Eliminate underground blind spots with 5G precise positioning

Turn hidden risk into real-time visibility for safer, smarter operations

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June

  • 3PM London (BST) / 10AM New York (EDT) / 7AM California (PDT)
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Why attend?

Underground mines still operate with critical visibility gaps—driving collision risk, delayed response, and costly downtime. As operations grow more complex, legacy tracking systems are no longer enough.

Join this executive fireside chat to learn how 5G is changing that.

What you’ll learn:

  • Real-time visibility of people, vehicles, and assets underground
  • How to improve safety with proximity detection and situational awareness
  • Using live location data to optimize fleets and workflows
  • Scaling from pilot to production deployments
  • Building a foundation for automation and analytics 

 

Why this matters now

Mining operations are becoming more complex, but visibility is not keeping pace.

Organizations that delay modernization risk:

  • Higher safety exposure
  • Slower incident response
  • Competitive disadvantage vs. digitally advanced peers

 

The gap is widening. 

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Vijay Devarapalli
Principal Product Manager, Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions

Vijay Devarapalli is a Principal Product Manager at Ericsson Enterprise and is responsible for the infrastructure components of Private Cellular Networks products. Vijay is a Telecom industry veteran having designed and built 3G and LTE packet core, Edge Computing, and solutions for improving radio network efficiency. He has also made significant contributions in the Internet and Telecom standards space, having authored 17 RFCs in the IETF and numerous contributions to 3GPP LTE specifications.

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Kirstin Sym-Smith
Head of Business Development, Enterprise 5G Mining, Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions

Kirstin Sym-Smith is the Ericsson Global Head of Business Development for 5G Mining. She is a seasoned sales and business development leader with over 25 years in telecommunications. Kirstin has deep experience in both 4G/5G cloud-based private wireless solutions and federal government industries, receiving enterprise sales awards for mining and DoD spectrum solutions. She has an MBA from the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

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