2027 Speakers

Subbu Meiyappan is a leader in wireless telecom with over 25 years of entrepreneurial and technology development experience. He is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded NextNav, an inventor and an author. As CEO of ECSite, he is responsible for leading the company's vision to automate everything, everywhere, helping transform the Telecom industry into the all-digital era. Subbu previously co-founded NextNav in 2007, an indoor location company. He spearheaded the development of a terrestrial-based network of highly synchronized beacons that emit GPS-like signals on a licensed spectrum. The technology has been adopted by NASA and is finding its way into public safety, E-911, and a myriad of location applications where GPS does not work. NextNav went IPO in 2021, valued at $1.2B. Before NextNav, Subbu was Principal Engineer at Qualcomm and Airgo Networks leading the development of the first commercial implementations of MIMO WiFi ICs. He has also worked at Cisco Systems, Philips Semiconductors (NXP), and VLSI Technology. Subbu has over 30 issued US and international patents and several more pending. He has written several technical publications and spoken at industry and academic conferences. He also taught courses at Arizona State University and has been on several industry standards committees. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Instrumentation from Annamalai University (India) and a dual Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and Tennessee Tech.

Presenting:

• The Self-Aware Building: Predicting RF Failure Before Emergencies