Volker is an energetic leader with 25+ years of broad and international experience in the telecommunications industry. He currently serves as Senior Technology Advisor in Nokia Strategy&Technology unit. In his previous roles, Volker has exercised a leadership role with Nokia Bell Labs in 6G research and ecosystem and has served as Head of 5G Leadership and Chief Architect of Nokia Mobile Networks.
He has a Diploma-Degree of Telecommunications of University Kaiserslautern, Germany, and was serving at Siemens in various positions for mobile communications research and product management before he joined in 2013
Huawei European Research Centre as Head of Wireless Internet Technologies where he runs private and public R&D projects and programmes for e.g. car-to-car, ehealth and automation supporting 3GPP standardization and normative work for the vertical industry.
In September 2016 he was appointed as Executive Committee member for the 5GAA and re-assigned in following years. He was the initiator of 5GAA and leads the Munich team for their technical contributions to Working Groups in 3GPP / 5GAA and for 5G evolution up to 6G.
Andrea is a TV journalist with an international career since 1988. From 1991 to 1994, he was working in CBS as European News Manager in Washington DC. Back in Italy, was involving as News Director in Retemia before Kirch Group has acquired the national tv to convert it in the first shopping tv in Italy.
Moved to Rome to continue his director’s role and to became Comunicare Digitale’s President since 2003. The digital association was born to explain the digital revolution in Italy and Europe, beginning with the dtt process in Italy and Spain, starting with the European Digital Forum event in Lucca and established new partnership with broadcasters, media producers, technological platforms, satellite and terrestrial operators, creating the largest digital hub in Europe. The new Tech Talks on line program are followed by over 2000 people simultaneously on www.forumeuropeo.tv/en and the main business and social platforms
He’s working with the main institutions in Bruxelles and Strasbourg, producing a popular program called SETTE 24 Europa, covering the most important event as State of the Union, Sakharov Prize, Journalist’s seminars, Treaty of Rome. In 2017, join the 5G CITY Eu project (Horizon 2020 w/ an important Consortium leadered by I2CAT) to disseminate and promote the activities develop in Lucca, Barcelona and Bristol, with a formal appreciation by the European Commission for the important results achieved. Now, is part of a new H2020 project, 5GZORRO, plans to address a set of solutions for implementing zero touch security and trust. He lives in Andalucía, but often travelling in Europe and enjoy his house’s family in Tuscany.
Professor Antonio M. Lacy is the Head of the Gastrointestinal Surgery Department at the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona. He is the founder of AIS Channel (www.aischannel.com), the main global platform for surgical teaching, which seeks to bring surgeons from every corner of the world closer to the key opinion leaders and to the latest surgical innovations and technologies. Professor Lacy is a pioneer and a leader in TaTME. He has performed over 400 cases to date and has chaired numerous TaTME courses all over the world.
Professor Lacy was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 2019 (ACS). He was elected Honorary Fellow of the American Association of Colorectal Surgeons (ASCRS) in 2013 and he was awarded the SAGES International Ambassador Award in 2017.
Rui L. Aguiar (born 1967) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Aveiro, where he is currently a Full Professor. He was the founder of the ATNOG research group, an advanced telecommunication research group at the Universidade de Aveiro (with about 12 PhDs). He is currently co-coordinating a research line in Instituto de Telecomunicações, on the area of Networks and Services. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM. He is serving as the Steering Board Chair of Networld Europe. As community engagement, he has served as Technical and General (co)Chair of several conferences (ICNS, ICT, ISCC, Mobiarch, Monami, NTMS, etc),. He is an associated editor of Wiley’s Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, Springers’ Wireless Networks. He has more than 100 journal papers published.
Born in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Catalonia, Spain) in 1974.
He is currently Vice-president of the Generalitat de Catalunya and chairs the I2CAT Foundation.
Regarding his previous posts, he was appointed Director General for Telecommunications and the Information Society in 2013, Secretary for Telecommunications, Cybersecurity and Digital Society in 2016 and Minister for Digital Policies and Public Administration in 2018. Prior to that, he was a councillor and deputy mayor on Sant Cugat Town Council (2005-2013).
He holds a master’s degree (MEng) in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Surrey (UK). From 1997 to 2001 he worked in Frankfurt as an ICT engineer in the IT department of Deutsche Bank. In 2001 he returned to Catalonia to work for a multinational technology company.
Some of the main actions taken during his mandate have been the roll-out of the fibre optic network throughout Catalonia, the implementation of the Cybersecurity Agency of Catalonia, the arrival of the first submarine cables in Catalonia, the promotion of the 5G network and the launch of the first nanosatellite of the Generalitat within the New Space project to boost a new aerospace industry in Catalonia.
He is the author of the book El 5è Poder, La República Digital a les teves mans.
Dr. Jürgen Quittek is Managing Director of the NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his degree in communications engineering from RWTH Aachen in 1989 and his Ph.D. from Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in 1996. After a postdoctoral year in Berkeley, California, he joined the NEC laboratories in 1997. In 2000 he was a visiting professor at Freie Universität Berlin. He conducted research in the areas of neural networks, network management, data security, software-defined networking, energy-efficient communications, and 5G/6G mobile networks, and he served as TCP chair and member of many conferences and workshops. As working group chair, rapporteur, and author he contributed to communication standards at ETSI, IETF, and ONF. His current research interests also include artificial intelligence and bioinformatics.
Josep Martrat holds a Degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He is currently Head of Telecom, Media and Edge Technologies at Atos Research and Innovation. He works on the establishment of the innovation strategy for Atos’ portfolio around telecoms. His research activity includes study of Edge computing technologies, network virtualization (SDN/NFV) and new 5G services in many vertical sectors. He is contributing to the 5G-PPP initiative and has coordinated some European research initiatives such as 5GTANGO project about agile network service development and network management and Orchestration, and he is currently leading Affordable5G initiative about the cost efficient roll-out of 5G private networks in scenarios like advance Manufacturing and MCS (Mission Critical Services). He is ATOS representative on Smart Network and Services partnership for future 6G research in Horizon Europe programme.
David has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry at multiple vendors including Juniper, Nortel or Eico-Dialogic. During the 13 years at Juniper he has worked closely with large Service Providers around the world in network modernization, virtualization and monetization projects. Currently he works closely with the Strategic Alliances developing an open partner ecosystem for 5G and beyond, including NEC, IBM-RedHat or Ericsson.
David is Computer Engineer by UAB and executive-MBA; is a regular speaker at events and author of multiple articles and blogs at Juniper Networks.
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