The winners will be announced at the invitation-only Roundtable in Central London on 6 June
Mobile Europe is delighted to announce the shortlist for its celebrated tenth annual CTO of the Year Awards. This year the Awards are sponsored by Rakuten Symphony.
The winners for both categories will be announced after the invitation-only roundtable during our two-day, in-person Telecoms Europe LIVE conference which takes place on 6/7 June at the Cavendish Conference Centre in central London.
The Gamechanger Award is to recognise a CTO (or equivalent job title) who excels at carrying out the core business but not as usual – creating efficient and effective infrastructure and operations and business models that make use of technologies such as AI, analytics, automation, open platforms and APIs.
- JSC Ukrtelecom, Kyrylo Goncharuk (Ukraine)
- Kyivstar, Volodymyr Lutchenko (Ukraine)
- MASMOVIL, Miguel Santos Fernandez (Spain)
- Mobily, Mohammed Alatawi (Saudi Arabia)
- Orange Egypt, Ayman Amiri
- SIRO (Ireland), Suzanne Tracy
- TIM, Elisabetta Romano
- Virgin Media Ireland, Monika Nowak-Toporowicz
The Trailblazer Award recognises the achievement of a CTO (or equivalent job title) whose company offers services beyond connectivity or is pioneering new technology, business and operational models.
- BT, Howard Watson (UK)
- NOS, Jorge Graca (Portugal)
- Türk Telekomünikasyon, Yusuf Kıraç
- Vodacom Group (South Africa), Dejan Kastelic
The three independent judges – Kester Mann, Director, Consumer and Connectivity, CCS Insight, Bengt Nordstrom, Managing Director at Accenture Sweden and Annie Turner, Editor, Mobile Europe – were impressed by the highest ever standard of entries ever this year, although that made their job much harder. We were also delighted to receive the most entries ever from women. Our congratulations and thanks to everyone who entered.