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ETSI Workshop on M2M STANDARDIZATION 4th and 5th of June 2008 Speakers’ biographies Marylin ARNDT leads a research group working on Wireless Sensors Networks at Orange Labs R&D center, Meylan, France. She Graduated as engineer from the 'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications', Paris, and obtained a phD in microelectronics from the University of Languedoc at Montpellier in 1982. She developed a first experience at CNET, working on Telecom Circuits Design in the newly created research lab dedicated to Microelectronic Technologies Studies. From 1990, she managed successively two research groups working on Modem system design and more closely on RF front end and digital baseband design. She conducted personally a research activity, leading PHD students. In parallel, the laboratory moved from telecom circuit design to system design. Since 1998 her topics of interest moved towards Wireless RF interfaces embracing the Cellular domain, then WLAN and WPAN. Capillary Networks for M2M applications, is her main topic of interest at the moment. Luis BARRIGA, Ericsson is a Senior Specialist at the Communications Security Lab of Ericsson Research, Sweden. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University and a Ph.D. in Computer Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology. From 1986 to 1997 he worked in academia as systems administrator and research engineer in operating systems and parallel computing. After finishing his Ph.D., he joined Ericsson in 1997 where he has worked mainly in the security field and related topics such as e-commerce, identity management, network security and mobile multimedia services. Within Ericsson, he has worked in research projects, customer projects and standardization bodies IETF, WAP, Liberty Alliance, 3GPP, W3C and OMA. Olivier BEAUJARD, Group Vice President, Business Development joined Wavecom in 1999 to head up Product Marketing where he set up the company's marketing activity. In 2000 he was promoted to Director of Corporate Business Development. In January 2004 he served as Marketing Director for the Vertical Applications Business Units and became Group VP of Business Development in 2005. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Wavecom group. Previously Mr. Beaujard had international Sales experience in the value added services platforms for telecommunications networks at FERMA. Mr. Beaujard also worked in the smart card industry for GEMPLUS were he was responsible for the GSM standardization at ETSI. Mr. Beaujard graduated from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG-ENSERG) with an electronics and telecommunications engineer diploma. He also holds an MBA of ESSEC business school. Jesus BERNAT VERCHER, TELEFONICA Master degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, in 1995. In 1994 he was Research Assistant in the Speech Recognition Department, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, working on Natural Language recognition and semantic information post-processing. In 1998, he joined Dragon Systems, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts (USA) as International Software Engineer, where he worked in the design and development of the speech recognition products for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch and Japanese. Since 2000, he has been with Telefónica I+D, being from 2000 to 2004 a member of the Speech Recognition Group responsible for the Telefonica Natural Language recognizer development. From 2004 he is with the Telefonica Advanced Platform Division, where he is currently researching on new technologies and service platforms for innovative Ambient Intelligent scenarios (sensor networks platforms, context-aware platforms, etc.). Steinar BREDE, Telenor R&D graduated from Iowa State University in 1988, and has since then been working in research and development in the areas of Oil and gas, Marine and Telecommunications. He has been Telenor R&D since 2001. He is currently working with Service Platforms with a special focus on positioning systems and secure transactions. Steinar is heading the group SIM Services and Applications and is currently focusing on embedded radio designs on UICC cards. ETSI Workshop on M2M STANDARDIZATION 4th and 5th of June 2008 Speakers’ biographies Olivier COURTADE is the CEO of m2msolution. Olivier Courtade has acquired in the last 10 years a huge experience in Machine to Machine activity. Having been among one of the pioneers of telematics with his company Balease/Nexo (security assets) and demonstrated the realities of this market through the pragmatic approach of his applications (160 000 vehicles equipped in telematics) trough his merge with the leader in automobile security, the Cobra Automotive Group, he decided to setup a spinoff (m2msolution) with the goal to participate at the massification of the m2m market. Born in 1966, he is graduated in Economic Sciences & Communication from Aix en Provence University II (Fr). Roberto DE BONIS, Telecom Italia received the Degree in Computer Science University of Torino in 1989. He is been working on different aspects in the telecommunications field and since 2000 he has been responsible for the development of different mobile services applications within TI such as Mobile Payment platform, Multimedia Transcoding Platform and Multichannel Delivery. He participated to many international projects and also previous and current IST projects such as IST-2000-29601 Meteore and IST-2002-507126 Cocoon. He has been participating to different standardisation bodies such as ISO, ITU-T, 3gpp and OMA. Since 2005 he has been working in the area of wireless sensor networks for the definition of a management platform architecture and design and in different standardization and patent activities. Cristina DELERA, INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG is Product Marketing Manager at Infineon Technologies AG. Cristina has a Master of Science Degree in Engineering. Cristina studied in Spain and Denmark. After graduation, Cristina started to work at Infineon Technologies in 2000. Cristina gained valuable insights in her first position as process engineer at the manufacturing site of Infineon in Munich. In June 2001, Cristina joined the Chip Card & Security ICs, first working in Supply Chain and starting in 2003 in the Marketing Department as Business Development Manager. Currently, Cristina is Product Marketing Manager. One major focus of her position is the creation and evaluation of new business opportunities such as M2M, as well as managing the implementation of the requirements into products. Christophe DUGAS, CORONIS graduated from Polytech Montpellier (France) in 1990 with a degree in Microelectronics Engineering. As a Technical Project Manager in the UHF and Microwave industry from 1990 to 1995, he developed microwave sensors for autonomous robotics. In 1996, he joined STMicroelectronics as the Technical Marketing Manager for the RF product line. He was then appointed to the Nokia Wireless Division as a Strategic Marketing Manager for Application Specific RF ICs. In Oct. 2001, he finally took up a new challenge by joining Coronis Systems. He is Director of Marketing and Communications and the primary evangelist for Coronis' wireless technology, Wavenis. FABIO FORNO, ISMB, holds a PhD in System and Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2004, with a thesis on the topic XMPP based overlay networks for context aware applications. Previous work and research experiences were in the field of web based collaboration systems, semantic search engines, and tools for e-Learning, both with research grants from Politecnico of Torino and as a freelance consultant. In 2004 he received a research grant from Microsoft for designing a Bluetooth based indoor positioning system, developed at the Applied and Pervasive Architecture Lab of the Politecnico di Torino. In 2005 he joined ISMB as a research and his main research topics are automatic identification, near field communication and presence based systems. At ISMB has designed and contributed to development of a distributed event based middleware for RFID readers. He also contributed to the design and the engineering of several smarts objects with embedded RFID readers/tags for indoor logistics and context aware applications. Since August 2007 he is CTO at Bluendo srl, a Turin based startup, whose main focus is developing a platform and solutions for mobile and pervasive near real time communications. ETSI Workshop on M2M STANDARDIZATION 4th and 5th of June 2008 Speakers’ biographies Roch H. GLITHO, Ericsson, holds a Ph.D. (Tekn. Dr.) in teleinformatics (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) and M.Sc. degrees in business economics (University of Grenoble, France), pure mathematics (University Geneva, Switzerland), and computer science (University of Geneva). He works as a Technical Expert at Ericsson Canada and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Concordia University. In the past he worked as a Senior Specialist in network management for Ericsson Telecom in Stockholm, and as an R&D engineer for a computer manufacturer in Oslo, Norway. His industrial experience includes research, international standards setting (e.g. contributions to ITU-T, ETSI, TMF, ANSI, TIA, and 3GPP), product management, project management, systems engineering and software/firmware design. He is an IEEE distinguished lecturer, a senior technical editor of IEEE Communications Magazine and a technical editor of IEEE Surveys & Tutorial Magazine. He is a former Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine and a former