Mohamed Abdel Monem is an enthusiastic 5G Researcher and Instructor in Egypt and the Middle East with 10 years of experience in Telecom field.

He delivered +3500 hours courses in Mobile Telecommunication field 2G,3G, 4G, VoLTE and 5G specifically, trained +30000 students both engineers and undergraduates around the world live and online.

He has his own professional technical website, YouTube channel, and Facebook technical page where he walks his followers through a full understanding of the upcoming 5G technology covering end-to-end research and news.

He delivered online training in different countries like USA, KSA, Bahrain, and Kuwait and was a speaker at many Egyptian universities like AUC, GUC, Cairo University, and Ain-Shams University covering the topics of 5G, AI, Big Data, and IoT.

Mohamed gave training to different Experts and engineers from many operators like AT&T, Vodafone India, Jawwal, Ericsson AB, Talcel, T-Mobile, Ooredoo, Huawei, Samsung, Evantaum, Motorola Solutions and Airtel.

In his career, Mohamed worked with several Vendors such as Nokia, Huawei, and Ericsson. Also, he worked with different Operators as Etisalat, Vodafone, and Telecom Egypt. Mohamed also works on graduation and research projects in the telecommunication field to enhance different mobile network performance

In 5G Track, Mohamed was invited to be Speaker in 5G MENA (the largest event in the MENA region to focus on advancing and commercializing 5G networks) in last April, 2019 to deliver a presentation about how operators should prepare their network to be 5G-Ready.

Recently Mohamed delivered two rounds of Mobile Technology Traning for IT Security Team in Ooredoo Oman. Now Mohamed is leading the Learning & Development Team in Rakuten Mobile in Japan.

Jawad leads the GSMA MENA team in the UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia responsible for GSMA work & activities in the MENA region, which spans 25 countries. He overseas the MENA advocacy activities and GSMA programs such as future networks and technology programs. As a team, our role also includes engaging our members (the mobile operators) in the strategic directions of the GSMA including strategies for 5G deployments, Internet of Things, Identity and AI.

The GSMA MENA team works with a wider team of mobile experts based in London and other locations within the GSMA is in charge of engaging all stakeholders in the region and advocacy work to insure the sustainable investments in mobile broadband networks. Our work includes promoting the mobile industry’s positive contributions to regional and national economic development at the highest levels, influencing the region’s major opinion leaders.

Jawad’s career experience in ICT and Media spans 26 years. Before joining the GSMA as head of MENA in Oct 2015, Jawad managed the Arab Advisors Group, which he had founded in 2001 and sold 55% of the company to the Arab Jordan Investment Bank in 2005. Before founding Arab Advisors Group, Jawad’s career experience included working as a senior telecommunications and technology consultant with the Yankee Group in Boston - USA. Between 1998 and 2000, Mr. Abbassi was a Senior Analyst with the communications research arm of the Economist Intelligence Unit in Boston.

Jawad is also a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars related to technology, communications and media in the Arab World.

Jawad has received his BSc in engineering from the American University in Cairo -Egypt in 1993 and received a scholarship for an MSc in information systems from the London School of Economics in 1998. He also completed executive education courses in finance for Senior Executives from Harvard Business School in July 2010 and Comparative Tax Policy in August 2018 from Harvard Kennedy School.

Abhishek is a Partner with EY’s Business Advisory Practice serving the Telecommunication, Media and Technology sector. An experienced TMT-Telecom Business Strategy & Management Consulting professional with over 15 years of experience, he served clients across 4 continents in countries across India, UAE, USA, UK, Germany, Finland, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and South East Asian nations of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Abhishek is lead for Digital in TMT domain in Africa, India and Middle East. His leadership experience spans across 5G Strategy covering the emerging areas of 5G Business Models, 5G Platform Strategy, 5G Use-case Design and Joint GTM Design. His other areas of expertise include Telco Strategy, Digital Strategy, Business Process-led Transformation, Digital Transformation, Business Planning, CapEx Planning & Budgeting, Cost Optimization and Pricing Strategy.

In the recent years, Abhishek has led multiple engagements on the subject of 5G & 5G Monetization, Platforms across leading markets including USA, Western Europe, Middle East, South East Asia and Oceania.

Some of Abhishek’s marquee projects on 5G Include:

• Led the 5G Digital Marketplace Platform strategy and business planning for a Global Leading Telecom OEM
• National 5G Smart Platform Monetization Program, and Platform Design for Leading Telco in Middle East (for Government-led Mandate)
• 5G Platform strategy for Leading Telco Group in Middle East

Saurabh brings with him over fifteen years of experience in strategic consulting and advisory to ICT service providers, and CxOs across private and public sector enterprises.

He is the leader for Frost & Sullivan’s ICT practice for the Middle East Region. His forte lies in strategy consulting around go-to-market, business models, business planning, M&A/JV opportunities, and IT sourcing advisory for CIOs. Recent advisory services engagements have mostly focused on cloud and datacenter strategies, undersea cables, business case development, 5G use cases, feasibility assessments, and contact centers.

Over the years, Saurabh has been frequently quoted in media on major market developments, and has been regularly featured in leading telecom magazines with his thought leadership pieces on 5G and its use cases.

Hazem joined Ogilvy in 2018 from a WPP sister agency, POSSIBLE, to lead the transformation of Ogilvy across the MENA region into a modern marketing, data driven digital hub. He is an accomplished digital professional with a passion for connecting the business world with technology and a deep understanding of driving Digital Transformation from a brand, comms, business and technology layer. He brings to the table the rare mix of being strategically and data driven on one hand, but also being hands-on in delivery and utilizes his technical background on the other hand to bring the best we have to offer to our clients.

Hazem is an avid sports fat and gym rat and with the FIFA World Cup 2022 being next door to his current base in Dubai, wants to make best use of the proximity to be part of the unique experience Qatar 2022 will bring to the world of football.

Prof. Maziar Nekovee is Head of Centre for Advanced Communications, Mobile Technology and IoT at University of Sussex and Dean of AI Institute at University of Sussex UK. He is Co-Chair of NetWorld Europe ETP, WG for Enabling Technologies and Verticals and an academic member of 5G Infrastructure Association.

His current research focuses on beyond5G/6G,Artificial Intelligence and5G for vertical sectors and digital/sustainable transformation, including in health, manufacturing, and energy sectors. Prior to joining U. Sussex in 2017, he was Head of Samsung's European research and collaboration in 5G, where he developed new radio 5G access technologies operating in millimetre-wave bands.. Prior to Samsung he was with BT, where he worked on a range of fixed and wireless technologies. Professor Nekovee is a sought-after speaker at high-level industry events, C-level meetings with UK and European operators, policy makers and international conferences. He is an adviser to tech-funds and mobile industry on telecom technologies and investment. He had has a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics (from University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and a MEng in electrical and electronic engineering (cum laude) (from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

In 2002 I Joined AD Police and started working as Network technician, at the same time, my passion for educational qualifications was under my target. Thus, I worked hard in parallel and earned my HD (Higher Diploma) degree at CNET from the HCT AlAin, as well as my Bachelor degree in computer Networking. In 2009, I moved to New York and applied for SU (Syracuse University) where I completed my Master Degree in Telecommunication Network Management. In 2018 I earned my higher degree in PHD Project Management from the British University in Dubai.

I attended more than 100+ events, workshops and conferences internally and externally and most of them were about Network Security and telecommunication as well as cyber security. However, my responsibility at AD police GHQ as telecom section manager make me always busy, I do have other role as a telecom committee manager for most of the events around AD city such as , Grand Prix Formula One event.

Founder of “Digital Barza“ which has more than 100+ members to accelerate the process of sharing and exchanging the knowledge.

"The train doesn't stop at one station; it keeps on going, so work hard to achieve your targets one after another".

A Corporate/Commercial In-house Lawyer with an LLM from University of Nottingham and 10 years’ experience of working for prestigious Saudi organisations including Emaar, The Saudi Stock Exchange and Saudi Telecom Company.

An excellent communicator, both in English and Arabic, I have led training and awareness across functions, particularly to ensure compliance throughout the organisation. Well-versed in a range of legal matters, having worked across Real Estate, Telecoms and Financial Services industries, I advise on; Commercial Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Compliance, Regulations and IT/Technology Law.

Paul became the CEO of the Scotland 5G Centre – the national centre for the acceleration of the deployment and adoption of 5G in Scotland – in May 2020 and has quickly made his mark on the 5G ecosystem. He is passionate about mobile telecommunications and delivering socio-economic benefit to a broad range of stakeholders to enable digital connectivity.

Previously, as founder of his consultancy practice, Paul advised both private and public-sector organisations on major strategic initiatives, taking advantage of the latest wireless capabilities to develop coherent plans to deliver organisational goals and increased business value.

Paul began his career on the first graduate training scheme run by Orange, now EE, and rose through the company to become head of strategic development. There, he played a key role in establishing the UK’s first deployments of 4G services in rural communities.

Mohamed Aziz Taga is product manager for 5G Broadcast/Multicast & Transmitter Systems with Rohde & Schwarz, Munich, Germany. Aziz leads the 5G Broadcast/Multicast business development activities and associated projects worldwide. After obtaining his Master degree in Computer Networking and Telecommunications, Taga became a Mobile Core Network Specialist within Nokia Networks with an extensive Cellular PDN/EPS/IMS/SDM technical background before joining Rohde & Schwarz in 2018.

Founder & President, IPv6 FORUM ( www.ipv6forum.org ); Member of 3GPP PCG (Board) (www.3gpp.org ); IEEE 5G Future networks Initiative Steering Committee Membe; IEEE IoT Initiative Steering Committee Member; Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society - ISOC ( www.isoc.org ); IPv6 Ready & Enabled Logos Program Board www.ipv6ready.org ); Chair, ETSI IPv6 Industry Specification Group https://portal.etsi.org/tb.aspx?tbid=827&SubTB=827 ; Member of Future Internet Forum EU Member States (representing Luxembourg).

Prof. D. Janakiram is presently the Director of Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), an Institute established by the Reserve Bank of India. A Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, he was awarded the Boyscast Fellowship in 1997, the IBM Faculty Award in 2007 and Yahoo Faculty Grant in 2009.

He has steered many nationally-important research projects with success. He was the principal investigator for a number of projects including MobiTel: Mobile

Telemedicine for rural India (Indo-German Project), Peer-to-peer Concept Search (Indo-Italian collaborative project), Service Oriented Architecture for Linux Kernel (DIT) and Cloud Bursting Architecture for Document Workflow (Xerox) and has incubated two companies in the cloud computing space.

Prior to joining IDRBT, he was a Senior Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in the USA.

His current research focus is on building large scale distributed systems and challenges in big data processing, along with cloud computing and blockchain technologies

Colin Miranda is President and CEO of CyberMAK Information Systems. CyberMAK is a Systems Integrator headquartered in Kuwait and the US and is operational in 16 countries around the globe. CyberMAK has engagements with most Telecoms in the Middle East, several in Africa and in the US too. CyberMAK is a TM Forum Member, is Automation Anywhere’s RPA Telcom Partner of the year 2021, is an Elite Technology Innovations partner of BMC Software and was awarded BMC Digital Services Operations Management (DSOM) North America Partner of the year 2021. Colin himself is certified by TM Forum, is an ITIL Expert, possesses several technology accreditations including an MBA, and has assisted several organization around the world accelerate and achieve their digital strategies.

Sławomir Kukliński (Orange Polska and Warsaw University of Technology) received his PhD with honours from Warsaw University of Technology in 1994, and since then, he is Assistant Professor there. He teaches mobile and wireless systems security. From 2003 he has also been working for Orange Polska as Research Expert focused on mobile and wireless systems, focusing on self-managed and cognitive solutions. At present, he works intensively on network slicing. As a principal investigator, he led many national research projects and was involved in many international projects, including European projects FP6 MIDAS, FP7 EFIPSANS, FP7 4WARD, FP7 ProSense, Celtic COMMUNE, EU-Japanese project 5G!Pagoda and coordinated the Polish-Luxembourgish project on Cognitive SDN (CoSDN). He is currently involved in the EU-China project 5G-Drive and EU projects concerning 5G -5G!Drones and MonB5G. He was engaged in SDN standardization in ITU-T (Study Group 13) and IETF activities on network slicing. Slawomir Kukliński has published more than 80 conferences and journal papers, served as a TPC member of many conferences, and gave several invited keynotes.

Dimitra Simeonidou FREng, FIEEE, Royal Society Wolfson Scholar

Dimitra is a Full Professor at the University of Bristol, the Co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute and the Director of Smart Internet Lab. Her research is focusing in the fields of high performance networks, programmable networks, wireless-optical convergence, 5G/B5G and smart city infrastructures. She is increasingly working with Social Sciences on topics of digital transformation for society and businesses. Dimitra has been the Technical Architect and the CTO of the smart city project Bristol Is Open. She is currently leading the Bristol City/Region 5G urban pilots.

She is the author and co-author of over 600 publications, numerous patents and several major contributions to standards.

She has been co-founder of two spin-out companies, the latest being the University of Bristol VC funded spin-out Zeetta Networks, http://www.zeetta.com , delivering SDN solutions for enterprise and emergency networks.

Dr. Nizar Zorba is a Professor at the Electrical Engineering department at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. He has authored five international patents, 2 books and co-authored over 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. Dr. Zorba received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from JUST University, Jordan, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing for communications from UPC Barcelona, Spain, in 2007. He is associate/guest editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE IoT Magazine, IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Network. He is symposium chair at IEEE ICC 2019, IEEE VTC 2020, and IEEE Globecom 2021. And workshop chair at IEEE ICC 2021 and IWCMC 2020. Currently, he is the chair of the IEEE ComSoc Communication Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (TC CSIM).

Chih-Lin I is CMCC Chief Scientist of Wireless Technologies. She received Ph.D. EE from Stanford University. She has won 2005 IEEE ComSoc Stephen Rice Prize, 2018 IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 7th IEEE Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, and 2015 IEEE Industrial Innovation Award for Leadership and Innovation in Next-Generation Cellular Wireless Networks.

She is the Chair of O-RAN Technical Steering Committee and an O-RAN Executive Committee Member, the Chair of FuTURE 5G/6G SIG, the Chair of WAIA (Wireless AI Alliance) Executive Committee, an Executive Board Member of GreenTouch, a Network Operator Council Founding Member of ETSI NFV, a Steering Board Member and Vice Chair of WWRF, a Steering Committee member and the Publication Chair of IEEE 5G and Future Networks Initiatives, the Founding Chair of IEEE WCNC Steering Committee, the Director of IEEE ComSoc Meetings and Conferences Board, a Senior Editor of IEEE Trans. Green Comm. & Networking, a member of IEEE ComSoc SDB, SPC, and CSCN-SC, and a Scientific Advisory Board Member of Singapore NRF.

She has published over 200 papers in scientific journals, book chapters and conferences and holds over 100 patents. She is co-author of the book “Green and Software-defined Wireless Networks -- From Theory to Practice” and has also Co-edited two books: “Ultra-dense Networks -- Principles and Applications” and “5G Networks -- Fundamental Requirements, Enabling Technologies, and Operations Management”. She is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of WWRF. Her current research interests center around ICDT Deep Convergence: “From Green & Soft to Open & Smart”.

Fotis Karonis was until recently the BT CTIO, Enterprise & the 5G Executive Lead at BT Group, driving the delivery of the 5G programme, working with customers for Industry 5G-driven digital transformation in sectors as intelligent manufacturing, healthcare, transport& logistics, etc. A post he took up in May 2019 after driving the EE / BT launch of first 5G network in the UK and amongst first globally.

As EE CTO, he led EE the UK’s largest Mobile operator to be the first to launch 4G in the UK in 2012 and best Network since. Was awarded Mobile Europe’s CTO of the Year in 2015.

Franck Greverie has 25 years of global experience in the IT/Digital services industry with a strong track record of driving top line profitable growth businesses, executing business turnarounds and integrating successfully acquisitions.

Franck Greverie, as Capgemini Group Chief Portfolio Officer, , sets and evolves the strategic direction for the company for its portfolio of offerings, while nurturing a strong leadership team to drive its execution.

He oversees the definition, packaging and Business Development of NEW offerings such as Cloud, Customer Experience, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Manufacturing and Digital Core.

He is also leading the set-up of Center Of Excellence operational structures to develop business on the NEW worldwide.

In this role, he works closely with the company’s Strategic Business Units and Global Business Lines to ensure that Capgemini is well-positioned for continued growth in each of these key markets.

He is also a member of Capgemini’s Group Executive Committee.

Prior to assuming his current role, Franck was the Group Leader of Capgemini’s Cloud and Cybersecurity activities.

Fady is an expert in the Automation domain with over 12 years of industry vertical knowledge. His core strength is to consult, design and assist customers with their automation journey which includes front-end and back-end automation across disparate systems including legacy, cloud and big data, in order to generate operational efficiencies and maximizing ROI. He has in-depth diverse industry knowledge and works with strategic enterprise customers in Telecommunication, Banking, Government and Retail sectors. He is a founder-member of CyberMAK’s “Center of Excellence” automation practice.

Karim Yaici is a lead analyst for Analysys Mason's The Middle East and Africa regional research programme and a contributor to the IoT Platforms and Technology programme. His primary areas of specialisation include operators' digital strategies, new telecoms opportunities and challenges, consumer and enterprise trends in MEA and IoT platforms.

Abhishek Malhotra is the Head of Sales for Enterprise Network Services at Tech Mahindra. He leads the teams across EMEA ,APAC, Japan and India.

As a part of his responsibility at Tech Mahindra , Abhishek leads the 5G for Enterprise Business as well where he has been deeply engaged in executing Industry 4.0 use case adoptions for customers across the Middle East, Africa , Europe and APAC.

Abhishek’s responsibility spans across 5G & Network connectivity strategies, 5G enabled Use cases across Industry Verticals ,GTM strategies, Commercial Models besides ecosystem evolution and partner collaborations.

Abhishek’s articles were published by SAMENA Council in Jun 20 edition where he elaborated on the way Tech Mahindra continues to drive the adoption and evolution of the ecosystem.

With Over 20 Years of Experience , Abhishek comes with a very strong Background on Network Technology & Planning in his initial years at RCOM and Huawei with an equally Strong and Successful experience of leading Sales and Business development for Nokia, Oracle , Wipro and Tech Mahindra..