Born in 1968, Mr. Hu holds a bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Mr. Hu joined Huawei in 1990 and has served as President of the Marketing & Sales Dept in China, President of the Latin America Region, President of the Global Sales Dept, Chief Sales & Service Officer, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Chairman of the Global Cyber Security and User Privacy Protection Committee (GSPC), Chairman of the BOD of Huawei USA, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Rotating CEO, and Chairman of the HRC. Currently, Mr. Hu serves as Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating Chairman of Huawei.

Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of ETSI, has 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications sector.

At ETSI he has initiated a global standardization partnership for Machine to Machine communications, oneM2M. He has overseen the rapid development of ETSI’s Industry Specification Groups accelerating market penetration of new technologies and has enabled the first Open Source group in ETSI.

Born in 1968, Mr. Peng holds a bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Mr. Peng joined Huawei in 1997 and has served as Technical Service Engineer of the South China Area, Transmission Project Manager and Development Engineer of the Russia Representative Office, General Manager of the Yemen Representative Office, Assistant to President of the Middle East and Northern Africa Region, President of the Northern Africa Region, President of the China Region, and President of the Corporate Leadership Mgmt Dept. Currently, Mr. Peng serves as President of the Enterprise BG.

Ms Stefania Giannini was appointed Assistant Director-General for Education in May 2018, becoming the top United Nations official in the field of education. In this position, she provides strategic vision and leadership for UNESCO’s Education Sector in coordinating and monitoring the implementation of the Education 2030 Agenda, encapsulated in Sustainable Development Goal 4.

She has devoted her career to promoting education as a fundamental human right, through the importance of language, lifelong learning, culture, freedom of expression and identity, in an effort to ensure more inclusive and equal societies.

With an academic background in the Humanities (PhD in Linguistics), Ms Giannini became Professor of Linguistics in 1992 and served as Rector of the University for Foreigners of Perugia (2004 – 2012), being one of the first female Rectors and the youngest at that time in Italy.

Sylvain Laurent has been appointed Chairman of the 3DS Infrastructure and City Board of Directors since 2020.

He has held the positions of Executive Vice President and President of Asia Pacific for Dassault Systemes 3DS Business Transformation (BT) from April 2011 to 2019. In this role, he is responsible for sales to key customers and global 3DS solutions and services. He is also a member of the Executive Committee.

Mr. Laurent joined Dassault Systèmes in 2008 as the head of BT sales in Europe and has extensive experience in large account management. He has been helping Dassault Systèmes to continue its transformation of its ""go-to-market"" strategy.

Mr. Laurent has more than 25 years of experience in the PLM field, having previously worked at Siemens PLM Software and IBM PLM, and has also founded a PLM consulting and system integration company.

Jacqueline Shi joined Huawei in 1999 and has served as Senior Product Manager of Switch Product Department, Director of China Access Network Product Department, Director of South Pacific Network Product Solution, Vice President of China Region, President of Packet Core Network Product Line, President of Video Product Line,President of Intelligent Video&Data Analytics Product Line and President of Cloud Core Network Product Line. Currently, Jacqueline serves as President of International Business Dept and President of Marketing Dept of Cloud & AI.

Global Head of Strategic Partnerships, CRM Strategy and Events, OSRAM GmbH

Gaël Blondelle joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2013 where he is now Managing Director of Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH and VP, Ecosystem Development, of the Eclipse Foundation. Gaël joined the Eclipse Foundation with the desire to help companies to work in open source as the best way to implement open innovation and open collaboration. Gaël has been involved in open source for the last 15 years in various roles, including as the co-founder of a startup developing an open source project, as a business developer of an open source systems integrator, and as a manager of a research project aiming to create an open source ecosystem for industrial players.

• With more than 30 years’ experience in the Telecom and IT industries, he possesses broad experience across most technologies having worked in a variety of senior capacities across Technical, Commercial, Company and Business Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Program Management and R&D disciplines. He is an expert in the Business of Telecommunications - managing of all aspects (concept to operations) of Telecommunications Carrier / Service Provider businesses

• In the course of his career, he has worked with numerous Fixed and Mobile Operators, vendors, SI and Consulting companies in Asia-Pacific, Africa, North America and Europe

J. Scott Marcus is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based macroeconomics think tank. He also works as an independent consultant dealing with policy and regulatory issues related to electronic communications, media and digital services. From 2005 to 2015, he served as a Director for the WIK, a research institute in regulatory economics of network industries. Prior to that, he served as Senior Advisor for Internet Technology for the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as a peer to the FCC’s Chief Economist and Chief Technologist. In 2004, the FCC loaned Mr. Marcus to the European Commission for six months. Prior to working for the FCC, he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of GTE Internetworking, a leading Internet backbone service provider.

Marcus is the author of numerous papers and of a book on data network design. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the City College of New York, and an M.S. from the School of Engineering, Columbia University.

Thierry Bonhomme is a renowned expert in the telecommunications industry, having served for over 30 years at Orange Group.He headed Orange Business Services, the division providing telecommunications and IT services around the world, where he developped cyber ,cloud and analytics businesses for B2B customers , from 2013 until 2018 .He also held leadership roles related to research and development as the Orange group CTO starting in 2006. He holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure Telecommunications. Thierry Bonhomme was elected member of Académie des Technologies in 2018. He is member of different boards and has recently joined TrustInSoft as an independent board advisor in 2020.

Mr. Zhang Lixuan led the Shenzhen Airport digital transformation project, the "Future Airport" project, which is the only project selected by IATA in China. The project has attracted great attention in the industry. Future airports have become synonymous with smart airports in China. Mr. Zhang Lixuan has a deep understanding of airport informatization construction and digital transformation, especially in overall planning, technical roadmap, and digital platform construction. Shenzhen Airport is the first technology integration construction model in the industry. It works closely with Huawei to build a national benchmark for future airports through mechanism innovation, architecture innovation, and construction model innovation.

Ms. Catherine Du is currently the director of TECH4ALL office. Driven by Huawei’s vision and mission, TECH4ALL is long-term initiative for digital inclusion.

Ms. Catherine Du has worked in the ICT field for over 20 years with extensive experience in marketing, branding and project management. She has worked in multiple countries globally. Ms. Catherine Du has comprehensive knowledge in ICT including Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Core network, etc. She ever worked in various business units in the company as marketing director such as Enterprise Business Group and Cloud BU.

25+ years in ICT Transformation. Expert in Transformation solution design and large transformation Program design in European Countries.

Focused on Executive Solution Consultant and Management of Complex Transformation Programs within European Companies.

Large Business DC Services and System Integration management.

Mobile and Gaming Industry Expert, responsible for the Product & Business Strategy, Go-to-Market and Performance of all Mobile Services in the European region.

Thomas Meyer joined IDC in January 1999 and is currently responsible for managing IDC's Research Division in Europe. This includes Practices focused on Digital Transformation, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Blockchain, Intelligent Process Automation and Accelerated Application Development as well as Core ICT (Software, Services, Infrastructure and Devices) and Industry-specific teams (Financial, Manufacturing, Energy, Retail, Healthcare, Government and Telco Insights)

Former Chief Information Officer, Hong Kong Airport Authority, 35 years of ICT and management experience, 20 years in the airport industry. Passionate about digital transformation and data applications. Recently, his focus are on advancing airport technology in several key areas, including biometrics, mobile and self-service technology, robotics, self-driving cars and digital twin; enabled by smart infrastructure, including the enterprise analytics platforms, hybrid cloud infrastructure, IoT platforms, future wireless platforms including WiFi 6, and an enterprise 5G infrastructure across the entire airport island.

Ewa Zborowska joined IDC CEMA in January 2003. As a research director in the IT services group, she focuses on research of the Polish services market.

Prior to joining IDC, Zborowska worked for the Main Statistical Office and held the post of tender specialist at an IT company.

Zborowska holds an MA in business administration (specializing in marketing) from the University of Lodz (Poland)

Mr. River Wen has 16 years of experience in Huawei, positioned in R&D, pre-sales and business development, global Public Sector industry solution sales leader before he joined Huawei WEU.

• More than 13 years of experience in optical research, development and product management

• Current research directions include oDSP research, data center networks, optical switching, optical access, quantum communication, THz

• Member of the CTO Office of the Transmission & Access Product Line

• Spokesman of the 800G Pluggable MSA (www.800gmsa.com)

• More than 170 publications as author or co-author with more than 3,300 citations

• Guinness World Record Holder for Highest capacity transmitted over hollow core fiber (using space division multiplexing)

Robbie Wang joined Huawei in 2008, with a master degree majored in cryptography.

Currently he is in charge of Huawei Enterprise ISP industry business in West Europe. With 20 years’ work and study experience in ICT industry, he acquired deep understanding and practices about ISP industry market.

Director of Euroasia Region, Head of Technology Solution, International BU, S.F.Express, Co., Ltd

Director of Global Logistics Development Business, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Dr. Demir joined the Huawei Enterprise Business Group in October 2017 and leading within Western Europe Automotive and Manufacturing solutions portfolio and business development as CTO.

Before joining Huawei Dr. Demir has held begin 2015 until October 2017 Director Manufacturing & Quality IT role for all Asia & Pacific plants of General Motors to do digital transformation and transformation from IT outsourced model into an IT insourced model of the Asian/Pacific plants and later in 2017 assigned to lead the transition of Opel Manufacturing & Quality IT into the Groupe PSA.

Dr. Demir has started his career in 2000 at Daimler and worked in total 15 years at Daimler, including 3 years in India and 4 years in China. He started as development engineer for ECU (electronic control units) development, InCar diagnosis applications and ECU embedded software. He worked after that within Daimler at several technical and managerial positions, like component & process development lead at Daimler Busses, engineering process development lead at Daimler Trucks, R&D and Manufacturing IT lead at Daimler India and Manufacturing & Quality IT lead at Daimler China.

After graduating with a master's Degree from the electrical engineering at University Ulm/Germany, Dr. Demir also acquired a PhD at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg in cooperation with BMW in the area of modelling and simulation of vehicle and driver behavior within traffic flow. Besides, he also acted as the robot software engineer at FAW Ulm (Science institute for applied knowledge). Dr. Demir joined the Huawei Enterprise Business Group in October 2017 and leading within Western Europe Automotive and Manufacturing solutions portfolio and business development as CTO.

Jorge is leading an EU initiative integrated on the EIP-SCC acting as President of the European Network of City Policy Labs, with a focus on regulating and proper adoption of emerging technologies and new Business Models in Cities for the best of local communities.

Henk Scholten is founder and CEO of Geodan BV, one of the leading European companies specialised in Geo-IT. Geodan developed the blueprint of our approach over 30 years ago: gathering information and displaying it simply in smart maps. By combining data such as company data, current traffic information, or historical data, for instance, we provide smart insights, better communication, more efficient processes, and smooth cooperation.

Nunzio Quacquarelli is CEO of QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Nunzio has passionately championed the mission of QS, which has remained unchanged since 1990, “ to empower motivated people anywhere in the world to fulfil their potential through educational achievement, international mobility and career development.”

Best known for producing the world’s most popular rankings – QS World University Rankings, designed and launched by Nunzio in 2004 - QS aims to be a lifelong insight partner connecting a billion future learners with institutions, employers worldwide.

QS is a world leader in international postgraduate student recruitment, running online platforms attracting over 70 million web visitors, digital events in 57 countries and offering student enrolment solutions. QS Intelligence Unit offers trusted higher education data intelligence and technology solutions supporting strategy, partnerships, mobility and admissions.

QS consists of a team of over 500 people from 35 different countries, with offices in Austin, Portland, London, Paris, Stuttgart, Bucharest, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Melbourne.

Nunzio has an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he won the Glockner Prize for Management. Before founding QS, Nunzio worked in strategy consulting.

Since 2003, QS has funded over 130 partial education scholarships through QS Education Trust. In 2020, QS has taken over leadership of QS World Merit Charity, a UN partner, with a view to increasing the number of awards and scholarships available for students who impact any of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Over 1% of QS surplus every year goes towards these scholarships.

A respected journalist and recognized authority on higher education and career trends, Nunzio contributes to leading media around the world. Nunzio is regularly invited to address government education ministers and to speak at conferences and seminars on higher education and careers.

Lesley White is an International HR professional with more than 20 years unique experience in the Telecommunications/ICT industry. She has worked in multiple countries including the UK, China and Germany. Her areas of emphasis are talent development and organizational culture for 7000 employees across Europe. This remit includes building an inspiring employee experience to enhance the brand to attract, develop and retain the talent required for now and for the future.

Professor Sean Wellington is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Middlesex University London. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). A past Chair of the IET Academic Accreditation Committee, Sean has a particular interest in engineering education and the professional formation of Engineers. He recently led a review of Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes (AHEP), the Engineering Council standard for accreditation of engineering degree programmes and adopted by QAA as the Engineering Subject Benchmark. The revised standard, AHEP Edition 4, was launched in August 2020. He also served as a member of the TEF Pilot Subject Panel for Engineering and technology. Sean is Chair of the Huawei ICT Academy Board.

Chelsea Chen is the co-founder of Emotech, a leading AI company in the UK. Emotech offers multimodality AI solution services to Smart home, Education industries. The innovative products include the robot Olly and the world's first English AI teaching assistant solution. Beyond CES, London business awards to the company products, Chelsea also won the top 5 Asian Tech stars, the most influential business leader in the UK. She is one of the founding team members of the UNSECO AI Centre. 

She has a master's degree in Art Management from Goldsmiths university and studied the History of Art in Sotheby’s Art Institute.

Steven Hartley, Senior Marketing Consultant, Western European Marketing

For twenty five years, Steven has provided strategic advice to the world’s leading telecoms and digital economy companies. In that time he has helped clients across the ICT ecosystem to understand and benefit from future opportunities in broadband, mobility and digital services. Steven supports Huawei’s account teams to engage with CxOs and senior management at the region’s carrier customers. In this role he helps customers to assess their market environment, and identify new opportunities and areas in which Huawei’s solutions can help. In particular, his focus is on 5G go-to-market strategies, carrier strategies and disruptive forces in Western Europe.

As for the authorization form, could you send a version in Word please? That way I can attached a digital signature. It seems an enormous waste of paper to print it all out, just to scan it back in and return it to you.

A digital marketing specialist with nearly 20 years’ experience in the mobile industry. Aoife’s role at Huawei is to help students and developers leverage the power of HMS platform to grow their business and bring their apps to over 490 million people on AppGallery.

Kevin Restivo is research manager for IDC's European Enterprise Mobility in the 5 G Era program.He delivers data - driven insights and analysis on 5 G buyer priorities, use cases, and market developments primarily to technology vendors and service providers.

He also leads IDC Europe 's Task Force on 5G, the next generation of mobile technology. In addition, he covers the mobile security market and follows workplace trends such as the emergence of digital workspaces and the unified endpoint management market in Europe by country. His research on the deployment of mobile devices and applications can also be found in the European Enterprise Mobility Deployment Strategies program.

As Business development director, Arnaud Puy is responsible for the development and implementation of Wifirst innovation strategy, targeting growth through new businesses and international.

Arnaud has been part of Wifirst since 2008 formerly in charge of industrialization and transformation of the company.

He is known as an inspiring and passionate leader with deep expertise in sales delivery on large-scale projects and general management.

As Business development director, Arnaud Puy is responsible for the development and implementation of Wifirst innovation strategy, targeting growth through new businesses and international.

Arnaud has been part of Wifirst since 2008 formerly in charge of industrialization and transformation of the company.

He is known as an inspiring and passionate leader with deep expertise in sales delivery on large-scale projects and general management.

Gabriel is Commercial Director at Alea Soluciones. He is in charge of leading commercial activities regarding selling of GPON, Switching, Routing and Wi-Fi equipment, and also Services to ISPs and Integration Companies, Software for Network Operation and Management.

He is Telecommunications Engineer and MBA from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and throughout his professional career has operated and commercially managed different projects related to network deployment and integration services working for big integration companies, equipment manufacturers as well as operators.

Since joining Alea in 2017 he has placed special emphasis on new markets such as Hospitality sector or ISP networks Mutualisation ecosystem.

Engineering in Electronics and Advance Communication Engineering.

16+ Years working Experience in Telecom Industry including vendors & Operators.

Andrew Buss is research director for IDC's European Enterprise Infrastructure program. Based in London, he is responsible for driving IDC's research covering present and future trends impacting servers, storage and networking and IT service delivery. Central to this is understanding how on-premises IT is evolving under the emergence of Open Source, Software-Defined Enterprise, multi-Cloud adoption and Cloud-native development practices, and how this will impact everything from the low level silicon underpinnings and system design, through to the design and integration of the different infrastructure components, up to the platform management and service delivery.

His research area focuses on understanding the convergence of different technologies and capabilities and how they need to integrate and work together to deliver efficient, effective and agile IT services from the datacenter or cloud right through to the end user. Andrew works with global, multinational and local vendors to understand the dynamics of business technology desires and needs, technology purchasing and investment, organizational and operations structures and customer mindsets and disconnects in order to help vendors effectively position and communicate their value and proposition.

Munich Research Center In his role as CTO Cloud Europe, Dr. Brasche is responsible for joint innovation activities with key partners and customers of Huawei’s Cloud Business in Europe and steers the European research and development activities of Huawei’s public cloud platform with a focus on data-centric, AI-based services and trustworthy, online data processing capabilities that exploit intelligent infrastructure components and new memory-centric computing paradigms. He is a member of the senior leadership team of the Munich Research Center and Director of the Intelligent Cloud Computing laboratory.

Huawei with its more than 194,000 employees and 80,000 R&D staff is a world leader in mobile communication technologies, smartphones, and IT products and solutions. The ERI as part of the corporate R&D organization is Huawei‘s central innovation engine in Europe with 23 R&D sites and more than 13,300 employees. So far, Huawei has participated in over 230 technical cooperation projects and has partnered with over 150 universities across Europe.

Dr. Brasche holds a master’s degree in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Before joining Huawei, Dr. Brasche held various management and research positions at Microsoft and Ericsson.

Ali Syed Mohsin is a senior research analyst in the Manufacturing Technology group at Omdia (formerly IHS Markit Technology) in Munich.

As part of the manufacturing group, Ali tracks the impact of industrial connectivity on the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, commonly known as Industrial IoT. This includes analysis of both end-user trends and requirements, as well as market sizing analysis, and vendor and ecosystem solutions.

He has over six years of experience in tracking market developments and trends in manufacturing and automotive semiconductor sectors. He is also engaged in speaking at industry events, trade shows, and conferences. Moreover, he has previously worked with General Electric and Siemens as an electrical engineer. Ali holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan and a Master of Science in power engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Work Experience

Full Professor, Universidade de Aveiro

Head of Networks, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Advisor for the Portuguese Government

Director, 5G+AI Reliability Lab

Previously with positions associated with Carnegie Mellon University (US), and Universidade de Uberlândia (BR)

Consultant on telecommunications

Jörg Borowski is Managing Partner at Detecon, Germans leading consultancy company focused on digital transformation. Jörg has been advising clients in the telecommunications and ICT industry for more than 20 years. His primary field of expertise revolves around the optimization of the interface between technology and business. In addition to network economy issues, he examines technology innovations in networks and their impact on process and organization structures. Jörg is an expert for the evolving markets around 5G usage from the perspective of an industry as well as from the point of view of a telco. He has a rich background of practical experience combined with strategic outlook.

Alexander Lehrmann heads up innovation and new business development at Sunrise Communications, the largest private telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Previously he has been in charge of corporate strategy, portfolio management and digital innovation at Swisscom. He is passionate about new customer experiences in the digital age, entrepreneurship, open innovation, renewable energy, sports and his two daughters.

Hao Xu is nowadays heading 5G Business Solution in Huawei West Europe Region in terms of 5G B2B solution design, ecosystem development and business model innovation.

Hao has worked in Huawei for 10 years where he has been managing LTE in the very beginning and 5G recently for new business and solution incubation from Huawei headquarters to different West European countries. He has steered 5G B2B benchmarking trials and managed the team for ecosystem and partnership onboarding. In addition Hao has also abundant expertise in network architecture transformation design by leveraging different technology like virtualization and automation.

He has over 20 years of working experience in mobile network sector across R&D, Product Management and Pre-sales for Radio Access and Core Network. Before joining Huawei, he had previously worked within global telecom vendors in both Greater China region and overseas countries for over ten years.

Gijs finished his masters thesis in Industrial Design Engineering in Delft (the Netherlands). The thesis ho wrote, which was on a robotic glove for use in rehabilitation of stroke patients, served as the foundation upon which he co-founded SenseGlove with his former supervisor Johannes Luijten. Most of Gijs’ professional career before SenseGlove has been within the start-up environment; He has been a managing director of a start-up consultancy firm and a UX-designer for another start-up building smart thermostat. Gijs recognized early on the missing potential in the current state-of-the-art VR/AR controllers and today he provides thought leadership to both his company and the industry.

Richard Griffiths has worked more than 20 years in internet and telco leadership roles. Since 2017, he has been Vice President in the Consultant Office at Huawei focusing on 5G and Digital Transformation projects.

Between 2012-2015, he was Vice President of Broadband and IPTV at Malaysia‘s leading pay TV operator Astro managing the launch of a new business unit.

He spent three years from 2008 as Director of TV and Entertainment at national telco eir and four years from 2004 Director Technology Strategy and Development at BT TV after launching two internet startups.