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A

Nabil Abdennadher
Professor, HES-SO (University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland)
Ulrich Ahle
CEO, FIWARE Foundation
Nasser Saleh Al Marzouqi
Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 20 Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities and Communities (SC&C)
Reto Amstad
Consultant Plant Data Services, Siemens Switzerland
Aliaksei Andruschevich
Senior Researcher / CEO, iHomeLab, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts / SwissIQ GmbH
Mr. Pasquale Annicchino
Senior Assistant Professor of Law, Università di Foggia
Domenico Arpaia
CEO, OrbiWise SA

B

Dr. Davide Bacciu
Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at the Computer Science Department, University of Pisa
Ajith Balakumar
CEO, Forthcode
Martin Bauer
Senior Standardization Engineer, NEC Laboratories Europe
George Beers
Project Coordinator, SmartAgriHubs
Marc-Elian Bégin
CEO & Co-founder, SixSq
Helmi Ben Hmida
Senior Researcher and Project Manager, Smart Living Competence Center in the Fraunhofer Institute
Prof. Emmanuel Benoist
Professor for Computer Science, Bern University of Applied Sciences
Alexander Berlin
CEO, Berlin Thinking Consulting
Stefano Bianchi
Research Team Leader & Project Manager, Softeco Sismat
Phillippa Biggs
Senior Policy Analyst, ITU
Enrique Blanco
Head of Process Control Systems and Safety Beam Department, CERN
Patrick Blankers
Head of Sustainability & Corporate responsibility for the region Western & Central Europe, Ericsson
Yann Bocchi
Professor and Head of the Software Engineering Unit / Committee Member, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO) Valais / Swiss Mobility Lab
Ms Zsuzsanna Bódi
Association Manager, European Network of LivingLabs - ENoLL ivzw
Franck Boissière
Policy Coordinator & Programme Officer, European Commission
Luca Bolognini
President, Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati
John Bothos
Associate Researcher , Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL)
Mustapha Bouraoui
Vice-President Strategic Marketing Europe, Middle East and Africa, STMicroelectronics
Jonas Breuer
Research Associate and Project Manager, Imec
Raphael Briner
Chief Marketing Officer, Elium
Arne Bröring
Research Scientist, Siemens
Davide Brunelli
Assistant Professor, University of Trento
Martin Brynskov
Associate Professor in Interaction Technologies, Aarhus University
Ms Cristina Bueti
Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 20 “Internet of things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C), ITU - International Telecommunication Union
Martin Bürki
Country Manager, Ericsson Switzerland
Martin Burns
Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Reinhard Bütikofer
Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA) and the Co-Chair of the European Green Party (EGP), European Parliament

C

Juan Cadavid
Responsible for European Affairs at the Software and Systems Engineering Department, CEA LIST
Monique Calisti
CEO Martel Innovate & President Digital for Planet, Martel Innovate
Jan Camenish
Principal Research Staff Member, IBM Research
Joe Cannataci
Special Rapporteur, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Domenica Carriero
Associate Economic Affairs Officer, UNECE
Marco Carugi
Senior Consultant, ITU-T SG20 and AIOTI WG03
Gonzalo Casas
The Things Network, Zurich Community
Filippo Cavallo
Assistant Professor, BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, (Pisa, Italy)
Giovanna Centonze
Responsible of performing analysis of big data, TPG
Giorgio Cesana
Director of Technology Marketing, Front - End Manufacturing and Technology R&D Group/ Executive Co - Director, STMicroelectronics/SOI Industry Consortium
Margaret Chan
Director-General of the World Health Organization, World Health Organization
Andrew Charlesworth
Reader in Information Technology Law / Director, University of Bristol
Karel Charvat
Representative of HSRS, OGC Agriculture DWG
Parag Chatterjee
Professor-Researcher, National Technological University (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hyojkeun Choi
Product Manager and Development Leader of IoT/BigData Platform "Insator", SamsungSDS R&D Center
Philippe Cina
International Markets, Head of Business Development, PostBus Switzerland
Jean Francòis Ciparisse
Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Flavio Cirillo
Research Scientist of theCloud Services and Smart Things group, NEC Laboratories Europe
James Clarke
EU Strategic Liaison Manager, Waterford Institute of Technology
Louis Coetzee
Chief Engineer and Research Group Leader , CSIR Meraka Institute (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), South Africa
Marius-Iulian Corici
Senior Researcher, Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute
Philippe Cousin
Easy Global Market

D

Yves Daccord
Director General, ICRC
Amadou Daffe
Coder4africa, SENEGAL, KENYA
Reinaldo de Bernardi
General Manager, CIAg - Center for Innovation in Agribusiness
Bart de Lathouwer
Director, Interoperability Programs, Open Geospatial
Rosa Delgado
Chair/ International Consultant of Internet of Things (IoT), New Internet (IPv6) and Internet Top Level Domain Names , Peru IPv6 Council
Mauro Dell'Ambrogio
State Secretary for Education and Research, Federal Department of Home Affairs - SERI
Mario Díaz Nava
ST Microelectronics
Julian Dömer
Responsible for 5G development in the Mobile Business Solutions Department, Swisscom
Mauro Dragone
Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Rémi Druilhe
Research Engineer , Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA)
Corentin Dupont
WAZIUP Initiative

E

Juergen Ehrensberger
Professor in Telecommunications, HES-SO (University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland)
Omar Elloumi
Bell-Labs Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Nokia
Shirin Enshaeifar
Research Fellow, University of Surrey
Jarmo Eskelinen
Chief Innovation & Technology Officer, Future Cities Catapult

F

John Farserotu
Head of the Wireless Program and Wireless Systems Division/Chair, CSEM/ETSI Technical Committee (TC) SmartBAN
Ramy Fathy
Vice Chairman of the ITU-T Study Group 20 (SG20), ITU - International Telecommunication Union
Mr Serge Fdida
Professor, Sorbonne University
Giuseppe Fico
Associate Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Silvia Maria Fonseca Silveira Massruhá
General Director, Embrapa Agricultural Informatics
Kary Främling
Professor in Computer Science, Aalto University (former Helsinki University of Technology)
Pr. Antônio Augusto Fröhlich
Head of the Software/Hardware Integration Lab 7Associate professor at the Computer Science Department (INE), Computer Science Department Federal University of Santa Catarina
Detlef-Georg Fuehrer
University of Luxembourg
Mario Fürst
Digital Transformation Officer, Siemens Switzerland

G

Peter Gallinelli
Researcher and teacher, HES-SO
Ana Garcia Robles
Secretary General, Big Data Value Association (BDVA)
Yuming Ge
Managing Engineer, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)
Dominique Genoud
Professor / CTO / Partner, HES-SO / Agrofly / Datastory
Panagiotis Georgopoulos
Senior Innovation Engineer and Team Lead, Innovations Department at Swisscom
Okan Geray
Strategic Planning Consultant , Smart Dubai Office
Nicola Giandomenico
Professor in electronics, HEPIA
Bernard Gindroz
Chairman of ISO TC 268 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, ISO - International Organization for Standarization
Alexander Gluhak
Founder & CEO, Urban Data Collective
Rahul Gosain
Director Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, IRSME
Harin S. Grewal
Cluster Director, IMDA Singapore
Rudolf Griss
EPFL (Ecole Polytecnique Federale Lausanne)
Patrick Guillemin
Technical and Senior Research Officer, AIOTI - ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)
Sergio Guillen Barrionuevo
Chief Innovation Officer, ACTIVAGE ASSOCIATION
Mr Dominique Guinard
CTO & Co-Founder, EVRYTHNG
Mr Sergio Gusmeroli
Research Coordinator, Politecnico di Milano
António Guterres
Secretary General, UN

H

Mr Kai Hackbarth
Senior Technology Evangelist IoT and Connected Products, Bosch Software Innovations GmbH
Silvia Hagen
Chair/CEO, Swiss IPv6 Council/Sunny Connection AG
Stephan Haller
Dozent, Bern University of Applied Sciences
Edwin Hecker
Managing Partner, SmartAgriHubs
Juergen Heiles
Corporate Standardization Manager, Siemens AG
Didier Hélal
Co-founder, Strategic Accounts Senior Director, Orbiwise
Dirk Helbing
Professor of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich
Christopher Hemmens
Lead Researcher in end-user engagement, Mandat International
Fred Herren
Chief Operating Officer Africa, SGS Group Management Ltd
Juan José Hierro
Chief Technology Officer/Chairman, Fiware Foundation/Fiware Technical Steering Committee
Antonio Hodgers
Conseiller d'Etat chargé du département de l'aménagement, du logement et de l'énergie (DALE), Canton of Geneva
Mr Jan Höller
Research Fellow, Ericsson AB
Marita Holst
Senior Project Manager at Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology and Botnia Living Lab, Lulea University of Technology (LTE)
Laurent Horvath
Smart City Delegate, City of Carouge
Xiaohong Huang
Professor, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications (BUPT)
Thorsten Hülsmann
Director, Industrial Data Space Association IDSA

I

Danh Iephuoc
Technical University of Berlin
Heini Ikävalko
Researcher, Aalto University School of Business
Dr. Ricardo Inamasu
Pesquisador, Automação e Agricultura de Precisão Embrapa Instrumentação São Carlos/SP
Peggy Irelan
Telemetry, Data Architectures and IoT Solutions , Intel Fellow
Mauro Isaja
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA

J

Bilel Jamoussi
Deputy-Director, ITU/AI4GOOD
Marianne Janik
General Manager, Microsoft Switzerland
Nicole Jones
Google INC

K

Robert Kahn
CEO and President, CNRI - Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Georgios Karagiannis
Principal strategist in Standardisation and Industry Development, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH
Alexandre Karlov
Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland in School of Business and Engineering Vaud
Edward Kelley
Director for the Department of Service Delivery and Safety, WHO
Christine Kendrick
Air Quality Lead/Smart Cities Project Manager, City of Portland | Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Yasir Khokhar
Founder and CEO, Connecterra
Eunah Kim
Head of Research and Development, Device Gateway SA & UDG Alliance
Jaeho Kim
Managerial Researcher, IoT Platform Research Center at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI)
Joe Klein
Founder and CTO, CISSP - Disrupt 6
Marcello Knorich Zuffo
Full Professor at Politecnic Engineering School, Univeridade de São Paulo (USP)
Sename Koffi
Woelab (fablab) ,Lome , TOGO
Sergio Takeo Kofuji
Professor Dr., Escola Politécnica Da Universidade De Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dimitri Konstantas
Full Professor / Director, Interfaculty Computer Science Centre / Information Science Institute (ISI) of the Geneva School of Economics and Management of the University of Geneva
Nikolaos Kontinakis
Senior Projects Coordinator, EUROCITIES
Georges Kotrotsios
Member of the Executive Board, CSEM
Srdjan Krco
Co-founder/CEO of DunavNET. Management Boards of WeDoSoftware, BluSky Consulting LLC, AIOTI and IoT Forum, DunavNET
Bernard Kuiten
Head of External Relations, World Trade Organization
Slawomir Kuklinski
Ekspert R&D, Orange Polska
Joanna Kulik
Software Engineer, Google, Inc
Benjamin Kumpf
Leader of the Innovation Facility of the UN Development Programme, UNDP

L

Leif Laaksonen
Director, CSC company
Iker Larizgoitia Abad
Research Engineer / Program Manager, EVRYTHNG
Mikel Larrañaga Negro
Senior Researcher, IK4-TEKNIKER
Ms Elise Latify
Independent Privacy and Data Protection Lawyer, Former CNIL
Oscar Lazaro
Managing Director, Innovalia
Chaesub Lee
Executive Advisor, COLLCOMM
Gyu Myoung Lee
Professor, Liverpool John Moores University
Franck Le Gall
Chief Operating Officer, Easy Global Market, COO
Jean-Luc Lemahieu
Director, Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs (DPA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Carmen López
Research Fellow Network Planning and Mobile Communications Laboratory, which belongs to the Communications Engineering Department, University of Cantabria
Fernando López de Aguilar
FIWARE Cloud and Platform Senior Expert, FIWARE Foundation
Olavi Luotonen
Programme Officer, European Commission
Patrice Lyons
General Counsel, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)

M

Teresa Macchia
Experience Researcher, Digital Catapult Centre
Pedro Maló
Chief Science Officer, UNPARALLEL
Gabriel Antonio Marao
President, Brazilian IoT Forum
Simona Marinescu
Chief, Development Impact Group Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS)
Alexandre Martin
Director for Western Switzerland, Siemens
Esmeralda Megally
CEO and Co-Founder, Xsensio
Dr. George Michalos
Project Manager, Labora-tory of Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS)
Svetoslav Mihaylov
Policy Officer, Internet of Things Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Mark Miller
CEO /Vice Chairman / Member of the Board of Directors, CONCEPTIVITY /European Organisation for Security / European Cyber Security Organisation
John Moor
IoT Security Foundation
Mr Jim Morrish
Founding Partner, Transforma Insights
Monique Morrow
President and Co-Founder, Humanized Internet
Elena Mugellini
Professor, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Fribourg (HES-SO)
Catherine Mulligan
Vice Chairman of the ETSI ISG CIM, Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering
Geoff Mulligan
Founder & Chair, LoRa Alliance
Luis Muñoz
Dept. of Communications Engineering, University of Cantabria
Amy L. Murphy
Senior Researcher, Bruno Kessler Foundation

Nelson Malaguti
Counsellor Radiocommunication Bureau (BR), International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

N

Akihiro Nakao
Director, Collaborative Research Institute for NGCI,Next-Generation Cyber Infrastructure, University of Tokyo
Selena Nemorin
Researcher, Department of Media and Communications for the VIRT-EU research project: Values and Ethics in Innovation for Responsible Technology in Europe
Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts
Director, IoT, Forum Virium Helsinki
Alexander Ntoko
Chief of the Operations and Planning Department , ITU - International Telecommunication Union

O

Alexis Oliverau
Ingénieur Chercheur , CEA - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Kathleen Olstedt
Manager Innovation & Cooperation, European Innovation Hub
Andrea Onetti
Vice President, General Manager MEMS Sensor Division, STMicroelectronics
Nabil Ouerhani
Computer Science Professor, Computer ScUniversity of Applied Sciences (HES -SO)

P

Mr. Alberto Paradisi
Chief Research and Development Officer, CPqD
Rémy Pawlak
Researcher of the NanoCar Race team, University of Basel
Nuria Pazos
Computer Science Professor, University of Applied Sciences (HES-SO)
Margot Pinault
Policy Officer in charge of Horizon 2020 funding for Energy Efficiency (Societal Challenge 3 - Energy Efficiency part), European Commission European Commission, DG Energy, Energy Efficiency unit, Buildings and Finance team
Karina Popova
Head of Development, LINK Mobility GmbH
Martin Potts
Founder & Director / Coordinator, Martel Consulting/H2020 project EU-China Study on IoT and 5G (EXCITING)
Mirko Presser
Associate Professor, Aarhus University
Steve Purser
Head of Core Operations Department, ENISA

Q

Philippe Quinio
STMicroelectronics

R

Dave Raggett
Senior Researcher, W3C
Tushar Raju
Project Manager, European Platforms Initiative (IoT-EPI)
Sureswaran Ramadass
Prof Emeritus, Internet Engineering. Chairman, Steering Committee, ITU-MUST IPv6 and IoT Center of Expertise
Ms Florence Raynal
Global Data Protection Officer, Pernod Ricard
Yassin Rekik
Computer Sciences Professor, University of Applied Sciences - Western Switzerland (HES-SO)
Benoît Revaz
Director, Swiss Federal Office for Energy
Rolf Riemenschneider
Head of Sector, "Internet of Things" Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Ricardo Rivera
Sectorial Manager, BNDES
Jorge Rodrigues
Sales director for Industry & Society in Switzerland, Ericsson
Raphael Rollier
Responsable du programme Smart City, Swisscom
Carsten Rossenhoevel
Managing Director and co-founder, EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center
Paolo Ruti
chief of the World Weather Research Division, World Meteorological Organization (UN)

S

Dario Sabella
Secretary of ETSI MEC, Intel
Alessandro Saffiotti
Orebro University, Cognitive Robotic Systems laboratory
Yasir Saleem
Research Engineer, Wireless Networks and Multimedia Services Department, Telecom SudParis
José Gustavo Sampaio Gontijo
Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Digital Innovation & Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Science
Luis Sánchez
Associate Professor at the Department of Communications Engineering, University of Cantabria
Ziqin Sang
Vice Chairman, ITU-T Study Group on IoT and Smart Cities and Communities (SG20), Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications
Ana Lizeth Santos Hernandez
Director of Finance and Administration Bureau and Human Resource Manager, National Commission of Telecommunications of Honduras
Kamran Sayrafian
Program Lead, NIST
Manuel Schweizer
Founder/Member of the Board, Cloudscale.ch AG/SwissIX Internet Exchange
Mr Lucio Scudiero
Avvocati Associati, Legance
Ulrich Seldeslachts
ulrich@anakyn.be
Martin Serrano
IoT Unit Head, Principal Investigator & Data Scientist at Insight Centre for data Analytics and Chair at i3-MARKET, Insight Centre for Data Analytics - NUI Galway
Uri Shani
Research Staff Member, IBM
Mr. Abhishek Sharma
Founder and MD, Beyond Evolution TechSolutions Pvt. Ltd.
Pieter Simoens
Professor, Ghent university, IMEC
Andrea Siviero
Research Manager / Leader, IDC's Customer Insights & Analysis Group / IDC European IoT Practice
Antonio Skarmeta
Full Professor, Universidad de Murcia
Niels Peter Skov Andersen
General Manager, Car 2 Car Forum
Adrian Slatcher
City of Manchester
Jan Sliwa
Researcher, Bern University of Applied Sciences
Maria Sokhn
Professor / Head of the Data Semantics Lab / VP , HES-SO / eGov Innovation Center
John Soldatos
Senior R&D Consultant and Innovation Delivery Specialist, INTRASOFT International
JaeSeung Song
assistant professor, leading the SESlab Computer and Information Security Department, Sejong University
Sergios Soursos
Master R&D Engineer, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions
James St-Pierre
James St. Pierre, Deputy Director Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Anna Ståhlbröst
Professor, Head of Subject & Division, Luleå University of Technology
Nathalie Stembert
Human-Centered Researcher and Designer, Stembert Design
Lee Stogner
Industrial Relations, IEEE Region 3
Mr Jürgen Sturm
Chair of the Management Board, AIOTI
Tanya Suarez
Board Member of AIOTI, Founder of IoT Tribe and CEO of BluSpecs, BlueSpecs/AIOTI
Marimuthu Swami Palaniswami
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director/Convener of Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), University of Melbourne

T

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar
co-founder and Vice-President Research & Innovation, Black Swan LUX
Dr. Emilia Tantar
Chief Operating Officer, Black Swan LUX
Tiago Teixeira
Leader of the design, specification and development of the open-source plug-&-sense platform, H2020 WAZIUP
Ad Ten Berg
Office Director, ARTEMIS Industry Association
Ye Tian
Executive Deputy Director, Internet of Things Information Technology and Application Laboratory of the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Elias Z. Tragos
Project Manager of FIESTA-IoT, Insight Centre for Data Analytics National University of Ireland
Athinas Trakas
Services Director Europe, Open Geospatial
Vlad Mihai Trifa
Head of Digital Lab, Swisscom

U

Roland Uhlmann
Key account manager Swiss Market & IoT lead, Ericsson Switzerland
Mr. Andrés Upegui
Profesor/Institut inIT, HESSO
Christopher Uwaje
CEO, Mobile Software Solutions Limited

V

Luciana Vaccaro
Rector, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
Ines Vaittinen
International Project Manager and Developer, ENoLL
Kees van der Klauw
Chairman, Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI)
Rob van Kranenburg
Founder of Council, The European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things
Frank Van Rompaey
Head, UNIDO - Geneva
Dimitri van Zantvliet Rozemeijer
Chief Information and?? Technology Officer ?, GÉANT
Ovidiu Vermesan
Chief Scientist, SINTEF
Mr Brecht Vermeulen
Technical Coordinator, Fed4FIRE+
César Viho
Professor in the Computer Sciences Departement (ISTIC) , INRIA/IRISA - Université de Rennes I
Eric Vyncke
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems

W

Ralf-Michael Wagner
Chief Operation Officer for MindSphere, Siemens Digital Industries
Nicolas Walder
Mayor of the City of Carouge and President of the United Cities of Geneva, Carouge
Jean Phillipe Walter
Préposé suppléant, Préposé fédéral à la protection des données et à la transparence
Thomas Watteyne
Research Scientist & Innovator, Inria / Analog Devices
Dr. Rolf H. Weber
Professor, University of Zurich - Faculty of Law
Tobias Weigel
computer scientist, WDCC
Patrick Wetterwald
Internet of Things and Smart Grid Standardization Manager, Cisco
Brian Witten
Senior Director of Symantec Research Labs (SRL) Worldwide, Symantec
Peter Wittenburg
Co-Chair, FDO Forum
Konrad Wrona
Principal Scientist at the The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) , NATO

X

Y

Sheng-Ann Yu
Director Cloud Group Function Technology, Ericsson

Z

Marco Zenarro
ICPT Trieste
Houlin Zhao
Secretary-General , ITU
Sébastien Ziegler
Chair of the Privacy Symposium, Mandat International / ECCP
Detlef Zühlke
Initiator & Chairman, Industrie 4.0
André Zwanziger
Enterprise Architect and member of the Lead IoT Architects Team at Digital Division, T-Systems International GmbH
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