UBBA Summit & Plugfest 2025

The Westin - Charlotte, NC, United States

The Utility Broadband Alliance (UBBA) is a collaboration of utilities and ecosystem partners dedicated to championing the advancement and development of private broadband networks for America’s critical infrastructure industries. The Summit & Plugfest 2025 is an in-person event featuring the culmination of UBBA’s work toward this mission.

This signature event brings together utilities, technology leaders and innovators for more than a showcase. It's where vision meets action, where real-world challenges are solved through innovation and collaboration.

Nokia is a proud Diamond sponsor of this year’s UBBA Summit & Plugfest! We will take the stage for thought leadership sessions throughout the summit, display Nokia solutions on the exhibit floor and demo two live use cases during the Plugfest.

Join us at UBBA 2025 to

• Hear from Nokia experts about how Smart Metering, Mission Critical Communications, Quantum Computing and more will help you enhance your grid operations, now and in the future.
• See how our latest Private LTE, IP/MPLS and optical network solutions modernize, monitor, control and automate smart grids and optimize your grid performance.
• Learn about Plugfest interoperability testing, and how Nokia is helping to meet the requirements of use cases in your grid environment.
• Discuss current and future needs to support mission critical networks for utilities.

Nokia Exhibitor Booth #20
Tuesday-Thursday November 4-6, 2025
 

UBBA Welcome Reception sponsored by Nokia and Anterix
Date: November 4
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
Nokia Speaker: Jeff Pittman, Head of Enterprise, Mobile Networks North America

Nokia Thought Leadership and General Sessions

• Title: Lessons Learned on SIMs – Subscriber provisioning, automatic device configuration, SIM Management & Provisioning
  Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
  Time: 8:45am – 9:15am
  Nokia Speaker: Krishna Palaniswamy
  Xcel Speakers: Ron Brady, Ron Griffith 
   
• Title: Exploring AMI 2.0 Use Cases with PLTE Bandwidths of 3MHz and 5MHz 
  Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 
  Time: 8:45am – 9:15am 
  Nokia Speakers: Ali Shah, Greg Piske 
  SCE Speaker: Patrick Nolan 
   
• Title: Mastering RAN Site Development: Strategies for Future-Ready Private Wireless Networks
  Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025
  Time: 11:40am – 12:15am
  Nokia Speaker: Carel Bekker
  SCE Speaker: Sopheap Srun 
   

Plugfest Demonstrations with Nokia

Wednesday, November 4, 2025 1:30pm-5:30pm
Thursday, November 5, 2025 1:30pm-5:30pm

Use Case 1: Mutual Aid
Title: Ensuring Mission-Critical Communications for Utility Mutual Aid
Team: Interoperability Igniters
Nokia Speaker: Ali Shah
 

Use Case 2: IoT Innovations
Title: Leveraging dynamic and resilient pWLS network ecosystem for millions of NB-IoT, Cat-M1 and REDCAP IoT devices on licensed spectrum
Team: IoT Turbo Chargers
Nokia Speaker: Hemant Relan

Powering Utility Connectivity: https://ubbaplugfest2025.vfairs.com/

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