Speakers

Ms Silvana Apicella, Head of Strategic Network Evolution for South Europe, Ericsson

Silvana is Head of Strategic Network Evolution for South Europe, in Ericsson. Of her 30 years of professional experience, she spent 25 years in Mobile Telecom Industry covering Technology and Business Strategy, Marketing& Sales, System Architecture, Product Management, Testing and Field implementation of mobile network systems GSM, UMTS, LTE and now focusing on 5G. She is senior advisor for telco operators, with focus on new technology introduction, 5G, business opportunity evaluation and global market trends.
Other experiences include working in European aerospace industry and Italian telecom operator. She holds a Computer Science MSc from University of Salerno, Italy in 1988.

Mr Balazs Bertenyi, Nokia

Balazs Bertenyi received an M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications in 1998 at the Technical University of Budapest.  Balazs joined Nokia in 1998 and started to work on circuit switched mobile switching.
In 1999 he joined the research group on IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and soon started to work in 3GPP standardization on IMS architecture.  2000 – 2003 Representative of Nokia in 3GPP SA2 (Architecture Working Group), 2003 – 2007 Head of delegation for Nokia in 3GPP SA2, 2007 – 2011 Chairman of 3GPP SA2, 2011 – 2015 Chairman of 3GPP TSG-SA (Technical Specification Group – Services and System Aspects). In 2015 Balazs moved to the radio standardization group within Nokia to focus on 5G matters. He started attending TSG-RAN in 3GPP in 2015 covering 5G topics. In 2017 Balazs was elected as Chairman of TSG-RAN for a 2-year term with a potential to be re-elected for one additional term. Balazs has led various key projects for Nokia on Mobile Broadband  architecture and standards strategy.

Mr Akos Bona, Digital Champion of Hungary to the EU

Mr Akos Bona is one of the founders of the Digital Future Foundation. More than 15 years of management experience in the IT and Telecom sector as well as in Non-Profit Organizations. Besides being the Digital Champion of Hungary to the EU, also a Member of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition and a former State Secretary responsible for Info-and Telecommunications. Main priorities are fostering Digital Innovation, incubating local digital projects to EU level, creating and sharing local best practices and to constantly build the channels of Digital Education and Digital Literacy.

Mr Istvan Bozsoki, Head, Spectrum Management and Broadcasting Division, BDT, ITU

Mr Istvan Bozsoki joined the ITU in 1997 to work at the Space Department of the Radiocommunication Bureau and he was dealing with coordination and notification of satellite systems. In 2007 he moved to the Telecommunication Development Bureau and is responsible for
spectrum management and broadcasting issues. Since April 2013 he is Head of Spectrum Management and Broadcasting Division.
After obtaining his degree in telecommunication engineering at the Technical University Budapest in 1980 he spent 17 years at the Hungarian Communication Authority and he was dealing with technical and regulatory aspects of the spectrum management. Among others, he was responsible for the development of a computerized spectrum management system and for cross-border frequency
coordination. Later, he was appointed as director of international affairs. He has a master degree in radiocommunications and broadcasting.

Mr Dimitar Bukovalov, Head of Department for Communications, Ministry of Information Society and Aministration, FYR Macedonia

Responsible person and team leader of the working group for drafting laws:
o Law on Electronic Communications – alignment with EU 2003 regulatory (2005)
o Law on Broadcasting – alignment with Television Without Frontiers Directive  (2005)
o Law on on the legal protection of services based on, or consisting of, conditional access (2008)
o Law on establishing Public Enterprise Macedonian Broadcasting (2009)
o Law on audiovisual media services - alignment with the AVMS Directive (2013)
o Law on Electronic Communications – alignment with EU 2009 regulatory (2014)
o Law on Electronic Communications – alignment with new Law for interception of communications (2017)
Responsible person and team leader of the working group for drafting strategies, policies:
o Temporary strategy for Universal Service (2006)
o Policy paper for implementation of WiMax (2007)
o Policy paper for implementation of 3G (2007)
o National strategy for development of electronic communications and information technologies (2008)
o Policy paper for establishing National council for information society of the Republic of Macedonia (2008)
o National strategy for development of Next Generation Broadband  (2009)
o Policy paper for implementation of wireless economy (2009)
o Policy paper for establishing a national Macedonian public internet exchange point - MATRIX (2010)
o Policy paper for introduction of mobile TV services in the Republic of Macedonia (2010)
o Action plan for transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting in the Republic of Macedonia (2010)
o Policy paper for  establishing MKD-CIRT (2014)
o National broadband plan (2017) - ongoing
Responsible person and team leader of the Working group for National programme for harmonization of Macedonian legislation with the European (NPAA) in the sphere of electronic communications and media (2007-now)

 Mr Juan Castro, Broadcasting Engineer, BR, ITU

Mr Juan Castro,Telecommunication engineer with over 20 years of professional experience, Juan Castro holds the position of broadcasting engineer at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) where he is in charge of the Plan modifications of GE06 Regional Agreement. He also participates in regional coordination exercises in different parts of the world to facilitate the transition from analogue to digital television and the allocation of the Digital Dividend. He initiated his career in the Spanish administration holding positions dealing with the national broadcasting planning and the deployment of broadband cable television networks.

Mr Simon Csaba, software engineer, Hungary

Csaba Simon is a software engineer and he earned his PhD in 2012 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and currently works as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunication and Media Informatics of the same university. His research area includes the topics of Future Internet, 5G networks and cloud systems. He participated in numerous national and international projects in the fields of network resource management, mobility management and smart content delivery. He is the member of the International Relations Working Group of the 5G Coalition (5GK),  the association working towards the introduction of 5G technology in Hungary, and is a member of IEEE ComSoc Sister and related Societies board.

Mr Eric Delannoy​, Assistant Director at Deloitte Economic Advisory

Eric Delannoy is Assistant Director at Deloitte Economic Advisory. He has over ten years of work experience in telecommunications regulation and public policy. He leads economic and strategic projects for telecom operators, regulatory authorities and governmental bodies in Europe and Africa. His expertise covers fixed and mobile network regulation, cost modelling, design of national infrastructure plan and big data analysis. Eric is part of Deloitte Global Economic Advisory team, counting 200 economists worldwide.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Eric worked at the French Ministry of the Economy where led the economic studies of the French national superfast broadband plan. His responsibilities included the calculation of the total cost to achieve the objective of a complete superfast broadband coverage in 2022, the definition of financial aspects of the plan and the implementation of state-aid schemes.
At the French regulatory authority (ARCEP), he worked on several projects about economic regulation of broadband networks. He was also part of the NGA/NGN Expert Working Group of the BEREC. Eric holds a master in mobile telecommunications from King’s College London and is graduated from ESSEC Business School.

Mr Stefan Felder, Econoomist at RTR, Austria

Stefan Felder is an Economist at RTR. He received his doctoral degree in 2003 at Economics University of Vienna. He also holds a degree from Technical University of Vienna. Before he joined the Austrian Regulatory Authority RTR in 1998 he had been working for more than 10 years in the Telecommunication Industry and as an Assistant Professor at University Vienna. At RTR he is mainly responsible for spectrum related issues, competition economics and market analysis for mobile markets. He has been the project manager of several high stake spectrum auctions in Austria. For the time being he is in charge of preparing the upcoming 5G auctions in Austria. Stefan Felder has also been a drafting member in several BEREC working groups, currently in one that deals with 5G related regulatory issues.

Mr Kory Golob, Secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, Information Society Directorate.

Kory Golob is Secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, Information Society Directorate. In 1998, graduated in defence studies from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He was working in Ministry of Defence, Government of the Republic of Slovenia and National Assembly.

Dr Andras Hary, Automotive Proving Ground Zala Ltd, Hungary

Mr David Hemingway, Senior Distribution Manager, BBC and Vice-chairman of ITU-R Working Party 6A

David Hemingway is a Senior Distribution Manager at the BBC in London. He has worked on broadcast network planning for 15 years, and is now leading the BBC’s work on the use of 5G for broadcast distribution. He chairs the EBU’s Spectrum Management group and is a vice-chairman of ITU-R Working Party 6A. 

Mr Vadym Kaptur, Vice-Rector on Scientifik Work, O.S. Popov Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications, Ukraine

Scientific degree: Ph.D. in telecommunications (2007)
Academic title: Senior Researcher (2011)
Knowledge and experience: More than 20 years of work experience in ICT. International expert in the fields related to broadband networks, cybersecurity and ICT in general. Coordinator of implementation of the Regional Initiative Creating a child online protection centre for the CIS region (2015-2017).
Active, contributing ITU participant since 2008: Head of Ukrainian Centres of Excellence (CoE) Node (since 2011) and CoE of A.S. Popov ONAT (since 2009); Vice-Chairman of ITU Council Working Group on Child online protection (since 2017); Vice-Chairman of ITU-D SG 1 (since2014); Co-Rapporteur of Question 1/1 ITU-D SG1 (since 2014). Author of more than 200 scientific publications. Author and developer of more than 55 software
products, including “The multimedia distance-learning course on the Safe Use of Internet Resources” – https://onlinesafety.info; Software for choosing optimal technical solution for child online protection (content filtering) – https://contentfiltering.info; System for Diagnostics and propensity to channels of perception – http://perception.guide; Automated system of choosing the most promising solution for building broadband access networks - https://broadbandcalculator.online

Mr Dominik Kopera, Acting Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Department, Ministry of Digital Affairs of the Republic of Poland

From the beginning of his professional career he has been associated with European funds. He worked at the Audit Institution and the Managing Authority of the Operational Program Development of Eastern Poland 2007-2013. In 2010-2013, he was responsible for the Broadband Network of Eastern Poland project and issues related to the development of the information society at the Ministry of Regional Development. He participated in creating the Operational Program Digital Poland for the years 2014-2020. From 2013, he is an employee of the Telecommunications Department of the Ministry of Digital Affairs. He is resposible for creating a friendly legal environment for telecommunications investments, the implementation of tasks under priority axis I under the Operational Program Digital Poland 2014-2020 and the Nationwide Education Network. Since February 2017, he has been the Acting Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Department.

Mr Fotjon Kosta, Expert on Post & Telecommunicaion Programme Development Department & Coordinator Albania IGF

Mr Fotjon Kosta graduated for Computer Science in the State University of New York (SUNY), Tirana He holds a Bachelor of Science degree. He has a long experience in ICT field contributing in the public administration in Albania. Currently he is working as expert of telecommunications in the Directorate of Policies and Strategy Development of Post and telecommunication in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy in Albania. He is engaged and contributor in IGF in National, Regional, European and Global level, in internet policy development with ICANN and in RIPE NCC.

Mr Thomas Krenz, Rohde & Schwarz

Born 1963
Study of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bonn
Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching
Freelance Software Consultant
Head of Support of System Integration, BetaResearch, Munich
Product Manager Spectrum Monitoring Systems, Rohde & Schwarz, Munich
Contact: Thomas.Krenz@rohde-schwarz.com

Mr Peter Madsen, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate, Denmark Peter Madsen

Peter Madsen is a Senior Advisor at the Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate. He has worked with telecom policy issues in the Danish government for a number of years. Peter Madsen has a degree in political science from the University of Copenhagen.

Mr Pavel Mamchenkov, ITU Expert


More than 25 years of professional career are dedicated to regulation, development, operation and researches of the latest advances in telecommunication with the emphasis on radiocommunications. The area of expertise is spectrum management in government and private sector including socio-economic trends in telecommunications on global, regional and national basis. The comprehensive experience in spectrum management gained through direct participation in development of strategies, implementation of economic aspects in regulation, researches of spectrum re-allocation and re-farming, spectrum sharing as well as spectrum pricing and other related topics. The most recent area of engagement is focused primarily on spectrum aspects of 5G future implementation.
Experience and Competencies: 27 years of professional engagement in telecommunications, radiocommunications and spectrum management, of which twelve years of research and analysis practice with R&D centres, seven years of regulatory practice with the Telecommunication Administration, and eight years of operational spectrum planning with mobile operator company. More than 19 years of participation in ITU activities resulting in the strong knowledge of spectrum regulatory procedures, allocation methods, legal instruments, software tools and issues at the international level. The qualified ITU’s expert. Six missions on Spectrum Management and ICT Development in developing countries to carry out surveys of national spectrum regulatory institutions, development of spectrum management master-plans.

Ms Aichurok Maralbekkyzy, Chief specialist of Spectrum Management Department, State Communications Agency under the State Committee of Information Technologies and Communications of Kyrgyz Republic

In 2013 graduated Kyrgyz State Technical Universitynamed after I. Razzakov specializing in «Radiocommunications, Broadcasting and Television». Since 2013 working at Spectrum Management Department of the State Communications Agency under the State Committee of Information Technologies and Communications of the Kyrgyz Republic. As a chief specialist of Spectrum Management Department, responsible for proceeding electromagnetic compatibility analysis of fixed and fixed satellite services (as defined by ITU Radio Regulations). In other words: EMC analysis of applications for radio relay stations, wireless broadband systems, earth stations of satellite communications, their international coordination, ITU filing procedures and other works related to frequency assignments. Moreover, spectrum management, foreign affairs, exploring the regulatory/technical and other aspects associated with radiocommunications. Took part in World Radiocommunications Conference -2015. Currently, member of:
• working group on promotion of the Kyrgyz Republic to the ITU Council for the period 2019-2022;
• working group on Preparations for the World Radiocommunication Conference and the Radiocommunication Assembly in 2019 (WRC-19 / AR-19 WG) of RCC commission;
• sub-working group on satellite services of the working group on information and communication technologies among the member states of the Turkic Council.

Mr Srđan Mihaljević, Independent consultant, Montenegro

Mr. Mihaljević is independent telecommunication consultant from Montenegro with over thirty years of experience.  He has recently completed a long term assignment in Myanmar, advising a global player from Japan – KDDI in radio spectrum policy. In his consulting practice there are also some of the major names from telecommunication industry such as Ooredoo Qatar and Rohde&Schwarz Germany.  As an ITU Expert and in his own capacity he had advised governments and regulators from all over the world: Montenegro, Suriname, Swaziland, Lebanon, Palestine and Myanmar. He was also  UN IT adviser for CEE and Carribean region since 2005.

Mr Turhan Muluk, Intel

Turhan Muluk joined Intel in 2006. He is working at Government and Policy Group, responsible from telecommunication policies in the Middle East, Africa regions and also representative of Intel at ITU-D Sector. Before joining to Intel he worked 14 years for Turk Telekom at different wireless broadband projects. He also involved with ETSI, ITU, IEEE studies and worked as Vice Rapporteur at different ITU-D Questions. Turhan has also organized different joint activities together with ITU, including the Regional Digital Transformation Forum in Morocco. He was the chairman of WiMAX Forum for the Middle East and Africa. Turhan Muluk is graduated from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the METU in Turkey and a member of IEEE.

Mr Kirill Oparin, Head of the ITU Regional Office for CIS

 Mr. Kirill Oparin was born in the city of Vladimir (Russia) on 20 November 1973.
In 1990, Kirill Oparin graduated from secondary school № 42 of the city of Nikolayev (Ukraine). The same year, he entered Bauman Moscow State Technical University and got a master’s degree in the field of radio electronic systems in 1996 with certification of radio engineer. Mr. Oparin has over 20 years of experience in the sphere of information and communications technologies, including over 15 years of team leadership experience. Mr. Oparin started his professional career in Ericsson Corporation in 1996, and over 15 years, he worked his way up from Engineer, Mobile System Support Department to Head, Customer Service Support, Central Asia and Caucasus.
From 2011 to 2013, Mr. Oparin was employed with Nokia Siemens Networks Russia as Director for Transformation and Development, Managed Services Department. In 2013-2017 Mr. Oparin worked as Deputy Director, International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and was responsible for interaction with ICT-specialized international organizations (ITU, RCC, APEC, ICANN, OECD, CEPT) in the field of satellites, radio frequencies, internet governance, digital economy, standardization, and regional development. Since May 2017, Mr. Oparin has been heading the International Telecommunication Union CIS Regional Office based in Moscow. Married with two children.
Speaks Russian and English.

Ms Iryna Pokhabova, Head of Department, State University of Telecom, Ukraine

Iryna Pokhabova was born on November 14, 1991 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
From 1997 till 2008 studied at school № 9 in Uman, Cherkassy Region.
From 2008 till 2014 studied at the State University of Telecommunications, Department of Telecommunicatins, specialty of Telecommunication systems and networks and got a dachelor’s and master’s degree.
From 2012 till 2014 studied at the State University of Telecommunications, Department of Management, specialty of Organizational and administrative management and got master’s degree.
From 2014 till 2016 studied at the State University of Telecommunications as postgraguated student, Department of Telecommunications and got Ph.D. degree. From 2014 till present she has been working at the State University of Telecommunications in a position of Head of students social and educational problems department and at the same time from 2016 till the present she has been working  as an assistant professor of the Telecommunication systems and networks  department.

Mr Jaroslaw Ponder, Head of the ITU Office for Europe, BDT, ITU

Mr Ponder is Head of ITU Office for Europe at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (Geneva, Switzerland). Within the last years Mr. Ponder has been carrying out numerous projects, activities and initiatives at national, regional and international levels. He has been taking lead role in many international conferences and summits dealing with development of ICT ecosystem, information society, and advancements of digital economy worldwide, while setting strategies and ensuring their timely implementation. Along the professional career Mr. Ponder held official positions in the public sector and was a contributor to the legislative projects having impact on the public policy. Since 2004 Mr. Ponder has been working for ITU. In 2004 he was consultant at the Market, Economics and Finance Unit (MEF/ITU). In year 2005 he moved to Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU/ITU). In year 2007 he moved to Project and Initiatives Department (PRI/ITU). In year 2008 upon his former duties he acted as Europe Officer (EUR/ITU) as well as as Project Manager for European Centres of Excellence Network (CoE-EUR). In August 2008 he was appointed as Coordinator for Europe. After successfull recreation of the coordination for the region in February 2009 he moved to the General Secretariat becoming Strategy and Policy Coordinator and one year later Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor with the objective to lead the ITU activities on World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its 10 year review, amongst the others successfully establishing WSIS Forum, WSIS Prizes, WSIS Stocktaking, and organizing WSIS+10 High Level Event (2014) that resulted in negotiated texts. In parallel, since October 2011 he has been working as Coordinator for Europe strengthening coordination and implementation mechanism. In July 2017 he became a Head of ITU Office for Europe, directing actions, projects, initiatives and experts groups targeting 44 countries.  

Dr Izzet Saglam, Senior Expert, Turkcell

Dr İzzet Saglam is R&D Engineer in Turkcell Technology. He earned his PhD at Istanbul Technical University in 2017. His research area includes 5G radio resource management. He spent 18 years in mobile telecom industry covering network and system architecture, optimization and planning of mobile network systems GSM, WCDMA, LTE. Now he’s responsible from 5G R&D projects and research.

Ms Christine Sund, Advisor, ITU-D Study Groups, ITU

Ms Christine Sund serves as the Advisor for ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) Study Groups. Christine joined ITU in 2004 and has since then worked in different areas within the organization, including in ICT policy analysis and trends, cybersecurity and human capacity building, before joining the ITU-D Study Groups in 2010. She is passionate about ICTs and their applications and enjoys researching their impact on organizations and society at large. Christine has degrees in social sciences, business and management through her studies at universities in Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, and is committed to continuous learning and development. Details about the ITU-D Study Groups can be found at: www.itu.int/ITU-D/study-groups  and Connect with Christine here

Dr. György Thuróczy, Head of Department of Non-Ionizing Radiation of the National Public Health Institute, Hungary

Dr. György Thuróczy received the M.Sc. Degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest in 1983. He received the doctoral degree in biophysics from the Institute of Biophysics of Medical University of Budapest in 1993. and Ph.D. degree of neurobiology from University of Pécs, Hungary. Now he is the head of Department of Non-Ionizing Radiation of the National Public Health Institute, Hungary. He is the member of International Advisory Committee (IAC) of WHO EMF Project, member of Management Committee of COST BM1309, member of International Committee of Electromagnetic Safety (ICES) and member of the Bioelectromagnetic Society (BEMS), He is the national representatives of EU and international standard committees (CENELEC, IEC).

Mr Evgeny Tonkikh, Deputy Head of Department, Radio Research and Development Institute (NIIR), Russia

Evgeny Tonkikh graduated from Airforce Engineer Academy named after prof. N.E. Zhukovsky (Moscow) in 1996 with qualification “Engineer-researcher” and Master Degree on “Informatics and computing”. In 1999 and 2012 he updated his skills with courses and postgraduate study in Interindustry Institute of Retraining based on Bauman Moscow State Technical University and Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics. Since 2004 up to now Evgeny Tonkikh has been participating in Working group of Spectrum engineering of CEPT as a representative of Russian Federation. Since 2006 up to now he has been actively participating in the work of ITU Working Parties within SG5 “Terrestrial Services”. Under this activity from 2012 to 2014 he was a Chairman of the Joint Correspondent Group 5A/5C on the cross-border handbook. He took part in the ITU Radio conferences (WRC-12 and WRC-15). Actively participated in the work of CPG PTC and CPG PTA during the WRC-15 preparation within CEPT as well as on RCC preparation for Radio Assembly and World Radio Conference 2015 (Working group on RA/WRC-15 preparation). He took part in World Assembly on telecommunication standardization 2016 (WTSA-16). Since 2017 participates in the work of SG20 ITU-T “Internet of things (IoT) and Smart City and Community (SC&C)” as well as in the Telecommunication standardization advisory group (TSAG).

Mr Attila Toth, Huawei

I have received my MSc degree in Electronics Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2002, and have worked for Hungarian mobile operators since 2001 mainly in RAN related tasks such as operations, wireless network development and radio network planning; this year I have joined Huawei as wireless product manager.

Mr Peter Vari, Deputy Director General, National Media and Infocommunications Authority, Hungary

Dr Péter Vári attended Széchenyi István Technical College,  from 1987 to 1990, majoring as wireless networking technology engineer.  He then  graduated from the Budapest University of Technology  in 1994 as Electrical Engineer in telecommunications. In 2001 he earned the postgraduate certificate at the Budapest University of Economic Studies as an Engineer-economist. In 2003 he completed the postgraduate course at Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE), Budapest as an Engineer-lawyer. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 at Corvinus University of Budapest on the topic of Digital Television and Switchover. Dr Vári worked as an engineer  from 1992 to 1993 for Matáv Rt., the largest telecommunications operator in Hungary. From 1993 to 2004 he worked for Antenna Hungária Rt., the Hungarian Broadcasting and Radio Telecommunications Limited Company, where he started as Head of Unit and worked his way up to become Director of Operational Matters. In 2004-2006 he was Head of Department in the Ministry of Informatics and Communications of Hungary, and in 2006-2008 he was Senior Counsellor of the Government at the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office. In 2009, as a project manager, he began to coordinate the digital switchover at Antenna Hungária Rt., and in 2011 he started working in the National Media and Infocommunications Authority of Hungary (NMHH). Currently, as a Deputy Director General of NMHH, he is responsible for the fields of frequency and identifier management, measurement affairs and technology analysis. Dr Vári is a forensics expert of electronic communications and broadcasting, and an ITU expert on digital switchover. Dr Vári is a senior lecturer of the Department of Telecommunications at Széchenyi István University of Győr and gives courses in the field of radio systems and satellite telecommunications .

Mr Balint Vegh, PwC Hungary, Telecommunicaton Consulting Group

Balint is a Manager working in the Telecommunication, Media and Technology consulting group of PwC Advisory Business in Hungary. His personal client work focuses on strategic and business process related topics. Balint has over 10 years of professional experience in managing multi-country projects at large telco organisations. Before joining PwC, Balint worked at major telecommunication companies and managed international teams based in Luxembourg, Germany and Hungary. He was responsible for the commercial management of product lines with full P&L responsibility. He managed the rollout and market implementation of major tariff developments. He was the business owner of CRM implementation in the mobile voice segment and directly supervised customer base management teams with extensive data analytical and segmenting capability.

Ms Aleksandra Vucic, Chief Advisor at Radiocommunication Department

Ms Aleksandra Vucic is the Chief Advisor at Radiocommunication Department in the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communication and Postal Services, where she has been working since July 2007. She is responsible for planning of the allocation and allotment of radio-frequencies; assignment of radio-frequencies according to the Allocation and Allotment Plans; coordination of the use of radio-frequencies; making regulation rules. In the period from April 1995- July 2007 she was working as Design Electrical Engineer in the Company IMTEL- Institute for Microwave Technique and Electronics which design, manufacture and distribute of broadcast equipment. She holds MSc degrees in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade.

 
Mr Peter Walop, ITU Expert

Mr Peter Walop has over 20 years of experience in the broadcast and telecom markets and led many service launches and company restructuring processes. As an ITU expert, Peter assisted African, Asian and Caribbean countries with the introduction of digital broadcasting, including Angola, Bhutan, Burundi, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Thailand and Rwanda. Peter is co‐ author of the following ITU reports “Guidelines on the Transition from Analogue to Digital Broadcasting”, “Digital Dividend: Insights for Spectrum Decisions” and “Interactive Multimedia Services in Asia Pacific: Trends and Insights”. For the European Union, he helped the Serbian government in planning the digital television switch‐over. He also assisted key broadcast players in Sweden and Belgium in respectively repositioning television service offers, acquisition of network assets and introduction of mobile television services. Previously, Peter worked for the Dutch broadcast network operator Nozema, as deputy CEO. He also worked for Hewlett Packard in the UK, Coopers & Lybrand Management Consultants and Accenture. He carried out numerous assignments in the broadcast and telecom industries, for both operators and Regulators in the France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Peter holds a Master degrees in Organizational Analysis & Behaviour of the University of Lancaster (UK), Business Informatics of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a Bachelor degree in Production Engineering, Polytechnic Dordrecht, in the Netherlands.