Speaker Biographies

Speakers

Moderators

Carl-Christian Buhr

Member of Cabinet for Vice President Kroes, European Commission

Dr. Buhr is an economist and computer scientist and since 2010 member of the cabinet of Digital Agenda Commissioner and EU Commission Vice- President Neelie Kroes. Among others, he advises the Commissioner on ICT research and innovation policy, high performance computing and hardware, standardisation, data protection, interoperability policies as well as the European Cloud Computing strategy. He previously dealt with antitrust and merger control investigations by the Commission, such as the Microsoft antitrust case and the Oracle/Sun Microsystems merger.

Josep Ramon Ferrer i Escoda

Director of Smart City Programmes, Barcelona City Council

Senior Telecommunications Engineer in Electronics and Master in Circulation held at Ramon Llull University, has taught at various master's degrees.

His professional career began in the private sector and is in 1966 which is incorporated in the Generalitat de Catalunya where he held various positions related to the field of Telecommunications, until his appointment as Director of the Telecommunications Strategy Telecommunications Center and Information Technology (ITTC).

Since February 2012, has served as Director of ICT Strategy and Smart Cities Municipal Institute of Informatics (IMI) of Barcelona City Council

Mário Campolargo

Director, Net Futures, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Mário Campolargo is Director for "Net Futures" in DG CONNECT responsible for Research and Innovation on what lies beyond the current Internet architecture, software and services and the EU-Strategy for the Cloud. Previously he has been Director for "Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures" in DG INFSO in charge of Future and Emerging Technologies, ICT based infrastructures for science and ICT trust and security, experimental facilities and experimentally driven research for Future Internet. Before joining the European Commission in 1990, he worked for 12 years in the R&D Centre of Portugal Telecom as a researcher and manager. He has a Degree in Electrical Engineering (University of Coimbra), a Master of Science in Computing Science (Imperial College London), a Post graduate in Management (Solvay Business School Brussels) and a European Studies Diploma (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve).

Geoff Mulligan

U.S. Presidential Innovation Fellow on Cyber-Physical Systems and Founder, IPSO Alliance

Geoff Mulligan is currently serving as a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on Cyber Physical Systems for the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the White House and the National Institute for Standards and Technology. In this role, Geoff is working to advance the development and promote the use and deployment of CPS technologies that will improve the efficiencies of Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing and Safety across America.

Previously, Geoff helped create and deploy the Arpanet, IP technologies including the design of IPv6, the creation and standardization of 6lowpan, the formation and founding of the Zigbee Alliance and the IPSO Alliance and working on many key aspects of the "Embedded Internet". After graduating from the Air Force Academy, he has working in the Air Force and for a few different companies including Digital Equipment, Sun Mircosystems, and Invensys. He helped found start-ups working on email security, next generation Internet technologies and protocol design and technology development. He holds over 15 patents, wrote a book on combatting SPAM and testified before Congress on computer Security.

Thibaut Kleiner

Head of Unit, Network Technologies, European Commission

Previously Thibaut was Advisor to Vice-President Neelie Kroes, supervising Internet policies at large (Net futures, cloud computing, e-ID, Startup Europe, Media & Data, Internet Governance, trust and security). He has worked for the European Commission since 2001, occupying a number of positions, notably in the field of competition policy, where he was head of unit in charge of coordination, and member of Cabinet of Neelie Kroes in her previous mandate, where he notably supervised state aid (including during the banking crisis). An economist by training, he holds a Master from HEC Paris and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Gary Butler

Chairman and CEO, Camgian Microsystems Corporation

Dr. Gary D. Butler is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Camgian Microsystems® Corporation, a supplier of advanced networked sensor products and solutions to the government and commercial markets. The company’s latest innovation, Quantus, is a machine-to-machine (M2M) platform that supports the deployment of intelligent mobile sensing solutions that enable organizations to more effectively manage remote industrial assets and improve operational efficiency. Since its formation in 2006, Camgian has completed two acquisitions, which included fabless semiconductor company Theseus Logic and an engineering design facility from Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. Today, Camgian has achieved multi-million dollar annual revenues and has been named by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the US.

Prior to founding Camgian, Dr. Butler was a senior staff member with Internet pioneer BBN Technologies where he led development programs in the areas of low-power sensor networks and advanced signal processing. At BBN, Dr. Butler was elected for membership in the company's senior science and engineering organization, a rank representing approximately the top 10% of the research and development staff, and was elected as a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Over his career, he has captured and led sensor related research and development programs totaling more than $25M in funding supported by organizations such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Additionally, he has co-authored publications on the application of wavelets to signal analysis and has been awarded patents related to the application of genetic algorithms to signal classification and low-power, networked sensor systems.

Dr. Butler received his PhD from the University of Cambridge where he studied engineering and was a member of Churchill College. He received the Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS degree in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University and a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Tulane University. At Tulane, Dr. Butler was a scholarship athlete, a four-time varsity football letterman, and named an NCAA and Entergy Corporation Winning for Life Scholar Athlete.

Dr. Butler is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Board of Visitors, the Oxford and Cambridge Club of London and the Tulane University Athletics Advisory Council. He also serves as a regional contact for Cambridge in America.

Mary Turner

CEO, AlertMe

Mary Turner was appointed CEO of AlertMe.com Ltd in February 2010. Prior to this role, Mary was CEO of broadband company Tiscali UK from 2001, growing the company from less than half a million dial-up customers to the third largest DSL provider in the UK with 1.8m broadband customers and a revenue of €608m by 2008.

As CEO of Tiscali UK, Mary headed up the acquisitions of ISPs TinyOnline, Gateway and Dellnet in 2002, npower’s telephone base in 2003. During 2004 Tiscali became the fastest growing broadband provider in the UK after it launched the first broadband product for the same price as a dial-up subscription, making it affordable for the mass market.

Further acquisitions followed with Video Networks IPTV business (Homechoice) in 2006, The Pipex broadband and telephone business in 2007, before the sale of Tiscali UK to The TalkTalk Group, Part of The Carphone Warehouse Group, in 2009. Ms Turner has remained in an advisory capacity to the TalkTalk Group since the sale and is on the board of ASOS PLC.

During her time in the ISP industry Mary was General Manager UK (ISP and Portal) and Vice-President Marketing Europe for AOL Bertelsmann/CompuServe Information Services. In this role she developed and implemented the marketing strategy of CompuServe taking it to number one brand position. In 1999 she became CEO of LineOne, a joint venture between BT and United Media, leading the sale of this business to Tiscali SpA the Milan listed company in 2001.

Following the sale, she joined Tiscali UK as Managing Director of the Consumer Business, leading the integration of multiple operations already acquired by Tiscali, including WorldOnline and Liberty Surf. Mary became CEO of Tiscali UK in 2003 and was a member of the leadership team for the Tiscali Group.

Mary also has extensive consumer retail experience through senior management roles at Elizabeth Arden, Avon and the Innovations Group.

William Webb

CEO, Weightless SIG

William is CEO of the Weightless SIG, a body standardizing a new M2M technology and President-Elect of the IET. He was one of the founding directors of Neul, a company developing machine-to-machine technologies and networks, which was formed at the start of 2011. Prior to this William was a Director at Ofcom where he managed a team providing technical advice and performing research. He has worked for a range of communications consultancies and spent three years providing strategic management across Motorola’s entire communications portfolio, based in Chicago.

William has published 13 books, 100 papers, and 18 patents. He is a Visiting Professor at Surrey University, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE and the IET.

Jonathan Steel

CEO, Change London

Jonathan Steel is a business and non-profit leader, futurist and technologist.

As co-founder and CEO of Change London, Jonathan has been the driving force behind a new model of technologyenabled not-for-profit organisation, which is helping to reduce pollution and improve health outcomes across London. Partnered with Defra, the Greater London Authority, TfL, EST, Keep Britain Tidy, and many other organisations, Change London is backed entirely by private sector funding. The largest Change London project today is AirSensaTM - the most detailed air quality monitoring sensor and data platform in the world.

As founder (1997) and Executive Chairman of The Bathwick Group, Jonathan created a unique research-based consultancy. His 25 years in ICT have included software engineering, IT management, consultancy, research, market analysis, authoring, and advisory services. Specialising in disruptive business platforms, performance benchmarking, data analytics, systems thinking, and smart cities, Bathwick has worked with many of the world’s leading IT brands to predict how technology is driving business and society. Before founding The Bathwick Group in 1997, Jonathan was director of international strategic consulting at market research company IDC.

Jonathan has spoken at hundreds of conferences around the world. He also created the first European Green IT conference in 2008, the Connected World Project (a long-term programme generating insights from joint academic/commercial research), and the e-League, the first Sunday Times supplement looking at Internet business in 1999. He is also a trustee of the Malaysia/Europe Forum, and a member of the WEF energy access working group.

Cees Links

Founder and CEO, GreenPeak Technologies

Cees Links is a pioneer of the wireless data industry, a visionary leader bringing the world of mobile computing and continuous networking together. Under his responsibility, the first wireless LANs were developed which ultimately became house-hold technology integrated into the PCs and notebooks we are all familiar with. He also pioneered the development of access points, home networking routers and hotspot base stations, all widely used today.

In 2005 Cees started with GreenPeak Technologies. GreenPeak is a fabless semiconductor company and the leader in the ZigBee market with a rich offering of semiconductor products and software technologies for Smart Home data communications and the Internet of Things.

Cees started his career at NCR Computers where he was responsible for the development and launch of the world’s first wireless LAN product in 1990, a major innovation at that time. Throughout several acquisitions and divestitures (NCT, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems), Cees continued his work in the wireless LAN area, which he turned into a multi-hundreds million dollar business for Agere Systems. He directly closed a deal with Apple Computer in 1999 that ignited the growth of the wireless LAN industry. Though this deal, wireless LANs went on to become a standard notebook feature.

Cees was involved in the establishment of the IEEE 802.11 standardization committee and the WiFi Alliance. He was also instrumental in helping to establish the IEEE 802.15 standardization committee to become the basis for the ZigBee sense and control networking technology and standardization.

Cees Links holds a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Twente University of Technology in Enschede, The Netherlands.

Paul Higgins

Co-Founder and COO, Crowd Valley

Serial entrepreneur with an operational background in finance and technology companies. Paul was previously responsible for the development of the Crowd Valley product suite as part of the Grow VC Group.

Paul is a regular speaker on new financial models and crowdfunding and has been involved in working with Crowd Valley’s pioneering customers across the financial services sector, as well as advising global institutions such as the World Bank and national regulators such as Italy’s CONSOB.
Paul has 10 years’ experience working in various operational, sales, marketing, and product roles within technology companies, including two B2B startups that have achieved 8-figure exits following 100% year-on-year growth. He started his career in product development and testing roles at IBM’s Hursley Research Lab in the UK before going on to eBay, UBS, and Barclays.

Paul holds an MA. (Hons) in Computer Science and Philosophy from Churchill College, Cambridge University. He has lived and worked in the US and Portugal, and speaks fluent Portuguese and French.

Joseph Bradley

Managing Director, Cisco Consulting Services Internet of Everything Practice

As managing director of the Internet of Everything (IoE) Practice in the Cisco Consulting Services organization, Joseph Bradley is responsible for ensuring the world’s top business leaders and organizations understand how they can capture their share of $14.4 trillion in value that IoE will create over the next 10 years. In this capacity, he leads an organization of consultants who are uniquely qualified to assist CXOs and their management teams in transforming their companies through the innovative application of technology to improve the “people” and “process” elements of their businesses.

Bradley directs the production of influential IoE white papers titled “Embracing the Internet of Everything To Capture Your Share of $14.4 Trillion” and “Internet of Everything (IoE) Value Index: How Much Value Are Private-Sector Firms Capturing from IoE in 2013?” This thought leadership created the foundation for the Cisco Consulting IoE Practice as well as for Cisco’s 2013 “Tomorrow Starts Here” corporate brand campaign.

Prior to his current role, Bradley led the Research & Economics, Strategic Communications, and Operations functions of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), which is now part of Cisco Consulting. In this capacity, Bradley co-authored an influential paper titled “21st Century Corporation: Using Business Virtualization To Unleash the True Power of Innovation.” In addition, he co-authored several papers for Cisco’s “Horizons” program, including “Impact of Cloud on IT Consumption Models,” BYOD: A Global Perspective,” and “Decision-Driven Collaboration.” Horizons is a multimodal research and analysis program designed to identify business transformation opportunities fueled by technology innovation.

Before coming to Cisco, Bradley held a number of increasingly responsible positions at C3, including senior vice president of shared services, CFO, and CEO. Previously, he was general manager of the Data Communications group at AT&T. He began his career at Pacific Bell, where he worked in finance and operations, and became known as a “turnaround expert.” Bradley holds a degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Anne-Lise Thibelemont

Senior Director, Government Relations, Qualcomm, Inc

Anne-Lise Thieblemont, is Senior Director of Global Technology Policy and Industry Relations at in the Government Affairs Department at Qualcomm Incorporated.

In this role, Ms. Thieblemont, engineer by training, is responsible internationally for policy and regulatory affairs related to new technology and market access strategies, at the intersection between public policy, business strategy, mobile internet ecosystems .

In addition to playing an important role in new technology policy, Ms. Thieblemont is instrumental in assisting spectrum and regulatory discussions globally to help facilitate the establishment of spectrum management and regulation practices that ensure sustained investment in quality and efficient mobile internet services in both the consumer and the entreprise markets (healthcare, education, telematics, energy, etc.).Ms Thieblemont also overlooks technology policy beyond the radio related to the ecosystems and platforms underlying bricks of innovation and success of mobile internet. Finally, Ms Thieblemont interfaces regularly between Governement economic, trade and/or investment branch and Qualcomm mutliple business activities. In particular, Ms Thieblemont leads Qualcomm activities within the industry voice (BIAC) of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation & Development (OECD).

In the past, Ms. Thieblemont played an influential role in global organizations, such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), among others. Previously to Qualcomm, Thieblemont was an analyst in European Audiovisual and Telecommunication Law.

Ms. Thieblemont holds an engineering degree from l’Ecole National Superieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France, with a focus on networks and signal and image processing in new digital media as well as on telecommunications economics. She also holds a Master of Science in Fundamental Physics from the Paris XI University.

Mischa Dohler

Board of Directors, Worldsensing; and Professor, Kings College London

Mischa Dohler is Professor in Wireless Communications at King's College London, member of the Board of Directors of Worldsensing, Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE, and Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.

He is a frequent keynote, panel and tutorial speaker. He has contributed to numerous wireless broadband and IoT/M2M standards, holds a dozen patents, chaired numerous conferences, and published more than 160 refereed journals, conference papers and books. He has a citation h-index of 33.

He acts as policy, technology and entrepreneurship adviser, examples being Richard Branson's Carbon War Room, the House of Lords UK, the European Commission, and various start-ups. He is also an entrepreneur, angel investor, passionate pianist and fluent in 6 languages.

He has talked at TEDx. His contributions have featured in the Wall Street Journal and BBC.

Géraldine Andrieux-Gustin

Coordinator, COWIN and Senior Partner, Yole Finance

Géraldine is a recognized market expert with a strong experience in supporting young companies in their growth strategy. With more than 80 missions in strategic marketing in the frame of Yole Développement she identifies the best possible position for innovation on the marketplace. She has taken part to several M&A transactions and due diligence. In an entrepreneurial approach she is structuring Yole Finance services for innovation. She engineered the COWIN support action granted by the European Commission. She leads the COWIN multidisciplinary team and invented a process for value creation from research to valuable start-up companies and products.

David Wood

Chair, London Futurists

David Wood has spent 25 years envisioning, architecting, implementing, supporting, and avidly using smart connected mobile devices, including ten years with PDA manufacturer Psion PLC, then ten more with smartphone operating system specialist Symbian Ltd.

Whilst at Psion, David was part of the team that conceived and formed Symbian, the creator of the world's first successful smartphone operating system, with the outrageous vision that, one day, everyone would want to use a smartphone that was connected to rich services and contents on a wireless network. As a member of Symbian's leadership team in London from 1998-2009, he held executive responsibility at different times for development, technical consulting, partnering, and research.

Subsequently, David was Technology Planning Lead / CTO of Accenture Mobility from 2010-2013, overseeing a network of more than 40 technical authorities, that spanned every technology discipline, product domain, and geographical region. He also also co-led Accentureís Mobility Health business initiative, serving as technology coach in the fast-moving intersection between two of the worldís most powerful and significant industries: Health and Mobility.

David now acts as independent writer, consultant, and catalyst. As chair of London Futurists, he organises regular meetups in London, and online, to elevate serious analysis of scenarios for the next 3-40 years. London Futurists currently has over 2,100 members. As principal of Delta Wisdom, he aims to provide ìintelligence for profound changeî, focussing on the dramatic impact of rapidly changing technology on human individuals and communities. His forthcoming new book is entitled "Smartphones and beyond: lessons from the remarkable rise and fall of Symbian".

Marylin Arndt

SMART M"M Chair, ETSI

With more than 20 years of experience in the telecom domain, Marylin occupies a position of senior standardisation manager, in charge of piloting and monitoring standardisation activity on M2M by Orange Group. In January 2009, she has been elected as chairman of the technical committee named M2M at ETSI. Two years after, as M2M Vice Chair, she was responsible of M2M related European Mandates management for ETSI and since January 2013 she is now chairing the newly named SMART M2M technical committee.

After the creation in 2012 of the Partnership Project oneM2M, which is expected to develop the worldwide global standard for M2M and Internet of Things, the technical committee ETSI Smart M2M will continue to bring European ecosystem requirements and knowhow as a key piece of the global construction, with work on ubiquitous connectivity and an abstracted layer allowing the management of vertical data models and applications, in close relationship with Vertical domains and related standardisation bodies.

Attila Narin

Head of Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services

Attila is technical at heart and is passionate about innovation, building systems, learning about new technologies and working with customers on the technical and business aspects of cloud computing. He has been with Amazon since October 2004 and currently leads the Solutions Architecture team at Amazon Web Services that is helping European companies move to the cloud. Before joining the AWS Business Development organization, he was one of the key members of the Amazon EC2 Team, managing the design and delivery of many of the currently available Amazon EC2 features.

Prior to joining Amazon, Attila held several development and leadership roles at Microsoft and served on Bill Gates’ Executive Strategy Team building innovative prototypes. Attila holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Florida.

Charalampos Doukas

Technical Co-ordinator, COMPOSE EU Project and Senior Researcher, CREATE-NET

Charalampos Doukas is an Information & Communication Systems Engineer with a PhD in Healthcare Informatics. He is a senior researcher in CREATE-NET, Italy, and technical manager of COMPOSE EU Project. He has worked for many years in the field of wireless sensors and hardware prototyping for research projects. He has published more than 50 research papers in international scientific conferences, 17 journal papers and 7 book chapters. Charalampos is the author of “Building Internet of Things with the Arduino” and he has organised many workshops and tutorials on utilising open source technologies for building IoT devices and services.

Andreas Geiss

Acting Head of Unit, Radio Spectrum Policy, European Commission

Andreas Geiss is currently Acting Head of Unit for Radio Spectrum Policy in DG INFSO of the European Commission. His responsibilities include the implementation of the inventory in accordance with the Radio Spectrum Policy Programme.

Andreas has been working for the European Commission since 2002. He started his professional career in 1991 at the German Regulatory Authority in the area of telecommunications. From 1994 until 2002 he worked for the European Radiocommunications Office (ERO), where he was project leader for many projects dealing with terrestrial and satellite mobile communications. He has been involved in the European preparations for World Radiocommunications Conferences since 1995. Andreas is a telecommunications engineer by profession and enjoys all sorts of sports in his spare time.

Carol Umhoefer

Partner, DLA Piper

Carol Umhoefer is a Partner in the Paris office of DLA Piper, where she leads the Intellectual Property & Technology practice and specializes in technology regulatory issues. Carol advises clients across all industries on a full range of data protection, privacy and data security issues, including: conducting compliance audits and implementing corrective measures; analyzing the privacy implications of new products and services such as smart meters, remote diagnostics and maintenance, mobile advertising and profiling technologies; advising on data center reorganizations and data migration; leading multi-jurisdictional ethic projects (e.g., global codes of conduct, whistle-blowing hotlines and internal investigation protocols); managing data breaches; and advising on privacy aspects of U.S. FCPA and insider trading investigations.

Carol co-chairs the IT, New Media & Privacy Working Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in France; in this capacity she has testified at the French Sénat and the French data protection authority on data protection issues. She regularly speaks on a range of data protection, privacy and related compliance issues.

Peter Friess

IoT Project Officer DG Connect, European Commission

Peter Friess is a senior official of the European Commission taking care for more than five years of the research and innovation policy for the Internet of Things. In his function he has shaped the on-going European research and innovation program on the Internet of Things and accompanied the European Commission's direct investment for around 70 Mill. Euro in this field. As part of the Commission Internet of Things European Action Plan from 2009, he also oversees the international cooperation on the Internet of Things, in particular with Asian countries.

In previous engagements he was working as senior consultant for IBM, dealing with major automotive and utility companies in Germany and Europe. Prior to this engagement he worked as IT manager at Philips Semiconductors dealing with business process optimisation in complex manufacturing. Before that period he was active as researcher in European and national research projects on advanced telecommunications and business process reorganisation.

He is a graduated engineer in Aeronautics and Space technology from the University of Munich and holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering including self-organising systems from the University of Bremen. He also published a number of articles and co-edits a yearly book of the European Internet of Things Research Cluster.

Rodica Tirtea

Information Security and Data Protection Unit, European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)

Rodica Tirtea joined Security Tools and Architecture Section of ENISA in November 2009. Her work covers topics such privacy & trust, resilience and cryptography. Previously she worked as a lecturer in University of Oradea (Romania). Between 2001 and 2005 she worked as a researcher in ESAT/K.U.Leuven (Belgium). Her research activity focused on dependability and security aspects of distributed systems and applications (i.e. control systems of electric power infrastructure). Her work has been disseminated through several projects deliverables and more than 20 papers authored and co-authored in international conference proceedings and journals. She holds PhDs in Engineering from K.U.Leuven (Belgium) and in Computer Science from ‘Politehnica’ University of Timisoara (Romania) since 2005 and 2007 respectively. She graduated Computer Science and Economics at the University of Oradea.

Henri Barthel

Vice President GS1 System Integrity and Global Partnerships, GS1 Global

Henri Barthel has been working for GS1 since July 1988 and is currently Vice President System Integrity and Global Partnerships at the GS1 Global Office in Brussels. He is responsible for protecting the integrity of the GS1 system throughout the GS1 standards and services development process. He is also responsible for managing the partnerships that GS1 enjoys with external standards organisations, e.g. ISO, UN/CEFACT, W3C, and IETF. He is a co-chair of the GS1 Architecture Committee. He is also chairman of SC31/WG4, the ISO working group dealing with RFID standardisation for item management and of CEN/TC 225, the European standards committee on Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) Technologies and Applications.

Achim Klabunde

Head of Sector IT policy , European Data Protection Supervisor

Achim Klabunde is the head of the IT Policy Sector at the secretariat of the European Data Protection Supervisor. Before joining the EDPS, he was a policy officer at the European Commission, in the data protection unit of the Directorate General for Justice and before that in DG Information Society and Media where he led the team in charge of privacy and trust policy for electronic communications for the 2009 Telecom Reform process. Before joining the EU administration, he had worked in the private sector for 15 years. Achim Klabunde has a master's degree in Computer Science and Communications Research from Bonn University. He has worked in data management, network planning, data protection and IT security.

Pierre Colle

Chief Technology Officer, Residential Control Business, Schneider Electric

Pierre Colle has an engineer degree in electronic from ISEN and a master of science in telecommunications from the King's College of London.

He started working in 1994 for a Canadian telecommunication company as software architect for Voice over IP and UMTS projects. He then became responsible of the engineering department of a start-up developing software test tools for board manufacturing. Pierre joined Schneider Electric in 2005. After conducting communication architectures studies for the residential, he became chief engineer for the development of a new connected home residential offer called Wiser.

Since end of 2012, Pierre Colle is CTO for residential control business in Schneider Electric.

Ajit Jaokar

Founder, Futuretext

Ajit Jaokar ‘s work is based on identifying and researching cross-domain technology trends in Telecoms, Mobile and the Internet.

Spanning academia and industry – his current research interests is include Policy research, Big Data, Telecoms, Smart Cities, Big Data Analytics and IOT

Ajit conducts a course at Oxford University on Big Data and Telecoms and also teaches at City Sciences(Technical University of Madrid) on Big Data Algorithms for future Cities / Internet of Things.

In 2009, Ajit was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Future of the Internet’ council. In 2011, he was nominated to the World Smart Capital program (Amsterdam). Ajit moderates/chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel . In 2012, he was nominated to the board of Connected Liverpool – Resilient Liverpool programs –based in the city of Liverpool for their Smart city vision. Ajit has been involved in IOT based roles for the webinos project (EU funded Fp7 project)

Ajit has also been an advisor to the European Internet Foundation on Technology and Policy issues since 2009 and is the co-author of ‘The Digital World in 2030′. He is also involved in creating a community around the issues in this report in the Tech/Policy space.

His consulting activities include working with companies to define value propositions for Big Data. Ajit has worked with a range of commercial and government organizations including in strategic and
visionary roles. Since May 2005, he has founded and run the OpenGardens blog which is widely respected in the mobile/telecoms industry.

Ajit has spoken at many conferences which include MobileWorld Congress (4 times) ,CTIA, CEBIT , Web20 expo ;Java One; European Parliament; Stanford University; MIT Sloan; Fraunhofer FOKUS ; University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). He has been involved in transatlantic technology policy discussions.

Olivier Burgersdijk

Head of Business Demand and Products, Europol

After finishing university education (Criminology) joined the Rotterdam-Rijnmond police force in The Netherlands (1998-2001), where active in the areas of conducting evaluations on major criminal investigations of serious and organised crime as well as strategic analysis. From 2001 to 2006 supported as consultant various regional police forces and prosecution services in The Netherlands in the areas of quality management, evaluation and information management.

From 2006 till present active within Europol in different functions with responsibilities for information exchange and information management at strategic as well as technical level. Since November 2012, Head of Strategy within the European Cybercrime Centre with responsibility for strategic analysis, outreach, training & capacity building, R&D and forensic expertise.

Siim Sikkut

National ICT Policy Adviser, Government of Estonia

Siim Sikkut serves as National ICT Policy Adviser in Government Office of Estonia. His role is to coordinate ICT policy planning and execution across the government and collaborations with private sector, plus advise Prime Minister on e-governance matters.

Previously, he worked as expert in Estonian Development Fund, a public economic foresight think-tank. His experience also includes Ministry of Finance, in areas of national-level strategic planning and public financial management.

Siim Sikkut graduated in 2005 from Princeton University, USA with B.A. degree in public and international affairs. He also holds a M.Sc. in International Management in China from University of London.

Siim also serves on Board of e-Governance Academy, an Estonian-based think-tank, consulting and training institution on e-governance.

Tiziano Modotti

Product Manager, Eurotech

Tiziano has been employed by the Company since 2007, initially as the Project Manager responsible for the new product development, and then Product Manager for different lines of products. Currently he is responsible for managing the Machine to Machine Software Products, the Wearable Computer and Smart Sensor product lines.

Jussi Kähtävä

Director, Allied Spectrum Associates

Jussi Kähtävä is a Director of Allied Spectrum Associates, where his main area of interest is spectrum sharing and its policy implications. His particular focus area is Licensed Shared Access/Authorised Shared Access. He is also involved in developing LTE-based solutions for M2M applications.

He has two decades of experience in 3G and 4G radio technology standardization and regulation. Prior to setting up his own company in 2012 he was responsible for Nokia’s global technology policy on future radio systems, with particular focus on the regulatory aspects of new technologies such as cognitive radio. He has developed an extensive insight into strategic issues related to spectrum use.

For 18 years he held various positions with Nokia in Finland, the USA, over a decade in Japan, and recently in the UK. His experience in telecommunication standards goes back to 1999 in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) where he participated to the Radio Access Network (TSG RAN) Working Group 1 (physical layer) work until 2006. Afterwards, he contributed to IMT-Advanced process and development in ITU Radio Communications Sector (ITU-R) Working Party 5D during 2006-2010, helping define the requirements for next generation mobile broadband services. On regulatory area he has a long experience and exposure to Japan, China and Korea.

Blanca Escribano

Partner, Co-Head, International Telecoms Group, Olswang Spain LLP

Blanca is a Partner and head of the Media, Communications and Technology Group at Olswang Spain. She co-heads the International telecoms group at Olswang.

Blanca has practiced for more than 18 years in the telecommunications sector, acting for fixed (wired, wireless, satellite, terrestrial) and mobile (network and virtual) operators from different international law firms. She has dealt with different and cutting edge business models and she is currently involved in advising MVNOs, M2M and OTT players in finding the best legal approach for the provision of their services.

Robert MacDougall

Head of Enterprise Regulation , Vodafone

Robert MacDougall is Head of Enterprise Regulation at Vodafone Group, where he leads on all regulatory and policy matters relevant to Vodafone’s enterprise business. This covers areas such as Machine to Machine, Hosting and Cloud Services and Carrier Services. Robert has spent the majority of his career in electronic communications regulation, including eight years at the UK’s Communications Regulator in a variety of roles involving policy development, dispute resolution and also competition enforcement. Prior to joining Vodafone, Robert was an Assistant Director at the UK’s Competition and Consumer Protection Authority. This included a secondment to the US Federal Trade Commission as an FTC International Fellow. Robert has a primary degree in Law and a Masters degree in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law.

Chris Gow

Chair, Privacy and Security Group, DIGITALEUROPE

Chris Gow is Cisco’s European lead for data protection and security policy in Government Affairs. He joined Cisco in early 2008 and alongside privacy and security, plays an active role in the Government Affairs team on spectrum, cloud, trade and tech policy. He is currently the Chair of DIGITAL EUROPE’s Privacy and Security Group and Vice-Chair of the Digital Economy Policy Group.

Prior to Cisco, he was responsible for campaign strategies and digital economy policy work at EICTA (now DIGITAL EUROPE). Chris first joined the Brussels scene in 2003 as an Assistant to a Member of the European Parliament, working on internal market and legal affairs issues.

Chris studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.

Lasse Andresen

CTO, ForgeRock

A powerhouse of tireless can-do enthusiasm, Lasse Andresen leverages his combined business, technical, and people skills as ForgeRock's Chief Technology Officer. His twenty-plus years of experience in the software industry include leadership roles at both Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments, most recently as CTO for Sun Central and Northern Europe.

As ForgeRock Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lasse built the company from the ground up, to over 100 employees in five global offices in just three years, achieving over 100% growth three years in a row, and securing $7M in venture funding from top VC firm Accel Partners after just two years in operation. As CTO, he worked to raise an additional $15M in Series B funding from Accel and premier VC outfit Foundation Capital, and has built a ForgeRock customer base of 200 Global Fortune 1000 companies, including Thomson Reuters, McKesson, Geico, and AOL.

Lasse is also an active advisor to several startup companies and maintains a vast international network of key contacts.

Ilkka Lakaniemi

Programme Chair, EU Future Internet Public-Private Partnership

Mr Ilkka Lakaniemi is a Vice President at the Finland Chamber of Commerce in charge of Digitalization and Renewal strategy in the Finnish Economy. He serves as the Chief Economist at the Chamber. He is a Executive Member of the Group on Economic Policy, which advises the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on global economic and political issues.

Mr Lakaniemi is the Chair of EU Future Internet - Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) Programme and a Senior Advisor on Future Internet at the Aalto University Business School. He is a aVisiting Scholar on Internet Economy at the University of California at Berkeley.

In 2000-2012, Mr Lakaniemi worked for the Nokia Corporation and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) in various senior management positions in corporate relations, corporate venturing and strategic marketing. He is an expert on the socio-economics of mobile technology, Digital Economy and the economic impact of ICT in both advanced and developing economies.

Prior to Nokia, Mr Lakaniemi was a Research Associate, Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at the University of Helsinki, the University of California at Berkeley and the United Nations University in international political economy

Richard Womersley

Director, Spectrum Consulting, LS telcom

Richard is director of spectrum consulting for LS telcom. He has 20 over years consulting and business experience working in the radio spectrum management, public telecommunications, digital broadcasting and satellite industries. He has worked for regulators, network operators, financiers, governments and end-users on issues covering national and international policy; regulation and its impact; pricing, auctions and licensing; cost modelling and tariff setting; planning and consultation; network specification and procurement; monitoring and enforcement; interference and technical investigations and digital switch-over. His work has been international in nature having taken him to every continent except Antarctica. Richard is also an experienced trainer having been running courses on spectrum management and policy for over 10 years.

LS telcom is the World’s leading supplier of spectrum management solutions and services, counting over 90 regulators world-wide amongst our customers. We supply the most advanced spectrum management tools (both software and hardware) as well as having teams of consultants who deliver projects and training on all aspects of spectrum management, policy and strategy.

Thomas Svensson

SVP EMEA, Thingworx

Thomas Svensson has a wealth of experience gained across EMEA, APAC and US territories while working in enterprise software sales for SAAB Aircraft AB, Volvo Corporation, Silicon Graphics and PTC over the last 25 years. Mr. Svensson is currently the EMEA Senior Vice President of ThingWorx, a PTC business. In this role, Mr. Svensson is responsible for driving the ThingWorx direct and indirect sales channel strategies and overall business development. Thomas holds a Master of Science degree from the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he resides.

Francisco Jariego

Director of Industrial Internet of Things, Telefónica Digital

Francisco J. Jariego is currently Director of Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) and Member of the Executive Committee of Telefonica I+D (Research & Development).

Francisco holds a Ph. D in Physics from Autónoma University of Madrid and has developed his professional career in the ICT industry, where he has participated and leaded many different research and innovation projects with focus in mathematical modeling and optimization, operations research, software development, information economics and R&D management and strategy.

He served as Director of Technology Strategy for Telefonica I+D from 2009 to 2012, being an active contributor to the definition of the current Telefonica R&D and innovation strategy that led to the creation of Telefonica Digital in 2011. Before his current position in Telefonica, Francisco was the Enablers & Technology Director at Telefonica Digital.

Nigel Cameron

President & CEO, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies

Nigel Cameron is president of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET), a nonpartisan Washington, DC, think tank on innovation, policy and the future. He has written widely at the interface of technology, business, policy, and values. and publications include Nanoscale (John Wiley, 2007) and Innovation President (Kindle ebook, 2012). His next book is focused on the problem of managing exponential change within organizations; working title: New Normal: The Fallacy that Fails the Future.

A native of the UK, he is a graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh universities and the Edinburgh Business School. He has held university appointments, most recently as a research professor and associate dean in the Illinois Institute of Technology. He combines a policy focus in Washington with corporate advisement. He writes regularly on the business impact of social media, and is a columnist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on technology and corporate social responsibility. Long resident in the United States, he maintains British and European connections; he is a director of the London think tank 2020Health, and in 2012 moderated the European Identity and Cloud conference in Munich.

He has also represented the United States at meetings of the United Nations, and is currently a commissioner of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and chair of its Social and Human Sciences Committee.

Rob Van Kranenburg

Founder, Council and Community Manager of Sociotal.eu

Rob van Kranenburg is an innovation and media theorist involved with negociability strategies of new technologies and artistic practice, predominantly ubicomp and RFID, the relationship between the formal and informal in cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy. He has been teaching at various schools in the Netherlands (UvA, EMMA Interaction Design, Industrial Design) and has worked at several Dutch cultural institutions; de Balie, Doors of Perception and Virtual Platform. Until April 1 2009 he was Head of Public Domain at Waag Society. Currently he teaches at Frank Mohr and Fontys Ambient Intelligence. He lives in Ghent, Belgium. With friends he has set up Council, a consultancy/thinktank on the Internet of Things for governments, cities and citizens.

Tom Kerber

Director, Research, Home Controls and Energy, Parks Associates

Tom Kerber is currently the director of research for Parks Associates, a market research and consulting firm focused on digital living. He covers the electric utility and smart home sectors. Tom authors numerous reports on energy management and home controls covering the evolution of technology, partnership opportunities, and new business models. Tom’s work at Parks Associates includes managing consumer surveys that track trends, market opportunities, and enable insightful evidence based forecasting for energy, security, and home controls. Tom speaks frequently at key industry events and his views are sought out by national press organizations and publications.

Tom has done extensive consulting with electric utilities operating in a variety of regulator structures, and a variety of firms within the smart home ecosystem. Recent utility engagements include defining the home area network roadmap for a California IOU, updating the consumer engagement strategy for a traditional vertically integrated IOU, providing consumer and industry analysis to refine EE and DR programs for an IOU in a restructured market, and providing insights on the evolution of the connected home for a large Midwest IOU. Tom has also led projects for numerous Fortune 500 companies, helping clients refine smart home strategies, develop scenarios of the future of the smart home market, enhance product roadmaps, and refine specific product features.

Prior to working at Parks Associates, Tom worked as director of engineering and director of product management in multiple industries. Tom began his career in the U.S. Navy nuclear power program on submarines. He holds a bachelors of science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in systems engineering and a masters in software engineering from the University of Texas.

Jan Markendahl

Associate Professor Communications Systems, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Sweden

Jan holds a position as Associate Professor in Wireless Infrastructure Deployment and Economics at KTH. After more than 20 years in the Industry Jan joined KTH 2003 as research program manager and researcher. He has a PhD degree from 2011 in the area of techno-economic analysis of wireless networks and services.

He has managed techno-economic research projects and made research contributions in the following areas: low cost infrastructure, affordable mobile broadband, spectrum valuation, mobile enterprise services, mobile payment and NFC services, IoT and M2M communications services and business models.

He has been leading tasks in the EU project Ambient Networks and Quasar. In the FP7 project METIS Jan do techno-economic work in the spectrum work package. He is responsible for the business modelling tasks in the ongoing EIT ICT Labs projects M2MRise and LTE4SmartGrids.