Speakers 2026
J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., Sr. Principal Research Scientist/RF & Wireless Architecture, CTO Office, VIAVI Solutions
Gordon Beattie joined VIAVI Solutions Chief Technology Organization in 2021 as a Senior Principal Research Scientist in the RF and Wireless Architecture Department after thirty-three years at AT&T Bell Labs/AT&T Labs/AT&T as a Member of Technical Staff/Principal Technical Architect. He is a trained Incident Command System Communications Team Leader and Technician (COM-L/COM-T) and volunteer with both the Suwannee County (FL) Sheriff's and the Passaic County (NJ) Sheriff's Departments. Gordon is an "extreme inventor and innovator" with 167 US Patents and a recognized expert in network management systems. Gordon's pursuit of hands-on field work shapes meaningful data for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence systems. His "ground truth" focus drives meaningful predictive and proactive root causes of pending faults in communications systems ranging from point-to-point microwave, VDSL, ultra-fast network switching/routing, cellular radio, packet scheduling, digital watermarking, embedded transmitter identification, and narrow beamwidth antennas. He is the co-chair of the O-RAN nGRG RS08 Research Platforms group and a participant in the RS03 AI/ML and RS04 Security groups. A contributor of IEEE P1897, Gordon authored an appendix to assist with the identification and mitigation of Power Line Gap Noise conditions on DSL/VDSL and other wireline services infrastructure. He lives in northern Florida and is an active Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator (FCC callsign: W2TTT) where conditions are favorable to his explorations of tropospheric propagation modes on the VHF-UHF bands through the microwaves.