NEC/NetCracker will highlight the emergence of a highly digital and virtualized world and how the adoption of IoT and cloud will help operators launch new services faster at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress 2015. The event will take place from October 12-16, 2015 at the Swissôtel Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Keynote and Feature Presentations
· “Cloudifying Virtualized Customer Premises Equipment: The Next Step Towards Operationalization”
3:55 p.m. on October 13 in the Venus Room
Aloke Tusnial, VP of Global Sales at NEC/NetCracker, will demonstrate and discuss the path from virtualization to full-scale cloud-enabled operations, leveraging practical experience in operationalizing vCPE to bring new services to market.

· “Accelerating IoT Adoption with SDN and NFV”
10:15 a.m. on October 15 in rooms Diana 1 and 2
Mark Bieberich, Senior Director of SDN/NFV Strategy for NEC/NetCracker, will speak about how the Internet of Things is one of the most promising revenue opportunities for service providers and will help define the role of SDN/NFV in operationalizing services across smart home, energy, manufacturing and other industries.

Panel Participation
· Ari Banerjee, Senior Director of Strategy at NEC/NetCracker, will participate in the panel debate entitled “Building the Ecosystem for NFV, Impact of Open Source” at 5:35 p.m. on October 13 in room Diana 1.

· Mark Bieberich will participate in the panel debate “SDN and NFV: Meeting User Needs, Beyond Monetisation,” Revenue and Cost” at 5:30 p.m. on October 14 in room Diana 2.

To set up a meeting with NEC/NetCracker executives during SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, please contact Juliet Shavit of SmartMark Communications at [email protected].