Mobile World Congress: Our Key PlayersMobile World Congress: Our Key Players

It's February, the snow won't let up, and thoughts of tapas, small cells, and the crowded streets of Las Ramblas are uppermost in my mind. It can only mean one thing -- it's almost time for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Mobile World Congress is the year's biggest mobile service provider show, and, as always, the Light Reading and Heavy Reading teams will be there in full force.

If you're going to the show as well, we'd probably love to meet up, but before you pitch Ray on mobile games or Dan Jones on Ethernet, we thought it'd be useful to let you know what key topics we're interested in at the show. It's not an exhaustive list, but, much like the network operators, these coverage areas are our top priorities.

So here are our key players and what they're keen on. If you're a good fit, reach out! If not, no hard feelings. We hope to bump into you on the show floor -- or the bar -- either way.

Light Reading Editors

Ray Le Maistre, Editor in Chief
Covering: Service Provider IT (SPIT), focusing specifically on software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV); mobile network security; also vino and espresso (V&E) See more here: MWC: Pinning Down Hot SPIT Contact: [email protected] Dan Jones, Mobile Editor Covering: LTE, LTE-Advanced, small cells, weird photo opps Contact: [email protected] Sarah Reedy, Senior Editor Covering: Carrier WiFi, voice-over LTE (VoLTE), M2M and next-gen services, food and wine Contact: [email protected] Heavy Reading Analysts Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst Covering: Mobile security, backhaul Hosting a breakfast on "Creating Trust in the Mobile Network," on February 26. Find more details and register here. Contact: [email protected] Sarah Wallace, Analyst Covering: BSS/OSS, Big Data/Analytics, customer/cross-channel experience, and the Collaborative Economy Contact: [email protected] Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst Covering: policy management, RAN congestion control, NFV and SDN Contact: [email protected] Caroline Chappell, Senior Analyst Covering: cloud management and orchestration technologies, both NFV and enterprise cloud related; cloud service enablement, virtualization technologies/SDN, next generation OSS for virtualized networks, customer experience management, and service delivery platforms Contact: [email protected] Jim Hodges, Senior Analyst Covering: virtualization and how it affects IMS, Diameter Signaling Controllers and SBCs, the impact of SDN on application delivery controllers, Diameter adoption, subscriber data management, identity management and analytics, SDN and NFV adoption, and managed services Contact: [email protected] Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst Covering: LTE-Advanced, mobile core network, NFV and SDN in mobile networks Contact: [email protected] Check back to Light Reading all month for coverage leading up to and at the show. See you in Barcelona! — Sarah Reedy, Senior Editor, Light Reading