Tejpal Singh
Chair, Study Group 11 I Ministry of Communications, India
Tejpal Singh, Chair ITU-T Study Group 11, is presently working as Advisor (Quality of Service) with Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). He has 30 years of experience in diverse ICT domains. He has worked in various roles in the department of telecommunication that includes telecom licensing and telecom standardisation. In his current role, he is responsible for setting up and implementing the Quality-of-Service standards in India with subscriber base of nearly 1.2 billion. He is also driving a collaborative initiative to improve indoor digital connectivity in the country through digital connectivity rating framework. This framework proposes to award ‘star’ ratings to the properties for their digital connectivity.He has played key role in implementation of some key Information Technology projects in telecom, security and personal identity domain including in India’s biometrics based unique identity system i.e. ‘AADHAAR’ which has issued almost 1.4 billion unique IDs to the residents.
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Assaf Klinger Vaulto Technologies, Israel
Assaf Klinger is an accomplished cyber security entrepreneur, in the last 3 years, Assaf is Vaulto’s R&D lead. A native of Israel, he over has 20 years' experience as a full stack developer and researcher with specialty in cyber-telcom vulnerability research. Assaf is an ISNU veteran of 13 years (Maj.) and has led the development of many complex systems, for this Assaf was decorated at 2011 with the Israel Defense award, the highest award a non-combatant in Israel, given for exceptional technological achievements and major contribution to the security if Israel. Assaf has a BSc. in electrical engineering from Tel-Aviv university and an MBA from the Technion, in the past 3 years Assaf and his team at Vaulto created the first cyber-telecom security startup Aiming to protect the end-users from attacks while providing a seamless solution that doesn’t disrupt the user experience. Assaf is a family man, married with twins, in his spare time he enjoys tinkering with electronics and music. |
Chris Wendt Vice President of Systems Engineering, Somos, Inc. Chris Wendt is Vice President of Systems Engineering at Somos, Inc., where he leads technology strategy for trusted communications. He was a principal author of the STIR/SHAKEN standards at the IETF and co-authored key specifications through the ATIS/SIP Forum IPNNI Joint Task Force, helping define the protocols that authenticate caller identity in modern IP-based voice networks. He is currently advancing VESPER, a trust framework that uses delegate certificates and authoritative tokens to extend authentication to enterprises while promoting transparency and privacy. Chris serves on the Board of Directors of the SIP Forum, co-chairs the ATIS IPNNI Joint Task Force and the IETF VCON Working Group, and actively contributes to the IETF STIR Working Group. He also co-chairs the CFCA Trust and Transparency Working Group (TTWG). Earlier in his career, Chris spent nearly two decades at Comcast—one of the largest voice service providers in the United States—leading innovation in IMS, WebRTC, and real-time communications. His work in telecommunications security has been recognized with multiple industry honors.
Sanjeev Kumar Sharma Deputy Director General, Department of Telecommunications Ministry of Communications, India
With over three decades of senior-level service in the Government of India, Sanjeev Kumar Sharma blends engineering expertise, advanced management training from IIM Bangalore and Syracuse University, and legal acumen to deliver impactful results across the telecommunications landscape. His experience ranges widely from telecom regulation, telecom operations, development of the Cellular Mobile networks from scratch, organization restructuring, licensing and telecom policy formulation. In his current role as Deputy Director General at the Department of Telecommunications, he leads initiatives on Artificial Intelligence and is in-charge of Digital Intelligence Unit. His work focuses on enhancing cyber resilience, driving artificial intelligence adoption in telecom sector and digital governance reforms.
Shri Deepak Sharma
Advisor, TRAI
Mr. Deepak Sharma is presently serving as Advisor (Quality of Service) at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), where he looks after the regulatory framework on commercial communications. A member of the Indian Telecom Services, he has over 30 years of experience in the telecom sector, having served in public sector operators and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in key roles across broadband, Intelligent networks, and BharatNet, the largest rural broadband project in the world under the Digital India initiative. An electronics and communication engineer with a degree in law and a postgraduate diploma in Public Policy and Management, Mr. Sharma combines technical, legal, and policy expertise. At TRAI, he has been instrumental in the recent amendments in the regulations on commercial communications as well as launch of a pilot project with banks on digital consent acquisition. He continues to lead efforts toward building a robust and effective regulatory framework for commercial communications in India.
Rekha Jain
Head Cloud Infrastructure and Core Development, Center For Development of Telematics (C-DOT), India
Rekha Jain is a senior telecom technology professional at the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), Government of India, with over 26 years of experience spanning legacy telecom networks and signaling (SS7, ISUP, SIP) through 4G/5G, cloud computing, OpenStack, Kubernetes and cybersecurity. She is an IEEE-published researcher and author of multiple technical papers in telecom, 5G and cloud technologies, and an active contributor to ITU-T Study Group 11, with contributions and editorial involvement in calling-line identity authentication, trusted signaling and mechanisms to combat fraudulent communications. Her expertise combines telecom network architecture, cloud-native infrastructure and network security, bringing a practical R&D and standards perspective to caller-ID spoofing, communication fraud and building trusted communication networks. |
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