Dr. Bi received his M.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1981 and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1986. After teaching at Utah State University as an assistant professor for one year, he joined Bell Laboratories in 1988 and became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 1995. Two years later, he was promoted to Technical Manager. Dr. Bi is a recognized expert in wireless communications.

He received Awards of Excellence from the Advanced Technology Lab of AT&T in 1996 and 1997, and Bell Labs President’s Gold Awards in 2000 and 2002. Under his leadership, his team was recognized in innovations and was awarded the Bell Labs Innovation Team Award in 2003 by the Bell Labs Research. In 2004, he received the Speaker of the Year Award from the IEEE New Jersey Coast Section. Based on his pioneering contributions in wireless communications, he broke ground in 2002 to become the first Chinese from the People’s Republic of China to receive the prestigious Bell Laboratories Fellow Award，and became the 170th fellow in Bell Labs’ near one century glorious history. In 2005, he was recognized by the Chinese Institute of Engineers and was awarded the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award during Engineers Week in the United States. Dr. Bi is also dedicated to international and social activities. From 1998 to 1999, he served as the technical chair for the Wireless Mobile ATM Conference. From 1999 to 2000, he organized the first and the second CDMA conferences at Lucent Technologies.

From 2000 to 2002, he served as the technical chair for IEEE Globecom’s wireless program. In 2003, he served as the technical chair for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Network Conference. In 2005 and 2006, he serves as the chair and organizer for the Wireless and Optical Communications Conference.

Dr. Bi has published extensively in many technical journals and conferences and has served as editors in many technical publications. He was often invited as a keynote speaker in many international conferences. He filed more than 60 US patents and was granted 30 US patents and 40 European patents. He was also the New York chapter president of the Alumni Association of the Chiao Tung University from 2002 to 2006. He has been listed in Who’s Who since 2003.

Patrick has more than 15 years' experience as a telecom market journalist, analyst, and strategist. His in-depth knowledge of wireless technology issues is critical to Heavy Reading's expanding coverage in this area. Patrick joined Heavy Reading after five years at Nortel Networks, where he was a senior manager of strategic planning for the company's wireless business – spanning GSM, CDMA, UMTS, WiMax, and other wireless technologies. Prior to Nortel, Patrick spent two years in business research for Motorola's Corporate Strategy Office in EMEA and two years as a wireless analyst for the Yankee Group. As a journalist, Patrick was deputy editor of Public Network Europe from 1990-1995 and editor of Mobile Communications International from 1995-1997.s

Gabriel focuses on wireless technologies and services, including 802.11 wireless LAN, ultrawideband, WiMax, and 3G. He has covered the wireless data industry since 1998, previously as Chief Analyst of the monthly Unstrung Insider, published by Heavy Reading's parent company Light Reading; he was additionally responsible for the overall editorial planning of Light Reading's entire line of Insider research newsletters. Prior to joining Unstrung, Gabriel was the editor of IP Wireline and Wireless Week at London's Euromoney Institutional Investor. He often presents research findings at industry events and is regularly consulted by wireless networking technology leaders.

Ms. Baez is Vice President of Research for Pyramid Research. She has 10 years of experience advising telecom operators, regulators and leading equipment vendors. She is in charge of developing forecasting models for ICT adoption and has recently co-authored reports analyzing opportunities and strategies around IPTV, mobile video and advertising.

Ms. Baez has led numerous consulting engagements assisting clients to identify growth opportunities, stay informed of industry transitions and analyze strategies for new product initiatives.

Mr. Shian-Jaw Tsai got his M.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University in 1985. Mr. Tsai started working in 1970 at Chunghwa Telecom, serving different positions in different fields such as assistance engineer, senior engineer, and deputy managing director of Engineering Department, etc. Mr. Tsai was promoted as the Managing Director of Engineering Department, Mobile Business Group, in 2006.

Mr. Tsai has 40 years of experience with a variety of technology applications, including Microwave System, Radio Paging System, Radio Transmission System, GMDSS, Mobile Communication System and Transport Network. In these years, Mr. Tsai has worked on cellular systems from lst, 2nd to 3rd generation of cellular systems and having good experiences in system planning, dimensioning, deployment and optimization.

Previous Positions: Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific Telecom Group - CEO and President of Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless, Asia Pacific Broadband Telecom and Asia Pacific Online (concurrently) Executive Vice President, United Fiber Optic Communication.

Dr. Henry Ye received his B.S. in Mathematics in 1990 from the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his M.S. degree in Mathematics in 1992 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996, both from the University of Notre Dame, USA. He worked at the Arizona State University as a faculty associate between 1996 and 1997 before he joined Bell Labs of Lucent Technologies. During his 11 years experience at Lucent/Alcatel-Lucent, Dr. Ye had helped producing multiple successful 2G/3G base station modem chips as the chief architect at Lucent Technologies.

He was promoted to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2000 and a Consulting Member of Technical Staff in 2006. He also received Bell Labs President Gold award and Bell Labs President Silver award in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Dr. Ye joined ASTRI in Feb. 2008 as a R&D Director to lead the Practical-MIMO team to conduct frontier R&D work on MIMO and OFDM systems.

Mr. Sano was awarded Maser Degree of Engineering and joined NTT in 1975. After joining NTT, Mr. Sano worked for network planning, network installation & investment planning, service development, business planning and marketing strategies.

In 1980’s, Mr. Sano was sent to China, to worked out telecommunication skill development program with Beijing Post & Telecommunication University for 2.5 years. In 1990’s, Mr. Sano was assigned as project manager of feasibility study for internet backbone network planning, optical submarine cable network planning, and provincial backbone network planning. In 2000, Mr. Sano was posted as the Head of NTT DoCoMo Beijing Representative Office. In 2010, Mr. Sano was posted as the senior adviser of NTT DoCoMo Beijing Representative Office. In 2009, Mr. Sano was appointed as the deputy Chairman of YRP R&D Promotion Committee and deputy Chairman of Japan China Mobile Business Promotion Committee.

Mr. Sano has been staying in China for more than 10 years.

Have 30+ years of experience from all facets of the life cycle of large real-time systems like air traffic control, banking and telecommunication systems.

Has built and managed engineering, product management and marketing support organizations within Philips, Ericsson and Huawei.

Joined Huawei in April of 2001 to build the Swedish branch, an all encompassing task ranging from R&D to Marketing and Sales.

Established LTE product management in Huawei Sweden 2006

Transferred to Huawei China 2009 and currently holds the position as Vice President Wireless Marketing

Dan Bantukul has more than 20 years of telecommunications experience and the vast majority of that time has been with Tekelec. Dan has held a variety of positions with Tekelec in hardware engineering, embedded system programming, product management and product marketing. In his current position as director of product marketing for Tekelec’s Signaling and Control product portfolio, Dan is responsible for the evangelism of Tekelec’s SIP Signaling Router (SSR) and for providing direction to the product roadmap based upon industry and customer requirements. Dan has extensive knowledge of SS7, SIP, IMS and Intelligent Network services in both fixed and mobile telecommunication networks and he has been awarded numerous patents in these areas. Dan graduated with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, works at Tekelec’s Morrisville, NC offices .

Frank Wu is solution sales manager of Tellabs, responsible for marketing and business development of Tellabs range solutions of wireless packet core, mobile backhaul, optical and IP&Carrier-Ethernet solutions.

Mr. Wu has over 15 years of experience in telecommunication cross carrier and enterprise, focusing on data, optical and unified communication space. Before joining Tellabs Frank is director of MEN solution for Nortel China, leading Carrier Ethernet and 40G optical solution development and promotion. In prior to Nortel, Frank worked for Beijing Design Institute of China Ministry of Post&Telecom for Data network design, where participated the 1st national ATM/FR backbone network planning and design.

A co-founder of Mobixell, Yehuda Elmaliach previously co-founded Optibase Ltd. (NASDAQ:OBAS),a leading specialist in the delivery of MPEG-based digital video over ATM and IP-based networks. During his years at Optibase, Yehuda held a number of different managerial positions including Vice President of Research and Development, and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to this, he worked at Intel's design center in Israel. Yehuda holds a BSEE from the Technion (Israel's Institute of Technology).

Worked at ENIX Corporation (Now renamed as SQUARE-ENIX Corporation) Chief representative for recruiting investment in Wuxi municipal administration (Specially-appointed government official) Now serve as the standing deputy chief of Sino-Japanese Institute of 3G Applications, director-general of Cartoonist and New Media Association, President of Enterise Group composed by four subcompanies such as Enterise (Beijing) Information Technology Ltd., Beijing Proprietor Assembly Network Technology Ltd., Enterise Fangsong (Beijing) Digital Information Technology Ltd. and Enterise Fengtong (Beijing) Information Technology Ltd. Double as chief of Overseas Department in the headquarter of Nihon Enterprise Co.,LTD and director of Overseas Department in China Branch. Main social concurrent post: Executive Vice-President OF 3g Deputy director of the Linguistic Research Center of Kanagawa College of Arts & Sciences (Kanagawa Bunri Gakuin Gogaku Kensyu Center); Deputy chief of Japan BESTTTAFF Corporation; The economic counselor for Shizhong division administration, the city of Jini in Shangdong province; Guest researcher of Strategic Research Institute in Shandong Social Sciences College; Guest researcher of Harbin Normal University; director and editor of the journal Entrepreneurship by Chinese Foreign-Educated Returnees.

Communications, especially on network architecture and relevant advanced technologies, innovative serDirector of Mobile Ubiquitous Communication Lab, DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd. –Responsible for researches in the fields of mobile and ubiquitous vices and business models; •Extensive experiences in the mobile industry, with years of experiences on R&D, standard and strategy. –Nokia ð LinkAir ð Alcatel-Lucent ð DOCOMO.

Ranjit is an Engineer at “Ncell” Spice Nepal Pvt Ltd-Part of TeliaSonera Group for more than 3 years. He graduated from Institute of Engineering Kathmandu Engineering College in Electronics and Communication Engineering. In his career he has worked with Nokia Siemens, Ericsson and ZTE network. His work mainly focused on Radio Network Planning and Optimization. He has published few papers on his interested subject. His interest is on Photonics and Electromagnetic, Wireless and Telecommunications Systems and Networks, Channel Modeling for emerging wireless applications, OFDM and Baseband Processing, Radio Resource Management, Cognitive Radio.

Jorge is a seasoned telecoms professional with a proven track record in Optical Networks. Following a 13+ year career with Wandel & Goltermann (Acterna/JDSU) and Lucent Technologies, Jorge is Senior Marketing Manager in Huawei Technologies.

Currently Jorge is leading Huawei′s IP Backbone Solution (comprising both IP/MPLS Core routers and OTN/NGDWDM/GMPLS products) in charge of Roadmap Planning & Specifications. Before joining Solution Marketing Team Jorge was involved in Huawei′s EU Optical Marketing Team mainly focused on GMPLS/OTN/DWDM.

For Lucent Technologies Jorge worked as Technical Manager within EMEA Technical Marketing and Technology & Solutions Groups. In his role Jorge has been working in Optical Networks mainly focused in ASON, Ethernet over SDH and DWDM technologies.

For Wandel & Goltermann Spain (Acterna) Jorge acted as Technical Sales Manager in charge of Presales and Training Dpts.

Jorge holds an M.S.C. Telecom (UPM, Spain) and a Master Degree in Marketing Management (ESIC, Spain)

In his current role Mikko is responsible for the global sales of operations support systems applications, solutions and services for the Business Solutions unit at Nokia Siemens Networks.

An expert in the telecommunications industry and IT sales, Mikko is a proven leader with strong customer focus and commercial acumen. He joined Nokia Siemens Networks in January 2010 from SAP where he headed sales for the company’s consumer industries in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Prior to this, Mikko was the Chief Executive Officer of Agillic, a leading software vendor for interactive marketing. His successful track record also includes a stint of seven years at Siebel Systems and Oracle Corporation, lastly as Head of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa for Siebel’s Communications, media and energy sectors.

Mikko started his career at Accenture in Finland where he worked as a management consultant contributing to various telecom projects in Finland and Italy for five years.

Born in 1968 Mikko holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Helsinki. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his family, good food and wines. Based in Farnborough, United Kingdom, Mikko is married and has 3 children.

Mr. Ronald Raffensperger is Director of Core Network Marketing for Huawei and is based in the company’s global headquarters in Shenzhen, China. He is responsible for the overall branding and communications strategies for the Core Network product line, including analyst relations and public relations activities.

Mr. Raffensperger has over 30 years of experience in product management and marketing in the telecommunications industry. Prior to his current role with Huawei, Mr. Raffensperger was Senior Vice President of Marketing for Sylantro Systems, a U.S.-based provider of advanced voice applications.

Mr. Raffensperger has held senior positions at Network Focus, Siemens, ROLM/IBM, Telebit Corporation and General Telephone. He was also Vice President of Marketing at Objectivity, a leading provider of object-oriented databases, and Vice President of Sales and Services at Upshot, the first web-based CRM application provider which was later acquired by Siebel.

Mr. Raffensperger holds a BSEE from Iowa State University and attended the MBA program at Santa Clara University.

Bernd Sperrle is Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell’s Chief Architecture Officer for LTE E2E Solutions.

Appointed to this role beginning of 2009, Bernd is in charge for defining TD-LTE and LTE FDD solutions from an end-to-end perspective, including radio access part, enhanced packet core, backhaul transmission and inter-working architectures with legacy 2G/3G systems.

Bernd is based in Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell’s headquarter in Shanghai.

Bernd has gained a very rich experience in the telecommunications space in the past 15 years in many fields, as GSM/W-CDMA/WiMAX/LTE radio access networks, microwave access networks, fiber-based transport & access systems as well as IP backhauling networks.

As a member of Alcatel and Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell since 1998, Bernd took several leadership positions in the company’s wireless divisions of Customer Care and Network Improvement, Network Design, Tendering, Product Management and Marketing.

Prior to this role Bernd was leading the Bosch Telecom Representative Office’s Technical Sales Department in the China Region, in charge for optical access & transport systems as well as microwave systems.

Bernd holds a Master degree in Telecommunications from the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

Huang Yuhong，Director of Wireless Department, China Mobile Research Institute. She is responsible for the technology study, standardization and technical supporting on wireless technology such as 2G,3G, LTE/4G, WLAN. She is also leading the project of LTE technology development in CMRI. Huang Yuhong is now the member of Operating Committee of NGMN.

Mr. Yang Hua was elected as the Secretary-General of the TD Industry Alliance (TDIA) in Oct. 2002. He used to work as the vice president and senior vice president of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. Ltd, in charge of business strategy; market development; industry chain promotion of Datang Mobile.

Mr. Yang got Bachelor degree from the Air Force Engineering University in 1982 and served in the Army from 1983 to 1999. Then he entered the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology and headed on R&D on TD-SCDMA in 1999. He had taken the following responsibilities: the chief of TDD technology office; the project manager of TD-SCDMA terminal; the general manager of science development department of Datang Telecommunications Co. Ltd; the general manager of marketing department of Datang Mobile; the vice president and senior vice president of Datang Mobile.

Michael Wu is a Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco. He is the chief architect of Cisco’s APAC SP team’s Architecture and Technology group with a focus on IP NGN and mobility infrastructure markets. Before joining the APAC SP team in late 2005, he functioned as a system architect in the routing product development group at Cisco HQ for 10 years. Prior to Cisco, he worked in the telecom industry for 10 years as a software architect/developer in the development of digital switching systems and optical access products. Michael has a MSCS degree and received 3 US patents.

 

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