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HP Baumeister - Fraunhofer Digital Media Technologies, USA
Hans-Peter (“HP”) Baumeister, Director at Fraunhofer Digital Media Technologies based in San Jose, CA, is responsible for strategy, business and market development for several major markets, including communications.
Fraunhofer is a large applied research organization. One of its institutes, the IIS, invented MP3, an early indicator of those industry-changing developments yet to come, and is a major contributor to the successor, AAC.
HP has broad management, business and technical experience acquired in multiple industries, continents and countries and in companies ranging from large corporations to startups.
Prior to Fraunhofer, he shaped the IPTV and cable strategies of Tellabs, a large communications equipment provider.
At Philips, based in The Netherlands as well as Si-Valley, Mr. Baumeister reengineered the companies’ global TV platform strategy, was General Manager for two business units in the areas of DVD-Authoring and Video Conferencing, and was co-founder and Vice President of Strategic Alliances of the internal startup MP4Net, a pioneer in streaming media. He was also in charge of strategic investments in companies such as Packet Video, Envivio and Veon, and was co-founder and long time member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA).
Previous to Philips, Mr. Baumeister worked at Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, N.Y.), as well as their subsidiary Kodak AG (Stuttgart, Germany) in a variety of functions ranging from R&D to marketing, sales management and strategy; he was a major contributor to Kodak’s electronic imaging businesses.
He was instrumental in several startups in the online media as well as renewable energy industries, and is Chairman of SunReports Inc., a startup he founded in the solar space.
HP is convinced that the “always connected” revolution is just beginning, and that it will continue to shake up many industries, among them a major, mature technology industry, person-to-person communications.
He has a degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Electrical Engineering, and generated over 25 lifetime patents. |
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Markus Beckmann - Accenture, Germany
Markus Beckmann is Senior Manager in Accenture’s Communications & High Tech Network Practice and based in Munich, Germany. He is responsible for Consulting, Technology, and Outsourcing engagements at major telecommunication operators in Europe. His professional expertise includes OSS, SDP, and Network Cost Optimization.
Mr. Beckmann holds a Master (Dipl.-Ing.) in Communication Technology from the University of Ulm. Before joining Accenture he worked in the terminal development of the mobile industry. |
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Thomas Michael Bohnert - SAP Research, Switzerland
Thomas Michael Bohnert is project manager and senior research scientist at SAP research. He is responsible for SAP Research's research competence in Network of the Future (NoF) where he works on topics such as Future Internet Architectures (FIA), Mobile Cloud Computing, Convergence of IT and Telecommunication infrastructure, Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) for composite enterprise applications and service delivery platforms, Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), as well as Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-backend (V2B) integration. Thomas was and is involved in various national and international research projects, e.g. FP6 IP WEIRD, FP6 NoE E-NEXT, CELTIC 100GET, ESF COST 290, and is currently leading SAP's partnership in the and FP7 GEYSERS and FP7 Pre-Drive Car-to-X project. His 10 plus years of industrial experience range from SAP over NEC, VTT and SIEMENS to his own IT consultancy named BNCS. His works have been published in several books, journals, and conference. He is member of the eMobility ETP steering committee and serves as Regional Correspondent (Europe) for the IEEE Communications Magazine's news section. |
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Alain Dakroub - Tekelec, France
As Market Development Director for Policy Management, Alain Dakroub is responsible for business development for Tekelec's Policy Management Portfolio in the EAAA Region.
Alain joined Tekelec through the acquisition of Blueslice Networks in May 2010. At Blueslice Alain held the position of Technical Director for EMEA & Asia regions. Most recently he was Sales Director for the MENA region.
Prior to Blueslice, Alain was at Nortel where he spent eleven years in various roles and responsibilities, in R&D, Operations, PLM, Marketing and Sales. Before Nortel, Alain worked as a research engineer at Institut Eurecom.
Alain holds a Masters in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the Lebanese University and a Masters in Computer Networks and Systems Engineering from the Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines. |
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Prof. Dr. Marc Drüner - trommsdorff + drüner, Germany
Prof. Dr. Marc Drüner is Managing Partner and co-founder of trommsdorff + drüner, innovation and marketing consultants (t+d). As a Professor, he teaches Innovation Management and Marketing at the largest private University in Germany, Steinbeis University in Berlin.
His research and consulting topics are focused on the development and marketing of innovations. Further consulting topics include the emergence of market trends, their introduction into the market, the management and supervision of markets and clients.
He is a renowned expert for Telecommunications and New Media (especially Web2.0), their impact on future lifestyle areas and business models as well as the inherent implications for the industries involved.
He has 15 years of experience in consulting for various industries. Prof. Drüner works for Future labs, Think Tanks and Innovation Departments of – among others – VW, BMW, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bahn, Siemens, Springer, and Google.
Prior to founding t+d together with Prof. Volker Trommsdorff (TU Berlin), he worked for Roland Berger at the international Stratgey Competence Center.
He received his PhD in Marketing at the Technische Universität Berlin and a Masters Degree in industrial engineering.
He is a renowned speaker and coach for Innovation Management and Marketing.
Marc Drüner was born in 1966. He lives and works in Berlin. |
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Alfonso Ehijo - Telmex International, Latin America / University of Chile
- Leader of the Technological Council for Telephony, Multimedia, Cable and Emerging Technologies at Telmex International: He is responsible for defining the Strategy and Architecture of Latin American Operations, and is also in charge of the evaluation and selection of Technology Vendors.
- Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Chile: Chair of Telephony & Multimedia for the ICT Master’s Degree, and co-chair of Mobile Communications Systems for the Electrical Engineering Diploma. He is also responsible for the Academic Labs (LTE, xPON/FTTH, DOCSIS 3.0, Routing & Switching and IMS/EPC) and Convergent Services (VoD/IPTV/3DTV/IP Telephony and OTT).
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Internetworking Diploma at the University of Chile since 1997.
- M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering as well as an Electrical Engineering Diploma from the University of Chile, 1995.
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Hans Joachim Einsiedler - T-Labs, Germany
Hans Joachim Einsiedler received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1994. He worked for IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He joined Deutsche Telekom in 1999 and moved to Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in 2004, where he is responsible for the Broadband and Wireless Access - Access operator - R&D topics. His interests are in the European Technology Platform "eMobility", new wireless access technologies, next generation networking and beyond and R&D work on new protocol stacks. |
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Philipp Freudenberger - SAP, Germany
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1998: Master Degree in Mathematics
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1998-2008: Consultant, Project Manager and Field Service Lead for Utilities Business Unit at SAP
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2009 -now: Product Owner “Service Industries Platform” at SAP
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Dr. Thomas Haustein - Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Germany
Thomas Haustein received the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree in mobile communications from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2006. In 1997, he was with the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin, where he worked on wireless infrared systems and radio communications with multiple antennas and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. He focused on real-time algorithms for baseband processing and advanced multiuser resource allocation. In 2006, he was with Nokia Siemens Networks, where he conducted research for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-advanced. He is currently the Head of the Broadband Mobile Communications Department, HHI. |
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Dr. Ralf G. Herrtwich - Daimler AG, Germany
Ralf G. Herrtwich is with Daimler Group Research and Advanced Engineering since 1998. After more than ten years as Director for Infotainment and Telematics Systems, he recently was appointed head of the Driver Assistance and Chassis Systems Center and is now in charge of conceiving and developing future safety and comfort innovations for Mercedes-Benz vehicles with his team of approximately 250 engineers in Stuttgart and Ulm in Germany as well as Palo Alto, California. A computer scientist by education, Dr. Herrtwich started his career in academia at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and ICSI at UC Berkeley. He then held positions with IBM and several telecommunication startups before joining Daimler.
Today, he also is honorary professor at TUB and Director of the Daimler Center for Automotive Information Technology Innovations (DCAITI) at the same university. |
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Wolfgang Hummel - HP, Germany
Wolfgang Hummel is a Senior Solution Architect for large scale deployments of network solutions in HP. He studied public administration and economics in Stuttgart. With 20+ years experience in the telecommunications industry Wolfgang Hummel is engaged as technology advisor for our corporate customers. Additional professional interests of him are advanced Voice over IP technologies and Messaging solutions. |
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Ron Jubainville - Sprint, UK
Ron Jubainville is Head of International Product Marketing with responsibility for the growth and performance of Sprint’s international wireline and wireless product portfolio delivered via Sprint’s leading global converged IP network.
Mr. Jubainville has 30 years experience in telecommunications with both manufacturers and service providers focused on the corporate market. Ron has held a number of senior management positions within both business and technology including Marketing, Product Management, Sales Support, Development, Network Engineering and Operations. He has spent the first 6 years in the US telecommunications market and the last 24 years in Europe. |
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Sebastian Krems - ITCcon GmbH, Germany
Sebastian Krems has more than 20 years experience in the international telecommunications market and held various top management positions in the industry. He studied Telecommunications and RF Technology at the Universities of Dresden and Ilmenau. In the first 10 years of his career he served in several posts in technology, product management and sales within reputable telecommunication equipment vendors. In 1999 he joined Berlikomm GmbH, Berlin’s regional carrier as Chief Operations and was appointed as Managing Director in 2000. He was responsible for the start up of the venture especially for the implementation of all technology platforms, operational processes and the respective organization.
In parallel he was appointed as Managing Director (CEO) of Berlinet GmbH in 2001, a fully-owned ISP subsidiary of Berlikomm. There he implemented an WISP and wholesale ISP business model and achieved the cash flow break even within less than 2 years. After a restructuring of both enterprises he successfully fostered the sale of the companies. From January 2005 till March 2009 Sebastian Krems was Managing Partner and member of the Executive Board of Detecon International GmbH, heading the Competence Practice “Communications Technology“. With his organization he is focused on the strategic alignment of technologies and business models as well as on innovative platform architecture concepts for telecom operators and service providers world-wide. In April 2009, Sebastian Krems has been appointed to the Board of LambdaNet Communications Deutschland AG as Chief Operations Officer (COO). LambdaNet reached its turnaround in less than 18 months.
Since October 2010 he is partner at ITCcon, a management and technology consultig company focussing on developing innovative business models and technology concepts for the ICT industry. |
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz - TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Thomas Magedanz (PhD) is full professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, leading the chair for Next Generation Networks. In addition, he is director of the “Next Generation Network Infrastructures” division of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. In 2006, Prof. Magedanz has been assigned as Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Since 2007, he is also Visiting Professor to the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland.
Since more than 20 years Prof. Magedanz is working in the convergence field of fixed and mobile telecommunications, the Internet and information technologies, which resulted in many international R&D projects centered around Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms prototyped in a set of globally recognized open technology testbeds. In 2007 Prof. Magedanz joined the European FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) Expert Group.
In the course of his research activities he published more than 250 technical papers/articles. In addition, Prof. Magedanz is senior member of the IEEE, and editorial board member of several journals. |
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Giulio Maggiore - Telecom Italia, Italy / ETSI TC INT Chairman, France
Giulio Maggiore has over 15 years of experience in the telecom domain holding functions in network engineering, and network testing.
He received BS Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991, and Master In Information Technology and Communication in 1992 by Politecnico of Turin. He joined CSELT, Telecom Italia R&D Group in 1993. In 2000 he joined TIM as UMTS, GPRS, IN Core Network Testing. In 2005 he joined Telecom Italia as Mobile Core Network Testing project manager. In 2006 he joined Telecom Italia Group Service Layer Engineering. Present position in Telecom Italia is Mobile IMS implementation in Mobile Control Layer Engineering Group since 2008. He is currently ETSI TC INT (IMS Network Testing) Chairman. From January 2010 He is leading GSMA EMC Group, Network Efficiency Task Force.
He is author of several papers, member of ICTSS (IFIP International Conference on Testing Software and Systems), TTCN3 User Conference Program Committee. |
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Eugen Mikoczy - T-Com, Slovak Telekom, Slovakia
Eugen Mikoczy received his engineer degree (MSc.) in Informatics from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STUBA) in 2002. He is at the present time a Senior Designer responsible for design and architecture evolution of the NGN application and service control layer in Slovak Telekom (including IPTV, future IMS based NGN, and NGN based IPTV standardization). As the senior specialist he is working on innovation and future evolution of multimedia services (e.g. converged architectures and applications).
He is the representative of Slovak Telekom in ITU-T (SG13 -NGN) and ETSI TISPAN. He has been actively contributing and participating on the ETSI TISPAN NGN Release 2 and 3 standardization of both TISPAN NGN based IPTV architectures (IMS based IPTV, NGN Integrated IPTV) for the last 3 years. He is rapporteur for TISPAN Release 3 NGN integrated IPTV stage 3 work item. Eugen Mikoczy is a member of IEEE, IEEE Communication Society, ACM (SIGCOM & SIGMM), and ICST. |
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Roberto Minerva - Telecom Italia, Italy
Roberto Minerva, Manager, focal point for Long Term Research within the Future Centre in the Strategy and Innovation department of Telecom Italia. He held many responsibilities within Telecom Italia Lab: Network Intelligence, Wireless Architecture and Business Services Area Manager.
Roberto has a Master Degree in Computer Science. Since 1987 he has been involved in the development of Service Architectures for Telecom (TINA, OSA/Parlay and SIP), in activities related to IMS, and in the definition of services for the Business market (context-awareness, ambient intelligence and automotive).
Currently his research activities focus on highly distributed, pervasive, adaptive and autonomic service platforms and systems.
Roberto is author of several papers published in international conferences, books and magazines. He is the designated Chairperson for the Next ICIN Conference. |
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Cornel Pampu - Huawei Technologies, Germany
Cornel Pampu received his degree in telecommunications and computer networks in 1997 from the Technical University Berlin. Currently he is holding the position of Senior Manager Research at Huawei Technologies in Germany and is responsible for European research activities in the area of Packet Switched Domain of mobile networks and the definition of the evolution towards future packet network architectures. At Siemens Communications Mobile Networks and later on at Nokia Siemens Networks he lead the Interoperability Core Control of the Network Operation and Engineering department in the Network Technology division and was responsible for the design of future architectures for mobile networks. As senior research engineer in the Packet oriented Architectures group in the Research and Concepts department he was responsible for several international, internal and national funded projects in the design of future architectures for mobile networks and was involved in Ambient Networks. Previous, Cornel participated in the Research Network IP department in the Wireless Technology business unit for the establishment and maintenance of a network with research institutes to analyse and evaluate the IP technology trends towards beyond 3G systems. He has been furthermore member of the Siemens GPRS Product Definition Team. From 1997 – 1998 Cornel worked as training engineer at Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH where he has been involved in the area of telecommunications, mobile communication and software testing. He has contributed to several international conferences and acted also as technical committee member. |
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Dr. Günther Pospischil - mobilkom austria AG, Austria
Günther has studied computer science and telecommunications at Vienna University of Technology. He has been working on service aspects of mobile communications systems for more than 10 years. He participated in various research projects, helped to establish the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna and obtained a PhD on Service Creation for UMTS in 2002. In May 2002 he joined mobilkom austria and participated in various service infrastructure projects, like an evaluation of the Open Service Architecture. In 2005 Günther took the role of the Lead Architect for mobilkom's IMS activities. Since 2008 he is head of the group architecture.innovations.projects, providing architecture expertise, project management support and innovation scouting for mobilkom austria and it’s affiliates in the Central Eastern Europe region. |
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Thorsten Robrecht - Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Thorsten Robrecht is the head of LTE Product Management of Nokia Siemens Networks. He is responsible for the global LTE product business at Nokia Siemens Networks, ensuring a fast and successful market entry of world´s largest mobile infrastructure technology.
Thorsten has 10 years of international experience in the telecommunications industry. Backed by a strong track record, he has held senior program and product management positions during his time at Nokia Networks and Nokia Siemens Networks.
From April 2007 until October 2009, Thorsten was the Head of Radio Access Transport Product Management, ensuring most efficient (IP) Mobile Backhaul Solutions for NSN Radio Access customers.
Prior to joining Nokia Siemens Networks in 2007, Thorsten was Senior Program Manager for the Flexi Transport product family at Nokia Networks. Simultaneously he was heading these platform programs for 6 parallel releases in all Radio technologies (WCDMA, WiMAX, GSM and iHSPA).
Thorsten holds a degree in Aeronautics- and Space Scientifics from the University Aachen, Germany. |
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Matthias Sauder - Vodafone, Germany
Matthias Sauder works for Vodafone Germany since 1993. Until 2003 he was responsible for capacity planning and quality management. From 2003 until 2005 he was manager of the radio network planning group. Since 2005 he is manager of the department Access Engineering, Design & Optimization at the headquarter of Vodafone in Düsseldorf. Matthias Sauder is 42 years old. He is married and has three children. |
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Prof. Dr. Hans Schotten - TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Hans D. Schotten received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Aachen University of Technology RWTH, Germany in 1990 and 1997, respectively. He held positions as senior researcher, project manager, and head of research groups at the Aachen University of Technology, Ericsson Corporate Research, and Qualcomm Corporate R&D. At Qualcomm he was Director for Technical Standards and research coordinator for Qualcomm's participation in natiaonal and European research programms.
He was company representative at WWRF, EICTA, bmco forum and European technology platforms. Since August 2007, he has been full professor and head of the Chair for Wireless Communication and Navigation at the University of Kaiserslautern. Hans Schotten published more than 90 technical papers, filed 12 patents, and contributed to the organisation of various international conferences. He was participating in and partly responsible for the management of eleven German and EU research projects dealing with the design and analysis of communication and multimedia systems as well the specification and implementation of context management systems. |
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Franz Seiser - Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
Franz holds a M. Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Technical University Vienna.
Franz started as System Engineer for PBX software 1996 where he worked on Enterprise VoIP issues from 1998, based in Europe and U.S. (Silicon Valley).
He joined mobile communications industry mid 2000 (max.mobil. in Austria, renamed to T-Mobile Austria later) for preparations of 3G, i.e. license auction, vendor selection, contract negotiations.
Since end of 2002 he looks into mobile core-network related mid- to long term issues (also worked as a delegate in 3GPP standardization for some time).
Early 2006 he moved to T-Mobile International headquarters in Bonn to work as Head of Core Network Architecture, responsible for mid- and long term evolution of TMO core networks. His focus is on IP and VoIP issues as major topics for mobile network evolution. He was personally involved in the NGMN-initiative right from its beginning in late 2005 and works on NGMN related issues up until today. |
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Dr. Thomas Schwabe - Telefónica o2 Germany, Germany
Thomas Schwabe received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from TU Dresden in 2001 and his Dr.-Ing. degree from Technische Universitaet Muenchen in 2006. He is with Telefonica o2 (To2) in Munich, Germany and manages the Fixed Solution Team, responsible for engineering and testing of several network elements providing the o2 DSL service. His interests are IP and VoIP topics with focus on fixed mobile convergence. |
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Bertrand Souville - DOCOMO Communication Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany
Bertrand Souville received the Engineering Degree in 2001 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et Radioélectricité de Grenoble and Dipl-Ing. from the University of Karlsruhe. He is a researcher in the Smart and Secure Services Research Group in DOCOMO Communication Laboratories Europe GmbH. From 2001 until 2005, he has been engaged in several European projects dealing with software defined radio issues and related network reconfigurability aspects. From 2006 until June 2009, he belonged to the IYOUIT team working on a mobile application that allows users to share personal experiences with others while on the go. Since July 2009, he is involved in RCS and Network Value Added Services projects. |
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Bernd Wunderlich - IBM Deutschland, Germany
Bernd Wunderlich works at IBM SW Group. He is responsible for Telecommunications Solutions for the German Telecommunications Market. Prior to this, Bernd worked at IBM Global Business Services, where he managed projects for OSS, BSS & SDP at leading Telco providers. Prior to joining IBM in 2006, he worked in various management functions within System Test, Product Management, Solution Management and Salesroles at Siemens Communications in Germany, Argentina, and the US from 1998. Bernd holds an Engineering degree in Information Technology from the University of Paderborn and an MBA from Henley Management College. |
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Peter Zbären - Swisscom, Switzerland
Peter started his career in telecommunications in 1991 at Swisscom (PTT) with the NMT900 core network planning department. Soon the aspects of international Roaming became a key focus and he was in charge for the realisation of the ANSI/ITU conversion needed to enable Roaming to and from North America and the technical expansion of the Swisscom Roaming relations. The realisation of the first Roaming Hub was one of the key challenges as well. With the implementation of the fully converged organisation at Swisscom, Peter took the responsibility for the Core & Connectivity development department. |
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Boaz Zilberman - fring, Israel
Boaz Zilberman is the co-founder of fring, the leading mobile application for voice and video over IP. An industry veteran with over 20 years experience in high-tech businesses, Zilberman’s expertise includes launching high-tech start-up business through to market maturity, strategic and tactical creativity, business development and marketing of telecom technologies and strategic partner negotiations.
Prior roles have included VP of Products at Telrad Connegy, the designer and manufacturer of PBX and VoIP solutions for enterprise customers worldwide; Director of Marketing at Radvision, a global market leader of video telephony solutions and converged communications tools for wireless carriers, vendors and international enterprises; founder and CEO of ExpertCall, a system providing complete, automated customer support for any website; and a series of computer-telephony marketing positions with EasyRun Ltd, providing software systems to the telecom market and Intel Semiconductors.
Boaz holds an MSc in Computer Science from the City University of New York. |
