Cristina Rodriguez is Vice President of the Network & Edge Group, General Manager of the group's Wireless Access Network Division (WAND), and General Manager of the Austin Design Center at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel’s efforts to provide innovative wireless access solutions in both traditional and cloud-native networks, enabling the RAN of the future by bringing together 5G, and the build out of the Edge and Artificial Intelligence. Rodriguez has full PnL ownership, responsible for strategy and business plans, technical product marketing, roadmaps, product definition, forecasting, customer relationships, investment decisions and GTM.Cristina has more than 20 years experience in the networking industry. Her vast experience covers startups through large corporations, like Intel. Her educational background is in electrical engineering and computer science.