Birgit de Boissezon, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation
Societal Challenges: A Systemic View on Sustainable Smart Cities
Birgit de Boissezon is the Head of Unit in the European Commission for 'Sustainable Management of Natural Resources’, DG Research & Innovation - Sustainable Management of Natural Resources. The Unit defines and implements - supported by Horizon 2020 - objectives and priorities for nature-based solutions with economic, social and environmental benefits, with the aim to re-nature cities, adapt to climate change, restore biodiversity and ecosystems, increase resilience and valorise cultural heritage. Earlier, she held a European Commission position related to strategy and policy, planning and evaluation of EU research framework programmes. Birgit de Boissezon has a degree in biology from the University of Copenhagen.
The European Commission (EC)represents the interests of the EU as a whole. The R&I policy of the EU is to promote positive, inno¬vative responses to societal challenges; inspired and supported by nature, maintain or enhance natural capital and simultaneously meet environmental, social, and economic objectives. The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation defines and implements the R&I policy with a view to achieving the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy and its key flagship initiative, the Innovation Union. ec.europa.eu
Rick Merritt, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, EETimes
Networking Smart Cities: A Guide to the New Digital Urban Warfare
Based in San Jose, Rick writes news and analysis about the electronics industry and the engineering profession for EE Times. He is the editor of the Android, Internet of Things, Wireless/Networking, and Medical Designlines. He joined EE Times in 1992 as a Hong Kong based reporter and has served as editor in chief of EE Times and OEM Magazine.
EE Times (Electronic Engineering Times) is an online electronics industry magazine published in the United States by UBM Canon, a division of UBM plc. EE Times online offers design and engineering resources for engineers and engineering managers involved in the electronics sector. www.eetimes.com
Session 1: Technology Components for IoT Networks
Enrico Scarrone, Vice Chair SC oneM2M, ETSI
Standards enabling the IoT service layer: ETSI and oneM2M standards for the IoT services layer
Enrico Scarrone has a doctorate in Computer Science and has gained strong experience in telecommunication, mixing technical and technical management competences, developed on the support to Telecom Italia, TIM, TIM international, and Telecom Italia Sparkle. He has been involved with a significant participation in European research projects and standardization activities and has gained knowledge and experience in most of the aspects of fixed, mobile and data network. He joined 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. Enrico Scarrone was Chairman of ETSI TC M2M 2011-2012 and Vice Chairman 2012-2015. I the period 2012-2015 he was co-founder, Steering Commitee member and delegate of oneM2M Partnership Project. In 2015 he was a delegate at 3GPP SA6.
ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, broadcast and Internet technologies. Our standards enable the technologies on which business and society rely. ETSI is officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards Organization. www.etsi.org
Roberto Gavazzi, Program Manager, Telecom Italia
ALMANAC Capillary Network Gateway Technologies
Roberto Gavazzi has spent more than 15 years in Telecom Italia Laboratories in the telecommunication area focusing first on network management. Afterwards, Roberto was responsible for the "Service Management" functional unit. In the last years Roberto has been responsible for: Programs (projects cluster) of Service Developments for Telecom Italia and Client Area Management for TILab internal Customers (TI Marketing and Network Departments). In this last period Roberto is managing projects; both European funded and Italian on Smart City, Smart Grids and Internet of Things services. In particular, he is now responsible for the so called Open Air Lab that is the Smart City innovation Lab in Telecom Italia Lab Torino.
Telecom Italia Lab is the R&D branch of the Telecom Italia Group. Telecom Italia Lab took part in the definition and consolidation of the GSM standard, Mp3 and optical transmission. The core competences are cloud, M2M and Future Internet technologies. www.telecomitalia.com
Peter Rosengren, CEO, CNet Svenska AB
Federated and Scalable Data Management in the ALMANAC Clouds
Peter Rosengren is the CEO of CNet and one of the founders of the company. He has a degree of Licentiate of Technology in computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. His current R&D interest is focused on ambient intelligence, semantic web and interoperability, ontologies, mobile and wireless collaborative applications, middleware for device and service discovery, service orchestration and event management architectures, energy efficiency solutions.
CNet Svenska AB is a leading-edge software house specialising within semantic technologies for networked embedded environments. CNet contributed to establish-ing the Internet of Things and Services, where both physical devices and services can be seam-lessly integrated into networked applications. www.cnet.se
Joachim Schonowski, Senior Project Manager T-Labs, Deutsche Telecom AG
reTHINK: A new Communication Infrastructure Supporting Smart Cities
Joachim Schonowski started his career as High Potential at Deutsche Telekom in 1999. The Senior Product Manager introduced since 2001 new messaging services like EMS and MMS for T-Mobile. Since 2003 he developed the initial User Experience strategy of T-Mobile and was responsible for the documentation, testing and integration into the Western-European device portfolio. Between 2006 and 2008 he complemented his overview on the ICT market as Senior Business Consultant at T-Systems in various internal and external projects some on board level. His curiosity concerning new topics and the interaction with research departments led him to T-Labs. Currently he works on integrated communication concepts regarding “Future Workplace”, which relinquishes email within the internal communication and temporary social networks. In addition since 2013 he took over the responsibility for the topic Smart Cities. He presents research and project results regularly in scientific publications and conferences. Joachim studied physics in Edinburgh and Oldenburg and holds a diploma degree.
Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) is the central research and innovation unit of Deutsche Telekom. In cooperation with the operating units of the Group, T-Labs generates new ideas and makes a significant contribution in the development and implementation of innovative products, services and infrastructure for Telekom's growth areas. T-Labs' global network of industry partners, start-ups, universities and research institutes as well as its locations in Germany, the U.S. and Israel ensures close integration with the international innovation community. www.laboratories.telekom.com
Session 2: Network Topologies and Management Plane Requirements for Smart City Infrastructures
Lars Dittmann, Professor PhD, DTU
The network behind the Internet-of-Things
Lars Dittmann received the M.Sc. EE and Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and is currently Professor at the University within the area of integrated network. He is heading the network competence area (covering both optical and electrical networks) within the Research Center COM at the Technical University of Denmark and was prior to that responsible for electronic switching and ATM networks at the Center for Broadband Telecommunication.
DTU Fotonik's research covers a broad spectrum of fields within Photonics Engineering. including scientific explorations into light-matter interaction, communication technologies, lasers and sensors, and LED light sources of the future. The department focuses on application oriented uses of our research to solve societal challenges. www.fotonik.dtu.dk
Christian Kloch, Technology Manager, TDC
Mobile access architecture at TDC A/S
Christian Kloch obtained a M.Sc.E.E (telecommunications) from Aalborg University, where he also made his Ph.D. work. He has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunication industry and is presently Technology Manager at TDC, where he is responsible for TDCs Mobile Access Strategy. Christian has also been appointed Expert thereby joining the group of mission-critical specialists in the TDC Group.
TDC Group is the leading Danish provider of communications solutions with market leadership across all segments in the domestic market. In the other Nordic countries, TDC is the main challenger in the Business market. www.tdc.com
Steffen Ring, CEO, Ring Advocacy
M2M spectrum opportunities in the 700 MHz range. The ITU World Radio Conference 2015 sets the stage
Steffen Ring has served for corporations such as Storno A/S in Denmark, General Electric Inc, Motorola Inc., and Mobile Data International Inc. (Canada) and throughout liaised close with national and international authorities to agree the technical terms and conditions for bringing foreign Radio Frequency equipment onto the market and into operation in a fully compliant manner. Ring also works closely with the European Commission representing Industry and assisted in the inauguration of ETSI in France 1989. This year Ring established Ring Advocacy and represents DI/ITEK in the Danish government delegation to ITU-R WRC.
Ring Advocacy LLC works for the benefit of all industries, small, medium sized and large, planning to launch and market products making use of radio frequency spectrum. We offer advice and even political influence to seek traction for regulatory policies, which are manageable by industry and at the same time achieve the political goals. www.ringadvocacy.com
Session 3: Business Aspects of Smart City Infrastructures
Nils-Henrik Faber, Engagement Manager, Ericsson
Business opportunities in Network Technologies
Nils-Henrik Ballegaard Faber, Engagement Manager, is the business driver for Internet of Things in Ericsson Danmark A/S. He has a MSc in Electrical Engineering from Aalborg University. He has been working with operational and business consulting towards telecommunication providers for many years and has for over 5 years also been heavily engaged with business transformations in the connected reality. He has been working numerous engagements within industry, transport and smart buildings – with customers and partners.
Ericsson is the leader in the development and deployment of LTE systems. Ericsson is also continuing research into innovative solutions for GSM, WCDMA and CDMA, which now provides cost-effective mobile-data connections and mobile broadband modules are connecting a growing range of devices, systems and even vehicles to the internet. www.ericsson.com
Adam Armer, Innovation Manager, Vodafone, UK
Building Digital Societies at Vodafone
Adam Armer is Business Development & Innovation Manager within Vodafone Group M2M Strategy Division. He has a degree in Accounting & Law from the University of Manchester and has worked across Fortune 500 technology companies in finance, operations, sales & strategy roles. He was the leading design and delivery manager for Google’s Play Store launch in Europe and has worked with likes of Apple, Samsung and Lenovo on channel & service development across the EU. For the past 12 months Adam has worked on developing Vodafone’s IoT & M2M strategy, with a particular focus on Smart Cities.
Vodafone Group plc is the world's 2nd-largest mobile telecommunications company measured by both subscribers and 2013 revenues (behind China Mobile), and had 434 million subscribers as of 31 March 2014. Vodafone owns and operates networks in 21 countries and has partner networks in over 40 additional countries. www.vodafone.com
Peter Lange, Executive IT Architect, IBM
From the Modern City to the Smarter City - from Optimization to Innovation and Transformation of Service Delivery
Peter Lange is a senior IT professional and leader in IBM with a long career in solutions development and consulting in European and global positions. Latest he was CTO for Smarter Healthcare in Europe and is an IBM Smarter Cities Challenge (SCC) alumnus. SCC is a program under which IBM as part of its corporate citizenship contributes the skills, expertise and innovation of its top talent to address critical challenges facing cities around the world. In his daily job he works with two of IBM's global top 100 clients as lead IT-architect and advisor.
IBM provides ICT products and services worldwide. Its Global Business Services segment offers consulting and systems integration services for strategy and transformation, application innovation services. Smarter cities use the system of systems when supporting the needs of each citizen through social programs, healthcare and education. www.ibm.com
Session 4: Massively Deployed Smart City Applications – Views from Users
Paul Wilson, Managing Director, Bristol Is Open
Building the World's First Open Programmable City
Paul is Managing Director of Bristol Is Open. Paul worked in software and finance for fifteen years and was Chief Marketing Officer of SunGard Financial Systems, a $5bn Fortune 500 company. He joined Bristol Is Open from the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership, where he oversaw the development of the West of England's Strategic Economic Plan - which attracted more Government per-capita funding (£86m) than any other region’s Economic plan. Paul is helping to build collaboration between industry, local government, SME's and academics, to address urban challenges, in a rapidly urbanising world.
Bristol Is Open is developing an open programmable city region. It is a collaboration between the technology, media & telecommunications industry, universities, local communities, and local and national government. The project is governed by a joint venture between University of Bristol and Bristol City Council. www.bristolisopen.com
Mia Nyegaard, Member of CPH Municipal Council
How smart is it to live in a Smart City? – Insightful Perspectives on Data Privacy
Mia Nyegaard holds masters in Political Science and African Studies. Mia is the co-founder and CEO of Friis-Holm Chokolade A/S and has previously worked in private and public organisations in Copenhagen, London, Malmø and Bruxelles. Presently, she is also a member of the Copenhagen Municipality Council elected for the social-liberal political party “Radikale Venstre”, where she is the party’s spokesperson in social matters.
Copenhagen Municipality is the largest of the municipalities making up the city of Copenhagen. In 2014, Copenhagen won the World Smart Cities Award in the Best Project category for the Copenhagen Connecting project. Utilising the collection of digital data, the project creates a green city, and improves quality of life. www.kk.dk
Organisers
Jesper Thestrup, CEO, In-JeT ApS
Jesper Thestrup is the CEO and founder of In-JeT. He has a MSc. degree in Electronic Engineering and later obtained degrees in business administration from the Copenhagen Business School and INSEAD. He worked for a number of years as executive manager in a globally leading medical electronics company in Denmark and in the USA. He has been involved in Internet of Things technology and programme activities for over 10 years, including many EU and national research projects in which he often acts as chief vision architect. He was on of the leading participants in the MovingLife project setting up roadmaps for mHealth for the European Commission. He has authored and co-authored several papers on IoT and eHealth topics.
In-JeT ApS is a private research company and a provider of Internet Based Services and Products. Since 1998, In-JeT ApS has been engaged as concept and technology developer in Internet Based Services such as Cloud and Internet of Things and has extensive technical knowledge about wireless technologies, networks, semantic interoperability, web services, and knowledge management. www.in-jet.dk
Trine F. Sørensen, Project Coordinator, In-JeT ApS
Trine F. Sørensen has a master degree in Gender, Culture and Modernity from the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She later received a MSc. in Anthropology from Copenhagen University. She has been working intensively with social and societal issues and has participated in several comparative project studies, especially in the healthcare sector. Her professional experience includes employment with governmental committees, private organisations and companies.
In-JeT ApS is a private research company and a provider of Internet Based Services and Products. Since 1998, In-JeT ApS has been engaged as concept and technology developer in Internet Based Services such as Cloud and Internet of Things and has extensive technical knowledge about wireless technologies, networks, semantic interoperability, web services, and knowledge management. www.in-jet.dk
The ALMANAC project is co-funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 609081, objective ICT-2013.1.4 'A reliable, smart and secure Internet of Things for Smart Cities'. Duration: 1st September 2013 to 31st August 2016.
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