Webinar: Advancing the 5G Era – Benefits and Opportunity of 5G-Advanced

Nan Hu obtains his obtains his PhD degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and has more than 15 years of experience in wireless communication research and standardization. He served as the vice chair of 3GPP RAN2 for 4 years, as the first Chinese to serve this position. Currently, he is in charge of the wireless standard center in CMCC and serves as the vice chair of 3GPP RAN Plenary.

Olof Liberg is a Researcher and Program Manager at Ericsson’s department for Standards & Technologies. Olof joined Ericsson in 2008 and has specialized in the design and standardization of cellular radio access technologies. He is currently leading Ericsson’s 3GPP radio access network standardization team. Olof holds a bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics and a master’s degree in Engineering Physics, both from Uppsala University.

John Gao currently serves as 5.5G General Manager, with more than 20 years of wireless communication experience in Huawei. He has served as the Chief Expert & Design Director of 5G and TD-LTE solution design department, and also has the R&D experience of ETS, CDMA, TD-SCDMA. Currently, he is responsible for Huawei’s 5.5G field.

Benoît Graves is currently the head of the 3GPP RAN delegation within Orange Innovation. Benoît has 25 years of experience in wireless communication within Orange. Following multiple roles in radio engineering across the group, in France, Sweden and in the UK, Benoît joined the RAN strategy team of Orange Innovation in 2007. Since 2016, Benoît has been representing Orange as the RAN plenary delegate in 3GPP.

Barbara has over 20 years of experience in the mobile industry. She has been part of the GSMA Internet of Things Programme since 2014, working on several aspects of the IoT such as the development of the Mobile IoT Technologies (LTE-M, NB-IoT), GSMA IoT Security Guidelines, GSMA Drone Interest Group and looking at a variety of emerging technologies, like machine learning/AI and edge computing, for helping the mobile industry to create trusted solutions for the IoT. Before joining the GSMA Barbara worked in R&D in several areas of telecommunications, including Intelligent Networks, IMS, Service Enabling and M2M/IoT. She also participates in and actively contributed to several standards.

The GSMA Internet of Things helps operators to fully realise the opportunity in the IoT, operators must deliver secure IoT networks as well as scalable value added data services for the world’s industry and machines beyond connectivity. This is to be achieved by industry collaboration, appropriate regulation, optimising networks as well as developing key enablers to support the growth of IoT.