KEYNOTES
NFV/SDN Keynote - Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Abstract – Coming soon...
Steven Wright
MBA, PhD, JD., Chair, ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group (ISG)
Dr Wright has negotiated technology agreements at organizations including ITU-T (a UN agency), NTIA, IEEE, IETF/ISOC, ATIS, ETSI, P4PWG, CEA, OIF. He has also conducted research and developed IP network architectures considering technologies including MPLS, QoS, IPTV and access infrastructure.
Dr. Wright is a named inventor in more than 40 US patents. He has
taught as adjunct university faculty; presented his
research at international conferences in Europe, Asia,
Australia and the USA; and continues to serve on
committees for a several conferences. His
peer-reviewed publications range across topics
including Quality of Service APIs, Open Source,
Online Games, Network Architecture, Marketing
Professional Services, Investment Risk Analysis,
Internet Domain Name Trademarks, and Patent Licensor’s
Obligations during Bankruptcy. He is a member of the
State Bar of Georgia. He also received an Award of
Merit from BSA for service as a Scoutmaster.
IoT Keynote - Wednesday, May 11, 2016
5G enabling the Tactile Internet
Abstract – The tactile Internet will enable a global network to control and steer the
Interent of Things in real time. 5G will be the first generation of mobile
communication systems that will enable the tactile Internet. The talk will
advocate the need for the tactile Internet and describe the need for new
technologies such as network coding and compressed sensing to break with the
commonly accpeted trade-offs betwen throughput, latency, resilience, and
security. The talk will also highlight change from purely centralized
architectures to meshed solutions.
Frank Fitzek
Frank H. P. Fitzek is a Professor and chair of the communication networks group at Technische Universität Dresden coordinating the 5G Lab Germany.
He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) - Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy in the same year. In 2003 he joined Aalborg University as Associate Professor and later became Professor.
He co-founded several start-up companies starting with acticom GmbH in Berlin in 1999. He has visited various research institutes including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), VTT, and Arizona State University. In 2005 he won the YRP award for the work on MIMO MDC and received the Young Elite Researcher Award of Denmark. He was selected to receive the NOKIA Champion Award several times in a row from 2007 to 2011. In 2008 he was awarded the Nokia Achievement Award for his work on cooperative networks. In 2011 he received the SAPERE AUDE research grant from the Danish government and in 2012 he received the Vodafone Innovation price. In 2015 he was awarded the honorary degree "Doctor Honoris Causa" from Budapest University of Technology and Economy (BUTE).
His current research interests are in the areas of wireless and mobile 5G communication networks, mobile phone programming, network coding, cross layer as well as energy efficient protocol design and cooperative networking.