Asha Keddy is corporate vice president and 5G executive sponsor at Intel Corporation. She is responsible for the research, engineering and development of new disruptive technologies, product innovation, business use cases, and partnerships ultimately establishing core capabilities that are foundational to 5G wireless and connected computing.  In this role, she directs research and development, with a specific emphasis on solutions that offer deterministic and low-latency operation of wired and wireless networks, especially 5G, Wi-Fi 6 and optical.  Keddy's organization ultimately solves technical challenges facing global enterprise segments and operators enabling a range of industrial, enterprise and consumer applications.  Keddy is also responsible for Intel's contributions to industry standards and the company's leadership in IEEE, 3GPP, Open-RAN Alliance and multiple industry fora.  Keddy holds multiple patents, as well as a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai and a master's degree in computer science from Clemson University.