• Founder & President, IPv6 Forum 
• Chair, 5G World Alliance
• Member of 3GPP PCG (Board) 
• IEEE 5G Steering Committee Member 
• IEEE IoT Steering Committee Member
• Chair, IEEE ComSoC IoT TsC
• Vice Chair, IEEE ComSoC SDN-NFV TC
• Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society  ISOC 
• IPv6 Ready & Enabled Logos Program Board 
• World summit Award Board Member 
• Vice-Chair, ETSI IPv6 Industry Specification Group  
• Member of 3GPP2 PCG 
• Member of UN Strategy Council 
• Member of Future Internet Forum EU Member States (representing Luxembourg)
• IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award, 2002 
• IPv6 Life Time Achievement Award, 2016
• Research Associate @ University of Luxembourg on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects.

He is the Hall Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering. He was the Director of the Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) and the Department Head of Computer Science Department.  

He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt; M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis; and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada.  

Dr. Bayoumi has graduated about 100 Ph.D. and 150 MSC students, authored/co-authored about 600 research papers and more than 10 books. He was the guest/co-guest editor of more than 10 special journal issues, the latest was on Machine to Machine Interface.  

Bayoumi is an IEEE Fellow. He has served in many capacities in the IEEE Computer, Signal Processing, and Circuits & Systems (CAS) societies. Currently, he is the vice president of Technical Activities of IEEE RFID council and he is on the IEEE RFID Distinguished Lecture Program (DLP).  

He is a member of IEEE IoT Activity Board. Bayoumi has received many awards, among them; the IEEE CAS Education award and the IEEE CAS Distinguished Service award. He was on the IEEE DLP programs for CAS and Computer societies. 

He was on the IEEE Fellow Selection Committee. Bayoumi has been an ABET evaluator and he was an ABET commissioner and team chair. He has given numerous keynote/invited lectures and talks nationally and internationally. Bayoumi was the general chair of IEEE ICASSP 2017 in New Orleans.  

He, also, chaired many conferences including ISCAS 2007, ICIP 2009, and ICECS 2015.  

Bayoumi was the chair of an international delegation to China, sponsored by People-to-People Ambassador, 2000. He received the French Government Fellowship, University of Paris Orsay, 2003-2005 and 2009. 

He was a Visiting Professor at King Saud University. He was a United Nation visiting scholar. He was a visiting professor at the University of King Saud. He has been an advisor to many EE/CMPS departments in several countries.  

Bayoumi was on the State of Louisiana Comprehensive Energy Policy Committee. He was the vice president of Acadiana Technology Council. He was on the Chamber of Commerce Tourism and Education committees. He was a member of several delegations representing Lafayette to international cities.  

He was on the Le Centre International Board. He was the general chair of SEASME (an organization of French Speaking cities) conference in Lafayette. He is a member of Lafayette Leadership Institute, he was a founding member of its executive committee. He was a column editor for Lafayette Newspaper; the Daily Advertiser.

Robert Bierwolf, MScEng., SMIEEE (2015). Graduated at Delft University of Technology (1987), Faculty of Electrical Engineering – Computer Science. Robert currently holds the office of VP Conferences for IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Society (2015-2019). 

Robert held various senior management positions in industry on projects and programs, as well as senior line- and operations management roles in typical large organizations (e.g. Philips, Cincinnati Bell, KPN) in various sectors (e.g. Public, Telecom, Automotive, Infrastructure) and is founder of MBBI bv. 

Currently, Robert is shaping and pursuing a PhD project around the theme of “Towards Project Management 2030”. 

Francisco Maroto is CEO and founder at OIES Consulting and Principal Advisor, IoT and Telecoms, EMEA for the research firm Ecosystms. 

Francisco (aka Paco) is a gentle and dynamic executive with more than two decades of international experience in the IT and Telco industries. Prior to launch OIES, he worked in different management roles in companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Amdocs, SAP, HP, Vodafone, Indra or Matra Aerospace.  

Globally recognized as one of the top IoT advisor and leading voices on the state of Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.  He is advicing technology vendors, enterprise customers, governments and startups to accelerate adoption and make these technologies accessible and easy to understand and use for everyone. 

Entrepreneur, visionary, usual speaker in IoT international events, respected blogger and IoT influencer. 

https://es.linkedin.com/in/franciscomaroto  

Dr. Saeed is an academician and ICT and Innovation specialist. He has advised and consulted several government organizations in areas including IT systems development, smart government & smart cities, innovation management, and cybersecurity. He was appointed in 2004 as a Director General of the newly formed Emirates Identity Authority. He established and led the authority for two years. He has led and participated in local and international assessment teams of several programs and awards including the GCC e-government award, and the UAE Drones and AI & Robotics for Good Awards.  He was a member of the international advisory committee of the UAE space agency. Also, he is on technology advisory panels of several universities in UAE. He enjoys speaking about the new disruptive technologies and their impact on business and society.

Linkedin: https://ae.linkedin.com/pub/saeed-al-dhaheri/58/90/71a

http://www.slideshare.net/ddsaeed

Twitter: @DDSaeed 

Dr. Tarek M. Khalil is the founding President, Provost and Dean of the graduate school of Management Of Technology (MOT) of Nile University (NU), Egypt. NU is the First National Non-Profit Research and entrepreneurial University in Egypt. He previously served as Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of the Management of Technology program and the Environmental/Occupational Safety and Health program at the University of Miami. He also held professorships in Biomedical Engineering and Epidemiology and Public Health and Neurological Surgery. His experience includes academic work at the University of Florida, the University of Miami, Texas Tech University and many other Institutions around the world including France, Finland, Guatemala and Egypt.

Dr. Khalil’s former administrative experience includes serving as Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Miami and as Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Miami. He also served as the Director of the Ergonomics and Bioengineering Division of the Comprehensive Pain and Rehabilitation Center of the University Of Miami School Of Medicine.

Dr. Khalil is the Founder and served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) for several terms. He chaired more than 20 International Conferences in Management of Technology. He is also the co-founder of the University of Miami Institute for the Study of Quality in Manufacturing and Service in the School of Business Administration. He served the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) as Chairman of the Council of Fellows, Director of the Work Measurement and Methods Engineering Division, Vice President Region IV, Director of Honors and as a member of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Khalil has served as a consultant to governments, industry and educational institutions in the US, Egypt, France, Finland, Brazil, Japan, Guatemala, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain as well as the Fulbright Commission and the United Nation’s UNIDO, UNESCO and UNDP.

He also served on advisory panels and as a consultant for The Department of HHS, NIOSH, NSF, Dade County, Monroe County and Project HOPE and for many US companies. He served as a senior editor of the Journal Technovation and on the editorial board of several international scientific journals in Innovation and Technology Management.

Dr. Khalil is the recipient of many national and international awards including the Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Grenoble School of Management, France, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Institute National Polytechnique de Loraine (INPL) – Vniversité de Nancy, the University of Miami College of Engineering Researcher of the Year Award, the IIE David F. Baker outstanding research Award, the IIE Phil Carroll Award, the IIE Ergonomics Division Award, the Human Factors Society Paul M. Fitts Award and the Jack A. Craft Award. He authored or edited 15 books and authored or coauthored more than 300 publications.

Ingrid Mulder is an expert in transformative and social design. As part of her previous readership in Rotterdam, she has initiated the first Fablab in Rotterdam as well as the Rotterdam Open Data movement. 

She also founded Creating010, a trans-disciplinary design-inclusive research center enabling citizens,students, and creative industry making the future of Rotterdam. Since 2007 she chairs the research program Meaningful Design in the Connected City, which connects research and education in both Delft and Rotterdam. Her background is in Policy and Organization Sciences (MA, University of Tilburg) and Behavioral Sciences (PhD, University of Twente). In 2005, she headed the evaluation of the first Dutch living lab, “Kenniswijk”, currently known as Brainport Eindhoven. Ever since she has been involved in the interplay between top-down policy and planning with bottom-up participatory innovation. As an expert for the European Commission on Internet of Things and Smart Cities, she advocates participatory bottom-up innovation as a means to empower people in driving social change.

Her on-going research has been awarded by two prestigious grants. Open4Citizens (Horizon2020) aims at empowering citizens to make meaningful use of open data. Participatory City Making (STW-RtD) considers the collaborative construction of new visions through small-scale experimenting as a way of triggering a process of broader change and transformation. The project elaborates upon the foundational project CRISP PSS-101 (NWO) she lead in 2011-2015, which developed methods and tools toimprove the understanding of the networked nature of PSS development. 

Received the B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, in 1965 and 1967 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, in 1971. He joined the teaching staff of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, since 1972 and was appointed as a Full-time Professor in 1982 and as the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department from September 2000 to September 2003 and is currently an Emeritus Professor.   

His Current research areas of interest include Wireless Multimedia Communications, Wave Propagation, Smart Antenna Arrays, Modern Signal processing Techniques, Image Processing, and Security & watermarking techniques. He has published about four hundreds scientific papers in national and international conferences and journals. He took part in the organization of many local and international conferences including the yearly series of NRSC (URSI) series (1990-2019), ISCC’95, ISCC’97, ISSPIT’2000, MELECON’2002 and IEEE  GCIoT 2019.  

Prof. El-Khamy has earned many national and international research awards among which are the R.W.P. King best paper award of the Antennas and Propagation Society of IEEE in 1980; Egypt's National Engineering Research award for two times in 1980 and 1989, respectively; Abdel-Hamid Schoman – Kingdom of Jordan award for Engineering Research in 1982; State Scientific Excellence (Al-Ebdaaa Al-Elmy) award in Engineering Sciences for 2002; Alexandria University Appreciation Award of Engineering Sciences for 2003; State Appreciation Award (Al-Takderia) of Engineering Sciences for 2004; IEEE Region 8 Volunteer Award for 2010.  

Prof. El-Khamy is a Fellow member of the IEEE since 1999 and an IEEE Life Fellow member since 2010. He is also a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy. He is the founder and past president of IEEE Alexandria/Egypt Subsection and the past President of Egypt’s National Radio Science Committee of URSI.