Speaker Bio

Livio Tulio Silva Méndez is Principal Technology Strategist Americas working in the Red Hat Regional Telco
team. Livio is a senior professional with 24 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications
sector. Joined Red Hat August 2020 to lead the solutions architecture of Cloud Native Open Platforms for 4G/5G Telco Solutions for Latin America services providers, worked at NOKIA for 14 years before join Red Hat. At Nokia worked in regional positions of business development, sales and product management in Radio Access, Telco Cloud Networks, Software Defined Networking, Core Solutions, IP and Optical networks. He is a commercial and technical Telco market specialist with a very good knowledge of Communications Service Providers in Latin America. He also worked in Siemens before Nokia. In Nokia he participated of relevance projects in Tier One customer in the NFVI Network Transformation Journey. In his current role in Red Hat is leading all interaction of Red Hat about Open RAN with all principal Latin America mobile operators and RAN challengers vendors. His areas of focus include 5G Core, Open RAN, OpenShift for Telco and Edge Computing Telco use cases and artificial inteligence applied to Telco.