Elevate the Edge Maribel Lopez & Jo Peterson

Global Edge Computing and 5G Principal Manager, Network Strategy and Architecture at Vodafone, Joanna Newman discusses the real impact of mobile edge computing.
Guest Bio:  Joanna is a highly motivated senior manager who is  passionate about Strategy, Innovation and Transformation as enablers for successful businesses. She’s had the pleasure of working globally (4 continents and counting), delivering big portfolios of world leading innovative capabilities to the Enterprise and Consumer Technology and Telco markets, as well as digital transformation initiatives to migrate to Agile, DevOps, and Cloud.

Ian Hood, Chief Strategist at Red Hat Discusses Cloud RAN in Retail, Manufacturing and Energy

In Gordon’s role at Red Hat, he develops stories that traverse the entire Red Hat portfolio and provide context for technology categories such as cloud computing. His focus is on expanding opportunity, building credibility, and educating. He delivers his message through a wide range of channels including public speaking, customer meetings, articles, blogs, papers, podcasts, books, video, and whitepapers.

Patricia Schouker is a VP of Strategy & Partnerships at cybersecurity company,  PolySwarm. Her tenure is anchored within cyber and energy security with extensive experience in Fortune 500 and Public Sector environments. Her network drove new business, influencers and champions where her focus is on strategic and persistent threats, global energy security, as well as the intersection of technology and geopolitics. Her role at PolySwarm is to integrate and develop malware intelligence driven practices and policies for energy companies on local and global scales. Prior to her role, she worked at the European Commission in Brussels as a Policy Officer for the DG Energy where she contributed to energy analysis and intelligence pertaining to U.S.-EU energy relations, including future challenges. She holds multiple Non-Resident Fellowships and is an advisor for KPMG and strives to improve science and technology expertise in the U.S. legislative branch. 

Rob Hornbuckle, CISO, Allegiant Air Discusses Edge Security

NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering Muriel Medard discusses Wireless APIs at the Edge.