2025 NI APAC
Certification Program

18-20 February 2025
Sheraton Grand Danang Convention Centre

Agenda

Monday 17 February 2025

Arrivals

9:00 am5:00 pm

RBC and SU Head Arrivals

7:00 pm9:00 pm

RBC Dinner

Attendance: All delegates welcome

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Pre-Conference Meetings

8:30 am8:40 am

Welcome

John Harrington
EVP and Head of NI EMA Region
, Nokia

8:40 am9:15 am

Exploratory Journey in the AI Era

Sang Xulei
SVP and Head of NI APAC Market
, Nokia

9:30 am10:50 am

Market LT Meeting

9:30 am10:50 am

IP BC Meeting

9:30 am10:50 am

ON BC Meeting

9:30 am10:50 am

FN BC Meeting

10:50 am11:10 am

Tea Break

11:10 am12:30 pm

Market LT Meeting

11:10 am12:30 pm

IP BC Meeting

11:10 am12:30 pm

ON BC Meeting

11:10 am12:30 pm

FN BC Meeting

12:30 pm1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm1:35 pm

Project Unicorn Opening

Donny Janssens
Head of Partner Sales and Cusomter Soutions & Strategy APAC
, Nokia

1:35 pm2:25 pm

Fiber for Everything

Steve De Croos
Head of FN APAC Fiber Solutions
, Nokia

Zhang Wei
FWA Solution Manager FN BC APAC

Sathish K. Kumar
SDAN Solutions Lead FN BC APAC

2:30 pm3:20 pm

Fixed Mobile Convergence

Krystof Miziewicz
Senior PLM/CE IP Edge, NFV IP BC APAC
, Nokia

Anthony King
Head of FN Business Centre Japan FN BC APAC
, Nokia

3:20 pm3:50 pm

Tea break

3:55 pm4:45 pm

Network Security

Hitesh Behl
Advance Solutions Architect and Automation PLM, NI APAC IP BC
, Nokia

Gary Kang
rPLM and Network Architect, NI APAC ON BC

4:50 pm5:40 pm

Network Automation & AI

Ozge Korkut
Senior Automation rPLM and Consulting Engineering, NI APAC IP BC
, Nokia

5:45 pm6:35 pm

Large Enterprise & MSE Connect

Vikrant Kundra
Partner Solution Lead
, Nokia

7:00 pm9:00 pm

Welcome Get Together

Wednesday 19 February 2025

Conference Day 1

8:00 am8:05 am

Welcome & Opening

Perry Poehlmann
Head of NI APAC Field Marketing
, Nokia

8:05 am8:15 am

Catching the wave!

John Harrington
EVP and Head of NI EMA Region
, Nokia

8:15 am8:35 am

Exploratory Journey in the AI Era

Sang Xulei
SVP and Head of NI APAC Market
, Nokia

8:35 am9:00 am

Panel Session

Selling Data Center Fabric

John Harrington, EVP and Head of NI EMA Region
Kent Wong, VP and Head of IP Business Center APAC
Vinai Sirkay, Deputy President, IP Networks
Roque Lozano, SVP and Head of NI MEA Market
Pasi Toivanen, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystems

9:00 am9:30 am

Rockstar Awards 2025

9:30 am9:50 am

Enterprise Strategy 2025

Stuart Hendry
VP and Head of Enterprise Sales APAC
, Nokia

9:50 am10:10 am

Webscale Selling Strategy 2025

Dion Leung
Head of Webscale Sales APAC
, Nokia

10:10 am10:30 am

Partner Strategy 2025

Donny Janssens
Head of Partner Sales and Cusomter Soutions & Strategy APAC
, Nokia

10:30 am10:50 am

Tea Break

10:50 am11:20 am

IP Selling Strategy 2025

Kent Wong
VP and Head of NI IP APAC Business Center
, Nokia

11:20 am11:50 am

ON Selling Strategy 2025

Vito Di Maria
VP and Head of NI ON APAC Business Center
, Nokia

11:50 am12:20 pm

FN Selling Strategy 2025

Vimal Kothandaraman
VP and Head of NI FN APAC Business Center
, Nokia

12:30 pm1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm2:20 pm

Future State Architecture

Paresh Khatri
Head of IP Advanced Solution Architect & CTO, NI APAC IP BC
, Nokia

2:25 pm3:15 pm

Terabit Networking

Ragheed Al-Dabbagh
Head of ON rPLM, Solutions and Sales Campaign, NI APAC ON BC
, Nokia

3:15 pm3:45 pm

Tea Break

3:50 pm4:40 pm

Data Center & Multi-Cloud Architecture

Brian Walsh
Head of IP rPLM and Consulting Engineering, NI APAC IP BC
, Nokia

Mohamed Zakaria Abdelhamid
Optical Network Architect, NI APAC ON BC
, Nokia

4:45 pm5:35 pm

Mission Critical Networks

Anthony Lam
Head of Energy Segment Business Development and Solutions
, Nokia

5:40 pm6:30 pm

Defense & REN Networks

Sandrine Couval
Segment Solutions Lead for Defense & REN
, Nokia

7:00 pm9:30 pm

Social & Awards Night

Buses will depart Sheraton Lobby at 7:00pm

Thursday 20 February 2025

Conference Day 2

8:30 am8:35 am

Day 2 Welcome!

Perry Poehlmann
Head of NI APAC Field Marketing
, Nokia

8:35 am8:55 am

MU Strategy – Oceania

Adrian Heley
Head of Sales Unit Oceania
, Nokia

8:55 am9:15 am

SU Strategy – Japan

Takayuki Kanda
Head of Sales Unit Japan

9:15 am9:35 am

SU Strategy – South Korea

Jay Han
Head of Sales Unit Korea
, Nokia

9:35 am9:55 am

SU Strategy – SEA South

Ming Kin Ngiam
Head of Sales Unit SEA South
, Nokia

9:55 am10:15 am

SU Strategy – Singtel CBT

KP Goh
VP and Head of Sales Unit Singtel
, Nokia

10:15 am10:35 am

Tea Break

10:35 am10:55 am

SU Strategy – NSB

Zhang Shiming
Head of Sales Unit NSB Enterprise & Web
, Nokia

Alan Cheng
Head of Sales Unit CMCC & CBN
, Nokia

Chen Yuhua
Head of Sales Unit CTC & CUC

10:55 am11:15 am

SU Strategy – SEA North

Ajay Sharma
Head of Sales Unit SEA North
, Nokia

11:15 am11:35 am

SU Strategy – Taiwan

Dick Lee
Head of Sales Team CHT
, Nokia

11:35 am11:55 am

SU Strategy – India

Prashant Malkani
Head of Sales Unit India
, Nokia

11:55 am12:05 pm

Summary

John Harrington
EVP and Head of NI EMA Region
, Nokia

Sang Xulei
SVP and Head of NI APAC Market
, Nokia

Kent Wong
VP and Head of NI IP APAC Business Center
, Nokia

Vito Di Maria
VP and Head of NI ON APAC Business Center
, Nokia

Jacob Kurian
VP and Head of NI APAC CD&O

12:10 pm1:00 pm

Project Unicorn 2.0 Demo Show

Jason Zhu
Head of NI APAC Customer Engineering
, Nokia

Paolo Sergi
NI APAC CE E2E Solution Architect Lead
, Nokia

Anand Pal
Head of network automation
, Nokia

1:00 pm2:00 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm7:00 pm

Departure