European Approach to Standardization for a Digital Market
18 - 19 May 2016
Athens, Greece
Papathanasopoulou
Sophia,
General
Secretariat
of
Telecommunications and Post
Papathanasopoulou Sophia holds a Diploma Degree in Electrical Engineering
from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National
Technical University of Athens (NTUA). After her 14 year experience as a
senior engineer at the biggest telecommunications industry in Greece
INTRACOM, in 2009 she joined the public sector and was enrolled in the
Directorate of Certification of the General Secretariat of Telecommunications and Post of the
Ministry of Infrastructure, Transports and Networks of Greece. In 2013, she was transferred
to the Directorate of Broadband, Network Infrastructure and ICT Products of the General
Secretariat of Telecommunications and Post. Her duties include:
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Head of National Delegation at ETSI
The transposition of European Legislation and Directives to the National Legal
Framework.
Involvement in the creation of institutional framework through regulations and
directives for sharing telecommunication infrastructures and the development and
installation of broadband infrastructures.
Drafting of national technical regulations and specifications in the area of electronic
communications and mobile antenna installations with low environmental impact.
Key personnel in the National Pilot of the European project HeERO (Harmonized eCall
European Pilot, belonging to the ICT-PSP program), coordinating the Member State
Leadership.
Drafting of contributions to SG5 of ITU-T, one of which was evolved to an ITU
Recommendation for the protection of radio Base Distribution Stations (DBS) modules
from high current lightning strikes.
National Expert at the Steering Committee of the Transportation and Logistics platform
of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Education.
National Expert at the Council of the European Commission during the Hellenic
Presidency in 2014.
Ministry representative at the Advisory Board of the EDIFICE project proposal in
H2020.
Representation of the Greek Government in National and International Organizations.
Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).
KEYNOTE SESSION - Digital economy sets the context
Session Chair: Prodromos Tsiavos - Head of Cabinet
Luis Jorge Romero, Director General, ETSI
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 Specification 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. He is now positioning the institute to take a leading
role in 5G standardization through the 3GPP global partnership project and through initiatives
such as ETSI’s Mobile Edge Computing Millimetre Wave Transmission and Network Functions
Virtualization groups. 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.
Petros Mamalis, Programme officer, European Commission
DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Unit B.3
Standards for Growth
He was born in Mannheim (Germany) on September 23, 1964.
Work experience
September 2014 – onwards: Programme officer, European Commission, DG
GROW/ Unit B.3 "Standards for Growth". Deputy chair of the Editorial
Committee "Joint Initiative on Standardisation"
December 2013 – August 2014: Greek Presidency - Chair of Technical Harmonization Working
Party in the Council.
June 2010 – November 2013: Seconded National Expert (SNE), European Commission, DG
Enterprise and Industry.
September 2005 – May 2010: Industry Attaché, Permanent Representation of Greece to the
EU.
February 2003 – August 2005: Special scientist, General Secretariat for Industry, Ministry of
Development.
January 1992 – January 2003: Head of the Quality Department, CLOTEFI SA.
Academic Degrees
1987: Diploma in Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
2001: PhD in Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
POLICY SESSION: Security and Trust, fundamentals of the digital economy
Session Chair: Christos Datsikas - Attaché to the Council of the European
Union
Christos K. Datsikas, Attaché to the Council of the European
Union
Christos K. Datsikas received his BSc degree in Computer Science from
the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University
of Athens (UOA) in 1996 and his MSc degree in Techno-economic
systems from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in
2001. He received his PhD in Telecommunications in 2010 from the
Faculty of Physics of the UOA.
From June 2011 to date, he represents Greece, Ministry of Infrastructure,
Transport and Networks, at the Council of the European Union (EU). He is responsible for
Telecommunications, Information Society, Postal Services and Satellite Radionavigation
Systems (Galileo-EGNOS) in all legislative and non-legislative issues.
Previously, he has worked for over 14 years as an IT administrator, Consultant and Special
Advisor both in the private and the public sector on ICT issues.
Dr. Datsikas’s research interests are in the area of wireless digital communications, and more
specifically in Multi-hop Communications Systems, Free Space Optical Communications, in
MIMO and cooperative diversity systems, fading channels, and communication theory. His
proven track record includes more than 15 papers in prestigious international journals and
world recognized conferences.
Achilleas Kemos, Programme Officer -EU Policies, European
Commission
DG CONNECT - Network Technologies Unit
Achilleas Kemos Is Programme Officer For EU Policies Within European
Commission's Unit dealing with Network technologies, With a particular
focus on standardisation activities. He is the Commission's
representative in the key technical bodies related to Internet Protocol
(IP) standards issues And IP address allocation policies (IETF and RIPE
respectively) since 2012,
Bridging policy considerations with technology issues. In his career with the European
Commission he has dealt with issues on Internet Governance, managing the EU Member
States' High Group on Internet Governance, ITU relations, Network and Information Security,
And Digital broadcasting, where he was instrumental in the adoption of the "HD ‐ ready" logo
And HDTV interoperability. He holds a degree on Electronic Engineering from University
College London, and post ‐ graduate degrees in European Business Engineering and Project
Management from the French Telecommunications University (ENSTB) and Université Rennes
1 respectively.
Demosthenes Ikonomou, Head of Information Security & Data
Protection Unit, ENISA, Greece
Demosthenes Ikonomou received his Masters of Science in Electronics
and Computer Sciences and his Ph.D. in applied sciences from the
University of Southampton, United Kingdom, in 1992 and the
Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), Belgium, in 2002
respectively.
Between 1996 and 2008 he worked for DG Information Society & Media (INFSO) of the
European Commission mainly involved in the management of R&D projects in the fields of
wireless and personal communications as well as networked media. In 2008 he joined the
Technical Department of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) as
a Senior Expert in the section of Security Tools and Architecture. Currently he holds the
position of Head of Information Security & Data Protection Unit.
Athanasiou Irini, Telecommunications Officer, General Secretariat
of Telecommunications and Post, Ministry of Infrastructure
Transport and Networks
Athanasiou Irini holds a Diploma Degree in Electrical Engineering from the
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical
School of Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki. In 1999 she joined the
public sector and was enrolled in the Directorate of Radio Frequency
Management of the General Secretariat of Telecommunications and Post of
the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transports and Networks of Greece. In 2012, she was
transferred to the Directorate of Broadband, Network Infrastructure and ICT Products of the
General Secretariat of Telecommunications and Post. Her duties include:
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National Expert for Cyber Security Issues.
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The transposition of European Legislation and Directives to the National Legal
Framework.
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Involvement in the creation of the National Strategy of Cybersecurity.
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Participation in the 7th round of Mutual Evaluations on the practical implementation
and operation of European policies on prevention and combating Cybercrime.
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Served as President at the Friends of Presidency Group on Cyber issues (FoP) of the
Council of the European Commission during the Hellenic Presidency in 2014.
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Representation of the Greek Government in National and International Organizations.
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Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).
Fragkiadakis Ioannis, Police Captain, Hellenic Police, Cyber Crime Division, Ministry
of Interior and Administrative reconstruction of Greece
Police Captain Fragkiadakis Ioannis is an Information and Communication Systems engineer
and holds the position of Telecommunication Systems Engineer at Cyber Crime Division of
Hellenic Police since 2010. He graduated from the Department of Information and
Communication Systems Engineering of University of Aegean at 2005. He continued his
studies obtaining a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Athens University of
Economics and Business at 2007. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Digital Systems
Security from the University of Piraeus (2011). Since 2013 he is a PhD candidate at the
University of Piraeus. His main research interests pertain measures against cybercrime in
cloud computing environments. He has attended successfully numerous training courses and
he has been certified as Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) as well as Information
Security Systems Lead Auditor in accordance to ISO 27001 standard.
STANDARDIZATION SESSION - Standards in the digital economy, a new
ball game?
Session chair: Ioannis C. Matsas - General Directorate for Transport,
Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks
Ioannis Matsas, General Directorate for Transport
Mr Matsas was born in Athens in 1963. He owns Diploma in Mechanical
Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He has
post graduate studies in European Project Management from the
University of Bremen, GE and owns MSc in Quality Management from
Cranfield University, UK.
With an extensive experience in Standardization, Quality and
Management, he has served the public sector from different positions,
as Electro technical Standardization Division Director (2003-2005), CEO
of the Hellenic Accreditation System-ESYD (2005-2008), CEO of the
Hellenic Organization for Standardization-ELOT (2009-2010), Senior
Advisor on Quality and Accreditation issues of the Hellenic Police Forensic Labs(2011-2012),
Advisor to the State Secretary of Transport (2012-2015), Project Manager for the Reform
Actions of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks(2013-2015) and Project
Coordinator of the INTERREG project “PRODROMOS”. Since January 2016 he is permanent
staff of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks.
Because of his expertise and his fluent knowledge of English and French language he has
represented Greek Authorities in various Committees, Fora, Conferences and Councils, dealing
with Standardization, Quality, Accreditation, Management and Transports.
He is member of the technical Chamber of Greece (1991) and certified Quality Auditor
(IRCA/1997), Accreditation Assessor (UKAS/1997) and Trainer (UKAS/2001 & Star
Register/2012).
Jørgen Friis, Chief Service Officer, ETSI
Since July 2012, Jørgen Friis has been CSO for ETSI Services Division.
Responsibilities include Innovation support, Communication, Events and
meeting support, External relations, Membership management and Third Party
Services (Fora Hosting).
Jørgen Friis was before Vice President and Head of the ETSI Standards Enabling
Services including the ETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability (CTI).
Jørgen Friis served as elected Deputy Director-General of ETSI for eight years,
from 2001 to 2009, where he was jointly responsible for general management of the ETSI
Secretariat based in Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE.
Before joining ETSI Jørgen Friis held several executive positions in Tele Danmark.
Mr. Friis (born 1954), has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Engineering College
of Aarhus (Denmark), has a diploma in Organisation at Aarhus Business School. He followed
Tele Denmark executive leadership MBA program at INSEAD Business School in
Fontainebleau, France.
Alexandros Psyrris, Technical Officer in NQIS/ELOT
Alexandros Psyrris holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and he
has post graduate studies in Management and Economics of the
Telecommunications Networks. After his 4 year experience as an engineer in
a major telecommunications provider, he joined the ELOT and was enrolled
in the Directorate of Electrotechnical Standardisation. His duties include the
technical coordination of National Technical Committees related to CENELEC,
IEC, ETSI in the field of ICT and SMART GRIDS. He has also a significant experience as a lead
auditor in ISO 9001 quality management systems. He is member of the Technical Chamber
of Greece (TEE) and the Federation of Telecommunication Engineers of the European
Community (FITCE).
Frank Rüschmann , Senior Examiner in Wireless
Telecommunications, EPO
Frank Rüschmann, DE, examiner, Telecommunications, EPO Munich. He
studied telecommunications engineering at the Technical University of
Braunschweig and the University of Stuttgart. After his studies he gained
working experience in development and as technical consultant for
wireless networks in Germany and the Middle East. In 2001 he joined the
EPO where he besides his duty as examiner worked also as responsible
classifier, standards documentalist, and as trainer internally at the EPO
and externally for other patent offices. He is member of the EPO Standards
team.
Dimitris Siomos, Wireless Backhaul Expert, COSMOTE
Dimitris is Wireless Backhaul Expert at COSMOTE Mobile Communications
responsible for the development of innovative and efficient wireless
backhaul network architectures in international group-level projects. He
participates in the ETSI mWT ISG forum, where he contributes to the
shaping of millimetre wave transmission industry towards the requirements
of future use cases, whilst he was the rapporteur of the "Applications and
use cases of millimetre wave transmission" ETSI GS paper. He has more than 10 years
experience in the Telecommunications industry and holds MSECE and MBA degrees.
Francisco VERDERA MARÍ, Director Strategic Partnerships at CEN and
CENELEC
Director Strategic Partnerships at CEN and CENELEC
Francisco Verdera has a Masters in Industrial Engineering, an Executive MBA
and more than 21 years of experience in National, European and International
standardization. Amongst other roles, he is responsible for supporting
relations with European Institutions (such as the European Parliament,
European Commission and EFTA), European business federations and other
European stakeholder organizations.
Prior to his work in CEN and CENELEC, he has been Director of International Relations and
Cooperation, and the Director of Standards in AENOR (the Spanish National Standardization
Body). While representing AENOR, he has been a member of the CEN and CENELEC
Administrative Boards, member of the ISO Technical Management Board (TMB), and the IEC
Standardization Management Board (SMB), as well as the CEN and CENELEC Technical Boards
for many years.
In addition, he has been the project leader and expert in several projects linked with Quality
Infrastructure and Trade, in several projects both in Eastern Europe and the Americas for
more than 15 years.
Reinhard Scholl, Deputy Director, Chief,
Telecommunication Standardization Policy Dept (TSB) ITU
Reinhard Scholl is Deputy to the Director of the ITU Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau (also known as the ITU-T Secretariat). Previously
he has been with Siemens in Munich, Germany and with the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). He also served on the
ICANN Board. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois,
USA.
Tim McGarr, Market Development Manager, British Standards
Institution
Tim McGarr is the Market Development Manager for the Digital area within
Standards Development in BSI. Tim has specific responsibility for the
direction and development of newer standards areas, including Internet of
Things, Big Data, Cyber Security and Distributed Ledger. Tim has been
working at BSI since 2009. Prior to BSI, Tim he spent 5 years working in
the legal publisher LexisNexis in the strategy department. Before this, Tim
he worked as a management consultant for CGI and an internal consultant
for BT. Tim has an MBA from HEC in Paris, France.
A connected world: close up on the Internet of Things
Session chair: Dimitrios Tzovaras - Senior Researcher and Director at
CERTH/ITI
Dimitrios Tzovaras, Senior researcher and Director at CERTH
Dr. Dimitrios Tzovaras is a Senior Researcher and Director at CERTH/ITI.
He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. in 2D and
3D Image Compression from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece in 1992 and 1997, respectively. Prior to his current position, he
was a Senior Researcher on the Information Processing Laboratory at the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki. His main research interests include network and visual
analytics for network security, computer security, data fusion, biometric
security, virtual reality, machine learning and artificial intelligence. His is
author or co-author of over 110 articles in refereed journals and over 290 papers in
international conferences.
Since 2004, he has been Associate Editor in the following International journals: Journal of
Applied Signal Processing (JASP) and Journal on Advances in Multimedia of EURASΙP.
Additionally, he is Associate Editor in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters journal (since 2009)
and Senior Associate Editor in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters journal (since 2012), while
since mid-2012 he has been also Associate Editor in the IEEE Transactions on Image
Processing journal. Over the same period, Dr. Tzovaras acted as ad hoc reviewer for a large
number of International Journals and Magazines such as IEEE, ACM, Elsevier and EURASIP,
as well as International Scientific Conferences (ICIP, EUSIPCO, CVPR, etc.).
Since 1992, Dr. Tzovaras has been involved in more than 100 European projects, funded by
the EC and the Greek Ministry of Research and Technology. Within these research projects,
he has acted as the Scientific Responsible of the research group of CERTH/ITI, but also as the
Coordinator and/or the Technical/Scientific Manager of many of them (coordinator of technical
manager in 19 projects– 7 H2020, 1 FP7 ICT IP, 7 FP7 ICT STREP, 3 FP6 IST STREP and 1
Nationally funded project).
Achilleas Kemos, Programme Officer -EU Policies, European Commission
DG CONNECT - Network Technologies Unit
Achilleas Kemos Is Programme Officer For EU Policies Within European
Commission's Unit dealing with Network technologies, With a particular
focus on standardisation activities. He is the Commission's
representative in the key technical bodies related to Internet Protocol
(IP) standards issues And IP address allocation policies (IETF and RIPE
respectively) since 2012, Bridging policy considerations with technology
issues. In his career with the European Commission he has dealt with
issues on Internet Governance, managing the EU Member States' High Group on Internet
Governance, ITU relations, Network and Information Security, And Digital broadcasting,
where he was instrumental in the adoption of the "HD ‐ ready" logo And HDTV interoperability.
He holds a degree on Electronic Engineering from University College London, and post ‐
graduate degrees in European Business Engineering and Project Management from the French
Telecommunications University (ENSTB) and Université Rennes 1 respectively.
Rossella Mattioli, Network and Information Security Officer, ENISA
Rossella Mattioli works at ENISA, the European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security. Her work focuses on enhancing the security of Critical
Information Infrastructures, Internet infrastructure and ICS SCADA in Europe.
She holds a MSc in Engineering with main specialization in Cybersecurity at
Tallinn University of Technology and a BA in Communication Sciences. Prior to
focus on infrastructure security and resilience, she was the intranet manager of a major
financial group in Italy for 9 years coordinating an internal network of over 6,000 employees.
Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus Research Centre
Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas received the Diploma and the Ph.D. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens
(NTUA). He is full Professor (since April 2012), and has been the Chairman
(September 2011 – September 2015), of the Department of Digital
Systems of the University of Piraeus. In the period from October 2015 to
September 2016 he is on Sabbatical, collaborating with the University of
Surrey and in particular the “5G Innovation Center”. He has over 25 years of experience in
R&D in the fields of wireless/mobile broadband networks, fixed-mobile broadband
convergence, Internet technologies, network planning and management, smart cities and
environment management. Recent interests include 5G aspects, and especially, the
exploitation of spectrum beyond 6 GHz, overall spectrum management, 5G architectures,
knowledge-based and predictive management, virtualization technologies based on SDN and
NFV. He has several publications in these areas in international journals and refereed
conferences. At the European level, he has been actively involved in (and coordinated) a
number of international research and development programs. He is also organizing the
European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC 2016), which will take place
in Athens, Greece in June 2016. He has also been involved in several bilateral collaborations
with, international and national, industrial entities and public-sector organizations. In terms
of standardization, he has contributed to various standardization bodies such as ETSI and
IEEE. He was also chairing Working Groups of WWRF related to next-generation networking
and advanced management technologies. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of ACM
and the Technical Chamber of Greece.
APPLICATION AREA: Open Calls for H2020 in ICTs and Smart Grids
Session chair: Dimosthenis Ioannidis - Senior Researcher Associate in
CERTH/ITI
Dimosthenis Ioannidis, Senior Researcher Associate, CERTH
Mr. Dimosthenis Ioannidis is a Senior Researcher Associate in CERTH. He
received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering and the
MSc. in Advanced Communication Systems and Engineering from the
Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki in 2000 and 2005 respectively. He has been a teaching assistant
at TEI Thessaloniki (2006-2010). His main research interests include
computer vision, stereoscopic image processing and signal analysis,
linguistics algorithms, web services, semantics, visual analytics, energy
efficiency, IoT platforms development, as well as research in ethics and biometrics.
During the last five years, he has been the (co)author of more than 25 papers in refereed
journals, edited books, and international conferences. He has served as a reviewer for several
technical journals. He has also been involved in more than 10 research projects funded by
the EC and the Greek secretariat of Research and Technology. During his involvement in these
projects, he involved as a leader of several WPs, where he had the supervision of large team
of developers and technical teams, where he acted in 4 of them as a Quality Manager of the
project.
He is also currently acting as an Ethics evaluator of running projects executed under the
auspices of EC, providing services such as monitoring of research activities performed in
projects in respect to assigned ethics requirements. Services are related to the assessment
of the human participation in real-life trials, privacy enhancing technologies used for the
protection of personal data as well as other ethics issues that shall be tackled within a project
lifetime (i.e. dual use, misuse and personal sensitive data). Finally, Mr. Ioannidis is also a
member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
Christiana Siambekou, national Contact Point and Expert for
Horizon 2020, Greek National Documentation Centre
Christiana Siambekou holds an MSc in Environmental Sciences with an
expertise in the Renewable Energy Sources. She has a long working
experience in the field of energy (RES, energy efficiency). Since 2013,
she has been working for
the National Documentation Centre (EKT) where she supports the
Enterprise Europe Network – Hellas in the energy and environment
sectors and is also nominated to act as the Greek National Contact Point
for Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy in Horizon 2020.