Networks 4 The Next 2026

Networks 4 The Next 2026

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
27 – 28 January 2026

Networks 4 The Next

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27 – 28 January 2026

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The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina

Speakers

Opening Speakers

David Heard

President, Network Infrastructure
Nokia

Roque Lozano

Senior Vice President Network Infrastructure Middle East & Africa
Nokia

Emilia Zagorska-Iskander

Chief-of-Staff – MEA
Nokia

Customer speakers

Guest speakers

Dr. Jassim Al Awadhi

Head of Enterprise Platforms
ENBD

Fatima AlDaghar

Director Transport Network Planning division
dU

Shayma AlRedha

Director of Data & Cognitive Services | Technology Operations
du

Said AlSaidi

Network Director
SuperCell

Ahmed Alshal

Director Network Planning
dU

Michael Andersin

OEM Global Account Manager
NVIDIA

Dr. Ayman Elnashar

VP Technology Strategy, Architecture and Innovation
e&

Asli Erbas

AI Portfolio SME
IBM

Andrea Faggiano

Senior Partner at ADL consulting – Head of TMI practice
ADL Consulting

Baron Fung

Senior Research Director
Dell’Oro Group

Willy George

Head of Network, Zain Omantel
ZOI

Shaima Mohamed Al Ali

Senior Engineer – Rail Maintenance Department
RTA

Mahmoud Moussa

Deputy Telecommunication Minister I Syria
Government

Nabeel Nasser

Smart Cities Consultant

Edmondo Orlotti

Chief Strategy Officer
G42 Group

Daniele Piccarozzi

Senior Market Development Manager
AMD

Sreekanth Pisharody

Head & Co-founder the CEO Office
DataVolt

Imran Shafi

Senior Vice President
Nscale

Dr. Mahmod Sherif

VP Innovation and Technico-Business Development
dU

Miguel Simoes

Alliance Director, Global Nokia Partnership
Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group 

Deepali Velayuthan

Director Global Business Development
Supermicro

Esa Vesterinen

Principal, Head of Autonomous Networks
Deutsche Telekom

Tay Wei Kiang

Head of Network Operations & A3N (Autonomous, Analytics & AI)
Singtel

Dr. Martin Wrulich

Senior Partner
McKinsey

Nokia speakers

Mohamed Askar

Automation Consulting System Engineer
Nokia

Kumeel Asmail

Head of Industrial Solution Sales
Nokia

Bassim Bennani

Head of Digitalization, North and West Africa
Nokia

Sebastiano Bertani

NI FN Head of Corteca AI
Nokia

Bashar Bou-Diab

Director, Consulting Systems Engineer for IP networks, Middle-East
Nokia

Michael Bushong

Vice President of Data Center
Nokia

Nurettin Cetinkaya

Network Infrastructure CTO Middle East
Nokia

Filip De Greve

NI FN Portfolio Marketing
Nokia

Nassim Dhamani

Solution Selling Specialist
Nokia

Pascal Dom

NI FN Broadband Networks Senior Product Manager
Nokia

Justin Doucette

Head of Corteca
Nokia

Sherif Farouk

Solution Selling Specialist
Nokia

Eric Festraets

Strategic Marketing Director, Fixed Networks
Nokia

Paolo Francati

Head of Pursuit Team
Nokia

Manish Gulyani

Head of Technology Marketing
Nokia

Rudy Hoebeke

Vice President of Software Product Management
Nokia

Alan Hollander

NI Hyperscaler Market VP Apps/Systems Engineering
Nokia

Moustafa Kattan

Senior Regional PLM Director MEA
Nokia

Tarunava Konar

DMTS, Principal
Nokia Bell Labs

Jean Lawrence

VP Field Marketing
Nokia

Fabrice Le Pape

Head of MEA Enterprise Business Development
Nokia

Eli Leal

(CNS, Security) – Sales Lead Security MEA
Nokia

Benoit Leridon

Transportation Business Development Director Nokia Infrastructure
Nokia

Robert Levesque

Director Product Management, NI/Optical Networks
Nokia

Youssef Mrabet

NI CTO North and West Africa
Nokia

Michel Ploeg

EMEA rPLM Manager Data Center
Nokia

Kurt Pynaert

NI Autonomous Networks Lead
Nokia

Luigi Re

Optical Network Architect, NI Optical Networks Systems rPLM
Nokia

Javier Sanchez Pita

NI FN Services – Broadband Easy solution lead
Nokia

Alexander Sarbo

NI CTO & Solutions
Nokia

Dom Schaeffer

Director IP Consulting Engineering EMEA, Nokia
Nokia

Jorge Soto (MN)

MEA Defense Segment Lead
Nokia

Sadik Topal

NI Consulting Engineering IP NPI Leader 
Nokia

Gloria Touchard

Head of NI ESG
Nokia

Cris Van Overloop

NI FN Services Marketing Director
Nokia

Dominique Verhulst

Energy Segment Lead
Nokia

Bart Vrancken

Optical Network Consultant- Enterprise
Nokia

Muneer Zuhdi

Head of Strategic Innovation Partnership
Nokia