Sunalini Sankhavaram started her career in the wifi networking Industry working at Symbol, Motorola, Zebra - transitioning wifi networks from Gen 1 Autonomous Access Points, to Gen 2 Controller based architecrtures for large scale distributed deployments. During that timeSunalini Sankhavaram has spent a lot of time with large scale customers from the world of retail, hospitality, healthcare, Transport & Logistics. Interacting with the networking teams and the line of business organizations within those verticals, she moved to the world of Indoor location services, focussing on line-of business based use cases that Wi-Fi could solve. With the advent of Bluetooth Low Energy ( BLE 4.0) in 2012 and Apple introducing ibeacon in 2013, the use cases of what BLE could offer in addition to Wi-Fi became even more expansive, pertaining to digital transformation, IOT & customer engagement. Sunalini lead the MPact Location Services Platform while at Motorola/ Zebra, and then moved to Mist in 2017, to establish a comprehensive ecosystem of technology alliances and lead the Indoor Location Services Portfolio. She continues to evangelize the benefits of a pervasive Wi-Fi & BLE networks helping customers accross all verticals realize their vision around mobile engagement & operational efficiencies leveraging indoor location services.
