Noel Kirkaldy is responsible for Critical Networks business development with Nokia, he is also the co-chair of the Spectrum Task Force with the TCCA. Noel has over 30 years in the telecoms industry; having begun his career working in Europe and the US he has spent the past 25 years based in the Middle East and African region.

He works with commercial and mission-critical operators to provide commercial and market-facing expertise and engagement support for their end-to-end commercial and mission-critical solutions. He has also been working with Governments and Regulators and associated industry organisations to enable the allocation of additional spectrum that will be required to develop the commercial and mission-critical markets.

Noel Kirkaldy has been instrumental in the development of the use of 3GPP-based Wireless Technologies to provide Commercial Mobile Broadband as well as Critical Networks in several markets in the EMEA region and globally.