Milind Kulkarni is vice president and head of InterDigital’s Wireless Labs, responsible for overseeing research and standardisation. He brings more than 35 years of advanced technology product development experience and expertise in areas relevant to mobile networks, such as radio access networks, cloud native design, edge computing, and network management and service orchestration. Before joining InterDigital, Mr Kulkarni served as vice president of R&D for CommScope within the Intelligent Cellular Networks business unit. In this role he established CommScope’s 5G vision and strategy for Small Cells and led the global R&D team to develop and commercialise vRAN in a North American Tier 1 Mobile Network Operator. Before CommScope, Mr Kulkarni held key leadership positions at Nokia and Motorola while playing a significant role in the development of XG RAN products. In his early career, he also worked on NASA projects at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems as well as Department of Defence projects at Honeywell.