 Vincent Barriac
R&D Engineer, Orange Innovation/Networks | Chairman, Working Party 2 of ITU-T Study Group 12
Vincent Barriac is an R&D engineer with Orange. More specifically, he works as an expert in quality of service assessment tools and methods, with a strong involvement as technical support and advising for operational entities throughout the entire Orange Group, present in several European and African countries, about QoS supervision strategies and voice quality enhancements, for both mobile and fixed services. His most recent activities concern the evolution of QoS monitoring in modern networks (adaption to 5G and NFVs, introduction of machine learning) and in the context of stronger regulatory requirements. Involved since more than 25 years in ITU-T, he has been taking part in the development of several standards in his area, like P.56x P.86x series, and more recently as editor of the G.1028 series, as well as E.804.1. He is currently chairing ITU-T Study Group 12's Working Party 2 which is responsible for objective models and tools for multimedia quality. He is also the rapporteur for Question 15/12, which is working on enhancements of the E-model and new parametric models for predicting the QoE of telephony and videotelephony
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 Jens Berger
Senior Director Applied Research, Rohde & Schwarz
Dr. Jens Berger started his career at the Research Institute of Deutsche Telekom. In 1998, Jens received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in the area of network and system theory. Since 2003, he has been with today’s Rohde & Schwarz SwissQual AG, Switzerland, an integral part of Rohde & Schwarz, heading the Applied Research department as member of the senior management team. He is responsible for the QoS and QoE measurement methods in the Rohde & Schwarz Mobile Network Testing products and services. His work contributed to several ITU-T standards, as P.563 and P.863, both for voice quality prediction. In 2011, ITU-T standardized J.341, for objective HDTV quality prediction, and in 2014 J.343.1 for no-reference video quality prediction, both submitted by SwissQual / Rohde & Schwarz. For the past sixteen years, Jens has been leading the working group: “Perceptual-based objective methods for voice, audio and visual quality measurements in telecommunication services.” as Rapporteur in ITU-T SG12. He is further active in ETSI and other international standardization bodies.
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Elizabeth Cuttner
Legal Advisor, Affordable Connectivity Program, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Elizabeth Cuttner is Legal Advisor to Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, where she focuses primarily on wireline and enforcement issues. Before joining the Office of the Chairwoman, she worked as an attorney advisor in the Wireline Competition Bureau’s Competition Policy Division, where she handled numbering issues and broadband competition policy, and as an attorney advisor in the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, working on emergency alerting. Prior to government service, Elizabeth worked as an associate attorney at a boutique telecom law firm, dealing primarily in cable regulatory law. A Connecticut native, Elizabeth received her B.A. in International Affairs, cum laud, from the University of Georgia, and was the first graduate of the joint degree program from Louisiana State University with her J.D., magna cum laud, and Masters of Mass Communication.
 Hans Gierlich
Consultant | Expert in Communications, Voice & Audio
Dr.-Ing. H. W. Gierlich started his professional career in 1983 at the Institute for Communication Engineering at RWTH, Aachen. In 1988 February he received a Ph. D. in electrical engineering. In 1989 he joined HEAD acoustics GmbH in Aachen as vice president. From 1999 to 2014 he was head of the HEAD acoustics telecom division. From 2014 – 2023 he was the managing director telecom at HEAD acoustics. He is mainly involved in acoustics, speech signal processing and its perceptual effects, QOS & QOE topics, measurement technology and speech transmission quality. He is/was active in ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP, GCF, IEEE, TIA, CTIA, DKE and VDA. In ITU, he was chair of the ITU-T focus group CarCom. He was Rapporteur for various questions in ITU-T SG12. He was rapporteur for a variety of work items in ETSI, he was vice chair of ETSI technical committee STQ and was chair of STQ from 2016 – 2020. In 2021 he received an ETSI fellowship award. He is author of more than 150 scientific papers and holds five patents. He is member of ASA, IEEE, VDE and DEGA where he was chair of the “Speech Communication" committee.
 Gillian Makamara
Project Officer, ITU/TSB
Gillian Makamara is a Project Officer in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) where she supports the development of international standards on Cybersecurity in ITU-T Study Group 17 and on Performance, quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) in ITU-T Study Group 12. Gillian also contributes to ITU's work in the fields of quantum communications. Gillian holds degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and the University of Liverpool.
 Catalina Ovando
General Director, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Policy, Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, Mexico
Named General Director of Telecommunications and Broadcasting Policy at the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) in January 2023, Catalina Ovando Chico holds a PhD Degree in Telecommunications from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain. Prior to her current position, Catalina headed the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Unit at SICT and was responsible for managing the Ministry’s total ICT assets. From 2015 to 2021, Catalina was professor of Strategic Planning and Technology Management for the graduate program at UPAEP University, in the state of Puebla. In 2020 she was appointed member of the Consultive Council of the Mexican Telecommunications Regulator (IFT, by its name in Spanish) and currently holds an active membership at the “National Researchers System”, the “IEEE” and the “Network of Women on ICT” from the National Association of Universities (ANUIES, by its name in Spanish). Her research activities are centered on digital inclusion, technology adoption, public policy on telecommunications and the impact of digital platforms on productivity sectors.
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