineer on DWDM Optical Networks and ATM technologies. He started his carrier in the France Telecom R&D labs working on optical communications.

Professor Level Senior Engineer and Senior Transmission Network Researcher,  China Mobile Research Institute
Li Yunbo is a Professor Level Senior Engineer and Senior Transmission Network Researcher at the China Mobil Research Institute. He received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China in 1997. He received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from China Academy of Telecommunication Technologies, Beijing, China in 2000. From 2000 to 2006, he worked at The Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission (RITT), engaged in specifying telecommunication standards. From 2006 to present, he has worked at the China Mobile Research Institute, engaged in the research of Optical Network technology, especially in optical transmission and OTN technologies.

Section Chief, Strategic Plant Planning Department Network Business Headquarters,  NTT East

COO,  Converge ICT
One of the most respected pillars in the Philippine telecommunications industry, Jesus C. Romero has 30 years of diverse experience in the ICT industry. Known as a strong leader, he has had a continuous impactful influence in several fields of expertise such as Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, Product Management, After Sales, Engineering, Operations and General Management. His exemplary track record in the spearheading start-up, turn-around and business growth leveraging strategies, complemented by his profound technical involvement and fieryleadership skills has made him a driving force in ensuring business growth and profitability.

Sales & Marketing Manager – China OCS Carrier,  Corning

Mr. Golden Huang is National Sales & Marketing Manager of Corning China OCS Carrier business with more than 18 years’ experience in communication market. In his 18 years career, Mr. Huang was working with various role as market analysis, product line manager, and business leader, and had been involved in almost all evaluation, construction and maintenance phase of FTTH deployment in China.    

VP R&D,  PT Telekom Akses
Gunadi Dwi Hantoro is The VP R&D of PT Telkom Akses, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia. He has joint and lead on many projects including WLL, PHS (Personal Handyphone System), DECT, Satellite, GSM, CDMA, WIFI, 3G, WiMAX, Hotspot, Mobile Broadband including LTE, Radio IP, Wireless Mesh, GPON, FTTX, MSAN, Indonesia WiFi and FTTH. Mr Hantoro was a lecturer in several Universities in Indonesia. He often giving speeches in many national and international seminar. Mr Hantoro is an author for several books about WiMAX, WiFi, Broadband Technology and Business, FTTH.

Senior Expert of Data Communication Business Unit,  YOFC

Consultant, Media-Telecom Business Unit,  IDATE DigiWorld
Agnès Le Meil provides strategic research, specialising in telecommunications and digital technology. Her initial area of expertise is telecoms market competition analysis, based on an analysis of operators’ financial results, trade fluctuations and changes in consumer habits. Ms Le Meil has also specialized in new business models created by service digitisation, evaluating risks and opportunities for operators. She notably worked on the integrated SIM cards, the digital ID market and the impacts of smart personal assistants. Ms Le Meil has an engineering degree from EFREI, a school specialising in digital technologies.

Government Advisory, Partner/ Business Advisory Services,  BDO
Ashish Gangrade representing BDO India, is a Partner with the firm and focuses on advising clients towards conceptualization, design, implementation & sustenance of business and technology transformation initiatives in Government & Public Sector. He has over 17 years of experience in leading large-scale complex projects, systems and teams. His experience ranges across multiple domains including e-governance, smart & safe cities, digital transformation, citizen service delivery, cyber security, sustainable development & public policy. In past he has worked with firms like Infosys, Deloitte, PwC and the National e-Governance Division of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India and contributed towards success of several national, state & city level transformation initiatives in India and abroad. He is an Electronics Engineer and MBA by qualification and has deep interests in smart cities, city fiber networks and sustainable development.

Head of Wire and Cable,  CRU

Market Intelligence Manager, Telecom Business/Telecom Solutions,  Prysmian Group
Jan Schindler is Global Market Intelligence Manager at Prysmian Group – the world’s leading cable manufacturing company in the energy and telecom cable systems industry. With over 20 years of professional experience in telecommunications, market research, and business consulting, Mr Schindler has a proven track record of developing successful strategic and competitive positioning campaigns for leading technology companies. These include Draka Communications, SSA Global Technologies, and the Baan Company. He contributed to FTTH Council Europe activity as Chairman of its Market Intelligence Committee from 2008 - April 2018 and was elected Board Member of the FTTH Council MENA in 2015 and contributes as Chairman of its Market Intelligence/Development Committee. Jan Schindler holds a MS degree in Business Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Zittau, Germany, and a Bachelor degree in International Business from Oslo University College, Norway.

Principal Analyst,  IDATE DigiWorld

Roland Montagne joined IDATE in 1998 and he is now Principle Analyst. In his position he is responsible of IDATE Consulting and Research activities covering Broadband and FTTx fields. Mr Montagne played a leading role in previous IDATE International studies. He has carried out several studies dealing with European Broadband roll out as annual Surveys on Broadband Access for the DGInfSo. Since 2004, Roland Montagne is leading FTTx works at IDATE and is also the project leader, twice a year, for the FTTH Council Europe European FTTH projects panorama (16^th edition in 2018). He also achieved a major study for the French Government on scenarios for deploying Very High Broadband networks in France (cost model and Government options). Roland Montagne also carried out several strategic analyses focused on US and Asian developing FTTH markets. He has been involved on FTTH cost model analysis for the United Kingdom as well as best practice study looking at fibre indoor deployments as well as ducts sharing. Recently, He was also leading a study on the potential of NGPON technologies as well as maturity of active wholesale for developing FTTH markets. Since 2013, on yearly bases, Roland is conducting FTTH projects Panorama for Latin America FTTH Chapter (14 countries covered), FTTH Council APAC (14 countries studied/5^th edition), FTTH Council MENA (19 countries covered), and leading an annual worldwide FTTx watch service proposed by IDATE and covering more than 70 countries (10^th edition). In 2017, Roland conducted the second FTTH Panorama for Africa (FTTH Council Africa).

Roland Montagne in his position of Director Business Development is also responsible for IDATE DigiWorld commercial strategy.

Roland Montagne is a Telecommunications Engineer (ENST Paris, 1994) and received a Master on Electronics (University Paris 6, 1994). He also worked for AT&T Bell laboratories (USA) as Engineer on DWDM Optical Networks and ATM technologies. He started his carrier in the France Telecom R&D labs working on optical communications.

Professor-level Senior Engineer, DM of Telecommunication Business Unit Product Line,  YOFC

Commercial Technology Manager - Optical Fiber and Cable,  Corning
Mr. Chen Hao graduated from physics department of Wuhan University in 2000 and joined Corning in 2010. Now Mr. Chen is the senior market development manager of Corning optical communication China and responsible for the market and application development of Corning new optical communication products. Mr.Chen keeps working in the optical communication with various roles as technology research, market analysis,and product line strategy. He also involves in the work of application development, system test and standard development for new fibers.

Asia Marketing Manager of Fiber Optic Materials,  DSM Functional Materials
Shirley Xu is Asia Marketing Manager in the Fiber Optic Materials Group with DSM Functional Materials. She joined DSM in 2012. Shirley has more than 10 years of professional B2B strategic marketing experience in Asia covering market research, marketing strategy, product marketing and business development. Prior to joining DSM, Shirley led the Market Research & Analysis team for Alcatel-Lucent in China. She started her career at Alcatel-Lucent in 1998 and held many roles in both marketing management and Broadband Access product & business development positions. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Software & Application and a M.B.A. degree from Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands.

Technical Director,  EXFO Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Raymond Lai specializes in telecommunications Test and Measurement for over 22 years. He possesses extensive
hands-on experience working with all major telecom service providers and mobile operators and their entire equipment suppliers and contractors from all over Asia Pacific including Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

He has authored numerous best practices guide to help the service operators to maximize their investment from
their deployment for variety of transport networks ranging from FTTx, DWDM/ROADM, OTN, legacy SDH to high
speed Ethernet (100G and 400G), fiber optics and triple play broadband services and most recently 5G Fibre Network
Transformation. Raymond has been with EXFO for more than 14 years, holding different regional roles in technical sales, application engineering, product support, training, product marketing, learning technology and services consultancy.

He is currently APAC Test and Measurement technical director. He plays instrumental role in driving the company
product innovation by bridging to the APAC market demand and evolution. Raymond holds a degree in Telecommunications and Electronics.

Director, Access Network Product Line,  HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd
Wu Qisheng, graduated from Wuhan University and joined Huawei in 2001. He is currently the ODN Product Director of Huawei.

Chairman of the P802.3cs ‘Super-PON’ Task Force,  IEEE, United States
Claudio DeSanti is a senior architect at Google Fiber since 2017. From 2000 to 2017 he worked in Cisco Systems upto the Fellow level. He contributed to the development and success of many Cisco products, including Cisco’s UCS, Cisco’s Nexus 7K and 5K, Cisco’s MDS, and Cisco’s Catalyst switches. He is the inventor of FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) and many other Storage Networking technologies.
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento S. Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2000. He is highly recognized in Standards Bodies and industry associations, such as IEEE 802.1 and 802.3, INCITS T11, and IETF. He has been Chairman of conferences and standard committees, and technical editor of multiple standards. He is author of several patents and recipient of four INCITS technical awards. He is the Chairman of the IEEE P802.3cs ‘Super-PON’ Task Force.

Country Head Connectivity,  Google India
Gulzar Azad is an Internet and Telecom veteran whose 19 years of career has been dedicated to mobile technologies and bridging the digital divide, working with Indian startups, operators and global corporations. Gulzar joined Google India in 2006 as the founding member of the partner technology and business team launching the first set of Mobile Product partnerships for Search, Ads, YouTube, Android in India and APAC. In 2013, he began working on Railways WiFi, a partnership initiative between Google and Indian Railways to bring high-speed Internet access to 100's of millions of people visiting train stations across 400 cities and towns in India. His initiative with the Indian government on Railways WiFi was instrumental in the Google Station product being extended to other parts of the world including Mexico, Indonesia and Nigeria. More recently, Gulzar established the first carrier partnership for Google's next generation data (4G/5G) packet core platform and led the launch of Google's first Smart City connectivity project in India. Prior to joining Google, Gulzar drove a series of early engineering innovations in mobile messaging, commerce and served as the architect of India's first SMS gateway and location-based mobile service. Gulzar is a computer applications graduate from DAVV - Indore University (1999) and completed his PG Executive Management Program from IIM-B (the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) in 2005-06. In 2013-14 Gulzar completed the Advanced Project Management Executive Program from Stanford University in the US.

Vice President and Secretary General,  Vietnam Internet Association
Vu The Binh has been working for NetNam, one of the first ISP in Vietnam, since 1996. He was a networking engineer at NetNam and Institute of IT, Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology (IoIT) till 2000, before changing to a business focus. He was assigned as Deputy CEO of NetNam from 2007 until its equitization on 2010, when he became its CEO. Since then, he has lead NetNam to become a specilized ISP & network solution for corporate clients. In 2016 he was appointed as Secretary General for Vietnam Internet Association (VIA), an organization with the mission to develop the Internet in Vietnam, as well as to be the bridge between internet industry/community and Vietnam government. He also has an interest in Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) development and take part in the VFOSSA (Vietnam Free & Open Source Software Association) board as VP, to promote Vietnam FOSS. Binh graduated Hanoi University of Technology as electronic & IT engineer, holding MBA, and studying in Germany (2002-2003) on open source, cyber security & e-business subjects.

Assistant Secretary,  Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)

CEO,  WorldLink

Mr. Nepal was fascinated by technology from an early age. He started his career 17 years ago as an enterpreneur to bring satellite into his home town Butwal in Nepal and has been associated with Worldlink Communications P. Ltd since then.

He started to work as technical team leader in technical R&D and has completed projects such as Metro Ethernet cable Network in 2005 which was first true broadband technology in Nepal even before the deployment of ASDL technology. Later on he became involved in designing and building high-speed wireless backbone across Nepal in 2008 which replaced expensive VSAT technology to move data between cities in Nepal. In 2009, he became involved in designing and implementing low-cost wireless access deployment and finally in 2012, he became involved in designing and executing FTTH network in Nepal which has been the main driving technology in Fixed broadband penetration in Nepal.

He now holds the role of CEO of worldlink Communications P. Ltd. During last two years, worldlink has grown 100% in its FTTH customer base and it is currently the largest service provider in Nepal.

Chief Strategy Officer,  Fiber @ Home

Akter started his carrier with 1^st generation mobile technology, has 20+ years working experiences in Wireless Radio, Transmission and IP technology; drive technological transform for fixed, mobile voice and data communication.

A professional with diverse experience in telecommunication and IT Systems including Transmission and Broadband Network Architecture, Strategy and Planning and Operation, has extensive and holistic network experience which makes him key national resource of Broadband Backbone and Access Infrastructure development plan, policy and strategy development. Have been working for 2G/3G/4G Wireless Access, FTTx and Metro Ethernet technology.  Planned and Developed National DWDM and L3 IP transport. He is a speaker in Asia Pacific Regional level Broadband and Backhaul Conference.   

Currently He is Chief Strategy Officer, Fiber@Home Ltd which is primary transmission service provider for Telcos, ISPs, Enterprise and Government. Fiber@Home running a complex wholesale model in access and backbone layer for all service provider. Before taking CSO responsibility, He lead as Fiber@Home Ltd CTO (Chief Technology Officer) , F@H; was Head Transmission Planning, Grameenphone Ltd (Telenor venture), Bangladesh. Currently rollout 0.3 home solution with NGPON.   

He BUET EEE Graduate and completed Master in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Head of Engineering,  EZECOM
Sokvantha Youk is Head of Engineering Department at EZECOM in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where he is responsible for Network Design and Implementation including FTTx Network Roll-out nationwide. Mr Youk has 11th year working Experiences in Telecom industry. Before joining EZECOM, he was with Pasteur Institute of Cambodia for 5 years where he held network management for the entire organization. As head of Engineering within the office of the Chief Technical Officer, Mr Youk provided strategic technology decision and leadership for EZECOM’s DWDM, MPLS and GPON Network roll-out.

Deputy General Manager/ Access Network Planning,  Sri Lanka Telecom
Kandiah Vicknarajah is a Chartered Engineer, currently holding the position of Deputy General Manager at Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT). Mr Vicknarajah has been in this position since 1998. He joined SLT in 1991 as an Engineer and served mainly in the field of Procurement and Network Planning focusing primly in the field of outside plant planning. Mr Vicknarajah also served as an Instructor for a period of one year at a private institute namely Institute for Technological Studies affiliated to Houston University. He obtained Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and communications from the Madurai Kamaraj University – South India in 1989 and presently holing the membership
at the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka. Mr Vicknarajah underwent a special training course at NTT Japan in 1992 in Telecommunication Network Planning. He has been instrumental in increasing the customer base of SLT, by introducing FTTX concepts while reducing the copper network expansions, considering the economics of scale. Mr
Vicknarajah has been a good presenter in selected forums within SLT as well as outside. He is very much concerned
about the cost factor for the benefits of company as well as the customers.