Sameer currently works in the capacity of Associate Director - ICT Research and Advisory practice. The role encompasses handling consulting projects and working closely with the subscription and outbound sales teams for various client requirements in the domain.

With a total work experience above seventeen years, Sameer has more than fourteen years of experience in the IT/ITES space and prior to joining MarketsandMarkets, Sameer worked as a Consultant serving the Business Technology Professionals at Forrester Research. He came to Forrester through its acquisition of Springboard Research. At Forrester, Sameer was engaged in managing research projects and communicated directly with clients, internal resources (i.e., sales, research), and third party vendors to address queries and manage expectations to create high quality project deliverables. In this role, he has single-handedly driven projects that included deliverables in the shape of data modeling, trend analysis, market-sizing, end-user requirements, competitive profiling, etc. At Springboard he handled multiple projects such as hardware specific tracker focusing the South-East Asia market, healthcare trends in Asia-Pacific (including telemedicine) etc. to name a few.

Prior to joining Springboard, he was with WNS Global Services where he worked as a Senior Analyst. The role saw him working on different verticals across the industry including technology, life-sciences and finance for collating important industry movement like mergers and acquisitions and also track various management movements across the globe. He was also involved in analyzing market trends to provide insights to clients pertaining the technology sector.

Sameer has done Masters in Business Administration in International Business and Finance from Amity Business School, Noida (U.P.) and his graduation from Delhi University.

Pramod Misra is a leading AI/ML practitioner & is currently working as Lead Data scientist with Vodafone His key responsibilities include developing  deploying AI/ML models in digital transformation, customer engagement & in network automation . He is actively working in the area of building open source ML models for 4G /5G RAN (Radio Access Network) deployment & Open RAN. He has more than 18 years of work experience in analytics & machine learning models development. He. He had earlier worked with Novartis, Alghanim Group & Nuclear Power Corporation.

Skyler King is a VP of Sales in North America with MarketsandMarkets. He has a passion for helping companies understand and evaluate how new technologies like AR & VR are gaining traction, and how these advancements are creating change, challenge, and opportunity within their ecosystem.

Anoop Kulkarni is the global head of Network Planning Services business development for Nokia.  He has worked for Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent in 5G/4G/3G/2G rollouts for carriers, 4G/5G for Enterprise customers, Indoor Coverage solutions, Small Cells and macro network rollouts, post sales customer support and break/fix support.    He has represented Nokia at various industry events and is also a member of the TIA Smart Buildings Working Group and its “Connectivity” subteam.   He works with carriers around the world to showcase best practices in roll out of 5G networks, as well as Nokia’s Enterprise sales teams and technical teams in developing high impact and cost-effective solutions in various verticals such as Energy, Transportation and Education.

Anoop is based in Naperville Illinois and has degrees in management and Electrical Engineering.