Janet Giesen, VP of operations at Metallic, discusses how the SaaS company adjusted its approach to marketing security products once COVID-19 hit, as well as what enterprises need to keep in mind as their networks expand into employee homes.

Facebook Connectivity Vice President Dan Rabinovitsj discusses the company's participation in Telecom Infra Project initiatives with an emphasis on Open RAN and how it fits into the larger 5G deployment strategies. Rabinovitsj also looks at rural Open RAN trial activity and reflects on his most treasured possession.

On this week's episode of Well, technically... prominent Tech Analyst Carolina Milanesi discusses her new company The Heart of Tech, which aims to help technology providers in two key areas that should be on the minds of every tech company: education and diversity.

Glenn Lurie, president and CEO of Synchronoss Technologies, discusses the pressure operators face to monetize 5G network investments and how they can accelerate time to revenue. He also looks at how to strike a balance between incremental revenue gains and long-term innovation, and paints a picture of a 5G-enabled future.

Boingo's Rachel Rea, senior director of carrier sales, discusses distributed antenna system (DAS) in more detail, specifically focusing on the role these systems will play in the 5G era.

Amazon's Alexa also makes a surprise appearance.

5G brings a new level of complexity to smartphone designs. To help its OEM partners, Qualcomm has honed its focus on RF front-end technologies to create a modem-to-antenna solution that simplifies the design process. Christian Block, Senior Vice President and General Manager, RFFE, QUALCOMM Germany RFFE GmbH, discusses operative parts of the RFFE business, links OEM design simplification to consumer adoption, and shouts out Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler.

This week's guest is RCR Wireless's very own Executive Editor Kelly Hill. She takes us through some of her CBRS spectrum auction coverage and explains why she thinks streaming is the best recent technological advancement.

On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, former Qualcomm Director of Product Marketing, Mobile Gaming and XR Technologies Leilani DeLeon talks XR and mobile gaming trends, as well as how her new company My Legacy is using the latest technology to build and preserve family histories.

Just as LAA made it possible for many operators to provide gigabit-class LTE, NR-U is poised to open the unlicensed 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands to mobile services in both a non-standalone and standalone mode. Qualcomm's Xiaoxia Zhang discusses the company's focus on NR-U and what its inclusion in 3GPP Rel. 16 means for the industry.

On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, Qualcomm's CIO Mary Gendron explores the three different definitions of digital transformation, how Qualcomm is tackling the "new normal" and what it was like being a woman following in her father's engineering footsteps.