Dr. Colin Willcock is currently the chairman of the 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA) governing board (formally known as 5G Infrastructure Association). He is also the chairman of the Smart Networks and Services Joint undertaking (SNS-JU) governing board.

He has detailed knowledge and experience of the telecommunications industry having worked directly or indirectly with many of the major players over a 28-year period. The roles have included software developer, technical consultant, technical marketing, standardization and management. In addition to line manager roles, he has participated extensively in standardization activities at ETSI, ITU-T and 3GPP, including instrumental work in creating and developing the TTCN-3 testing language.

Colin has also been very active in the European research ecosystem, including leading a number of award winning European projects such as TT-Medal, D-MINT and SEMAFOUR. Colin is currently head of Research Alliances at Nokia.

Since October 2023 Erzsébet Fitori has been the Executive Director of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking with a mission to foster Europe’s technology sovereignty in 6G and boost 5G deployment in Europe.

Previously, she was responsible for Vodafone Group’s engagement with the EU institutions and stakeholders, heading Vodafone’s Brussels Office and as Board Director in industry organizations.

Before joining Vodafone in 2020, Erzsébet was Director General of the FTTH Council Europe, the pan-European trade association representing over 160 technology innovators, network operators, and investors across the fibre value chain.

As chief executive, she focused on transforming it into a growing organization, increasing its membership base, revenues, and engagement with key decision-makers. She joined the FTTH Council from the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA), where she represented 100+ challenger telecoms network operators. As Director of ECTA, she oversaw its public policy, regulatory, and PR activities and led ECTA’s engagement with the EU institutions, national regulators, and governments.

Before joining ECTA, she was Head of Regulatory Affairs at Telenor Hungary in Budapest.

In her early career, Erzsébet was an Assistant Professor in the department of European law and private international law at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. 

Michael Dieudonné is currently an R&D Department Manager for the 6G program and manages Keysight’s relationship with EC and local authorities in Europe. He currently coordinates the 6G-SANDBOX SNS-JU project and is a member of the 6G-IA Board. He supervises research performed in different domains around B5G/6G wireless, network test, and high-frequency metrology. 

Over the years he initiated and led different R&D initiatives such as test automation (with the launch of OpenTAP.io, the first open source project from Keysight), Open Radio Access Network (ORAN) test, the Internet of Things (IoT) test and battery test. 

Navid Nikaein is Professor in Communication Systems Department at Eurecom. He has published more than 200 papers and several patents in the area of mobile networks and services. He has a proven track in industry-driven R&D projects at international level.

In terms of innovation service, Navid Nikaein is a committe member of Telecom ParisTech-Eurecom Incubator, and provide supports to local startup in French Riviera. In 2005, he was Founding member of 3ROAM, a startup company in Sophia-Antipolis, France, pioneering a range of intelligent wireless backhaul routing products for private and public.

Harald Haas received his Ph.D. from The University of Edinburgh, U.K., in 2001. He is the Van Eck Chair of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and the founder of pureLiFi Ltd., where he also serves as the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). 

His recent research interests focus on photonics, communication theory and signal processing for optical wireless communication systems. Since 2017, he has been recognised as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate/Web of Science. 

He has delivered two TED talks and one TEDx talk. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Solid State Lighting Alliance. He was awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2017, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2019, and the Enginuity: The Connect Places Innovation Award in 2021. 

In 2022, he received the Humboldt Research Award for his research contributions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). In 2023, he was shortlisted for the European Inventor Award.

Regius Rahim Tafazolli, is the only Regius Professor in Electronic Engineering. 

He is Fellow of Royal Academy (FREng), Fellow of IET, Fellow of WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum).

He is a professor of Mobile and Satellite Communications at the Surrey University in the UK and is the founder/director of the world’s first 5G Centre, 5G Innovation Center in 2012 and director of UK’s first Centre on 6G, 6GIC in 2020. He advises many international industries and governments including UK Governments and local council.

5GIC was winner of the 2021 Royal Academy of Engineering for the best research centre in the UK for working with industry 

Also was winner of ITP (Institute of Telecom Professionals) for “Outstanding Contributions to Industry” in 2023.

He has more than 30 years of experience in wireless communications since 2G and since first generation of Satellite PCN (Personal Communication Systems). He is leader of UK National project TUDOR with more than 25 partners working on 3D-Network of Future.

Dr. Emilio Calvanese Strinati obtained his Engineering Master degree in 2001 from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and his Ph.D in Engineering Science in 2005 from Paris Telecom. He then started working at Motorola Labs in Paris in 2002. Then in 2006 he joint CEA LETI as a research engineer. From 2007, he becomes a PhD supervisor. From 2010 to 2012, he has been the co-chair of the wireless working group in GreenTouch Initiative, which deals with design of future energy efficient communication networks. From 2011 to 2016 he was the Smart Devices & Telecommunications strategic programs Director, then, until January 2020 he was the Smart Devices & Telecommunications Scientific and Innovation Director. Since February 2020 he is the Nanotechnologies and Wireless for 6G (New-6G) Program Director focusing on future 6G technologies.  

He has published around 250 papers in journals, international conferences, and books chapters, and he has given more than 250 international invited talks, keynotes and tutorials. He is the main inventor of more than 90 patents.

He has also a rather strong and successful experience in leading and coordinating research activities having been the main coordinator of successful projects such as 5G-CHAMPIONS, 5GAllstar or RISE-6G and he is the coordinator of 6G-GOALS, 6G-DISAC and 6G-ARROW.

CEA has also coordinated other FP7/H2020 and national projects, and/or serving regularly as project’s Technical Manager, Work Package and Task leader in more than 40 European projects.

His current research interests are on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Semantic communications, Goal-oriented communications AI-native technologies in the context of future 6G networks.

Tzong-Lin Wu, received the B.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from National Taiwan University (NTU), in 1991 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 1996, Tzong-Lin was a Senior Engineer at Micro-electronics Technology Inc. He joined the Central Research Institute of the Tatung Company in 1996-1998, where he was involved in the analysis and measurement of electromagnetic compatibility/electromagnetic interference (EMC/EMI) problems of high-speed digital systems. In 1998, he decided in favor of an academic career and accepted a faculty position at the Electrical Engineering Department, National Sun Yat-Sen University. Since 2006, he has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering (GICE), NTU. In Summer 2008, he was a Visiting Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests include EMC/EMI and signal/power integrity design for high-speed digital/optical systems. Tzong-Lin served as the Director of the GICE in 2012-2018 and Associate Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 2018-2024. He is currently the Dean of College of EECS.

Tzong-Lin received the Excellent Research Award and the Excellent Advisor Award from National Sun Yat-Sen University in 2000 and 2003, respectively, the Outstanding Young Engineers Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineers in 2002, Wu Ta-You Memorial Award (吳大猷先生紀念獎) from the National Science Council (NSC) in 2005, Outstanding Research Award (國科會傑出研究獎) from NSC in 2011, 2014, and 2017, the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging Best Paper Award in 2011, Outstanding Research Innovation Award (台大研發創新傑出獎) from NTU in 2013, Outstanding Technology Transfer Contribution Award (國科會傑出技術移轉貢獻獎) from NSC in 2013, 2014 Outstanding Teaching Award (台大教學傑出獎) in NTU (top 1%), 2015 IEEE EMC Society Motohisa Kanda Award for a IEEE T-EMC paper with highest citation for those published T-EMC papers in past 5 years, TECO Award (東元獎) in 2020, Academic Award (教育部學術獎) from Ministry of Education (MoE) in 2020, and The Executive Yuan Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Contribution (行政院傑出科技貢獻獎) in 2022. Dr. Wu is listed on World's Top 2% Scientists 2020 by Stanford University.

He has served as the Chair of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Taipei Section in 2007-2011, the Treasurer of the IEEE Taipei Section in 2007-2008. He was a member of the Board of Directors (理事) of the IEEE Taipei Section in 2009-2010 and 2013-2018, the member of Board of Directors (BoD) of IEEE EMC Society in 2016-2023, and President of Chinese Microwave Association (中華民國微波學會) in 2019-2022. He served the IEEE EMC Society as a Distinguished Lecturer for the period 2008–2009. He was Co-Chair of the 2007 IEEE Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and Systems (EDAPS) workshop, General Chair of the 2015 Asia Pacific EMC Symposium (APEMC) , and Technical Program Chair of the 2010 and 2012 IEEE EDAPS Symposiums. He was the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on EMC (2015-2018), IEEE Transactions on CPMT (2016-2018), Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Electrical Engineering (2015-2020). He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on EMC since 2018. Dr. Wu is IEEE Fellow.

Wen Chiang Chen had worked in the Division for Emerging Wireless Applications Technology, ICL/ITRI from 2014 to 2020, as a technical deputy director. He was also as the project leader of MOEA “5G High Frequency Band Radio Access” project and “5G mmWave Ultra High Frequency Communication System Technology” project. Before joining ITRI, he had worked in Faraday Technology Co. ,and was also the project leader of Wireless LAN 802.11b/a/g and OFDM UWB wireless transceiver IC. His major specialties are in field of the wireless communication system and transceiver IC design of WLAN, Bluetooth and OFDM UWB.

Shin-Lin Shieh earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Communication Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan, in 2008. 

In 2002, he began his career at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), where he focused on developing baseband communication algorithms. 

He later joined Sunplus Technology Company Ltd. in 2005, where he contributed to designing baseband algorithms for EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA, and LTE. 

Since 2010, Prof. Shieh has been a faculty member in the Department of Communication Engineering at National Taipei University (NTPU). 

In August 2024, he returned to NTHU as a Professor, continuing to lead Taiwan's academic engagement in 3GPP, supported by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).

Charles Liu received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Communications Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. 

Since 2001, he has been with the Telecommunications Laboratories at Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., where he became a project manager in 2023. From 2023 to 2024, he served as the section chief of the Satellite Network Planning and Design Section at Chunghwa Telcom. 

His current research interests include satellite system design, spectrum planning, low-frequency broadcasting systems, digital transceiver design, and speech signal processing.