Communications Reimagined Exchange Series

Caroline is Research Director at Analysys Mason, responsible for the company’s Cloud and Platform Services practice which researches the impact of cloud technologies on networking, operations and services, including the market opportunity for edge computing. Caroline has over 30 years' experience as a telecoms software analyst and consultant.

With over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry, currently, Matt is responsible for the delivery of Oracle’s voice and data communications portfolio for enterprise and telecommunications service providers. This portfolio includes control plane solutions for 5G and 4G, signalling solutions for Diameter, SIP and SS7, SD-WAN, and VoLTE/SBC. Recent developments include the cloud-native 5G core and SaaS solutions for security, management and analytics.

Having spent over 20 years in telecoms, from design to management and leadership roles in signalling, voice and IMS, data and packet core, subscriber databases, analytics and monitoring systems along with the underlying NFVi and cloud environments. Driving teams to deliver the latest innovations in 4G & 5G. Now, incredibly proud to be the Tribe Lead as we move into agile delivery with an awesome team that are leading and driving the entire core network supporting EE and BT's subscribers.

Dr. Kashif Mahmood is a Senior Research Scientist with Telenor Research, Norway. He received his Master’s degree from GIK Institute, Pakistan and Ph.D. degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Kashif has contributed to a number of European research projects. He is the technical manager of FUDGE-5G project (https://fudge-5g.eu/en) and deputy technical manager of 5G-VINNI project (https://www.5g-vinni.eu/). Dr. Mahmood is a recipient of the "Youth Award" in Science in Technology from the Government of Pakistan and "Excellence Award" from the National Engineering and Scientific Commission, Pakistan.