Agenda

GM of International Marketing,  Luster

William Yan has over 20 years’ experience of directing teams and working with solution eco-system partners to deliver network and service management solutions for Communications Service Providers (CSP) worldwide. Will has built a core set of domain skillset and expertise in strategic planning, network management (OSS/BSS), Service Assurance, Access Network, and Customer Management solutions. During his tenure in the telecom/broadband technology industry, Will has worked at major technology powerhouses including Oracle, and high growth, smaller companies that were acquired by major broadband technology solution providers such as Ciena and Arris.

CTO,  Luster

Dr. Wu has held leadership positions (including Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Vice President of Product Development and R&D) in both high-tech start-ups and major corporations. He has been Chief/Principal system architect of Home Networking, Access Technologies and Interconnectivity and a major contributor to industry standards. He has extensive knowledge of Access Technologies and has specialized in building and driving engineering teams in emerging technologies. He is a renowned expert in communications systems that holds over 50 US and International patents.

Marketing Manager SE Asia, Carrier Networks,  Corning

Paul Ng is the Marketing Manager for Carrier Networks and has specialist knowledge of Fibre Optics and Fibre to the Home (FTTH). Mr Ng has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, supporting network operators in the deployment of broadband networks. He is a subject matter expert on FTTH and best practices for network deployment, architecture, and solutions to address tough deployment, bandwidth and application challenges. Based in Singapore, Mr Ng holds a Bachelor of Engineering from National University of Singapore, Graduate Diploma in Marketing from Singapore Institute of Marketing, and Masters in Business Administration from Deakin University, Australia.

Senior Solutions Consultant,  Cyient
Kiran Solipuram is a globally recognized Telecommunications industry specialist with 20 years of experience working for multinational Telecom Operators and Internet Services Providers (ISPs) in Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe. He is specilised in Consulting, Solution Architecting, Planning, Network Design, Engineering, Service Fulfillment/Service Assurance of Copper, Fiber Optics and Cable networks. Kiran is a globally recognised FTTH/X industry specialist and trusted advisor with strong techno-commercial acumen and his ground-breaking FTTX solutions have been recognised throughout the world benefiting many global operators for their Telecom projects. Kiran is a highly demonstrable thought leader with out-of-the-square tactics and forward-looking vision including a seasoned speaker by contributing innovative presentations, articles and PoVs on various Telecom/FTTH/X technologies in many global conferences/events. Kiran is at present working as a Sr. Solutions Consultant with Cyient Australia Pty Ltd for various Communications technologies including Rail and Utility Communications. In addition, Kiran is supporting SCTE-Australasia chapter as a Board Member in promoting Cable Broadband Technologies and providing technical leadership for telecommunications industry.

Senior Solutions Engineer,  Calix

Mr. Patsanas is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Calix covering the APAC region.  Jonathan works with many different service providers in the APAC region and helps them architect and design solutions for their access, premise and cloud platforms.

Jonathan joined Calix in 2013 has been travelling extensively in the APAC region over the past 5 years. Prior to Calix, Jonathan worked for US access vendor Adtran in a similar role also covering the APAC region for 8 years. Jonathan has also held a number of key network engineering and network operations roles with a number of large telecommunications service providers in Australia, AAPT, Connect.com.au and IPrimus. He also has a post graduate certificate in Network Security from Swinburne university in Melbourne.  

President,  FTTH Council Asia-Pacific

Wataru Katsurashima works for Sumitomo Electric and had been engaged in optical fiber cable development for subscriber applications and FTTx for 12 years in R&D Department. Also, he had contributed at IEC SC86A WG1/WG3 for optical fiber & cable international standards for three years. He has been the Board Member of FTTH Council APAC, Secretary since 2014 and is the President since February 2017.

Vice President,  FTTH Council Asia-Pacific

Senior Vice President - Consumer Business Market Development,  PLDT & SMART

Oscar Enrico “Ren Ren” A. Reyes Jr. is the SVP and Head of Consumer Market Development of PLDT and SMART Communications Inc., the Philippines’ largest telecommunications and digital services company.

Ren Ren has been at the helm of PLDT HOME for the past 2.5 years where he has led the business to an accelerated growth path for consumer fixed line. PLDT HOME is on its third year of double digit growth driven primarily by PLDT’s most extensive Fibr-to-the-Home (FTTH) network rollout to date, under the Fibr-powered SmartCity program. In August 2017, market development for the consumer wireless business has been added to his portfolio with a new aim of bringing about convergence in the Philippine telecom industry.

Prior to joining PLDT Inc., he was the Chief Operating Officer of Cignal TV, the largest payTV provider in the country. He also has an extensive experience in leading consumer businesses including Unilever Philippines, Unilever Thai Trading Inc., Nutri-Asia Philippines and L’Oreal Philippines.

Ren Ren obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Management Engineering from Ateneo De Manila University and attended an executive course on Culture Building in CEDEP, INSEAD and General Management in France.

Chief Technology and Information Officer & Chief Strategy Officer,  Globe Telecom

Gil Genio is Globe Telecom’s Chief Technology and lnformation Officer (CTIO) since November 2015, as well as its Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) since 2010.  As CTIO, Mr. Genio leads all product, network, technology and information organizations and drives the overall vision, development and execution of architecture and strategies, proactively responding to our business and market demands. 

As CSO, Mr. Genio leads corporate strategy and business development efforts. His past industry affiliations have been Vice Chairman (2012-2014) then Chairman (2014-2016) of the GSM Association Asia Pacific (GSMA AP); member of the Advisory Board for Mobile World Capital Barcelona; and member, TM Forum Advisory Council for Asia Pacific;  Member of the Board of Trustees of the IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (iBPAP) (2011-2013;2015-2016), member of the Board of Advisors of iBPAP (2017 to present); Member of the Board of Trustees of the Insular Life Assurance Co. Ltd. since January 2018

CEO,  Converge ICT
A visionary entrepreneur who takes great passion for technology and disruptive innovations, he positioned his related companies with the vision to provide the world-class ICT network and solutions that could enrich customer experience on broadband connectivity, contribute advancement in this information age, and empower the employees, customers, communities, and nation to be their best. He is currently the President and CEO of his technology-centric companies like Comclark Network and Technology Corporation, a company he founded in 1996, and Converge ICT Solutions Inc. From his company journey of implementing the first-ever data-over-cable-service interface specification in Region 3 into now the continually growing pure fiber broadband network to serve the demand for high-speed and affordable internet connectivity solutions, he ensures that his business portfolio and organizational core capabilities are according to the needs of the changing local and global industry ecosystems.

President,  Philippine Cable Television Association

Ronaldo C. Manlapig is a season or veteran cable operator.  He started his career in the industry during the early 90’s.  Gaining the needed skills and expertise, he set-up his own cable television companies and partnered with cable television operators. Prior to his engagement in his present cable television system, he is the Chief-of-Staff and Treasurer of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines. To date, he is the Business Development Head of Planet Cable, a multi-system operator (MSO) offering cable TV services, cable-Internet, and digital video broadcast.

Aside from being active in his field, he also ventures in charity. Thus, he founded GABAY St. Ignatius de Loyola Foundation which focuses on scholarship programs in Bulacan and Wired and Wireless Internet for Filipino, Inc. (WIFI), a non-stock, non-profit organization advocating better broadband service to the Filipino people.​

Treasurer,  FTTH Council Asia-Pacific

General Manager of International Business and Consultancy Service Centre,  YOFC
With more than 20 years’ experience in optical fibre and cable industry, Mr. Nie Lei is the General Manager
of International Business and Consultancy Service Centre of YOFC. Mr. Nie received his Bachelor’s degree
in Engineering Management from Wuhan University of Technology and Master’s degree in MBA from Huazhong
University of Science and Technology. He joined YOFC in 1998 and has engaged in marketing, sales, and
management of a variety of posts. He has devoted himself to make YOFC as one of the leaders in the worldwide optical fibre and cable industry and promoted the internationalization and diversification of YOFC.

Head - APAC Region,  Sterlite Technologies Limited

Srini Thukkaram is the business head for Sterlite Tech’s Asia Pacific region, responsible for FTTH and Optical Fiber cables business in APAC. Srini has held management positions at Coriant, Nortel, Ericsson and IBM, and has extensive experience managing business growth in APAC and India.

Prior to this role, he was the Vice President – Channels and Alliances for Coriant. In this role, he was responsible for growing Coriant’s channels business in APAC by delivering innovative and cost-effective solutions. Srini holds a graduate degree with majors in Economics, Mathematics & Accountancy, and has done his post-graduation in Computer Applications.

Sr. Vice President & Global Head - Communications & President -Asia Pacific Region,  Cyient

Sanjay Krishnaa currently serves as the President for Asia-Pacific region and Global Business Unit Head for Communications. In this role, he has the responsibility of growing communications business globally and creating a robust and differentiated portfolio of offerings for our clients. As the President, Sanjay is in charge of building the required ecosystem so that the business can deliver its commitments in the APAC region. He is also responsible for representing Cyient at various forums in the geography. He serves as the Senior Cyient Executive in the region and has the fiduciary responsibility for our subsidiaries and their dealings, including people, compliance, and contracts. Sanjay has over 19 years of international business experience and has played several key roles in developing business successfully in the key and emerging markets for Cyient.

Sanjay is on the advisory board of Deakin School of Engineering, Australia and is also an esteemed member of Engineers Australia. He has been awarded a Fellowship for his contribution in the field of engineering. In the past, he has held offices as Director of Geospatial Informational Technology Association (GITA, ANZ).

Sanjay is a commerce graduate and has a degree in international marketing from the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore, India). He has also studied strategic thinking and action at the Melbourne Business School.

Software Head, APAC Region,  Sterlite Tech

Chair, Membership Committee,  FTTH Council Asia-Pacific

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.

Chief Research Officer,  Diffraction Analysis

Benoit FELTEN is the founder and CEO of Diffraction Analysis. 2017 marked his 20 years in the telecom business. Since 2005 he has developed a keen interest in the fiber revolution in the access and launched a blog called www.fiberevolution.com (now folded in the www.diffractionanalysis.com website.) He worked for Yankee Group as director of access network research before starting Diffraction Analysis in 2010. Diffraction Analysis delivers research and consulting in the broadband space with a focus on broadband policy, disruptive strategies, wholesale and emerging market connectivity.

Vice President, Telecom,  Frost and Sullivan

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.

Chief Technology Officer,  HKBN Group

Gary has over 30 years experience in bringing new digital technologies to market with a focus on broadband network development. He has worked in Australia, Germany, Singapore and now Hong Kong where he leading HKBN’s cutting edge technology deployments. Prior to joining HKBN, he was CTO of NBN Co and held senior corporate executive positions at technology startups (e.g. Utiba, Request DSL) and multinationals (e.g. Telstra and Siemens). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Electrical) from the University of Melbourne. Gary is a proud Co-Owner of HKBN.

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.

Regional Product Line Manager,  Viavi

Matthew Zahra joined VIAVI in 2016 as the Converged Instruments and Virtual Test Regional Product Line Manager responsible for business activities in Asia Pacific and Japan. Matthew, having grown in a highly technical & entrepreneurial influenced environment, is very passionate about business & technology. His main objective is to establish long term and mutually beneficial business relationships within the Telecommunications industry. Matthew continually draws upon the knowledge gained from his formal qualifications in Industrial Electronics Engineering & Management and the 18 years of experience in the IT & Telecommunications Technology Industry internationally, to provide highly valued dialogue and advice to his clients.

Matthew has been involved with numerous projects in the sector at various organisational levels. The projects range across various Telco technologies including transmission technologies in Fibre Optic, RF, HFC and Copper networks. He has successfully implemented solutions that have proved to increase productivity and operational performance during the various stages of a network life cycle – Construction, Service assurance, Fault finding & Maintenance.

President – Americas,  AVSystem

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.

Marketing Director,  FiberHome Asia

Dian Chen is a specialist in FTTX and smart home solutions, having done strategic research on network reconstruction and SDN/NFV transformation. He also focuses on access network evolution and business extension. As an overseas project manager, he has over 10 years work experience on providing access network solutions.

Senior Solutions Consultant,  Cyient
Kiran Solipuram is a globally recognized Telecommunications industry specialist with 20 years of experience working for multinational Telecom Operators and Internet Services Providers (ISPs) in Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe. He is specilised in Consulting, Solution Architecting, Planning, Network Design, Engineering, Service Fulfillment/Service Assurance of Copper, Fiber Optics and Cable networks. Kiran is a globally recognised FTTH/X industry specialist and trusted advisor with strong techno-commercial acumen and his ground-breaking FTTX solutions have been recognised throughout the world benefiting many global operators for their Telecom projects. Kiran is a highly demonstrable thought leader with out-of-the-square tactics and forward-looking vision including a seasoned speaker by contributing innovative presentations, articles and PoVs on various Telecom/FTTH/X technologies in many global conferences/events. Kiran is at present working as a Sr. Solutions Consultant with Cyient Australia Pty Ltd for various Communications technologies including Rail and Utility Communications. In addition, Kiran is supporting SCTE-Australasia chapter as a Board Member in promoting Cable Broadband Technologies and providing technical leadership for telecommunications industry.

Engineer,  Sri Lanka Telecom
Rajiv Weragama is a Service Assurance Engineer of the Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, Sri Lanka and he currently serves in the Kandy area in the Central region of Sri Lanka. He is responsible for the service restoration of PSTN, CDMA, LTE, Leased-lines, IPTV, ADSL, VDSL, FTTH and Wi-Fi. He also plans the FTTx network expansion, public Wi-Fi network implementation and network quality improvement in the central region of Sri Lanka. Prior to his present role, he served as the CDMA Core Network Operations Engineer of the Sri Lanka Telecom and as a demonstrator of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

He holds M.Sc.Eng and B.Sc.Eng (Hons) degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, MBA in Finance and BIT from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is currently pursuing his PhD in the area of Internet of Things at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He has obtained his Engineering Charters from the Engineering Council-UK in 2013 and the Institute of Engineers-Sri Lanka (IESL) in 2014. He holds the professional memberships at IET (UK), IESL, IEEE (USA) and IEEE-CS (USA).

Applications Engineer,  EXFO

Vice Chair, Membership Committee,  FTTH Council Asia-Pacific
Anil Pande has been actively involved in the Internet Business and Fibre Optic Cables for the last over 20 years.
Anil had co-founded and managed Consilnet Inc. an Internet Start-Up based out of San Jose with operations
in several countries. Anil is an active member of the FTTH Council APAC, having served on the Board of Directors,
as well as Vice President of the Council. Anil has over 30 years of experience in all aspects of management
including Manufacturing, Projects, Operations and Marketing essentially in the Telecoms Field - Globally. He
is currently Territory Director China & SEA with MEXICHEM Dura-Line responsible for running the business of the
company in China, Southeast Asia & Pacific Region. Anil is an Engineer with an MBA in Marketing from the Faculty of
Management Studies, Delhi University.

Marketing Director Asia Pacific, Optical Communications,  Corning

With over 20 years of experience in design, installation, and promotion of optical structured cabling systems, Scott Gregg is a subject matter expert in the deployment and acceptance of high density and advanced optics structured fiber solutions for the data center industry. Mr Gregg has worked for Corning in the United States, Japan, Singapore and Australia, and has been a featured speaker at Fiber Optics Expo (Tokyo) and numerous data centre conferences throughout Asia Pacific. Currently based in the US, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and earned a Master’s of Business Administration in Marketing

Director of Business Development & Strategy, CommScope Connectivity Solutions,  Commscope

Wes Oxlee is Director of Business Development & Strategy for CommScope Connectivity Solutions business unit. Mr Oxlee has 34 years of telecommunications industry experience with a primary focus on optical fiber external plant networks. Following a 16 year career with Telstra and NDC, where he was the National Technical Specialist for Fiber Optics External Plant, Mr Oxlee joined CommScope in 2000. He is a Certified Fiber To The Home professional and in his current role he is focused on innovative fiber solutions & architectures that will support the next generation Wireless networks.

Head of XL Home Broadband Entertainment,  XL Axiata

With over 20 years experience in the content and services markets, Dave Ulmer is XL Axiata’s Head of Home Entertainment & Marketing, and has supported and led OTT, cable, and fibre deployments of multiscreen video services throughout SE Asia.  Working with market leaders in telecommunications, broadcasting, and content, Dave has helped clients operationalize and launch multiple consumer services across Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Senior Manager,  Kabankalan Community Antenna Television, Inc. (K-CAT)

Jose Luis E. Dabao is an experienced Senior Manager who prioritizes building consensus among stakeholders to move an organization along the strategy. With over eight (8) years of Project Management experience.

President and CEO of Kabankalan Community Antenna Television, Inc. (KCAT, Inc.), the first cable TV provider in South Negros and one of the first FTTH providers in the country. He always has his eye on digital trends to help his firm make the most of the rapid technological shifts.

He is currently the Executive Director of PCTA.

Chair, Technology and Regulation Committee,,  FTTH Council Asia-Pacific

Guven Togan is currently Chief of Staff of PCOM Technologies Sdn Bhd and POF Sdn Bhd. Guven born in 1965 in Turkey, studied at YILDIZ Technical University (Istanbul) in Electronics & Communication Engineering. He has 27 years’ experience in fiber optic communications systems, smart technologies and big scale project management. He appointed to several positions for several companies in Turkey and Malaysia. He is the chair of “Technology and Regulation Committee” in FTTH Asia Pacific since 2015 and appointed as President of Malaysian Turkish Business Association since 2016.<o:p></o:p>

Former Officer of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI),  

Shri Sudhir Gupta has a long and illustrious career in the telecommunication industry. Having worked for over three and half decades as the operator, policy maker and the regulator, he has had exposure in all aspects of Telecom functioning in the country. During his tenure in TRAI, as the lead specialist for the Authority, he has authored a number of major policy recommendations and regulatory guidelines on varied issues like introduction of 3G+ services via auctions, separation of services and spectrum, introduction of converged unified licensing, M&A norms, mobile number portability, guidelines for spectrum trading and sharing framework, recommendations to promote broadband in the country and support its growth in rural and remote areas. He was also associated in framing of policy guidelines on Cloud, smart cities and M2M communications.

Sh. Sudhir Gupta has also provided expert advice to The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) on QoS related issues, to Nepal Telecommunication Authority for "Review of the telecommunications act and policy of Nepal and to Communications Authority of Maldives (CAM) for Mobile Number Portability Implementation in Maldives.

He has done his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics in the year 1979, Post-Graduate Diploma in IT and Mgt. in the year 1999 and Advanced Professional Course in Competition Law & Market Regulations in 2015.

Undersecretary,  Philippines Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)

Currently the Undersecretary for Development and Innovations of the Philippines Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), former Deputy Executive Director for e-Government, ICT Office and also the former Director of the Advanced Science and Technology Institute, Villorente is at the helm of the campaign for a smarter government.  A Career Executive Service Officer, he believes that through partnership, engagement and collaboration, harmonization and integration of processes, data and infrastructure within government can be achieved to enable delivery of efficient, transparent and accountable governance for the benefit of the people.

Chairman,  Indonesia FTTH Association

Suwanto Gunawan joined hls telecom 22 years ago and has mainly developed his professional career on hls telecom. He currently serves as Vice President of hls telecom group. He has a degree in Electronic – Telecommunication Engineering from Satya Wacana Christian University (UKSW), Salatiga - Indonesia and he holds a Master Degree in Management from Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta – Indonesia. He has held several BoD positions within hls telecom group, which are hls music, inifd Indonesia, ict-gt, and k2c-music.

In end of year 2015, he started the Indonesia FTTH Association - IFA, to build up the FTTH eco-system to speed up the fix broadband deployment in Indonesia. He has been success to gather all the important player on the industry.

Chair, Smart Cities Committee,  FTTH Council Asia-Pacific

Steve is a graduate in materials engineering who moved from R&D to a commercial role in his mid-twenties. He now has more than 37 years international business experience with the last 27 years being spent in Asia Pacific in various roles from commodity trading and manufacturing to optical fibre networks.  Steve has been employed with Emtelle the leader in blown fibre solutions since 1998 when he established their Asia Pacific operations, his responsibilities in his current role as Managing Director-Asia Pacific are for the business in the region. During this time, he has been involved with the NGN bid in Singapore and more recently with the IDA initiatives for Fibre ready buildings. Other activities in the region covers carrier and private networks. Steve is a founding member of the FTTH Council Asia Pacific which he assisted in setting up in Singapore in March 2005, as a board member he has subsequently held several portfolios and is currently the Committee Chair for the Smart Cities Committee.

Vice President, Telecom,  Frost and Sullivan

Over 13 years of advisory/investment expertise across SE Asia having worked with wide variety of clients, including telecom operators, vendors, industry promotion agencies, venture capitalists etc. His expertise includes Future of Network (SD-WAN), IoT, Digital Transformation, Smart cities and providing strategy advise for new entrants, carriers and vendors.

Prior to Frost & Sullivan, worked as Investment Manager with New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, the economic development agency for New Zealand in promoting investments in ICT sector and raising Capital for the New Zealand tech start-ups. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) from the Delhi College of Engineering and a Masters’ in Business Administration, Indian Institute of Management – Calcutta.

AVP Solutions Engineering,  Calix

Mr. Boetticher leads Calix’s global solutions engineering efforts. He and his team are responsible for partnering with global service providers to architect solutions for their access, premise and cloud platforms.   Rob serves as a key interface across Calix’s sales, engineering, and marketing departments. Rob joined Calix in 2016 as an executive leader in the solutions and systems engineering community.   

Prior to Calix, Rob spent 20 years at Cisco in various global systems engineering leadership roles in the Cloud and Service Provider markets. Rob has a Bachelor’s of Engineering Degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey and earned an MBA in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Information & Policy Director,  FiberStar

Thomas Dragono is the Director &amp; Co-Founder at FiberStar, a pioneer in Indonesia for Net Neutrality Infrastructure Service Provider. FiberStar’s network has been deployed in an open access architecture concept, adopting a carrier approach in answering the market’s needs. With more than 12 years experiences in the the Telecommunication industry, Thomas leverages the market’s easiness in getting Triple Play platform. Thomas has been establishing new fundamentals for the telecommunications industry, and continuously increasing market penetration to 80 cities within the last 4 years of FiberStar's operation. Recently he has been awarded as "Leaders for Tomorrow" in Asia's 2018 Golden Globe Tigers Awards.

Associate Manager,  FTTH Council Asia-Pacific

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.

Associate General Manager,  Sterlite Technologies
Sudipta Bhaumik is an associate general manager at Sterlite Technologies Ltd, India. He is currently responsible
for application and standard engineering of telecom products. He has over 20 years of experience in quality
assurance & control, reliability & process engineering, fiber & cable manufacturing, business development, and
one of the founder members of Sterlite Tech Academy. He holds a master’s degree in ceramic technology from Indian
Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India.

He is an ASQ certified Six-Sigma Black Belt, Manager of Quality/Business Excellence and Quality Auditor and is
active in telecom standard development organizations like ITU-T, IEC, BIS. A frequent author of technical papers, white papers and application notes, he twice won the Urbain J.H. Malo Award for best division presentation at WAI’s convention”.

Regional Product Line Manager,  Viavi

Matthew Zahra joined VIAVI in 2016 as the Converged Instruments and Virtual Test Regional Product Line Manager responsible for business activities in Asia Pacific and Japan. Matthew, having grown in a highly technical & entrepreneurial influenced environment, is very passionate about business & technology. His main objective is to establish long term and mutually beneficial business relationships within the Telecommunications industry. Matthew continually draws upon the knowledge gained from his formal qualifications in Industrial Electronics Engineering & Management and the 18 years of experience in the IT & Telecommunications Technology Industry internationally, to provide highly valued dialogue and advice to his clients.

Matthew has been involved with numerous projects in the sector at various organisational levels. The projects range across various Telco technologies including transmission technologies in Fibre Optic, RF, HFC and Copper networks. He has successfully implemented solutions that have proved to increase productivity and operational performance during the various stages of a network life cycle – Construction, Service assurance, Fault finding & Maintenance.

Global Sales Director,  Comsof

Jan Moeremans is the global head of sales for FiberPlanIT at Comsof. He is responsible for new partner acquisitions as well as business development for FiberPlanIT making sure FiberPlanIT maintains its market leader position in the field of Automated FTTx Network Planning, design and engineering optimization software. <o:p></o:p>

Manager,  Sont Technologies