Venkata Josyula is a Director in Verizon's Technology and Product Development team, driving emerging technologies to enable new products and services. He has 20+ years of experience working in various leadership and engineering roles and has led teams on large-scale platform and application development, cloud infrastructure, computer vision platform services, location services, IP/MPLS network architectures, traffic engineering, routing protocols, and SDNs. His current areas of focus include quantum communications, blockchain, cybersecurity, and AI/ML applications.