Keynote Speakers

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Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Founder & President, IPv6 FORUM (www.ipv6forum.org )
Member of 3GPP PCG (Board) (www.3gpp.org)
Founding Chair, 5G World Alliance (http://www.5gworldalliance.org/ ) 
Chair, ETSI IPv6 Industry Specification Group : https://portal.etsi.org/tb.aspx?tbid=827&SubTB=827 
IEEE Steering Committee Member: 5G, IoT
Chair, IEEE ComSoC IoT subcommittee (http://cms.comsoc.org/eprise/main/SiteGen/TC_IOT/Content/Home.html/ )
Chair, IEEE ComSoC 5G subcommittee (http://cms.comsoc.org/eprise/main/SiteGen/TC_5GMWI/Content/Home.html?refer=18312&Site_Name=TC_5GMWI 
Vice Chair, IEEE ComSoC SDN-NFV subcommittee: http://cms.comsoc.org/eprise/main/SiteGen/TC_SDN_NFV/Content/Home.html 
Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society - ISOC (www.isoc.org)
IPv6 Ready & Enabled Logos Program Board (www.ipv6ready.org) 
World summit Award Board Member (www.wsis-award.org )
Research Fellow @ University of Luxembourg on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects
Member of 3GPP2 PCG (www.3gpp2.org) 
Member of UN Strategy Council
Member of Future Internet Forum EU Member States (representing Luxembourg) Luxembourg, June 2017.

 

Keynote Speaker II

Dr. Alessio Pagani, Research Director at nChain, UK

Dr. Alessio Pagani is a Research Director at nChain and leads the Emerging Technology programme alongside the Academic Outreach programme. Alessio and his team combine emerging technologies, such as IoT and AI, with blockchain to solve real-world problems and accelerate Web3 adoption. He is responsible for long-term strategic projects as well as partnerships with academic institutions. Alessio has a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano. During his graduate years, he also developed the business aspect of his research interests, cofounding one of the first Italian start-ups involved in the design of blockchain solutions. He is currently an Industrial Fellow at the Institute for Mathematical Innovation at the University of Bath, where he supervises research projects on the mathematical modelling of the Bitcoin network and the collection and analysis of blockchain data.

 

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Prof. Georgakopoulos is the Director of the Key IoT Lab at the Digital Innovation Platform of Swinburne University of Technology. Before that was Research Director at CSIRO’s ICT Centre and Executive Director of the Information Engineering Laboratory, which was the largest Computer Science program in Australia.  Before CSIRO, he held research and management positions in several industrial laboratories in the US, including Telcordia Technologies (where he helped found two of Telcordia’s Research Centers in Austin, Texas, and Poznan, Poland); Microelectronics and Computer Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas; GTE (currently Verizon) Laboratories in Boston, Massachusetts; and Bell Communications Research in Piscataway, New Jersey. He was also a full Professor at RMIT University, and he is currently an Adjunct Prof. at the Australian National University and a CSIRO Adjunct Fellow. Prof. Georgakopoulos is an internationally known expert in IoT, process management, and data management. He has received 20+ industry and academic awards. His 170+ journal and conference publications, which include three seminal papers in the areas Service Computing, Workflow Management, Context Management for the Internet of Things (IoT), have received 12,400+ citations. Dimitrios’ research has attracted significant external research funding ($35M+) from various industry and government research funding agencies, ranging from DARPA and ARDA in the USA, to the Framework Program in the EU, to the Department of Human Services and 50+ industry partners in Australia.