SCTE-ISBE has rounded out the opening general session lineup for the upcoming Cable-Tec Expo with the addition of CableLabs’ Bernardo Huberman as a guest speaker.
Huberman is Fellow and VP of the Core Innovation Team for CableLabs, as well as an inventor and technology futurist.
His talk will focus on how Silicon Valley and the cable and telecom industry can both leverage artificial and Internet of Things technologies to open up new areas of growth. Huberman will discuss opportunities in AI, data analytics, autonomous vehicles and drones, and network virtualization, according to the organization.
“No infrastructure has been more foundational than the cable telecom network in helping connected technologies achieve scale,” says Huberman in a statement. “To optimize time to market and ROI across the entire ecosystem, our industries must create an environment in which network evolution, industry standards and workforce skills are in step with technology innovation.”
Huberman now leads innovation efforts across AI, PHY and MAC layer communications network technologies, and SDN and NFV, at CableLabs. Prior to that he was SVP and Senior Fellow at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and director of the Mechanisms and Design Lab at HP Labs.
“Cable and Silicon Valley play pivotal, complementary roles in transforming consumers’ lives through technology,” says Kevin Hart, executive vice president and chief product and technology officer for Cox Communications. “Dr. Bernardo Huberman’s 360-degree view of innovation will sharpen our audience’s focus on the breakthrough opportunities ahead and how our industry can capitalize on them.”
Huberman started his career as a physicist after earning his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and was one of discoverers of chaos in numerous physical systems. He has earned four dozen patents and invented the first system to allow remote printing from a mobile device anywhere in the world—ePrint.
“Dr. Bernardo Huberman’s work truly has been groundbreaking,” says Mark Dzuban, president and CEO of SCTE•ISBE. “Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a remarkable ability to envision new possibilities that exceed the limits of current technology, break new ground in innovation and create new opportunities for companies to engage with their customers.”
Huberman’s guest appearance adds to the opening general session slate that includes a keynote by Pat Esser, president of Cox Communications, and a panel comprised of NCTA-The Internet & Television Association CEO Michael Powell, CEO of Cable Labs Phil McKinney, and Dzuban.
Cable-Tec Expo is taking place Oct. 22 through Oct. 25 in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center.
