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Jennifer Kyriakakis, the founder & CMO of Matrixx Software, defines the modern telco and lays out why 5G is a catalyst for the changes they are undergoing. She also explains why things like cloud-native and agnostic architecture should be at the heart of this transformation.

On this episode, Heather Ritchie, the chief marketing officer at Ubicquia, uses specific smart city projects around the world as examples of the benefits, and the considerations, such initiatives can bring. She also discusses how recent developments, like COVID-19 and 5G, have finally gotten many smart city efforts out of "project purgatory."

This week's guest, Donna Johnson, the SVP of Marketing at Cradlepoint, discusses the evolution of SD-WAN over the years and how it is adapting to support 5G networks. She also details the progress of private cellular networks and the importance of having empathy in a leadership role.

GenCell Energy's Marketing Content and Strategy Manager Shelli Zargary discusses the evolution of the company's fuel cell solutions as it sought to better address its own and its customer's sustainability goals.

Caban Systems founder and CEO Alexandra Rasch details the energy-as-a-service model and how it can help operators to achieve their sustainability goals, while lowering costs.

Beyond smartphone-specific use cases, cellular coverage inside buildings is key to unlocking the vast potential of the internet of things and deriving the value that flows from real-time, data-driven decision making.   In the final episode of this limited podcast series, Nextivity Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Kowal reiterates why businesses need to invest in in-building cellular coverage, the solutions and deployment models available to them, and highlights the role of cellular in unlocking untapped business value. Kowal also looks ahead to how Nextivity is working with its customers and partners, as well as following the trajectory of carrier investments, to stay ready to support a range of business critical, cellular-enabled solutions.

In the latest episode of this podcast series, Nextivity's CCO Stephen Kowal discusses how in-building cellular coverage underlines the digital transformation of key verticals. Beyond talk, text and data, cellular coverage supports a wide range of internet of things use cases that can drive meaningful change—and attendant business outcomes—in sectors like hospitality, retail, logistics and manufacturing.

As network operators continue the shift to 5G and as they look for ways to bring the network closer to their customers, a call for simplifying network management has been issued. Gina Nienaber, the director of Product Marketing, Routing and Switching Portfolio at Ciena, comes on the podcast to discuss how the company is helping operators navigate some of the industry's most pressing trends and challenges.

This past April, Preeti Ohri Khemani was elected chair of the NFC Forum. On this episode, Preeti delves into the possible use cases for NFC, or Near Field Communication, that go beyond the well-know tap-to-pay and provides an overview of the current standards climate around this technology.

Akanksha Sharma, the global head ESG of Sustainability, Social Impact, Governance & Policy at Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL), details the company's sustainability goals, how it plans to get there and also, some key takeaways that every technology company should consider.

Twilio's Head of Communications Policy Rebecca Thompson discusses the importance of having a global business outlook even if you're not a global company, especially in these uncertain times. She also explores Twilio's role in regulatory affairs like the FCC's crackdown on robocalls and less considered issues around phone number exhaust.

In the second episode of this series, Nextivity's Stephen Kowal, chief commercial officer, goes over the company's unique approach to hybrid active DAS and how this differs from traditional DAS. Kowal provides a walk-through of how this solution is deployed and discusses the ability to scale up coverage area and even expand system capacity. The takeaway is that focusing on performance and simplification converges to provide Nextivity customers with a fast, effective solution for in-building cellular.

Eugina Jordan, the VP of of marketing at Parallel Wireless, comes on the podcast to provide a few reality checks about Open RAN and poses some questions of her own .She also shares some exciting company news.

In this limited series presented in partnership between RCR Wireless News and Nextivity, we explore how in-building cellular coverage is a fundamental piece of enterprise digital transformation that is less costly and faster to deploy than most enterprises realize. In this episode, Nextivity Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Kowal discusses the current state of in-building cellular, as well as the challenges and opportunities faced by all enterprises that now rely on cellular connectivity.

5G networks will result in more data, and so testing needs to be more efficient. But at the same time, 5G networks will have critical applications running on them, and so testing also has to be more accurate. Jaana Tengman, director of Product Management at Infovista, comes on the podcast to discuss this balancing act in more detail, as well as how things like automation are helping.

Rhonda Holloway, Fujitsu Networks' director of Network Automation Solutions Marketing comes on the podcast to reveal how enterprise and business digitalization has changed and accelerated in the COVID era.

Founder and CEO of Dell'Oro Group Tam Dell'Oro provides insight into the ongoing supply-chain constraints impacting the entire technology industry and weighs in on when we can expect things to go back to normal.

In this episode of Will 5G Change the World, GenCell CEO Rami Reshef discusses the pressing need for operators to shift to renewable energy as they deploy 5G networks. He talks through GenCell's approach to using fuel cell technology to enable supplemental power during peak demand, back-up power during emergencies, and off-grid power to remote telecom sites. Reshef also highlights GenCell's work with Deutsche Telekom as the operator pursues its own sustainability objectives.

Although Wi-Fi 6 and 6E are still making waves in the enterprise and consumer markets, Wi-Fi 7 is here and it brings exciting new features that enable peak performance. In this episode of the Powering the Future of Wireless Connectivity Podcast, Qualcomm’s Dino Bekis, vice president and general manager of Mobile and Compute Connectivity, highlights how 4K QAM, support for 320 megahertz channels, and multi-link deliver faster speeds, lower latency, and more immersive experiences.

In this episode of Will 5G Change the World, Oracle's Anil Rao discusses the complexities associated with operationalizing 5G which relies on, as he said, "Automation, automation, automation." As operators work to deliver both private networks and network slicing to capture enterprise opportunity, they must embrace automation and cloud-native technology and operational principles.