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.

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

Huawei’s end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, we create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home life, and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes.

At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have more than 180,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

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B-Yond provides Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based network automation software to help Communications Service Providers (CSPs) automate, optimize and monetize their network infrastructure and business processes.  As CSP’s undertake Digital Transformation initiatives and networks more complex and dynamic,  B-Yond offers a unique combination of patent-pending AI technology, networking domain expertise and proven deployment experience at some of the largest CSP’s in the World, to help them realize their business objectives.

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.

Netcracker Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, is a forward-looking software company, offering mission-critical solutions to service providers around the globe. Our comprehensive portfolio of software solutions and professional services enables large-scale digital transformations, unlocking the opportunities of the cloud, virtualization and the changing mobile ecosystem. With an unbroken service delivery track record of more than 20 years, our unique combination of technology, people and expertise helps companies transform their networks and enable better experiences for their customers.

For more information, visit www.netcracker.com

We create the technology to connect the world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers, with the industry’s most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products, services and licensing.
We adhere to the highest ethical business standards as we create technology with social purpose, quality and integrity. Nokia is enabling the infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things to transform the human experience. nokia.com