A Technology Evangelist, Dr. Dennis Ong, Distinguished Architect and Managing Principal at Verizon, works with startups to utilize IoT and Machine Learning to create Smart City solutions to address the most challenging problems facing cities and municipalities.
Previously, he served as Chief Architect and Director at Nokia, led a recently acquired start-up to develop the IoT IMPACT platform which received the "Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks" award at the 2017 Mobile World Congress.
At Alcatel-Lucent, he and his team collaborated with three start-ups, based in India, Israel, and Silicon Valley, in creating a highly scalable video optimization and analytics platform that served tens of millions of mobile subscribers worldwide. Finally at Lucent, he launched the first packet-based cellular small cell solution with a start-up in Boston.
