Tobias BROSZE (FIR) Tobias Brosze studied business engineering at Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany and Production Management at National Institute of Applied Science in Lyon (INSA de Lyon), France He earned professional experience in the development of a performance measurement system for the logistical performance of automotive suppliers for an OEM, Business Development Projects for an automotive supplier and several Consulting projects in the area of enterprise resource planning. Currently he is writing his PhD in the field of Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries and heading the EU-Practice of Research Institute for Operations Management at RWTH, Aachen (FIR) Alan BRYDEN (ISO) Secretary General Alan Bryden took up this post on 1 March 2003. In October 1999, he was appointed Director General of the French national standards body, AFNOR. Between 1981 and 1999, Alan Bryden was Director General of the French national testing laboratory (LNE). During that period, he founded Eurolab (European Federation of Measurement, Testing and Analytical Laboratories) and served as its first President from 1990 to 1996. He also chaired the Laboratories Committee of ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation). He began his career in metrology, notably with the USA's National Bureau of Standards (today the National Institute of Standards and Technology) and has a strong background in the fields of quality and the rational use of energy. He was Vice-President of the first Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade in GATT (now WTO). Wai CHEN (Telcordia Technologies) Dr. Wai Chen received his B.S.E.E. degree from Zhejiang University; M.S.E.E., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York. Currently, he is with Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies Inc. (formerly known as Bellcore) where he is a Chief Scientist and Director of Ubiquitous Networking and Services Research. Dr. Chen has been leading a vehicular communications research program in collaboration with a major automaker, since 2000, on automotive networking technologies for vehicle safety and information applications. He has also been the Principal Investigator of several government funded projects on advanced networking technologies research. Dr. Chen served as a Guest Editor for Special Issue on Inter Vehicular Communication (IVC) for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (2006), the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2004-2006), the Co-Chair for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Workshop (V2VCOM 2005 and V2VCOM 2006) co-located at ACM MobiQuitous, and the Co-Chair for the 1st IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet 2006) co-located with IEEE Globecom 2006. His current research interests are vehicle communications and ITS applications, and mobile wireless communications systems. Sergio COZZOLINO (Telecom Italia) Sergio Cozzolino got an Enginering degree in 1992 and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) in 1995. He has been in TELECOM ITALIA MOBILE since 1995 in charge of new services and development on end user products acquiring a significative experience on activities related to SIM and SMART Cards. From 1996 he is taking part to the standardisation activities (ETSI SMG9 and later SCP). As of 2002 he is GSM Association SCAG (Smart Card Application Group) Chairman and in 2003 he chaired the SIM Task Force within the GSMA. Responsable for TIM for the European Research Progrem SCARAB (1998-1999) and TASSC (1999-2001). Project Manager for applications based on SIM and Smart cards (FINECO Moving, Easybuy,UIC, … ).He was up to the end of 2002 director of the Smart Card and Services development Dept. In 2003 he was Director of the of the Technical Marketing and System Engineering Dept. for the Corporate Division. Since 2004 he is in charge of the Innovative ICT Mobile Service (Infomobility, M-payment,…) development Dept, as Vice President, dedicated to the Corporate Customers. Uwe DANIEL (Silicon Networks) CEO, Silicon Networks GmbH, Berlin Uwe Daniel is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Networks, a Berlin based company providing organisational development and value chain optimisation services to the Semiconductor and Automotive industries. From 2002-2006 he was responsible for research and development of Multimedia-, Telematics- and Surround Sensing systems as Director Corporate Reseach with BOSCH. Before that he was Marketing Director with SICAN, a fabless Semiconductor company, where he started 1991 as an electronic design engineer and was thereafter responsible to the EMC and semiconductor test lab. In 1990 he received his Masters Degree in Physics from Hannover University and 1998 an MBA from Ashridge Management College, UK. At this conference he will give his talk in his role as Chairman of the Working Group Communications of the EU eSafety Forum initiative. This group has the goal to prepare recommendations to the European Commission regarding standardization, spectrum issues and international harmonisation focused on car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication which will be delivered End 2007. Ulrich DIETZ (Vodafone GROUP R&D Germany) Ulrich Dietz works as a Senior Technology Manager for Vodafone Group R&D in Munich, where he is responsible for mobility and safety applications like eCall/eSafety and Location-Based Services. One of his research interests is the use of Nomadic Devices and pervasive communications for service integration. He studied communications engineering with an emphasis on mobile networks and network security. Past projects and research included SIM security and payment/ticketing solutions. He can be contacted at the Vodafone Group R&D Center in Munich, Chiemgaustr. 118, 81549 Munich, Germany; ulrich.dietz@vodafone.com Dr.-Ing. Stefan DOBLER (Teleca Systems GmbH) Director Multimedia Design Services and Products Stefan Dobler received his Dipl-Ing. on electrical engineering from the university of Erlangen in 1986 and his PhD in 1995 from the university of Kiel. Since 1987 he has held different positions in the area of mobile communications within Philips and Ericsson with a focus on multimedia related technologies. Since 2003 he is with Teleca Systems GmbH being technical and commercial responsible for the area of speech, audio, video related services and a product portfolio consisting of speech recognition, hands-free, codec realizations and speech synthesis for embedded devices. Brian DROESSLER (Continental) Manager, Strategy and New Business Development, Continental Automotive Systems Brian Droessler attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he earned his Bachelors Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in December 1992. Droessler later attended the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, where he earned his Masters in Business Administration in December 2002. Droessler has spent 14 years in the automotive electronics industry since joining Motorola’s Automotive Group in 1993. In July 2006, this group was acquired by Continental AG. Droessler joined the group as an Engineer in their Engineering Rotation Program with later promotions to Design Engineering Team Leader and Program Manager within the Powertrain Electronics and Telematics business units, respectively. His experience and accomplishments range from design and launch of a major Japanese automobile maker’s V6 engine controller to managing the design, cost, timing, and product launch of an automobile maker’s Telematics business. In 2001, Droessler assumed the position of Business Development leader in charge of Motorola’s GM/OnStar account. In 2005, Droessler was named Manager of Business Development and Strategy for Motorola Automotive’s Telematics Business Unit. His current responsibilities include conducting market research, strategy development, and new business development. Sven DYRBUSCH (Head acoustics GmbH) Sven Dyrbusch was born in 1977 in Herten, Germany. In 1998 he finished High School and after a year of civilian services he started to study electro technical engineering at the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum in 1999. With focus on telecommunication engineering he finished his studies at the Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen as Dipl. Ing. (FH) in January 2005. Since January 2005 he works for HEAD acoustics GmbH in the Telecom department. As a consultant engineer he is responsible for speech quality determination and optimisation projects for mobile phones, hands-free and VoIP systems. Knut EVENSEN (Q-Free ASA) Vice-President Knut Evensen received his M.Sc. qualifications in Telematics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. After his studies, he worked at the Norwegian Institute of Technology at the Institute of Telecommunications. In 1989 Knut Evensen became involved in the DRIVE programme, and has since been involved in several ITS communication projects such as SMART, ADEPT, GAUDI, CONCERT, INTERPORT, VASCO, TRON, LERTS, INITIATIVE, STAR, DELTA and EVI. He is now the Chief Architect of the CVIS project (Co-operative Vehicle-Intrastructure Systems), which is the largest ITS integrated project started by DG INFSO. www.cvisproject.org In 1991 Knut Evensen was selected for the transport expert team that did the original programming and partitioning of ITS standardisation, where his responsibility was the communications aspects. This lead up to the work programme of CEN TC278 RTTT, and later formed the basis for the agreement with ISO TC204 ITS. He is involved as editor and convenor in a number of standardisation committees and working groups in ETSI, CEN, ISO and IEEE. Of relevance to this context, he is the convenor of the CALM Architecture subgroup and project leader for the CALM M5 WLAN standard. www.calm.hu Michel FOND (Orange) Telematics and Automotive Orange Group ORANGE Michel FOND graduated as electrical engineer in 1968, obtained a Ph.D. in optimal control in 1971 and a master degree in business administration in 1984. From 1969 to 1971, he joined Schneider as•R&D engineer in automatic control. He joined the aerospace division of SAGEM in 1973, in charge of inertial navigation systems. Afterwards, he was appointed deputy director of the automotive division of SAGEM and deputy director of the telecommunication division. In 2002, he started a consulting activity. For the past few years, he is consultant next to the Orange Group for the development of telematics services in the ITS domain. Thomas FORM (Technical University Braunschweig) Prof. Dr.-Ing., Technical University Braunschweig, Germany Thomas Form is a professor for electronic vehicle systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany since 2005. Born 1959, he studied Electronic Engineering at the TU Braunschweig and joined the Institute for Communication Engineering for his Ph.D. in 1887. Since 1992 he worked in the Centre for Electromagnetic Compatibility of Volkswagen AG in various positions. From 2002 to 2005 he was responsible for the Telephone-/Telematic- and Antenna development of Volkswagen AG. Dr. Form is a member of VDI/VDE GMM and IEEE. Dr. Chanan GABAY (Motorola) Business Development Manager, N2CS, Motorola Dr. Gabay received his Ph.D. in Engineering, Applied Mechanics from the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. M.Sc. in Fracture Mechanics, from the Tel-Aviv University, IL and B.Sc. in Materials Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University, ISRAEL. Dr. Gabay has had extensive experience in business development and top management positions as EC projects coordinator (m-ToGuide, REACT, COM2REACT). Previously he was the worldwide application centers manager of Kulicke&Soffa -Dicing System, quality assurance director and head of material & failure analysis laboratories in the Israel Aviation Industries Jaques GARCIN (Orange) Telematics and automotive Director Jacques Garcin , born in february 51 is a lawyer and was appointed as general manager of “La Prevention Routière” . He joined the France Telecom group through Mappy, one of its subsidiary (Itineraries , real time traffic, and mapping). He joined Orange in 1999 in charge of car, travelling and tourism life services. Jacques Garcin, né en février 1951 est diplômé d'études supérieures de droit des affaires, droit des contrats et de la distribution, juriste conseil d'Entreprises. Il a exercé la profession d’avocat. En 1992 il s’est vu confier à Paris la direction nationale de La Prévention Routière , association travaillant en étroite collaboration avec la fédération Française des sociétés d’assurance ainsi que la Présidence de la société LPRI devenue Mappy lorsque entrée quelques temps plus tard dans la structure de France telecom. En 1999 il entre chez Orange France et prend en charge le développement du secteur lié à l’usage du mobile et de l’automobile. Il a pour mission de faire de l’opérateur (Orange S.A) un acteur et partenaire du monde de l’automobile. L’importance du voyage multimodal et du tourisme pour l’opérateur multimédia entre dans son champ d’application. Dr.-Ing Hans W. GIERLICH (Head Acoustics) Dr.-Ing. H. W. Gierlich started his professional career in 1983 at the Institute for Communication Engineering at RWTH, Aachen. In 1983 he received his diploma and from 1983 March to 1988 December he worked at the Institute for Communication Engineering at RWTH, Aachen. In 1988 February he received a Ph. D. in electrical engineering. In 1988 he was the leader of the acoustic research group at this institute. In 1989 he joined HEAD acoustics Inc. in Aachen as vice president. Since 1999 he is head of the HEAD acoustics telecom division. He is mainly involved in acoustics, measurement technology and speech transmission quality. He is active in ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP, IEEE, TIA, DKE and VDA and vice chair of the ETSI technical committee STQ. He is author of more than 150 scientific papers and holds five patents. He is member of ASA, IEEE, VDE and DEGA where he is chair of the “Speech Communication” committee. Marc GIRARDOT (Cisco Systems, Inc.) Managing Director Global Automotive Practice Leader Internet Business Solutions Group Marc Girardot has over 15 years of professional experience working for leading corporations across the globe (US, France, South America, UK ...). His expertise and experience are multi-disciplinary ranging from Sales and Finance to Strategy and Marketing. At Cisco, Marc is part the Internet Business Solutions Group and has worldwide responsibility over the Automobile industry. His role is to provide strategic insight and assistance to executives looking to capitalize on the transformative power of information technology. Marc oversees such accounts as Renault-Nissan, Toyota, BMW, PSA Peugeot-Citroën … helping these companies understand the full-reach of technology-enabled transformation and supporting their governance and change management efforts. Marc currently leads the Connected Car initiative for Cisco‘s business solutions group. Prior to his role at Cisco, Marc was Senior Associate at BoozlAllen & Hamilton’s Communications Media and Technology Group. Marc holds also extensive experience in the Oil & Gas world where he consulted for BP, Exxon and Elf. In 2000, his team was awarded the BoozlAllen Professional Excellence Award for their achievement at BP Amoco. Prior to his consulting years, Marc held a variety of management positions at industrial-gas leader, L’Air Liquide, in Sales, in Management Accounting, in Audit as well as in Strategy. Marc holds an MBA from INSEAD, as well as Master’s Degree in Business and Economics from ESSEC. Denis GRIOT (Freescale Semiconductor) Senior Vice President and General Manager Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) Region Denis Griot is senior vice president and general manager, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region for Freescale Semiconductor, the global leader in embedded processing solutions. Denis joined Motorola's European semiconductor business in 1984 as director of operations for the Logic Analog and Intelligent Power Systems Division of Motorola in Europe. Before that he served as director of Analog Integrated Circuits European operations. In 1988, he was appointed vice president and director of wafer manufacturing. Most recently, he was instrumental in the creation and management of the Crolles2 Alliance, which represents an unprecedented business model for research and development in the semiconductor industry. In 1997, prior to his current role, Denis managed the only Motorola semiconductor division headquartered outside the United States. Based in Toulouse, France he led the Transportation Systems Group's Body Electronics and Occupant Safety division. This division ranks as the world's No. 1 producer of embedded solutions to the body electronics and occupant safety market. One year later, in 1998, he was appointed corporate vice president. Before joining Motorola, Denis spent 14 years with Philips Corporation. Denis holds five semiconductor patents and earned the Semiconductor International Award in 1984 for outstanding achievements in process engineering for semiconductor manufacturing. He earned master's degrees in solid-state physics and nuclear physics respectively from INSEA Lyon and INPG Grenoble, France. Mark GUINAN (ArrayComm) Mark is responsible for ArrayComm's activities in Europe, focusing on building relationships with operators and working with local equipment manufacturers and chipset providers to enable the successful adoption of ArrayComm technology throughout the region. With 15 years of successful experience in the mobile communication industry, Mark joined ArrayComm in October 2005 from Samsung Electronics where he spent the past 4 years developing WCDMA mobile handset solutions. Prior to Samsung, Mark worked at Nokia in various engineering and management positions developing 2G-PDC products and 3G-TDD handset platforms. Prior to Nokia he worked at Loughborough Sound Images (subsequently part of Motorola Inc.), working on various Digital Signal Processing development projects. Mark has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering and an MBA. He is a Member of both the IEEE and the IET. Krish INBARAJAN (OnStar) Krish Inbarajan works with OnStar in Detroit, USA. He is currently Manager, Strategy and Planning. Krish has played several roles at OnStar since 2002 and been part of the exponential growth story of OnStar. Prior to OnStar, he worked with a telecommunication software start-up, and before that he has worked with Deutsche Bank, Booz Allen & Hamilton and Reuters. He has work experience in Asia, Europe and North America. He has an MBA from London Business School, London and did his undergraduate education at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India. Dr. Shuji HIRAKAWA (IEC) Dr. Shuji Hirakawa received Ph.D. degree from University of Tokyo in 1978. As a Ph.D. student, he pioneered research on “coded modulation”. His work was published in a paper, co-authored with Professor Hideki Imai, in the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology (Vol. IT-23, pp.371-377, 1977.) and was selected as one of seventeen papers to receive IEEE Golden Jubilee Paper Award in 1998. Dr. Hirakawa joined Toshiba Corporation in 1978. In late 80’s and early 90’s, he was deeply involved in the development of MUSE encoder for HDTV transmission. From 1998, his group developed a new broadcasting satellite service (BSS) system for digital sound broadcasting and was adopted by Japanese industrial standardization body (ARIB) as a domestic standards. In ITU-R, he developed Recommendation BO.1130 System E for Japanese BSS (sound) in 1999 and 2000. Dr. Hirakawa is also a key member in many international standardization organizations. Currently, he is a vice-chairman of ITU-R WP 6M (Multimedia and Interactive broadcasting system) and the Secretary of IEC TC 100 (Audio, Video and Multimedia Systems and Equipment). This means that he has very unique positions that cover both transmission side and receiver side of digital broadcasting system. He is an IEEE Fellow, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and he is an Editorial Board Member for the Proceeding s of the IEEE since January 1st 2007. Dr.-Ing. Hans HUBSCHNIEDER (PTV) Speaker of the Board at PTV AG, Karlsruhe Responsible for the Business Field Mobility, PR/Marketing, Investor Relations, Production Born: on 26 of November 1951 Since 1999, Hans Hubschneider has been the speaker of the board at PTV AG and also the head of the business field Mobility. Together with his business partners he has built up the PTV Group which provides a wide range of consulting and software solutions for the entire transport and traffic sector. Before he was a member of the executive board of PTV GmbH for 17 years. He founded the company together with Dr.-Ing. Bernd-Michael Sahling in 1979. Hans Hubschneider studied mathematics and computer science at the university of Karlsruhe. He majored in the subjects theoretical computer science, operations research and traffic engineering. Stephen HOPE (France Telecom R&D UK Ltd) Stephen started his career in the Satellite Industry in 1975. He first became involved with terrestrial Mobile Communications in 1980 through working in the Military Communications Field and then moved to Cellular Communications, managing Manufacturing test of early 1G handsets. Since then he has been involved with system aspects of all the generations 2G 900 1800 2.5G 3G Cellular interspersed with Public Safety and Transport Private Mobile Radio System design. Stephen joined Orange in the UK in 1993 as Testbed Manager and in 1994 was additionally responsible for Orange participation in various UK DTI and European Commission Research Programmes. Then, within Orange Research and Innovation and now within the Marketing and Business Eco-Structure team in France Telecom R&D UK Ltd, Stephen has been responsible for International Relations with both Academic and Industrial Research entities not just in support of Orange but also other companies with the France Telecom Group. Stephen is Vice-Chairman of the Software Defined Radio Forum, and on the Board of Directors of the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in the UK and of innovITS – the Centre of Excellence in the UK for Intelligent Transport Systems. Juhani JÄÄSKELAINEN (DG Information Society and Media - European Commission) Mr. Juhani Jääskeläinen holds currently the position of Deputy Head of Unit, ICT for Transport, at the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society, in Brussels, Belgium. He has a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland. In his current position, he has a specific responsibility for the eSafety initiative and the research area Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems. Mr. Jääskeläinen joined the European Commission in 1996 as a Principal Scientific Officer, working in the management of the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development. In 1999 he was nominated Head of Sector, Mobility Services in the Directorate - General Information Society, and in 2005 to his current position Deputy Head of Unit. His responsibilities include the management and planning of Community research actions in Intelligent Transport Systems and application of space technologies for transport. Mr. Jääskeläinen has a leading role in the joint industry - public sector eSafety initiative, and he is the editor of the eSafety Working Group 2002 report as well as the author of the two Commission eSafety Communications in 2003 and 2005. He is currently the rapporteur of the eSafety Forum. Mr. Jääskeläinen has a thorough industrial experience, and he has worked in the management of Research and Development in various international companies that include Ericsson and Asea Brown Boweri. Before joining the Commission he worked for several years at the Finnish Technology Development Agency TEKES, first as a Research Manager for Space Technologies and later as the Director of Space Technologies. Dr. Gerhard KADEL (T-Systems Enterprise Services) Dr. Gerhard Kadel is Senior Expert, Project Manager and Head of the Department ”Mobile & Wireless Solutions” within T-Systems Enterprise Services, a division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Darmstadt, Germany, from where he received his Masters degree in 1984 and his PhD degree in 1989. Since 1989 he has worked in the area of radio communications research within the Deutsche Telekom Group. There, he has been involved in the measurement and analysis of wideband mobile radio channels. Furthermore, he carried out in-depth performance investigations for the digital mobile radio systems such as GSM, DECT and Wireless ATM by means of computer simulations. Since 1994 he heads the department ”Mobile & Wireless Solutions” at T-Systems. In this position he is responsible for the acquisition, coordination, management and transfer of R&D projects in the area of broadband & wireless access and in the area of planning tools for mobile and broadcasting networks. His expertise is related to broadband mobile and wireless networks, wireless systems integration, fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) and connectivity & infotainment solutions for public and private vehicles. Siglinde KAISER (DIN) Senior Technical Officer, DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. Siglinde Kaiser studied architectural planning and solar architecture in Germany and the US; she also took a post-graduate training program for development cooperation. After working in management of urban development planning in Brazil for the German government, she taught architectural design and urban planning on the graduate level at the Technical University Berlin. She enjoyed a dip into real-life construction work as an architect before joining DIN and its Building and Civil Engineering Standards Committee in 1996. In 2001 she moved on to R&D Phase Standardization at DIN, where she has covered projects in e-learning and e-commerce, and for the last 2.5 years MYCAREVENT (MobilitY and CollAboRative work in European Vehicle Emergency NeTworks – www.mycarevent.com) an Integrated Project co-funded by the European Commission. Fotis KARAMITSOS (European Commission - Directorate-General for Energy and Transport) Director Mr Karamitsos is Director of the Logistics, Innovation, Co-modality and Maritime Transport Directorate (G) within the Directorate General Energy and Transport (DG TREN) of the European Commission. The Directorate is responsible for the development and follow-up of the implementation of Maritime transport policy of the European Union covering Inland Waterways, but also ITS and GALILEO, Logistics, Coordination of Energy and Transport RTD. It also covers policy on Urban Transport and Clean Vehicles. He is with the European Commission for the last 25 years, where he has worked on various Transport issues, as well on Telecommunications, Information society, Environment and Tourism. Before joining the Commission he worked with the World Health Organisation's programme on Greater Athens Pollution Control and on the Greek Academic and Public Sectors. He holds degrees in Civil Engineering and Transportation planning from the Technical University of Athens and from Leeds University.   Hironao KAWASHIMA (Keio University) ISO Technical Committee 204 HIRONAO KAWASHIMA is a professor at the Center for Open Systems Management, Faculty of Science & Technology, Keio University. From 1974 to 1979, he participated in the CACS (Comprehensive Automobile traffic Control Systems) project of MITI to design the software of data processing and to evaluate the performances of route guidance system. Since then he has been involved in many research committees of public-private joint projects related to ITS in Japan. Since 1998, he is an active member of committees related to the national project called “Smartway” and involved in the ASV (Advanced Safety Vehicle) project since 1996. From 1989 to 1992, he was the chairman of the Scientific Expert Group of OECD RTR called “Advanced logistics and communications in road freight transport operations” and the co-chairman of the group called “Integrated advanced logistics and innovations in freight transport” from 1993 to 1995 and the co-chairman of the group called “Trilateral Logistics Projects” from 1996 to 2000. He is the chairman of Japanese Committee of ISO/TC204 “Intelligent Transport Systems” from 1993 and Vice Chair of ISO/ TC204 from 2006.   Walter KELLERMANN (University Erlangen-Nürnberg) Walter Kellermann is a professor for communications at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (univ.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1983, and the Dr.-Ing. degree ('with distinction') from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, in 1988. From 1989 to 1990, he was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. In 1990, he joined Philips Kommunikations Industrie, Nuremberg, Germany. From 1993 to 1999 he was a professor at the Fachhochschule Regensburg before he joined the University Erlangen-Nuremberg as a professor and head of the audio research laboratory in 1999 (for more see www.LNT.de/audio). In 1999 he co-founded the consulting firm DSP Solutions. Dr. Kellermann authored or co-authored eight book chapters and more than 100 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings. He served as a guest editor to various journals, as an associate editor and guest editor to IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing from 2000 to 2004, and presently serves as associate editor to the EURASIP Journals on Signal Processing and on Applied Signal Processing. He was the general chair of the 5th International Workshop on Microphone Arrays in 2003 and the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics in 2005. For 2007 and 2008 he is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. His current research interests include speech signal processing, array signal processing, adaptive filtering, and its applications to acoustic human/machine interfaces. Frank KETTLER (Head acoustics GmbH) F. Kettler, born in 1961 in Solingen, Germany, began his studies of electrotechnique at the RWTH Aachen in 1981 after finishing high school in 1980. He joint HEAD acoustics GmbH at the end of his studies in January, 1992. His work concentrates on the analysis of speech transmission quality, both for telecommunication networks and terminal equipment. The main topics are subjective and objective testing methods for speech controlled devices in conjunction with their correlation. He published nearly 100 papers at national and international conferences in the field subjective and objective test method. Paul KOMPFNER (ERTICO) Paul Kompfner is Head of Development at ERTICO - ITS Europe, with over 14 years’ experience in co-ordination and management of European projects. He is currently coordinator of the CVIS (Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Systems) integrated project that began in February 2006 within the “IST for eSafety” priority of the EU Sixth Framework Programme. He is also manager of the European Nomadic Device Forum and joint Chair of the eSafety Forum Working Group on “ICT for Clean & Efficient Mobility”. An astrophysicist by training, he has led ERTICO projects on telematics system evaluation, traffic and travel information, road applications of satellite navigation, ITS planning for cities, ITS for public transport and driver safety & HMI. Before joining ERTICO Mr Kompfner was Principal Scientific Officer at the UK Transport Research Laboratory, where he led a section carrying out studies of accident risk, advanced driver training, company car use and transport systems operation. Andrew L. KUN (University of New Hampshire) Andrew L. Kun received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1997. For his dissertation Dr. Kun implemented a new control algorithm for a two-legged walking robot. After receiving his doctorate Dr. Kun spent two years in industry working as development engineer at Falmouth Scientific, Inc., an oceanographic instrumentation manufacturer. Dr. Kun joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Hampshire in 1999, where he currently holds the rank of associate professor. He is the principal investigator of the Project54 effort which involves integrating embedded mobile computing equipment and wireless networking into police cruisers. Dr. Kun’s primary research interest is in speech user interface design for mobile computing. He is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi. Colin LANGTRY (ITU-R) Colin Langtry is the Counsellor for Radiocommunication Study Group 8 in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). In this capacity, he provides secretariat and technical support for activities within the ITU addressing mobile, radiodetermination, amateur and related satellite services. His prior experience includes responsibility for the Text Editing and Publications Division of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau and, before joining the ITU, planning for the introduction of radiocommunication services in the Australian government Spectrum Management Agency. Dr. George LAPIOTIS (Telcordia Technologies) Dr. George Lapiotis has been with Telcordia’s Applied Research since 1998, where he currently holds a Senior Research Scientist position. Previously, he was a Senior Research Assistant with Polytechnic University's NY State Center for Advanced Technologies in Telecommunications (CATT), where he had joined from 1993 until 1998. His current research is on next generation service architectures and management, with focus on Vehicular Telematics networks and services. Dr. Lapiotis has been a technical lead of research and development tasks within Telcordia’s team in the US Department of Transportation (DoT) Vehicle Integrated Infrastructure (VII) Coalition and EU’s Global System for Telematics (GST) R&D projects. His research interests also include network and service management, with emphasis on network architecture and quality of service, policy-based network management, and security management. He obtained a Diploma (1993) in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical U. Of Athens (NTUA) and an M.S. and Ph.D. (1999) from the Polytechnic U. of Brooklyn, NY, in Electrical Engineering with a Most Outstanding Thesis Award. Dr. Massimiliano LENARDI (HITACHI Europe - CTG) Senior Research Engineer Massimiliano received his Master degree in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the Trieste University (Italy) in collaboration with EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland). He was a graduate student in 1997/1998 of the Doctoral School in Communication Systems at the Communication Systems Department of EPFL. In 2002 Massimiliano received his PhD degree from Mobile Communications Department of EURECOM Institute (Sophia Antipolis, France) in the context of UMTS/WCDMA standard development at the physical OSI layer. Currently working as Senior Research Engineer at the HITACHI Europe Laboratory in Sophia Antipolis, Massimiliano's research interests include wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), at all OSI layers; in particular, most effort is given to Vehicular MANETs (or VANETs) R&D. HITACHI is Associate Member of the European Car-to-Car Communications Consortium (C2C-CC). Pierre MALATERRE (PSA Peugeot Citroën) Pierre Malaterre is Vehicle System Electronic Manager at PSA Peugeot Citroen. He has been an Electronics Engineer (ESME) since 1967 and received his Doctorate in Electrochemistry in 1970. He began his career in the Digital Telecommunications business as a Technical Manager. Following that, he worked in Automotive Electronics for an equipment manufacturer. Before joining PSA, he worked in a weapons company. For the last 14 years, he has worked in PSA participating in the company's electronics strategy. He is member, at steering committee level, of several groups: ISO TC22/SC3, TC204, AMIC, OSEK, MIT LEES...." Mitsuji MATSUMOTO (NTT DoCoMo) Since joining NTT Labs in 1970, Dr. Matsumoto has been engaged in Research in the field of protocol architecture and terminal design for Facsimile, Telematics and Multimedia systems. He joined Waseda University as a Professor. In particular, the GITI Research Institute in 1998 and the Graduate school of GITS in 2000. He started CCITT activities from 1979 and worked in SGXIV, SG8, SG1 and SG16. In 2000-2004 study period, he became a Vice Chairman of ITU-T SG16 (Multimedia). His current research is based on the Engineering Design for the Next Generation Wireless communication using Visible Light, Infrared and Radio wave. He is interesting in the research on the design of Network Architecture, high throughput Protocol, RFID sensor system, Location Information Technology, Next Generation Mobile IP, Emergency Call system, Early warning, Car-Telematics/ITS and distant Learning. He is a member of IEEE and IEICE, IPSJ, IIEEJ in Japan. He has received the ITU Association Awards from Nihon-ITU Association in Japan. Scott McCORMICK (Connected Vehicle Trade Association) President Scott has degrees in Mathematics, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, minors in Theoretical Physics, Business Law and Psychology, a Masters in Business Administration and Doctoral Research in Artificial Intelligence. Prior to being the President of the Connected Vehicle Trade Association, Scott was the Executive Director of the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration, a nonprofit research organization of the world’s largest automakers. Scott was formerly General Electric’s Factory with a Future Program Manager, for both Aircraft Engine and Transportation Systems Divisions, implementing over $1 billion in advanced automation and systems. He has authored numerous publications and books, and holds several patents in machine automation, computer systems, and forensic analysis. Scott is a former Advisor to the United States National Science Foundation and the Industrial Sector Representative to the US Federal Laboratories Technology Transfer Consortium. He is the founder and Chairman of the International Automotive Standards Organizations Summit, and a member of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU-T) Advisory Panel on Communication Standards to Vehicles (APSC). Scott presently serves as the Industry Representative to the Transportation Operations Partners Forum for Freight Congestion and Logistics Management, as a Member of the Steering Committee to the Joint Commercial/Military Intelligent Transportation Systems Summit, and as Industry Representative for CVTA to the US ITS Congressional Caucus Industry Advisory Board. Steve MILLSTEIN (ATX Group) Steve Millstein is President and Chief Executive Officer of ATX Group. ATX is the world’s largest independent telematics service provider and is based in Dallas-Fort Worth in the United States and Düsseldorf, Germany. As one of the early pioneers of the telematics industry, Millstein steered telematics from simple, voice-based e-call, breakdown and navigation services for consumers into a myriad of data-centric and automated and interactive voice services that focus on enhancing business and customer loyalty for automobile manufacturers and their affiliated dealerships. Before telematics, Millstein spent 12 years in telecommunications at AT&T and Southwestern Bell and several years in the home and commercial alarm monitoring business. Millstein holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas and a law degree from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Jean-Yves MONFORT (France Télécom) Chair, ITU-T SG 12 Currently Deputy Director of Standards Steering in France Telecom, and Senior Expert in France Telecom. During 5 years, he was Deputy Head of DIH/EQS Laboratory (Human Interactions/ Evaluation and acceptability of Services Quality), in charge of studies on subjective and objective assessment of media (speech, video, audio,…) and of Usability testing of new equipments and services. He was before Manager of Research and Development Units specialized in voice transmission quality, telephony terminals and Electroacoustics. Doctor Engineer of Applied Acoustics, Le Mans Electronics Engineer, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse Currently Chairman of ETSI TC STQ (since October 2004), and Vice Chair of APSC-Telemov. He is the author of a lot of technical specifications for France Telecom, France, of ETSI standards and ITU-T Recommendations, and of technical papers. He gave numbers of conference on speech quality, performance and QoS in seminars, workshops and congresses, including in close relationship with his activity of SG 12 Chairmanship (for APT, West Africa, ETSI, ITU-T workshops,…) General Secretary of French Acoustical Society during 5 years Professor of Electro-acoustics at the University (Sound and mage) during more than 10 years. Chevalier des Palmes Académiques. Yasuhisa NAKAMURA (NTT DoCoMo) Ph.D., Engineering Dr. Yasuhisa Nakamura is Executive Manager, Ubiquitous Service Department at NTT DoCoMo, Inc., where he is responsible for strategy and service development of NTT DoCoMo’s ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems)/ Car-Telematics businesses. He received the B.S degree and PH.D from the University of Tokyo in 1980 and 1991. He joined the NTT Electrical Communications Laboratories in 1980. He was an invited researcher at CNET, Lannion, France from 1986 to 1987. He also served as a technical director of NTT DoCoMo Brasil from 1999 to May 2001 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and a Senior Vice President of NTT DoCoMo USA and CTO, MMS, ATT Wireless Inc. from June 2001 to July 2003 at Seattle, WA, USA. He is a widely recognized specialist of the wireless telecommunications industry with over 20 years of experience. He is a chairman of 3G Telematics committee of ITS Info-Communications Forum, a board member of Internet ITS Consortium, a study member of ITS study group of IEICE. He has a wide range of domestic and international human network, especially NTT Group, NTT DoCoMo, Universities, Japanese Government, Car makers (Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Denso, etc) Telecom Venders (Sony, NEC, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Motorola, etc), International telecom carriers such as ATT Wireless, Telefonica group and Microsoft. He writes a monthly column on the Internet Magazine of Impress Publishing. He is a co-author of “Wireless Data Services – Technologies, Business Models and Global Markets”, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Tsuguo NOBE (NISSAN Motor Co. LTD) Tsuguo Nobe is a General Manager of NISSAN Motor Co. LTD., with total business responsibilities on product & business planning, development, marketing, and operation of Japanese Telematics Service called CARWINGS and also global expansion of Telematics, since April 2004. Before, he spent 17 years at NEC Corporation in charge of global personal computer (PC) business and implemented various PC-related solutions using Internet technologies to expand the usage of PC until the end of 2000. Between NEC and NISSAN, he held a position as CEO at one of the world largest online game providers for three years and literally cultivated online game market in Japan. He studied Applied Physics at Waseda Univ. and Business Administration & Information Resource Policy at graduate schools of Harvard. Michael NOBLETT (ISO TC 204 ITS) Michael Noblett is Vice President Global Automotive Initiatives for Connexis LLC, which is developing and promoting a new approach for wireless vehicle data communications to support advanced safety applications. Formerly as Vice President and General Manager of SEI Customer Care Services, a sister operation to Connexis, Michael was responsible for operational performance, business strategy and spearheaded a major international expansion. Mr. Noblett spent nearly 20 years at General Motors Corporation and OnStar. He held a range of increasingly responsible engineering and operations positions in vehicle electronics and design through the course of his career. As an expatriate manager in Europe, Michael led major international technology projects for GM. He also represented the global automobile industry as Program Manager of the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration. Mr. Noblett is a key participant in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) industry. He is Chair of ITS America‘s Automotive, Telecommunications, and Consumer Electronics Forum, Chair of ISO’s technical committee for ITS (TC204), and was recently appointed General Chair of the 2008 ITS World Congress in New York. He is also a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation, and a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Yoshiro OKAMOTO (Toyota) Director, Toyota-InfoTechnology Center He received the master degree in electronics from the University of Hokkaido (Japan) in 1978 and joined Toyota Motor Corporation. Since then he has been working in R&D area of vehicle entertainment and information systems such as premium audio, concealed active antenna, navigation, telematics, and so on. He was an original member of the VICS development activities in Japan and the first leader of Japanese DSRC research group in ARIB. From 1986 to 1991, he worked in Toyota Technical Center USA as a manager of the future research in electronics. From the beginning of the establishment of Toyota Info-Technology Center by Toyota in 2001, he was the general manager of R&D Division and currently he is the director of the company. His current focused areas are reliable communication technologies mainly for safety and fully cognitive network technologies for the future. Panagiotis PAPADIMITRATOS,  (EPFL, SEVECOM Project) Panagiotis Papadimitratos received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University Ithaca, NY, in 2005. Panos joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, as a postdoctoral fellow. He is currently a senior researcher with the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. His research is concerned primarily with networking, security, and wireless and mobile systems. Among other activities, he has been involved in the development of a security and privacy architecture for vehicular communications. His personal web page is http://people.epfl.ch/panos.papadimitratos and his email panos.papadimitratos@epfl.ch. Pierre PIVER,  (Wavecom) Pierre PIVER, 47, Group Vice-President, Automotive. He has held this position since October 2006. Previously, he was Head of Americas Region, and President of Wavecom, Inc., a position which he has held since September of 2004, moving from his previous position as Group VP for the Vertical Applications Business Unit. Mr. Piver joined Wavecom in January 2003 as Group VP for the region Europe, Middle East and Africa. He serves on the Executive Committee of Wavecom Group. Before joining Wavecom, Mr. Piver was the Managing Director of Infineon Technologies France, which he joined in September 1996 when it was the Semiconductor division of Siemens in France. Previously, Mr. Piver had occupied various positions in sales and in product marketing from 1985 to 1989 at RTC Compelec (Philips Semiconductors) in Caen (France) and, from 1989 to 1996, at Texas Instruments in Vélizy (France) and in Freising (Germany). Mr. Piver holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from ESME (Ecole Spéciale de Mécanique et d’Electricité—Paris) and a Master in Business Administration from EM Lyon. Wavecom Group directorships: Wavecom Northern Europe Ltd, (UK). Silvia POSCHEN (HEAD acoustics GmbH) Silvia Poschen, nee Völl, was born in 1979 in Simmerath, Germany. In 1998 she finished high school successfully. From 1998 until 2004 she studied Electrical Engineering and Information Theory at the RWTH Aachen with focus on communications engineering, acoustics and speech processing. In July 2004 she finished her studies as Dipl. Ing. Since September 2004 she works for HEAD acoustics GmbH in the Telecom department. As a consultant engineer she is responsible for speech quality determination and optimization projects for mobile phones, hands-free and VoIP systems. Furthermore she's active in international standardization bodies with focus on new test methodologies for and in noisy environments. Pierre-André PROBST (OFCOM/Switzerland) Chair, ITU-T SG 16 Mr Pierre-André Probst has been a major contributor to the ITU-T work, starting back in 1970s as a delegate, then WP Chair and Study Group Chairman in the 1993-1996 Study Period. Since 1997 he is the chair of SG 16 where he has helped flourish the multimedia work in ITU–from modems to videoconferencing and VoIP to audio and video coding–and has significantly contributed to the organization of many ITU-T workshops and related events. In parallel with his ITU-T participation, he led a very active professional life at Swisscom with a full range of responsibilities; starting as an Engineer, he retired a few years ago as Member of the Management Board and Executive Vice President for Corporate Operations. Now he acts as independent consultant in the area of ICT. James ROSENSTEIN (Ygomi LLC) Born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA in 1946 and educated at Harvard College and the Sorbonne, Mr. Rosenstein holds a Masters Degree in Languages and Social Science. He is fluent in four languages. Mr. Rosenstein’s career has taken him to posts in several European capitals. From 1985 to 1988, he served as Head of International Communications at Banque Nationale de Paris in Paris, and from 1989 to 1992, as Chief Press and Public Affairs Officer at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. In 1992, he was appointed Director of Communications at ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association based in Brussels. He joined Toyota Motor Marketing Europe in Brussels as Director of Corporate Communications in January 1998, and was promoted to Vice-President, External Affairs of Toyota Motor Europe in January 2001, in charge of Product, Corporate and Government Affairs. In December 2005, he became Senior Vice President, Marketing and External Affairs, Ygomi LLC. Mr. Rosenstein is based in Brussels. Tadao SAITO (Toyota) CTO, Toyota-InfoTechnology Center Dr. Tadao Saito received the Ph. D degree in electronics from the University of Tokyo in 1968. Since then he was a lecture, an associate professor and a professor of the University of Tokyo, where he is now a Professor Emeritus. Since June 2001, he is a professor of Chuo University and the Chief Scientist and CTO of Toyota InfoTechnology Center, where he studies future ubiquitous information services around automobile. He worked in variety of subjects related to digital communication and computer networks. His research includes variety of communication networks and its social applications such as ITS. He is also the chairman of Ubiquitous Networking Forum of Japan working for future vision of information society. He is also the chairman of Next Generation IP Network Promotion Forum of Japan. He wrote two books on electronic circuitry, four books on computer and two books on digital communication and multimedia. From 1998 to 2002 he was the chairman of Telecommunication Business Committee of the Telecommunication Council of Japanese government and contributed to regulatory policy of telecommunication business for broadband network deployment in Japan. He is also the Japanese representative of International Federation of Information Processing General Assembly and Technical Committee 6 (Communication System). He is a fellow of IEEE and IEICEJ. Reinhard SCHOLL (ITU-T) TSB Deputy Director Reinhard Scholl is Deputy to the Director of the ITU-T Secretariat (TSB) since September 2002. Previously he has been with Siemens in Munich, Germany and with ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois, USA. T. Russell SHIELDS (Ygomi LLC) T. Russell Shields has a more than 35 year track record of successfully building new companies that define new industries. He is a founder and board chair of Ygomi LLC, which develops and operates technology based companies. In 1969, Mr. Shields founded Shields Enterprises International (SEI), a successful 900 person IT services organization, now part of Ygomi. Mr. Shields was Chair until 2005. In 1980, he was a founder and COO of Cellular Business Systems, Inc. (CBSI) which was formed to provide billing and back office processing and services to the then newly emerging cellular telephone industry. CBSI is now part of Convergys (NYSE:CVG), a leading provider of outsourced billing services. In 1984, Mr. Shields was one of the founders of the organization that became the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA). In 1985, Mr. Shields was a founder of Navigation Technologies (now Navteq NYSE:NVT), the world’s leading provider of map databases and related software for advanced transportation applications. He served as Navteq’s CEO until 2000 and as a member of its Board of Directors until 2004. In 2002, he established Connexis, a technology company working in worldwide partnership with vehicle manufacturers and automotive electronics manufacturers to build a comprehensive, long-term solution to vehicle data communications. Mr. Shields is leading the development of a new approach for providing vehicle data connectivity, with a primary emphasis on advancing safety. In 2005, Ygomi acquired a majority interest in ArrayComm, Inc., the world leader in smart antenna technology, based in San Jose, CA. Mr. Shields was the first President of the Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (AMI C), which helped guide the vehicle manufacturing industry toward common specifications and interfaces for in vehicle multimedia products. He served two terms as Chair of the Communications Committee (A3A05) of the Transportation Research Board (National Research Council), and is Convenor of ISO TC204 WG16, which develops wide-area communications standards for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Mr. Shields was a founding officer and director of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America). He was a founder and is a director of the ITS World Congress and was General Chair of the 1996 ITS World Congress, the first to be held in the United States. Mr. Shields has been a member and chair of many committees of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and was recipient of the 1999 SAE Delco Electronics Intelligent Transportation Systems Award for distinguished service to the ITS industry. Mr. Shields holds a BA in History from Wichita State University and an MA and MBA from the University of Chicago. Martin SHURMANN (Delphi FUBA) Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineer, Forward Engineering Entertainment & Communications Europe Delphi / Fuba Automotive GmbH & Co. KG Apprenticeship: 1995 – 1998 PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) Braunschweig Apprenticeship as electronic technician for communications technologies Studies: 1998 – 2005 Technical University of Braunschweig Study of electrical engineering with focus on digital video and audio processing as well as digital video broadcasting (DVB) at the Institute for communications technology (IfN, Institut für Nachrichtentechnik) Since Dec. 2005 Delphi / Fuba Automotive GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany Hardware Engineer in the forward engineering team working on the integration and evaluation of new tuner and demodulator concepts for mobile reception of digital television and the integration of new wireless multimedia communication standards into existing receiver concepts for the automotive market Ton STEENMAN (Intel) Ton Steenman is vice president, Digital Enterprise Group, and general manager of the Infrastructure Processor Division (IPD). IPD is responsible for developing and marketing platform solutions for a wide variety of embedded and communications markets including wireless, broadband, switching, routing, point of sale, industrial, automotive, security, and digital imaging. Solutions part of IPD’s product portfolio include the Embedded Intel Architecture (Pentium® processor) family, IXP Network Processor family and other microprocessors, chipsets, and microcontrollers. IPD has worldwide operations and silicon and software design centers in locations such as Arizona, Massachusetts, Ireland, Malaysia, and India. Prior to his current assignment Ton Steenman was the General Manager of the Modular Communications Platform Division (MCPD) at Intel Corporation. MCPD developed board, software and systems products for communications market. During his 24 years at Intel, Ton Steenman has held a variety of General Management, Product Management, Marketing, and Sales positions. Ton Steenman grew up in the Netherlands and prior to joining Intel he was a software engineer for Siemens. Monica SUNDSTRÖM (ERTICO) Chairman Monica Sundström, born 1941, graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1962. She worked for the Ministry of Finance from 1963-78, as an Expert in the Swedish Parliament from 1978-82, as State Secretary of the Ministry for Transport and Communications from 1982-86, as CEO of the Traffic Administration of Stockholm City from 1986-89, as Director General of VTI (Road and Traffic Research Institute) from 1989-90 and as CEO of the Federation of Swedish County Councils (Landstingsförbundet) from 1991-2000. She was Chairman of the Swedish Road Administration (SRA) from 1995-2005 and is now a Senior Advisor to the SRA. She is currently Chairman of ERTICO, of Loka Brunn Hotel and of the Red Cross Hospital and Red Cross University College of Nursing. She is Vice Chairman of The Swedish Tourist Association (STF). She is also active in other boards including The Swedish Institute in Alexandria, The Premium Pension Administration (PPM), Autobalance Svenska AB and the Local Bank Stockholm South. K. Venkatesh PRASAD (Ford Motor Company) Technical & Group Leader Infotronics Research & Advanced Engineering K. Venkatesh Prasad is the founding leader of Ford Motor Company’s Infotronics Technologies Group and is responsible for the global activities of the Infotronics technology cluster --- one of twelve such clusters within the Ford Research and Advanced Engineering (R&AE) Organization. Prasad is responsible for the research, architecture, standards, applications development and vehicle system integration of a broad spectrum of electrical, electronics & embedded software technologies. In addition, for these areas, Prasad is responsible for personnel development, technical maturity management and shaping of organizational competency. The functional spread of his activity covers body electronics, climate control electronics, infotainment, instrumental panels and clusters and interior/exterior lighting. Prasad is on the advisory boards of several private-public-academic partnerships, involving Academia, the Government and Industry, including the Ford- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Strategic Alliance. From 1996 to 1998, he led research in the area of electronic imaging, pattern recognition and associated vehicle system integration to support active vehicle safety and security applications. Prasad joined Ford Motor Company in 1996. Between 1992 and 1996 Prasad was a Senior Research Scientist at the Ricoh California Research Center in Menlo Park, California, working in the area of visual information processing and secure network transactions of digital documents. He holds several U.S. patents for work in these areas. During the 1990-1992 period Prasad was a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers University, a visiting scientist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and a Caltech faculty-affiliate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena working on the design of the world's first telerobotic surface inspection systems to be applied to the International Space Station. Prasad received his B. E. degree in Electronics and Communication from REC (now NIT) Trichy --- University of Madras (1980), an MSEE (Electromagnetics & Antennas) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras (1984), an MSEE (with an emphasis in Computer Engineering) degree from Washington State University, Pullman (1987) and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick (1990). Prasad is a member of Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society), Eta Kappa Nu (the Electrical Engineering Honor Society), Tau Beta Pi (the Engineering Honor Society) and several other professional societies including the ACM & IEEE. Prasad was born in 1959, in Chennai (Madras), India now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife and daughter. François VERVIAL (Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics) Business Development Manager François Vervial is Business Development Manager for Diagnostic and Garage Equipments Activity at Johnson Controls. As part of this role, François has accountability for the Company’s next-generation products, innovation processes and relations with technical or business partners. Prior to this role, Francois was in charge of the development of a product line within the R&D Diagnostic Department. François has a 15 years experience in technical system integration as software developer, project director and skill centre manager within different IT consulting Companies among which Capgemini or CS. François Vervial has a master degree in Naval Hydrodynamic and Computational Fluid Dynamics Patrick VICINUS (Peiker) Dipl.-Ing, Peiker acustic GmbH & Co.KG Born in January 1977, studied Electrical Engineering at TU Darmstadt, Germany and received the Dipl.-Ing. in 2002. Working since 2002 on the field of audio signal processing for Peiker acustic with focus on algorithm development and tuning (e.g. noise reduction and echo cancellation) for automotive customers. Candidate for receiving a PhD within 2007. Dr. Walter WEIGEL (ETSI) Dr. Walter Weigel graduated from the Technical University in Munich, Germany, with the Master Degree in electrical engineering in 1984 and with the Ph. D. degree in 1990. From 1984 to 1991 he was assistant professor at the Institute of Data Processing at the Technical University in Munich, where he managed an European ESPRIT research-project with the University of Nancy, France, on speech recognition. Dr. Walter Weigel was until August 2006 the Head of “Standardization & Regulation” of the Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, and worked for Siemens since 1991 in several positions including Head of the Research&Concepts-department of the Mobile Networks business unit as well as for the semiconductor business unit (today Infineon) as Head of the business segment Video Processing. Dr. Weigel has been elected as the new General Director of ETSI and has this responsibility since September 2006. He has published about 50 technical papers and contributed to several books. Kenichi YANAGI (HAKUHODO Inc.) ACCOUNT DIRECTOR BUSINESS PRODUCING DIVISION A member of the Private business moderl section, Smartway Partner Council, which serves to actualize services on the DSRC-based telematics through government-private sector collaboration. Jun-ichi YOSHIO (IEC) Jun-ichi Yoshio studied Science and Technology at Nihon University, Japan then started to work in the development section of Pioneer Corporation in 1978. He developed many of CD related technologies including digital audio interface that was the former IEC 60958 standard and these technologies adopted to car CD system. In 1995, he joined SD Alliance (a former name of DVD Forum) as a member of DVD-Video specification development group, after that he joined DVD-Audio development group. To make specifications of audiovisual system including DVD, he also joined AES and 1394TA. Now he is active in IEC/TC100 as a member of AGS and plural Project’s Leader, and in AES as Standards Committee Vice Chair International. Yunpeng ZANG  RWTH Aachen University, Germany Yunpeng Zang received his B.Engr. and M.Sc. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. Since 2003, he works as a research assistant towards PhD degree in Chair of Communication Networks (ComNets), RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His current research interests are in wireless vehicular communications, wireless personal area networks and wireless mesh networks. He is a student member of IEEE since 2000. His email address is zyp@comnets.rwth-aachen.de. [ TOP ] 1 ITU: International Telecommunication Union (www.itu.int) 2 ISO: International Organization for Standardization (www.iso.org) 3 IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission (www.iec.ch) Supported by: