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Biographies

Franck Boissiere European Commission Policy Coordinator & Programme Officer, Internet of Things Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission. Franck Boissière is in charge of IoT policy developments, with particular interest in interoperability, standardisation, cybersecurity, trust and privacy. During his 25 years in the European Commission he has first been involved in a wide spectrum of research programmes (next generation internet, high performance computing, research infrastructures, cyber physical systems and control), and during the last 10 years in many of the Digital Agenda and Digital Single Market policy such as standardisation, e-Commerce, digital payments and cybersecurity. Before joining the European Commission Franck Boissière was working research engineer at France Télécom in charge of multimedia equipment, protocols and services. He received his engineering degree from the French Ecole Polytechnique in 1983 and specialised as telecom engineer in Telecom Paris.
Luca Bolognini Istituto Italiano per la Privacy Luca is a lawyer, member of the Rome Bar Association, founding partner of the law firm ICT Legal Consulting. Luca serves as an ethics and privacy advisor for several H2020 projects. He has written on issues concerning Big Data, cloud, IoT, web 2.0, legitimate interest, freedom of information, right to be forgotten, profiling and pseudonymization for scientific journals and newspapers (including Computer Law & Security Review, European Voice, The Wall Street Journal). He was speaker at ITU Telecom World 2012 in Dubai and 2015 in Budapest. Since 2015 Luca is in charge of teaching business data law at the Master in Big Data Management of LUISS in Rome and, since 2010, privacy law at the Specialization School for Legal Professions at the University of Teramo, Italy. Since 2017/2018, he is in charge of teaching EU data protection law at the 2nd level Master in cybersecurity, data protection and privacy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and at the Master in Advanced Studies on the Internet of Things at the University of Geneva. Luca wrote, among other books, the volume “Il Regolamento Privacy Europeo” (Giuffrè, 2016), the first Italian commentary on the new General Data Protection Regulation 679/2016(UE). He was also co-author of a paper on IoT and “3D privacy” published in “Privacy Technologies and Policies” (Springer, 2016) and presented at the Annual Privacy Forum 2016 in Frankfurt. Luca obtained his Law degree from the Alma Mater University of Bologna.
Hermann Brand IEEE Hermann Brand started his professional carrier as a SW developer and system designer in telecommunications. He then worked as a researcher in the semiconductor business, investigating novel manufacturing processes and developing new microstructures. Back in telecommunications he managed several international R&D teams in mobile communications including researchers, system engineers and a group of delegates to different standards developing organizations. While his employer evolved into a diversified IT service provider, Dr. Brand also worked as technology manager, innovation manager and business developer. Hermann Brand joined ETSI in 2008. Until 2012 he was responsible for various institutional services of ETSI, including new initiatives, partnership management, membership care, and meeting support. Since 2012, as Director Innovation, he has worked closely with members and other stakeholders to setup new standardization committees/groups, in particular ISGs. In June 2017 Hermann Brand joined IEEE as European Standards Affairs Director.
Martin Brynskov Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative (OASC) Martin Brynskov is chair of the global Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative (OASC), which encompasses more than 100 cities from 24 countries. OASC is a non-profit association based in Brussels, Belgium, and it aims to develop so-called Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs) for cities and communities. Dr Brynskov is vice-chair of the ITU-T Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities & Communities (FG-DPM) and chair of the Working Group on Use Cases, Requirements and Applications/Services. Dr Brynskov is also associate professor, PhD, in Interaction Technologies at Aarhus University in Denmark, director of AU Smart Cities and the Centre for Digital Urban Transition, founder and co-director of the Digital Living Research Commons, director of the Digital Design Lab, and fellow at the Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction (CAVI). Dr Brynskov is coordinator of the European IoT Large Scale Pilot on Smart Cities "SynchroniCity", and the IoT Smart City Experimentation-as-a-Service facility "OrganiCity". Furthermore, he is chair of the Danish Standards Committee on IoT and Smart Cities, founder of the Danish Smart City Network, and a global expert, speaker and advisor on IoT and smart cities with a human-centric focus.
Marco Carugi NEC Marco Carugi works as consultant on advanced telecommunication technologies and associated standardization. He currently represents NEC in standards development activities. Internet of Things/M2M, IMT2020 and Future Networks, Big Data/AI, SDN and Cloud Computing are technical areas in which he is involved at present. During his professional career, he has worked as Telecommunication Engineer in the Solvay group, Research Engineer in Orange Labs, Senior Advisor in the Nortel Networks CTO division and Senior Expert in the Technology Strategy department of ZTE R&D. Marco is active in standardization since long time: he has been leading the development of numerous standards specifications (NGN, IoT/M2M, Big Data, IMT2020) and held numerous leadership positions, including ITU-T SG13 Vice-Chair, ITU-T Rapporteur in four Study Periods, ITU-T FG M2M Service Layer Vice-Chair, ITU-T FG Cloud Computing WG Chair, OIF Board member, IETF Provider Provisioned VPN WG co-Chair. In the 2017-2020 ITU-T study period he is serving as ITU-T SG20 Mentor and Rapporteur for Question 2 ["Requirements, capabilities and use cases across verticals"], as well as ITU-T SG13 Mentor and Associate Rapporteur for Question 20 ["IMT-2020: Network requirements and functional architecture"] . He also plays some ITU-T Liaison Officer roles, including SG13 Liaison Officer to SG20, SG20 Liaison Officer to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC41 and SG20 Liaison Officer from/to the Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI) (WG3 on IoT standardization). More recently, he has taken the leading role for the Use Cases and General Requirements analysis within the ITU-T Focus Group on "Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities & Communities" and has been named co-leader of the High Level Architecture group of AIOTI WG3. Marco holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy), a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications (Evry, France) and a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France). He has also completed an Executive Program on Big Data Science at Ecole Centrale (Paris, France).
Christophe Colinet Bordeaux Metropole Christophe COLINET joined the City of Bordeaux in 2005 as head of operational maintenance for infrastructure City's servers before creating, in 2008, a new R&D service dedicated to innovative technical solutions adapted to the context of the City's information system, and then in 2012 to take over the digital territory management. Since January 2016, teams in charge of digital activities within the City of Bordeaux and the Bordeaux Urban Community merged into a single branch in charge of digital for Bordeaux metropole. Christophe became the Smart City project manager for this new directorate, coordinating European projects and more specifically “Sharing Cities”, a 2015 H2020 SCC1 lighthouse project, for the metropolis. Otherwise, since 2013, Christophe is the Bordeaux representative within the Eurocities KSF forum. Since the beginning of 2016, he chairs the “Standards and interoperability working group” for this forum. He is the EG4U secretary (EG4U: The European non-governmental organisation (NGO) of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Users). This NGO, dedicated to energy management & waste monitoring, has been created early December, 2015, by ICT(Information & communications technologies) users, members of ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) called Operational energy Efficiency for Users (OEU), based in Sophia Antipolis (France) Since the 9th June 2016, he chairs an ETSI ATTM SDMC (Sustainable Digital Multiservice for Cities) working group dedicated to provide technical specifications for the industry in accordance with city’s needs.
Omar Elloumi oneM2M Dr. Omar Elloumi leads oneM2M technical plenary, a partnership project chartered to advance interoperability standards for consumer, enterprise and industrial IoT. He joined Nokia in 1999 and held several positions including research, strategy and system architecture. He is currently with Nokia Bell-Labs and CTO group where he is responsible for standards and system architectures for IoT. Dr Elloumi is coeditor of books on M2M communications and Internet of Things. He is also involved in program committees of several international conferences and magazines on M2M and IoT. He is a recognized IoT industry thought leader and is regularly invited as a panelist or keynote speaker at IoT industry events.
Lindsay Frost ETSI Industry Specification Group for cross-cutting Context Information Management (ETSI ISG CIM) Lindsay Frost is chairman of the ETSI Industry Specification Group for cross-cutting Context Information Management (ETSI ISG CIM) which is developing ways to facilitate exchanging information between diverse systems such as municipal databases, mobile-phone applications, government environmental agencies, web apps, internet-of-things systems and linked-data repositories. The group has investigated a wide range of technologies, and is liaising with ETSI SmartM2M and oneM2M, as well as other SDOs, seeking a solution which will hopefully interwork with very many existing and future systems. Lindsay Frost was research manager in physics facilities in Germany, Italy and Australia, before joining NEC in 1999. From 2003 to 2009 he managed R&D teams for 3GPP, WiMAX, fixed-mobile convergence and WLAN, while also working two years as a group chairman in the Wi-Fi Alliance. Elected in 2012 to the Board of Home Gateway Initiative, he later also became co-chair of the HGI Smart Home group. He was elected chairman of ETSI ISG CIM in February 2017, nominated to the CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Sector Forum for Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities in March 2017 and elected to the Board of ETSI in November 2017.
Andrea Gaglione Digital Catapult Andrea Gaglione is a Technologist at Digital Catapult, where he is responsible for initiating and developing new innovation projects in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT). He has over 10 years’ experience in academia and industry, researching networked embedded systems, especially sensor networks and cyber-physical systems, and their integration into the IoT. His current work focuses on fostering and driving business adoption of IoT and low-power wide-area networks, and establishing common market places for IoT data across heterogeneous platforms. Prior to joining Digital Catapult, Andrea was a senior researcher at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London (UK), and a research scholar at the University of Southern California (USA). He was also a software engineer at Leonardo - Finmeccanica (Italy), where he led the development of a brand new concept for an integrated airport system. Andrea holds a PhD in Computer and Automation Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Italy).
Bernard Gindroz Energy, Climate Change, Smart Cities and Communities and Transport Dr. Bernard GINDROZ is, since 2014, an independent consultant on Energy, Climate Change, Smart Cities and Communities and Transport, with a special focus on innovation, policies and standardization. He has been active for more than 25 years in International R&D and innovative programs. Dr. Bernard GINDROZ is very active in standardization, as Chairman of ISO TC 268 (Sustainable Development of Communities), CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Sector Forum on Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities, CEN/CENELEC Sector Forum Energy Management (SFEM)-Energy Transition, CEN/CENELEC TC 6 (Hydrogen in Energy Systems). Dr. Bernard GINDROZ has a master in Mechanical Engineering, with a back ground on energy and fluid engineering. He got a second master in applied mathematics and a PhD in hydrodynamics and multiphase flows.
Nikolaos Kontinakis EUROCITIES Nikolaos Kontinakis works as a project coordinator for the knowledge society and smart cities projects of EUROCITIES, Brussels. He coordinates the Green Digital Charter initiative (http://www.greendigitalcharter.eu/), EUROCITIES work for the development of a performance measurement framework for smart cities under the CITYkeys project (http://www.citykeys-project.eu/), the promotion of green ICT via the ICTfootprint.eu project (http://ictfootprint.eu/) and the EU-China innovation platform on sustainable urbanisation (URBAN-EU-CHINA and TRANS-URBAN-EU-CHINA projects). He also represents EUROCITIES in the SF-SSCC of CEN/CENELEC. For the last 15 years, he has worked as a project coordinator and researcher in the areas of ICT, energy policy and the smart and sustainable development of local authorities.
Gyu Myoung Lee LJMU, UK/KAIST Gyu Myoung Lee is with the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK, as a Reader from 2014 and with KAIST Institute for IT convergence, Korea, as an Adjunct Professor from 2012. Prior to joining the LJMU, he has worked with the Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France, from 2008. Until 2012, he had been invited to work with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea. He also worked as a research professor in KAIST, Korea and as a guest researcher in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, in 2007. His research interests include Internet of things, computational trust, knowledge centric networking and services, multimedia services, and energy saving technologies including smart grids. He has been actively working for standardization in ITU-T, IETF and oneM2M, etc., and currently serves as a WP chair in SG13, a Rapporteur of Q16/13 and Q4/20 as well as an the chair of ITU-T Focus Group on data processing and management (FG-DPM) to support IoT and smart cities & communities. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He received his BS degree from Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999 and his MS and PhD degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2000 and 2007.
Hyoung Jun Kim ETRI Hyoung Jun Kim joined ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) in 1988, and he is currently responsible for ICT standardization of ETRI as Assistant Vice-President. He has had about 29 years' research experiences in various divisions of ETRI including Info-Communications Technology Division, IT Strategy Research Division, Information & Telecommunications Technology Division, and Protocol Engineering Centre. He is currently serving as vice-chair of ITU-T SG20 and co-chair of WP1/20 as well as co-Convener of JCA-IoT and SC&C under ITU-T SG20. In addition, he is recently joined to oneM2M TP as one of vice-chair.
María Poveda-Villalón Universidad Politécnica de Madrid María Poveda-Villalón is a postdoctoral researcher at Ontology Engineering Group of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Her research activities focus on Ontological Engineering, Ontology Evaluation, Knowledge Representation and the Semantic Web. Previously she finished her studies in Computer Science (2009) by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and then she moved to study the Artificial Intelligence Research Master finished in 2010 in the same university. She has collaborated during a research stay with Mondeca (París, France) funded by the mobility and internationalization program by the Consejo Social of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She has been also collaborating with the Free University of Berlin during a three-month research stay in 2012 funded by Spanish mobility and internationalization program for PhD studies (Orden EDU/2719/2011. Ministerio de Educación). Finally, she has also collaborated with the University of Liverpool in a three-month stay in 2011. Currently she is involved in the European project VICINITY (Open virtual neighbourhood network to connect IoT infrastructures and smart objects), an ETSI project to extend the SAREF ontology and is part of the W3C Web of Things Working Group.