Cedric has more than 26 years of professional experience in the IT and Telco industries. He started his career at Mitsubishi Electric and then at Orange Labs, where he contributed to multiple industrial standards, including 3GPP, W3C, and MPEG. As an entrepreneur, he founded a mobile multimedia company acquired by Amdocs Ltd. in 2010. He then took the lead in Amdocs’ cloud-native strategy until he joined Canonical in February 2023. He owns more than 27 patents and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He is a seasoned innovation catalyst and a passionate promoter of open source and intrapreneurship in large organizations.

Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez is a team leader at Ericsson Research, where he investigates standard and proprietary artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) techniques for 5G Advanced and 6G air interfaces. For his work in this area, he was recognized with the Ericsson Impact Award in 2023 and as a Key Ericsson Contributor for his potential to drive long-term strategic priorities in 2022. Adrian is a co-inventor of over 50 filed patent families, for which he received the Nokia Bell Labs Ireland Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for co-authoring the highest number of filed patents in 2019. He is a recipient of the 2021 IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award for EMEA and the Best Paper Award at PIMRC’19 for his work on “UAV-to-UAV Cellular Communications.” Adrian has been an active contributor to IEEE conferences, having organized nine workshops and delivered 20 keynotes, tutorials, and industrial seminars.

Lorenzo Casaccia, Head of Technology Standards at Qualcomm, leads a global team across 20 countries, focusing on cellular/3GPP, video research/standards, regional standards organizations, spectrum engineering, and standards in semiconductors, AI, wired connectivity, automotive, multimedia, and the internet. With over two decades at Qualcomm, he has a broad understanding of the mobile and standardization ecosystem, interfacing with the CTO office, product development, licensing, and legal teams. A recognized industry figure with a long history in 5G standards leadership, Lorenzo has significantly impacted cellular roadmaps. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering from Turin Polytechnic, Telecommunications from the EURECOM Institute, and Philosophy from Rome University, and is the author or co-author of over 40 approved patents. Based in Barcelona, he frequently travels to California.

Arpit Joshipura (General manager of networking, IOT & EDGE) is an executive leader and open source software evangelist across carriers, cloud, and enterprise IT – spanning networking, orchestrations, operating systems, security, AI, edge, hardware, and silicon. He was recently voted among the Top 5 Movers and Shakers in the Telecom Industry. At the Linux Foundation, Arpit leads open-source networking, orchestration & edge/IOT, including LF Networking projects (ONAP, OPNFV, ODL, FDIO, OvS, DPDK, OpenSwitch, Akraino/Edge/IOT, etc.) as well as major industry disruptions including VNFs to CNFs (Cloud Native Network functions), 5G, AI, etc. Arpit brings 30 years of networking expertise and vision to The Linux Foundation with both technical depth and business breadth. He has orchestrated and led major industry disruptions across enterprises, carriers, and cloud architectures, including IP, broadband, optical, mobile, routing, switching, L4-7, cloud, disaggregation, SDN/NFV, and open networking. He has been an early evangelist for open source. Arpit has served in CMO, VP, and Engineering roles within startups and larger enterprises.