Joanna Newman (Vodafone) is Senior Director, Technology Partnerships. Prior to this she was the Global Edge Computing and 5G Principal Manager, working in Vodafone’s Network Strategy and Architecture function. She led Vodafone’s Edge Computing Technology Strategy, which delivered the first AWS Mobile Edge Computing nodes in Europe, operating in London, Dortmund, Berlin and Munich – with more to come in 2023. She has worked for best of breed technology companies globally and received multiple awards for outstanding technical achievement for her projects in telecoms, broadcasting, security, and cloud transformation. She is currently based in Ontario, Canada, and was the Vodafone representative on the IBC 5G Accelerator Programme focusing on 5G Broadcasting use cases.