 Dmitry Chasovskoy
Head of project development department, IQMEN
Dmitry received his master's degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 2009 on "Applied mathematics and physics". He has experience in software development for more than 8 years. He also has experience of software development in Big Data and Machine Learning areas. For the last 5 years, Dmitry has been holding the position of Head of project Department at JSC "IQMen IBS" - a subsidiary of PJSC "Rostelecom". His expertise is in the area of creation information and analytical systems for large commercial and government enterprises. |
 François Coallier
Chair, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC41
François Coallier is professor at the Department of Software and IT Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), one of Canada's leading engineering school, affiliated to the Université du Québec network. He was CIO of ÉTS between 2010 and 2016 and the founding chair of ÉTS' Department of Software and IT Engineering from its creation in 2004 till 2010. He has nearly twenty-two years of industrial experience in one of Canada's largest companies, where he held various engineering and managerial positions in engineering, quality engineering, IT procurement, IT infrastructure deployment and operation and IT Enterprise Architecture Management. Dr. Coallier has been continuously involved in software and systems engineering standards development since 1984, being the international Chair of the Joint ISO and IEC subcommittee responsible for the elaboration of standards for Internet of Things and related areas (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC41) since its creation in 2016. He was also the chair of SC7, Software and Systems Engineering, from 1997 to 2017, and its Secretary from 1993 to 1997. He held also the convenership of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Special Working Group for Technology Watch on international IT standardization from 2002 to 2007. François Coallier has a B.Sc. in Environmental Biology from McGill University, a B. Eng. in Engineering Physics and an M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Montréal's École Polytechnique. |
 Aleksandr Ilin
CTO MSK-IX
Aleksandr Ilin, the CTO MSK-IX. He was born on July 4, 1975 in the Moscow region. In 1998 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (University), and in 1996 began working as an engineer at the company "Demos".
He participated in the implementation of many projects aimed at developing the infrastructure of the Russian internet and helped the industry to create national-scale internet projects, such as "Internet in Russian," the exchange of IP traffic between networks, and facilitated the globalization of a distributed network of DNS servers to support root domain zones. Since 1997, Alexander worked in ROSNIROS (the founder of the MSK-IX project). Since 2009, Alexander has been working at MSK-IX as the CTO. He is married and has a daughter. |
 Ramy Ahmed Fathy
Director, Digital Services Planning and Risk Assessment, NTRA, Cairo, Egypt,
Vice Chairman of ITU-T SG20 on IoT and its Applications including Smart Cities and Communities
Ramy Ahmed Fathy is the Director of Digital Services Planning and Risk Assessment at the Egyptian National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA). As the Director of Digital Services, he seeks the development and implementation of sustainable and effective digital services in the Egyptian market. His role at NTRA includes the development of guidelines, regulatory frameworks, viable business models, and effective specifications & technical operating parameters, which ensure efficient and effective services' operation. He is leading the design, and specifications development of intelligent and digital services; addressing interoperability, risk, regulatory impact assessment and services’ market adoption while employing a wide set of tools related to radio network planning, transport design, market modeling, and optimization. Fathy has been actively involved at the different stages of development of various intelligent ICT systems and services, in addition to numerous ICT-for-development and digital transformation initiatives including national broadband networks, smart cities, m2m and IoT enabling regulatory frameworks, smart utilities, eGov, water management, and next generation access planning. His 15 years of experience include projects design, budgeting, and planning of smart cities, enterprise automation, DTV transformation, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Over the past 10 years, Fathy has served in key roles in the international standardization arena. In 2012, he served as the Vice-Chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group of Bridging the Gap between Innovations and Standardization (Focus Group Innovation). One year later, he was elected as the Chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Water Management for a period of two years. Currently he is serving as the Vice Chairman of the ITU-T Study Group 20 (SG20) on IoT and its applications including smart cities and communities since late 2015 where he is leading activities related to the standardization of end-to-end architectures for IoT and smart cities, intelligence, mechanisms for the interoperability of IoT applications, security, and identification aspects of IoT systems. Fathy has a PhD in electronics and communications. He has led R&D projects in radio network planning and optimization, cognitive radio systems, video coding, cryptography, DSP/FPGA/GPP based implementations of consumer electronics products and satellite communication systems. He has numerous publications in esteemed journals and conferences, and he's the author of one book in electronics. |
Yurii Kargapolov
CEO UNAOC
Yurii Kargapolov is the CEO of UNAOC, Consortium, member of ITU-D. One of developers MNP, IMEI, ENUM, and Registry systems. Graduated from the Odessa Polytechnic Institute, Radio-engineering faculty, in 1980 received diploma Dipl. Eng. Radio designer and technologist. In the sphere of professional interests and activities in different years included application programming, system programming and methodology of the create and implementation IT-systems as an architect were included.
He was civil servant and held leaders positions in National Commission for Telecommunication Regulation and State Communication Administration. Yurii Kargapolov is a Member of the Coordination Council of the Ukrainian Network Information Center (UANIC), one of the developers of the administration and technical rules for .УКР IDN ccTLDs and Member of Board Internet Association of Ukraine. He created and launched the ISP, has built and launched more than 25 technical platforms in different cities of Ukraine to provide broadband wired and wireless access for providing special bank data transmission, voice and video services. He took active part in preparing documents for .0.8.3.e164.arpa delegation (Ukrainian ENUM domain). He has attended over 80 local and international Meetings and Conferences of ITU, ICANN, IGF, ENOG, RIPE, TLDCON etc. as speaker and key speaker |
 Dmitry Konarev
Senior Mobile Broadband Expert, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Dmitry holds a Master degree in Radio electronic Engineering. Before joining Huawei in 2005, Dmitry has worked for 8 years in the Telecommunication Industry. He occupied various positions from Radio engineer in mobile operator to Technical Director in company system integrator. At Huawei, Dmitry leads the Wireless Marketing activities within the MegaFon/VIP/MTS, in charge of Product Marketing and Innovation with Rostelecom. In November 2013 Dmitry have been appointed by Russia Rep. Office AT to be the solution sales chief expert in MBB field.He is:
- Expert in GSM, UMTS , LTE, 5G NR products and standards, 3GPP, IEEE specs
- Pre-sales, Marketing, Product & Solution Management in the Wireless & PS domains
- E2E solutions promotion, participated in MWC as a VIP speaker since 2007 and supported many MBB road shows and forums
- Customers training and presentations
- Contributed in winning several tenders in Russia & CIS
- Market analysis and definition of strategy for LTE and new product introduction
- Strong product and solution knowledge, performing deep Analysis for customer pain points
- Innovation management, more than 15 technical articles published
- Performing regional level training and Go-to-Market strategy
- Expert in competition analysis for the wireless product for E, NSN, ALU and Z |
 Yevgeni Koucheryavy
Professor, Tampere University of Technology
Yevgeni Koucheryavy is a Full Professor (tenured) and Lab Director at the Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering of Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. He received his PhD degree (2004) from the TUT. Yevgeni has been teaching from 1996 for different target groups, students and professionals in Austria, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Spain, UK and USA. He has acted as a PhD evaluation committee member or examiner in >10 countries. He graduated 8 PhD students and over 60 MSc students. He has worked in a number of research and development projects within different frameworks, e.g., FP7, H2020, and companies including Nokia, Intel, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Cisco, etc. Within last 6 years (2013 – 2017) Yevgeni attracted over 6 mln Euros as a research funding. He acts as an external reviewer for state funding agencies of several European countries and H2020. Yevgeni has authored or co-authored over 250 papers in the field of advanced wired and wireless networking and communications. His Scopus h-index is 25. He holds two US patent and two pending. His current research interests include various aspects in heterogeneous wireless communication networks and systems, network and services performance evaluation, the Internet of Things, and nano-scale communications. Yevgeni is an Associate Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine and Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Yevgeni is a Senior IEEE member. Yevgeni is a chairman of the board of YL-Verkot Oy and co-founder of Battery Intelligence Oy. |
 Andrey Kucheryavy
Chairman of SG11, SPbSUT
After graduating from Leningrad University of Telecommunications in 1974, A. Koucheryavy joined Telecommunication Research Institute LONIIS, where he worked till October 2003 (from 1986 to 2003 as the First Deputy Director). Dr. A. Koucheryavy holds Professor position at the Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (SUT) since 1998. There, in 2011 he became a Chaired Professor in "Telecommunication Networks and data transmission" department. Dr. A. Koucheryavy was an advisor of the Central Science Research Telecommunication Institute (ZNIIS) from 2003 to 2010. Co-founder of the International Teletraffic Seminar (1993, 1995, 1998, 2002); founder of the model network for digital networks at LONIIS (1997); co-founder of the model network for packet networks at ZNIIS (2004); co-founder of the Internet of Things Laboratory (2012) and Quality of Experience and IPTV Laboratory (2014) at SUT. Chair of the Scientific school on teletraffic theory in LONIIS (1990 – 2003); Founder and scientific school chair "Internet of Things and self-organizing networks" in SUT (2010 up to now); Steering committee member of IEEE technically co-sponsored series of conferences ICACT and NEW2AN. SG11 ITU-T vice-chairman 2005 – 2008, 2009 – 2012. WP3/WP4 SG11 chairman 2006 – 2012, WP4 SG11 vice-chairman 2015-2016, Chairman of SG11 in Study period 2017-2020. Co-founder of International Testing Center for new telecommunications technologies at ZNIIS under ITU-D competence. Host and technical program committees member of the "Kaleidoscope 2014" at SUT. Honorary member of Popov's society (2002). |
 Ella Grigorievna Bogoslavskaya
Head of Strategy planning division, Tele2
Ms Bogoslavskaya has more than 20 years of telecom related experience. She graduated from the Kalmyk State University obtaining a Master in English Philology and from the Russian Financial and Economic Institute obtaining a Master in Economy. She started working in telecoms in MTS as an operator in a call center and was promoted as a manager of M&A projects. Ella participated in the acquisition of mobile telecom companies in Russia and CIS, fixed assets consolidation and mobile retail acquisition. She has been working for more than 6 years in Tele2 as the Head of Strategy Planning and Strategy Execution. She deals with the annual long-term strategic planning resulting in the change of business processes and appearance of the new competencies and divisions (CEM, Digital, Agile, Big Data). She also monitors the strategy execution in the company through the creation and control of the strategic Key Performance Indicators system. |
 Giulio Maggiore
Chairman of ETSI TC INT, Telecom Italia
He received BS Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991, and Master In Information Technology and Telecommunication in 1992 by Politecnico of Turin. Joined CSELT, R&D Telecom Italia Group in 1993. In 2000 Giulio joined TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) in Core Network Acceptance Testing. In 2006 he joined Telecom Italia in the Service Layer Engineering group. Since 2008 he is in Telecom Italia Mobile Core Network Engineering Group dealing with Mobile IMS, Packet Switch, WiFi offload and customer experience driven engineering. Present job is dealing with Core Network Quality and Optimizations within Smart Pipe and Service Chain group. Member of IEEE and GSMA where in 2010 he led Network Efficiency Task Force Group. Vice Chairman of ETSI Methods of Testing and Specification (MTS) Technical Committee from 2010 to 2012. Chairman of ETSI Core Network and Interoperability Testing (INT) Technical Committee since 2008. Giulio is Technical Program Committee member of several conferences, and author of several papers and lectures. |
 Alexey Matsnev
Director of planning, D-Link International Inc
Alexey Matsnev is an expert in development and maintenance of large telecommunication multiservice networks of operators and corporations of federal level of the Russian Federation. He graduated from faculty of radiotronics of Air-force academy of prof. N. E. of Zhukovsky. Since 2000 was engaged in a manual of processes and subdividings of construction, technical development and maintenance of core IP networks and access networks of Corbina (in VimpelCom composition), Transtelecom, Rostelecom. He directed IT dept. of State Corporation " Rostechnologii " («Rostech»), he created the internal integrator of the corporation ("RT-Inform") as a basis of the uniform mechanism of IT support of needs of corporation, he developed the uniform IT strategy of corporation. Since 2014 is the Director of development of D-Link International PTE Ltd. (Russia)
Алексей Мацнев является экспертом в области построения, развития и эксплуатации крупных телекоммуникационных мультисервисных сетей операторов и корпораций федерального уровня РФ. Закончил факультет радиоэлектроники Военно-воздушной академии им.проф.Н.Е.Жуковского. С 2000 года занимался руководством процессов и подразделений строительства, технического развития и эксплуатации магистральных IP-сетей и сетей доступа Corbina (в составе Вымпелком), ТрансТелеКом, Ростелеком. Руководил ИТ-службой Государственной корпорации «РосТехнологии» («Ростех»), создал внутреннего интегратора корпорации («РТ-Информ») как основу единого механизма ИТ-обеспечения нужд корпорации, разработал единую ИТ-стратегию корпорации. С 2014 года является Директором по развитию D-Link International PTE Ltd. (Россия) |
 Farid Nakhli
ITU
Farid Nakhli received his Master of technical sciences degree in the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics in 2009. From 2008 to 2015 Farid worked in the system of the Ministry of Communication and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus managing projects on nation-wide ICT strategy and policy analysis, monitoring of ICT infrastructure and e-government development, regulation and standardisation, and development of relevant software. In 2015 he joined the Corporate Strategy Division of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as Planning and Management Consultant. Since 2016 Farid works as Programme Officer at the ITU Regional Office for CIS based in Moscow, where his responsibilities include ICT strategy and policy advise, management of projects on ICT development and organization of regional events. Recognized profession credentials include: CCNP (Cisco certified network professional) – 2012 and PMP (Project management professional) – 2014. He speaks Russian, English, French and Belarusian. |
Valery O. Tikhvinskiy
Chairman of ITT RAEN, RAEN
Deputy of General Director on Innovation Technologies of JSC «National Research & Development Institute of Technologies and Communications» (NIITC), Chairman of «Information and Telecommunication Technologies» branch of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (2007), Professor of MTUCI, Doctor Economical Science (2003), Ph.D. Degree in Radio engineering (1988), the Government Prize laureate (2002), Member of State Duma Committee Expert Council, published over 300 scientific papers and 14 books on Mobile Communication Technologies of 2G/3G/4G/5G, Economic-legal, QoS - problems of telecommunication, Spectrum Management and EMC. ITU Field Expert (ITU-D Seminars: Erevan-2001(Armenia), Sana’a-2005(Yemen), Astana-2012(Kazakhstan)). Actively participated in the work of International telecom bodies as representative of the Russian Federation in ITU Regional seminar and conferences -, CEPT/ECC-, ETSI (TC/ERM, TC/STQ, TC/SmartM2M)- meetings. |
 Sergey Pastuh
Chairman of ITU-R SG1, NIIR, Russia
More than 25 years of experience in the management of the use of the radio-frequency spectrum, the analysis of electromagnetic compatibility of radio electronic systems, simulation of interference conditions for satellite and terrestrial systems, radio monitoring of emissions of radio electronic means, automation of coordination processes and application of satellite system characteristics in ITU, development of frequency plans for mobile networks communication and the development of automated control systems for the use of the radio-frequency spectrum; More than 15 years of experience in the European regional organization CEPT and in the ITU.
2008 - 2014 - Chairman of the working group CEPT / WGFM "Management of the use of the radio-frequency spectrum", was elected twice for a period of 3 years.
2008 - 2012 - Chairman of ITU-R Working Group 1B "Spectrum management methods, including economic aspects";
2012 - present - Chairman of Study Group 1 of ITU-R "Spectrum management";
2014 - present - Vice-President of the European Telecommunications Committee (CEPT / ECC).
Более 25 лет опыт работы по вопросам управления использования радиочастотным спектром, проведения анализа электромагнитной совместимости радиоэлектронных систем, моделирование помеховой обстановки для спутниковых и наземных систем, радиоконтроля излучений радиоэлектронных средств, автоматизации процессов координации и заявления характеристик спутниковых систем в МСЭ, разработки частотных планов для сетей подвижной связи и разработки автоматизированных систем управления использования радиочастотного спектра;
Более чем 15 летний опыт работы в европейской региональной организации CEPT и в МСЭ.
2008 – 2014 – Председатель рабочей группы СЕPT/WGFM «Управление использованием радиочастотным спектром», избирался дважды на срок 3 года.
2008 — 2012 — Председатель Рабочей группы 1B МСЭ-R «Методы управления использованием спектра, включая экономические аспекты»;
2012 – по настоящее время — Председатель Исследовательской комиссии 1 МСЭ-R «Управление использованием спектра»;
2014 – по настоящее время — Вице-председатель Европейского комитета по электросвязи (CEPT/ECC). |
 Rustam Pirmagomedov
Associated Professor, SPbSUT
In 2010 Mr Pirmagomedov graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunication (SPbSUT). In 2014, he received Cand.Sc. degree in SPbSUT, and his thesis was on the “Study of physical channel's failures in passive optical networks and development of methods for reliability prediction”, which was developed in collaboration with Rostelecom. The results of this research were successfully implemented, and currently are used for maintaining and designing of xPON access networks on the existing telecommunication networks. Currently, Mr Pirmagomedov is associate professor of the department of “Telecommunication Networks and Data Transmission” in SPbSUT. Since 2016 he has been focusing on research on medical applications of IoT as a member of the “Biodriver” project team. In addition, since 2016, he is also a paper reviewer of the International Conference on Advanced Communications Technology. His scientific interests include IoT, nanonetworks, body area networks, it-bio interfaces. |
 Sergey Razmakhnin
Chief architect of IoT and telecommunication solutions, Transtelekom
13+ years of professional experience, including 9 years spent in management positions at Russia’s biggest telecom operator (80 000 employees, 100+ million subscribers).
• Telecom, IT and information security professional
• Revenue Assurance and Fraud prevention expert
• Developer of managed security services for customers
• IoT expert
• Manager of more than 20 countrywide projects |
 Alexey Shinelin
Commercial Director for company group FreshTel
Alexey is the Commercial Director for company group FreshTel. “InterProekt” LLC, “Orion” LLC, “Progress” LLC, “Stolitsa” LLC. He was born in Moscow in 1977.
He graduated the Academy of Federal Agency Safety (FSB) of Russia. (Engineer of telecommunication, 1999) , Russian State Social University (Finances & the credit. 2007) and mini- MBA (2010). Headed departments at the “Multiregional TransitTelecom” OJSC, HQ «MegaFon», HQ Rostelecom, HQ Vimpelcom from 1999 to 2017. |
 Maxim Sokovishin
Technical expert, Keysight
Maxim Sokovishin is currently working in European Application Engineering Organization of the Keysight Technologies Russia. Maxim Sokovishin has more than 8 years of experience, mainly in the field of RF / Microwave systems and components measurements. He has 5 years of experience in Keysight Technologies Russia as an Application Engineer responsible for signal analysis and signal generation solutions, as well as vector analysis software support. Maxim possesses good insight into the automated test system solutions in the field of radar subsystem & system level testing. He continues working & supporting of the test & measurement needs of various Aerospace & Defense R & D Labs, & frequency regulation companies in his region of operation. Last 2 years of his main job are connected with wireless and cellular signals investigation and measurement facilities creation (such as BS and UE certification via 3GPP standards and extensive parametric control). Prior to that Maxim had 3 years of experience in SPELS company, being involved in radiation effects study and scientific experiment automation. He was deeply concentrated on analog electronics testing with such devices as transistors, amplifiers and sensors. Maxim earned his Specialist Degree in Electronics & Automatics after graduation in Moscow Engineering Physical Institute. |
