Schedule

Welcoming session by Sami Anttila, VP, 5G DevOps

5G introduces a number of operational challenges and new opportunities to save cost which both can be addressed by DevOps. The SW delivery improvements in DevOps culture, process and automation will improve time to market and customer satisfaction for Telco industry players. DevOps is and will be at the heart of 5G transformation. 

As part of DevOps2020 Eficode’s 5G DevOps team is running an online 5G DevOps Seminar, focusing on Business and Technology challenges of 5G deployment and automation. The seminar brings together the 5G business and technology players: Communication Service Providers, Over The Top Players and Vendors to share their transformation insights.

Sami has been working closely with major CSPs and verticals alike to capitalize the full business opportunity of 5G, building on his 20 years experience in the Telco domain, and multiple years as DevOps Center of Excellence and transformation leader

5G Business Goes DevOps

Telecom industry is moving quickly forward with Agile and DevOps. In this first talk for the day, we will explore the business potential for DevOps in the 5G landscape as well as touch on the building blocks in the DevOps journey.

Marko Seikola is a leader in the telecom sector with experience both on product development leadership as well as presale and delivery leadership. During the past ten years, he has worked with various aspects of agile. Currently Marko is heading Ericsson Telecom Core and Cloud solution and service for Finland and Baltics.

Timm-Tobias Egelhof, DevOps Engineer, Deutsche Telekom

Sascha Schaerich, Project Manager, Deutsche Telekom

The journey to T-Shaped DevOps

Deutsche Telekom IT is currently moving from a waterfall organization to agile with the help of the SAFe framework. This includes moving from a silo approach of development, testing and operations to DevOps. We are currently in our third year of this transformation and would like to give a short overview of our journey, talk about what is going really well, but of course also about the challenges.

Bio of Tobias:
I started my working life in 1994 at a company called EDS (some older colleagues may remember it), and since 2005 I worked for Syniverse, a US based company focused on mobile roaming and interconnect. I worked in roles of system administration, system operations, software development and finally as DevOps lead in a SAFe agile release train for a monolithic application to process mobile roaming data.

In May 2019 I joined Deutsche Telekom IT, working as a DevOps evangelist and technical trainer for Tel-IT internal customers.

Bio of Sascha:
I joined Telekom 1998 with an apprenticeship for T-Mobile, and have moved through system engineering, application operations, project management, service-chain operational management until finally discovering DevOps. I am one of the first colleagues in Deutsche Telekom IT to implement DevOps methods and pipelines, and have now been a DevOps Evangelist in our company since 2018, promoting, consulting and helping colleagues in the transformation towards DevOps teams.

Fire and water; on business relations between startups and telcoes. (And a bit about DevOps, too)

Having tried (and failed) to combine new innovations by startups to traditional telcoes, Ilkka now describes a model which could work. And has worked, already. (At least once!)
By presenting failed cases and finally a DevOps-like model of combining business, development and operations, Ilkka proves that startups and telcoes can actually make business together.

Ilkka is a startup enthusiast, Mr Noisy and ok-ish hobbyist marathon runner. Also Co-founder of Framery, Surveypal (and few other companies), board amateur, research nerd, angel investor and yes, Wannabe.

You can run but you can’t hide from it, Edge Cloud is here, now!

Combination of laws of physics, speed of light, 5G, vRAN, MEC, IoT, converged access and data-hungry/low-latency demanding enterprises, created the need for the presence of computing capabilities on the edge of the network. The presentation will cover the drivers, challenges, and requirements for the edge as well as the solutions to overcome them and ensure the digitisation of physical industries for the enablement of Industry 4.0.

By working in the telecoms industry for 20 years, in various positions, covering R&D, Technical Support, Operations, Hosting, Data Centers and Connectivity, allowed Adrian to have a holistic view across multiple domains and their future impact across a wide range of industries. Currently working as Chief Architect Cloud in Nokia’s Mobile Networks, focused on Edge Cloud, Cloud RAN and Telco IT Cloud Reference Architecture.

Radio access networks – the final frontier of DevOps?

This talk will address the current status of 5G radio access networks with state-of-the-art views on architectural changes that will be faced along with 5G network rollouts. Given the tight processing requirement of radio access base stations, the radio will be split in the future to two separated components – namely distributed and centralized units. The hardest processing requirements are faced in distributed units that accompany physical processing, whereas more relaxed processing is needed in the centralized units. Eventually, centralized units can be treated as standard mobile data centres allowing centralized control of them in DevOps manner.

Dr. Jarno Niemelä is current Head of Mobile Access Technologies in Elisa. He has been working with mobile access network technologies, planning, operations and optimization for more than 15 years. He holds a Dr. Tech. degree from Tampere University of Technology (2006).

Kenneth Fredriksen joined Huawei Technologies Ltd in 2012. Recently he was appointed as the Executive Vice President of Huawei CEE & Nordic Regional HQ, overlooking the Nordic and Baltic Countries.
During 2016 to the end of 2019 he served as CEO for Huawei Technologies Sweden AB covering Huawei’s operations in Sweden and Iceland, while being part of Huawei Central East Europe and Nordic Regional HQ executive management team.
Before moving to Sweden Kenneth held the position as Chief Operating Officer for Huawei’s Central East Europe & Nordic Regional HQ, which manages 31 countries with around 2,500 employees. In this position Fredriksen was responsible for the Regional Sales, Business Development and Customer Relationship Management and Strategy execution across Huawei’s 3 Business Groups (Carrier, Enterprise and Consumer), in addition to overall regional HQ responsibility for the IT business unit, Cyber Security-, Information Security-, and Public Relation and Affairs management.
Kenneth Fredriksen has 20 years global telecom industry experience and prior to joining Huawei he held several director and management positions within other multinational companies among others Siemens AG.

During the panel discussion our speakers will answer questions on business and technology challenges of 5G, focusing on the need of better B2B collaboration, and the technical, organizational and cultural challenges of frequent software deliveries in the 5G era. The session will be moderated by Szilárd Széll from our 5G DevOps team

Heikki Hämäläinen, Head of Growth, Eficode