NEWSLETTER Enter your email and get the latest IPVoice Meeting News		>>Agenda>>Speaker List >>Ir para a Versão Portuguesa Alain van Gaever Policy Developer European Commission, Policy Development Unit of DG Information Society and Media Alain Van Gaever works in the Policy Development & Regulatory Framework unit of DG Information Society, where he is responsible for Next Generation Networks (NGN), Voice over IP (VoIP), Interconnection in IP-enabled networks, Access to Emergency Services (forward-looking aspects), Standardization and Power Line Communications (PLC).   He has 14 years of experience in the Telecoms Sector.  Before joining the European Commission, he worked as a Signal Troops officer in the Armed Forces in Belgium and as a Voice over IP consultant in Cisco Systems.   Alain has a Master degree in Engineering from the polytechnic division of the Military Academy, a master degree in Telematics and an MBA from the University of Brussels. Alessio Pennasilico Member of Board of Directors AIPSI, ISSA Italian Chapter Alessio L.R. Pennasilico, a.k.a. mayhem, 30 years, lives and works in Verona, Italy as Security Evangelist per Alba S.T. s.r.l. His personal and working interests are in technology, mainly in security, OpenSource and digital rights. That's why he is a member of many organizations, such as AIPSI, AIP, CLUSIT, ILS, OpenBeer, VoIPSA, Metro Olografix, Sikurezza.org, ISAC-IT, Recursiva.org, Thawte, HPP and many LUGs. He is usually invited as a speaker at many events such as Smau, Infosecurity, e-privacy, Linux Day, OpenCon, OpenEXP, ESC and HackMeeting.He also keeps some workshops in secondary schools and italian universities, with the aim at spreading the culture about an aware use of technology.His main areas of competence are about firewalling, High Availability, pentest, cryptography, VoIP, privacy, Linux, OpenBSD and OpenSource philosophy. Ari Takanen CTO Codenomicon Mr. Ari Takanen is founder and CTO of Codenomicon Ltd. He is a distinctive member of the global security testing community and a regular speaker at various testing and security conferences. His professional background is on academic software security testing research, where he has been active since 1998. Barry Shrier CEO Liberty Europe Network Barry Shrier is the Founder and Chief Executive of The Liberty Europe Network, a group of businesses focusing on Wireless Internet expansion throughout the EU. Previously, Barry was hired by Deutsche Bank to launch Paybox, the world’s first international mobile payment system.  Barry was the spokesman for Paybox and a leading speaker on Mobile commerce. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Barry worked for several strategic marketing consultancies where he developed his expertise in the application of cognitive psychology to understand consumer behavior. He managed various international projects for Unilever, Guinness, Procter & Gamble, Mars & Nestle. Bruno Alonso Plaza Head of Channel Development BT Global Services Bruno holds the position of head of channel development at BT, one of Europe's leading providers of integrated communications and IT services to customers worldwide.  In this position, Bruno focuses on supporting the sales force with a new range of convergence and value added services. Since joining BT in 1997, Bruno has held various positions within the company, drawing on his expertise in data communications, networks and VoIP.  Prior to his career at the international IT and networks provider, Bruno was a project manager at EyP Telecomunicación, with responsibility over the development and deployment of ad hoc airport information systems, air navigation radar communication networks. Bruno holds a master's degree in data communications and an MBA in Telecommunications from the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid. Carlos Vargas Head of MobileTV RTP Christian Wieser Research scientist University of Oulu, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, OUSPG Christian Wieser is currently on his way to receive the PhD and works at the Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) in Oulu, Finland. His interest lies in the area of vulnerability research - particular in the area of Voice over IP networks. You might remember the advisories from work stemming from his VoIP robustness suite http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-06.html. Since this time his interest in describing and preventing risks in VoIP has even more increased. When he is not skiing in the hills around Oulu, he enjoys a good, steamy sauna during the dark times of the Finnish winter. Claudio Adriani CTO Elitel Claudio Adriani has spent more than twenty-seven years in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industry, where he has been always dealing with innovation and advanced technologies for mission critical solutions and services. Mr. Adriani began his professional career in 1979 joining the Olivetti group at its headquarters in Ivrea, Italy, where he held different positions at corporate and group’s company level, including that of Director, Corporate Technology Strategies, Head of System Offer Architecture, and Networking & Communications Product Planning Manager in research and development. More recently, he was also Vice President, Solution Development at Unisys, Head of Internet Strategies and New Services & Solutions at Olivetti Tecnost, Chief Technology Officer for a start-up company in the Getronics group, Integration Services Director at Getronics and Wang Global. Mr. Adriani joined Elitel in November 2003. Mr. Adriani earned a Degree in Informatics at the University of Pisa, Italy. Dr. Dorgham Sisalem Director for Strategic Architectures Tekelec Dr. Dorgham Sisalem (dorgham.sisalem@tekelec.com) is the director for strategic architectures at Tekelec. Previously he was leading the VoIP, IMS, and security activities at the Fraunhofer Institute Fokus, Berlin, Germany. He has been in the VoIP arena since 1995, and has been involved in various research and development activities in the areas of QoS, security, and multimedia communication. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, and has more than 40 papers in conferences and journals in the area of VoIP and QoS.Further, Dr. Sisalem was the co-founder of iptelorg. Iptelorg has provided an open source implementation of SIP known as the SIP Express Router “SER” which is used by many VoIP provides all over the world as the basis for their VoIP platform. Ejovi Nuwere Founder & CEO SecurityLab Technologies If you’ve heard of SecurityLab you likely heard of its charismatic founder Ejovi Nuwere who’s passion for computer security was well documented in his autobiography Hacker Cracker. With a early start in computer security at the age of 15 Ejovi has worked as a developer for the secure operating system OpenBSD, audits code for the largest software companies and government agencies and is constantly on the lecture circuit teaching executives around the world about the importance of auditing and education in a secure environment. Ejovi who started as a developer later went on to join the security group at Lehman, Core-SDI and @Stake before finally founding Securitylab as a consultancy in 2003. Since then he’s expanded the company to include information and auditing products. Georg Mayer Nokia Hassan M. Claussen Managing Director HanseCom Media & Communication Hassan M. Claussen has been working in the Telecoms and IT market for over 15 years. In the early 90’s, Hassan was heading sales & marketing operations in Hamburg (Germany) for one of the largest IT Consultants, Telemation (acquired in 2000 by Dimension Data). After 17 years experience in the Telecoms and IT markets, Hassan M. Claussen founded HanseCom Media & Communication in November 2004. With HanseCom he is now working in the event management and organization industry specializing in the telecommunications and IT industry. Together with his team, Hassan focuses his expertise in developing profitable events, handling projects from design and research, to marketing and sales, through to speaker acquisitions and management running up to and on the day of an event. Iñigo Leria General Manager Telindus/Belgacom Ivo Remmelg CEO Telegrupp Ltd Ivo Remmelg (1970), co-founder, owner and CEO of the systems integrator Telegrupp Ltd, Estonia. The company was sold to Telia-Sonera in 2001 followed by MBO in 2005.Ivo has 12 years of experience in Telecoms company management and strategic planning and 8 years in Enterprise communications.Ivo received bachelor of industrial electronics from Tallinn Technical University (Estonia), and Executive MBA in Estonian Business School.Ivo has wide entrepreneurial experience, including one year in Finland for the Ascom Fintel as trainer and technical manager of communication systems.Currently is directly involved into the design and operation of Cirpack based service delivery suite MobileIPCentrex.com- converged platform for enterprise hosted telephony. Jaroslaw Ponder Policy Analyst ITU Mr. Ponder is Policy Analyst and the manager of various projects at the  Strategy and Policy Unit at the International Telecommunication Union (SPU/ITU). Within the last years Mr. Ponder has been taking an active role in numerous international conferences and summits dealing with development of information society and advancements of new economy in both Western and Eastern European countries as well as USA. The spectrum of his direct research interest includes business development, process optimization, telecommunication economics, information and communication technology dynamics, next generation networks, the Internet of things, digital divide, information society development, EU enlargement processes and human capital problematic. 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 the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, Switzerland). In 2004 he was consultant at the Market, Economics and Finance Unit (MEF/ITU). In 2005 he moved to ITU Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU/ITU). João Justo Gonçalves Business Developer - Technical Services HP Portugal Johan Terve Vice President, Sales and Marketing Ingate Johan Terve, an IT industry veteran, manages all sales activities in Europe.  Johan also oversees all marketing and public relations activities for Ingate worldwide.  Johan Terve has a strong mix of business leadership and marketing experience and has, before joining Ingate, worked for distributing companies as well as manufacturing companies. Juan Carlos López Rivada Senior Manager, Core NGN & IMS Alcatel-Lucent Juan Carlos López Rivada is Senior Manager for Core NGN & IMS for RU Iberia. He has responsibility for supporting the NGN VoIP and IMS Alcatel-Lucent products. During his 17-year tenure with AT&T/Lucent, he has also performed a variety of assignments supporting Convergence Solutions Group (Switching and Access Systems). Some of these assignments include Global Manufacturing Planning & Engineering (GMP&E) Senior Manager where he supported projects for countries such a Brazil, The Netherlands, Italy, Egypt, Spain, Saudi Arabia and Poland. In addition, he has performed assignments in the arena of Product Management, Logistics, Manufacturing and Engineering. Prior to his career at AT&T/Lucent, Juan Carlos participated in several telecommunications projects for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology Juan Carlos López Rivada is a graduate of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, with a M.S. in Electrical Engineering. In 1999, completed an Executive MBA at Instituto de Empresa, Madrid. As recognition for his technical contributions to AT&T/Lucent business in the switching project execution technology area he was nominated DMTS (Distinguish Member of the technical Staff) in 1998. Leandro Dardini Prato City Hall Leandro Dardini starts working in the Information and Communication Technology as software developer for the local public hospital. After the degree in computer science at the university of Florence and other work experiences always in the ICT field, he now works for Prato City Hall as system administrator manager coordinating a wonderful team of Linux and Microsoft experts and working together to maintain Prato City leadership in the developing of new technology for communities. Prof Luis Magalhães President Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) President of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal, since July 2005; Full Professor (on leave) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL), since 1993; Correspondent Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences since 1995; Member of the Luso-American Foundation for Development (FLAD) Consultative Council since 1997; Member of the Scientific and Technological Council of Taguspark – Science and Technology Park since 1997. Dr. Mike Hollier CTO Psytechnics Dr Mike Hollier has been a technical pioneer and commercial champion for perceptual engineering over the last 14 years. Between 1987 and 1999 he held a number of positions within BT, finally directing their research into audio, video and multi-media performance assessment. His PhD was gained from the University of Essex for his work on using models of human hearing to predict speech quality. Technical capability was demonstrated when Mike’s team set the new ITU-T world standard for speech quality assessment in 2000. During 2000 Psytechnics was incubated as a potential spin-out from BT - attracting investment from 3i. Mike left BT in December 2000 to become the CEO of Psytechnics Ltd. Psytechnics have 18 licensees and are poised to become a significant global player providing essential performance information for the design and management of Next-Generation-Networks. Since October 2002 Mike has been the CTO at Psytechnics acting as their technology evangelist and overseeing the research and development of a new generation of voice and video products. Dr Hollier is a Chartered Engineer, a fellow of the University of Essex and member of the IOA and AES. Natan Tiefenbrun Chief Operating Officer Xconnect Natan Tiefenbrun joined XConnect, an industry leading provider of VoIP peering services based on ENUM, as COO after spending thirteen years working in financial markets at Instinet, an operator of electronic equity markets and provider of electronic and traditional brokerage services to institutional money managers and hedge funds. Working in both London and New York, Natan serviced the firm’s most sophisticated clients, was responsible for developing new products and services, and ultimately served as President of the firm’s European and Asian businesses. Nigel Dye Director Business Development BT Global Services, Global Telecom Markets Nigel K J Dye has been involved in many successful projects in BT, in both the corporate and telecom sectors. For many years a customer of BT in Amadeus and Siemens, he joined BT Syncordia  in 2000, then BT Exact.  At present he in Global Telecom Markets focusing on transformational and ICT services for the carrier sector.  Nigel has some 20 years experience of outsourcing and business transformation projects focussed on the delivery of electronic products, outsourcing and managed services. His experience is truly global with a track record of successful projects in China, Asia, Latin America, US and Europe.  During his career Nigel has experienced many changes in the industry; in the underlying technologies, infrastructures, business uses and business models. He has led outsourcing projects from both the demand and the supply sides. Having been responsible for the purchase as well as the supply of networks, managed services and outsourcing has given Nigel unique insights into how to make transformation projects work. Olle E. Johansson Edvina AB Olle is an active Asterisk developer and an active member of the Asterisk community. He has writen many documenation pages, fixed many bugs in the SIP support of Asterisk and added quite a lot of new functions to Asterisk during the years. Olle is a member of the Asterisk Advisory Council and works on a daily basis with Asterisk in service provider networks. Olle also has a position as Asterisk evangelist and senior technical adviser with Voop, a European VoIP service provider. Olle has been working with TCP/IP technologies since the early 90's and with IP telephony and Asterisk for many years. Olle has been teaching Asterisk for many students and is often speaking at conferences. Paulo Correia Systems Engineer Cisco Peter Kamm Solution Consultant Avaya -          Born in 1966 -          Graduated of Technical University München and of Ludwig Maximilian Universität München -          Manager Technical Operations, Octel Communications -          Senor Project Manager and Solution Architect, Lucent Technologies -          Solution Consultant for telephony applications, Avaya Peter Weik Research Associate Fraunhofer Institute Peter Weik graduated in "Industrial Engineering and Management Science" at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany with specific emphasis on Telematics and Telecommunication networks. He joined the team "Next Generation Network Infrastructures" of Prof. Dr. Magedanz in 2003 as undergraduate student and is today working as a PhD student. He is actively involved in the realization and development of the Open IMS Playground and in various national and international research projects. He published and presented several papers on international conferences, supports lectures at the Technical University of Berlin and supervises several master thesis with the chair for Next Generation Networks at the TU Berlin. During his four years with FOKUS he was engaged in user profile extensions to the 3GPP IMS Home Subscriber Server (HSS), the SIP routing architecture of the IMS, QoS management and also with charging realizations within IMS. His field of interest is "Identity Management solutions for NGNs", the development of an Open Source IMS Core and also benchmarking for IMS components. Ricardo Borrajo Unified Communications Business Development Manager for SouthEMEA Nortel Steve Johnson Member of Board of Directors SIP-Forum As President of Ingate Systems Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Ingate Systems A.B., Steven Johnson is responsible for building market recognition and developing multiple sales channels for Ingate products within the United States. Johnson most recently served as CEO of Abrena, Inc., a business development consulting firm that assists European and North American firms to expand in the United States. Prior to that, Johnson was President and CEO of Transcept, Inc., a telecommunications infrastructure company that develops products to economically enhance wireless network coverage and capacity. Johnson also served as Division General Manager for Lockheed Martin, and held a number of senior management positions at Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Corporation and Sanders Associates, Inc. Johnson was also Treasurer at Telco Systems, Inc., a supplier of Information and Communication Technology equipment for the Regional Bell Operating Companies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics and a Master’s in Business Administration from Boston University. Timothy Ward Senior director of partner management and business development for EMEA Sonus Networks Tim Ward, senior director of partner management and business development for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has over 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry and a successful history of developing strategic relationships with key network service providers, systems integrators and channel partners.  Prior to joining Sonus, Ward acted as vice president, Europe at Sylantro Systems where he was responsible for building relationships with major vendors such as Alcatel, Siemens and IBM.  Previous to Sylantro, Ward was also managing director at LongBoard Ltd, a developer of carrier voice applications, where he was responsible for building relationships with network service providers and setting up the EMEA channel. Virgilio Ribeiro Senior Unified Communications Solution Specialist Microsoft Portugal Xavier Casajoana CEO VozTelecom Xavier Casajoana was born in Spain in 1968, graduated in Computer Science Engineering and Master in Business and Technology, has a degree in Business Administration and Information Systems. After more than 10 years managing IT Departments on public and private held firms, he addressed his career to the Internet and Telecom industry in 1999, starting as CTO for World Online Spain, and later driving Tiscali Spain as Country Manager-CEO till Dec 2002. In February 2003, he founded VozTelecom, an innovative VoIP start-up being VC backed in 2004, and today leads European and Latin America white-label VoIP Application offer for ISPs, ITSP or any fix/mobile broadband provider.