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WBA’s vision is to drive the seamless and interoperable services experience via Wi-Fi within the global wireless ecosystem.

The Innovation Forum is a unique gathering of industry technology leaders with the ambition of shaping the future of the Wi-Fi industry and to accelerate the development of the industry roadmap which will accelerate adoption of world leading Wi-Fi services across carriers, enterprise and consumers. Click below for more information or get in touch using the form below.

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The Innovation Forum is built upon 4 main pillars:

Strategic and Impactful

Gathering of industry leaders to set the future direction and wireless industry roadmap for the next decade

Diverse

Unique gathering of players across the ecosystem, operators, infrastructure, chipset and device vendors, industry verticals

Execution Capacity

Best-in-class program management supported by a team with association business track-record

Global and Focused

WBA members and industry verticals representation considered strategic – invitation-only

2023 WBA Public Webinars

Asia Pacific Committee & Technical Roadmap Update

16th February (Thursday) 6th July (Thursday) 2nd November (Thursday)

Innovation Forum By WBA CTO Group

12th April (Wednesday) 13th September (Wednesday) 15th November (Wednesday)

Connected Communities Forum

16th March (Thursday) 1st June (Thursday) 7th September (Thursday)

Innovation Forum Agenda:

December 12th 2023

8:00 PT

Welcome Address

Tiago Rodrigues, WBA  President & CEO | Dr. Derek Peterson, Boingo CTO & WBA Co Chair

8:10 PT

CTO Leadership Panel on Future Wireless Trends 2024-26

  • New Wi-Fi Generations: WI-Fi 7 and Beyond
  • Satellite Use Cases
  • Quality of Experience
  • AI/ML for Wi-Fi
  • Residential Services
  • Massive Interop

Derek Peterson Boingo CTO & WBA Co-Chairman | Matthew MacPherson Wireless CTO – Cisco | Necati Canpolat Snr Staff Architect – Intel

8:40 PT

WBA Roadmap 2024 – Sneak Peak

Bruno Tomas CTO – Wireless Broadband Alliance

8:50 PT

Wrap Up and Live Testing Next steps for CTO Innovation Forum

Bruno Tomas CTO – Wireless Broadband Alliance

9:00 PT

Event close

Innovation Forum Leadership & Members

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Derek Peterson

Chair of the Innovation Forum by CTOG
CTO, Boingo Wireless
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Dr. Necati Canpolat

Co-Chair of the Innovation Forum by CTOG
Senior Staff Architect, Intel
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Matt MacPherson

Co-Chair of the Innovation Forum by CTOG
Wireless CTO, Cisco
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Bruno Tomas

Co-Chair of the Innovation Forum by CTOG
CTO, WBA
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Andre Francisco

CTO & Co-Founder
Uplink
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Andrew Ferraro

Senior Director for Digital Guest Experience
Marriott International
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Azad Singh

Chief Global Mobility Solutions
Reliance Jio
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Blaz Vavpetic

Technologist
Galgus
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Brendan O’Reilly

Group Chief Technology Officer
BAI Communications
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Dominik Schröder

Leader seamless WiFi
Deutsche Bahn AG
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Dr. Mehmet Özdem

Innovation & Product and Services Director
Turk Telekom
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Ivan Muccini

VP Product
Cloud4Wi
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Jonas Björklund

VP Aptilo Product Line
Enea – Business Unit Aptilo
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Karri Huhtanen

Managing Director
Radiator Software
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Ken Kerpez

Director of Standards
DZS
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Luther Smith

Director Wireless/Distinguished Technologist
CableLabs
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Marcel Chenier

CTO
NetExperience
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Metin Taskin

CTO
AirTies
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Mikhail Minkovskiy

CTO
MaximaTelecom
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Suja John

Assistant Vice President
AT&T
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Tiago Rodrigues

CEO
Wireless Broadband Alliance
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