VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
21st & 28th July 2020, 09:30am - 12:30pm
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Professor John Davies is Chief Researcher in BT’s Applied Research department, where he leads a team focused on IoT technologies. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Open University and University of Hull, UK. His current research interests include the application of IoT and semantic technologies to smart cities, smart energy grids, business intelligence and information integration.
John co-wrote the Hypercat IoT standard and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He has authored more than 100 scientific publications, is the inventor of several patents and i a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.
Professor Dror Fixler PhD is CEO and co-founder of FirstPoint Mobile Guard, which develops best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for cellular devices, for companies and individuals.
He is an established entrepreneur with decades of hands-on experience in the telecoms industry. He previously founded a pay by mobile startup, Raging Mobile (acquired), served as CTO Monitel A.N. Technologies (telecom probing services), R&D and management positions at ECItelesystems and Septier, a founding member of the Israeli HLS forces SIGINT group.
Dror is a member of the 3GPP Partnership Project, ETSI and GSMA 5G committees. He has led development of various telecoms systems and projects for many communication providers including for fraud management, SS7 network management and monitoring , callback blocking, billing verification and inter-exchange billing. He also built a GSMA-interface stack, for monitoring and intrusive systems.
He has received industry accolades including the President’s International Fellowship Initiative Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. and the European Science Foundation’s Plasmon-Bionanoscience Award in 2015. He won an award from the Wolf Foundation for the promotion of science and art for the benefit of mankind.
Dror holds 13 patents, has published more than 85 scientific publications and organised 12 conferences. He is Head of the Bar Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials and a Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Matt Hatton is a respected commentator and technology industry expert with over 20 years’ experience at the cutting edge of technology research and consulting. He is a thought leader in digital transformation and IoT, and widely quoted in trade publications and a frequent speaker at conferences.
He is a member of the Advisory Board for MWC, founded and was CEO of Machina Research, which was acquired by Gartner in 2016.
Prior to founding Machina Research, Matt was a technology industry analyst, who worked at firms including Analysys Mason and Yankee Group.
Matt holds an MSc in Telecoms from University College London
Adarsh Krishnan is Principal Analyst at ABI Research and orchestrates research regarding the internet of everything (IoE), enterprise, and machine-to-machine communications (M2M). He has focused on key research and analysis of the IoE value chain to identify crucial trends in key vertical IoT markets.
He has carried out extensive research into smart buildings, smart grids, smart street lighting, asset tracking, and low-power wide area (LPWA) network connectivity technologies.
Tim Snape is Head of IoT Security at Vodafone Group Enterprise where he is responsible for all aspects of machine-to-machine security including architecture, design, implementation, assurance and incident management.
He says the big IoT challenges are scaling and securing it to support billions of low-cost, low-end devices and making those low cost and low end IoT devices secure. The problem is making a cheap, dumb appliance super secure and super reliable.
Kai Steuernagel is Head of IoT Architecture and Frontend Development – Consumer IoT, Deutsche Telekom. Since the beginning of his career, Kai has been deeply involved in exploring new technology, acting as a technology scout and started in the smart home market ten years ago.
He worked for Deutsche Telekom for most of this time on the QIVICON platform and Magenta Smart Home offering, being a specialist in architecture and radio protocols, as well as deeply involved in the business aspects and market requirements. Lately, he has been working on a transition programme to enable faster and more efficient scale of business and customer base. This does not only involve new technologies but also a different approach to address the mass market.
Previous to Deutsche Telekom, Kai worked for companies like 2Wire, Pace and BuyIn in various roles of product management, technology marketing and target costing.
William Webb was a founding director of Neul, a company developing machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies and networks, which was sold to Huawei. He then became CEO of the Weightless SIG, a body standardising IoT technology.
Previously he was a director at Ofcom and IET President 2014-2015. He has published 16 books, over 100 papers and 18 patents.
