SESSION 1 Hendrik Berndt

Since 2014 Dr. Berndt has dedicated himself to positions as Senior Advisor to worldwide partners in Asia, the Americas and Europe to contribute to solutions for the bigger global societal ICT challenges. He is advisor to the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) Japan and continuously appointed to support the European Commission for defining the next generation mobile system research directions. As a founder of the 2015 established International Institute for Innovation Aysén–Patagonia, he has been supporting sustainable natural resource exploitation, by applying IoT to develop solutions for environmental issues within the uniqueness of the region of Patagonia. He is board member of the IEEE ComSoc Industry Communities Board, vice chairing its 5G special interest group and member of the European Technology Platform NetWorld 2020 Expert Group. Berndt is member of the Strategic Advisory Board of TOUCAN, a large research endeavors, funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), From January 2001 until May 2014 Berndt held the position as Chief Technology Officer & Chief Science Officer of DOCOMO’s Communications Laboratories in Europe. From 2000 to 2010 he has been teaching concurrently as Visiting Professor at the Global Information and Telecommunication Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Berndt was stationed from 1993 until end of 2000 in the USA, during these years he was working within Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ; as Executive Director of Advanced Technology for Global One in Reston, Virginia; as invited member of Sprint's Office of Network and Architecture Planning in Kansas and held the position as Chief Technology Officer of the TINA-C headquarters in New Jersey, USA. Nigel Jefferies

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.

Ramjee Prasad

Dr. Ramjee Prasad, Fellow IEEE, IET, IETE, and WWRF, is a Professor of Future Technologies for Business Ecosystem Innovation (FT4BI) in the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark. He is the Founder President of the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC). He is also the Founder Chairman of the Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India, established in 2009. He has been honored by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy as a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine on March 15, 2016. He is Honorary Professor of University of Cape Town, South Africa, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has received Ridderkorset af Dannebrogordenen (Knight of the Dannebrog) in 2010 from the Danish Queen for the internationalization of top-class telecommunication research and education. He has received several international awards such as: IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2003 for making contribution in the field of “Personal, Wireless and Mobile Systems and Networks”, Telenor's Research Award in 2005 for impressive merits, both academic and organizational within the field of wireless and personal communication, 2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award for: “Organizational Leadership in developing and globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFrastruktur) Research Network”, and so on. He has been Project Coordinator of several EC projects namely, MAGNET, MAGNET Beyond, eWALL. He has published more than 50 books, 1000 plus journal and conference publications, more than 15 patents, over 130 PhD Graduates and larger number of Masters (over 250). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves. Anders Frederiksen

Anders Frederiksen is professor in business economics and econometrics at Aarhus University (AU), Denmark. He has served as Head of Department at Department of Business Development and Technology (AU) since 2015, and is the Director of Center for Corporate Performance (domiciled at Copenhagen Business School). Anders Frederiksen obtained his PhD in economics from AU. During his PhD studies, he was Leschly Fellow at the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. Subsequently he earned a Marie Currie Fellowship at Stanford University and became W. Glen Campbell & Rita Ricardo Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Anders Frederiksen's main research area is personnel economics and more broadly labor economics. The purpose of this research is to understand the internal workings of companies including incentive structures, career development and performance management. His work has been published in top economics journals such as the Economic Journal; Journal of Econometrics; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; and Labour Economics Anders Frederiksen has been generously funded by the Danish Research Council, The European Commission, The Foundation for Danish Industries and private companies to conduct research within personnel economics and to run Center for Corporate Performance.

Colin Langtry Colin Langtry worked as the Chief of the Radiocommunication Study Groups Department in the International Telecommunication Union up until January 2018. The ITU-R Study Groups develop global standards for radiocommunication systems and conduct studies to support the international framework for management of the radio frequency spectrum. Mr. Langtry’s previous experience involved working as the Counsellor for ITU-R Study Groups 5 and 8 supporting their studies on amateur, fixed, mobile and radiodetermination services. This activity included his role as Counsellor in the development of the ITU's International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) systems standards for mobile broadband wireless access. Prior to that he was responsible for the Text Editing and Publications Division of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau and, before joining the ITU, managing spectrum planning activities in the Australian spectrum management agency. Bernard Barani

After 11 years as Communication engineer in industry and with the European Space Agency, Bernard Barani joined the European Commission in 1994 as program officer for research and policy issues in wireless communication. He is currently Deputy head of unit in the CONNECT Directorate General of the European Commission where he leads the definition and implementation of the 5G Public Private Partnership launched in 2013 by the EC to support 5G European R&D. His field of activities covers strategic R&D planning, standardisation, international cooperation, demonstration and pilot programmes. He is also involved in the implementation of the 5G Action Plan published by the Commission in 2016 to support 5G deployment in Europe. He is also vice chairman of the Steering committee of the EUCNC conference, the main showcasing event for telecom research sponsored by the EU programmes. SESSION 2 Gregory O’Brien

Dr. Gregory O'Brien has over 45 years of experience in higher education and has served in various leadership roles at universities across the United States. Presently, he is the University President of International Technological University, San Jose, California, USA. Prior to joining ITU, he served as the Distinguished President Emeritus of the 19 campus Argosy University System, Chancellor of the University of New Orleans, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida, Provost of the University of Michigan - Flint, and Dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He received a PhD and Master’s degree in Social Psychology from Boston University and was awarded honorary degrees from Lehigh University and Western State University College of Law. Dr. O'Brien also received the US Navy’s Meritorious Service Award for his time in the armed services. Marcus Brunner

Dr. Marcus Brunner is head of standardization, eco-system development, and chief researcher in the strategy and innovation department of Swisscom, the Swiss incumbent telecom operator. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 1999. He is active in research, development, and standardization since 20 years with experience in programmability of networks and services, cloud technology for IT and network service providers (NfV), and automation of network and IT including autonomic communication. He is involved in various international organizations on software-defined networking and the future telecommunication technologies like Network Function Virtualization, Cloud-native Telco-Platforms and 5G networking.

Shuzo Kato

He received his Ph. D degree in electrical and communications engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai Japan in 1977. From 1977 to 1995, he worked at NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) Research Laboratories in Japan, specializing personal and satellite communications systems R&D. He and his team have developed 39 kinds of ASICs so far without re-spins including the world first TDMA chip set in 1986, the world fastest Viterbi decoder chips in 1987 and 1993, lowest power consumption ADPCM codec (0.5 mW) in 1994, best receiver sensitivity (6 dB improvement) and the world first 2 V operating CMOS SOC PHS baseband chip and many others. He founded Pacific Communications Research Corp. in 1995 and served as President of Uniden Corporation in 1997. From January 1998 to July 2001, he served as Executive Vice President, Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc (MWCI) in USA. From 2002 to 2005, he served as Executive Vice President of Teradyne Japan responsible for P/L, Engineering, Production and Global Marketing as well as President and CEO of Omni Wireless Inc., in California, USA. From 2006 to 2010, he served as Program Director / Coordinator, Ubiquitous Mobile Communications at NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) working on wireless communications systems R&D focusing on millimeter wave communications systems. He served as Vice-chair of IEEE802.15.3c Task Group working on millimeter wave systems standardization and Chair of COMPA (Consortium of Millimeter Wave Systems Practical Applications) promoting millimeter wave systems globally and contributed to establish IEEE802.15.3c Standard on multi-Gigabit/s millimeter wave systems in IEEE. He currently is Professor Emeritus / Visiting Professor, Micro System Integration Center (μSIC, Tohoku University, Japan and has been carrying out R&D on millimeter wave communications systems and Factory IoT systems. He has published over 300 technical papers, held over 120 patents (including a patent which became DOD (Department of Defense, USA) standard in 1998 and currently used in the most of smart phones to generate constant envelope signals), co-founded International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of IEICE Japan and served as an Editor of IEEE Transaction on Communications, Chairman of Satellite and Space Communications Committee, COMSOC IEEE, a Board Member of IEICE Japan.

Werner Mohr

Werner Mohr was graduated from the University of Hannover, Germany, with the Master Degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and with the Ph.D. degree in 1987. Dr. Werner Mohr joined Siemens AG, Mobile Network Division in Munich, Germany in 1991. He was involved in several EU funded projects and ETSI standardization groups on UMTS and systems beyond 3G. Werner Mohr coordinated several EU and Eureka Celtic funded projects on 3G (FRAMES project), LTE and IMT-Advanced radio interface (WINNER I, II and WINNER+ projects), which developed the basic concepts for future radio standards. Since April 2007 he is with Nokia Solutions and Networks (now Nokia) in Munich Germany, where he is Head of Research Alliances. In addition, he was chairperson of the NetWorld2020 European Technology Platform until December 2016. Werner Mohr was Chair of the Board of the 5G Infrastructure Association in 5G PPP of the EU Commission from its launch until December 2016. He was chair of the "Wireless World Research Forum – WWRF" from its launch in August 2001 up to December 2003. He was member of the board of ITG in VDE from 2006 to 2014. He is co-author of a book on "Third Generation Mobile Communication Systems" a book on "Radio Technologies and Concepts for IMT-Advanced" and a book “Mobile and Wireless Communications for IMT-Advanced and Beyond”. In December 2016 Werner Mohr received the IEEE Communications Society Award for Public Service in the Field of Telecommunications. Session 3A Knud Erik Skouby

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. 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. Editor in chief of Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communication Technologies (NBICT); Board member of the Danish Media Committee. Chair of WGA in Wireless World Research Forum; Dep. chair IEEE Denmark. Member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, AAU. Walter Weigel

Dr. Walter Weigel graduated from the Technical University in Munich, Germany, with the Master Degree in electrical engineering in 1984 and with the Ph. D. degree in pattern recognition in 1990. From 1984 to 1991 he was assistant professor at the Institute of Data Processing at the Technical University in Munich.Dr. Weigel is since 1st April 2015 VP and CSO of the European Research Institute of Huawei, based in Leuven, Belgium. He was from September 2006 to July 2011 the Director General of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute ETSI. Between February 1991 and February 2015 he held several positions within Siemens AG, including VP of External Cooperations and Head of Standardization in Corporate Technology, VP of the Research & Concepts-department of the Mobile Networks business unit as well as Head of the business segment Video Processing for the semiconductor business unit (today Infineon).He is a member of the Innovationsdialog of the German Government, of the BDVA (Big Data Value Association) Board of Directors, of the Senate of Acatech

(German academy of technical sciences), of the Board of 5GAA (5G Automotive Association), of the IEEE-SA Board of Governors as well as former member of the Key Enabling Technologies working group of DG Grow. He is also a lecturer at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Session 3B Steffen Ring

Steffen Ring CEO and Owner of RING Advocacy LLC, www.ringadvocacy.com , telecommunications consulting and government affairs matters. Registered in the EU Transparency Register, Register of EU Experts and partner in an EU Horizon 2020 project (MONICA) on IoT. Technical Expert in delegations of the Danish Spectrum Authority (Energistyrelsen) in CEPT/ECC and ITU-R (World Radio Conferences since WRC-2003). Motorola Solutions Inc, – Mobile Data International (MDI) Inc. Director of European Type Approval – Motorola Cellular Systems and Director Government Affairs (Spectrum for Iridium satellite system)General Electric Inc, Lynchburg, Va. USA, Head of Special Radio Systems development, Transit and Utilities, Europe. Thomas Weilacher

Thomas Weilacher has been working in the field of telecommunications since he finalised the study on electronic engineering. Since 1992 he has been working with the German regulatory authority (now "Federal Network Agency", BNetzA). Until 1995 he had been working in the area of licensing and monitoring in a regional office. From 1996 until now he has been involved in international frequency management issues, by working in the BNetzA headquarters in Mainz. His tasks include the participation in meetings of ECC groups, Radio Spectrum Committee and ITU-R working parties as a member of the German delegation. He was also acting as Vice Chairman of ECC Working Group FM from 2008 to the beginning of 2014 and has become chairman of WG FM in March 2014. Gabor Zsigmond

Gabor Zsigmond received his degree as Programmer Mathematician from ELTE Science University Budapest. He joined Nokia in 2005 and he is currently E2E Solution Architect for Railway at Nokia, based in Budapest, Hungary. As part of the E2E Solution Architect job, Gabor is the Nokia representative in the European standardization community of the Future Railway Mobile Communication System in ETSI TC RT. The aim of the standardization work is to find the successor communication system to GSM-R, answering the current needs of railway operators. Session 4 Miquel Payaró

Miquel Payaró is a senior researcher and the Head of the Communications Technologies Division at the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC). Since 2009, Miquel has led and participated in several research contracts with the industry as well as in research projects from the Seventh Framework Program and H2020 of the EC. In September 2017, Miquel was appointed a board member of the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA) and, since then, he also represents CTTC in the steering boards of NetWorld2020 and Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). Miquel is serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and has been Guest Editor of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies 2015 Special Issue on “Enabling 5G: energy and spectrally efficient communication systems.” He has also served as part of the Organizing Committee of EUSIPCO 2011, European Wireless 2014, ICASSP 2020 and has been TPC Chair of the CLEEN workshop in 2017 and 2018.

Juha-Pekka Soininen

Dr. Juha-Pekka Soininen is a principal scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He received his Master of Science, Licentiate of Technology and Doctor of Science (Technology) degrees from University of Oulu 1987, 1997 and 2004 respectively. He has been a research and senior research scientist at VTT between 1987 and 2007, and a research professor between 2007 and 2014, and a principal scientist since 2014. Since early 1990’s, he has been involved in several international research projects with partners from EU, Japan and US. He has been working with system architectures and design methods, and his current research deals with ubiquitous and distributed computing systems, IoT and cyber-physical system architectures. He has over 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Aitor Corchero

Researcher in the Smart Management Systems (SMS) research unit at Eurecat. He is a computer engineer by Mondragon university (MUN) and Msc in Computer Engineering by the University of Lleida (UdL). He has 10 years of experience as a data scientist. Specifically, he has experience on semantic web technologies, data analytics (machine learning/data mining and deep learning), decision support systems (rule-based reasoning and case-based reasoning) and recommender environments for a broad of domains including water management, building energy efficiency management and physical and logical security systems (Botnet detection and remediation systems). Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Lleida (UdL) on the topic of artificial intelligence applied to the semantic sensor web. He collaborates as a part-time professor at Informatics and Industrial Engineering Department (DIEI) at university of Lleida where he is involved in teaching project management, Programing, and algorithms and complexity aspects. Finally, he has been involved since 2011 in several European projects (LIFE, FP7 & H2020) related to ICT in Water Domain and Energy. Aimilia Bantouna

Dr Aimilia Bantouna is a Solution Architect at WINGS ICT Solutions (https://wings-ict-solutions.eu/ ). She received her diploma from the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens in 2007. She obtained an MSc in Digital Communications and Networks and a PhD in Machine-Learning Techniques of Future Networks from the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, Greece in 2010 and 2015 respectively. She has participated in various projects such as MigraineNet (2nd FI-Adopt open call), iWave (part of the XIFI Open Call), FP7/ICT iCore, FP7/ICT Univerself (2010-2013), FP7/ICT OneFIT, ARTEMIS project (bilateral cooperation Greece-China), and FP7/ICT ACROPOLIS Network of Excellence (2010-2013). Her research interests are machine learning techniques, and most particularly unsupervised ones, and predictive analytics that can be applied for enhancing decision making processes and trust in autonomic systems. She currently focuses on the application of machine learning techniques on Big Data for creating interesting insights with respect to the behaviour of the ecosystem in telecoms, e-health, transportation and energy verticals. Already considered knowledge-based applications and their results have often been published in scientific articles in refereed international journals and conferences.

Session 5 Peter Lindgren

Peter Lindgren holds a full Professorship in Multi business model and Technology innovation at Aarhus University, Denmark – Business development and technology innovation and is Vice President of CTIF Global Capsule (CGC). He is Director of CTIF Global Capsule/MBIT Research Center at Aarhus University – Business Development and Technology. He has researched and worked with network based high speed innovation since 2000. He has been head of Studies for Master in Engineering – Business Development and Technology at Aarhus University from 2014 - 2016. He has been researcher at Politechnico di Milano in Italy (2002/03), Stanford University, USA (2010/11), University Tor Vergata, Italy (2016/2017) and has in the time period 2007 – 2011. He has been the founder and Center Manager of International Center for Innovation www.ici.aau.dk at Aalborg University, founder of the MBIT research group and lab - http://btech.au.dk/forskning/mbit/ - and is cofounder of CTIF Global Capsule – www.ctifglobalcapsule.com. He has worked as researcher in many different multi business model and technology innovations projects and knowledge networks among others E100 - http://www.entovation.com/kleadmap/, Stanford University project Peace Innovation Lab http://captology.stanford.edu/projects/peace-innovation.html, The Nordic Women in business project - www.womeninbusiness.dk/, The Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF), FP7 project about ”multi business model innovation in the clouds” - www.Neffics.eu, EU Kask project – www.Biogas2020.se. He is author to several articles and books about business model innovation in networks and Emerging Business Models. He has an entrepreneurial and interdisciplinary approach to research. His research interests are multi business model and technology innovation in interdisciplinary networks, multi business model typologies, sensing, persuasive and virtual business models. Anand Prasad

Anand R. Prasad, Dr. & ir. (M.Sc.Eng) from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, is Chief Advanced Technologist, Executive Specialist, at NEC Corporation, Japan, where he leads the mobile communications security activity. Anand is the chairman of 3GPP SA3, founder chairman of the GISFI Security & Privacy group and member of the governing body / council member of GISFI and TSDSI. He has 20+ years of experience in networking, wireless and mobile communications product design, development and business development in companies around the globe. Anand has published 6 books and authored 50+ peer reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. Two of the books he co-authored on security are “Security in Next Generation Mobile Networks SAE/LTE and WiMAX”, published by River Publishers, and “Security for Mobile Networks and Platforms”, published by Artech House. He is a series editor for standardization book series and editor-in-chief of the “Journal of ICT Standardization” published by River Publishers. He is recipient of the 2014 ITU-AJ “Encouragement Award: ICT Accomplishment Field” and the 2012 (ISC)² “Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Award as a Senior Information Security Professional”. Anand is a certified information systems security professional (CISSP).

May Huang

Dr. May Huang is professor and chair of the electrical and computer engineering department and meanwhile servers as director of global relations division at International Technological University (ITU). She’s a guest professor at School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University (PKU), Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, and Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, China. She established research activities at ITU including a joint research team with members from ITU and PKU. Dr. Huang brings over 20 years of Silicon Valley IC design and software design experience to her work. She was a principal designer and project manager at Virtual Silicon Technology, Hitachi Semiconductor America, VLSI Technology, Inc., etc. She participated as a member of working group and balloter on VITAL, Verilog and Analog Extensions of VHDL toward IEEE standard. Dr. Huang obtained her bachelor’s degree from South China University of Technology in electrical engineering. She earned her master’s degree from Santa Clara University and doctorate from ITU. Her research interests are IC design and artificial intelligence. Kiritkumar Lathia

As ex-Vice President of Siemens “Product Strategy, Standards & Regulations”, I have more than thirty years of management experience within telecommunications industry and as a result have developed and managed excellent collaborative relationships with national, regional and international organizations, government departments and regulatory authorities. This has also lead to thorough understanding of the issues related to WTO-TBT and IPR issues and their impact on global standardization and trade. For world class products, the need for collaborative research between universities and industries is paramount. This provides the basis for achieving full potential of innovations. However, innovation per se is not sufficient since global standards and regulations are fundamental part of the necessary tool-kit. I was one of the ETSI leaders in establishing the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) with China, Japan, Korea and USA and the creation of Mobile Competence Centre (MCC) at ETSI. This is now the leading standards body for mobile communications worldwide, including 5G. Since formally retiring in 2009, I have been assisting collaborative platforms (GISFI and CGC) between worldwide Universities and SMEs with specific focus in 5G technologies which are more than just “telecom” as 5G will be a major disruptive technology impacting all industries.

Tommy Svensson

Tommy Svensson [S’98, M’03, SM’10] is Full Professor in Communication Systems at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he is leading the Wireless Systems research on air interface and wireless backhaul networking technologies for future wireless systems. He received a Ph.D. in Information theory from Chalmers in 2003, and he has worked at Ericsson AB with core networks, radio access networks, and microwave transmission products. He was involved in the European WINNER and ARTIST4G projects that made important contributions to the 3GPP LTE standards, the EU FP7 METIS and the EU H2020 5GPPP mmMAGIC 5G projects, and currently in the EU H2020 5GPPP 5GCar project, as well as in the ChaseOn antenna systems excellence center at Chalmers targeting mm-wave solutions for 5G access, backhaul and V2X scenarios. His research interests include design and analysis of physical layer algorithms, multiple access, resource allocation, cooperative systems, moving networks, and satellite networks. He has co-authored 4 books, 70 journal papers, 118 conference papers and 51 public EU projects deliverables. He is Chairman of the IEEE Sweden joint Vehicular Technology/ Communications/ Information Theory Societies chapter and editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and has been editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Guest Editor of several top journals, organized several tutorials and workshops at top IEEE conferences, and served as coordinator of the Communication Engineering Master's Program at Chalmers, www.chalmers.se/en/staff/Pages/tommy-svensson.aspx. Lars Kierkegaard

Lars is the founder of InnoPaze, a consultancy company providing expert consulting services for private companies and public sector organisations in product management and business development of digital infrastructure and services. Lars Kierkegaard is also Senior Executive Adviser at DeiC (Danish e-infrastructure Cooperation), with responsibility for cloud services, digital infrastructure and business development. Lars has been the driving force in transforming Teracom in Denmark from a monopoly into a competitive Managed Services Provider of mission-critical ICT infrastructure. Lars has also secured major Managed Services contracts for Teracom in coastal emergency radio for the Danish Defence and media broadcast distribution for DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation). Lars holds various positions of trust. He is board member of Engineers Without Borders, which is a technical-humanitarian NGO and board member of IEEE Executive Committee Danish Chapter. He holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, A Master’s degree in Mobile Internet Communication and a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School. Special Session 1 Angela Alexiou

Angeliki Alexiou received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1994 and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London in 2000. Since May 2009 she is faculty member at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, where she conducts research and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the area of Broadband Communications and Advanced Wireless Technologies. Prior to this appointment she was with Bell Laboratories, Wireless Research, Lucent Technologies, now Alcatel-Lucent, in Swindon, UK, first as a member of technical staff (January 1999-February 2006) and later as a Technical Manager (March 2006-April 2009). Prof Alexiou is a co-recipient of Bell Labs President’s Gold Award in 2002 for contributions to Bell

Labs Layered Space-Time (BLAST) project and the Central Bell Labs Teamwork Award in 2004 for role model teamwork and technical achievements in the IST FITNESS project. Prof Alexiou is the Chair of the Working Group on Radio Communication Technologies of the Wireless World Research Forum. She is a member of the IEEE and the Technical Chamber of Greece. Her current research interests include radio interface for 5G systems and beyond, MIMO and high frequencies (mmWave and THz wireless) technologies, cooperation, coordination and efficient resource management for Ultra Dense wireless networks and machine-to-machine communications, and ‘cell-less’ architectures based on softwarization, virtualization and extreme resources sharing. She is the project coordinator of the H2020 TERRANOVA project (ict-terranova.eu). Mikko A. Uusitalo

Mikko Uusitalo is Head of Research Department Wireless Advanced Technologies at Nokia Bell Labs Finland. He obtained a M.Sc. (Eng.) and Dr.Tech. in 1993 and 1997 and a B.Sc. (Economics) in 2003, all from predecessors of Aalto University. Mikko has been at Nokia since 2000 with various roles, including Principal Researcher and Head of International Cooperation at Nokia Research. Mikko is a founding member of the CELTIC EUREKA and WWRF, the latter one he chaired for 2004-2006. Mikko is a WWRF Fellow. Mikko has about 50 granted patents or patent families and around 50 pending patents. Yansha Deng

Yansha Deng is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in department of Informatics, Kings College London, U. K. She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Queen Mary University of London, U.K. in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Kings College London, U.K.. Her research interests include signal processing and channel modeling of molecular communication, chemical circuits and genetic circuit design for molecular communication. She was a recipient of the Best Paper Awards from ICC 2016 and Globecom 2017 in the area of molecular communication. She is currently an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Communication Letters. Constantinos B. Papadias Constantinos B. Papadias is the Scientific Director of Athens Information Technology (AIT), in Athens, Greece, where he is also Professor and Head of its Broadband Wireless and Sensor Networks (B-WiSE) Research Group. He is also an Adjunct professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. He received the diploma of electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1991 and the doctorate degree in signal processing (highest honors) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France, in 1995. He was a researcher at Institut Eurécom (1992-1995), Stanford University (1995-1997) and Bell Labs (as a member of the technical staff from 1997-2001 and as technical manager from 2001-2006). He was also an adjunct professor at Columbia University (2004-2005) and Carnegie Mellon University (2006-2011). His research interests span several areas of advanced communication systems, with emphasis on wireless, cognitive, green and next-generation networks. He has published over 2000 papers, one research monograph, two edited books, eight book chapters, and has received over 8,500 citations for his work. He has also made standards contributions and holds 12 patents. He was a member of the Steering Board of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) from 2002-2006, a member and Industrial Liaison of the IEEE's

Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee from 2003-2008 and a National Representative of Greece to the European Research Council's IDEAS program from 2007-2008. He has served as member of the IEEE Communications Society's Fellow Evaluation and Awards Committees, as well as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the Journal of Communications and Networks. He has participated in several European Commission research grants, including the Horizon2020 project SANSA in the area of satellite-assisted wireless backhauling and several where he acted as technical coordinator, such as HARP in the area of remote radio heads, and ADEL in the area of licensed shared access. He is currently the Research Coordinator of the Horizon2020 European Training Network PAINLESS on the topic of energy-autonomous wireless access points. His distinctions include the Bell Labs President's Award (2002); a Bell Labs Teamwork Award (2003); the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Young Author Best Paper Award (2003); ESI's "most cited paper of the decade" citation in the area of wireless networks (2006); his recognition as a "Highly Cited Greek Scientist" (2011); and the co-authorship of two papers that earned Best Student Paper Awards at the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and BioEngineering (2013 & 2014). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society for 2012-2013. Dr. Papadias is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and a Fellow of IEEE. Special Session 2 Sudhir Dixit

Dr. Sudhir Dixit is a Senior Fellow and Evangelist of Basic Internet at the Basic Internet Foundation and heads its US operations. He is also a Board Member & Working Group Chair at the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). From 2015 to 2017 he was the CEO and Co-Founder of a start-up, Skydoot, Inc, in the cloud-based and collaboration space. From December 2013 to April 2015, he was a Distinguished Chief Technologist and CTO of the Communications and Media Services for the Americas Region of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services in Palo Alto, CA, and prior to this he was the Director of Hewlett-Packard Labs India from September 2009. From June 2009 to August 2009, he was a Director at HP Labs in Palo Alto. Before joining HP, he held various leadership positions at BlackBerry, Nokia, NSN and Verizon Communications. Sudhir Dixit has 21 patents granted by the US PTO and has published over 200 papers and edited, co-edited, or authored eight books by Wiley, Springer and Artech House. He has been a technical editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and is presently on the editorial boards of IEEE Spectrum Magazine, Cambridge University Press Wireless Series and Springer’s Wireless Personal Communications Journal. From 2010 to 2012, he was an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, and, since 2010, he has been a Docent of Broadband Mobile Communications for Emerging Economies at the University of Oulu, Finland. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of IET and IETE, Dixit holds a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. and an M.B.A. from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida. Klaus David Klaus David is full University Professor since 1998 and since 2000 head of the chair of communication technology (ComTec) at Kassel University, Germany. His research interests include mobile networks, applications and context awareness. He has 12 years of industrial experience in major companies like HP, Bell Northern Research, IMEC, T-Mobile (as Head of Group and UMTS project leader) and IHP (as Head of Department), with in total five years of international experience in the UK, Belgium, USA, and Japan. He has

published over 200 scientific articles, including 3 books, and has registered over 10 patents. He is active in IEEE (Editor in Chief IEEE VT Magazine 2015 - 2018, BoG 2015 - 2017 IEEE VT), ngmn (next generation mobile networks) as advisor, WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum) as publication manager and elected SB Member and he is involved in many conferences, such as IST Future Network & Mobile Summit 2012 Berlin as TPC chair or 2013, 14, 15,16 and 18 in IEEE PerCom as TPC member.Also, he is a regular technology and strategy consultant to industry as well as co-founder of two start-up companies. Josef Noll

Josef Noll is a professor at the University of Oslo/ITS, and Secretary General of the Basic Internet Foundation. Through the foundation he addresses impact research as the basis of sustainable development and digital inclusion. A key topic is the network delivering mobile services. He is also head of research in Movation, Norway's open innovation company for mobile services. The company supported more than 200 start-ups in the last ten years. He was leader of several EU and Eurescom projects. Prior to joining University of Oslo, we was with Telenor in Oslo where he led the development of the 3G UMTS research and standardization. Dr. F. Mekuria

Dr. F. Mekuria, Chief Research Scientist, CSIR Meraka ICT Institute, South Africa. He leads the 5G and Affordable Broadband Networks research at the CSIR. He is the proponent of a 4th leg for the 5G standards aimed at technologies for addressing the next billion unconnected population and promoting digital inclusion. He has a PhD from Linköping University, in Sweden, and has worked for 10 years as senior research Engineer at Ericsson Mobile Communications R&D lab in Sweden, where he developed over 12 US/EPO patents. He has published over 60 peer reviewed publications, worked with mobile and internet service industry in developing countries: Setting up next generation network labs in Africa, Development of mobile applications programming courses, Network resource sharing for affordable broadband connectivity, and development of telecom regulatory frameworks and capacity building for telecom regulators in Africa. He is at present working on disruptive 5G research in dynamic spectrum sharing and affordable network technologies. The project made headlines as the only emerging economy technology patent contribution for smart spectrum sharing and unlicensed spectrum networks. The group lead by him has successfully completed the international qualification process and standardization of white space spectrum databases in competition with global technology companies, led by the UK Ofcom regulator. He is a member of advisory board for a number of EU FP7 projects and is a Judge for the GSMA global mobile awards on Green technologies in mobile. Dr Mekuria is also involved in postgraduate research development in wireless communications with a number of African universities through his engagement as Adj. Professor at the University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Science, South Africa. Marcos Katz Marcos Katz is a Professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Oulu, Finland, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. He worked as a Research Engineer at Nokia Telecommunications from 1987 to 1995, designing analog circuits for high-speed PDH/SDH line interfaces. From 1995 to 2001 he was a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Networks, Finland, where he developed multiple antenna techniques for several TDMA and CDMA research projects. In 2001–

2002 he was a Research Scientist at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, where he concentrated on synchronization problems of CDMA networks. In years 2003–2005 Dr. Katz was the Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Advanced Research Lab., Telecommunications R&D Center, Suwon, Korea. From 2006 to 2009 he worked as a Chief Research Scientist at VTT, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, where Dr. Katz was also responsible for the research activities in the group Cognitive and Cooperative Networks. In Dec. 2009, Dr. Katz was appointed professor at Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu. His current research interests include cooperative and cognitive networking, as well as optical communications, particularly visible light communications. Prof. Katz served as the chair of Working Group 5 (on short-range communications) for the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) in 2008-2012. Prof. Katz has written and edited six books in different areas of mobile and wireless communications. He has written more than 160 publications and holds more than 50 patents. Working Group Chair: Connected Car Seshadri Mohan

Seshadri Mohan is currently a professor in Systems Engineering Department at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where, from August 2004 to June 2013, he served as the Chair of the Department of Systems Engineering. Prior to the current position he served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Acting CEO of IP SerVoniX, where he consulted for several telecommunication firms and venture firms, and served as the CTO of Telsima (formerly known as Kinera). Besides these positions, his industry experience spans a decade at New Jersey-based Telcordia (formerly Bellcore) and Bell Laboratories. Prior to joining Telcordia, he was an associate professor at Clarkson and Wayne State Universities. Dr. Mohan has authored/coauthored over 100 publications in the form of books, patents, and papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings with citations to his publications in excess of 5500. He has co-authored the textbook Source and Channel Coding: An Algorithmic Approach. He has contributed to several books, including Mobile Communications Handbook and The Communications Handbook (both CRC Press). He holds fourteen patents in the area of wireless location management and authentication strategies as well as in the area of enhanced services for wireless. He is the recipient of the SAIC Publication Prize for Information and Communications Technology. He has served or is serving on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Personal Communications, IEEE Surveys, IEEE Communications Magazine, Journal of Mobility and Cyber Security and International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications (Springer) and has chaired sessions in many international conferences and workshops. He has also served as a Guest Editor for several Special issues of IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM MONET. Currently, he serving as a co-guest editor of the Feature Topic “Human Bond Communications,” to appear in the February 2019 issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. He served as a guest editor of 2015 October IEEE Communications Feature Topic titled “Social Networks Meet Next Generation Mobile Multimedia Internet,” March 2012 IEEE Communications Feature Topic titled “Convergence of Applications Services in Next Generation Networks” as well as the June 2012 Feature Topic titled “Social Networks Meet Wireless Networks.” In April 2011, he was awarded 2010 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. He received the best paper award for the paper “A Multi-Path Routing Scheme for GMPLS-Controlled WDM Networks,” presented at the 4th IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems conference. Recently, Dr. Mohan co-founded the startup IntelliNexus, LLC, the objective of which is the

development of innovative adhoc vehicular networking to advance the notion of connected cars and the development of IoT and IoV applications to improve traffic safety and reduce accidents and congestion. Dr. Mohan holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from McMaster University, Canada, the Masters degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and the Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Madras, India.