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François Ambrosini, IBIT François Ambrosini obtained his engineering degree in electronics and signal processing combined with a master's degree in computer networks and from ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France, in 2003. Among other activities he was involved with radio tech‐ nology development at Sagem Défence & Sécurité and later in the standardisation of mobile TV systems at . Mr. Ambrosini operates an office for consulting in information technology and security since 2012. His current activities span Reconfigurable Radio Systems security, IoT security, attribute‐based cryptography for access control, and language‐theoretic security.

Mahdi Ben Alaya, Sensinov ‐ ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Mahdi Ben Alaya, PhD, is an international expert in IoT and M2M architectures. He is the Founder and CEO of Sensinov. He obtained a Ph.D in Networks, Telecommunications, Systems and Architectures from the Federal University of Toulouse and the LAAS‐CNRS laboratory in France. He serves as Vice Chairman of the oneM2M Testing Group. He is co‐founder and technical manager of the open source project Eclipse OM2M at the Eclipse foundation. He presented IoT tutorials in summer schools and universities worldwide including France, Taiwan, and Korea. He initiated and managed several R&D projects at LAAS‐CNRS and Sensinov including ITEA2‐, ITEA2‐A2NETS, and H2020‐ LSP5‐AUTOPILOT. He has authored more than 20 refereed publications in international journals and conferences, as well as more than 50 contributions to IoT standards.

Gil Bernabeu, GlobalPlatform Mr. Bernabeu was elected GlobalPlatform's Technical Director in 2005, after serving as Chair of the Systems Committee for over two years. His main role is to drive the development of GlobalPlatform Specifications to deploy secure digital services and devices and promote open ecosystems. As well as acting as GlobalPlatform's central technical liaison point, he coordinates the efforts of the organization's three technical committees (SE, TEE and Systems), aligns the GlobalPlatform Task Forces with external partners, and oversees the Certification Secretariat to ensure all elements of GlobalPlatform‐based solutions are secure, interoperable and retain backwards compatibility to ensure ROI.

Maite Bezunartea, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Maite Bezunartea obtained the master degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) in 2014. She is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Kris Steenhaut at the Department of Electronics and Informatics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She has contributed to different projects, such as the IAPP European project Scanergy, with a focus on SmartGrids, the Flemish‐funded LH2ORA project, with a focus on using the LoRa radio technology for metering applications, and the Horizontal‐IoT project, with a focus on horizontal integration of different application and radio technologies. Her current research interests include the design, implementation and evaluation of long‐range Sensor Networks for environmental monitoring and smart grids, and their combination with more classical short‐range radio technologies for IoT applications.

Josef J. Blanz, Josef Blanz, a principal engineer at Qualcomm, is responsible for M2M/IoT standards, related design work and interfacing to product management/engineering. In 1990 he started to design mobile radio ICs at the Center for Microelectronics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. 1993 he joined the Research Group for RF Communications, University of Kaiserslautern, to investigate multi‐antenna receivers for . Josef joined Qualcomm 1998 initially working on smart antennas. 1999–2009 he was Qualcomm’s lead in 3GPP for radio/baseband performance. He led R&D projects on lower layer enhancements, like MIMO for HSDPA/LTE. Since 2009 he leads Qualcomm's M2M/IoT standards work. He helped creating oneM2M, serves as a Technical Plenary Vice Chair, and is Qualcomm’s oneM2M lead. Josef has 25+ years of experience in communication systems design and worked 18 years in standardization. He holds Master (Dipl‐Ing.) & Ph.D. (Dr‐Ing.) degrees in EE, both from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Nicolas Damour, Nicolas Damour is Senior Manager for Business and Innovation at Sierra Wireless, where he has been working for the last six years. He holds a telecommunications engineering degree and a master degree in innovation management. Before Sierra Wireless, he has worked in the IT and telecommunications industry in North America and in Europe, notably for Networks and for the Kapsch group. At Sierra Wireless, he is responsible for M2M standardization activities and for advanced projects with partners and prospective customers to keep exploring new ideas and solutions in the M2M industry. Nicolas is also chairman of the architecture working group at oneM2M and member of the at the Open Mobile Alliance. He also attends other standardization and related industry fora such as the 3GPP, the GSM Association or the European Smart Metering Industry Group. He is currently based in Toulouse, France.

Laura Daniele, TNO ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Laura Daniele is a scientist in the area of ontology engineering and semantic technologies. She graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Cagliari (Italy) and developed her MSc thesis at the University of Twente (NL) by means of the European Socrates/Erasmus program. In 2011, she obtained her PhD from the University of Twente on model‐driven development of context‐aware mobile applications. Since 2011 she works at TNO, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research. Her interest is to provide data integration solutions to enable semantic interoperability among various organizations that need to share data, but use different terminologies, standards and/or heterogeneous IT systems. Her research focuses on the application of semantic technologies in the of Things, especially in the Smart Home environment. Laura has developed a number of ontologies in several domains (http://ontology.tno.nl/) and is the creator of the Smart Appliances REFerence ontology (SAREF) for the European Commission and standardized by ETSI. Laura is active in several European research projects and has authored many international publications. Vinncent Danno, Orange corporate Vincent Danno is Director of Standards in Orange. His responsibility includes all wireline networks and home networks, as well as the IoT platform. In his role, he defines standardisation strategy and policy, and leads Orange’s standardisation activities to set the direction and lead the transformation of future networks, including in such areas as convergence in 5G, softwarisation, transport networks and machine‐to‐machine…. Vincent has held various roles, covering both fixed and mobile networks, both at the access and core level. He has been involved in numerous Standard Development Organisations and Industry Associations, such as ETSI, 3GPP and the GSMA. His contribution has been recognised by multiple industry awards.

Francisco Da Silva, Technologies Sweden ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Francisco is since 2009 a Senior Councillor for Standardization and Technical Regulation in Huawei Technologies Sweden. Before he had been with Portugal Telecom. Francisco was Chairman of ETSI General Assembly and of ETSI Board. He is now participating in the ETSI delegations of Project Coordination Group of 3GPP and in the Steering Committee of oneM2M. Before. He has also been Vice‐ Chairman of EURESCOM and member of the ETNO Steering Committee. One of his focus has for a long time been the road between Research and Standardization. Nowadays, in the ETSI Board, he focus also on issues like Open Source and IoT including the “Smart Appliances Initiative” and its Reference Ontology (SAREF), an EC project developed in collaboration with ETSI.

Ian Deakin, Ian Deakin, Head of Innovation and Emerging Technology at iconectiv, is responsible for in‐depth market research and analysis of new and disruptive technology within the telecommunications market. He specializes in identifying emerging technology trends for connected device security, authentication and fraud prevention across telecoms, IoT and enterprise services. As the authoritative partner of the communications industry for more than 30 years, iconectiv’s market‐leading solutions enable the interconnection of networks, devices, and applications for more than one billion people every day. A US‐based company, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., doing business as iconectiv, is a wholly owned subsidiary of . Deakin has a 30 year career in the communication industry. Prior to iconectiv, he held executive and management positions with mobile and telecommunications companies including: CMG Telecommunications, Motorola O2 and more. As founder of a startup company ‘Pervenio’ he successfully commercialized a patented solution for automated mobile device identity tracking.

Jean‐Pierre Desbenoit, Schneider Electric Jean‐Pierre Desbenoit works for Schneider Electric since 2002. He is in charge of ICT standardization and Industry Relations in the Industry and Government Affairs team of Schneider Electric and involved in several standard organizations and industry alliances working in the IoT space in particular:  member of the Strategic Committee Digital Information and Communication of AFNOR,  Board member of AIOTI and Chair of WG13 Smart Buildings & Architecture,  Vice Chairman of the Board of Zigbee Alliance,  member of the IIC Steering Committee.

Keith Dickerson, ETSI Board Smart City Champion ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Keith Dickerson has played an active role in the ICT industry for over 30 years. He is currently a Director of Climate Associates Ltd which provides advice to major companies on Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation issues, especially where international standards are an important consideration. Keith has been a member of the ETSI Board for over 13 years, leading their Green Agenda and Smart Cities work, and is a rapporteur for work items on energy efficiency in several technical committees. Keith is also a Vice Chair of ITU‐T Study Group 5 “Environment & Climate Change” developing global standards on topics such as carbon reduction, energy efficiency and e‐waste. In 2015, Keith was appointed one of the leaders of the ETSI Board strategy topic on Internet of Things (IoT) and leads their activities on Smart Cities. He is also a full partner in the EC Horizon 2020 IoT project VICINITY “Open virtual neighbourhood network to connect intelligent buildings and smart objects” and leads their standardization work package.

Omar Elloumi, Nokia ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Dr. Omar Elloumi leads oneM2M technical plenary, a partnership project chartered to advance interoperability standards for consumer, enterprise and industrial IoT. He joined Nokia in 1999 and held several positions including research, strategy and system architecture. He is currently with Nokia Bell‐Labs and CTO group where he is responsible for standards and system architectures for IoT. Dr Elloumi is coeditor of books on M2M communications and Internet of Things published by Wiley and ETSI. He is also involved in program committees of several international conferences and magazines on M2M and IoT. He is a recognized IoT industry thought leader and is regularly invited as a panelist or keynote speaker at IoT industry events.

François Ennesser, Gemalto Francois Ennesser has over 20 years of experience in the embedded systems and security industry and has been working on Machine‐to‐ machine communication for nearly 10 years. Representing Gemalto in M2M standardization, he has been an active contributor in several organizations working on M2M and IoT security including GlobalPlatform and GSMA, and is chairing the Security Working Group of the oneM2M global standardization partnership, striving to anticipate the technical evolutions affecting trust, security and privacy along with the migration from business‐centric M2M use cases to consumer driven IoT applications. He also participated in several regulatory Expert Groups and mandate work initiated by the European Commission on the topics of smart metering and smart grids.

Lindsay Frost, NEC Lindsay Frost is chairman of the ETSI Industry Specification Group for cross‐cutting Context Information Management (ETSI ISG CIM). He has the goal to collaborate with SDOs and researchers, and consult stakeholders especially from the areas of semantic interopera‐ bility and Smart City domains, to find a consensus on how to re‐use (publish and subscribe to) information from various sources such as IoT, existing city databases, web and mobile apps. oneM2M and also ETSI SmartM2M are key SDOs where collaboration has begun. Lindsay Frost's career began as an experimental physics research manager in facilities in Germany, Italy and Australia, before joining NEC in 1999. From 2003 to 2009 he managed R&D teams for VoIP, 3GPP,WiMAX, fixed‐mobile convergence and WLAN, while also working two years as chairman of the Wi‐Fi Alliances' WiFi‐Mobile Convergence Mar‐ keting Task Group. Elected in 2012 to the Board of Home Gateway Initiative, he later also became co‐chair of the HGI Smart Home group, where he co‐ designed the XML‐based template for device descriptions which was introduced in 2016 into mainstream oneM2M specifications. He was elected chairman of ETSI ISG CIM in February 2017.

Sandra Gannon, IBM Sandra Gannon is an Agile Product Owner for Consumer IoT in the Watson Internet of Things (IoT) business unit in IBM. Sandra has worked in development for over 12 years in a number of roles such as Product Designer and Architect, Project Manager, Information Developer, Lead Information Developer, and Release Manager. Sandra's primary role as Agile Product Owner is to work with customers to validate their business needs and to designs product changes using the latest technology that exceed their expectations.

Raúl García‐Castro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Dr. Raúl García‐Castro is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science School at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. After three years as a software engineer, since he graduated in Computer Science (2003) he has been working at UPM in the Ontology Engineering Group in a wide range of European and Spanish research projects as well as in different collaborations with the industry. His research focuses on ontological engineering, on ontology‐based data and application integration, and on the benchmarking of semantic technologies. In 2008 he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the UPM with his thesis titled “Benchmarking Semantic Web technology”, which obtained the Ph.D. Extraordi‐ nary Award at UPM. He has authored more than 90 publications and regularly participates in standardization bodies (W3C, ETSI, AENOR, OASIS) and in the program committees of the conferences and workshops that are most relevant in his field.

Roberto Gavazzi, Telecom Italia ‐ ‐ Member of the Programme Committee After completing his Electronical engineering studies at Politecnico in Turin, Roberto worked for three years in the aerospatial area where he spent one year in Toulouse designing and developing SW for manned shuttles and satellites. Since then, Roberto has spent more than 20 years in Telecom Italia Laboratories. During his career Roberto was responsible for the "Service Management" functional unit, for Programs (Program Manager) and for Client Management (CAM ‐ Client Area Manager). In this last period Roberto is managing Programs on Smart City, Smart Grids and Internet of Things services. Roberto worked and is working with many italian and european cities on Smart City projects. Currently Roberto is also the Project Manager for the development, deployment and operation of a Telecom Italia IoT and smart city environment and platform called Open Air Lab in Torino (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n1_‐nXoqUk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL5‐ dwTaVjc&feature=youtu.be).

Wolfgang Granzow, Qualcomm Wolfgang Granzow received his Diploma and Dr.‐Ing. degrees in Communications Engineering from the Technical University Berlin in 1984 and 1990, respectively. He joined Qualcomm Germany in 2003, and is now a Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm’s R&D center in Nuremberg, Germany. Wolfgang performs radio systems and communications network R&D, including network architecture and protocol design. He is presently engaged in IoT R&D projects at Qualcomm and an active contributor to oneM2M standards development with focus on the oneM2M core protocol and security architecture. In his industry career of more than 25 years, he has executed and supervised numerous research and systems engineering projects in the area of mobile communications and contributed substantially to development and standardization of 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation mobile systems. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Wolfgang held research positions at Ericsson, Philips, and AT&T .

Shane He, Nokia Dr. Shane HE is a senior specialist on IoT standardization and vertical industry enablement at . She received her Ph.D degree in Information Sensing Technology from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2010. Now she is concentrating on standardization and research work of IoT services, platforms, and key technologies, her interests include 5G, IoT/M2M architecture, lightweight protocols, services and applications, as well as vertical E2E solutions, etc. She is experienced on global standardization work such as in oneM2M, ITU‐T, and IETF, and currently actively involved into ITU‐T SG20 and oneM2M. Prior to joining Nokia Networks, she also has the background of vertical industries, and investigates various industrial architectures and value‐chain for the IoT market, such as smart manufactory and automotive.

Roland Hechwartner, Deutsche Telekom ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Roland Hechwartner works at Deutsche Telekom Technology Innovation, in the Standardization and IPR Management department where he is responsible for standardization activities in the service domain. He was elected for the oneM2M Technical Plenary Vice Chairman position in 2014 and re‐elected 2016 for another two‐year term. Roland joined the department of systems engineering of max.mobil. (later T‐Mobile Austria) in 1999 as project manager for mobile data solutions. Since 2005 he has been working as delegate for Deutsche Telekom in several standardization organizations and served as member of the board of directors of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).

Bernard Heuse, Amdocs Bernard Heuse has joined Amdocs has part of the acquisition of jNetX, a Telecom Application Server provider. The unit is providing Amdocs with the network integration layer controlling in real‐time network activities for charging and authorizations, as part of BSS deployments. After Voice, Data, Messaging, Amdocs is providing solutions to help Operators to monetize IoT infrastructure.

Gianluca Insolvibile, Nextworks Srl Gianluca Insolvibile is co‐founder and Managing Director of Nextworks Srl. He holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and has a strong passion in computer science and technology at large. Gianluca has been doing R&D for 20 years in networking architectures and protocols, digital A/V encoding and transport protocols, system automation, Internet of Things and design of software architectures. Besides company management, he currently leads products and technology strategy in Nextworks.

Antonio J. Jara, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Antonio J. Jara; Adjoint Scientifique at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES‐SO), Founder at HOP Ubiquitous S.L. (www.hopu.eu) and vice‐chair of the IEEE Communications Society Internet of Things Technical Committee. He did his PhD (Cum Laude) at the Intelligent Systems and Telematics Research Group of the University of Murcia (UMU) from Spain in 2013. He received two M.S. (Hons. ‐ valedictorian) degrees. Since 2007, he has been working on several projects related to IPv6, Security and WSNs in automation and healthcare. He is especially focused on the design and development of new protocols for security and mobility for Future Internet of things, which was the topic of his Ph.D. He did the transfer of the results from his PhD around Security in the American Company United Technologies. Nowadays, he continues working on IPv6 technologies for the Internet of Things In areas such as security, heterogeneity integration and the application of IoT in sectors such as industry 4.0, energy, and smart cities. He has also carried out a Master in Business Administration (MBA). He has published over 100 international papers (>2000 citations, h: 25), As well he holds several patents in the IoT domain. Finally, he has participated in several European Projects about Internet of Things (networking, security and intelligence distribution – fog computing) and applied Internet of Things (energy, industry 4.0 and Smart Cities).

Thomas Kessler, Deutsche Telekom Thomas Kessler received his diploma degree in communications engineering from the Technical University of Brunswick, Germany, in 1987. He joined the Research Centre of Deutsche Telekom in Darmstadt, Germany, as a Scientific Staff Member. He worked on the research and development of DSL. He was delegate in the ETSI working group TM6 from 1998 to 2002. During his time at T‐Systems he was also involved in other network technologies like , optical transport, Storage Area Networks, and coaxial networks. In 2008, he joined the fixed network standardization group of Deutsche Telekom responsible for the topics DSL, Home Networks, PLC and M2M. He belonged to the Fixed Access department of Deutsche Telekom Group Technology from 2013 to 2015. Since then, he is working in the Mobile Access department of the Technology Innovation division. He currently participates in the ETSI Technical Committees SmartM2M and ATTM as well as in CENELEC TC210 WG11 and ONF WTP.

Franck Le Gall, Easy Global Market – Member of the Programme Committee Dr Franck Le Gall, is COO at Easy Global Market, an innovative SME focused on integration and validation of emerging technologies. He is driving company development of advanced testing technologies as well as integration of IoT and data platforms. He involves himself in standardisation area including oneM2M and FIWARE. Previously, he has participated in large R&D projects within the big industry (Orange, Alcatel, Thomson) and spent 9 years as Director within an innovation management company. He directed more than 10 large scale projects and studies related to the evaluation and monitoring of innovation and technical programs as well as research projects. He is now participating in several EU funded projects including H2020 ARMOUR investigating solutions for IoT security testing and labelling.

Sara N. Matheu‐García, University of Murcia Sara N. Matheu‐García received the B.S.degree in Mathematics and the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Murcia in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Since 2016, she has been a Predoctoral Researcher with the Department of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, where she is working toward the Ph.D. degree and collaborating in the European research project ARMOUR. Her main research interests are related to the security certification for the Internet of Things.

Svetoslav Mihaylov, European Commission, DG CONNECT ‐ ‐ Member of the Programme Committee Svetoslav Mihaylov is a Policy Officer in Unit H2 – Smart Mobility and Living at the European Commission’s Directorate‐General for Communications Networks, content and Technology. His areas of responsibility are interoperability and standards for Smart Cities, smart appliances ‐ smart home, smart energy, data centres sustainability, etc. In this position he has lead the creation of the SAREF ontology for smart appliances and is leading the work on urban platforms under the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities. In the period 1999‐2013, Svetoslav Mihaylov held different positions at the largest telecom operator in Belgium Proximus and was responsible for introducing new technologies, creating network solutions, defining the strategy and roadmap, etc. Prior to this he worked on a contract for the European Commission’s DG XIII Telecommunications and several other organisations/companies. He has an MSc in Telecommunications from Technical University of Sofia (plus Technical University of Denmark), postgraduate diploma in Wireless Telecommunications from Oxford University and postgraduate credit in Political and Economic Systems from Georgetown University. Bertrand Moussel, SIMalliance Since May 2016, Bertrand has held the position of R&D Director, Payment & Telecom Business Unit at VALID. He started his career in the industry with Product Marketing positions at ST and ‐Instruments. He later joined Gemplus, where he managed Latin American operations for ten years, and Oberthur Technologies. Bertrand then took up a position as CEO at Avilinks, before joining Inside Secure in 2006, and then Dictao. Bertrand is a Board member of SIMalliance.

Barbara Pareglio, GSMA Barbara has over 20 years of experience in the mobile industry. She has been part of the GSMA Internet of Things Programme since 2014, working on several aspects of the IoT such as the development of the Mobile IoT Technologies (LTE‐M, NB‐IoT), and the GSMA IoT Security Guidelines for helping the mobile industry to create trusted solutions for the IoT. Before joining the GSMA Barbara worked in R&D in several areas of telecommunications, including Intelligent Networks, IMS, Service Enabling and M2M/IoT. She also participate in and actively contributed to several standards. The GSMA Internet of Things Programme help operators add value and accelerate the delivery of new connected devices and services in the M2M and IoT market. This is to be achieved by industry collaboration, appropriate regulation, optimising networks as well as developing key enablers to support the growth of M2M and IoT. Web site: http://www.gsma.com/iot

Benoît Ponsard, SIGFOX Dr Benoît PONSARD is Director of Standardization at SIGFOX, the world's leading provider of dedicated connectivity for the Internet of Things. Before joining SIGFOX by end 2014, Dr Ponsard spent most of his career in the telecom industry where he held various R&D positions within major worldwide companies. From 2004 to 2010, Dr Ponsard was appointed as professor at Grenoble University (France), where he taught telecommunication and conducted researches in the field of sensor networks. In 2009, Benoit Ponsard founded Kimeggi, a consulting company specialized in innovation for machine connectivity. Benoît Ponsard is graduated from Ecole Superieure d'Electricité (France) in 1985 with a master degree in Communications. He obtained his PhD degree from Telecom ParisTech (France) in 1991.

Alan Martin Redmond, Numérique Consulting Dr Alan Martin Redmond; owner of Numérique Consulting (Ireland) received his PhD in 2013 from the School of Real Estate & Con‐ struction Economics and Management at Dublin Institute of Technology. In 2016, he completed his professional credit course at Uni‐ versity of , Irvine studying system engineering; a combination of product development and service delivery fundamentals including program and project management techniques and keen business skills. His professional certifications feature both finance and engineering principles, such as a chartered member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), member of The Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (MCSCE) and member of Association Française d’Ingénierie System (AFIS – Recherches et Innova‐ tions en IS, France). He received his post‐graduate certificate in Learning and Teaching from Anglia Ruskin University in 2013 and in 2015 he successfully completed a post‐doctoral fellowship at University of .

Axel Rennoch, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems Axel Rennoch studied mathematics at the Free University of Berlin. He has been working in the field of Formal Methods, Testing Methodologies and Quality of Service considerations in various scientific and industrial projects since 1985. His experiences address e.g. the application of Formal Description Techniques, the development and execution of telecommunication protocol tests, and soft‐ ware testing of CORBA systems. Axel is computer scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems in Berlin. As a member of the System Quality Competence Center he is involved / responsible for validation and testing projects on next generation networks and software technologies.

György Réthy, Ericsson György Réthy has graduated at the Moscow Telecommunication Institute as Electrical Engineer in Telecommunication, where he has also defended his Ph. D. and Candidate of Technical Sciences degrees. After a few years of experience at a telecom service provider, he has joined Ericsson, where he is working at the testing area for 15 years as technical product manager of Ericsson’s Test Competence Centre. For the last 2 years his main topics of interest and activities are Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C‐ITS) and Internet of Things (IoT), with special focus on the testing aspects of these areas.

György is a Vice‐chairman of ETSI TC MTS and member of the oneM2M Tester Group. Holds ISTQB foundation and advanced level (test management) certificates.

Steffen Ring, Ring Advocacy Steffen founded RING Advocacy LLC, www.ringadvocacy.com ,on telecommunications consulting and government affairs matters. Registered in the EU Transparency Register, Register of EU Experts and partner in an EU Horizon 2020 project (MONICA) on IoT wearables (www.monica‐project.eu). He is a technical expert in delegations of the Danish Spectrum Authority (Energistyrelsen) in CEPT/ECC and ITU‐R (World Radio Conferences since WRC‐2003). Between 1986 ‐ 2015, he was Chairman of EP TETRA, WG4 for Motorola Inc (now Motorola Solutions Inc),Chicago. – Mobile Data International (MDI) Inc, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He was also Director of European Type Approval – Motorola Cellular Systems and Senior Director Government Affairs.

Luis Jorge Romero, ETSI Director‐General Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of ETSI, has more than 20‐years experience in the telecommunications sector. At ETSI he has initiated a global standardization partnership for Machine to Machine communications, oneM2M, has overseen the rapid development of ETSI’s Industry Specifications on Group on Network Functions Virtualization, and has driven the implementation of the ETSI Long Term Strategy, an ambitious plan to prepare the institute for the future. Previously he has held diverse Director positions in Spain, Morocco and Mexico, predominantly with Telefonica. As Global Director for International Roaming and Standards, and Director of Innovation and Standards, he oversaw Telefonica’s participation in global standardization activities, and participated directly in the work of the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance and in the GSM Association (GSMA). Before joining ETSI in July 2011, he held the position of Director General of Innosoft and was also a partner and board member of Madrid‐based Innology Ventures.

Enrico Scarrone, TIM, Programme Committee Chair Enrico Scarrone joined the R&D division of TIM in 1992. Participation and promotion of early studies on integration of IP and mobile cellular networks in 3G.IP and in 3GPP (where he served as delegate from 1999 and as SA1 Chairman from 2006 to end 2011), has allowed him to stimulate the inclusion of all‐IP solution and the IMS in 3GPP. He was involved in in several projects in technology planning and selection, testing, budget forecasts, RFI, RFQ in the mobile and FMC areas, developing a strong link between real networks and standardization/research.This includes technical consulting on mobile, fixed and IMS technologies in more than 15 countries around the world, in Asia. South America and Europe. He is participating to 3GPP SA1, dealing with service and operational requirements in 3GPP mobile systems, where served as Chairman from 1996 to end 2011. He was also deeply involved in the foundation of ETSI TC M2M (where served as chairman from 2011 and 1012) and he was one of the major key people stimulating the creation and perming the creation of oneM2M, in charge of developing a global multiservice system for IoT communications and Internet of Things. Enrico Scarrrone is currently the Vice Chair Chairman of the Steering Committee of oneM2M (representing ETSI from 2015), and Chair of ETSI TC smartM2M (from 2014). He is also representing TIM in 3GPP SA. He is the standardization manager in charge of the coordinator for IoT/M2M standardization in the TIM group.

Joachim Schonowski ‐ Deutsche Telekom Joachim Schonowski started his career as High Potential at Deutsche Telekom in 1999. The Senior Product Manager introduced since 2001 new messaging services and developed the initial User Experience strategy of T‐Mobile for the Western‐European device portfolio. Between 2006 and 2008 he complemented his overview on the ICT market as Senior Business Consultant at T‐Systems. His curiosity concerning new topics and the interaction with research departments led him to T‐Labs. Since 2013 he is responsible for T‐ Labs Smart City activities.

Currently he leads for DT the EU H2020 projects: ‐ reTHINK on context based communication in a smart city, SC1 Lighthouse call mySMARTLife with the City of Hamburg. Joachim develops at T‐Labs a Smart City Innovation lab and works in several organizations like EIP, DIN co‐chair of Smart City Standards Forum, Digital Summit Germany … and presents research and project results regularly in scientific publications and conferences. Joachim studied physics in Edinburgh and Oldenburg and holds a diploma degree.

Marco Serioli, IoT Power He is one of the founders of Iotpower, a start‐up focused on creating innovative, safe and high‐performance IoT solutions for connected health, smart city, smart building and asset management. He spent the first part of his career in multinational hightech companies, developing a thorough knowledge of Finance, Telco ,Manufacturing and Public Administration industries. He started at Hewlett Packard in the Manufacturing Sales Division, then he kick‐started the Italian branch of Sun Microsystems and eventually moved to Paris for a headquarter marketing role. After that, he was Enterprise Country Manager for Compaq Computer until 2003, then took the role of Director of Corporate Business Development for Poste Italiane Group. In 2006, he became Deputy GM for Lombardia Informatica and finally GM at a company of Fieramilano Group. Since 2015, he is an entrepreneur in the area of Digital Consulting and IoT.

JaeSeung Song, oneM2M Testing WG Chair , Sejong University Prof. JaeSeung Song is an associate professor, leading the and Security Lab (SESLab), in the Computer and Information Security Department at Sejong University. He holds the position of oneM2M Test Working Group Chair and TTA oneM2M Special Project Group (SPG) Chair. Prior to his current position, he worked for NEC Europe Ltd. and LG Electronics in various positions. He occupied leadership positions in 3GPP and oneM2M standards groups as a rapporteur and active contributor. He received a Ph.D. at Imperial College London in the Department of Computing, United Kingdom. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Sogang University. His research interests span the areas of software engineering, networked systems and security, with focus on the design and engineering of reliable IoT/M2M platforms, particularly in the context of semantic IoT data interoperability, secure software patch techniques and software testing.

Willem Strabbing, ESMIG Willem Strabbing is Managing Director of ESMIG, the European voice of Smart Energy solution providers. In this position he is responsible for the ESMIG organisation, its strategy and the representation of ESMIG in Brussels. Before joining ESMIG, mr Strabbing was manager of the unit Intelligent Networks and Communication of KEMA Consulting. Mr. Strabbing has more than 25 years experience in advanced computer applications and related to the energy industry. The development European strategies related to the implementation of Smart Meters and Consumer Energy Management Systems on both political and technical level currently are in the focus of Mr. Strabbing’s work. He is involved in various discussions with stakeholders in Europe regarding these issues Mr Strabbing represents ESMIG in the steering committees of the Coordination Group for Smart Energy Grids and the Smart Grid Task Force and he is chair of the Coordination Group for Smart Meters of CEN, CENELEC and ETSI.

Joerg Swetina, oneM2M Joerg Swetina studied Chemistry and Mathematics at the University of Vienna, Austria and later conducted research in Theoretical Chemistry. Moving from academia to industry he led a development team dealing with GSM call processing and software testing at Siemens Austria. Since the early days of 3GPP he had been acting as chair/vicechair and representing Siemens in standardization bodies like ETSI SMG, 3GPP, OMA and others. In 2008 he moved to NEC Europe in Heidelberg, Germany, continuing his work in standards. Additionally to his work in 3GPP where he works on requirements – currently focusing on 5G – his other main field of interest is Machine‐to‐Machine (IoT/M2M) communication. He was active in creating the ‘oneM2M Global Initiative’ organization and is currently acting as vice chair of the requirements group of oneM2M. Dr. Swetina is married and is living in Vienna and Heidelberg. Pascal Thubert, Cisco Pascal Thubert has been actively involved in research, development and standards efforts on Internet mobility and wireless technologies since joining Cisco in Y2K. He currently works at Cisco’s Chief Technology and Architecture office, where he focuses on products and standards in the general context of IPv6, wireless, and the Internet of Things. He co‐chairs 6TiSCH, the IETF Working Group focusing on IPv6 over the 802.15.4 TSCH deterministic MAC, and LPWAN, that applies IETF protocols over low power wide area networking technologies. Earlier, he specialized in IPv6 as applied to mobility and wireless devices and developed routers and switches microcode in Cisco’s core IPv6 product development group. In parallel with his R&D missions, he has authored multiple IETF RFCs and draft standards dealing with IPv6, mobility and the Internet of Things.

Samuele Vecchi, Kalpa Samuele is the executive manager of the cloud & web development team in Kalpa which is a company specialized in designing and developing technology solutions for its customers. The needed skills in this environment space from hardware and firmware to mobile and cloud. His career started with the development of signal processing algorithms for telecommunications then expanded in the development of distributed embedded systems. With IoT and then Industry 4.0 revolutions he started to deepen the knowledge of cloud systems designed for devices instead of for human beings. Now his watchwords are “remotely controlled” and “innovation”. Currently he manages the Backend and Frontend teams in Kalpa, combining his engineering skills with an artistic flair in order to create innovative solutions for the demanding market of IoT and Industry 4.0.

Laurent Velez, ETSI Laurent is a technical expert in the ETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability (CTI.) he has worked in the ETSI Secretariat since 2008, where he is responsible for developing and validating test specifications. His area of work is wide, with a special focus on oneM2M and Internet Of Things technologies. He is also involved in the Electronic Signatures domain, being responsible of ESI Plugtests and Trusted Lists projects with European Commission. Originally from France, he received an Engineering Diploma/MSc in electronics and computer engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux. Before joining ETSI he was working in Ericsson and Siemens in Mobile Network Area, and then in Nortel, in the field of data routers and switches products.

Wei Wei, IBM Europe Wei Wei is Technical Relation Executive at IBM Europe. His current areas are IoT and Industry 4.0 Standardization. He is currently working as editors of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC41 WG3 Internet of Things Reference Architecture and ISO/IEC JTC1 WG10 Internet of Things Definition and Vocabulary. He is also the vice‐Chair of German IoT Standard Committee at DIN, and the member of German Industry 4.0 Standardization Working Group (DKE/DIN), where RAMI 4.0 (Reference Architecture Model for Industry 4.0), recommendations and roadmaps for Industry 4.0 standardization are under current focus. He has a back ground of more than 20 years of experiences in internet services and telecommunication industries. He has been worked as technical leader in different global IT companies such as Nokia, Vodafone and IBM. Responsible for the solutions which are correctly implemented, tested, delivered and accepted by customer. Formerly held technical solution lead architect positions at IBM and Vodafone.

Yongjing Zhang, Huawei Technologies Co. Dr. Yongjing Zhang has been working for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. since 2007 since his Ph.D. graduation from Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT). He is the IoT (Internet of Things) Standard Research Project Lead and Senior Expert of Huawei Cloud Core Network BU, responsible for IoT related standard activities, innovation research, and industry development. He is now serving as the chairman of oneM2M MAS (Management, Abstraction & Semantics) Working Group and the co‐chairman of W3C Web of Things Interest Group.

He is experienced in the standardization work including OMA, GSMA, ETSI M2M, CCSA, oneM2M, W3C, etc. Among that, he was also the chairman of ETSI M2M WG5 (Management). His professional areas cover SIP/IMS, Messaging, Personal Network, NFV, Video, Device Management, Semantics, and M2M/IoT.