Andreas Müller is a Senior Expert and Project Manager within the Corporate Research Department of Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany. In line with Bosch’s ambition to actively drive and shape the emerging Internet of Things, Andreas is responsible for various research activities in this exciting area, with applications in different verticals, including the industrial, consumer, building and healthcare domains. To this end, he is closely collaborating with experts from various fields and disciplines in order to make the Internet of Things become reality. Currently, he is particularly coordinating Bosch’s research activities in the area of future industrial connectivity infrastructures and solutions, with a special focus on wireless communications and emerging 5G technologies.

Prior to joining Bosch, Andreas was a Research Staff Member at the Institute of Telecommunications of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he was contributing to the further development of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution towards LTE-Advanced. Besides, he was working as a Systems Engineer for Rohde & Schwarz, developing a novel software-defined radio based communication system for the German Armed Forces. Andreas holds a German Diploma degree as well as a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (with distinction) and a M.Sc. degree in Information Technology, all from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Linus Thrybom is R&D manager of the Industrial IoT team at ABB Corporate Research, Sweden. He joined ABB Corporate Research in 2008, where he has been working as Principal Scientist and project leader in the area of industrial communication, including e.g. 5G, time critical Ethernet, IEC 61850, WAN, time synchronization, and positioning. Linus has authored or co-authored several publications and IP filings. He recently led the 5GPPP Whitepaper on Energy & 5G. Between 1998 and 2008 he worked as project leader at Bombardier Transportation on train communication and control systems, between 1992 and 1997 he worked at ABB Industrial Systems as HW/SW design engineer of embedded systems and communication devices, and he has thus +20 years of R&D experience in this domain. Linus received his MSc degree in Computer Science in 1991 from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Francois Fischer is a senior expert in software development and Telecommunications, with a particular focus on standardisation, compliance testing and certification. He has started his career at Siemens in Germany, as software developer for the mobile network testing department. He was an early user of the Open System Interconnection model and the ISO methodology for testing (ISO 9646), in particular with the universal testing language TTCN. He joined FSCOM to work then as project manager, for the design of conformance test solutions in different Telecommunication domains like fixed and mobile telephony, Voice over IP (signalling, voice quality) and Intelligent Transport Systems. He was active member of many ETSI Specialist Task Forces and CEN project teams. In the domain of ITS, he contributed to standardisation activities at ETSI TC ITS before joining ERTICO – ITS Europe in 2011. As senior activity manager he is currently involved in different EC projects dealing with Cooperative systems, emergency Call, Advance Driver Assistance Systems or Automated and connected driving. He is representing ERTICO at the CEN and ETSI as well as the AIOTI and the 5G-PPP.

Christoph Thuemmler studied Medicine, Education and Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany and completed a PhD thesis on Cerebral Hemodynamics in the specialty of Neurology. He worked in Germany, the US and the United Kingdom and completed training in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine with a special interest in Emergency Medicine. Christoph is one of the pioneers of e-health and has worked in different relevant topics such as tagging and tracking, RFID, the Internet of Things and Future Networks since the late nineties. He has been an advisor to the EC at the EU-China round table on the Internet of Things and also serves as the convener of the health vertical of the European 5G Association. He is also Senior member of the IEEE Association. He is currently working in Professorial roles at Edinburgh Napier University and Klinikum rechts der Isar of Technical University of Munich.

Ioannis P. Chochliouros graduated from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, holding also a M.Sc. (D.E.A.) & a Ph.D. (Doctorat) from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France. His practical engineering experience has been mainly in Telecommunications, as well as in various constructive projects in Greece and the wider Balkan area. Since 1997 he has worked at the Competition Department and as an engineer-consultant of the CTO of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE). He has been very strongly involved in major OTE’s national and international business activities, as a specialist-consultant for technical and regulatory affairs, especially for the evaluation and the adoption of innovative e-Infrastructures and e-Services in Greece and abroad. He has also served as the Head of Technical Regulations Dept. of OTE’s Division for Standardization and Technical Regulations, representing OTE in international standardization fora. Furthermore, he has worked as an independent consultant in the scope of several European and/or international research and business studies. Since 2005, he is the Head of OTE’s Research Programs Section, Fixed and has been involved in different national, European and international R&D projects and market-oriented activities, many of which have received international awards. During his professional career he has participated either as coordinator or as a scientist-researcher in more than 45 European and national research programs, some of which have received distinctive awards. He is author/co-author of three (-3-) international books and he has published more than 190 distinct scientific or business papers in the international literature (book chapters and articles in magazines/journals/conferences proceedings). He is an expert in project management activities with an extensive experience in EU-funded projects where he has very successfully exercised project coordinator’s duties (e.g.: D-SPACE, LiveCity, Privacy-Flag, SESAME). He is also an active participant of various international and national associations, both of scientific and business nature. In addition, Dr. Chochliouros has performed an extended educational activity as an academic lecturer in Greece and in France, in cooperation with Universities and other high-level Institutes, covering a broad variety of issues in the scope of modern e-communications.