Speaker Biographies

Speakers include:

Mario Campolargo

Director, Net Futures, DG Connect

Mário Campolargo is Director for "Net Futures" in DG CONNECT responsible for Research and Innovation on what lies beyond the current Internet architecture, software and services and the EU-Strategy for the Cloud. Previously he has been Director for "Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures" in DG INFSO in charge of Future and Emerging Technologies, ICT based infrastructures for science and ICT trust and security, experimental facilities and experimentally driven research for Future Internet. Before joining the European Commission in 1990, he worked for 12 years in the R&D Centre of Portugal Telecom as a researcher and manager. He has a Degree in Electrical Engineering (University of Coimbra), a Master of Science in Computing Science (Imperial College London), a Post graduate in Management (Solvay Business School Brussels) and a European Studies Diploma (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve).

Adam Lebech

Director of the Industry Association, Confederation of Danish Industries

Adam Lebech is director of the industry association for IT, Telecoms, Electronics, and Communications companies within the Confederation of Danish Industries. Previously Adam worked as head of division in several Danish ministries, where he has been responsible for IT and Telecom Strategy, International Coordination, Public Modernization etc.

Chih-Lin I

Chief Scientist of Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research Institute

Chih-Lin I is the Chief Scientist of Wireless Technologies, in charge of advanced wireless communication R&D effort of China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI). She established the Green Communications Research Center of China Mobile, spearheading major initiatives including 5G Key Technologies R&D; high energy efficiency system architecture, technologies, and devices; green energy; C-RAN and soft base station.

Chih-Lin received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, has almost 30 years experience in wireless communication area. She has worked in various world-class companies and research institutes, including wireless communication fundamental research department of AT&T Bell Labs; Headquarter of AT&T, as Director of Wireless Communications Infrastructure and Access Technology; ITRI of Taiwan, as Director of Wireless Communication Technology; Hong Kong ASTRI, as VP and the Founding GD of Communications Technology Domain. Chih-Lin received the Trans. COM
Stephen Rice Best Paper Award, and is a winner of CCCP “National 1000 talent” program. She was an elected Board Member of IEEE ComSoc, Chair of ComSoc Meeting and Conference Board, and the Founding Chair of IEEE WCNC Steering Committee. She is currently an Executive Board Member of GreenTouch, a Founding Member of ETSI NFV Network Operator Council, a Steering Board Member of WWRF, and a Scientific Advisory Board Member of Singapore National Research Foundation.

Andrew Hudson

Policy Director, Spectrum Group, Ofcom

Andy is a policy director at Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator whose remits include securing optimal use of the UK’s spectrum. He leads Ofcom’s Mobile Data Strategy, ensuring sufficient spectrum is available to meet consumers’ growing demand for connectivity. He is also responsible for the auction of 190 MHz of 2.3/3.4 GHz spectrum, part of the programme to release or share 500 MHz of sub-5 GHz public sector spectrum by 2020.

Before joining Ofcom, Andy spent 12 years at Vodafone where he held various senior product development, corporate strategy and public policy roles. As Head of Spectrum Policy, he was responsible for managing spectrum policy and auctions across the Vodafone Group. He was frequently in Brussels and further afield supporting Vodafone’s local operating companies, and over four years he managed the acquisition or renewal of spectrum in over 20 countries for a total of €9.5bn. He was also Chair of the Digital Dividend Steering Group within the GSMA.

In 2000, he was part of the senior management team which spun an internet payments and encryption company out of NatWest. He was formerly a management consultant and a research scientist at Sharp Laboratories of Europe and Sony Corporation, based in Japan. He has a doctorate in Engineering Science from Oxford University and an MBA. He is married with two boys (14 and 11) and lives in a small village close to Oxford.

Erik Dahlman

Senior Expert in Radio Access Technologies, Ericsson Research

Erik Dahlman is Senior Expert in Radio Access Technologies within Ericsson Research. Erik Dahlman was deeply involved in the development and standardization of 3G radio access technologies (WCDMA and HSPA), first in Japan and later within the global 3GPP standardization body. Later on he was involved in the standardization/development of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and its continued evolution. His currently focuses on research and development of future 5G wireless access technologies.

Erik Dahlman is the co-author of the book 3G Evolution – HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband and its follow-up 4G – LTE and LTE-Advanced for mobile broadband. He has also participated in several other books within the area of wireless communication, as well as numerous journal papers and conference contributions. He is a frequent invited speaker at different international conferences and holds more than 100 patents within the area of mobile communication.

Houlin Zhao*

Secretary General, ITU

Houlin Zhao was elected 19th Secretary-General of the ITU at the Busan Plenipotentiary Conference in October 2014. He took up his post on 1 January, 2015.

Prior to his election, he served two terms of office as ITU Deputy Secretary-General (2007-2014), as well as two terms as elected Director of ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (1999-2006).

He is committed to further streamlining ITU's efficiency, to strengthening its membership base through greater involvement of the academic community and of small- and medium-sized enterprises, and to broadening multistakeholder participation in ITU's work.

He is married with one son and two grandchildren.

*Appearing via video link

Nigel Jefferies

Chairman, WWRF

Nigel Jefferies is a senior standards manager with Huawei Technologies and Chairman of the Wireless World Research Forum, a global partnership between industry and academia to develop a research agenda for mobile communications. Previously he was Head of Academic Relationships within Vodafone Group Research & Development and a Principal Mathematician at Racal Research Ltd. In the past he led the European-funded IST project SHAMAN, which studied the security of future mobile systems, and ran the Secure Applications Steering Group for Mobile VCE. Other collaborative research projects on various aspects of security for mobile communications include 3GS3 in the UK-funded LINK programme, and ASPeCT and USECA in the European ACTS programme. His research interests include cryptography, security of systems and applications of mathematics to telecommunications. He received a PhD in functional analysis from Goldsmith's College, London, and an MA in mathematics from the Queen's College, Oxford, and is a visiting professor at Kingston University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and a Chartered Mathematician.

Eric Fournier

Chairman, CEPT's Electronic Communications Committee

Director of Spectrum Planning and International Affairs, l'Agence nationale des fréquences (ANFR)

Graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (SUPELEC) in 1991, Eric Fournier is currently Director for Spectrum Planning and International Affairs in the Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR), the French public agency in charge of spectrum management. In his position, he is directly responsible for preparing the revisions of the French national table of allocation and for the coordination of French positions in international meetings on spectrum within ITU, CEPT and EU. He was Chairman of the CEPT Conference Preparatory Group for the World Radiocommunications Conference 2012 (CPG-12) and, as French representative in RSPG, has chaired several RSPG working groups dealing with EU interests in international meetings and cross-border issues.

Mischa Dohler

Head of Centre for Telecommunications Research in the Department of Informatics, King’s College London

Mischa Dohler is full Professor in Wireless Communications at King's College London, Head of the Centre for Telecommunications Research, co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the smart city pioneer Worldsensing, Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE, and Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.

He is a frequent keynote, panel and tutorial speaker. He has pioneered several research fields, contributed to numerous wireless broadband and IoT/M2M standards, holds a dozen patents, organized and chaired numerous conferences, has more than 200 publications, and authored several books. He has a citation h-index of 36 (top 3%).

He acts as policy, technology and entrepreneurship adviser, examples being Richard Branson's Carbon War Room, the House of Lords UK, the EPSRC ICT Strategy Advisory Team, the European Commission, the ISO Smart City working group, and various start-ups.

He is also an entrepreneur, angel investor, passionate pianist and fluent in 6 languages. He has talked at TEDx. He had coverage by national and international TV & radio; and his contributions have featured on BBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

Bashir Gwandu

Chairman, Commonwealth ITU Group

Dr. Bashir Gwandu: The Chairman of Commonwealth ITU Group (CIG), was the Executive Commissioner (Technical Services) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), was also the Chairman of Radiocommunications Advisory Group of the ITU (the RAG), and the Vice Chairman of ITU-R Joint Task Group 4567 (JTG-4567). Gwandu has served as the Vice-Chair of Committee 4 of the ITU Radiocommunications Assembly 2012 (RA-12). He became the Chairman of the CIG in March 2012. He was the Acting CEO of the Nigerian Telecoms Regulatory body, the NCC, from June to July 2010. After receiving his BSc in Physics from UsmanDanfodiyo University, Sokoto and an MSc in Applied Physics from the University of Jos, in addition to a brief Engineering service at the Tactical Air-command, Makurdi and lecturing at UsmanDanfodiyo University, Sokoto, he proceeded to the United Kingdom where he attended MSc Courses in Power Electronics and Drives and MSc courses in Communications Engineering; he further obtained an MPhil degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, all from the University of Birmingham. He returned briefly to Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto to lecture before going back to the UK to study for a PhD in Electronic/Electrical Engineering at Aston University and subsequently undertook an MBA Finance course at the Birmingham Business School.

Dr Gwandu has designed many devices that are used in the telecom industry some of which have been patented in Europe and United States. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) in the UK, and has published over 40 Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research papers in world-class Electrical Engineering journals and conference proceedings. Since 2002, Dr Bashir Gwandu has been involved in research work on Regulation of Utilities.

Dr Gwandu was the Executive Commissioner for Engineering and Technical Standards at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); supervised all Directors/Staff concerned with National Spectrum planning, monitoring, and management, Quality of Service Monitoring and Network Optimization, Equipment Conformance Assessment and Interoperability testing -Type-approval, Numbering Plan, Allocation and Management. He was the Executive Commissioner in Charge of Licensing and Consumer Affairs of the NCC until June 2007. At Licensing, Gwandu supervised the Interconnect rate determination of Sept 2006 that led to improved competition thereby leading to significant reduction in telecom Tariff in Nigeria, the re-classification of Sales and Installation Licenses to Class-Category which has encouraged SMEs entry into the market, the issuance of all the 17 Unified- and hundreds of other Licenses in Nigeria that led to increased competition, the Liberalization of International Gateway for GSM operators that allows for carrying of 3rd Party Traffic thereby reducing tariff for International Calls, the elongation of Access Validity period beyond 90days for all networks on execution of every Revenue Generating Event which has cut down consumer loses and inconveniences, the introduction of Anti- Mobile Phone Theft Scheme in Nigeria to curtail phone theft, the introduction of Tariff Comparison Platform for Consumers so as to aid choice, the abolishing charges to Customer Care Lines, the Limiting of waiting times for answer on Customer Care Lines, the Management of Consumer Parliament, and Management of the Nigerian Internet Exchange project for the ICT Industry, the Improvement of Credit Control system of the NCC to ensure prompt payment of statutory fees by operators, the first ever in-depth NCC investigation into the State of the Quality of Service (QoS) of the Nigerian Telecom Networks. He also led the development of the first ever NCC QoS Regulation, and many other regulatory frameworks of the NCC. He was involved in NCC-based training of personnel from other partner regulatory bodies in different aspects of telecom regulation. Gwandu was part of a number of Nigerian Presidential/Ministerial think-tank committees including Vision-20-2020, Nigerian ICT RoadMap, Panel on University Research funding, and the Launch Committee of the recently Launched Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComsat-1). He represented Nigeria, and sometimes ATU, at the ITU Conferences (such as WRC, WTSA, WSIS, and WTDC) and their preparatory meetings, he is a regular invited speaker at many International Telecom and Telecom Investment Conferences, and has represented Nigeria in many Forums on Telecoms Regulations, and was until recently on the Board of the NigComSat Ltd, and the Board of Digital Bridge Institute. Gwandu having skills in diverse areas of Engineering, Accounting, Finance, the Art of Regulation and Administration; the key competences required of a utility regulator, was on the Board of NCC

Internationally, Gwandu provided leadership and spoke for the African team on Agenda Item 1.4 of ITU WRC-2007, which was the turning point for Africa on ITU WRC matters. He also led the successful pursuit of the Allocation of 700MHz band to Region 1 during WRC 2012, played a major leadership role in delivering the African goals during the Johannesburg WTSA-08 and Dubai 2012 amongst many other achievements.

Kumar Singarajah

Future Networks and Services, ESOA

Kumar Singarajah is Director of Regulatory Affairs & Business Development at Avanti, where he has responsibility for market access, licensing, spectrum management / engineering and frequency coordination. Kumar joined Avanti in January 2007, and is a member of the company’s senior management team.

Prior to joining Avanti, he worked in various senior engineering and regulatory roles in the space and satellite communications sector at Logica (in UK and Germany), SES-Astra (in Luxembourg), Global Radio (in Luxembourg), Inmarsat (in UK) and ICO Global Communications (in UK).

He has 25 years of industry experience in the satellite sector including in the Fixed Satellite Service (FSS), Broadcasting Satellite Service (BSS), Mobile Satellite Satellite Service (MSS) and other sectors.

He holds a BSc (Hon) degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London University and a MSc in Mobile / Satellite Communications from University of Surrey.

Rahim Tafazolli

Director of the Centre for Communications Systems Research, University of Surrey

Rahim Tafazolli is the Director of the Centre for Communications Systems Research (CCSR) and 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), University of Surrey in the UK. He has published more than 500 research papers in refereed journals, international conferences and as invited speaker. He is the editor of two books on “Technologies for Wireless Future” published by Wiley’s Vol.1 in 2004 and Vol.2 2006. He is currently chairman of EU Net!Works Technology Platform Expert Group, board member of the UK Future Internet Strategy Group (UK-FISG). He was appointed as Fellow of WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum) in April 2011, in recognition of his personal contribution to the wireless world. As well as heading one of Europe’s leading research groups.

Adrian Scrase

CTO, ETSI

Adrian Scrase played a central role in the creation of the “3rd Generation Partnership Project” (3GPP) and is responsible for the operations of the 3GPP Project Co-ordination Group. He heads 3GPPs’ Mobile Competence Centre (MCC) which is an International team of 20 experts who provide comprehensive support to the Project.

He was also principally involved in the formation of the recently created “oneM2M” Partnership Project and oversees ETSI’s support to that initiative.

He is CTO within ETSI with operational responsibility for all of ETSI’s standards production activities. He has more than 30 years experience in the telecommunications field, which includes 25 years of experience in standardization.

David Soldani

VP Strategic Research and Innovation, Huawai

David Soldani received a M.Sc. degree with maximum score and magna cum laude approbatur in Electronic Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1994; and a D.Sc. degree in technology with distinction from Aalto University, Finland, in 2006. In 2014, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, UK. He is one of the top experts in multi-disciplinary, transformative frontier research. He has been active in the ICT field for more than 20 years, successfully working on 200+ Research, Innovation and Customer Services (internal, collaborative and co-funded) projects and contributing to 500+ quality deliverables (patents, papers, books, technical reports and specifications, products, services and solutions) – from strategic research and innovation strategies, business and work plans formulation to modeling, simulations, emulations and proof of concepts of innovative solutions, services and products with partners and customers. Dr. Soldani is currently Vice President (VP) of Huawei European Research Centre (ERC) and VP Strategic Research and Innovation at Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH. Prior to that he was a Scientific Director at Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). Areas of his responsibility and expertise include, but not limited to: future wireless, network, computing, IoT/M2M and multimedia technologies. Dr. Soldani represents Huawei in the Board of the 5G Infrastructure Association – within the EU H2020 5GPPP Initiative – and Steering Board (SB) of NetWorld2020 European Technology Platform (ETP), in Europe. In EU, D. Soldani is also qualified and authorized to exercise his profession in Civil and Environmental, Industrial and Information sectors.

Paul Crane

Head of Practice, Mobile, Network Services and Sustainability, BT Research

Paul Crane is Head of Practice in BT’s Research and Innovation group. Paul leads applied research activities in Mobile, Wireless and Sustainability. The objective of this work is the development and delivery of technical solutions for next generation services. His current research activities are focused on the application of emerging mobile technologies to meeting the needs of consumer and business customers. Paul is a telecommunications engineer, with over 20 years in the industry. He has undertaken a variety of from strategic technology roles with BT in the UK, USA and Europe. Paul has a personal interest in the development of voice, multimedia communications and mobile technology.

Stuart Revell

Chair, Wireless Test & Innovation Centre (WTIC)

Stuart started his career as an Electronics Design Engineer and has spent over 30 years in the technology industry with experience in electronics and ICT R&D; ranging from Industrial Systems to complex ICT and Consumer solutions and has managed international teams covering both commercial and technical disciplines. Prior to working with techUK, Stuart worked with the ICT KTN Company Ltd, Freescale Semiconductors, Motorola and Compair Industrial. Prior to working with the WTIC, Stuart worked with techUK, the ICT KTN Company Ltd, Freescale Semiconductors, Motorola and Compair Industrial.

Stuart's passion is to grow the UK technology industry through innovation, encouraging increased investment into the sector, fostering collaboration to stimulate UK world leading R&D and chairs multiple industry initiatives connected to the technology sector and the adjacent industries that increasingly rely on advanced technology solutions.

Outside of work Stuart enjoys football, music, snowboarding and cycling.

Jørgen Abild Andersen

Chairman, Committee for Digital Economy Policy (CDEP), OECD

Jørgen Abild Andersen is among the World’s most experienced government officials within the ICT area. From 1991 to 2012 Mr Abild Andersen served as national telecom regulator in Denmark and he has in this capacity been responsible for implementing the liberalisation of the Danish telecoms market.

Prior to this, he worked as Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Danish General Directorate of Posts and Telegraphs. During that period, he played a key role in the restructuring and privatisation of the Danish telecoms sector and in the establishment of competition within mobile communications.

With the establishment of the National IT and Telecom Agency in 2002, the portfolio of Jørgen Abild Andersen was extended to cover the whole policy range within the ICT area. His policy responsibilities included i.a. privacy, trust and security in the Information Society, eBusiness, eGovernment, eSkills, green ICTs, the national digital signature as well as, Internet Governance, DNS, broadband and radio spectrum. Mr Abild Andersen gained a Masters of Law from the University of Copenhagen in 1975. He started his professional career as a civil servant in the Ministry of Public Works and for a three-year period he served as Private Secretary to the Minister.

From 2003 to 2004 Mr. Abild Andersen was chairing the European Commission’s Radio Spectrum Policy Group. In 2005, he served as Chair for European Regulators Group (ERG) and the Independent Regulators Group (IRG). From 2006 to 2012 he was Denmark’s representative at the European Commission’s i2010 High Level Group and the Commission’s Digital Agenda High Level Group respectively. In 2013 he was a member of ICANN’s second Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT2). Mr. Abild Andersen has since 2009 served as committee chair in OECD. The first years he served as chair of the ICCP Committee and from January 2014 as chair of the renamed Committee – OECD’s Committee for Digital Economy Policy (CDEP).

Mr. Abild Andersen is married. His wife is a surgeon.

Wladimir Bocquet

Head of Policy Planning, GSMA

Wladimir Bocquet is Head of Policy Planning for Government and Regulatory Affairs for the GSMA. In this role, he provides public policy analysis and recommendations to the GSMA executive team and offers a strategic view of global policy trends to GSMA members. Previously at the GSMA, he was Senior Director of Spectrum Policy, responsible for building consensus on spectrum policy positions and promoting best practice in spectrum management.

In October 2008, Mr Bocquet was appointed Deputy Director in charge of Spectrum Strategy and International Planning at Orange-France Telecom Group, and he led the Orange delegation at WRC-12. He worked in Japan for several years, first in mobile broadband communication for Fujitsu Laboratories and subsequently as senior manager of broadband access technologies for Orange Labs Tokyo-Seoul (formerly France Telecom R&D).

In addition to his GSMA responsibilities, Mr Bocquet also serves as a lecturer for the US Telecom Training Institute (USTTI) and other international training bodies.

Mr Bocquet earned a degree in telecommunications from Telecom Bretagne (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France) and a doctorate from the University of Kyoto, Japan.

Panagiotis Demestichas

Professor and Chairman of Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus

Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas received the Diploma and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He is full Professor (since April 2012) and has been the Chairman (September 2011 – September 2015) of the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus. He has over 25 years of experience in R&D in the fields of wireless/mobile broadband networks, fixed-mobile broadband convergence, Internet technologies, network planning and management, smart cities and environment management. Recent interests include 5G aspects, and especially, the exploitation of spectrum beyond 6 GHz, overall spectrum management, 5G architectures, knowledge based and predictive management, virtualization technologies based on SDN and NFV. He has several publications in these areas in international journals and refereed conferences. At the European level, he has been actively involved in (and coordinated) a number of international research and development programs. He is also organizing the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC 2016) which will take place in Athens, Greece in June 2016. He has also been involved in several bilateral collaborations with international and national industrial entities and public organizations. In terms of standardization, he has contributed to various standardization bodies such as ETSI and IEEE. He is also chairing Working Group C (WGC) of WWRF related to “Communication Architectures and Technologies” and was an advisor of NGMN. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of ACM and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Janette Stewart

Principal, Analysys Mason

Janette Stewart is a Principal at Analysys Mason, who specialises in wireless technologies and radio spectrum issues. She has around 20 years’ experience in radio engineering, spectrum policy and spectrum management. Janette began her career working for the UK spectrum regulator where she held various roles, latterly Senior Spectrum Engineer in the 3G Auction Team, where she was responsible for determining UK spectrum plans for the 3G licence award, interacting with CEPT and ITU working groups. Since joining Analysys Mason in 2001, her consulting experience includes researching market opportunities within the wireless sector, wireless network business planning, user requirement definition, spectrum strategy development and spectrum valuation. She has worked with a wide range of public and private sector clients including national regulators, fixed and mobile network operators, wireless industry trade associations and spectrum users. Recent projects have included advising on digital TV switchover strategy, award of digital dividend spectrum, technology co-existence in 800 MHz spectrum and 2.6 GHz spectrum valuation.

Preben Mogensen

Principal Engineer, Nokia Networks

Preben Mogensen received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 1988 and 1996 respectively. He has since 1988 worked in various positions at Aalborg University; since 2000 as Professor in mobile communication systems. Dr. Mogensen is currently heading the Wireless Communications Networks (WCN) section at Aalborg University. He has co-authored more than 300 international journal and conference papers in various domains of wireless communication. Since 1995 Preben Mogensen has also been part time associated with Nokia (2007-2014 with NSN) in a position of Principal Engineer. In 2009 he was nominated NSN fellow. His current research focus is 5G and MTC/IoT.

Pasi Kemppainen

Senior Consultant, NNE Pharmaplan

Pasi Kemppainen is entrepreneur and executive consultant for pharmaceutical industrial internet strategy and implementation covering primary and secondary manufacturing, supply chain and IT.

Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer at Original1 GmbH (a joint venture of SAP, Nokia and Giesecke&Devrient - leaders in enterprise IT, mobile and security) servicing a cloud platform for product serialization, traceability and consumer authentication in pharmaceutical, consumer goods and manufacturing industries. In China, Original1 commercialized the world’s first mobile drug traceability and authentication service for consumers.

Prior to Original1, Pasi headed Nokia Authentication Solution business in Nokia China empowering consumers and businesses to authenticate product originality and counterfeits using their mobile phones. The products covered consumer products, drugs and ID cards and ultimately the solution was selected as the best anti-counterfeit solution in China by China RFID Journal and China Anti-counterfeit Association. Before heading Nokia Authentication Solution business, he led the incubation of new technologies and businesses at Nokia Ventures Organization.

On the telecommunications infrastructure side, prior joining Nokia, Pasi was CEO for internet-telecom convergence middleware software start-up Intellitel Communications which was acquired by Teliasonera.

IQPC Pharma, the leading pharmaceutical event organizer, has named Pasi as one of the thought leaders in pharmaceutical serialization and traceabiity. He is a featured speaker and chairman in pharmaceutical industry events.
Pasi is working on the doctorate dissertation on pharmaceutical industrial internet technology and business disruption at Lappeenranta University of Technology Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Peter Vermaat

Principal ITS Consultant, TRL

Peter Vermaat is a Principal ITS Consultant at TRL. He has over 25 years’ experience in the electronics, communications and intelligent transport businesses, including research and development, product development, systems engineering, integration, test and operations. His principal areas of expertise are in the fields of Cooperative Systems, Road User Charging, and more recently in Low Carbon Vehicles. He has been the technical lead in a number of Cooperative Systems projects for both the EC and Highways England in the UK, most recently in a project investigating the benefits that European road authorities could derive from the use of Cooperative applications. He is currently TRL’s technical lead in a project investigating the feasibility of providing connectivity on road corridors on the UK’s strategic road network.

Lee Hyeon Woo

5G Forum, Korea

Dr. LEE. Hyeon Woo is currently a Professor at Dankook University in Korea and serving as a chair of 5G forum global alliance sub committee as well as TTA IMT-Adv. Standard group chair. He worked as a National R&D Program Director of KEIT (Korean Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology) under Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea from March 2009 to Feb. 2013.

He worked as Director and Head of Global Standard & Research Lab. in Telecom R&D Center of Samsung Electronics Co. in Korea until Feb. 2009.

He received BSEE from Seoul National University in 1985 and MBA from Sogang University in 1989, in Korea. He got an MS and Ph. D degree at KAIST, Korea in 1994 and 2003 respectively.

He Joined Samsung Electronics in 1984, starting from development of Telecommunication Systems in several wireline and wireless field.

Since 1996, he devoted himself to national and international standardization work such as ETSI, ARIB, TTA, 3GPP , 3GPP2 and ITU.

Zoltán Précsényi

Senior Manager European Government Affairs, Symantec

Zoltán Précsényi, CIPP/E, CIPM, is senior manager European Government Affairs for Symantec, based out of Brussels, Belgium. He is primarily responsible for representing Symantec before EU and national legislative bodies, government departments, authorities and international organizations in Europe, Middle East and Africa. His main areas of expertise include cyber security, critical infrastructure protection, cloud computing policy, smart grid, SCADA and industrial control system security, cybercrime, as well as data privacy, electronic identity and signature infrastructures and digital trust services. He also acts as the standing issue leader for cyber security and critical information infrastructure protection for the Security and Defence Committee and the Digital Economy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU.
Before joining Symantec, Précsényi worked as public affairs manager for the European Aluminium Association, with a focus on European policy and law making in the areas of competitiveness, sustainability, industrial policy and standardization. Prior to that, from 2004 to 2007, he was advisor to a Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, mostly active in a variety of policy areas including transatlantic relations, innovation, intellectual property, ICT, nuclear energy and chemical safety. Précsényi holds a masters law degree from the University of Paris II Assas, and is fluent in Hungarian, French and English.

Luigi Ardito

Director Government Affairs EMENA, Qualcomm (speaking on behalf of Digital Europe

Luigi Ardito is currently working as Director of government affairs for Europe, Middle East and North Africa at Qualcomm and drive Qualcomm spectrum and regulatory policy agenda in Europe and MENA dealing with various government entities and industry organizations. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Luigi worked for over a decade at Sony Corporation both in Japan and in the UK. Luigi gained also professional experience at France Telecom and at the Italian Public Broadcaster RAI.

Luigi has extensive experience in the Media and Telecom industry as well as the Semiconductor Industry gained through his assignments at Qualcomm, Sony, France Telecom and RAI. He holds an Electronic Engineering Degree gained at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy and a Master of Business Administration gained at the Henley Management College in the UK.

Knud Erik Skouby

Director, Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies, Aalborg University

Knud Erik Skouby is professor and founding director of center for Communication, Media and Information technologies, Aalborg University-Copenhagen - a center providing a focal point for multi-disciplinary research and training in applications of CMI and part of the international research network CTIF.. Has a career as a university teacher and within consultancy since 1972. Working areas: Techno-economic Analyses; Development of mobile/ wireless applications and services: Regulation of telecommunications. Project manager and partner in a number of international, European and Danish research projects. Served on a number of public committees within telecom, IT and broadcasting; as a member of boards of professional societies; as a member of organizing boards, evaluation committees and as invited speaker on international conferences; published a number of Danish and international articles, books and conference proceedings. Board member of the Danish Independent Research Council and the Danish Media Committee. Chair of WGA in Wireless World Research Forum; Special Advisor to GISFI; dep chair IEEE Denmark.

Anders Bohlin

Senior Economist, European Investment Bank

Anders has over twenty years of experience from the telecom industry and is currently working in the Projects Directorate of the European Investment Bank and more specifically in the Digital Economy and Education Division as an ICT specialist.

Prior to joining the bank, Anders held a number of management positions in a global telecommunications equipment vendor as well as in a global mobile telecommunications operator.

Ming Lei

IMT-2020 PG and FuTURE Forum

Ming Lei received the B.Eng. degree from the Southeast University in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree from BUPT (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications) in 2003, all in Electrical Engineering. From April 2003 to February 2008, he was a research scientist with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan, where he contributed to Japan’s national projects on 4G mobile communications (MIRAI projects) and IEEE standardization of 60-GHz multi-gigabit WPAN (IEEE 802.15.3c). From March 2008 to May 2009, he was a project lead of Intel Corporation, where he contributed to the standardization of WiGig (60-GHz WPAN), IEEE 802.11ad (60-GHz WLAN) and IEEE 802.16m (mobile WiMAX). From May 2009 to January 2014, he was with NEC Laboratories China, NEC Corporation, as the department head managing the wireless research & standardization projects on 4G cellular mobile communications (LTE and LTE-Advanced), 60-GHz and mobile backhaul. From February to September, 2013, he was with Stanford University as a distinguished visiting scholar. From February 2014 to February 2015, he was with Samsung Electronics as a research manager. In March 2015, he joined Huawei Technologies as the technical lead of 5G standards. In April 2015, he was appointed by WWRF as the vice chair. Dr. Ming Lei was elected to IEEE Senior Member in 2009.

Dino Flore

Chairman, 3GPP

Dino Flore received a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy and a M.S. degree in Mobile Communications from the EURECOM Institute, France, in 2000.
From 2001 to 2003 he worked at Arraycomm as Senior Research Engineer. In 2003 Dino joined Qualcomm where he is currently serving as a Senior Director of Technical Standards, with a leadership role in the area of 3GPP RAN standardization.
Since 2005 Dino has contributed to the design, development and specification of 3G and LTE systems through active participation in 3GPP RAN. From August 2009 to May 2013 he has served as Chairman of 3GPP RAN WG3, the Working Group responsible for the access network interfaces. In March 2013 he was elected Chairman of 3GPP RAN, the Technical Specification Group with overall responsibility for the radio interface and access network for both UMTS and LTE. The group recently started working on the standardization of 5G.

Wassim Chourbaji

Vice President, Government Affairs Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Qualcomm

Wassim Chourbaji is Vice President for Government Affairs Europe, Middle East and North Africa at Qualcomm. He oversees Qualcomm’s public policy and government relations, focusing in particular on the European Union. In this role, he leads the team in charge of innovation, technology, spectrum, regulatory, intellectual property, standardization, security, data and antitrust policies.
Wassim is chairman of the Communication Policy Council of TechUK, the policy arm of the UK digital industry. He was previously chairman of the spectrum group at DigitalEurope, the Brussels-based EU industry association, and chairman of the European spectrum group at the GSMA.

Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2006, Wassim was the head of spectrum for the France Telecom Group, overseeing the group’s fixed, mobile and satellite spectrum strategy across its operating companies. He was also designated by European administrations as lead coordinator on 4G spectrum for Europe at the ITU World Radio Conference. Previously, he served as regulatory manager for SkyBridge, Alcatel Space global Internet satellite project. He started his career as a spectrum engineer at French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom.
Wassim holds a master’s degree in wireless communications and is a graduate engineer from Supelec France.

Jakob de la Cour

Deputy General Manager, Huawei Technologies Denmark

Jakob de la Cour has held the position as Deputy General Manager in Huawei Technologies Denmark since May 2015. However, Jakob de la Cour has been with Huawei since 2013 where he began as HR Director. Jakob de la Cour came from TDC, where he had been for 13 years, latest as Head of HR in TDC Consumer.

Ilaria Thibault

Principal Researcher & Subject Matter Expert, 5G Technologies, Vodafone Group R&D

Ilaria Thibault obtained her PhD degree in telecommunications engineering in June 2013 from both the University of Bologna, Italy, and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. While completing her degree, she joined Inmarsat in London as a systems engineer. She then joined Vodafone Group R&D where she is currently working as a research engineer in the Future Technologies team. Her main areas of focus are 5G new services, requirements, and technology enablers.

Christian Kloch

Technology Manager, TDC

Christian Kloch obtained a M.Sc.E.E (telecommunications) from Aalborg University, where he also made his Ph.D. work. He has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunication industry and is presently Technology Manager at TDC, where he is responsible for TDCs Mobile Access Strategy. Christian has also been appointed Expert thereby joining the group of mission-critical specialists in the TDC Group.

Jakob Henrik Juul

Head of Department, Danish Energy Agency

I have been Head of Department since January 2010 with varying responsibilities of frequency regulation, frequency auctions, Internet governance, broadband access and policy, numbering rules and rights of way. Previously I have been senior advisor (2000 - 2004 and again 2007 – 2010) to the minister on EU telecoms regulation and before that attaché on telecoms and IT at the Permanent Danish representation to the EU in Brussels. I have also worked for the Danish Energy Association (Nov 2004 – May 2007) within the areas of EU regulation and fiber optic cables and broadband infrastructure. Presently my responsibilities are broadband policy, rights of way, infrastructure, universal service and consumer rights and competition.