Charles Liang
President & CEO, Supermicro

Charles Liang founded Supermicro and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since our inception in September 1993. Mr. Liang has been developing server system architectures and technologies for the past two decades. From July 1991 to August 1993, Mr. Liang was President and Chief Design Engineer of Micro Center Computer Inc., a high-end motherboard design and manufacturing company. From January 1988 to April 1991, Mr. Liang was Senior Design Engineer and Project Leader for Chips & Technologies, Inc., a chipset technology company, and Suntek Information International Group, a system and software development company. Mr. Liang has been granted many server technology patents. Mr. Liang holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science & Technology in Taiwan.

Fang-Ming Lu
Chairman of Asia Pacific Telecom Group

Mr. Fang-Ming Lu has been a Corporate Executive Vice President of Hon Hai / Foxconn since the intelligent hub and switch products ODM manufacturing company he founded was acquired by Hon Hai / Foxconn in 2002. In 2014, Mr. Lu took over as Chairman of Asia Pacific Telecom Group, Taiwan's fourth mobile carrier.

Prior to joining Hon Hai / Foxconn, Mr. Lu was a Vice President and General Manager at Cirrus Logic/Crystal Semiconductor in charge of its Asia Pacific operations.

Mr. Lu spent the first 20 years of his career at Hewlett-Packard Taiwan & Asia Pacific in various positions including Country General Manager of the HP Taiwan Computer System Group and QMS Director of the HP Asia Pacific Test & Measurement Group.

Mr. Lu obtained his Masters of Applied Physics from Chung-Yuan University, Taiwan.

Mansoor Hanif
CTO of Ofcom
Mansoor has 25 years’ experience of planning, building, optimising and operating mobile networks around the world. From 2011 Mansoor was Director of RAN at EE and a board member of MBNL (the joint venture of EE with H3G) until 2016. At BT Mansoor was Director of the Converged Networks Research Lab from 2016 to 2018, and led collaboration with UK Universities, innovators, and government bodies. From September 2018 Mansoor is the CTO of Ofcom, the UK telecoms and media regulator. As CTO he is head of the technology profession across the organisation, ensuring that the technology aspects of all Ofcom’s policy work are informed and robust, and is a member of the Policy and Management Board (the decision-making body at executive level). He also leads Ofcom’s activities in network security & resilience as well as engagement with CTOs at our stakeholders, industry bodies and with Government. Outside of Ofcom, Mansoor is also a member of the Advisory Boards of the UK5G Innovation Network, the Satellite Applications Catapult and UCL Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dept and is Patron of the Institute of Telecoms Professionals.

Thomas Haustein

Head, Wireless Communications and Networks Department, Fraunhofer HHI

Thomas Haustein received the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree in mobile communications from the University of Technology Berlin, Germany, in 2006. In 1997, he was with the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin, where he worked on wireless infrared systems and radio communications with multiple antennas and OFDM. He focused on real-time algorithms for baseband processing and advanced multiuser resource allocation. From 2006 till 2008, he was with Nokia Siemens Networks, where he conducted research for 4G. Since 2009 he is heading the Wireless Communications Department at Fraunhofer HHI focussing on 5G and Industrial Wireless. Since 2015 he is actively participating in 3GPP standardization advocating technology contributions for Millimeter wave communication and new use cases like Vehicular Communications and Industry 4.0.

John Fornehed
Technical Director, Ericsson

Automation is a key enabling factor to manage life cycle management of IoT device in scale.  For that device management standardized protocols like TR-069, OMA DM & LWM2M are being applied for Internet of Things. LWM2M and others covers the life cycle from bootstrapping to management but not manufacturing to bootstrapping. This area is however very fragmented with several solutions. Examples of solutions exists as Intel’s Secure Device Onboard (SDO), arm’s first-to-claim-commissioning, etc.  In my presentation the problem/opportunity will be described as well as best practices. To avoid any fears of being locked-in to a specific device bootstrapping and to avoid an easy integration with existing device management systems, a federation of bootstrapping will be beneficial for bring secure device management features as generic part of device life cycle management. Meanwhile, security is another focus in this talk and specifically around hardware root of trust (RoT) and how that can be utilized by automation.

ID Federation- A hidden 5G Opportunity

Automation is a key enabling factor to manage life cycle management of IoT device in scale.  For that device management standardized protocols like TR-069, OMA DM & LWM2M are being applied for Internet of Things. LWM2M and others covers the life cycle from bootstrapping to management but not manufacturing to bootstrapping. This area is however very fragmented with several solutions. Examples of solutions exists as Intel’s Secure Device Onboard (SDO), arm’s first-to-claim-commissioning, etc.  In my presentation the problem/opportunity will be described as well as best practices. To avoid any fears of being locked-in to a specific device bootstrapping and to avoid an easy integration with existing device management systems, a federation of bootstrapping will be beneficial for bring secure device management features as generic part of device life cycle management. Meanwhile, security is another focus in this talk and specifically around hardware root of trust (RoT) and how that can be utilized by automation.

Roger Nichols
Director of 5G Programs, Keysight Technologies Inc.

Roger Nichols is has been directing Keysight’s 5G Programs for three years. His 32 years of engineering and management experience in wireless test and measurement at Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and Keysight spans roles in manufacturing, R&D, and marketing. He has worked in programs spanning the evolution from analog cellular radio to 4G and every standard in between.  He spent seven years as the Senior Marketing Director for Keysight’s (Agilent’s) Mobile Broadband Operation responsible for the wireless test-sets and systems that are used in all major design and certification labs as well as manufacturing facilities worldwide.

Rogers holds a BSEE from the University of Colorado, Boulder.