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Matt Allpress, Inmarsat
Matt Allpress is a member of the M2M team at Inmarsat, who create solutions and support the other
business units addressing the many M2M verticals.
Appointed M2M solutions manager of the M2M Program in April 2013, Mr. Allpress is responsible
supporting new M2M partners, developing solutions and championing Satellite as a bearer for M2M.
Mr. Allpress previously worked as a Pre/Post Sales engineer at Sierra Wireless in the M2M group
supporting the partner channel. In that time Mr. Allpress was focused on fleet management, business continuity and
HVAC applications, and saw many high profile projects to fruition.
Matt has a BEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Surrey University, England.
Marylin Arndt, FT-Orange, Member of the Programme Committee
Dr Marylin Arndt works at FT-Orange French integrated operator as Standardisation Manager in the
domain of M2M and Internet of Things.
She is involved in internal development programs committees, providing her experience for global
coordination purposes and strategic guidelines in the domain.
At ETSI, she chairs the technical committee M2M since February 2013, and coordinates ETSI
participation into mainly Smart Metering and Smart Grid standardisation mandates. She also participates as an expert
to workshops under preparation by the European commission. (the well-known “20-20-20” directive is one of the
important directives emitted by EC in its work program)
Gianmarco Baldini, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Gianmarco Baldini is a Senior Research Officer in the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. After the
degree (Italian Laura) in electronic engineering in 1993, he has worked as Senior Technical Architect and System
Engineering Manager in Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, IBM, Hughes Network Systems and Selex ES both in Europe
and USA before joining the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in 2007. His current research activities
focus on wireless communications, Intelligent Transport Systems and security/privacy in Internet of Things. He has
authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-review papers on wireless communications and security topics.
Yoram Berholtz, Red Bend Software
Yoram Berholtz is the Director of Market Adoption at Red Bend Software. Mr. Berholtz is responsible
for working with mobile operators and device manufacturers to help them increase and improve their
usage of over-the-air software updating. In addition, he has responsibility for developing partnerships
and go-to-market strategies in the Automotive and Connected Device markets. Mr. Berholtz has
experience in engineering, product management and partner management with an emphasis on
mobile communications technologies, having worked at Motorola, Pelephone, ECI Telecom, Schema, Intel and
Marvell. He Holds a B.Sc.E.E from Tel Aviv University and MBA from Bradford University.
Omar Elloumi, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Member of the Programme Committee
Omar Elloumi is a Head of M2M and Smart Grid standards within Alcatel-Lucent CTO. He holds the
position of oneM2M Architecture Working Group Chair and ETSI M2M Vice chair.
Omar joined Alcatel-Lucent in 1999 and held several positions including research, strategy and system
architecture. He holds a Ph. D. degree in computer science and served on the ATM Forum and IPSphere
Forum Board of Directors. Omar Elloumi is coeditor of books on M2M communications and Internet of Things
published in 2012.
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François Ennesser, GEMALTO
Francois Ennesser held various technical positions in the Smartcard industry since he joined Bull CP8
in 1999. This company was later acquired by Schlumberger, whose Smartcard division was later listed
separately as Axalto, and became Gemalto after it merged with Gemplus in 2006. He became involved
in standardization activities in 1999 when he contributed to the definition of the multi-purpose "UICC"
smartcard platform in ETSI TC SCP. This platform has since become the standard security module
holding subscribers credentials for various mobile telecommunication technologies including 3G
networks. He participated to the definition of secure over-the-air protocols for remote management and was a
leading contributor in the definition of an enhanced communication interface for the UICC. He has been Rapporteur
for several specifications in ETSI TC SCP and now in ETSI TC M2M, and also chaired the Inter-Chip USB Working Group
which defined a low power embedded adaptation of the USB interface within the USB Implementers Forum.
He is currently involved in the GSM Association's Embedded Mobile Program and is chairing the Security Working
Group of the ETSI TC M2M committee. He currently represents ETSI as an ESO in EG2 of the EC Smart Grid Task Force
and ETSI TC SCP as one of the ETSI technical committees involved in the European M441 Smart Metering Mandate.
He holds a French Engineer's degree from ESIEE and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Southern California.
Ray Forbes, Ericsson, Member of the Programme Committee
Educated at Loughborough University of Technology between 1977 and 1984, he joined Plessey
Telecommunications where he worked on Software Engineering and Analysis. In 1987 he moved to
GEC Telecommunications to work on network development and later joined GPT to work on Network
Design for GSM. Since 1990 he has worked on network development in the area of Intelligent
Networks and the standardisation thereof. In 1993 he became chairman of ETSI NA7, in 1995 ETSI NA6
was also in 1996 elected to be Rapporteur of Question 5 (Requirements for Intelligent Network Capability Sets); these
groups being requirements setting bodies for the standardisation of Intelligent Networks. He later chaired the
Architecture Group in ETSI SPAN. Since it’s creation he has chaired the NGN Protocols in Work TISPAN WG3 (which
included the IMS adaptation to fixed network access) and with the Common IMS programme he was elected as 3GPP
SA2 IMS Sub Working Group Vice Chairman in 2006. In 2010 he was elected as ETSI TC M2M Protocols WG Chairman.
Also has been actively involved in the ITU-T Smart Focus Group. In 2011 he started in ETSI TC M2M, where he was
elected chaired of the M2M WG3 on Protocols for 2 years, chairing the ETSI Protocol work on M2M for Release 1 &
Release 2. In the last 2 years he has also been working in the ETSI/CEN/CENELEC m\490 work on Smart Grid in the
Reference architecture team. He is the ETSI coordinator to the EU joint Working Group m\490 on Smart Grid.
Recently he was appointed as Vice Chairman of the ETSI TC M2M and Working Group Chairman to set up the WG-3 in
oneM2M on M2M Protocols in the global Standards Partnership.
Mathias Fraaß, Beuth Hochschule für Technik
Born in 1961 in Berlin, school until 1980.
Working in the Ruhr Area as a miner and a mechanician for measuring and regulating devices from
1980 until 1987
Studying Building Technology at Technical University Berlin from 1987 to 2003
Working as an independent engineer and consultant until now, since 1996 together with architects
Professor at Beuth Hochschule für Technik since 2003, head of labratory for measuring and regulating
technology in buildings.
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Lindsay Frost, NEC
Lindsay Frost has a Ph.D. in physics and - after working in European companies on computing and
telematics and as a research manager in facilities in Germany, Italy and Australia - he joined NEC
Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg (Germany) to work on 3G telecommunications. After managing R&D
teams for VoIP, 3GPP, WiMAX, fixed-mobile convergence and WLAN, including work as chairman of
the Wi-Fi Alliances' WiFi-Mobile Convergence Marketing Task Group, he concentrated in the last years
on standardization activities. Nominated as chairman of ETSI TISPAN WG5 for Home Networks standardization in
2009, he encouraged work in the area of Smart Metering and energy efficiency, including for EC Mandates on
SmartGrid and SmartMetering. Elected in 2012 to the Board of Home Gateway Initiative, where he is also vicechairman of the Smart Home TF, he is promoting collaboration with SDOs working in home automation and M2M,
such as ETSI M2M, OneM2M, and other organization like BBF (where he helped initiate M2M topics).
Pierre Girard , Gemalto
Pierre Girard is principal investigator for smart cities in the CITO office of Gemalto. He is in charge of
the Gemalto innovation strategy in the smart cities area including research, prototyping, business
incubation, IP and standardization. Before that, Pierre has managed the security architecture team in
Gemalto security labs for more than 10 years. Pierre holds a Habilitation and a PhD in computer
security.
Amelie Gyrard, Eurecom
Amelie Gyrard is currently a PhD student at Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France under the supervision
of Prof. Christian Bonnet and Dr. Karima Boudaoud.
Her research interests are sensor networks, semantic web and security.
Her thesis topic is to propose a distributed and semantic-based M2M (Machine-to-Machine )
architecture to semantically annotate M2M data provided by sensors, RDFDs tags, etc. The second
aspect of the thesis is dedicated to the security concerns.
She has received her one-year specialized postgraduate degree in Cryptography, System, Security and Network from
the university of Nice, France in 2011. In 2010, she has received her Master’s degree in System Network and Internet
at Paris 7 Diderot, Paris, France.
She discovered the research during her apprenticeship at INRIA, France a research center where she developed
access rights in a semantic-based social network.
Claude Hary, Platform Telecom Association
Operational Director of the Platform Telecom Association - Com4Innov - since October 2011, M.
Claude HARY has over 25 years in the field of telecommunications.
In 2000, he left his position of worldwide business development director for the telecom network and
services management solutions (e.g. TeMIP management solution) at Compaq Computer (previously
Digital Equipment), to create the European subsidiary of Trendium, a startup specialized in services quality
management. Then from 2004, M. HARY worked as independent telecom consultant involved in Europe, Africa and
Middle East projects for the definition of telecom networks and their business and operations management structure.
During these years, M. HARY was also actively involved in the TeleManagement Forum activities.
From 2009, M. HARY worked on numerous innovative projects in the domain of telecommunications and short range
communicating objects (M2M) for the SCS Cluster (Secured Communicating Solutions).
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Olivier Hersent, ACTILITY
Olivier Hersent began his career as the leading Voice over IP architect for France Telecom R&D
laboratories.
He left the company to create NetCentrex, a supplier of advanced VoIP solutions for network
operators. His business leadership, technical innovation and market vision allowed him to guide the
company through global expansion to become a leader in next generation telecommunication
solutions.
NetCentrex was acquired in April 2006 by Comverse, the market leader in applications for mobile
telecommunications, where Mr. Hersent became CTO.
In 2010, he founded Actility, a company proposing solutions in the M2M and Smart Grid business field (Demand
Response…).
In 2011, Mr. Hersent became Watteco’s CEO, leader in PLC/RF and 6LowPan technologies.
As an active participant in the early ETSI working groups related to Telecom standards, M2M protocols and Internet
of Things, Mr. Hersent is a recognized leader in the telecom industry.
He is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a published author on IP Telephony, M2M Communications and in
2012 on The Internet of Things.
Mr. Hersent graduated from the prestigious "Ecole Polytechnique" in France.
Ulrich Keuling, m&b Consulting GmbH
Ulrich has over 25 years working experience in the telecommunications area. After his diploma in
electronics, he was working for Toshiba Electronics in England and Japan to set up a new
telecommunication business unit until 1994. From 1990-1993 and was a member of ETSI Group GSM.
From 1994 to 2000, he was working in a management position at Deutsche Telekom to set up the
mobile value added services business. In 2000, he was the founder of a joint venture with Vodafone
and Cap Gemini in London to establish the mobile data business for both organizations.
Ulrich was CEO of a Vodafone Company in Germany and CEO of Vodafone Terenci (LTD), London. He managed these
companies successful until 2007.
Since 2007, he has been working as an independent management consultant and business angel (m&b consulting
Keuling GmbH). His specific working areas are mobile managed services. He has set up projects and new start up
organizations in these areas. He was the founder and manager of a joint project with six industrial companies and one
University to set up the next generation of managed M2M Services, End2End security and testing tools.
Contact: keuling@keuling.de - www.keuling@keuling.de
Laurent Laporte, Sprint, Member of the Programme Committee
Dr. Laurent Laporte is the Chairman of oneM2M Working Group 1, which addresses use cases and requirements. He
has been actively involved in oneM2M since the very early formation meetings. Laurent currently works at Sprint as a
Technology Development Strategist focusing his time on machine-to-machine issues. Prior to his tenure at Sprint, he
has held a variety of roles corporate strategy, business unit strategy, network engineering, and engineering sales.
Patricia MARTIGNE, Smart Home & M2M Standardization Manager (ORANGE), oneM2M WG5
(device Management, Abstraction&Semantics) Vice-Chair - Member of the Programme Committee
Patricia Martigne is working in the Innovation, Marketing & Technology Division of ORANGE, as a
Standardization Manager for Smart Home, Smart City & M2M domains. Her current role in M2M
Standardization includes the coordination of activities around Abstraction and Semantics, as a
oneM2M WG5 vice-chair, and as an active contributor to the Smart Home Task Force in HGI (Home
Gateway Initiative), building the Smart Home reference architecture.
She has been working in telecommunications companies for almost 20 years, with the following experiences:
- in Nortel Networks : as an integration/validation and type approvals R&D engineer for cellular base stations;
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- in the 'Agence Nationale des Fréquences', working in standardization and regulatory fields (ETSI, ITU-R, CEPT) for
various radiocommunication systems, and being the European coordinator for the digital terrestrial broadcasting
item at the World Radiocommunications Conference in 2003.
- in France Telecom R&D, first promoting new technologies such as Ultra Wide Band (in IEEE 802.15.4a), or cognitive
radio, through actions to standardization and regulation bodies; then working in the M2M domain, as an R&D Project
Manager for elaboration of Home Automation proofs of concept. She was also active in ETSI M2M Technical
Committee, as the WG1 (Service Requirements) Chair and the Rapporteur for the associated Specification.
Petar Popovski is a Professor in Radio Networks at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he heads the
research group on Mass M2M communications.
He has more than 170+ publications and 25+ patents and patent applications. He has received multiple
research awards and best paper awards. Dr. Popovski serves on the editorial board of several journals,
such as IEEE Communications Letters (Senior Editor), IEEE JSAC Cognitive Radio Series, and IEEE
Transactions on Communications.
He is a Steering Committee member for the upcoming IEEE Internet of Things Journal and Chair of the ComSoc
subcommittee on Smart Grid Communications. His research interests are in the broad area of wireless
communication and networking, information theory and protocol design.
Gilles Robichon , Alliander
Gilles Robichon joined Alliander in 2011, having worked for more than 10 years for leading companies
in the field of machine-to-machine communications, from the birth of the first wireless modules to the
deployment of complex end-to-end applications.
As machine-to-machine and CDMA telecommunication expert, Gilles is currently helping Alliander to
define and implement its telecom strategy, and to make smart grid and smart asset applications become reality.
Enrico SCARRONE, Telecom Italia
ENRICO SCARRONE joined in CSELT (now Telecom Italia LAB), the R&D division of the Telecom Italia
Group in 1992.
He contributed to several main research projects during the 90's and subsequently to several
standardization activities in ETSI, ITU-T, ATM Forum, 3GPP (SA, SA1, CT, RAN and RAN), 3G.IP,
including chairmanships in 3GPP and ETSI) in the fields of ATM, signalling, mobile systems and their
integration with IP.
Participation and promotion of several early studies on integration of IP and mobile cellular networks has permitted
to participate from the beginning to the work of 3G.IP, and indirectly to stimulate the work on release 2000 in 3GPP
about the all-IP solution and the Multimedia Network principles.
At the same time he was involved in in several Telecom Italia projects in technology planning and selection, including
network budget forecasts, RFI, RFQ and testing, mainly in the mobile and fixed mobile convergence fields. This has
allowed him to keep a strong link between real networks and standardization/research.
This includes roll out of GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, EV-DO, Fixed broadband, FMC, IMS and other technologies in
Austria, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Brasil, Peru', Indonesia, and technical consulting in several other countries including
Venezuela, Vietnam, The Netherlands, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
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.
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Adrian Scrase, ETSI CTO
Adrian Scrase played a central role in the creation of the "3rd Generation Partnership Project" (3GPP)
and is responsible for the operations of the 3GPP Project Co-ordination Group. He heads 3GPPs'
Mobile Competence Centre (MCC) which is an International team of 20 experts who provide
comprehensive support to the Project.
He was also principally involved in the formation of the recently created "oneM2M" Partnership
Project and oversees ETSI's support to that initiative.
He is CTO within ETSI with operational responsibility for all of ETSI's standards production activities. He has more than
30 years experience in the telecommunications field, which includes 25 years of experience in standardization.
Willem Strabbing, ESMIG
Willem Strabbing is Managing Director of the European Smart Meter Industry Group (ESMIG). In this
position he is responsible for the ESMIG organisation and the representation of the Smart Meter
related manufacturing industry in European organisations and projects. Before joining ESMIG, mr
Strabbing was manager of the unit Intelligent Networks and Communication of KEMA Consulting. Mr.
Strabbing has more than 20 years experience in advanced computer applications related to process
automation. He started at KEMA in 1989 as senior consultant for power system monitoring and control.
The development European strategies related to Smart Meter roll-out on both political and technical level currently
are in the main 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 Smart Meter Coordination Group and the Smart Grid Task Force and
Coordination Group. He coordinates the definition of Use Cases and Privacy/Security approach for Smart Metering on
European level.
Dr. Joerg SWETINA, NEC Europe
Dr. 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 representing Siemens
and later Nokia Siemens Networks in standardisation bodies like ETSI SMG, 3GPP and OMA.
In 2008 he moved to NEC Europe in Heidelberg, Germany, continuing his work in standards. For more than 4 years he
had been vice chair of 3GPP SA1. His current field of interest additionally covers Machine-to-Machine
communication. He is active in ETSI TC M2M and has been a driver in creating the 'oneM2M Global Initiative'
organisation. Dr. Swetina is married and is living in Vienna and Heidelberg.
Markus Tauber, AIT
Dr. Markus Tauber works at AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology) on security analysis topics focusing
on high assurance cloud and M2M communication networks. As such he coordinates the EU FP7
project SECCRIT (SEcure Cloud computing for CRitical infrastructure IT) which investigates security and
resilience requirements for critical IT infrastructure deployed in the cloud and coordinates AIT’s
contribution to the ARTEMIS project ARROWHEAD. Dr. Tauber has been working as project manager
for B.net, an ISP – part of an Austrian multi utility provider. He is an experienced Networks and Distributed Systems
researcher working on distributed storage systems as part of his PhD at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK)
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Dimitar Valtchev, ProSyst Software
Dr. Dimitar Valtchev is CTO of ProSyst Software. His main technical interests are in the fields of
embedded systems, device management and distributed computing.
Recently Dimitar has been involved in numerous residential and automotive projects using the OSGi
technology. He believes in the power of open systems/architectures and actively participates in the
work of organizations such as OSGiA and HGI.
Dimitar is a senior member of IEEE and holds MS in Electronics, MS in Computer Science and PhD in
Electrical Engineering degrees from the Technical University of Sofia.
Laurent Velez, ETSI
Laurent Velez is a technical expert at the Centre for Testing and Interoperability (CTI) at the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
Before joining ETSI he was working as a Test engineer in Ericsson and Siemens, working on PSTN and
GSM Core networks, and then in Nortel in the domain of data routers and switches.
He joined ETSI in 2008 and is currently working in developing and validating test specifications as
Technical Expert in CTI, especially in the domain of IoT/M2M and Electronic Signatures.
Panagiotis Vlacheas, University of Piraeus
Dr Panagiotis Vlacheas is a Senior Researcher at the University of Piraeus, department of Digital
Systems, laboratory of Telecommunication Networks. He received the Diploma and Ph.D. degree in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Athens, Greece, in 2003 and 2010 respectively. In 2004, he received the
“Ericsson’s awards of excellence in Telecommunications” for his Diploma thesis. At the European level he has been
actively involved in a number of international research and development programs, such as the FP7/ICT projects
OneFIT ("Opportunistic Networks and Cognitive Management Systems for Efficient Application Provision in the Future
Internet project"), UniverSelf ("Universal Self-management"), FP6/IST "DAIDALOS" Phase I&II and MOTIVE. He is
currently involved in the FP7/ICT project iCore ("Internet Connected Objects for Reconfigurable Ecosystems"), in
which he is leading Dissemination and Standardisation activities. His research interests are in the area of wireless
communication networks, radio resource management, reconfigurable and cognitive networks, optimization theory,
self-organized networks, Cognitive Internet of Things. He has numerous publications in international journals and
refereed conferences in these areas. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
Dragan Vujcic, Oberthur, Security session chairman
VUJCIC is leader of Oberthur Technologies for M2M standardization working in research and designs of
Security systems. He received a B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering and an M.Sc. Degree in
Computer Science. From his longstanding and active participation in several standards in System and
Service aspects, Radio Access, Core Network Terminals and Security, he developed a deep
standardization strength and understanding of the technical challenges and working methods. Dragan
is actively involved into oneM2M and has been instrumental in creating the Security working group. He is Vice Chair
of the oneM2M Security working group.
Matthew Webb, Sony
Matthew Webb received a PhD from the University of Bristol, UK, in 2006, for work on multi-antenna
information theory and then worked at the University until 2011 on radio channel measurement and
modelling, feedback imperfection in MIMO systems, and location-aware physical layers. He then
worked for Fujistu Laboratories of Europe on LTE-A standardisation, focussing particularly on highly
distributed dense radio access networks. He is currently with Sony Europe, working on 3GPP RAN1
MTC areas including UE cost reduction and cell coverage extension.”
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Patrick Wetterwald, IPSO Alliance
Patrick Wetterwald is a thought leader in architecture and standardization for Smart Grid, Industrial
Sensor Networks, and Internet of Things (IoT).
He held Cisco Engineering Manager positions within the Technology Center where he successfully led
for the last 8 years advanced technology projects in the domain of wireless sensor networks, wireless
communication, layer 3 mesh and IPv6 network mobility.
He won with his team, the “Jun Murray award” from the IPv6 promotion council for a joint project with Renault on
the first IPv6 connected car.
He is a founder and President of the IPSO alliance (IP for Smart Objects), worldwide non profit association, which
aims at promoting the use of IP in networks of smart devices. He served as board member for the Wave2m Alliance.
He is leading and participating to several standardization efforts for IEC TC57 / TC65, ITU, European Mandates and EC
expert groups.
Before joining Cisco, Patrick spent the last 25 years in the telecommunication industry where he held several
engineering management positions within Lucent Technologies (France and Milpitas California) in the domain of
Voice Browsing and Unified Communication systems. With IBM, he participated to the development of the
communication controller family and led the software development methodology team. He started his career
developing flight simulators for Airbus (A3xx series) and Boeing 747.
He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne.
Patrick filed 80 patents and got Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification in 2001.