The Nokia Theater
Visionary sessions at the Nokia Theater
Hear from some of the leading companies in technology such as Microsoft, NVIDIA, Softbank, Vodafone and many more during daily sessions hosted on our public theatre, open to all MWC attendees.
Schedule
March 2, Monday
Listen to sessions covering the latest in network automation, non-terrestrial networks, quantum security and more.
OneLayer
Session title: Accelerate secure private 5G adoption for utilities
Speaker name: Daniel Curci
Time: 11.00 - 11.30
Hyperframe research
Session title: Mobile ecosystem trends and hot topics
Speaker name: Ron Westfall
Time: 11.30 - 12.00
Verda
Session title: Last Chance for Sovereign AI: Building Europe's First AI Cloud
Speaker name: Anssi Harjunpaa
Time: 13.30 - 14.00
Pure Storage
Session title: A Cloud-Native Data Architecture for AI-Driven Telecom Networks
Speaker name: Andrew Douglas
Time: 14.00 - 14.30
Cap Gemini
Session name: Green Subscribe X - One Subscriber, One Step Toward Net Zero
Speaker name: Subhankar Pal
Time: 14.30 - 15.00
evolutionQ
Session name: The Quantum Secure Economy: Why Networks are the Foundation of AI Trust
Speaker name: Dr. Michele Mosca
Time: 15.00 - 15.30
Wipro
Session name: Orchestrating Level 4/5 Network Autonomy with Agentic AI and Purpose-Built Network models
Speaker name: Balakrishnan K
Time: 15.30 - 16.00
AST Space Mobile
Session name: Beyond Coverage: Network Resilience, Flexibility, and Monetization Enabled by Satellite Direct-to-Device
Speaker name: AST Space Mobile & Harri Holma
Time: 16.00 - 16.30
March 3, Tuesday
Hear from experts on using cloud for telecom functions, applying Agentic AI with APIs, deploying private wireless for industries and more.
HPE
Session title: Cloud-Native Functions (CNFs) with HPECompute
Speaker name: Ignacio Zamora
Time: 09.30 - 10.00
Microsoft
Session title: Microsoft Fabric & Nokia Data Suite: The Data & AI TELCO platform for becoming frontier
Speaker name: Alberto Manuel
Time: 10.00 - 10.30
Red Hat
Session title: Unlocking AI for Advanced connectivity with Red Hat Openshift
Speaker name: Syed Khadeer Ahmed
Time: 10.30 - 11.00
AWS
Session title: Evolving Network Operations towards autonomy with AI Agents
Speaker name: Aygul Aytuglu (AWS) & Deepa Ramachandran (Nokia)
Time: 11.00 - 11.30
KPN
Session title: AI-Driven Digital Factory on Private 5G: The Future of Industrial Enterprise
Speaker name: Paul Cobben
Time: 11.30 - 12.00
Gcore
Session title: Empowering Telcos to Monetize the AI Era: How Gcore and Nokia are enabling AI-driven revenue, automation, and sustainable performance
Speaker name: Seva Vayner
Time: 13.30 - 14.00
Nvidia
Session title: How Telcos Can Unlock the Next Wave of Agentic AI
Speaker name: Jean-Francoise Lacasse
Time: 14.00 - 14.30
Telefonica
Session title: 5G Network exposure evolution for AI Agents based on Model Context Protocol (MCP) usage
Speaker name: Alexander Harmand
Time: 14.30 - 15.00
March 4, Wednesday
Discover more about AI-RAN, building networks for sovereign AI and deploying high performance, secure networking and more.
NextG Alliance
Session title: The NextG Alliance - Leadership in 6G and beyond
Speaker name: Douglas Castor
Time: 09.00 - 09.30
Microsoft
Session title: AI First Telco Security
Speaker name: Pramod Nair
Time: 09.30 - 10.00
Druid Software
Session title: Improving citizen healthcare with Private 5G
Speaker name: Raymond Valk
Time: 10.00 - 10.30
Nvidia
Session title: Transforming Networks with AI-RAN on NVIDIA AI Aerial™
Speaker name: Adnan Boustany
Time: 10.30 - 11.00
Kyndryl
Session title: Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Building Networks for Data Locality in the GenAI Era
Speaker name: Josh Helm
Time: 11.30 - 12.00
Intel
Session title: Zero trust, secure and sustainable 5G core networks
Speaker name: Andrew Duignan
Time: 14.00 - 14.30
Nscale
Session title: The AI Grid: How Telcos are driving next-generation AI distribution networks
Speaker name: Arno van Huyssteen
Time: 14.30 - 15.00
Google Cloud
Session title: Telco-Grade CNFs: Powering the Next Generation of Cloud-Native Networks
Speaker name: Abhi Maras
Time: 15.00 - 15.30
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