Title: Director (and commentator as @disruptivedean )
About: Dean Bubley (@disruptivedean)Experienced independent analyst & advisor with 25 years’ experience in mobile and telecoms.Dean is the founder of Disruptive Analysis, an independent technology industry analyst and consulting firm based in London. An analyst & futurist with over 25 years’ experience, he specialises in mobile / telecoms fields, with an eye on the broader technological and societal contexts into which they fit. He is one of the leading market observers and forecasters covering 5G/6G, Wi-Fi 6/7, network infrastructure & software, telecom business models, voice/video communications and broadband/spectrum policy.Speaking at over 30 conferences and other events per year, and quoted by publications such as The Economist, FT & Wall Street Journal, he is an authority and provocateur. His clients include many of the world’s leading telecom operators, vendors, regulators and industry associations, conducting advisory projects & internal workshop exercises. He also acts as associate director in charge of Network Futures research for STL Partners.His present focus is on use-cases and hype/reality for 5G/6G, Open RAN, evolution of WiFi, spectrum policy, smart buildings & cities, eSIM, private & neutral-host cellular networks, mobile broadband, developer platforms, edge-computing and contextual communications. Recent additional work has been on enterprise private 5G, municipal and rail networks, edge computing and building/campus networks.Dean was formerly an equity analyst, covering communications stocks, with the UK arm of investment bank Robert W. Baird. Prior to that, he spent eight years at UK research firm Datamonitor, where he co-founded the company's Technology business, managed the Internet & Networking area and custom consulting operations, with roles of Chief Analyst & Director of Consulting. He holds a BA in Physics from Keble College, Oxford University.