Sponsors

Vodafone Group is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies and provides a range of services including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications. Vodafone Group has mobile operations in 25 countries, partners with mobile networks in 44 more, and fixed broadband operations in 18 markets. As of 30 September 2018, Vodafone Group had 531.9 million mobile customers and 20.4 million fixed broadband customers, including all of the customers in Vodafone’s joint ventures and associates. For more information, please visit: www.vodafone.com.

Blue Planet, a division of Ciena, provides market-leading intelligent automation software and specialized professional services to help clients modernize their IT and network operations. Driven by policy and AI-based insights, Blue Planet gives clients the closed-loop automation tools needed to align IT and networking processes to facilitate digital transformation—accelerating time-to-revenue, reducing costs, and delivering a superior customer experience.

With our proven leadership in IT, our telecom expertise and open, partner-centric solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) bridges the worlds of IT and telecom, helping communication service providers (CSPs) to increase their efficiency, agility, and innovation. Our unparalleled experience in large-scale digital transformation projects makes HPE the perfect partner for CSPs embarking on their own digital transformation journey to become a 5G-ready digital service provider. HPE’s open telco infrastructure, virtualized solutions, and advisory services enable CSPs to adopt a service-centric operating model.