CC is organising its next digital branded CC-Webinar.Live Panel Discussion and Knowledge Sharing Session sponsored by Amartus, taking place on the 17th of May 2021. During this session Amartus will give a keynote presentation and join the panel discussion session addressing industry topic: The Perfect Storm – The opportunity for Inter-Provider Service disruption.
Should you require further details, please feel free to contact our team at: [email protected]. To register please visit the agenda below to click on the webinar link as soon as it is published and fill in the form.
Based at Lago di Como in Italy, VSC provides strategic advisory services in M&A, Business Development & Media for the telecommunication industry. Over the last 25 years, Erik developed extensive expertise and deep domain knowledge working at major telecom companies. His international career includes senior & executive level positions. Over the years, Erik has been a regular speaker & moderator at major international telecom conferences.
Michael is an entrepreneur, expert, and strategic advisor in Network & Cloud automation & Intelligent operations. He is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Amartus. He is currently spear-heading new product innovation in the area of Inter-Provider Service Automation. From 2003 to 2015, he was CEO and led the company from start-up to leading industry innovator. In 2015, he oversaw the successful exit of the company's orchestration product business to Huawei in 2015 where he assumed the role of VP of Fixed Network OSS, responsible for new product innovation in Network Automation & Autonomous Networking. Michael’s experience combines deep commercial & technical expertise with active involvement in industry groups & standards to deliver ground-breaking solutions. Michael was recently appointed as co-chair of the MEF LSO Commitee, where he is working to drive the development and adoption of Inter and Intra provider standards.
Daniele Mancuso has been appointed Chief Product Management for Sparkle Group in October 2020.
From September 2019 to October 2020 he held the position of Chief Marketing Solutions & Business Development Officer.
In the previous years, he served as Executive Vice President ICT Engineering, where he was in charge of the technological innovation, planning, engineering and development of Sparkle’s Global Network as well as of Information Technology.
From August 2016 he held the position of Director of Innovation & Engineering, in charge of the engineering and deployment of Voice, Mobile, IP and & Data Platforms as well as of Submarine Cables, ICT Security Processes & Platforms and Datacenters & Cloud Infrastructures, while leading the Network Innovation and Evolution processes.
In January 2013 he was Director of Engineering, IT & Security of Sparkle Mediterranean & Balkan Region where, since 2001, he has been holding several positions within Engineering & Operations departments. Prior to that he was Director Architecture & Engineering.
He began his career in in 1991 in a Software House dealing with Robotics applied to Agriculture and, in 1993, he moved to Telecom Italia’s domestic Transmission department, focusing on the migration from PDH to SDH technology.
Daniele holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Catania.
Divesh has over 25 years of experience in the international telecommunication market. In his current role at PCCW Global, Divesh leads several software development teams engaged in digital transformation of international data connectivity services. A certified SAFe Agile practitioner, he focuses on enhancing customer experience and reducing turnaround times by improving the efficiency of the sales team and automating existing manual business processes. Current initiatives include: LSO Sonata API development for inter-carrier sales process automation for trading of international connectivity services; a custom designed CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) application, which reduces the turnaround time for quote responses to customers from several weeks to under a few minutes.
Divesh is Co-Chair of the Test & Certification committee at MEF; is an ONF certified SDN associate (OCSA); has MEF-SDCP & CECP certifications. He attained his MBA from University of Iowa, Tippie School of Management in May of 2006 and also holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communications from Manipal Institute of Technology.
Gint Atkinson is Vice President Network Strategy and Digital Architecture and leads the transformation for SES’s 5G, virtualization, cloud, and network platform architectures that unify multiple satellite constellations and deliver 5G services from the edge to the cloud. Prior to SES he was head of technology for Colt where he pioneered and launched the first large scale SDN, SD-WAN, and global Datacenter Interconnect services in 2012 offering on-demand elastic terabit services across 100 datacenters in Asia Pacific. Gint has worked in the networking, mobile, and emerging media industries over 32 years as a serial entrepreneur and innovator for start-ups and large service providers including T-Mobile, NTT DOCOMO, AT&T, KDDI, Virgin Media and others where he has led the development and first to market launch of industry changing technologies and services.
