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Fatima AlDaghar

DU Director of Transport Network Planning

DU

Fatima AlDaghar, Director of du’s Transport Network Planning division. 
In that role, Fatima has end of end responsibility for the planning and design of du’s transport network including IP, Optics and Microwave along with advanced automation program via domain controller. Her role includes innovative solutions definition, new technologies development and future investments decisions. In her previous roles, Fatima has played an instrumental role in fixed access transformation, Data-centers, OSS and First Call center Digitization projects in du. Fatima holds comprehensive expertise in the telecommunications sector, having acquired a MBA and an engineering diploma over her extensive career spanning over a decade and a half.

Salvador Martinez

Business Development Director

Islalink

With more than 25 years of experience designing, deploying and operating Telecomm Submarine Cables with important roles in systems such as Canalink and Ellalink, Salvador leads the international expansion of Islalink and the operations over the the IONIAN System. Salvador holds an Executive MBA from the IESE Business School.

Khalid Darwish

Senior Project Lead, Optical Network Transformation Program

Saudi Aramco

Khalid Darwish is the Senior Project Lead for the Optical Network Transformation and Capacity Upgrade Program in Saudi Aramco. Khalid holds bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering and double master degrees in Computer Science & Engineering and in Information Security. Khalid has been working within Saudi Aramco for more than 20 years in several IT disciplines including optics, microwaves, IP, telephones and radio.

Jon Baldry

Senior Director of Solutions Marketing

Nokia

Jon has spent over 30 years working in the telecoms industry and joined Nokia through the acquisition of Infinera in 2025. Prior to Infinera Jon worked for Lucent Technologies, Sycamore Networks and Transmode in a variety of engineering, sales and marketing roles. Jon is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the University of Manchester (UMIST).

Luca Baragiola

Software Product Line Manager, Optical Networks Division

Nokia

Luca, after a Bachelor’s degree in Micro-Electronics engineering from the Politecnico University of Milano in 1997, moved into the telecommunications industry, where he has more than 20 years’ experience.  Since January 2022 he takes a new role inside the broader Nokia Optics community, as responsible for managing NFM-T Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) team, a Network Management System platform that is the core of the Optical Network.  Till 2021 he had a PLM role in ION Service BU covering the Optical segment, with a focus on Automation, System Integration, Operational Enablement Solutions and Network Transformation area. In this role Luca was responsible for identifying consumer needs, developing and promoting specific Professional Services to improve customer experience on Nokia Optics network performances and indorsing the ION Professional Service portfolio internally and externally. With this position he developed a deep knowledge on the Nokia Optics product catalogue and related Network Management applications.  Previously he was covering for 5 years a Product Management Role inside the Alcatel-Lucent Network Release Strategy Organization, following the homologation of specific Optics Mobile backhauling solutions.

Geoff Bennett

Director Solutions and Technology

Nokia

Geoff Bennett is currently focused on subsea technology and Artificial Intelligence. He has more than 35 years of experience in the data communications industry, including IP routing with Proteon and Wellfleet; ATM and MPLS experience with FORE Systems; and optical transmission and switching experience with Marconi, where he held the position of Distinguished Engineer in the CTO Office.  Geoff is a frequent conference speaker and is the author of “Designing TCP/IP Internetworks”, published by VNR.

Marco Bertolini

Product Line Manager, Optical Networks  Division

Nokia

Marco Bertolini is the Product Manager for the 1830 Network Element. Previous Product Management roles were focused on high speed coherent interfaces, photonic architectures and pluggable optics.  Prior to joining product management, he was part of the R&D team that introduced the first generation of 100G coherent cards. Mr. Bertolini holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from University of Parma.

Oriol Bertran Pardo

Solutions Engineering Manager

Nokia

Oriol Bertran Pardo obtained his PhD from Télécom Paris in electrical engineering. His research work dealt with optical-communication systems, focusing on the physical propagation, for building high-speed long-haul WDM optical transmissions based on coherent detection. After joining development as R&D system engineer and then as product line manager, he contributed to the advanced engineering rules for WDM transmission of the Alcatel-Lucent next generation photonic network architectures. He is currently product line manager of subsystems and DSP in Nokia Optics Business Group.

He has authored and co-authored more than 80 conference and journal contributions, totaling more than 1,500 citations, and holds 13 patents. Among the publications done during his PhD, one was awarded an IEEE student grant and obtained the Photonics21 award. He deserved the Bell Labs president award in 2010 for his contribution and insights on the development of the first 100G coherent solution. He is also a distinguished member of technical staff since 2019.

Filipe Caetano

Vice President Product Management

Nokia

Filipe Caetano is Vice President of Product Management for classic Infinera’s Software Automation portfolio. In this role, he leads strategy and roadmap execution across the portfolio, which spans Network Management, Planning Tools, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), subsea automation, and AI-driven initiatives.  With more than 20 years of experience in telecommunications, Caetano has held a variety of senior leadership positions within the OSS domain. He began his career in 2002 at Siemens, working in the Optical Networks group as a Project Manager. Since then, he has held roles in program management, R&D leadership, and product management, building a strong technical foundation and a proven track record of delivering customer value.  He played a pivotal role in launching Coriant’s SDN initiatives, spearheading development of the company’s first WAN SDN product demonstration, presented at OFC in San Francisco in March 2014. A strong advocate for software automation, he continues to champion its role in driving openness, simplifying operations, and enabling new revenue streams. More recently, he has been instrumental in consolidating software automation portfolio following the Tellabs and Coriant acquisitions.  Caetano holds a Diploma in Aerospace Engineering with a specialization in Avionics from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Martin Charbonneau

Head Quantum-Safe Networks, Network Infrastructure Business Group

Nokia

Martin Charbonneau is currently the Head of the Emerging Product Unit for the Optical Networking Business Unit of Nokia.  In this role, he is responsible for driving Optical Networking business in new and emerging segments such as Mobile Transport convergence, Cloud/edge and access transport, including new software and practices to address Software Defined Networking, and Open Networking deployments.  Prior to this assignment, Martin was leading portfolio product management activities for the 1830 Photonic Service Switch in Metro network applications (Packet and OTN solutions), and complementary Metro product lines of the portfolio, such as 1830 Versatile WDM Module (Nokia’s Mobile Front Haul solution).  He has been with Nokia for 10 years where he has also worked as a Product Line Manager for the Fixed Access product. Prior to joining Nokia, Martin held various roles of increasing responsibility in Product Line Management, Business and Network Planning and Professional Services for Metro Ethernet & Optical Transport Business units.  Martin received a Bachelor of Science in Space Sciences from the Canadian Royal Military College (RMC, St-Jean) and graduated as a commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces.

Pino Dicorato

Optical Networks Product Marketing

Pino leads technical sales enablement for Nokia’s Network Infrastructure optical network automation environment portfolio, which is paving the path to transition, scale, simplify and digitize the future for the optical transport industry. With over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry, his roles have ranged from business development and consulting within various industry markets to R&D roles in photonic hardware development, ASIC/FPGA design, and software automation for high-scale manufacturing. Away from work, Pino enjoys high-intensity interval training, playing soccer, biking and traveling worldwide with his beautiful family.

Pedja Dragovic

Product Line Manager, Optical Networks Division

Nokia

Pedja has spent 17 years in the telecom industry with various roles ranging from network architect to systems engineering. His current role is Product Line Manager for Multi-service Transport platform, 1830PSS. He holds a Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade in Serbia. His career interests include: advancing technical and operational knowledge in transport network evolution, how emerging technology in optical and electronics domains enables network transformation, network functions virtualization, software aspects of transport networks evolution and extending expertise into other communication technologies that complement optical transport.

Jose Manuel Estaran Tolosa

Product Line Manager, Optical Networks  Division

Nokia

José works for Nokia’s Network Infrastructure business unit where he holds a position as product line manager for high-speed coherent solutions within the 1830 PSS product family. He accumulates 10 years of experience at the cutting edge of telecom innovation and has contributed to engineer communication solutions of recognized excellence – including over 40 international publications, 2 transmission records and 2 patents. José completed the Telecommunications B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), and the Electrical Engineering M.Sc. from the Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby (Denmark). In October 2012, he accepted a Ph.D. position in the Photonics Department at the Technical University of Denmark in applied digital signal processing and high-speed communications systems, where he coordinated various research projects in cooperation with industrial partners including Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (Now Nokia), Huawei, and Fujitsu. Starting 2015, upon Ph.D. completion, José joined Nokia Bell Labs’ optics laboratory in France where he took on research leadership and management responsibilities along three strategic areas: 

Adam Grodecki

Head of Professional Services, Optical Networks

Nokia

Adam P. Grodecki is an experienced ICT professional specializing in Digital Process Automation of optical solutions for large convergent operators and enterprises. With over 23 years of experience in the technology market, Adam has contributed his expertise to various renowned organizations, including Charter Communications (US), Orange R&D and Sofrecom, Al Jeel Al Jadeed, Orange Armenia, Orange Jordan, and leading suppliers such as Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nokia.  At Nokia since 2015, Adam has played a pivotal role in defining new strategic directions in sales for technical solutions across Central Europe. His focus lies on driving innovation in new projects, leveraging products, solutions, and services to enhance the perception and awareness of the Nokia brand within the realm of Optical, IP/MPLS, SDN, NFV, network security, MBB, MBH, FBB, OSS/BSS, OTT, RCS, IMS, CS, MW, DWDM, ORAN, FTTx, RFOG, DoCsis, mobile core, and 5G RAN, including private wireless solutions.  Adam's expertise spans technical architecture evolution, business development, service monetization, and smart offering strategies. He is dedicated to driving technical excellence while ensuring alignment with business objectives.

John Harrington

Executive Vice President and Head Network Infrastructure, Europe, Middle East & Africa

Nokia

John Harrington is the Executive Vice President and Head of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, where he manages and oversees Nokia’s sales organization and overall business for the region. He is based in Antwerp, Belgium.  John has over 25 years of technical sales, customer relationship management and business development experience in the telecommunications industry across Asia, Europe and North America.  John was previously the Head of the Asia Pacific region for Network Infrastructure and the Customer Experience organization based in Singapore between 2021 and 2024. He was also the General Manager and head of Nokia Japan, based in Tokyo between 2018 and 2020.  Prior to his assignments in Asia, he was the Vice President, of US Major Accounts, where he led sales for a diverse set of wireless, wireline, cable and regional customers. And he spent several years as the head of the AT&T account for Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent.  As an interim veteran, John started his career at Motorola in the UK before moving to the USA with Lucent technologies.  Born in England, John holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering.

Vittorio Iozzolino

Nokia

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Vittorio joined Alcatel in 1998 and he is a business profesasional with more than 20 years of management expertise in the Optics environment. Within the company he has held several positions, starting from the R&D technical area a moving after a few years to the commercial area. In 2005 he was appointed Sales Manager for Interhouse and Direct Sales of Optics Business. From 2007 to 2012 he has been responsible in Alcatel-Lucent for the Optics Domain Business Center for the cluster Central Europe and CIS, accountable for the Optics business development in the region. From 2012 to 2015 he has led the Optics Regional Competence Center, focusing on Deutsche Telekom. Since the beginning of 2016 he is responsible within Nokia for the business development for all Global Enterprise and Public Sector customers for the Optics business in Europe. He holds a degree in telecommunication engineering from Politecnico of Milan, Italy. Based in Stuttgart, Germany, his interests are focused on everything related to information technology.

Ron Johnson

Vice President and General Manager, Optical Networks Division

Nokia

Ron Johnson is Vice President and General Manager for the Optical Networks Division at Nokia.  Prior to this role, Ron served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Optical Subsystems and Global Engineering organizations at Infinera, acquired by Nokia in February 2025.
Before joining Infinera, Mr. Johnson built his exceptionally deep optical and IP networking experience and expertise over 20+ years at Cisco, where he held the position of Head of Product Management for the Optical Transport Business Unit. He began his career in network engineering at SBC Communications, now AT&T.  Mr. Johnson studied electrical engineering at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

Julia Larikova

Vice President Product Management

Nokia

With a distinguished career span of over three decades, Julia is a seasoned telecom expert with deep technical and leadership experience. Her journey began in the industry in 1995, even before graduating, setting the stage for a career defined by continuous innovation.  Julia is an accomplished academic, earning a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Moscow State University in 1996 and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from New York State University in 2003. Her intellectual curiosity led to further postgraduate studies in the highly specialized field of Quantum Physics at Northwestern University, underscoring their commitment to advanced research.  Throughout her career, Julia has held key positions across Field Deployment, New Product Introduction (NPI), Research & Development (R&D), and Product Line Management (PLM) at prominent companies, including Tellabs, Coriant, and Infinera. In her current  role at Nokia, she leverages this breadth of experience to drive progress. Her contributions to the field are formalized in dozens of patents and publica􀆟ons, cemen􀆟ng her status as a respected thought leader.

Karyn Lennon

Leader, NI Learning Services

Nokia

Karyn Lennon leads the Learning Services function for Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks Business Group.  In her role, Karyn is responsible for setting the strategic direction and development of Nokia’s Optical educational services which includes the Nokia Optical Networks Certification Program.  In addition to the Optical program, Karyn directs both Nokia’s flagship IP/MPLS certification program, the Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program which has over 14,000 individuals participating globally and the Nuage Networks Virtuoso Certification Program (NN-VCP). Prior to her role in Learning Services, Karyn held various PLM and Marketing positions at Newbridge Networks and Alcatel-Lucent. Karyn received her Bachelor of Commerce from  McGill University and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa.

Rob Levesque

Product Line Manager, Optical Networks Division

Nokia

Robert Levesque is presently Product Line Manager within the IP and Optical Networks Division responsible for the Centralized RAN Transport portfolio.  Robert has been working within Nokia for the past 19 years in several Product Management and R&D Management positions. Robert has knowledge and experience in Optical, IP, Ethernet, and Access technologies.

Fady Masoud

Senior Director of Solutions Marketing    

Nokia

Fady Masoud is a Senior Director for Solutions Marketing at Nokia focusing on next-generation Intelligent Coherent Pluggable optics (ICE-X) and cloud /data center interconnect solutions. His area of expertise is the architecture and requirements of next-generation optical networking infrastructure. During his 30 years in the telecommunications industry, Fady has held various positions in the optical networking domain at Nortel, Ciena, Infinera, and now Nokia. He started as a hardware test engineer on the first OC-192 (10 Gb/s) systems and then was a systems and network engineer on metropolitan optical products, all combined with hands-on experience. Fady holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Laval University (Quebec City, Canada) and a master’s degree in systems technology (software simulation of optical networks) from the Superior School of Technology (Montreal, Canada). He has written numerous industry and technical publications (incl IEEE), including a book, on next-generation optical networking, cloud networking, and data center interconnect, as well as on many other key topics.

Serge Melle

Director, Optical Product Marketing, Network Infrastructure    

Nokia

Serge joined Nokia in 2019, and currently leads the Optical Product Marketing team for Nokia, and previously led North American sales enablement for IP-optical networks. Prior to joining Nokia, Serge worked at Infinera in product and solutions marketing and business development. Prior to Infinera, Serge worked at Nortel Networks, where was responsible for solutions marketing and business development, and at Pirelli Telecom Systems, where he was involved in the implementation of the industry’s first WDM network deployments. Serge is extensively published in the field of optical networking and holds a BSc in physics from Concordia University, Montréal, and an MASc in applied physics from the University of Toronto.

Teresa Monteiro

Director Marketing

Nokia

Teresa Monteiro is Director of Marketing at Nokia, where she champions Nokia Optical Network solutions. Teresa is dedicated to helping network operators evolve and optimize their networks.

Her focus includes network management and control, software automation, SDN, and analytics and AI.  With 20 years of experience in the telecommunication industry and packet-optical technologies, she has held various senior engineering roles, product management, and marketing positions at Siemens, Coriant, and Infinera.

Teresa holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Hamburg, Germany

Annalisa Morea

Senior Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Annalisa Morea graduated in Telecommunication Engineering both in Italy at Politecnico di Torino and also in France at the ENST in.  Terminated the PhD (done at the France Telecom, today Orange France, premises and with the ENST-Paris in Computer Science), she joined Bell Labs in Paris where she stayed for 8 years and had the opportunity to work on WDM optical networks, by proposing routing algorithms and resource allocation strategies for optical networks having resiliency specifications compliant with Alcatel-Lucent, now Nokia, 1830PSS products. She participated in several national and European projects and contributed in publishing many conference and journal technical articles.  In 2015 she joined the NI teams in Italy where she worked for 9 years on the optical multilayer tools, both on the physical infrastructure design and on the routing aspects. Since September 2024 she joined the Regional EU Business Center group as Senior Consultant.

Ravi Parmasad

Head of Optical Network Automation, Optical Networks Division

Nokia

Ravi Parmasad is Head of the Network Automation Group in the Optical Networks Division at Nokia. Previously, Ravi held several senior leadership roles at Nokia and its predecessor, Alcatel-Lucent, including was Vice President Global IT Infrastructure, Vice President Global Real Estate, Vice President - IP/Optical Networks, Vice President R&D Strategy, Vice President / General Manager - Fiber to the Home Business Unit, and Vice President R&D Strategy. He enjoys acting as an ambassador for many Nokia programs, including student programs aimed at facilitating entry into the technology workforce, and is a former contributing member of the Telecom Industry Association QuEST Forum. Ravi earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Science from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa, where he has also returned to instruct executive MBA students.

Narendra Rath

Senior Director, ON Network Automation

Nokia

Professional Journey ( 25+ Years ) - Learned to speak to a group of people, as a Faculty Member, @TULEC, Berhampur, Built Professional Foundation as an Engineer @DSQ Software Limited, Chennai. Built leadership skills and software architecture skills @Cisco Systems, US, UK, India. Learned to manage large scale global team @Nokia delivering multiple products. Current Role - Senior Director , NMS R&D Head, Global Leader, Nokia. Manages a team of 300 people worldwide to deliver high quality software to manage service provider networks. Building software solutions for next generation networks.