{"id":1737,"date":"2023-08-08T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=1737"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:06:38","slug":"itu-t-sg20-newcomers-session-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/meetings\/itu-t-sg20-newcomers-session-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"ITU-T SG20 Newcomers\u2019 session Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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< Back to the programme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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ITU-T SG20 Newcomers\u2019 session<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Time and date<\/strong>: 12 September 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Venue<\/strong>: Pan African Postal Union (PAPU) headquarters building, Arusha, Tanzania<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Marco Carugi<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>
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ITU-T SG20 Mentor<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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Technical areas of current involvement include Future Networks incl. IMT-2020\/5G and Network 2030, Internet of Things\/M2M, Big Data and ML\/AI. He has professional experience in R&D and technology strategy, and he has worked in different market roles in Solvay group, Orange Labs, Nortel Networks CTO division and ZTE R&D Technology Strategy. Marco is active in standardization since long time, leading standards specifications in different domains (NGN, IoT\/M2M, Big Data, IMT2020) and holding leadership positions. In the current 2017-2020 ITU-T study period, among other tasks, he is Champion of the Use Case Analysis and Requirements deliverable within the Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities and Communities, as well as Editor of the Use Cases and Requirements deliverable within the ITU-T Focus Group on Technologies for Network 2030. During 2018 he has acted as Rapporteur for the European Commission in the joint MSP\/DEI WG on Standardisation in support of Digitising European Industry and Editor of the Final Report of the WG (Dec 2018). He holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy), a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications (Evry, France) and a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France). He has also completed an Executive Program on Big Data Science at Ecole Centrale (Paris, France).<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Hyoung Jun Kim<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>
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Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 20: Internet of things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C) <\/h2>\n<\/div>
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Dr. Hyoung Jun Kim joined ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) in 1988, and he is currently in charge of the Intelligent Convergence Research Lab in ETRI as Senior Vice-President. He has had about 33 years research experiences in various divisions of ETRI including Info-Communications Technology Division, IT Strategy Research Division, Information & Telecommunications Technology Division, and Protocol Engineering Centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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He has been currently serving as Vice-chair of ITU-T SG20 and its co-Chair of WP1\/20 and the co-Convenor of JCA-IoT\/SC&C under SG20. Also he served as Vice-chair of SG13 and its Chair of WP3\/13. In addition, he also had been served as Rapporteur of Q25\/16 since 2004 as well as served as Vice-Chairman of FG on M2M Service Layers and Chairman of WP2 of the FG in ITU-T SG11 and Vice-Chairman of FG on Future Networks in ITU-T SG13. In addition to this, he is also now serving as Chair of ASTAP(Apt STAndardization Program) in APT.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Regarding his research and academic achievements, he has contributed more than 450 proposals for standards and published more than 150 papers in academic journals and conference as well as more than 100 patents and 20 official technologies transfers to the domestic companies. He was awarded the National President\u2019s citation in 2003 and 2009 respectively as well as many Certificates of Appreciation from int\u2019l standard-related organizations including ITU-T. In particular, he got his second National President\u2019s Award at the \u201cWorld Standards Day 2009 in Korea\u201d for honouring his efforts on international standardization.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1737","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1737\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}