Building a Trusted AI-based System: Linking the Parts

Tiago Rodrigues, CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA)

Tiago Rodrigues is the CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). Tiago is responsible for leading the overall strategy, together with the WBA Board, and the operational planning for the WBA. As well as overseeing the day to day management, Tiago takes a leadership role in understanding industry challenges and working with membership to agree the key focus areas and programs that need to be developed to ensure the wireless industry optimises market opportunities for Wi-Fi and works to resolve any business issues that impede the success of the industry overall.

Before he joined the WBA, Tiago spent 15 years at the Portugal Telecom Group. In his previous role as Head of Business Innovation, he collaborated with various departments within the company to identify and develop new business opportunities. Prior to this, he managed the Public Wi-Fi sector of Portugal Telecom Group where he was responsible for service management, development, strategy and internationalisation of the Wi-Fi service. He was also involved in strategic marketing, regulatory affairs, pricing, product development and roaming.

Tiago holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Management of Science and Technology, and a degree in Business Administration from the Higher Institute of Economics and Management at The Technical University of Lisbon He also has a BA. Honors Degree in Business Administration from Humberside University, UK.

Presentation : Wi-Fi Convergence with 5G an Opportunity Today & Tomorrow

Wi-Fi is at a very important evolution point with a new standard Wi-Fi 6, additional spectrum available on the 6Ghz band for Wi-Fi 6E, OpenRoaming standard for auto-secure connection to public-guest Wi-Fi, all these are bringing significant improvements in terms of speeds, latency, security, privacy, QoS and QoE for all of us when using Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi can boost capacity and coverage to 5G strategies at a significantly lower cost and help to develop new partnerships between operators, enterprises and governments and at the same time help to improve the overall business case for 5G of operators and enterprises.

5G Strategies should not be looked has a narrow 5G NR approach but instead a framework to combine different technologies, where concepts as OpenRAN and Next Generation Core Networks can help to orchestrate and optimize the use of all telecoms infrastructure available to accelerate the Digitalization of the Societies.