"FUSECO Forum Speaker and Panelists
(in alphabetical order)"

	Dr. Adnan Abu-Dayya ─ CEO, QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC), Qatar Dr. Adnan has more than 20 years of international experience in the areas of wireless/telecomm R&D, innovations, business development, and services delivery. Before moving to Qatar in 2007, he worked for 10 years at AT&T Wireless in Seattle, USA where he served in a number of senior management positions covering product innovations & emerging technologies, systems engineering, and product realization. Before that, Adnan worked as a Senior Manager at Nortel Networks in Canada in the advanced technology group and as a Senior Consultant at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. From April 2007 to Dec. 2008, he was the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at Qatar University. He led the initiative to create and then was appointed as the Founding Executive Director (CEO) of the newly established QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC) in Jan. 2009 at the Qatar Science & Technology Park, Doha, Qatar. Adnan received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queens University, Canada in 1992. He has many issued patents and more than fifty publications in the field of wireless communications technologies and services.

	Rui L. Aguiar – Universidade de Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal Rui L. Aguiar received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Aveiro. He is currently an Associate Professor (with Agregação) at the University of Aveiro. He is leading a research team at the Institute of Telecommunications, Aveiro, on next-generation network architectures and protocols. His current research interests are centered on the implementation of advanced wireless networks, systems, and circuits, with special emphasis on QoS and mobility aspects. He has more than 300 published papers in those areas, and frequently acts as a consultant to telecommunication companies. He has served as technical and general chair of several conferences, such as ICNS'05, ICT'06, ISCC'07 and MON-AMI'11. He is a Senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

	Christoph A. Aktas – VP RCS Standardisation, GSMA, UK Christoph A. Aktas is currently Sr. Director in Product Management within Voice & IP Transformation Business Line of Nokia Siemens Networks and located in Munich, Germany. He is representing Nokia Siemens Networks in the RCS Industry Initiative since its launch mid of 2007 and is elected Vice Chair of the GSMA RCS program since 2008. Christoph has a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg. Right after graduation in 1983, he joined Siemens Corporate Research, where he worked on Human Machine Interface, particularly Speech Recognition and Speech-based Dialog Systems. He is author or co-author of more than two dozen publications in this field including IEEE and author of 8 U.S. and/or European patents. From 1993 until 1999 he worked in different functions in R&D and technical planning and lately as senior analyst for Alliances & Strategy with the Enterprise Division of Siemens Communications in San Jose, California. He later continued as Business Developer in the Enterprise Division in Munich. In 2000 he joined Siemens Mobile Networks, where he has been with the IMS Business Line in different management functions until the merger of Nokia Siemens Networks in 2007. Christoph has been frequent speaker in various international conferences, hosted and chaired conference sessions.

	Marylin Arndt – Francetelecom group, Orange Labs, France With more than 20 years of experience in the telecom domain, Marylin occupies a position of senior standardisation manager, in charge of piloting and monitoring standardisation activity on M2M at FranceTelecom-Orange. In January 2009, she has been elected as chairman of the technical committee named M2M at ETSI. Two years after, she is responsible of M2M related European Mandates, as vice-chair of this same committee. Smart Metering, Smart Grid, Electric Vehicle Charging, Intelligent Transport Systems, are the present mandates she is working on. She participates also into the preparation of a future mandate on Internet of Things as an expert with the European commission. Before that period she had occupied various positions in R&D. has participated actively to numerous European collaborative projects (FP5, FP6) and applied more than ten patents. She has occupied a R&D team leader position on the area of mobile terminals and communicating devices then on wireless applications for capillary access networks. She holds an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris in 1981 and a PHD on Solid State Physics at University des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier, in 1979.

	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.

	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.

	Dr. Niklas Blum – Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Niklas Blum is the Deputy Head of the Next Generation Network Infrastructure department at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. He is leading at FOKUS the activities related to service platforms for converging networks and service domains. His expertise is based on service-oriented architectures, web technologies, distributed communication systems, and middleware architectures. Niklas holds a diploma in Computer Sciences from the University of Applied Sciences at Leipzig in Germany and a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in service and software engineering from the University of Potsdam.

	Bernd Bochow – Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Mr. Bernd Bochow joined FOKUS in 1993. He is a group manager and senior scientist in network research, cognitive radio networks. He has been contributing to numerous national or joint European research and development projects (ITEA, EURESCOM, ACTS, and IST) as well as performing contractual work for national customers both as a researcher and as a project manager. His recent research interests are in the area of vehicular ad hoc networking and cognitive radio. Being a well respected expert in the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Standardization Committee (DySPAN-SC) holding chair position of P1900.1 and technical editor position of P1900.6, he constantly feeds research and projects results into standardization.

	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.

	Philip Bremner ─ SA Telkom, South Africa Philip Bremner has 34 years experience in the telecommunications environment and is currently in the employ of Telkom SA Ltd, a fixed line and integrated solutions provider. He started out in the planning of copper and fibre optic cables, including a brief stint in the planning of telephone exchanges. He has vast experience in the compilation of Master Plans, based on the strategic direction of the company, incorporating all access technologies from NG-SDH systems to Digital Line Concentrators. These master plans included transport media such as microwave, optic fibre and DWDM systems. Philip has also been exposed to radio technologies from the now obsolete DRMASS to WiMAX, including the Wi-Fi component thereof. Philip’s portfolio includes the designing of customer specific solutions which encompasses technologies such as microwave systems, ADVA DWDM, NG-SDH and Tellabs Martis systems, including Metro LAN technologies. During the FIFA World Cup he was the single point of contact with FIFA for his region. Information correlated by Philip translated into him compiling a regional master plan. Pre World Cup, Philip was appointed as the Project Manager for the rollout of infrastructure for the FIFA World Cup in his region and served as Operations Manager at the Cape Town Stadium during the tournament. Today he continues to hold the position of Project Manager but under the portfolio of Customer Specific Solutions.

	Jorge Carapinha – PT Inovação, Portugal Jorge Carapinha is a Senior Research Engineer at PT Inovação. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Coimbra in 1984 and received an MSc in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Aveiro in 1998. Since 1985 he has been with PT Inovação (formerly CET). He has worked in several fields related to operator backbone networks and technologies, including MPLS Virtual Private Networks and Quality of Service. He has a long record of participation in international collaborative research projects. Presently his activity is mainly focused on Network Virtualization and Cloud Networking. He has authored/co-authored several papers on these topics, published in technical journals or presented in international conferences, as well as Book Chapters. He is currently a member of the Net!Works/eMobility Steering Board.

	Marius-Iulian Corici – Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Marius received his Diploma in the Science of Systems and Computers – Computers Engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania in 2005. He joined the Next Generation Network Infrastructures (NGNI) competence center of Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute in 2005. His research work includes multiple patent applications submitted in the area of IP network architectures and multiple publications in the area of Next Generation Mobile Networks in collaboration with various industry partners.

	Maria Cuevas – BT, Spain Maria Cuevas works for BT and has over 10 years of experience in BT working in research, design, architecture and technology strategy in the areas of Multimedia over IP, Mobility, NGN and Service Intelligence. She has spent the last 5 years working on architecture for the 21C project and technical strategy for the BT Group. Main areas of expertise include in-depth knowledge of the Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Next Generation Networks (NGN) architecture and protocols as well as related areas like Fixed Mobile Convergence, Presence & IM, Unified Messaging, Application Architectures and Open APIs, exposure of services to third parties using Service Orientated Architectures (SOA) and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) and PSTN and Next Gen IN platforms. She has also worked in Quality of Service for real-time services over IP and security for VoIP networks amongst others.

	Alan Duric – Telio Holding ASA, Norway Alan Duric is co-founder and CTO at Telio Holding ASA (Oslo stock Exchange: TELIO), the leading European access independent Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider. Mr. Duric is an early pioneer of VoIP with over a 14 years of active contribution in multi modal communications, through his sw development and standardization work (as a co-author and/or contributor to number of IETF, ETSI and ITU standards). As a developer and senior systems architect at Ericsson, Mr. Duric took part in the early deployment and development of the world's largest VoIP networks such as deltathree. At Global IP Sound (creators of Skype´s audio), Mr. Duric was Senior Systems Architect, where he steered standardization efforts and was responsible for iLBC (internet Low Bitrate Codec), an IETF and CableLabs standard codec for VoIP. Mr. Duric is also Co-founder of Sonorit/Camino networks and was Director of its Board of Directors from its inception until it was acquired by eBay/Skype. Currently serves as Director of Sipfoundry.org BoD and is an Advisor to a number of industry companies and financial institutions in M&A processes .

	Alfonso Ehijo – CALA Reference Center for Technology and Innovation / University of Chile CTO of the Reference Center for Technology and Innovation for Latinamerican and Caribean countries; in charge of the Technological/Architectural Evolution and the Relationship with Operators+Vendors. In his previous position at Telmex International, Mr Ehijo was the Leader of the Technological Council for Telephony, Multimedia, Cable and Emerging Technologies, working as a senior Technology/Vendor Evaluator. 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. Member of the Board of Directors of the IMS/LTE Excelence Center at the University of Chile since 2010. Member of SCTE USA and Leader of the SCTE CALA Project for the establishment of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers in the Caribean and Latinamerican countries. M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering as well as an Electrical Engineering Diploma from the University of Chile, 1995.

	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.

	Marc Emmelmann – Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Mr. Marc Emmelmann graduated summa cum laude from Technical University Berlin holding a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering. He joined Fraunhofer FOKUS in 2010 to strengthen its activities within the area of collaborative decision-making and self-growing mobile networks. He formerly worked for the Telecommunication and Networks Group (TKN) at Technical University Berlin where his research interest focuson on seamless mobility support at lower OSI layers using predictive and cognitive approaches. As a researcher as well as a work packackage leader, he has been contributing his expertise to national and European research projects as well as a technical consultant to national and international companies. He has been active in IEEE 802.11 over the last 5 years holding voting membership status. As one of the key initiators of a new amendment to the 802.11 standards, he was able to successfully feed his ongoing research deriving from the European Research Project EU-Mesh in industrial relevant enhancements of market relevant standards.

	Dr. Gero Fiege – Vodafone D2, Germany Dr. Gero Fiege is working since 2002 for Vodafone D2 in Düsseldorf. Until 2005 he developed radio network planning methods for Vodafone Germany’s GSM and UMTS networks. Afterwards he worked at the Network Strategy Department and since 2009 as Senior Specialist at the Technology Business Strategy Department of Vodafone D2. His main focus is in the area of innovative technology enhancements as envisioned in the research program “Cooperative Cars eXtended (CoCarX)”. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wuppertal, Germany.

	Dr. Christian Gayda – Nokia Siemens Networks, Head of Product Line Management Policy Control, Germany Christian Gayda has more than 23 years experience in the field of telecommunication. He is Head Product Line Management Policy Control at the Business Unit Next Generation Voice and Multimedia (NGVM) of Nokia Siemens Networks. In his last position he was Head of System Product Management in the same Business Unit. In this position he was responsible for the product strategy of the business line as well as for the worldwide Regional Product Management of NGVM.. Before this he headed Product Line Management of the Business Unit Com MN AS WL at Siemens AG. Proceeding this position he was Director Product oriented Research for Packet oriented Architectures department in the Research and Concepts division and responsible for the design of future architectures for mobile networks. Before, he headed the Research Network IP department in the Wireless Technology business unit. There he was concerned with the establishment and maintenance of a network of research institutes to analyse and evaluate the IP technology trends of UMTS towards beyond 3G evolution. In his former position at Siemens he was Product Line Manager for GSM Data Services responsible for the GPRS Support Nodes (GSN). Before he joined Siemens he headed the Product Management of FirstMark Communications an Internet Service Provider offering applications and IP services over Wireless Local Loop and DSL technology. At Info AG (German subsidiary of France Telecom) a German network operator he was the responsible Product Manager for the products Internet/Intranet, Customized Router networks and Consultancy (Network planning, Network security, Disaster Recovery).

	Dr. Guido Gehlen – Vodafone, Germany Dr. Guido Gehlen is working as Principal Expert Automotive for the Vodafone Group R&D in Düsseldorf. His main focus is managing the relationships to stakeholders in the automotive industry and evaluate novel business processes and service concepts. Earlier in his career he worked 4 years for Ericsson, leading automotive projects with the car industry and acting as global solution manager for Connected Vehicles. Guido holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

	Walter Grethe ─ Deutsche Telekom, Germany Walter Grethe has been leading the NGMN program within Deutsche Telekom since 2006. He is responsible for linking the activities in NGMN with the technology organisation of DT and acting as a Program manager for the introduction of LTE. In the NGMN organisation, he is acting as Chairman for the Technical Advisory Committee. Walter joined T-Mobile in 2001 in the Radio Networks Development department and worked on design and introduction of projects in GSM/UMTS. Prior to taking up this role, Walter worked in several positions on the development and introduction of GSM-R, the international mobile communication standard for railways. He holds a degree in Mathematics with over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry.

	Marcus Heitmann ─ Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Labs (Research & Development), Germany Dr. Marcus Heitmann is leading the research and innovation field M2M at the Telekom Innovation Laboraties, the central research and innovation institute of Deutsche Telekom. The main task of his group is the development and integration of M2M communication for various domains and topics like Automotive or Smart Grid with a special focus on services, platforms, usability and business aspects. Prior to joining T-Labs he was a member of the T-Systems global automotive team and acted as strategic portfolio elements manager Car ICT steering the further development of the business area Internet and online services for vehicles. Prior to that he was responsible for information technology and vehicle electronics integration projects at the Volkswagen Group. Heitmann received a diploma in Social Sciences, Marketing and a PhD in Economics from the University of Bochum, Germany. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and was also involved in the foundation of the Horst-Goertz-Institute for IT Security and the GITS AG, an IT Security company.

	Dietmar Kohnenmergen ─ E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Dietmar Kohnenmergen received his M. Sc. Degree in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.) at the University of Cologne, Germany in 1993. Before joining E-Plus Mobilfunk (subsidiary of KPN Netherlands) in 2000, he worked as System Engineer for several IT companies and for a fixed network operator, called o.tel.o communications GmbH (renamed today to Arcor/Vodafone), in Germany. He was mainly responsible for the implementation of the SS7 signalling network in the engineering lab and for the technical release testing. Later on, he moved internally to the service creation department, where he was responsible for the service creation of new IN services. In February 2000 he started his activities within the core network engineering department of E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH as a Master Expert System Architect Network. He worked for several years as KPN N.V. representative within the 3GPP standardisation (CN2 CAMEL, and CT5 OSA) and was responsible for the introduction of CAMEL and OSA/Parlay at E-Plus Mobilfunk. Now, he is focussing on more strategic topics within E-Plus and is responsible for the coordination of the Planning and Engineering Roadmap and for the analysis and the introduction of future proofed new technologies, like LTE, IMS, and NGN.

	Michael Lemke ─ Huawei, Germany Michael Lemke, PhD, is Senior Marketing Manager of Huawei Technologies in Germany, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. After graduating in Physics at the Technical University Dresden, Germany, Mr. Lemke received his PhD in Nuclear Physics in 1990. He started his career in the telecommunication industry in 1992 in the Siemens Communication R&D organization. From 1995 on Mr. Lemke held several positions in product line management functions, starting with responsibility for the Siemens Mobile Core Network product line. From 2000 he took care of Siemens Mobile Network internet access solutions and IMS/SIP application server products, enablers, Next Generation Mobile Messaging and Mobile TV with special focus on end-to end solutions. In 2006, Mr. Lemke was assigend as Product Line Manager for the Siemens LTE/SAE business. On behalf of Nokia Siemens Networks Michael Lemke acted as the Project Officer of the LTE/ SAE Trial Initiative (LSTI) in 2007, the industry co- operation pushing the LTE/SAE technology towards industrialization as NGMN technology. Mr. Lemke started working for Huawei in December 2007 as Senior Wireless Solutions Marketing Manager for Huawei Technologies in Germany and is heading the Wireless Marketing Department of the Deutsche Telekom Business Unit since July 2010.

	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.

	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.

	I Gusti Ngurah Panca ─ Telkomsel, Indonesia Currently as Head of Technology Acquisition at PT. TELKOMSEL, the biggest cellular with 36.000 BTS and 8.000 Node B with 100+ million customer. Having responsibility for acquisition new technology based on Master Plan, End to End network design including cellular network, Core Network CS and PS, Charging System, Radio Access Network until Civil Mechanical Equipment such as battery, generator, UPS, etc. Involved in the telecommunication industry for over 12 years, covering all planning aspect and grand roadmap of Telkom and Telkomsel. Since 3 years ago, focused on Research and Development and Quality Assurance testing of all equipment as apart of asset controlling and monitoring. Speaker in LTE Asia 2011, presented about How operator can reduce cost per bit for LTE implementation. Some activities until present : Femto Cell Trial in RDC Telkom, LTE Trial Phase 1 & 2 with 4 vendors (NSN, Ericsson, Huawei & ZTE), Fast Dormancy project with NSN & Huawei, Single RAN Standardization, Orthogonal Sub Channel Project, Multimode BTS Deployment Concept, SGSN Pool, Gb over IP, Iu over IP & Broadband 24 Cities Policy, IP Radio Guideline & Technical Requirement.

	Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn ─ Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University and a Ph.D. in Communication Engineering from Osaka University, in 1969 and 1976, respectively. He was a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, teaching communication system, information theory and coding. He was the Chairman of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) an independent national regulator of Thailand. During his time in NBTC he has been working on regulatory development relating to new technology deployment, spectrum allocation and telecommunications industrial promotion. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Chulalongkorn University, an Honorary PhD. Degree recipient King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi and he was recently award of The Quality Man of The Year 2011 in Technology by Federation of Science & Technology Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology Thailand. His area of research interests include Broadband Wireless Access, IP network, Self-Organizing Network, NGN and regulatory framework development. Apart from being the Chairman of NBTC; he was former President of Chulalongkorn University Intellectual Property Institute, Director of Chula Unisearch and also Bangkok Area Representative of IEICE, Japan.

	Professor Dr.-Ing. Erwin P. Rathgeb – University Duisburg-Essen, Germany After receiving his Dr.-Ing. degree in EE from the University of Stuttgart in 1991, Prof. Rathgeb was holding industry positions at Bellcore, Bosch Telekom and Siemens. Since 1999 he holds the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Chair for Computer Networking Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His main research interests focus on architectures and protocols for future communication networks with specific emphasis on network security.

	Luis Rodríguez-Roselló ─ European Commission, Belgium Luis Rodríguez-Roselló holds a degree of Telecommunications Engineering (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid-UPM). After some years of professional activity as engineer at a private company and as full professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications Engineering at UPM in Computer Science and Control Systems, he was appointed Director of the R&D Department at the ITE (Institute for Technologies in Education) of the Ministry of Education & Science in Spain and later on Head of the International Department of the CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico e Industrial). He joined the European Commission in 1989 as Head of Division in Directorate-General "Information Society and Media" responsible for the R&D Programme DELTA (Developing European Learning through Technological Advance). He was acting Director in 2003 and 2004 of Directorate "Emerging Technologies, Infrastructures & Applications". Domains of responsibility encompassed basic research (Future and Emerging Technologies), Grid Technologies, Research Infrastructures and application areas related to eInclusion and eWork. End 2004 he was appointed Head of the Unit "Networked Media Systems" and in 2010 Head of the Unit "Future Networks", where he leads European R&D on mobile communications, optical networks, satellite communications and Internet architectures. In 2009-2010 he was also acting Director of Directorate "Converged Networks & Services", which addresses R&D and innovation on Future Internet (network architectures, communication technologies…), Software & Services, Cloud Computing, Media Systems and Internet of Things among other topics. He also co-chaired during that period the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership initiative of the European Commission.

	Dr. Dieter Schafhuber – Accenture, Germany Dieter Schafhuber is 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 Network Cost Optimization, IPTV and OSS. Dieter holds a PhD (Dr.-techn.) in Communication Technology from the Vienne University of Technology. His research interest have been on mobile broadband communication systems. Before joining Accenture he worked in the automotive industry on various projects on communication systems including Car-to-Car Communication and mobile device integration. Furthermore, he worked for a Network Equipment Provider as a service engineer for central office equipments.

	Karsten Schröder – Telefónica, Germany Karsten Schröder started his career in telecommunications as project lead at mediaWays GmbH, a joint-venture between Bertelsmann and Debis Systemhaus, which deployed white-labeled internet access for several internet service providers like AOL. Since 2002, he has been holding various managing positions within German subsidaries of Telefónica S.A. As Head of Converged Solutions, Karsten Schröder is currently in charge for all kind of terminals and IMS-based services like o2 DSL within Telefónica Germany. His focus is on converged architectures merging benefits of mobile and fixed line services. Karsten Schröder received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Communication Technology from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1993 and 1997, respectively.

	Dr. Volker Sebastian – Vodafone, Germany Volker Sebastian started 1999 his work at Vodafone in fixed network engineering beeing responsible for applications and VoIP/NGN services. Since 2009 he is heading the departement of Enabler and Multimedia Application Engineering for mobile and fixed networks. His area of responsibility covers engineering of network enablers, mobile data optimisation and IMS based NGIN services. Volker Sebastian holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Mainz.

	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.

	Albrecht Seus ─ Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany Albrecht Seus is member of the standardisation team of Deutsche Telekom with the main focus on fixed-mobile convergence. He is responsible for standardisation projects on service enabling and converging policy management. Albrecht works for more than 20 years in the telecom sector. Until 2008 he joined T-Systems International in functions of consulting, testing & approval, network engineering and standardisation. Mid-2008 he moved to T-Home and in 2010 to Group Technology.

	Dorgham Sisalem ─ Tekelec, Germany Dr. Dorgham Sisalem has received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin in 1995 and 2000 respectively. He has worked at the Fraunhofer Institute Fokus as researcher and group leader and was involved in implementing and realizing the first SIP based conferencing system already in 1998. He was further involved in the development of the SIP Express Router (SER) which is currently the most widely used open source SIP proxy. In 2003 he co-founded iptelorg which was offering SIP-based VoIP solutions to ISPs and telecommunication providers till it was acquired by Tekelec in 2005. In 2005, Dorgham Sisalem joined Tekelec as Director of Strategic Architecture working on issues of scalability and security.

	Phuoc Tran-Gia – University Würzburg, Germany Phuoc Tran-Gia is professor and director of the Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Previously he was at academia in Stuttgart, Siegen (Germany) as well as industries at Alcatel (Stuttgart) and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (Zurich, Switzerland). Professor Tran-Gia was active in several EU framework projects (Networks of Excellence EuroFGI, EuroNF) and COST actions. He is consultant and cooperation project leader with Siemens (Munich, Berlin), Nortel (Texas), Deutsche Telekom (Bonn, Berlin), Alcatel Lucent (Stuttgart), Bosch (Stuttgart), Datev (Nuremberg). His current research areas include architecture and performance analysis of communication systems, and planning and optimization of communication networks. Phuoc Tran-Gia is also founder of Infosim (Würzburg, Germany) and Infosim Asia Pacific (Singapore), specialized in IP network management products and services as well as of WeblabCenter (Dallas, Texas), specialized in web applications and crowdsourcing solutions. He currently works on funding strategies and initiatives towards Next Generation Internet within the European Union and with the German Ministry of Research and Education. He is currently coordinator of the project German-Lab (G-Lab), which is funded by BMBF, aiming to foster experimentally driven research to exploit future internet technologies.

	Naoki Uchida ─ NTT, Japan Naoki Uchida, Director, Service innovation Project, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, NTT Since joining the NTT Laboratories in 1985, Dr. Naoki Uchida has been active in R&D of network service architecture, Intelligent Networks, Next Generation Networks and Service Delivery Platforms. From 1999 to 2003, he was responsible for the development of commercial network services in NTT East Corporation. Dr. Naoki Uchida received M.S. degrees in electro-communication from University of electro-communication, Tokyo, Japan, and a Dr. Eng. degree on network service systems from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, respectively.

	Musa Unmehopa ─ Alcatel Lucent, France Musa Unmehopa is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff within the office of the CTO of Alcatel-Lucent's Convergence business group. Musa has held several leadership positions in various standards organizations, and currently is the chairman of the OMA Technical Plenary. Musa is a co-author of the book “Parlay / OSA: From Standards to Reality”, published by Wiley & Sons. In addition, Musa authored numerous journal and conference papers, has one patent and several patents pending in the area of service delivery and service mediation. Musa holds an M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Technical University of Twente in The Netherlands.

	Dragos Vingarzan – Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Dragos Vingarzan followed the academical programs of Automatic Control and Computers Faculty at the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, majoring in base operating software and compilers. He obtained the Diploma-Engineer degree with a thesis on IMS service triggering. Between 2001 and 2004 he was leading the software department of Romania Data Systems, which is the strongest ISP and the principal competitor to the national fixed operator in Romania. In 2004 he joined the Competence-Center "Next Generation Network Infrastructures" of Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication System (FOKUS) as an undergraduate student completing his diploma thesis. After graduation he continues to work there as a PhD student. He is focusing at the moment on the core components of Next Generation Networks, with special emphasis on IMS. He is the architect of the Open IMS Core and he is leading the signaling components developments and performance evaluations. As also an active member of several NGN benchmarking standardization efforts, his main field of interest is performance evaluations, analysis, proof-of-concepts and improvements for IMS.

	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.

	Masami Yabusaki ─ DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH, Japan Masami Yabusaki (yab@docomolab-euro.com) is a president and CEO in DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH. He received the B.S. M.S., Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Waseda University in 1982 1984, and 1993 respectively. He joined NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) in 1984. He was engaged in research of on-board baseband switch for an SS-TDMA system during 1984-1987, development of switch hardware and software for PDC (Personal Digital Cellular) system during 1988-1991, and development and standardization of third generation mobile network, IMT-2000 during 1992-1999. He was the CEO of DoCoMo Europe S.A. in Paris during 1998-2000. He has led All- IP network research, development and SAE (System Architecture Evolution) standardization during 2000-2008. He is currently leading the research on next mobile core network, network value-added services, and 5G cellular wireless. He has been promoting the RCS (Rich Communication Services) nationally and internationally. In academic activity, he has served as a chairman of the mobile multimedia communication study committee in the IEICE and chairman of several special issues in the IEICE communication transaction. He has served also as a co-editor of special issues in IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine and a chairman of technical and panel session in the major conferences such as ICC and Globecom. . In global standardization activity, he has served as a rapporteur of ITU-T SG11 on IMT-2000 radio access signaling and as a vice-chairman of 3GPP TSG-CN on GSM evolved IMT-2000 CN. He is now a convener of 3GPP improvement adhoc. He was awarded several prizes including the Young Engineers Award from IEICE in 1989, the Global Activity Promotion Award and the Achievement Award from ITU-AJ in 1998 and 2004, etc.

	Joachim Zeiß ─ Zeiss-Consulting, Hungary Joachim has over 17 years of experience in the field of Information and Communication Technology and has worked with leading telecom companies like Kapsch CarrierCom, Nortel Kapsch and Nortel DASA. Has carried out extensive research in the area of telecom, mobile internet and distributed systems at Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (FTW). He is a experienced leader of scientific projects and software development teams in industry. He is software architect and designer and has excellent technical know-how of mobile based applications as well as networks. His current interest is to integrate semantic web technology with the needs and possibilities of mobile internet and context computing to make smartphones smart in deed.