Neeli Prasad

Neeli Prasad is a security, mobile, wireless, networking, and Internet of Things (IoT) strategist. She has throughout her career been driving business and technology innovation, from incubation to prototyping to validation, and is currently an entrepreneur and consultant in Silicon Valley. She has made her way up the waves of secure communication technology by contributing to the most groundbreaking and commercial inventions. She has general management, leadership, and technology skills, having worked for service providers and technology companies in various key leadership roles. Prasad has lead a global team of more than 20 researchers across multiple technical areas and projects in Japan, India, throughout Europe and USA.

Her notable accomplishments include enhancing the technology of multinationals including CISCO, HUAWEI, NIKSUN, Nokia-Siemens and NICT, defining the reference framework for Future Internet Assembly and being one of the early key contributors to Internet of Things. She is also an expert member of governmental working groups and cross-continental forums.

Previously, she has served as chief system/network architect on large-scale projects at both network operators and vendors looking across the entire product and solution portfolio covering security, wireless, mobility and cloud in domains such as IoT/M2M, eHealth and smart cities. She was one of the key contributors to the commercialization of WLAN for which she has published two books and she has a broad range of publications in internationally acclaimed journals and conference publications.