Speakers

Andreas Bentz is Senior Executive Consultant in the Strategic Area Energy with T-Systems International GmbH. He is responsible for end-to-end IT- and communication solutions in international projects in the field of Smart-Grids and Smart-Metering. Prior he managed Smart Grid products for the T-Systems utilities portfolio. He led strategic projects in Smart Grid and Smart Metering like the Smart Grid field trial in the T-City Friedrichshafen. From 2002 to 2007 he developed T-Systems’ industry portfolios for utilities and media. He managed several media ICT projects for Deutsche Telekom AG. From 1994 to 1996 he was responsible for environmental- and energetic-optimization consulting for SME’s on behalf of the Technology-Transfer-Center of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein. Andreas Bentz graduated in Molecular Biology at the Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel. He is age 51 and married with one child.

Antje Williams is appointed as Executive Program Manager for 5G since Jan, 2015. The 5G program within Deutsche Telekom is a holistic approach and aligns and drives all activities around 5G within the company including Architecture, Business, Standardization, Industry fora like NGMN, GSMA, European initiatives as 5GPPP, Finance, Communication and the 5G:haus (Telekom´s test bed for 5G). Deutsche Telekom has a leading role within the operator community developing a vision of 5G. In order to drive architecture and standardization Deutsche Telekom participates actively in different foras and demonstrated some core technologies of future 5G technologies in field trials and demos. Prior to this role Antje became Head of Inflight Connectivity and Managing Director of T-Mobile HotSpot GmbH (subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom). She was responsible offering Wifi access on board of 15 airlines (in 2014). Before joining the Inflight Team Antje was Head of Sales for the national Wholesale Department in Southern Germany for five years. She was responsible for the fixed line business with customers as Telefónica Germany, Kabeldeutschland, BT Germany among others. Antje started in 2001 in the Legal Department of Deutsche Telekom. Short Video Interview describing 5G.

Mr. Mattheisen studied economics at Indiana University of Bloomington and at Columbia University. He first came to Hungary in 1990 to start a strategic planning and business consulting company. In 1993, in his capacity as a marketing manager of U.S. West International, Mr. Mattheisen helped launch various Hungarian, Polish and Czech mobile service operators. He worked as the marketing and sales director of Westel 900 (TMH) between 1993 and 1996. Between 1997 and 1999, he ran sales and marketing activities of MediaOne in London and later worked in Britain as a business, sales and marketing director of BT’s Cellnet. In September 2002, Mr. Mattheisen became Chief Officer of Residential Services of Magyar Telekom and in January 2005, Chief Officer of the Wireline Lines of Business (“T-Com”, including Residential Services, Internet and Network divisions). From December 6, 2006, Mr. Mattheisen has been the Chief Executive Officer of Magyar Telekom.

Dr. János Tremmel studied at Technical University in Budapest and Purdue University in the USA (International MBA). He is a Doctor in Technical Sciences.
He worked at Westel Radiotelephone Ltd. and T-Mobile Hungary between 1991 – 2010. He managed the radio, core and transmission network planning, infrastructure & investment and the documentation departments.
After merging the T-Mobile and Hungarian Telekom Plc. he became the director of Plan and Build directorate. From 2015 he is the director of IP and Core Networks directorate and he responsible for the the mobile access, core, transmission and IP network planning, deployment and operations.

Dr. Kim Kyllesbech Larsen joins the Company from Deutsche Telekom, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President – Technology Economics & Transformation as well as Technology Architecture & Innovation. Prior to this, he acted as Ooredoo Group’s (formerly Qtel) Director of Network Technology Office and CTIO in Myanmar. From 1999 to 2012, Dr. Larsen held a number of senior management positions within the Deutsche Telekom Group, including Executive Vice President - Head of Technology Office of T-Mobile International and Head of Technology Economics & Services of Deutsche Telekom. During this time, he was responsible for the takeover of the Technology segment of Orange Netherlands, the most successful merger & integration project within Deutsche Telekom to date. Dr. Larsen joined Deutsche Telekom following nearly a decade of academic experience in Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. He has a M.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics and a Ph.D. in physics from Aarhus University, Denmark

Dr. Péter Fazekas received his MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He is full time researcher and lecturer at the Department of Networked Systems and Services. He is among the funding members of Mobile Communications and Quantum Technologies Laboratory, which he currently leads. Over the years he led the activities of Lab members in several international and national research and development projects and industrial cooperation. He lectures several BSc and MSc courses about cellular mobile and wireless systems, as well as held numerous industrial trainings in mobile networking topics. His research interests cover the system level capacity and performance analysis of mobile systems, performance of advanced radio networking solutions applicable in 5G, cloud RAN related topics and application of 5G for industrial purposes.

Rahim Tafazolli has been Professor of Mobile and Satellite Communications since April 2000 and Director of ICS since January 2010 and founder/director of 5GIC since 2012 at the University of Surrey.

He has over 30 years of research experience in digital communications.  He has authored and co-authored more than 500 research publications. He is regularly invited to deliver keynote talks to International conferences and workshops. 
He has shown distinguished powers of research leadership to sustain and build one of the strongest and largest groups in Europe with more than170 researchers.  In 2012, He founded the first in the world a dedicated Innovation Centre on 5th Generation of Mobile/Wireless technologies. 5GIC has now more than 26 global industry members and more than 40 SME (Small Enterprises) with more than £75M inward investment.  He is also the programme leader of National UK 5G Testbed and Trial.

He has served as Scientific Advisor to many telecommunication companies. He is Advisory board member of Innovate UK on ICT and the UK Smart Cities Forum (chaired by DCMS Minister). He was advisor to the Mayor of London in regard to the London Infrastructure Investment 2050 Plan during May and June 2014.
He was the lead speaker at Connectivity session of the UK Government’s D5 Summit (UK, New Zealand, South Korea, Estonia & Israel) London, 9-10 Dec 2014.
He is a member of the IET Communications Policy Panel.

In 2011, he was appointed as Fellow of Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) in recognition of his personal contributions to the wireless world as well as heading one of Europe’s leading research groups.
In 2015, he delivered a visionary talk in TEDx (Cyprus) on “Future of Connected World”.

Prof. Tafazolli has media experience in the form of television interviews and articles in international press. He has given television interviews to BBC TV, and BBC Radio, The Wall Street Journal, MIT media, Portugal National TV, Polish TV, European Journals, China Today, China Daily, S. Korean national newspapers and in 2016 interviewed by Economist, New York Times, and India Times.
 

Dr. Zsolt Szalay is currently the head of the Department of Automotive Technologies at BUTE. He received his PhD from the same university in Mechanical Engineering in 2002. He is a member of the Section of Engineering Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Szalay teaches many courses in Mechanical, Transportation, Vehicle Engineering and Mechatronics. His main fields of research are autonomous and connected vehicle systems, testing and validation of automated and autonomous vehicles, automotive communications and cybersecurity, telematics, fleet management systems, and eco-driving. Dr. Szalay is part of the ambitious RECAR autonomous vehicle program.

Lucas Van Oostrum is a serial entrepreneur and drone evangelist. His passion for robotics emerged at a young age, when he began taking apart computers and hacking his way into systems and networks. He entered the drone industry in 2012 when he founded Aerialtronics, a drone manufacturer and service provider. 

In 2015 Lucas co-founded Delft Aerial Robotics (DAR). DAR manages an ecosystem of startups, researchers, and industry professionals with the mission of fully automating the drone workflow and create a network of drones. Lucas now uses his expertise and extensive network to expand DAR’s partnerships and accelerate the success of its portfolio companies.

Minoo Abedi (Senior Analyst – Deutsche Telekom) has over 10 years of experience in Telecommunications. She is involved in areas of new technology evolution and its impact on business model development of Telecom operators. She has dealt with various international projects and programs within Deutsche Telekom. One of her focus areas is looking into disruptive and new technologies and analyzing their impact on business model development of operators. In terms of 5G she is focused on potential business models and the impact 5G could have on verticals such as Healthcare and their requirement s needed. She holds a master degree in International Business Studies from University of Amsterdam. Current interests include; Strategic innovation, Business models innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Startups and partnerships.

Peter Marshall is the Head of Network Solutions Radio across all European countries at Ericsson in which he works with operators, industry and academic institutes to provide services and solutions for all mobile telecommunication technologies. With the ambition to create a “Network Society” Ericsson has developed close collaborations with key industries, academic institutes and innovative bodies to both challenge and develop what is required to help both society and industry in the future. Over the last 2 years Peter has acted as the point contact to work with King’s College to develop tangible use cases that will influence the roadmap and standards of 5G. Already we have presented at various high profile events and published a number of white papers and this approach has now extended to other universities to create 5G eco-systems Peter has a Ph.D. and has huge wealth of telecoms experience working with both operators and suppliers for over 21 years. He is highly motivated and with track record for showing creative thinking and having effective visionary skills.

Uwe Janssen, born 1959, is Vice President Innovation and Research at Deutsche Telekom Group Technology since January 2013, following a long term assignment as SVP Fix & Mobile Engineering. In his current role Uwe is responsible to manage a portfolio of mid to long term technology evolutions at DT, including Network Function Virtualization and 5G. His special focus in 5G is on Automotive as a key vertical use case.

Zoltán Kaszás graduated from the Technical College of Szabadka after which he obtained an economist, then an MBA degree from Corvinus University. During his career he worked at Szerencsejáték Plc., as the IT strategic manager of the Hungarian Post Plc., at the Budapest Airport and as the IT manager of MOL Group and OTP Serbia. During his career, besides designing, implementing and managing IT strategies, he participated in several major projects and as a sponsor he managed several acquisition processes from IT side. From December 1, 2015 he worked as the manager of T-Systems Hungary Plc.’s Info-communication Solutions Division. From July 1, 2017 he is Magyar Telekom’s Chief Commercial Officer Enterprise, which position he has already fulfilled on an interim basis since January 2017.