Pertti Jauhiainen joined the European Commission in 1996 as scientific officer for research issues in high-performance computing and networking. He is currently in the CONNECT Directorate General of the European Commission where he handles overall space issues, and in specific satellite communication. His field of activities covers also the 5G Public Private Partnership supporting 5G European R&D, and in this context, he handles the international cooperation in 5G with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. He is also involved in the implementation of the 5G Action Plan published by the Commission in 2016 to support 5G deployment in Europe. Before joining the European Commission, he worked in the telecommunications and the software engineering industries for 10 years.

Nicolas Chuberre graduated from “Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieur en Electronique et Electrotechnique” in Paris in 1988. Previously with Nokia & Alcatel Mobile phones to design signal processing algorithms, Medium Access Control protocols and integration test tools for 2G cellular handsets & systems, he joined Thales Alenia Space to manage the development of satellite payload equipment and the design of advanced Satellite Communication Systems (Geo stationary and constellation). He has successfully initiated and led several European R&D projects in F6, FP7 and H2020 context. He has been chairing the SatCom Working Group of ISI and Networld2020 technology platforms (https://www.networld2020.eu/) during 9 years and as such was member of the partnership board of the 5G Infrastructure Association (http://5g-ppp.eu/). Nicolas has published several papers on innovative Satellite System concepts. Currently he is defining and developing Satellite Solutions for 5G. In addition, he is the lead representative of Thales in 3GPP TSG RAN where he leads the standardisation effort on satellite in 5G. He also chairs since 2006 the Satellite Communication and Navigation working group at ETSI (www.etsi.org).

Georg Mayer is the Chairman of 3GPP SA, the Services and System Aspects of 3GPP. His current focus is on the coordination of 5G related work inside and outside 3GPP. He participates in the IETF and works closely with several of the new stakeholders in 5G, such as public safety, railways, autonomous systems and IoT service providers.

He is a published author and has co-authored a book on IMS, amongst other titles.

Georg Mayer holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Hagen, Germany and he works for Huawei Technologies.!

Semir Hassanaly, market director cellulaar backhaul & trunking

Semir is leading the mobile backhaul market at Newtec. A seasoned telecommunications executive, Semir is an expert at bridging technology and business specifically in the Mobile and Internet spaces. Previously with Memotec Semir was vice-president of Marketing & Strategy, and Product Marketing director at Comtech. Prior to this tenure, Semir has launched startups and held several international assignments with Oz Communications (acquired by Nokia), Airwide solutions/Schlumberger & Sema Group in the areas of product management, solutions architecture and product development.

Semir holds a M.S in Electronics and Automatics from the University of Sciences of Montpellier, France and a M.S in Business Administration (major is strategy) from the Institut Francais de Gestion, France.

Dr. Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas finished the Electronics Engineering B.Sc. in the state University of Guilan, Iran, in 2005. He received the M.Sc. degree in Optoelectronics from the state University of Tabriz, Iran, in 2008. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. in Optical Telecommunications at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. His PhD thesis has been honoured with the UPC special doctorate award for the academic year of 2013 – 2014. He joined Athens Information Technology (AIT), Athens, Greece, in the same year where he collaborated in the EU funded projects: FP7 FOX-C, FP7 INSPACE and H2020 ACINO. Since October 2015, he is working as the deputy director of software networks area at i2Cat Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, collaborating in EU funded projects such as 5GPPP H2020 SESAME, 5GPPP H2020 SaT5G, 5GPPP H2020 5G ESSENCE and FP7 DOLFIN. He is the coordinator of H2020 CARAMEL project. He also contributed on Plan Nacional I+D+i projects such as ONOFRE and ONOFRE II. Pouria is author/co-author of 50+ scientific publications including 3 books. His current research interests include: all optical communication systems, 5G, routing and resource allocation, techno-economic studies, NFV, SDN, heuristic algorithms.

Thierry Bérisot, IoT/Telecom Director at Novamint
Worldwide recognized expert in IoT/Telecom
Thierry BERISOT is promoting 5G and IoT to Verticals & Companies (Smart City, Utilities, Transport & Logistics…) and companies and verticals use cases to Carriers & Telecoms world.
He leads the standardization efforts to help verticals to get a say in the standardization at ETSI/3GPP: smart metering, asset tracking, logistics and transport, satellite…
He talks to all carriers worldwide to explain them the verticals & users’ positions.
He helps build trust & business between those different stakeholders i.e. Verticals and Carriers.

Before, he was Head of Access Clients for Mobile Broadband and terminal product development at Deutsche Telekom (Germany) from 2006 to 2015 where he was strongly involved in the 4G launch. He drove as well many industry and standardization initiatives such as the OMA OpenCMAPI which he chaired after having initiated it by convincing players such as Intel, Qualcomm, China Mobile, Huawei, Telefonica, Orange… to join.

Prior to this, he held various international experience positions as Business Development & Marketing Director for a Content & Software Company, as Senior Devices Vendor Manager at Proximus (Belgium) for 3G or as Strategic consulting on messaging and multimedia based in London.

Previously, in the end of 90’s, Thierry was SMS Product Marketing Manager in SFR (France) where he anticipated the success of SMS and defined the SFR’s SMS long-term strategy prior to become Senior Product Marketing Manager for SMS and content services at Vizzavi France then Vizzavi Europe (Joint-venture Vodafone-Vivendi / London) in 2000 where he was particularly in charge of devising very innovative multimedia and mobile content services for multi access (internet, mobile and TV).

Roland Beutler studied Physics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from the Max-Planck-Institute for Metal Physics, also in Stuttgart. Between 1995 and 1996 he worked at the Università degli Studi di Lecce, Italy, under a Fellowship of the European Commission. In 1993 he joined SWR to work in the frequency planning department and is currently responsible for programme distribution strategy.

Dr Beutler has been participating in EBU technical activities for more than 15 years and has chaired several EBU groups dealing with the future of broadcast distribution systems. He was chair of the several of EBU’s Strategic Programmes and Project Teams. Currently he acts as chairman for the Strategic Programme on Distribution. This group coordinates the engagement of European broadcasters in 3GPP, the global standardization organization of mobile technology. Roland Beutler is actively participating in different 3GPP groups to support the requirements of broadcasters for 4G and 5G developments.

Roland Beutler is also involved in ITU and CEPT work and has been responsible for several of their working groups, both radio and TV related. He participated in WRC-12, WRC-15 and RRC-06 and was deeply involved in the preparation of the latter conference. Moreover, he has published several articles and four books on frequency and network planning for digital terrestrial broadcasting systems, the digital dividend of broadcasting and the evolution of broadcast content distribution.

Emmanuelle Villebrun joined French ministry of interior in 2007. She had previously been working for Orange Labs in Paris as a research and development engineer and then as a project manager. Her working areas were radio access networks (GSM, UMTS, LTE, WiFi, WiMaX) and fixed-mobile-internet convergence. She is co-author and owner of several publications and patents. Since 2007 she has been working on communication infrastructures for the french ministry of interior considering fixed networks as well as PMR networks. She initiated french PMR TETRAPOL networks evolutions towards standards based on LTE through active contributions at international level (TCCA, 3GPP). She is now technical architect of the future broadband critical communication network developped in the french ministry of interior.

Marcel Geurts is System Architect at NXP Semiconductors. His current focus is to develop new business opportunities for the product line Smart Antenna Solutions. In this role he explores new applications and technologies around mm wave BiCMOS IC technology and advanced packaging solutions, via internal and external projects.
He initiated and contributed to multiple cooperation programs in the field of 5G mmwave.
He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Delft.

Leonardo Goratti received his PhD degree from the University of Oulu (Finland) and his MSc from
the University of Firenze (Italy). He is currently a Senior Systems Engineer at Zodiac Inflight Innovations in Munich (Germany). His interests span across SDN and NFV for 5G, LTE-Advanced and millimetre wave communications. He has authored more than70 research papers in distinguished journals and conferences. He is TPC member in international conferences, and serves as reviewer in journals such as IEEE JSAC and IEEE Communications Magazine.

Professor Andy Sutton is a Principal Network Architect within BT Technology; he is responsible for mobile network architecture and strategy with a particular focus on 4G LTE and 5G radio access networks, mobile backhaul and edge computing. Andy holds an MSC in mobile communications and has over 30 years of experience within the telecommunications industry, working mainly in mobile (2G/3G/4G/5G), transmission (optical, satellite and wireless) and network synchronisation. As a network architect for the UK Emergency Services Network (ESN), Andy introduced satellite backhaul to the BT/EE mobile network and developed a series of use cases for the deployment of VSAT terminals.
Andy holds two Visiting Professorships; with the School of Computing, Science and Engineering at the University of Salford and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool. Andy is a member of the editorial board of the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP) journal, co-author of four books on telecommunications related topics, a Charted Engineer and Fellow of the IET and ITP.

Frédéric Pujol joined IDATE in November 1992. As, Radio Technologies & Spectrum practice leader he is responsible for coordinating mobile industry forecasting and technical-economic analysis reports.

Previously, Frédéric acquired solid experience in mobile network architecture working for the France Telecom Group (Sofrecom, Telesystems).

He holds a post-graduate degree in engineering from ISEN (Institut Supérieur d’Electronique du Nord, Lille, 1986), where he majored in Telecommunications, and from CITCOM (Centre d’Ingénierie des Technologies de la Communication, Paris, 1987), where he majored in Network Architecture.

Passionate inventor, Taras Matselyukh is a subject matter expert in application of advanced AI in profitable markets. For more than a decade Taras was telecom systems operator, who noticed costly consequences of human errors in complex data-driven environments. Informed by these experiences, he became a successful freelance consultant, whose services were in high demand by leading telecom equipment vendors and telecoms all around the world for more than 5 years. After founding OPT/NET BV, Taras became the first human whose knowledge and skills are being transferred to the OptOSS AI he built. Taras lives in the Netherlands with his family and has an educational background spanning quantum physics, radio electronics and economics with internationally recognised science degrees from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

5+ years – Entrepreneurship and start-ups
10+ years – Managerial experience in the medium and senior management roles
20+ years of experience with design, implementation, management and operations of converged Telecom Networks and Solutions
10+ years experience in Sales & Technical Marketing in roles of Senior Solutions Architect, Senior Systems Engineer, Technical Leader, Consulting Engineer, Partner Management and Business Development experience in the role of Technical Program Director, Managing Director and Entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurship skills founded 2 companies, working at the successful start-up.

Simon M Watts has worked in the telecommunications industry since graduation from Manchester University with a BSc in Physics in 1981, with the majority of his experience gained from within the satellite communications industry. Simon has extensive experience of satellite communications and network design having overseen deployment of major satellite networks for BT International and Hughes Network Systems.

Simon has worked with Avanti in a Principle Consultant role from early 2012 on multiple ESA, UK, FP7 and H2020 projects. He has brought wide experience in the telecommunications and broadband network industries at a technical and commercial level to ensure technical and commercial direction. These projects have covered areas including the integration of satellite and terrestrial networks, future satellite networks, modem/antenna design, cellular and Wi-Fi backhaul, mobility, and the network design for incubator services projects in East Africa offering Wi-Fi and multicast content delivery.

He was Hughes Network Systems Europe – Chief Engineer between 2001 and 2011 responsible for designing multiple networks to deliver customer requirements for BP and Camelot UK, as well as the definition of and the integrity of all network services and solutions across Europe and the Middle-East. Prior to this he worked at HNS Europe in multiple other roles between 1996 and 2001. His career started at BT International initially helping to design and implement ground station systems before providing VSAT systems in the North Sea for Oil Companies and a VSAT network in sub-Saharan Africa for a major UK bank. In addition designing digital line-of-sight and tropo-scatter systems for deployment in the North Sea for Oil Companies.

Simon regularly presents and participates in discussion panels, he has supported multiple technical papers and standards activities whilst at Avanti. He is a MIET.

Gilles Charbit graduated from “Ecole National Supérieure de l’Electronique et de ses Applications” in Paris, France, in 1990. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering in wireless communications and Digital Signal Processing from the University of Lancaster, UK, in 1994. Previously with NEC, then Nokia Networks, Nokia Mobile Phones, Renesas Mobile phones, he joined MediaTek in 2014. He has over 20 years professional experience ranging from DSP algorithm design, system architecture specification for cellular systems, research of Physical Layer and Medium Access Control concepts in 3GPP standardization. He has led several research projects in 2G/GERAN, 3G/HSPA, 4G/LTE, and 5G/New Radio. He has supervised post graduate researchers at King’s College. He was an ETSI delegate in SMG1 GPRS Group representing NEC for 2 years and has been a 3GPP delegate in 4G and 5G in RAN1 and RAN Plenary representing MediaTek for 3 years. He is author of several academic publications and has been granted several US patents. He is currently leading the research and standardisation efforts on satellite in 5G and Narrow-band IoT at MediaTek.

Wim Korevaar is working at TNO as an Optical & RF communications specialist and is currently involved in a variety of optical satellite communications projects, both for terrestrial and space applications. One of his current projects involves the development of terabit optical terminals for the ground stations for GEO/LEO satellites. This project is in collaboration with Dutch and European partners, and co-funded by the European Space Agency. His research interests include physical layer telecommunications, system design trade-offs, signal processing and standardization. Before joining TNO, Wim studied both business administration and electrical engineering, founded two IT companies, which were both acquired, and received his PhD, cum laude, from the University of Twente. His PhD research focused on the design and implementation of more spectrally-efficient, multi-user wireless communication systems.

Frank Zeppenfeldt works in the satellite communications group of the European Space Agency (ESA). Frank has been initiating a number of activities in the area of IoT and M2M via Satellite. A number of his projects are exploring the adaptation of terrestrial IoT protocols for satellites use, such as NB-IoT and other LPWAN protocols. Frank started a series of MakerSpace projects that reach out to the non-typical ESA audience – one these MakerSpace deals with 5G satellite topics.

Before that he worked on IP networking, satellite communications and security for a NATO Agency and EUMETSAT (European Organization for Meteorological Satellites) on satellite ground segment.

Eiko Seidel received his Electrical Engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Information Technology at the University of Technology Dresden in 1995. He joined Panasonic R&D Center Germany GmbH in the field of UMTS research and led the Mobile Radio Network research team. Eiko has been involved in various corporate and EU funded R&D projects in the past and is involved today in 5G-PPP projects. Within this work he actively contributed to the standardisation of 3G, 4G and 5G since 3GPP was founded in 1998. He attends different Radio Access Network working groups related to physical layer, protocol and architecture. Besides his numerous 3GPP contributions, he contributed to several books, has published more then 20 articles at international conferences and in magazines, and has filed over 100 patents and patent applications globally. Some of his patents deem to be essential to UMTS, CDMA2000 and LTE/LTE-A. He is still engaged in research on future mobile communication systems such as 3GPP LTE Advanced and 5G. Specific research topics include radio resource and mobility management in heterogeneous networks, self-organizing networks as well as future radio network architectures.

Eiko works as independent consultant, advisor, trainer and expert for several organizations. As one of the few vendor independent radio experts in Europe, he provides advice on 4G/5G technology roadmaps, product strategy/requirements and reports from 3GPP RAN standardization. He is involved the migration of 4G/5G based systems into new markets like Public Safety, Automotive Industry, Satellite Integration, Internet of Things and Multimedia Broadcast to leverage the economy of scale of a global market. Eiko was the head of the implementation of an LTE eNB Protocol Stack implementation activity at Nomor Research that was successfully sold to HCT Technologies in 2013. Eiko is an active lecturer for 4G and 5G technologies for several international training institutes around the globe and is regularly invited to speak at European industry conferences. He also hosts some of the biggest technical discussion forums in the internet on 4G and 5G with more than 60.000 members globally.

Jerre is a well-seasoned aerospace entrepreneur with a background in mechanical engineering. Before starting his own company, he worked at such companies as ESA ESTEC and Fokker. After working 12 years in industry he started his own company Stellar Space Industries (SSI).

SSI is an aerospace company based in Leiden, The Netherlands. They are specialized and leading partner in the design, manufacture and integration of instruments, systems, sub-systems, and other products for the high-tech industry, and our main focus is the space industry.

Started in 2015 with a strong customer base in the Netherlands and Europe e.g. Airbus Defence and Space, OHB Italia, OHB Systems, TNO, ASTRON, SRON and cosine measurement systems.

SSI works mostly worked as a project manager in development of novel systems for the clients mentioned. SSI has production technologies for rapid breadboarding: Inhouse manufacturing capabilities, cleanroom facilities and quality inspection for space instrumentation according to ICSS standards.

Michael Fitch has a long experience with radio research and development. He started with Marconi on military satcom, then a 10 year period with private mobile radio doing RF hardware and systems design, followed by over 20 years with BT on satellite systems and in leading a wireless research team through 4G and 5G. A year ago he took early retirement from BT and is now employed part-time at the University of Surrey. Michael has co-ordinated collaborative research projects funded by the EC and by Innovate UK, and is currently the Technical Manager of the SaT5G EC project. His expertise is mainly in radio aspects such as antennas, modulation and coding, and channel modelling, but he can go higher up the stack to network management. Michael holds a first degree in maths and physics, a PhD in satellite communications, and is a corporate member of the IET.

Luis holds a BSc in Economics and a MSc in Finance. He started his professional career at Deloitte, at the Financial Advisory Services department, where he worked with M&A, business valuation and financial consultancy.

Luis is currently co-founder and CEO of Aircision, a startup that is developing a FSO communication system for connecting cell towers within telecom networks.

Elisenda Temprado Garriga (Elisenda.Temprado@zii.aero) is a R&D systems engineer at Safran Passenger Innovations in Munich (Germany). She received her Bachelor’s and M.Sc. degrees in telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, in 2015. She has worked on emulation platforms for ground and aircraft network connectivity solutions. She is also involved in future inflight entertainment products development, focusing on different wireless telecommunications technologies such as Wi-Fi, WiGig, LiFi, and 5G. She is currently managing the H2020 5G ESSENCE project leading 5G test-bed development activities.

Martin Gallo received his Msc. in Telecommunication at Brno University of Technology. He continued in mobile provisioning during his work for AT&T. Currently as a member of Deutsche Telekom Research and Development team work on 4G/5G new radio technologies evaluation and new possibilities of complementing  terrestrial networks.

Xavier Lobao accumulates more than 30 years of professional experience in the space sector, primarily in satellite telecommunications. He joined the European Space Agency (ESA) in the year 2000 and has held since a number of different roles in the Telecommunications Department. Since 2012 he is the Head of the Future Projects Division, with responsibility over the setting up of new projects and initiatives in the telecommunication domain. In his position he overlooks trends in the telecommunication and satellite sector and tries to define the best supporting programmes to enhance industry’s competitiveness in the global market, mainly through Public-Private Partnerships. The role of satellite in 5G and Megaconstellations (satcom constellations) are areas of strong focus currently, together with technological trends such as Optical communications. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) as a Telecommunication Engineer (MSc), attended the International Space University (ISU) Summer Session Programme and holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM).

Contact information:
Xavier Lobao
Head of Future Projects Division
ESA – ESTEC
xavier.lobao@esa.int

Sanaa EL MOUMOUHI graduated from « Telecom Lille 1 » in Lille, France, in 2004. Working in parallel in Orange Labs from 2004 to 2019, she received her PhD. in Informatiques, Telecommunications and Electronic from the University of Paris VI, France, in 2012. She is author of several academic publications and patents. She has over 15 years professional experiences in Orange on different activities and the last 5 years was leading projects on SDN/NFV vEPC industrialization and MANO Orchestration as Mobile Network architect in order to conduct the coming transformation that bring 5G. She was a 3GPP delegate in the Workgroup Architecture SA2 representing Orange during 6 years from 3GPP release 10 to 14 and now representing Eutelsat as 3GPP delegate in SA/RAN plenary and working group since June 2019. Previously with Orange, she joined Eutelsat in 2019 and she is currently leading standardization effort in 3GPP on satellite integration in 5G for Eutelsat.

Hub Urlings was one of the pioneers of Satellite M2M as Product Manager Inmarsat-C at the famous KPN Station 12. The success of this “small data” satellite service, its global coverage and reliability made that the service was used for a myriad of applications: from sending messages, to truck fleet management, to pipeline monitoring and bringing back data from all types of sensors. At that time satellite was the only type of network that was able to offer global coverage for what we would now call IOT services. Now, 25 years later he is again involved in the development of a new generation of cubesat based Sat-IOT services.