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Adel Al-Hezmi - LCC Saudi Arabia Adel Al-Hezmi is an NGN/IMS Expert at LCC Saudi Arabia. He received his MSc in electrical engineering in 2003 from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany with specific emphasis on telecommunication engineering and networks. Currently he is responsible for design aspects related to the NGN and the IMS infrastructure in a leading telecommunication operator in Saudi Arabia. Before joining the LCC he was a senior researcher at the Competence-Center "Next Generation Network Infrastructures" of Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication System (FOKUS), where he was leading the developments related to IMS based Triple Play, IPTV, mobile TV and interactive multimedia applications. He published several papers and constructed workshops on international conferences. He has been involved in several international research projects in the area of NGN and fixed mobile convergence. |
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Dr. Stefan Arbanowski - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Stefan Arbanowski is director of the Competence Center Smart Environments (SE) at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communcation Systems FOKUS in Berlin, Germany working towards the vision of personalized telecommunication services in a world of networked devices. Target application domains are the home and office area but also mobile and automotive/vehicular environments. He is currently coordinating Fraunhofer FOKUS' Media Interoperability Lab activities bundling expertise in the areas of interactive applications, media handling, mobile telecommunications, and next generation networks. Media Interoperability Lab channels those activities for Next Generation Media Delivery Platforms featuring live, on demand, context-aware, and personalized interactive media empowered by the Open IMS Playground. Stefan Arbanowski received his Ph.D and M.Sc. in computer science from the Technical University Berlin, Germany. Beside telecommunications and distributed service platforms, he has published more than 70 papers in respective journals and conferences in the area of personalized service provisioning. He is member of eMobility European Technology Platform Steering Board and was chairman elect of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) Service Platform Working Group (WG2) for 2004-2005. |
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Dr. Heinrich M. Arnold - Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories, Germany Since 2004, Dr. Heinrich Arnold heads up ‘Innovation Development’ – Applied Corporate R&D – at Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories, and further executing units of the corporation as well as with external partners and subcontractors. In addition, Dr. Arnold is in charge of R&D strategy, the Office for Technology and Market Trends Research which includes exploration, technology scouting, and customer driven innovation. Arnold also takes care of the entrepreneurship and spin-off activities at T Labs. Prior to this, he helped to prepare the large scale spin-off of Telekom’s TV cable business and oversaw organizational and strategic projects in terms of innovation at Deutsche Telekom AG. Before his engagement at Deutsche Telekom AG, he worked for Mercer Management Consulting and as a member of the management team of the German-Chinese research company Bicoll Group. Arnold studied Technical Physics at the Technical University of Munich. He graduated with a Master of Science in Engineering from Stanford University, a Master of Business Research from Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as a Ph.D. from Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich in Technology Management. Dr. Arnold is a lecturer in Innovations Management, the author of the scientific book, Technology Shocks, on the management of radical technological change, and a member of the Innovation Leadership Advisory Boards of the School of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is active in the Scientific Committee of the Münchner Kreis, as a referee for the German Ministry of Education and Research, and represents Deutsche Telekom as a member of the Feldafinger Kreis, and in the academic selection committee for new professorships at the TU Berlin. Arnold is married and has two sons. |
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Nick Bambos - Stanford University, USA Nick Bambos is Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Management Science at Stanford University. He heads the Network Performance Engineering research group, which currently works on high-performance network architectures, autonomic computing, and service engineering. His methodological interests are in network control, on-line task scheduling, and stochastic processing networks. He has been the Cisco Systems Faculty Scholar at Stanford, has won the IBM Faculty Award, the NSF National Young Investigator Award, etc. He received his PhD in EE/CS from U.C. Berkeley and his engineering diploma in EE from the Technical University of Athens-Greece. |
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Alberto Baravaglio - Telecom Italia, Italy Alberto Baravaglio graduated in Computer Science at University of Turin in 1993. In 1995 he joined Telecom Italia where he worked in several domains IT, Telco and mixed. In the first years he has been working on ERP systems and on system integration solutions; now he is a Solution Architect in the area of Service Layer and the main stream of his activities is centered on the relation between Web 2.0 and Telcos and the enabling platforms. In the last years he has been contributing in various European projects in the Sixth Framework Programme. |
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Gordon B. Beith - Empirix Inc., USA Gordon Beith joined Empirix in 2004, with responsibility for overseeing product development and management of the Hammer performance and load testing platforms. He also serves as the company's representative to engineering and interoperability groups including the IMS Forum and Multi-Service Forum. His extensive career includes over 25 years of work in telecommunications product management, hardware & software development, and related next-generation services areas. In addition to his work with Empirix, his background includes product, project, and account management positions for Spirent, Cisco, and Ericsson in global locations including North America, Europe, Australia, and China. He received his BEE (Electronics) degree from Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and received advanced technical and management training at the Australian Institute of Management, Melbourne, Australia; Ericsson Project Management Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; and Ashridge College, London, England. Gordon also co-authored of the book on IMS testing and monitoring, entitled “Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience”. |
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Stefan Berg - Detecon International GmbH, Germany Stefan Berg studied Computer Science in Dortmund/Germany before joining 1993 the R&D organization of a leading Scandinavian vendor. He was involved in the development of the mobile core network in various positions and participated in the implementation of several important changes such as CAMEL, UMTS and 3GPP R4 layered architecture. After changing to Detecon in 2004, IMS became one of his focus fields. He was responsible for several IMS related projects both on vendor as well as on operator side. |
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Niklas Blum - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Niklas Blum is the Deputy Director of the Next Generation Network division at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, which also provides the national NGN/IMS test and development center in Germany. His expertise is based on service oriented architectures, web-based services and technologies, distributed communication systems, advanced middle-ware technologies, VoIP and the IP-Multimedia Subsystem.. Furthermore he is a principal consultant of Direct Link Consult e.V., a FOKUS Consulting spin-off focusing on professional services, strategic studies and technology coaching. He is a frequent speaker at conferences related to his research topics and publishes research papers in his fields of expertise. Niklas Blum holds a Master degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Applied Sciences at Leipzig in Germany. |
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David Boswarthick - ETSI TC TISPAN Support Officer, France For the past 6 years David has been assisting with the development of third generation mobile networking standards in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) working with the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). His speciality has been the standardization of the new IP based core network and more specifically the SIP (session Initiation Protocol) based IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem). Recent moves have taken him from the world of mobile to fixed access to IMS, and his present field of activity is ETSI's NGN (Next Generation Network) project, adapting the 3GPP Core IMS specifications for use in the fixed world (xDSL access to IMS) David holds a Bachelors Honours Degree in Telecommunications from the University of Plymouth, and a Masters Degree in Networks and Distributed systems from University of Nice and Sophia Antipolis, France. He has more than 15 years experience in the telecommunications field, which in includes 7 years of experience in standardization. |
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Dr. Udo Bub - EICT GmbH, Germany Dr. Udo Bub is the general manager of the European Center for Information and Communication Technologies (EICT GmbH) and a member of the executive team of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, the central R&D unit within Deutsche Telekom, where his areas of responsibility include Human Computer Interaction, ICT Architectures and ICT Infrastructures as well as security. He received his degrees in electrical engineering at Technical University of Munich and had held long term research appointments at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh, PA and at Siemens AG's Corporate Technology in Munich. His research interest is focussed around ICT systems engineering in telecommunications. Before taking up his current positions, he spent six years as a management and technology consultant in the telecommunications industry. |
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Berthold Butscher - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
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Russell Clark - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Russell Clark is co-founder of the IMS laboratory within the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (GT-RNOC). He teaches courses in IMS and mobile application development and co-manages the IMS student research competition. Dr. Clark holds the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. |
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John O'Connell - Hewlett-Packard, France John is a senior strategy technologist within HP Software's Communication and Media Solutions business, based in Grenoble, France. John joined HP in 1986 as a research scientist at the company's research labs in Bristol, UK, where he worked on formal methodologies for software engineering and distributed software systems. In 1994, he moved to HP's telecom software group in France, initially as a software architect for HP's OpenCall Intelligent Network (IN) platform, and later as solution architect for 3G, VoIP and next-generation service platforms. Since 2004, John has been part of the CTO office of HP's telecom software group, focusing on IMS strategy and IMS solutions. John has a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University College Cork, Ireland. |
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Paul Crane - BT, UK Paul Crane in a senior member of BT Innovate. This unit is responsible for discovering, validating and down streaming innovation into BT's market units. Paul is a telecommunications professional with 17 years experience in the industry. He has undertaken strategy roles within BT and global ventures. His current focus is innovation by applying Web business models to telecommunication provider services. |
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Prof. Noël Crespi - Institut National des Télécommunications, France Noël Crespi worked in CLIP from 1993 and joined France Telecom Research and Development in 1995 where he was involved on Intelligent Network paradigms for value added services such as CAMEL. He led the prepaid service project for Orange to build an architecture now hosting more than 10 million mobile subscribers. He took an active role in standardization as delegate in a number of standardizations committees in ETSI and 3GPP and as editor of CAMEL; he was the coordinator for France Telecom activities in standardization for Core Network and then for all GSM/UMTS activities. In 1999 he joined Nortel Networks as Telephony Program manager for France then Middle East-Africa. He was responsible of the evolution of the switch and call/session control in the SIP application server and led key programs for the evolution of Nortel products. He also worked for ETSI as an independent contractor. He joined Institut Telecom in 2002 and is currently professor and program director, leading the Core Network and Service Architecture group. He represents INT at 3GPP, coordinates the standardization activities for GET in ETSI. He is also invited Professor in Asian Institute of Technology. His current research interests are in B3G Core Network and Service Architectures. |
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Spyros Denazis - University of Patras, Greece Spyros Denazis received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece, in 1987, and in 1993 he acquired his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Bradford, UK, working on performance modeling and evaluation of computer networks. In 1996, he joined Intracom S.A., Greece, as project leader. In 1998, he joined Hitachi Europe Ltd., where he worked until 2003. Since 2003 he has been an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Patras, Greece. |
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Eberspächer - Technische Universität München, Germany Jörg Eberspächer is a full professor at the Technische Universität München and head of the institute for communication networks. His research interests are Next Generation Internet, Advanced Mobile Communication, Network Planning and Techno-Economics. He is one of the directors of the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), Munich and guest professor at the Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Before joining TUM, he was, after receiving a Dr.-Ing. degree at University Stuttgart, from 1977 to 1990 with Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, where he was responsible for R&D in high speed networks, and advanced switching and service control architectures. For many years he was active contributor to international standardization bodies, e.g., ANSI and ECMA. He is coauthor of the Wiley book GSM Global System for Mobile Communication and editor or author of several books and articles on advanced topics in telecommunications. From 2000-2002 he was chairman of the German Information Technology Society (VDE/ITG). Currently he is a member of the scientific advisory board of Fraunhofer FOKUS, chair of several other European research institutes a member of the board of the MÜNCHNER KREIS and member of the German national scientific academy “Leopoldina”. |
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Oliver Friedrich - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Oliver Friedrich is a senior research engineer at the Competence Center Smart Environments at Fraunhofer FOKUS. He holds a M. Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany with specific emphasis on telecommunication networks. Currently he is responsible for the technical coordination of the Fraunhofer FOKUS' Media Interoperability Lab activities managing the integration of new services and working on architectural issues. In addition he is preparing his PhD thesis in the field of personalized and interactive IPTV services delivered over Next Generation Networks. He is actively involved in the IPTV standardization process at ETSI TISPAN and published several papers and articles in this context. |
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Luís Ángel Galindo - Telefónica, Spain Executive MBA from IESE Business School. Master in Services and Security in IP networks from Technical University of Madrid. Master in Production Management. M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from the UPM. From the beginning he has been involved in wireless networks, firstly in Motorola, and from July 1996 in Telefónica Móviles Spain. From his position, Senior Manager in S&I in Mobile Services, coordinates a group responsible for bringing innovation to the user. He was the IMS Project Director in Telefónica. Founder of the WIMS 2.0 initiative (www.wims20.org) that he is personally leading. He represents Telefónica in different national and international congresses and fora. Luis is author of many articles for technical magazines as IEEE, GlobalComm, etc He teaches in Spanish universities and also makes in-company courses for external enterprises. In parallel, he is a freelance in strategy issues. |
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Anastasius Gavras - EURESCOM, Germany Anastasius Gavras is working since 1999 for Eurescom, the European Institute for Strategic Studies in Telecommunications, as Programme Manager in the area of distributed software, security, as well as management of networks, systems and services. After his studies at the technical University Berlin he was working for 5 years at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum and FOKUS in Berlin in the area of broadband networks and ATM. In 1994 he joined Deutsche Telekom AG as an engineer and project leader in research and development with a focus on advanced distributed software architectures and technologies for telecommunication applications. From 1996 to 1998 he was working in the United States at Bellcore and Sprint Inc. Anastasius Gavras has many years of experience managing European collaborative research projects and is currently in charge of the infrastructure implementation activities for a Pan-European testbed federation for next generation networks and services (projects Panlab and PII). |
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Adrian Georgescu - AG Projects, Netherlands Adrian Georgescu is Founder and CEO of AG Projects. Adrian is an advocate of IETF standards, member of OpenSER management board, founder and co-chair of the Dutch ISOC SIP Special Interest Group. Prior to starting of his own company, Adrian had accumulated experience with Tomrad Communications, Esprit Telecom, GTS, Ebone and KPNQwest. Adrian's expertise is the design of high-availability infrastructures, addressing and numbering systems, signaling protocols, provisioning and mediation systems, implementation of disaster recovery plans. Adrian has received in 1996 a degree in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Electrotechnics at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. Based in the Netherlands, AG Projects is a leading European company supplying cable operators and Internet service providers with turnkey SIP infrastructure systems. AG Projects focuses on the delivery of scalable SIP infrastructure that complements fiber to the home deployments, triple play and converged fixed/mobile communication services. Delivery includes the analysis of requirements, tailoring of solutions to meet the requirements, project management, training and support activities. |
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Howard Greenwell - Director of Technical Programs, Open Mobile Alliance Ltd., UK Howard is currently the Director of Technical Programs for the Open Mobile Alliance, responsible for the management of OMA’s supporting infrastructure and Interoperability Testing Programs. This includes managing external relationships with 3rd party suppliers and a team of OMA staff who are responsible for all logistics around the testing events, called TestFests. Prior to joining OMA in 2004, Howard worked for the UNIX standards organization, The Open Group and before that a software company called Micro Focus. At The Open Group, Howard was responsible for providing consortia management services to Bluetooth SIG, running Bluetooth’s UnPlugFest program, and in setting up and running Certification Programs for Bluetooth and OMG’s Corba Technology. During this time he managed a number of EC funded framework projects. In 15 years with Micro Focus, Howard worked in many areas of development and customer management, particularly in Japan. Latterly Howard worked in Business Development, managing 3rd party relationships with all external suppliers to Micro Focus. Howard has an honours degree in Computational Science from St. Andrews University in Scotland, and is currently based in Newbury, UK. |
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Dr. Walter Haeffner - Arcor, Germany
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Frank Hartwig - Swisscom AG, Switzerland Frank Hartwig is working since 2005 at Swisscom Network Development, Bern, Switzerland as Architect and Strategist for Multimedia Networks and Applications. His responsibilities include the design of the future Swisscom multimedia network including IMS Core based applications. From 2000-2005 he was at Cisco Systems, Green Park, UK, working as Software/QA Team leader in NSITE (Network Solution and Integration Test). He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from the University of Hertfordshire. |
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Frank Henschke - Head of IMS Program Northern Europe, Ericsson AG, Switzerland Frank Henschke joined Ericsson in 1993. After several years in leading positions in Germany, Switzerland and Sweden Frank joined Ericsson Switzerland in 2007 as Head of the IMS Program for Market Unit Northern Europe (Germany, BeNeLux and Switzerland). His responsibilities include the establishment of an IMS Competence Center and the development of an IMS Eco System. He holds a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the TU Braunschweig. |
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Ultan Kelly - Shenick Network Systems Ultan Kelly, has 18 years of experience in Telecommunications, and currently works as Director of Customer Engineering and Product Management at Shenick Network Systems, defining product strategy and overseeing system integration of servicEye, Shenick's award winning Video and Triple-play Test and Measurement platforms. Ultan spent five years with Retix Corporation. Retix, a specialist in OSI communications software, was one of the OSI pioneers of the 1990s. As a system integrator of Retix's OSI product line of SONET/SDH, wireless and embedded protocol stacks he held global responsibilities for IS-IS integration for Retix' customers which included AT&T, Motorola Alcatel, Lucent, Siemens. Ultan defined Retix' product strategy for embedded protocol stacks. After Retix, Ultan joined Euristix/FORE systems and was Product Manager for FORE Systems' ATM Element Manager. The role extended the product line to support IP and Access technologies for Configuration, Fault, Performance Management and network modeling. As FORE was acquired to Marconi, Ultan took on the role Director of OSS, developing an integration strategy for OSS umbrella management of Marconi's network portfolio for SDH, Access and switching and routing product line. Ultan worked for Corvil Networks for two years, defining product and market strategy for its innovative Essential Bandwidth technology, which cumulated in developed of a network probe, for real-time traffic management of IP Triple Play services for optimum network QoS configuration, at minimum cost, with pre-defined QoS objectives. |
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Dr. Tomás Kovár - IMS/NGN Forum, Austria Tom is currently worldwide product manager for HP IUM, HP's real time charging and active mediation solution (www.hp.com/go/charging). In this position, he is responsible for setting the strategic direction and roadmap for the IUM product. Since joining HP in 2000, Tom has served as senior business consultant, focusing on telco billing, managed the telecom consulting business first in Austria and then in the whole subregion, acted as billing consulting lead in the EMEA region and as worldwide programme manager for convergent charging. Prior to joining HP, Tom had held positions with telecom system integrators including Alcatel and IBM. He also built and ran a customer care and billing system at UTA, the largest alternative wireline operator in Austria, as its billing and IT development manager. Tom holds Master's degree in chemistry of the University of Erlangen, Germany, and PhD in theoretical chemistry of the University of Vienna, Austria. |
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Sebastian Krems - Detecon GmbH, Germany As member of the Executive Board of Detecon International GmbH, Sebastian Krems is also head of the Competence Practice “Communications Technology“. Together with his organization he focuses on the strategic alignment of technologies and business models as well as on designing and implementing innovative network and platform architecture concepts for fixed, mobile and wireless network operators and service providers. Before joining Detecon he was several years appointed as Managing Director of a large regional broadband carrier and an ISP. In the first 10 years of his career he held several positions in technology, product management and sales within leading telecommunication equipment vendors. |
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h. c. mult. Paul J. Kühn - University of Stuttgart, Germany
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Jiri Kuthan - Tekelec Jiri Kuthan is the Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Engineering with Tekelec, where he is responsible for the company's SIP technology. Jiri joined Tekelec via acquisition of iptelorg, a company he co-founded. At iptelorg Jiri was Chief Technology Officer and led a team that developed the SIP Express Router (SER) - one of the most widely deployed SIP routing engines in the world. The SIP Express Router has become the foundation of Tekelec's TekCore SSR technology. Prior to founding iptelorg, Jiri worked at Fraunhofer and MCI Worldcom. Jiri has been actively participating in IETF standardization, serves on the technical panels of several SIP-related conferences and is a frequent industry speaker. |
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Dr. Max Lemke - European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Dr. Max Lemke is the Deputy Head of Unit for “New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities” in the Directorate General Information Society and Media of the European Commission. In particular, he is responsible for building the European FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation Facility. Since 1995, Max Lemke has worked as scientific officer for the Commission in the domains “High Performance Computing and Networking” in Esprit 4, and “Communication, Computation, Networking” as well as “Trust and Security” in FP5-IST. From 2002 – 2006, as Deputy Head of Unit he was responsible for building a new strategic objective on "Grid Technologies". Before joining the Commission, Max Lemke has worked in research and industry in Germany, the US, the UK, and Belgium. With a Doctorate in Natural Sciences from the University of Düsseldorf and a Diploma in Mathematics from the University of Bonn, he has a scientific background in numerical mathematics, parallel computing, and software engineering. |
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Jan Leube - Chief Creative Officer, BBDO, Berlin, Germany With BBDO since: Mai 2008 Office: BBDO Berlin Professional career: 2008 CCO, BBDO Berlin 2006 Manager, Scholz & Friends Zürich 2000 Creative Director, Scholz & Friends Berlin 1998 Copywriter, Scholz & Friends Hamburg 1997 Editor, Das Wertpapier - Düsseldorf 1991 Raiser, The Temple - Music Production |
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz - TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz is full professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, leading the chair for next generation networks. In addition, he is director of the“3G beyond” division of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, which also provides a national Next Generation Network testbed in Germany. Since more than 18 years he is working in the convergence field of fixed and mobile telecommunications, the internet and information technologies, which resulted in many industry driven R&D projects centered around Next Generation Service Delivery platforms. In the course of his research activities he published more than 200 technical papers/articles. In addition, Prof. Magedanz is senior member of the IEEE, editorial board member of several journals. Based on his long experience in the teaching complex IT and telecommunication technologies to different customer segments in an easy to digest way, Prof. Magedanz is a globally recognized technology coach. His employments as university professor and division head of a major German R&D organization make him a prime choice for such trainings, as he is able to provide a non-biased presentation of the technologies. He regularly provides strategic and technology briefings for many tier 1 and 2 operators and major international telecom vendors. As well, he acts often as invited tutorial speaker at major telecom conferences and workshops around the world. |
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Michael Maretzke - Oracle Communications, Germany Michael Maretzke joined Oracle Communications in EMEA as a result of the recent acquisition of BEA. He focuses on business development for the communication product family of Oracle with a clear focus on Service Delivery Platforms (SDP). Michael's special area of interest is the evolution of IN platforms, migration challenges in context of IMS and service composition. Michael was involved in the standardisation work around JAIN SLEE and SIP Servlets. |
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Prof. Tiziana Margaria - University of Potsdam, Germany Tiziana Margaria is full professor at the University of Potsdam, where she hold the Chair of Service and Software Engineering at the Institute of Informatics. She has previously held positions in Germany at the universities of Göttingen, Dortmund, Passau, and at the Technical University of Aachen, in Sweden at the University of Uppsala and in Italy at the University of Udine and at the Politecnico di Torino. Her research focuses on model-based system and service engineering, a sub discipline of software engineering and programming languages with a strong emphasis on tools and formal methods. Tiziana Margaria received a Laurea in Electrical Engineering and a PhD degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She is (co-) author of over 80 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. Tiziana Margaria is currently President of the "European Association of Software Science and Technology" (EASST), after having served in the Presidium of the GI ("Gesellschaft für Informatik" - the German Association for Computer Science). She is member of the Board of FMICS (the ERCIM Working Group on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems), serves as a member of the steering committee of ETAPS, the European joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, is an Advisory Board member of the QPQ (QED-Pro-Quo) initiative, an online journal for publishing peer-reviewed source code for deductive software components, and a member of the IFIP Working Group 1 on Theoretical Computer Science and of the IFIP Working Group 10.5 on Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems. She is also the ideator and General Chair of ISoLA 2004 and 2006, the series of International Symposia on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, co-founder of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT, Springer), member of the editorial board of the Formal Methods Letter (Springer) and of the NASA journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (Springer). She has served on more than 40 Program Committees, over 10 times as chair, and she is member of the ACM, IEEE, GI, FME, EAPLS, and EASST. She has broad experience in the use of formal methods for high assurance systems, in particular concerning functional verification, reliability, and compliance of complex heterogeneous systems, through major industrial projects (where she won the European IT Award in 1996, and a start-up competition in 2001) and consulting, as well as through her activities as founder and CEO of startup companies. Her current focus is on formal methods supporting reliability and compliance through a model-driven version of service-oriented development. This concerns in particular the adequate treatment of third party components, as well as issues like policies, compliance, service-level agreement, fault tolerance, runtime monitoring, and system evolution. The industrial applications of jABC framework, developed with her guidance, has proven the practicality of this holistic approach. |
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Dr. Martin May - Senior Research Associate, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Martin May received the Master degree in computer science from the University of Mannheim in 1996. In 1999, he received his Ph.D. degree at INRIA Sophia Antipolis from the University of Nice, France. He did most of his thesis work on Internet QoS mechanisms at INRIA, but was also technical staff member of Lucent Bell-Labs Research, Holmdel, USA and Sprintlabs, Burlingame, USA. Until beginning of 2000, he continued his research as a post-doctoral member of the research staff at Sprintlabs, Burlingame, US. From 2000 until 2003, he founded a start up company in France where he worked in the field of Content Networking. He is now senior researcher at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). His research interests are in future Internet architectures, mobile ad hoc networks, and network security. Since 2006, he coordinates a large EU-funded project on autonomic networking with the goal to develop new networking paradigms and node architectures for a future Internet. Dr. May is a member of the IEEE, ACM and the Internet Society. He chaired multiple workshops and conferences and also served on technical Program committees for many networking conferences. He is also an active member of the IETF where he is co-editor of multiple Internet-drafts. |
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Roberto Minerva - Telecom Italia, Italy Roberto Minerva, Manager, is a focal point for Technological Trends within the Research and Trends department of Telecom Italia. He held various responsibilities within TILAB: Network Intelligence, Wireless Network Architecture and Fixed Access Network Testing Labs Area Manager. Roberto graduated in Computer Science. Since 1987 he was involved in the definition and development of distributed applications and Service Architectures for Telecom Networks (such as TINA, OSA/Parlay and SIP – based architecture). From 2000 Roberto worked in the development of IMS and Wireless Architectures; and, from 2003 to end 2005, in the definition of convergent services and solutions aiming at the Business Market. Currently he is in charge for the development of scenarios made possible by new technologies. |
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Peter Möckel - Vice President Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Peter Möckel has held management posts with Deutsche Telekom since 1999. He studied computer science at Cambridge, England, and RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Peter Möckel is in charge of overall organizational management at Telekom Laboratories. As Deutsche Telekom’s representative he is also a member of the Steering Committee. |
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Thomas Mörsdorf - Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany Thomas Mörsdorf is responsible for international technology management, including technology strategy and innovation management since 2003. He leads DT’s open development initiative. He is an expert in telecommunications, IT and media where he focused on strategy, organisation and technology issues. He worked as a Senior Manager for Arthur D. Little International Inc. at Berlin and Palo Alto/USA and as Executive Vice President Consulting of Pixelpark AG. He started his career with Toshiba Europa I.E. as a product manager for data communication products. Thomas Mörsdorf holds a diploma in computer science and economics of Universität des Saarlandes. |
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Tatsuro Murakami - NTT, Japan Tatsuro Murakami received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1979 and 1981, respectively. He joined Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratories, NTT in 1981. He has been engaged in research and development of communication network architectures, and communication switching software. Currently he is working on establishing of NTT’s next generation communication network architectures, and planning the overall research and development strategies toward NTT’s next generation communication networks. He is Executive Research Engineer, NTT Service Integration Laboratories. |
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Eugen Mikóczy - T-Com, Slovak Telekom A.S., Slovakia Eugen Mikóczy is a senior designer for application and service control layer of ST network architecture. He was responsible in ST for development of new products based on IN and NGN service platforms for value add services (2002-2005). He was responsible for designing and development of ST triple play services in ST (2005-present), for providing also IP TV service over broadband fixed network and actually working on IPTV evolution aspects and topics (e.g. actively contributed to TISPAN NGN based IPTV standardization). Eugen Mikóczy has been involved several years in development and research activities focused on new NGN technologies within several industrial or academic institutions (Alcatel, Siemens, Finnish 2G, DTAG Laboratories and Slovak University of Technology) and as co-author also published several books and papers related to NGN topics. He is co-leading NGN laboratory at Slovak University of Technology and participates in different R&D projects and education activities there. |
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Frank Paetsch - Teles AG, Germany Frank Paetsch began his career at TELES in 1989 as a software developer, and played a vital role in building up the company. During his time as a developer, Frank’s work led to more than 25 patents being registered for TELES. In 2006, Frank was made Head of R&D for the entire TELES Communication Systems R&D department. In April 2007, he was appointed to the TELES management board as CTO. Frank holds a Diploma in Computer Sciences from the Technical University Berlin. |
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Santiago Pérez -Telefónica I+D, Spain Santiago Pérez received his Master Eng. Computer Science in 2000 (Valladolid University). In 2001, he joined New Generation Mobile Services Division in Telefónica I+D working in projects related to multimedia services over the GPRS and UMTS networks, and the application of wireless technologies (Bluetooth and WiFi) to Access Control Systems and M2M solutions over cellular networks. In 2005, he worked on the development of a IMS Application Server in the Reference Architectures for Platforms of New Networks Division in Telefónica I+D Since 2006 he has been the responsible of the Telefónica I+D contributions in the IST MIDAS project, a strep project in the EU FP6. Lately, he has contributed in the definition of an IMS based Sensor Enabler and in the use of the Telco Service Architecture in automobile based services. |
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Prof. Dr. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Prof. Dr. Dr. R. Popescu-Zeletin is professor at the Technical University Berlin and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS). He led the research and development department of the BERKOM project of the German Telekom pilot project for the development of new applications in broadband ISDN environment. He published many papers on distributed computing systems and applications. He was active in standardization committees (DIN, ISO, EURESCOM) and had contributed to the development of telecommunication standards. He is founder of several telecommunication companies: IKV++ Technologies AG, IVISTAR AG, Testing Technologies IST GmbH, TwonkyVision GmbH, ICAM GmbH. Prof. Popescu-Zeletin graduated at the Polytechnical Institute Bucharest, Romania, got his PH.D. from the University of Bremen, Germany and his habilitation from the Technical University Berlin. He is Senior Member of IEEE, Doctor honoris causa of the Polytechnical Institute Bucharest and Professor honoris causa of the Catholic University of Campinas, Brasil. Furthermore he is member of the Motorola Visionary Board 2004-2006 as well as member of the Romanian Academy. Prof. Popescu-Zeletin is bearer of the Public Service Medal of the Republic of Romania. |
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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 almost 10 years now. Günther participated in various research projects, helped to establish the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (www.ftw.at) and obtained a Dr. degree on Service Creation for UMTS in 2002. In May 2002 he has joined mobilkom austria and participated in various service infrastructure projects, like an evaluation of the Open Service Architecture. Since the beginning of 2005 he is the Lead Architect for the IMS activities of mobilkom austria group (www.mobilkomaustriagroup.com), including strategic and service aspects. |
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Rastin Pries - University of Wuerzburg, Germany Rastin Pries graduated in computer science at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Since 2004 he is a research fellow at the chair of Prof. Phuoc Tran-Gia, the department of Distributed Systems working towards his PhD. Previously he was at academia in Wedel and Wuerzburg (Germany) as well as industries at Computer Partner (Hamburg, Germany) and Infosim (Dallas, USA). His research interests are performance analysis and optimization of broadband wireless access networks. Rastin Pries is involved in several industry projects (Deutsche Telekom, EADS, France Telecom) and takes an active part in European Cost, Network of Excellences, and BMBF projects. He is currently coordinating the BMBF project “G-Lab” together with Prof. Phuoc Tran-Gia. |
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Christian Riede - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Christian Riede holds a graduate engineer degree (Dipl.-Ing) in Industrial Engineering (Information and Communication Technologies) from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He has broad knowledge of economics and business administration as well as telecommunication systems and markets. He works as research scientist and PhD candidate for the Next Generation Network Infrastructure division at Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. His research topics cover P2P and IPTV technologies, as well as IPTV Applications Server in the field of IP-Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). He worked for Nokia Siemens Networks and Rohde&Schwarz Germany. |
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Björn Noël Rosenthal - Productmanager A/V Medien, Deutsche Welle, Germany Björn Rosenthal started his career as editorial journalist at “Deutsche Fernsehnachrichten Agentur” where he worked for the “Grimme” award-winning interactive TV show NBC GIGA. In January 2002, he joined Germanys international public broadcaster Deutsche Welle as task manager for European research projects focusing on interactive story telling, MHP and mobile services. Björn Rosenthal has been involved in several EC projects such as "I-TV - Designing, Authoring and Producing Enhanced Televised Content on the Internet and on TV", "Smartcast - Transforming broadcast content providers into "smart" broadband media organisations" and "MCAST – Multicasting Trial over 2.5 and 3G networks". Lead managed by Björn Rosenthal, Deutsche Welle started its engagement in Podcasting in 2004 and became one of the most successful players on the global market. In September 2005 Deutsche Welle also started a Video-Podcasting service and was the first international public broadcaster using this technology. Since 2006 he works as product manager for the new media department and is responsible for IP based distribution of audio & video content. Major collaborations with leading portals like YouTube, iTunes or Yahoo are a result of his negotiations and major workflow improvements, following the “pope” approach (produce once – publish everywhere), have been made. In addition Björn Rosenthal also works as a freelance consultant for the European Commission evaluating ICT proposals in the area of “Intelligent Content and Semantics”. In addition, he runs a very successful Web-TV magazine about carp fishing on http://www.carpheart.tv. |
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Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schieferdecker studied Mathematical Computer Science at Humboldt-University Berlin and did her PhD in 1994 at Technical University Berlin on performance-extended specifications and analysis of QoS characteristics. Since 1997, she is heading the Competence Center for Testing, Interoperability and Performance (TIP) at the Fraunhofer Institute on Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin and is heading now the Competence Center Modeling and Testing for System and Service Solutions (MOTION).. She is Professor on Engineering and Testing of Telecommunication Systems at Technical University Berlin since 2003. Prof. Schieferdecker works since 1994 in the area of design, analysis, testing and evaluation of communication systems using specification-based techniques like UML (Unified Modeling Language), MSC (Message Sequence Charts) and TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation). Prof. Schieferdecker authored many scientific publications in the area of development and testing. She is an active member in the standardization of TTCN-3 by ETSI and of the UML 2.0 Testing Profile by OMG. She is co-founder of the Testing Technologies IST GmbH, Berlin and member of the German Testing Board. She received in 2004 the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Award for Young Professors and in 2005 the ITEA Achievement Award. |
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Dr. Albrecht Schwarz - Alcatel-Lucent, Germany |
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José Carlos Sendra - VODAFONE ESPAÑA, S.A., Spain STUDIES:
January 2007-today: VODAFONE ESPAÑA, S.A., Group R&D Department
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Prof. Bernhard Steffen - University of Dortmund, Germany Bernhard Steffen graduated in Mathematics (1983) and obtained a PhD in Computer Science (1987) from the Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel (D), then he was Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS) in Edinburgh and Researcher at the University of Aarhus (Denmark). 1990 he became Associate Professor for Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen, and 1993 Full Professor for Programming Systems at the University of Passau. Since 1997 he holds the Chair of Programming Systems and Compiler Construction at the University of Dortmund, where he was Dean of Computer Science between 2002 and 2004 and member of the Senate since January 2006. He is author of over 100 internationally refereed papers concerning various aspects of formal (verification) methods and tools for program analysis, compiler optimization, model generation, testing, and service-oriented software development. He has served on more than 50 Program Committees, over 10 times as chair, on numerous Steering Committees, and in the Editorial Boards of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Kluwer´s Formal Methods in System Design, as well as Springer´s Software: Concepts and Tools and Innovations in Software and Systems engineering: A NASA Journal. Since 2004 he is editor of LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) for the sub-libraries `Theoretical Computer Science´ and `Programming Techniques and Software Engineering´. He has broad experience in the use of formal methods to support state of the art industrial software development of distributed cooperative systems through major industrial projects (where he won the European IT Award in 1996, and a start-up competition in 2001) and consulting, as well as through his activity as an Advisory Board Member of ASTEC, a Swedish technology transfer initiative for Advanced Software Technolog, and as a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the UK strategic research & training initiative in Large-Scale Complex IT Systems (LSCITS). He is founder and Editor in Chief of Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), Springer Verlag, and founder and Steering Committee Member of TACAS, the Int. Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. In 2004 he co-founded ISoLA (Int. Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation). In 1989 he co-developed the Concurrency Workbench, one of the earliest formal analysis tools for distributed and parallel systems, 1991 he set the scene for Software Model Checking with his paper Data Flow Analysis as Model Checking, 1992 he presented the first functioning Model Checker for infinite-state systems with Model Checking for Context-Free Processes, and in 2002 he obtained the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award for Lazy Code Motion, which is given 10 years later in retrospective. Currently, his research focuses on technology to support business process modelling and service-oriented development of complex, heterogeneous systems. |
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Huu Thanh Nguyen - Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Huu Thanh Nguyen is currently with Hanoi University of Technology as senior researcher. His research interests include QoS architectures and mechanisms, real-time communications as well as multimedia networks and applications. From 2002 - 2003 he was at Fraunhofer FOKUS Berlin. Huu Thanh Nguyen received Ph.D from the University of Federal Armed Forces Munich (summa cum laude) and Master from Hanoi University of Technology in 2002 and 1996, respectively. |
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Neil Tomlinson - Anritsu, Denmark Neil Tomlinson recently joined Anritsu based in Denmark where he is responsible for all aspects of Global Marketing. Before Neil joined Anritsu he was with Tekelec for 9 years were he held a number of senior positions. His final position was VP Regional Marketing including the go to market strategies for Tekelec’s IMS Application product lines, “EAGLE” Signalling (SS7 and IP) and Next Generation Switching. Prior to Tekelec Neil spent 5 years with DSC (Now Alcatel) where he was involved in developing the EMEA market with the whole product portfolio. His final position was the marketing director for switch products where he was focused on Signaling and Network Intelligence Prior to joining DSC in 1993, Neil spent 16 years with GPT (now Ericsson). Neil has a M.Sc. in Telecommunications Technology and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He has worked in the European and Global telecommunications industry for over 30 years and has held a number of professional and managerial positions. He has worked on the early development of a number of new technologies including: VoIP, IMS, Digital Switching (including SS7), SDH transmission, CDMA fixed radio and Intelligent Networks. His primary focus has been on improving the development and deployment of network systems. |
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Georgios Tselentis - European Commission, Brussels, Belgium G. Tselentis is with New Infrastructure Paradigms & Experimental Facilities Unit in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC). He works as scientific project officer responsible for research projects in the area of networking: test beds, autonomic communication and quality of services. Before his current assignment he worked as project officer with the EC in the areas of collaborative working environments and robotics. He worked in the past in industry and academia in applied research projects in the area of smart control and data analysis in which he holds a Ph.D from the Technical University of Crete. |
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Theofanis Vassiliou-Gioles - Testing Technologies, Germany Theofanis Vassiliou-Gioles is co-founder and CEO of Testing Technologies since the company foundation in 2000, aiming to provide best-of-class tool support around, for and with TTCN-3. He began his professional career at the Fraunhofer Research Institute FOKUS. In more than six years, he became a senior expert in testing and was subsequently assigned as Deputy Chief of Competence Centre for Testing, Interoperability and Performance. In this period he worked in projects for several test device vendors and was involved in the standardization of conformance test suites for the ATM technology. During this period he gained experience with the implementation of TTCN based test systems. Mr. Vassiliou-Gioles is involved in several standardization groups at ETSI, e.g. the TTCN-3 working group. He has published several papers on the application of TTCN-3 at various international conferences. Mr. Vassiliou-Gioles holds a Master in Electrical Engineering from Technical University Berlin. |
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Dragos Vingarzan - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Dragos Vingarzan followed the academical programs of Automatic Control andComputers 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. |
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Sebastian Wahle - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Sebastian Wahle holds a graduate engineer degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Industrial Engineering from the Technische Universität Berlin. He has a strong background in economics, business administration and telecommunications systems. Currently, he is working as a research scientist and PhD candidate for Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin where he is a project leader of NGN Testbed related projects. His main areas of interest are Testbed Management und Federation, the NGN Service Layer, Digital Identities and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). |
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David Waiting - Telkom SA Ltd, South Africa David Waiting has received a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and has recently been awarded a PhD from the same institution. He has worked in the field of IMS for the last three years during which time he has published several academic articles relating to IMS in peer-reviewed conferences and magazines. He has also performed extensive work on open-source IMS software projects and is the co-author of the world’s first open-source IMS client. David currently works for Telkom South Africa, the largest fixed-line operator in Southern Africa. His work includes monitoring standards compliance and development of Telkom’s technology strategy. He is an active participant in many technical program committees and standards bodies. |
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Peter Weik - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Peter Weik studied "Industrial Engineering and Management Science" at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany with specific emphasis on Telematics and Telecommunication networks. He did his master thesis at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in the field of next generation AAA infrastructures. He joined the team "Next Generation Network Infrastructures" of Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz in 2004 as a PhD student. He is actively involved in the realisation and development of the Open IMS Playground and in various national and international research projects. He published and presented several papers on international conferences, supports lectures at the Technical University of Berlin and supervises several master thesis with the chair for Next Generation Networks. During his two years with FOKUS he was engaged in user profile extensions to the 3GPP IMS Home Subscriber Server (HSS), the SIP routing architecture of the IMS, QoS management and also with charging realisations within IMS. His field of interest is "Identity Management solutions for NGNs", the development of an Open Source IMS Core and also benchmarking for IMS components. |
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