Spring 2021 Speakers

Javan Erfanian

In his role as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, at Bell Canada, Javan Erfanian primes wireless technology strategic direction. He has worked with global industry and research community towards vision and formulation of new technologies and service enablers,...

Gavin Horn

Gavin Horn is a Senior Director in Wireless Research at Qualcomm leading the cellular upper layer design, evaluation and standardization including network architecture, security, slicing, cloud/virtualization, radio interface and protocols. Since 2014, he has been...

Detlef Nauck

Detlef Nauck is the Head of AI & Data Science Research for BT’s Applied Research Division located at Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK. Detlef has over 30 years of experience in AI and Machine Learning and leads a programme spanning the work of about 30 international...
Joseph Levy

Joseph Levy

Joseph Levy is a Principal Engineer in the Wireless and Networking Lab of InterDigital, Inc. He is currently InterDigital’s lead standards delegate to IEEE 802.11TM Wireless Local Area Networks Working Group and is currently focused on developing and advancing IEEE...

Diego Lopez

Diego Lopez

Dr Diego R. Lopez joined Telefonica I+D in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert, and is currently in charge of the Technology Exploration activities within the GCTIO Unit. Before joining Telefónica he spent some years in the academic sector, dedicated to research on...

Alex Reznik

Alex Reznik

ALEX REZNIK is a Distinguished Technologist in Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s North American Telco organization. In this role he is involved in various aspects of helping Tier 1 CSPs deploy state of the art flexible infrastructure capable of delivering on the full...

Heikki Hämmäinen

Heikki Hämmäinen

Heikki Hämmäinen is a professor of Network Economics at the Department of Communications and Networking, Aalto University, Finland. He has MSc (1984) and PhD (1991) in Computer Science from Helsinki University of Technology. His main research interests are in...

Mischa Dohler

Mischa Dohler

Mischa Dohler is full Professor in Wireless Communications at King’s College London, driving cross-disciplinary research and innovation in technology, sciences and arts. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), the...

Brijendra (BK) Syngal

Brijendra (BK) Syngal

Brijendra (BK) Syngal is a pioneer in the Indian telecommunication sector and has been recognized as the ‘father of the internet and data services. During his four-decade career, he has held senior executive positions in the major private and public sector telecom...

Bernard Barani

Bernard Barani

Bernard Barani joined the European Commission in 1994 after 11 years as a Communication engineer in the industry working on military optical systems and in the European Space Agency on advanced Satcom programmes. He is currently Deputy head of unit for “Future...

Prakash Moorut

Prakash Moorut

Mr. Prakash Moorut has close to 24 years of experience in the fields of spectrum engineering and wireless communications. He is currently the global Head of Spectrum Standardization for Nokia. In this role, he is responsible for defining and executing Nokia's spectrum...

Richard Li

Richard Li

Dr. Richard Li is Chief Scientist of Network Technologies at Futurewei, USA. Richard served as the Chairman of the ITU-T FG Network 2030 from 2018 to 2020, and as the Vice Chairman of the Europe ETSI ISG NGP (Next-Generation Protocols) from 2016 to 2019. He has also...

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